The following reviews were posted to the H-Net Commons between 05 Oct 2020 and 12 Oct 2020.
Reviewed for H-CivWar by Walter E. Pittman Jr.:
Belcher, Dennis W. The Union Cavalry and the Chickamauga Campaign. Jefferson: McFarland, 2018. Illustrations, tables, maps. 325 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-1-4766-7082-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=53120
Reviewed for H-War by David W. Bath:
Brown, Gates M. Eisenhower's Nuclear Calculus in Europe: The Politics of IRBM Deployment in NATO Nations. Jefferson: McFarland, 2018. 277 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-1-4766-6950-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54477
Reviewed for H-Africa by Stephanie Wynne-Jones:
Walker, Iain. Islands in a Cosmopolitan Sea: A History of the Comoros. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 272 pp. $59.95, ISBN 978-0-19-007130-1.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54761
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Reviewed for H-War by Jennine Hurl-Eamon:
Brown, Michael; Barry, Anna Maria; Begiato, Joanne, eds. Martial Masculinities: Experiencing and Imagining the Military in the Long Nineteenth Century. Cultural History of Modern War Series. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019. 288 pp. $120.00, ISBN 978-1-5261-3562-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54862
Reviewed for H-Environment by Kenna Archer:
Grossman, Sarah E. M. Mining the Borderlands: Industry, Capital, and the Emergence of Engineers in the Southwest Territories, 1855-1910. Mining and Society Series. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2018. viii + 175 pp. $44.95, ISBN 978-1-943859-83-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55098
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Reviewed for H-Disability by Pamela L. Dale
Taylor, Steven J.; Brumby, Alice, eds. Healthy Minds in the Twentieth Century: In and Beyond the Asylum. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 274 pp. $31.00, ISBN 978-3-030-27274-6.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55246
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Reviewed for H-Early-America by Nicholas Garcia:
McNally, Michael David. Defend the Sacred: Native American Religious Freedom beyond the First Amendment. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. xx + 376 pp. $26.95, ISBN 978- 0-691-19090-7.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55335
Reviewed for H-Socialisms by Joshua Cohen:
Lambe, Ariel Mae. No Barrier Can Contain It: Cuban Antifascism and the Spanish Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. 330 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-1-4696-5285-6.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55390
Reviewed for H-FedHist by Joan Johnsen:
Moser, Edward P. The White House's Unruly Neighborhood: Crime, Scandal and Intrigue in the History of Lafayette Square. Jefferson: McFarland, 202. 261 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-4766-7486- 5.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55553
Reviewed for H-Judaic by Maya Balakirsky Katz:
Baskind, Samantha. The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018. Illustrations. xv + 309 pp. $44.95, ISBN 978-0-271-07870-0.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55556
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Reviewed for H-Midwest by Kevin Mattson:
Lauck, Jon K.; Stock, Catherine McNicol, eds. The Conservative Heartland: A Political History of the Postwar American Midwest. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2020. 392 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-2931-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55558
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Reviewed for H-Africa by Matt Heaton:
Schühle, Judith. Traversing Transnational Biomedical Landscapes: An Ethnography of the Experiences of Nigerian Trained Physicians Practicing in the US and UK. Culture and Social Practice Series. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2020. 401 pp. $80.00, ISBN 978-3-8376-5032-7.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55592
Reviewed for H-War by Stanley Schwartz:
Taylor, John J. Between Duty and Design: The Architect Soldier Sir J. J. Talbot Hobbs. Perth: University of Western Australia Press, 2014. 272 pp. $59.99, ISBN 978-1-74258-620-5.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55643
Reviewed for HABSBURG by Balint Varga:
Maxwell, Alexander. Everyday Nationalism in Hungary: 1789-1867. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019. iv + 258 pp. $103.99, ISBN 978-3-11- 063411-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55687
Reviewed for H-Slavery by Trevor Bryant:
Marshall, P. J. Edmund Burke and the British Empire in the West Indies: Wealth, Power, and Slavery. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 272 pp. $90.00, ISBN 978-0-19-884120-3.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55698
Reviewed for H-Luso-Africa by Marçal de Menezes Paredes:
Cahen, Michel. "Não Somos Bandidos": A vida diária de uma guerrilha de direita; A Renamo na época do Acordo de Nkomati (1983-1985). Lisbon: ICS, 2019. 298 pp. 25.00 EUR, ISBN 978- 972-671-542-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55769
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