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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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