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