The following reviews were posted to the H-Net Commons between 24 Aug 2020 and 31 Aug 2020.
Reviewed for H-CivWar by Ryan Bixby:
Tackach, James. Lincoln and the Natural Environment. Concise Lincoln Library Series. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2018. Illustrations. 160 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8093-3698-2.
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Reviewed for H-Slavery by Ralph Austen:
Shumway, Rebecca; Getz, Trevor R., eds. Slavery and Its legacy in Ghana and the Diaspora. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017. 272 pp. $75.00, ISBN 978-1-4742-5663-6.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54603
Reviewed for H-Slavery by Edward Mair:
Hartog, Hendrik. The Trouble with Minna: A Case of Slavery and Emancipation in the Antebellum North. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 208 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-1-4696-4088-4.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54639
Reviewed for H-Africa by Abidemi B. Babalola:
Clarke, Jo; Brooks, Nick, eds. The Archaeology of the Western Sahara: A Synthesis of Fieldwork, 2002 to 2009. Havertown: Oxbow Books, Limited, 2018. 256 pp. GBP 55.00, ISBN 978-1-78297-172-6.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54797
Reviewed for H-Migration by Kimberly Beaudreau:
Caldwell, Beth C. Deported Americans: Life after Deportation to Mexico. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019. xii + 232 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-1-4780-0390-8.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54914
Reviewed for H-Socialisms by Tyler Correia:
Meiches, Benjamin. The Politics of Annihilation: A Genealogy of Genocide. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. 344 pp. $28.00, ISBN 978-1-5179-0582-8.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55011
Reviewed for H-War by Jonathan Zartman:
Staffell, Simon; Awan, Akil, eds. Jihadism Transformed: Al-Qaeda and Islamic State's Global Battle of Ideas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 256 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-19-065029-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55037
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Reviewed for H-South by Robert Colby:
Bell, Richard. Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2019. 318 pp. $27.00, ISBN 978-1-5011-6943-4.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55082
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Reviewed for H-AMCA by Michael Ernst:
Takesh, Suheyla; Gumpert, Lynn, eds. Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s. Munich: Hirmer Publishers, 2020. Illustrations. 256 pp. $45.49, ISBN 978-3-7774-3428-5.
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Reviewed for H-War by Joseph A. Ledford:
Stoker, Donald. Why America Loses Wars: Limited War and US Strategy from the Korean War to the Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 336 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-108-47959-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55181
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Reviewed for H-War by Paul Brenard Chiudza Banda:
Niebuhr, Robert. The Search for a Cold War Legitimacy: Foreign Policy and Tito's Yugoslavia. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2018. 268 pp. $126.00, ISBN 978-90-04-35887-4.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55253
Reviewed for H-Poland by Jadwiga Biskupska:
Connelly, John. From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. Illustrations, maps. 968 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-691-16712-1.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55387
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Reviewed for H-Midwest by J. Mark Souther:
Love, Jeannine deNobel. Cleveland Architecture 1890–1930: Building the City Beautiful. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2020. 336 pp. $58.56, ISBN 978-1-61186-349-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55462
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Reviewed for H-Asia by Gene Anderson:
Low, Kathleen. Asian Fruits and Berries: Growing Them, Eating Them, Appreciating Their Lore. Jefferson: McFarland, 2019. 234 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-4766-7595-4.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55500
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Reviewed for H-Buddhism by Charles B. Jones:
Yü, Chün-fang. Chinese Buddhism: A Thematic History. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2020. 304 pp. $85.00, ISBN 978-0-8248-8347-8.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55508
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