H-Net Reviews

Alastair Gornall. Rewriting Buddhism: Pali Literature and Monastic Reform, 1157-1270. London: UCL Press, 2020. Illustrations, maps, tables. 284 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-01-329541-6.

Reviewed by Anne Blackburn (Cornell University) Published on H-Buddhism (June, 2023) Commissioned by Thomas Borchert (University of Vermont)

Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=59232

Andrew F. Smith. The Threefold Struggle: Pursuing Ecological, Social, and Personal Wellbeing in the Spirit of Daniel Quinn. Suny in American Philosophy and Cultural Thought. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2022. xiii + 379 pp. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4384-8871-4. 

Kirsten Silva Gruesz. Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022. 326 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-97175-2. 

Wayne Lee. Waging War: Conflict, Culture, and Innovation in World History. Oxford University Press, 2015. 538 pp. $89.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-979745-5.

Reviewed by Angelle Khachadoorian (Air University Air Force Culture and Language Center) Published on H-War (May, 2023) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=45833

Matthew Taylor. Sport and the Home Front: Wartime Britain at Play, 1939-45. Routledge Studies in Modern British History Series. London: Routledge, 2020. Tables. xiii + 334 pp. $170.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-367-22925-2; $49.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-367-22924-5.

Reviewed by James Ivey (University of California San Diego) Published on H-War (May, 2023) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Phil M. Haun, Colin Jackson, Timothy Paul Schultz, eds. Air Power in the Age of Primacy: Air Warfare since the Cold War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 336 pp. $34.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-108-98475-1.

Reviewed by Bryant Macfarlane (Kansas State University) Published on H-War (May, 2023) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

David A. Blome. Greek Warfare beyond the Polis: Defense, Strategy, and the Making of Ancient Federal States. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. xi + 154 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-4752-6.

Reviewed by Gwyn Davies (Florida International University) Published on H-War (May, 2023) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Tessa Murphy. The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean. Early American Studies Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. 320 pp. Illustrations, tables, maps. $45.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-8122-9997-7; $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-5338-2.

Reviewed by Eric Walls (Independent Scholar) Published on H-Atlantic (May, 2023) Commissioned by W. Douglas Catterall (Cameron University of Oklahoma)