The following reviews were posted to the H-Net Commons between 23 Nov 2020 and 30 Nov 2020.
Reviewed for H-Asia by Gijs Kruijtzer:
Taneja, Anand Vivek. Jinnealogy: Time, Islam, and Ecological Thought in the Medieval Ruins of Delhi. South Asia in Motion Series. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017. 336 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-5036-0393-6.
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Reviewed for H-War by Jared Poley:
Lemire, Beverly. Global Trade and the Transformation of Consumer Cultures: The Material World Remade, c.1500-1820. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 352 pp. $89.99, ISBN 978-0-521- 19256-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54068
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Reviewed for H-War by Titus Firmin:
Coburn, Noah. Under Contract: The Invisible Workers of America's Global War. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018. 408 pp. $28.00, ISBN 978-1-5036-0536-7.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54139
Reviewed for H-Borderlands by Hannah Greenwald:
Alberto Harambour. Soberanías fronterizas: Estados y capital en la colonización de Patagonia (Argentina y Chile, 1830-1922). Valdivia: Ediciones Universidad Austral de Chile, 2019. 328 pp. $11.99, ISBN 978-956-390-090-3.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54321
Reviewed for H-Urban by Patricia Goldsworthy:
Clark, Catherine E. Paris and the Cliché of History: The City and Photographs, 1860-1970. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Illustrations. 328 pp. $78.00, ISBN 978-0-19-068164-7.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54384
Reviewed for H-Judaic by Mark Verman:
Fishbane, Eitan P. The Art of Mystical Narrative: A Poetics of the Zohar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. xiii + 520 pp. $125.00, ISBN 978-0-19-994863-5.
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Reviewed for H-Empire by Luke Scalone:
Surkis, Judith. Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830-1930. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. xv + 335 pp. $95.00, ISBN 978-1-5017-3949-1.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55138
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Reviewed for H-War by Ryan Wadle:
Oyos, Matthew. In Command: Theodore Roosevelt and the American Military. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 456 pp. $36.95, ISBN 978-1-61234-967-1.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55198
Reviewed for H-Pennsylvania by Jennifer M. Black:
Holzman, Laura M. Contested Image: Defining Philadelphia for the Twenty-First Century. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2019. xi + 198 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-4399-1588-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55205
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Reviewed for H-Africa by Adam Ewing:
Magnarella, Paul J. Black Panther in Exile: The Pete O'Neal Story. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2020. 282 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8130-6639-4.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55366
Reviewed for H-Environment by Laura Martin:
Robichaud, Andrew A. Animal City: The Domestication of America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019. 352 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-674-91936-5.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55517
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Reviewed for H-SHERA by Juliette Milbach:
Makaryk, Irena R. April in Paris: Theatricality, Modernism, and Politics at the 1925 Art Deco Expo. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. Illustrations. 328 pp. $70.00, ISBN 978-1- 4875-0372-7.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55574
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Reviewed for H-Nationalism by Caroline Hackett:
Blackman, Robert H. 1789: The French Revolution Begins. New Studies in European History Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 297 pp. $99.99, ISBN 978-1-108-49244-7.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55666
Reviewed for H-Africa by Nganga Wahu-Mũchiri:
Mwangi, Evan Maina. The Postcolonial Animal: African Literature and Posthuman Ethics. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2019. 286 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-472-05419-0.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55900
Reviewed for H-Buddhism by Jay L. Garfield:
Sheehy, Michael R.; Mathes, Klaus-Dieter, eds. The Other Emptiness: Rethinking the Zhentong Buddhist Discourse in Tibet. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2019. 448 pp. $100.00, ISBN 978-1-4384-7757-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55910
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Reviewed for H-Africa by Diana Wylie:
Fredericks, Rosalind. Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. Illustrations. 216 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-1-4780-0141-6.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55912
Reviewed for H-Russia by Clare Ibarra:
Story, Isabel. Soviet Influence on Cuban Culture, 1961-1987: When the Soviets Came to Stay. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019. xiii + 231 pp. $95.00, ISBN 978-1-4985-8011-3.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55964
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