H-Net Reviews for December 7 - 14, 2020

The following reviews were posted to the H-Net Commons between 07 Dec 2020 and 14 Dec 2020.

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Chad Black:
Tortorici, Zeb. Sins against Nature: Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. Illustrations. 344 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-7154-0.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=53171
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Reviewed for H-LatAm by Susan Hogue Negrete:
Lane, Kris. Potosí: The Silver City That Changed the World. California World History Library Series. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019. Illustrations, maps. 272 pp. $32.95, ISBN 978-0-520-28084-7.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54422

Reviewed for H-Environment by Constance de Font-Réaulx:
Holt, Mack P. The Politics of Wine in Early Modern France: Religion and Popular Culture in Burgundy, 1477-1630. New Studies in European History Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Illustrations, tables. 368 pp. $105.00, ISBN 978-1-108- 47188-6.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55015
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Reviewed for H-Disability by Anna Derksen:
Pietikäinen, Petteri; Kragh, Jesper Vaczy, eds. Social Class and Mental Illness in Northern Europe. Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine Series. London: Routledge, 2019. 228 pp. $160.00, ISBN 978-1-138-36169-0.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55059
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Reviewed for H-War by Bradley Podliska:
Snell, Mark A. My Gettysburg: Meditations on History and Place. Kent: Kent State University Press, 2016. 240 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-60635-293-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55199
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Reviewed for H-Ideas by Elliot Neaman:
Rosellini, Jay. The German New Right: AfD, PEGIDA and the Re- Imagining of National Identity. London: Hurst, 2020. xii + 200 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-1-78738-140-7.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55254
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Reviewed for H-Diplo by Zachary Fredman:
Brooks, Charlotte. American Exodus: Second-Generation Chinese Americans in China, 1901-1949. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. xviii + 309 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-520-30268-6.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55268
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Reviewed for H-War by Nicholas Sambaluk:
Barry, Gearóid; Dal Lago, Enrico; Healy, Róisín. Small Nations and Colonial Peripheries in World War I. History of Warfare Series. Leiden: Brill, 2016. xii + 303 pp. $156.00, ISBN 978-90-04-31001-8.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55271

Reviewed for H-Material-Culture by Erica Warren:
Patterson, Karen, ed. Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Illustrations. 304 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-226-66483-5.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55301
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Reviewed for H-Disability by Allison Carey:
Pettinicchio, David. Politics of Empowerment: Disability Rights and the Cycle of American Policy Reform. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019. xviii + 255 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-1-5036- 0976-1.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55353
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Reviewed for H-Material-Culture by Robert Gordon-Fogelson:
Mercelis, Joris. Beyond Bakelite: Leo Baekeland and the Business of Science and Invention. Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation Series. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2020. 378 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-262-53869-5.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55422
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Reviewed for H-Nationalism by Jessica J. Sheets:
Oberg, Barbara, ed. Women in the American Revolution: Gender, Politics, and the Domestic World. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019. 280 pp. $39.50, ISBN 978-0-8139-4259-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55439
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Reviewed for H-Environment by Aaron Hale-Dorrell:
Cameron, Sarah. The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018. 294 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-1-5017-3043-6.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55459
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Reviewed for H-Nationalism by Kimberly B. Sherman:
Calvo, Christopher W. The Emergence of Capitalism in Early America. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2020. 308 pp. $90.00, ISBN 978-0-8130-6633-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55623
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Reviewed for H-Environment by Elizabeth Grennan Browning:
Morris, Ronald V. Yountsville: The Rise and Decline of an Indiana Mill Town. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2019. Illustrations, tables, graphs. 224 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0- 268-10661-4.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55667
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Reviewed for H-Buddhism by Charles B. Jones:
McBride, Richard D. Aspiring to Enlightenment: Pure Land Buddhism in Silla Korea. Pure Land Buddhist Studies. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2020. 247 pp. $68.00, ISBN 978-0- 8248-8260-0.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55678
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Reviewed for H-War by John Gishbaugher:
Lieber, Keir A.; Press, Daryl Grayson. The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution: Power Politics in the Atomic Age. Cornell Studies in Security Affairs Series. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. 180 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-5017-4929-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55869
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Reviewed for H-Africa by Douglas Leonard:
Kapoor, Ilan. Confronting Desire: Psychoanalysis and International Development. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. xvi + 307 pp. $26.95, ISBN 978-1-5017-5175-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55880

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Aaron Coy Moulton:
Mercau, Ezequiel. The Falklands War: An Imperial History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 264 pp. $39.99, ISBN 978-1-108-48329-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55914

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