H-Net reviews for September 21 - 28, 2020

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The following reviews were posted to the H-Net Commons between 21 Sep 2020 and 28 Sep 2020.

Reviewed for H-War by David Zonderman:
Yamin, Rebecca.  Archaeology at the Site of the Museum of the American Revolution: A Tale of Two Taverns and the Growth of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018. Illustrations. 160 pp.  $19.95, ISBN 978-1-4399-1642-1.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=53791
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Reviewed for H-LatAm by Elizabeth O'Brien:
Weber, Jonathan M.  Death Is All around Us: Corpses, Chaos, and Public Health in Porfirian Mexico City.  The Mexican Experience Series. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019. Illustrations, maps. 294 pp.  $30.00, ISBN 978-1-4962-1434-8.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54501

Reviewed for H-Environment by Samm Newton:
Spezio, Teresa Sabol.  Slick Policy: Environmental and Science Policy in the Aftermath of the Santa Barbara Oil Spill.  History of the Urban Environment Series. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018.  248 pp.  $27.95, ISBN 978-0-8229-6532-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54778
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Reviewed for H-Environment by Ela Miljkovic:
Kenner, Alison.  Breathtaking: Asthma Care in a Time of Climate Change.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018. Illustrations. 248 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-1-5179-0287-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54944

Reviewed for H-Slavery by Patrick Barker:
Fuente, Alejandro de la; Gross, Ariela Julie.  Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.  294 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-1-108-48064-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55043
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Reviewed for H-Nationalism by Roxy Wylie:
Harmon, F. Martin.  Presidents by Fate: Nine Who Ascended through Death or Resignation.  Jefferson: McFarland, 2019. Illustrations. 231 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-4766-7742-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55182
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Reviewed for H-War by Sara Friedman:
Williamson, David G.  The British in Interwar Germany: The Reluctant Occupiers, 1918-30.  Second Edition. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. Illustrations. 360 pp.  $130.00, ISBN 978-1-4725-9582-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55186

Reviewed for H-War by Mark J. Conversino:
Hill, Alexander.  The Red Army and the Second World War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.  xviii + 738 pp. $19.95, ISBN 978-1-107-68815-5.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55197
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Reviewed for H-Africa by Derick Becker:
Berhe, Mulugeta Gebrehiwot.  Laying the Past to Rest: The EPRDF and the Challenges of Ethiopian State-Building.  London: Hurst Publishers, 2020.  376 pp.  $70.00, ISBN 978-1-78738-291-6.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55365
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Reviewed for H-Maps by Matthew D. Mingus:
Wampuszyc, Ewa.  Mapping Warsaw: The Spatial Poetics of a Postwar City.  Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 2018.  240 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8101-3789-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55378

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Alex Borucki:
Freeman, David.  A Silver River in a Silver World: Dutch Trade in the Rio de la Plata, 1648-1678.  Cambridge Latin American Studies Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.  xiv + 226 pp.  $99.99, ISBN 978-1-108-41749-5.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55407

Reviewed for H-Buddhism by James Taylor:
Veidlinger, Daniel.  From Indra's Net to Internet: Communication, Technology, and the Evolution of Buddhist Ideas.  Contemporary Buddhism Series. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2018.  284 pp.  $68.00, ISBN 978-0-8248-7340-0.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55472

Reviewed for H-Buddhism by Tyler Carter:
Pagis, Michal.  Inward: Vipassana Meditation and the Embodiment of the Self.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019.  240 pp.  $27.50, ISBN 978-0-226-36187-1.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55483

Reviewed for H-Buddhism by Stefan Grace:
Victoria, Brian Daizen.  Zen Terror in Prewar Japan: Portrait of an Assassin.  Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2020.  392 pp.  $34.00, ISBN 978-1-5381-3166-4.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55549
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Reviewed for H-Diplo by Sarah J. Zimmerman:
Joseph-Gabriel, Annette K.  Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019.  264 pp.  $22.95, ISBN 978-0-252-04293-5.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55560
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Reviewed for H-Nationalism by Cecily Zander:
Nelson, Megan Kate.  The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West. New York: Scribner, 2020.  xx + 331 pp.  $28.00, ISBN 978-1-5011-5254-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55636
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