The following reviews were posted to the H-Net Commons between 30 Nov 2020 and 07 Dec 2020.
Reviewed for H-Black-Europe by Chloe Ireton:
Jones, Nicholas R. Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2019. xxiii + 221 pp. $89.95, ISBN 978-0-271-08346-9.
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Reviewed for H-Albion by Finola O'Kane Crimmins:
Wright, Jonathan Jeffrey. An Ulster Slave Owner in the Revolutionary Atlantic: The Life and Letters of John Black. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2018. 160 pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-1- 84682-736-5.
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Reviewed for H-Histsex by Braden Scott:
Ferguson, Gary. Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome: Sexuality, Identity, and Community in Early Modern Europe. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016. 232 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978- 1-5017-0237-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54849
Reviewed for H-Diplo by Heather R. Lee:
Hong, Jane H. Opening the Gates to Asia: A Transpacific History of How America Repealed Asian Exclusion. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. Illustrations. 280 pp. $32.95, ISBN 978-1-4696-5336-5.
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Reviewed for H-LatAm by José Carlos de la Puente Luna:
Lamana, Gonzalo. How "Indians" Think: Colonial Indigenous Intellectuals and the Question of Race Theory. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2019. 256 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0- 8165-3966-6.
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Reviewed for H-War by Joseph McGaughy:
Crowder, Jack Darrell. African Americans and American Indians in the Revolutionary War. Jefferson: McFarland, 2019. 217 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-4766-7672-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55102
Reviewed for H-CivWar by Robert Kenzer:
Decredico, Mary A. Confederate Citadel: Richmond and Its People at War. New Directions In Southern History Series. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2020. Illustrations. 224 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-7925-4.
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Reviewed for H-Judaic by Brian Horowitz:
Meir, Natan M. Stepchildren of the Shtetl: The Destitute, Disabled, and Mad of Jewish Eastern Europe, 1800-1939. Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture Series. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020. Illustrations. xiv + 343 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-1-5036-1305-8.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55457
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Reviewed for H-Environment by Brian Wright:
Rust, Thomas C. Watching over Yellowstone: The US Army's Experience in America's First National Park, 1886–1918. Modern War Studies Series. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2020. Illustrations. 280 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-2961-9.
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Reviewed for H-Socialisms by Shelby Shapiro:
Goff, Philippe Le. Auguste Blanqui and the Politics of Popular Empowerment. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2020. 273 pp. $115.00, ISBN 978-1-350-07679-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55581
Reviewed for H-Nationalism by Elizabeth M. Reese:
Finkelman, Paul; Kennon, Donald R., eds. Civil War Congress and the Creation of Modern America: A Revolution on the Home Front. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2018. vi + 226 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8214-2338-7.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55613
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Reviewed for H-Nationalism by Katie Orr:
Coggeshall, John M. Liberia, South Carolina: An African American Appalachian Community. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 296 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-4696-4085-3.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55657
Reviewed for H-Slavery by Naomi Preston:
Jack, Malcolm. To the Fairest Cape: European Encounters in the Cape of Good Hope. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2018. 270 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-1-68448-000-5.
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Reviewed for H-Asia by Jacques Leider:
Lammerts, D. Christian. Buddhist Law in Burma: A History of Dhammasattha Texts and Jurisprudence, 1250-1850. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2018. 304 pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-0- 8248-7260-1.
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Reviewed for H-War by Jean-Michel Turcotte:
Beattie, Andrew H. Allied Internment Camps in Occupied Germany: Extrajudicial Detention in the Name of Denazification, 1945-1950. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xii + 248 pp. $99.99, ISBN 978-1-108-48763-4.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55837
Reviewed for H-War by Charles Gartland:
Coates, Benjamin Allen. Legalist Empire: International Law and American Foreign Relations in the Early Twentieth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 298 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-0- 19-005558-5.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55875
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Reviewed for H-Genocide by Amir Taha:
Blaydes, Lisa. State of Repression: Iraq under Saddam Hussein. Princeton University Press, 2018. xix + 354 pages. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-691-18027-4.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55977
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