Lessa, Francesca. The Condor Trials: Transnational Repression and Human Rights in South America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. xvi + 375 pp. Ill. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780300254099. 
Reviewed by
Alison J. Bruey (University of North Florida)
Published on
H-LatAm (September, 2023)
Commissioned by
Casey M. Lurtz (Johns Hopkins University)
Garfield, Seth. Guaraná: How Brazil Embraced the World's Most Caffeine-Rich Plant. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Illustrations, maps. xiii + 320 pp. $34.95 (paper), ISBN 9781469671277.$99.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781469671260.$22.99 (e-book), ISBN 9781469671284.
Ward, Ian. The Trials of Charles I. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. 254 pp. $110.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781350024977.$36.95 (paper), ISBN 9781350025141.
Li, Wai-yee. The Promise and Peril of Things: Literature and Material Culture in Late Imperial China. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. 376 pp. $140.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780231201025.$35.00 (paper), ISBN 9780231201032.
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H-Early-America Call for Papers: Remembering the American Revolution at 250
In 2026, the United States will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. There will be a host of events throughout the country to commemorate this momentous milestone, but also deep soul searching about the meanings of the revolution, independence, and liberty, and the proper way to commemorate such an event. To participate in these conversations, H-Early-America invites essay submissions for Remembering the
H-Early-America Call for Papers: Remembering the American Revolution at 250
In 2026, the United States will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. There will be a host of events throughout the country to commemorate this momentous milestone, but also deep soul searching about the meanings of the revolution, independence, and liberty, and the proper way to commemorate such an event. To participate in these conversations, H-Early-America invites essay submissions for Remembering the
H-Early-America Call for Papers: Remembering the American Revolution at 250
In 2026, the United States will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. There will be a host of events throughout the country to commemorate this momentous milestone, but also deep soul searching about the meanings of the revolution, independence, and liberty, and the proper way to commemorate such an event. To participate in these conversations, H-Early-America invites essay submissions for Remembering the
H-Early-America Call for Papers: Remembering the American Revolution at 250
In 2026, the United States will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. There will be a host of events throughout the country to commemorate this momentous milestone, but also deep soul searching about the meanings of the revolution, independence, and liberty, and the proper way to commemorate such an event. To participate in these conversations, H-Early-America invites essay submissions for Remembering the
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Smith, Edmond. _Merchants: The Community That Shaped England's
Trade and Empire, 1550-1650_. New Haven: Yale University Press,
2021. Illustrations. 376 pp. $32.50, ISBN 978-0-300-26449-4.
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Gerschultz, Jessica. _Decorative Arts of the Tunisian École:
Fabrications of Modernism, Gender, and Power_. Refiguring
Modernism Series. University Park: Pennsylvania State University
Press, 2019. Illustrations. xxii + 256 pp. $106.95, ISBN 978-0-
271-08318-6.
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