H-Net reviews posted to the web 13 Feb 2017 - 20 Feb 2017

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The following reviews were posted to the H-Net web site between
13 Feb 2017 and 20 Feb 2017.

Reviewed for H-War by Gary Sheffield
   Roy, Kaushik.  _Indian Army in the Two World Wars, The_.  Boston:
   Brill, 2012.  xxiv + 553 pp.  $237.00, ISBN 978-90-04-18550-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36276

Reviewed for H-War by Clifford Harmon
   Bonura, Michael A..  _Under the Shadow of Napoleon: French
   Influence on the American Way of Warfare from Independence to the
   Eve of World War II_.  Warfare and Culture Series. New York: New
   York University Press, 2012.  Maps. 318 pp.  $55.00, ISBN 978-0-
   8147-0942-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36293

Reviewed for H-War by Corbin Williamson
   Walton, Rodney Earl.  _Big Guns, Brave Men: Mobile Artillery
   Observers and the Battle for Okinawa_.  Annapolis: Naval Institute
   Press, 2013.  320 pp.  $36.95, ISBN 978-1-61251-130-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39464

Reviewed for H-1960s by Emily Hobson
   Downs, Jim.  _Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay
   Liberation_.  New York: Basic Books, 2016.  272 pp.  $27.99, ISBN
   978-0-465-03270-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=46435

Reviewed for H-Pennsylvania by Roger D. Simon
   Milroy, Elizabeth.  _Grid and the River: Philadelphia’s Green
   Places, 1682–1876, The_.  University Park: Penn State University
   Press, 2016.  464 pp.  $64.95, ISBN 978-0-271-06676-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=47215

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Jennifer Eaglin
   Hecht, Susanna B..  _Scramble for the Amazon and the "Lost
   Paradise" of Euclides da Cunha, The_.  Chicago: University of
   Chicago Press, 2013.  xv + 612 pp.  $48.00, ISBN 978-0-226-32281-
   0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=47496

Reviewed for H-War by Shane Peterson
   Fisher, W. Douglas; Buckley, Joann H..  _African American Doctors
   of World War I: The Lives of 104 Volunteers_.  Jefferson:
   McFarland, 2015.  285 pp.  $45.00, ISBN 978-1-4766-6315-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=47542

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Amy Cox Hall
   West, David A..  _Darwin's Man in Brazil: The Evolving Science of
   Fritz Müller_.  Tallahassee: University Press of Florida, 2016.
   344 pp.  $79.95, ISBN 978-0-8130-6260-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=47557

Reviewed for H-Environment by Stephanie Rutherford
   Wise, Michael D..  _Producing Predators: Wolves, Work, and
   Conquest in the Northern Rockies_.  Lincoln: University of
   Nebraska Press, 2016.  210 pp.  $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8032-4981-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=47583

Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Caitlin Verboon
   Green, Hilary.  _Educational Reconstruction: African American
   Schools in the Urban South, 1865-1890_.  New York: Fordham
   University Press, 2016.  272 pp.  $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8232-7012-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=47593

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Teresa Cribelli
   Garfield, Seth.  _In Search of the Amazon: Brazil, the United
   States, and the Nature of a Region_.  American Encounters/Global
   Interactions Series. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014.  369 pp.
   $94.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-5571-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=47642

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Antoine Acker
   Campbell, Jeremy M..  _Conjuring Property: Speculation and
   Environmental Futures in the Brazilian Amazon_.  Seattle:
   University of Washington Press, 2015.  xx + 231 pp.  $30.00, ISBN
   978-0-295-99529-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=47644

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Charles Kim
   Hwang, Su-kyoung.  _Korea’s Grievous War_.  Philadelphia:
   University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.  264 pp.  $65.00, ISBN 978-
   0-8122-4845-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=47683

Reviewed for H-Socialisms by Elizabeth Hull
   Thompson, Heather Ann.  _Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison
   Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy_.  New York: Pantheon, 2016.  752
   pp.  $35.00, ISBN 978-0-375-42322-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=47693

Reviewed for H-Pennsylvania by James Higgins
   David W. Kriebel.  _Powwowing among the Pennsylvania Dutch: A
   Traditional Medical Practice in the Modern World_.  Pennsylvania
   German History and Culture Series. University Park: Penn State
   University Press, 2016.  312 pp.  $24.95, ISBN 978-0-271-07575-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=47857

Reviewed for H-Italy by Amedeo Feniello
   Braunstein, Philippe.  _Les Allemands à Venise (1380-1520)_.
   Rome: Ecole francaise de Rome, 2016.  975 pp.  EUR 65.00, ISBN 978-
   2-7283-1125-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=47952

Reviewed for H-Pennsylvania by Bill Conlogue
   Hertneky, Paul.  _Rust Belt Boy: Stories of an American
   Childhood_.  Peterborough: Bauhan, 2016.  224 pp.  $21.95, ISBN
   978-0-87233-222-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=47987

Reviewed for H-SHEAR by Rebecca Kugel
   Bowes, John P..  _Land Too Good for Indians: Northern Indian
   Removal_.  New Directions in Native American Studies Series.
   Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016.  Illustrations. 234
   pp.  $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8061-5212-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=48063

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Timothy Lorek
   Boyer, Christopher R..  _Political Landscapes: Forests,
   Conservation, and Community in Mexico_.  Durham: Duke University
   Press, 2015.  360 pp.  $26.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-5832-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=48086

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Stephen G. Craft
   Lin, Hsiao-ting.  _Accidental State: Chiang Kai-shek, the United
   States, and the Making of Taiwan_.  Cambridge: Harvard University
   Press, 2016.  Maps. 352 pp.  $39.95, ISBN 978-0-674-65981-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=48092

Reviewed for H-LatAm by José Juan Pérez Meléndez
   Cribelli, Teresa.  _Industrial Forests and Mechanical Marvels
   Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Brazil_.  Cambridge: Cambridge
   University Press, 2016.  254 pp.  $99.99, ISBN 978-1-107-10056-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=48102

Reviewed for H-Asia by Audrey Truschke
   Talbot, Cynthia.  _Last Hindu Emperor: Prithviraj Chauhan and the
   Indian Past, 1200-2000, The_.  Cambridge: Cambridge University
   Press, 2016.  325 pp.  $99.99, ISBN 978-1-107-11856-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=48282

Reviewed for H-Empire by Richard N. Price
   Nasson, Bill.  _History Matters: Selected Writings, 1970-2016_.
   Cape Town and Johannesburg: Penguin Random House South Africa,
   2016.  204 pp.  $20.00, ISBN 978-1-77609-027-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=48693

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Patrick Reinard
   Sebag Montefiore, Sebastian.  _Byzanz: Eine Biographie. Der
   Aufstieg Istanbuls zur Hauptstadt zweier Weltreligionen_.
   München: Polyband/WVG, 2016; Produktionsjahr 2013.  150 Minuten.
   , ISBN .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=48889

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Mathias Beer
   Thomaschke, Dirk.  _Abseits der Geschichte: Nationalsozialismus
   und Zweiter Weltkrieg in Ortschroniken_.  Göttingen: V&R
   unipress, 2016.  356 S., 4 Abb.  $63.00, ISBN 978-3-8471-0536-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=49092

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Ludolf Kuchenbuch
   Schmitt, Jean-Claude.  _Les rythmes au Moyen Âge_.  Paris:
   Édition Gallimard, 2016.  720 S.  , ISBN 978-2-07-017769-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=49100

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Matthias Stickler
   Eckert, Georg.  _Zeitgeist auf Ordnungssuche: Die Begründung des
   Königreiches Württemberg 1797–1819_.  Göttingen: Vandenhoeck
   & Ruprecht, 2016.  528 S.  $113.00, ISBN 978-3-525-36087-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=49102

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Mathias Schütz
   Hildebrandt, Sabine.  _The Anatomy of Murder: Ethical
   Transgressions and Anatomical Science during the Third Reich_.
   New York: Berghahn Books, 2016.  374 S.  , ISBN 978-1-78533-068-
   1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=49103

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Andreas Hilger
   Friedman, Jeremy.  _Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition
   for the Third World_.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
   Press, 2015.  291 S.  , ISBN 978-1-4696-2518-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=49107

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Bernhard Dietz
   Ahrens, Ralf; Gehlen, Boris; Reckendrees, Alfred.  _Die
   „Deutschland AG“: Historische Annäherungen an den
   bundesdeutschen Kapitalismus_.  Essen: Klartext Verlag, 2013.
   377 S.  , ISBN 978-3-8375-0986-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=49108

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Phillip Wagner
   Wakeman, Rosemary.  _Practicing Utopia: An Intellectual History of
   the New Town Movement_.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
   2016.  392 S.  $45.00, ISBN 978-0-226-34603-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=49109

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Friedrich Kießling
   Wroblewski, Martin.  _Moralische Eroberungen als Instrumente der
   Diplomatie: Die Informations- und Pressepolitik des Auswärtigen
   Amts 1902–1914_.  Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2016.  340 S.
   $63.00, ISBN 978-3-8471-0569-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=49116

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Johannes Koll
   Boterman, Frits.  _Duitse daders: De jodenvervolging en de
   nazificatie van Nederland (1940–1945)_.  Amsterdam: Uitgeverij
   De Arbeiderspers, 2015.  573 S.  , ISBN 978-90-295-0486-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=49117