The following reviews were posted to the H-Net Commons between 19 Oct 2020 and 26 Oct 2020.
Reviewed for H-War by Robert G. Kane
Williams, Duncan Ryūken. American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019. Illustrations. 400 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-674-98653-4.
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Reviewed for H-Environment by Hannah Palsa
Schilp, Jill Lenk. Dogs in Health Care: Pioneering Animal-Human Partnerships. Dogs in Our World Series. Jefferson: McFarland, 2019. Illustrations. 221 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-4766-7394-3.
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Reviewed for H-LatAm by Rafaela Acevedo-Field
Gitlitz, David M. Living in Silverado: Secret Jews in the Silver Mining Towns of Colonial Mexico. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2019. xii + 420 pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-8263- 6079-3.
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Reviewed for H-Environment by Jason Ludwig
Horn, Eva. The Future as Catastrophe: Imagining Disaster in the Modern Age. Translated by Valentine Pakis. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. 296 pp. $105.00, ISBN 978-0-231- 18862-3.
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Reviewed for H-Diplo by Margo Shea
Scull, Margaret M. The Catholic Church and the Northern Ireland Troubles, 1968-1998. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 272 pp. $84.99, ISBN 978-0-19-884321-4.
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Reviewed for H-War by Jennifer Yip
McCrum, Ronald. The Men Who Lost Singapore, 1938-1942. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2017. xiii + 265 pp. Ill. $34.00, ISBN 978-981-4722-39-1.
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Reviewed for H-Buddhism by Tao Jin
Jorgensen, John; Dan Lusthaus; John Makeham; Mark Strange; ed. and trans. Treatise on Awakening Mahāyāna Faith. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 184 pp. $99.00, ISBN 978-0-19- 029770-1.
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Reviewed for H-Environment by Mark Boxell
Dochuk, Darren. Anointed with Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America. New York: Basic Books, 2019. 688 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-465-06086-3.
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Reviewed for H-Disability by Travis Chi Wing Lau
Peschier, Diana. Lost Souls: Women, Religion and Mental Illness in the Victorian Asylum. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. 233 pp. $115.00, ISBN 978-1-78831-807-5.
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Reviewed for H-Environment by Bradley Snow
Lindholdt, Paul, ed. The Spokane River. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018. 283 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-295-74313- 4.
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Reviewed for H-Environment by Alyssa Peterson
Church, Christopher M. Paradise Destroyed: Catastrophe and Citizenship in the French Caribbean. France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization Series. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017. Illustrations, maps, tables. 324 pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-8032-9099-0.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55339
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Reviewed for H-War by David Lorenzo
Fazal, Tanisha M. Wars of Law: Unintended Consequences in the Regulation of Armed Conflict. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018. 342 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-5017-1981-3.
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Reviewed for H-LatAm by Stephen Neufeld
Shesko, Elizabeth. Conscript Nation: Coercion and Citizenship in the Bolivian Barracks. Pitt Latin American Series. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. Illustrations. 264 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8229-4602-1.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55415
Reviewed for H-AmIndian by Allison Wells
Eittreim, Elisabeth M. Teaching Empire: Native Americans, Filipinos, and US Imperial Education, 1879-1918. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2019. pages cm. $75.00, ISBN 978-0- 7006-2857-5.
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Reviewed for H-Africa by Harri Englund
Gordon, Robert J. The Enigma of Max Gluckman: The Ethnographic Life of a "Luckyman" in Africa. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018. 522 pp. $80.00, ISBN 978-0-8032-9083-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55552
Reviewed for H-FedHist by Claude R. Marx
Heidler, David S.; Heidler, Jeanne T. The Rise of Andrew Jackson: Myth, Manipulation, and the Making of Modern Politics. New York: Basic Books, 2018. ix + 433 pp. $32.00, ISBN 978-0-465- 09756-2.
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Reviewed for H-Nationalism by Clayton J. Butler
Mathisen, Erik. The Loyal Republic: Traitors, Slaves, and the Remaking of Citizenship in Civil War America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 240 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-1-4696-3632-0.
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Reviewed for H-Nationalism by Laura Smith
Ellis, Richard. Old Tip vs. the Sly Fox: The 1840 Election and the Making of a Partisan Nation. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2020. 453 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-2945-9.
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Reviewed for H-Disability by Daniel J. Wilson
Freeman, Victoria. A World without Martha: A Memoir of Sisters, Disability, and Difference. Vancouver: Purich Books, 2019. Illustrations. x + 316 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-7748-8040-4.
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