H-Net Reviews

Guntra A. Aistara. Organic Sovereignties: Struggles over Farming in an Age of Free Trade. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018. xvi + 263 pp. $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-295-74311-0. 

Reviewed by Venus Bivar (Washington University St Louis) Published on H-Environment (July, 2020) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (University of Idaho)

Thomas Colley. Always at War: British Public Narratives of War. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2019. x + 274 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-472-13144-0. 

Reviewed by Allison Abra (University of Southern Mississippi) Published on H-Diplo (July, 2020) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Louie Dean Valencia-García. Antiauthoritarian Youth Culture in Francoist Spain: Clashing with Fascism. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. Illustrations. 272 pp. $35.95 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-350-03849-3; $35.95 (pdf), ISBN 978-1-350-03848-6; $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-350-03847-9.

Reviewed by Kasper E. Braskén (Abo Akademi University) Published on H-Socialisms (July, 2020) Commissioned by Gary Roth (Rutgers University - Newark)

Edwin A. Martini, ed. Proving Grounds: Militarized Landscapes, Weapons Testing, and the Environmental Impact of U.S. Bases. Donald R. Ellegood International Publications Series. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015. 320 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-295-99465-9.

Reviewed by Tony Nuspl (Rogers State University, Tulsa Peace Fellowship) Published on H-Environment (July, 2020) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (University of Idaho)

Jasper M. Trautsch. The Genesis of America: US Foreign Policy and the Formation of National Identity, 1793-1815. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 328 pp. $49.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-42824-8.

Reviewed by Andy Forney (Texas Christian University/US Army) Published on H-War (July, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

M. Taylor Fravel. Active Defense: China's Military Strategy since 1949. Princeton Studies in International History and Politics Series. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. xv + 376 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-15213-4.

Reviewed by George Carter (Air University, Air War College) Published on H-War (July, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Tanya Anderson. Gunpowder Girls: The True Stories of Three Civil War Tragedies. Kansas City: Quindaro Press, 2016. Illustrations. 157 pp. $16.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-9669258-7-6. 

Reviewed by Kathryn Angelica (University of Connecticut) Published on H-War (July, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)