The following reviews were posted to the H-Net Commons between 14 Sep 2020 and 21 Sep 2020.
Reviewed for H-Poland by Kathleen Wroblewski:
Kenney, Padraic. Dance in Chains: Political Imprisonment in the Modern World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Illustrations. 344 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-19-937574-5.
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Reviewed for H-Black-Europe by Kristin Kopp:
Florvil, Tiffany N.; Plumly, Vanessa D., eds. Rethinking Black German Studies: Approaches, Interventions and Histories. Studies in Modern German and Austrian Literature Series. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2018. 330 pp. $97.95, ISBN 978-3-0343-2225-6.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=53795
Reviewed for H-Pennsylvania by Beverly Tomek:
Murphy, Andrew R.; Smolenski, John, eds. The Worlds of William Penn. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2019. 438 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-978801-77-6.
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Reviewed for H-Material-Culture by Shoshana Resnikoff:
Alexander, Kimberly S. Treasures Afoot: Shoe Stories from the Georgian Era. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2018. 248 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-4214-2584-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54417
Reviewed for H-Judaic by Jonathan Judaken:
Hammerschlag, Sarah, ed. Modern French Jewish Thought: Writings on Religion and Politics. Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought Series. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2018. xxvii + 268 pp. $26.00, ISBN 978-1-5126-0186-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54703
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Reviewed for H-War by Matthew Schwonek:
Gross, Gerhard P., ed. The Forgotten Front: The Eastern Theater of World War I, 1914-1915. Translated by Janice W. Ancker. Foreign Military Studies Series. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2018. 404 pp. $80.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-7541-6.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54741
Reviewed for H-Environment by Taylor Bailey:
Kelly, Tara Kathleen. The Hunter Elite: Manly Sport, Hunting Narratives, and American Conservation, 1880-1925. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2018. 360 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-2588-8.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54807
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Reviewed for H-Environment by Christopher Conz:
Kelly, Jill E. To Swim with Crocodiles: Land, Violence, and Belonging in South Africa, 1800-1996. African History and Culture Series. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2018. Illustrations. 396 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-1-61186-285-0.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54859
Reviewed for H-Socialisms by Ingo Schmidt:
Munck, Ronaldo. Rethinking Global Labour: Towards a New Social Settlement. Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda Publishing, 2018. 288 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-1-78821-105-5.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54897
Reviewed for H-Environment by Brad Bolman:
Chez, Keridiana. Victorian Dogs, Victorian Men: Affect and Animals in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2017. 212 pp. $69.95, ISBN 978-0-8142-1334-6.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54997
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Reviewed for H-War by Ian Iverson:
Doyle, Don H. American Civil Wars: The United States, Latin America, Europe and the Crisis of the 1860s. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. 272 pp. $90.00, ISBN 978-1-4696-3108-0.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55133
Reviewed for H-War by Allen Priest:
Hogg, Jonathan. British Nuclear Culture: Official and Unofficial Narratives in the Long 20th Century. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. 248 pp. 29.95, ISBN 978-1-4411-6976-1.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55211
Reviewed for H-Material-Culture by Megan Brandow-Faller:
George, Alys X. The Naked Truth: Viennese Modernism and the Body. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Illustrations. 328 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-226-66998-4.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55302
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Reviewed for H-Asia by Joshua Van Lieu:
Patterson, Wayne. In the Service of His Korean Majesty: William Nelson Lovatt, the Pusan Customs, and Sino-Korean Relations, 1876-1888. Korea Research Monographs Series. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2012. xii + 193 pp. $20.00, ISBN 978-1-55729-100-4.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55322
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Reviewed for H-Nationalism by Aileen McKinstry:
Lee, Erika. America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States. New York: Basic Books, 2019. 432 pp. $32.00, ISBN 978-1-5416-7260-4.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55332
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Reviewed for H-Diplo by Julianne H. Haefner:
Ghodsee, Kristen. Second World, Second Sex: Socialist Women's Activism and Global Solidarity during the Cold War. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019. Illustrations. 328 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-1-4780-0181-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55334
Reviewed for H-Africa by Graeme Reid:
Van Klinken, Adriaan. Kenyan, Christian, Queer: Religion, LGBT Activism, and Arts of Resistance in Africa. Africana Religions Series. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2019. xiv + 232 pp. $89.95, ISBN 978-0-271-08380-3.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55344
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Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Shae Smith Cox:
Domby, Adam H. The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020. 272 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8139-4376-3.
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Reviewed for H-Buddhism by Daniel Burton-Rose:
Dai, Yingcong. The White Lotus War: Rebellion and Suppression in Late Imperial China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. 664 pp. $60.00, ISBN 978-0-295-74545-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55361
Reviewed for H-LatAm by Anderson Hagler:
Murray, N. Michelle; Tsuchiya, Akiko, eds. Unsettling Colonialism: Gender and Race in the Nineteenth-Century Global Hispanic World. SUNY Series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2019. 302 pp. $32.95, ISBN 978-1-4384-7647-6.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55400
Reviewed for H-Africa by Diana Wylie:
Oddy, Jason. The Revolution Will Be Stopped Halfway: Oscar Niemeyer in Algeria. New York: Columbia University Press, Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2019. Illustrations. 240 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-1-941332-50-4.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55562
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Reviewed for H-Africa by Dmitri M. Bondarenko:
Leonard, Douglas W. Anthropology, Colonial Policy and the Decline of French Empire in Africa. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 248 pp. $115.00, ISBN 978-1-78831-520-3.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55644
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