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H-Diplo Essay No. 147
An H-Diplo Review Essay
Published on 7 July 2017
H-Diplo Essay Editors: Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse
H-Diplo Web and Production Editor: George Fujii
Amy L. Sayward. The United Nations in International History. London: Bloomsbury, 2017. ISBN: 9781472508836 (hardback, $102.00); 9781472510037 (paperback, $33.95).
URL: http://tiny.cc/E147
While watching the local PBS station a "teaser" for Ken Burns' upcoming (September) documentary series on the Vietnam War came on. In the "teaser," an unidentified "GI" discusses quite cogently the fear that land mines instilled in American soldiers and marines in the war. He also made the statement, "Somewhere around 80% of our casualties came from land mines of all sorts."
H-Diplo
Article Review
No. 708
5 July 2017
Article Review Editors: Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse
Web and Production Editor: George Fujii
PDF version of H-Diplo Article Review 708 on
Felipe Pereira Loureiro. “The Alliance for Progress and President João Goulart’s Three-Year Plan: the deterioration of U.S-Brazilian Relations in Cold War Brazil (1962).” Cold War History 17:1 (January 2017): 61-79.
[Ed. Note- Republished on 4 July 2017 to include the review by Michael J. Geary, Maastricht University and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. The original link to the PDF version now links to the updated PDF version].
H-Diplo
Roundtable Review
Volume XVIII, No. 31 (2017)
4 July 2017
[Updated to include Geary review]
Updated PDF version of H-Diplo Roundtable XVIII, 31 on Wilfried Loth. Building Europe: A history of European unification. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2015. ISBN: 978-3-11-042777-6 (hardcover, $126.00/€89,95/£67.99).
H-Diplo | ISSF
POLICY Series
America and the World—2017 and Beyond
Donald Trump and the New Turn in Canadian Foreign Policy
Essay by David MacKenzie, Ryerson University[1]
Published on 4 July 2017 | issforum.org
Editors: Robert Jervis, Francis Gavin, Joshua Rovner, and Diane Labrosse
Web and Production Editor: George Fujii
H-Diplo
Roundtable Review
Volume XVIII, No. 31 (2017)
3 July 2017
Roundtable Editors: Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse
Roundtable and Web Production Editor: George Fujii
Introduction by Charles S. Maier, Harvard University
PDF version of H-Diplo Roundtable XVIII, 31 on Wilfried Loth. Building Europe: A history of European unification. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2015. ISBN: 978-3-11-042777-6 (hardcover, $126.00/€89,95/£67.99).
Aynne Kokas. Hollywood Made in China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017. 272 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-520-29402-8.
Reviewed by Ying Zhu (College of Staten Island)
Published on H-Diplo (August, 2017)
Commissioned by Seth Offenbach
Nate Jones, ed. Able Archer 83: The Secret History of the NATO Exercise That Almost Triggered Nuclear War. New York: New Press, 2016. 320 pp. $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-62097-261-8.
Reviewed by Jonathan M. DiCicco (Canisius College)
Published on H-Diplo (August, 2017)
Commissioned by Seth Offenbach
Armand de Mestral, ed. Second Thoughts: Investor-State Arbitration between Developed Democracies. Waterloo, Ontario: CIGI Press, 2017. 552 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-928096-38-2.
Reviewed by Jason Yackee (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Published on H-Diplo (August, 2017)
Commissioned by Seth Offenbach
Stefan Vander Elst. The Knight, the Cross, and the Song: Crusade Propaganda and Chivalric Literature, 1100-1400. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. 288 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-4896-8.
Reviewed by Jay Rubenstein (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Published on H-Diplo (August, 2017)
Commissioned by Seth Offenbach
John Kierulf. Disarmament under International Law. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017. 296 pp. $32.81 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7735-4823-7.
Reviewed by Thomas E. Doyle, II (Texas State University)
Published on H-Diplo (July, 2017)
Commissioned by Seth Offenbach
