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CFP "Many Cold Wars: Re-conceptualizing the Post-WWII World" for The Esboços Special Issue

The Esboços

Call for Papers

Special Issue:
"Many Cold Wars: Re-conceptualizing the Post-WWII World"

Co-editors:
Sidnei J. Munhoz (Universidade Estadual de Maringá/ Brown University)
Masuda Hajimu (National University of Singapore)

Special Issue Aim and Theme Description:

Call for Papers: Diversität im Militär: Multikulturelle Streitkräfte von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart

Diversität im Militär: Multikulturelle Streitkräfte von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart 

Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises Militärgeschichte

In Zusammenarbeit mit der Universität Potsdam, dem Ludwig Boltzmann-Institut, Wien, den Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF) und dem Zentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr (ZMSBw).

Leitung:    Prof. Dr. Stig Förster (Bern)

                  Dr. Tamara Scheer (Wien)

                  Prof. Dr. Sönke Neitzel (Potsdam)

Pages

H-War Book Reviews

Author: 
Leo J. Daugherty III
Reviewer: 
Douglas Luccio

Luccio on Daugherty III, 'Counterinsurgency and the United States Marine Corps, Volume 1, The First Counterinsurgency Era, 1899-1945'


Leo J. Daugherty III. Counterinsurgency and the United States Marine Corps, Volume 1, The First Counterinsurgency Era, 1899-1945. Jefferson: McFarland, 2015. Illustrations, maps. 412 pp. $55.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7864-9698-3.

Reviewed by Douglas Luccio (Air University, Air War College)
Published on H-War (April, 2016)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey

Author: 
Lucy Eldersveld Murphy
Reviewer: 
Katie Lantz

Lantz on Murphy, 'Great Lakes Creoles: A French-Indian Community on the Northern Borderlands, Prairie du Chien, 1750-1860'


Lucy Eldersveld Murphy. Great Lakes Creoles: A French-Indian Community on the Northern Borderlands, Prairie du Chien, 1750-1860. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Illustrations, maps, tables. 326 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-05286-4; $32.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-107-67474-5.

Reviewed by Katie Lantz (University of Virginia)
Published on H-War (April, 2016)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey

Author: 
Peter Sills
Reviewer: 
Robert Thompson

Thompson on Sills, 'Toxic War: The Story of Agent Orange'


Peter Sills. Toxic War: The Story of Agent Orange. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2014. x + 285 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8265-1962-7.

Reviewed by Robert Thompson (University of Southern Mississippi)
Published on H-War (April, 2016)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey

Author: 
Andrew F. Krepinevich, Barry D. Watts
Reviewer: 
Nicholas Sambaluk

Sambaluk on Krepinevich and Watts, 'The Last Warrior: Andrew Marshall and the Shaping of Modern American Defense Strategy'


Andrew F. Krepinevich, Barry D. Watts. The Last Warrior: Andrew Marshall and the Shaping of Modern American Defense Strategy. New York: Basic Books, 2015. 337 pp. $29.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-465-03000-2.

Reviewed by Nicholas Sambaluk (Purdue University and the United States Military Academy)
Published on H-War (April, 2016)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey

Author: 
Bruce Hoffman, Fernando Reinares, eds.
Reviewer: 
Paul Springer

Springer on Hoffman and Reinares, 'The Evolution of the Global Terrorist Threat: From 9/11 to Osama bin Laden's Death'


Bruce Hoffman, Fernando Reinares, eds. The Evolution of the Global Terrorist Threat: From 9/11 to Osama bin Laden's Death. Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare Series. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. 696 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-16898-4.

Reviewed by Paul Springer (Air University, Air Command and Staff College)
Published on H-War (April, 2016)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey