The following reviews were posted to the H-Net Commons between 11 Jan 2021 and 18 Jan 2021.
Reviewed for Jhistory by Ida E. Jones
Delmez, Kathryn E., ed. We Shall Overcome: Press Photographs of
Nashville during the Civil Rights Era. Nashville: Vanderbilt
University Press, 2018. 176 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8265-2221-4.
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Reviewed for H-Atlantic by Joseph Krulder
Parrish, David. Jacobitism and Anti-Jacobitism in the British
Atlantic World, 1688-1727. Royal Historical Society Studies in
History New Series. Rochester: Boydell & Brewer, 2017. 199 pp.
$99.00, ISBN 978-0-86193-341-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54620
Reviewed for H-Africa by Kathryn M. de Luna
Juwayeyi, Yusuf M. Archaeology and Oral Tradition in Malawi:
Origins and Early History of the Chewa. Suffolk: James Currey,
2020. Illustrations, maps, tables. 264 pp. $99.00, ISBN 978-1-
84701-253-1.
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Reviewed for H-Disability by Marion Schmidt
Hedberg, Ulf; Lane, Harlan. Elements of French Deaf Heritage.
Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 2019. Illustrations,
tables. 222 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-1-944838-56-0.
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Reviewed for H-Buddhism by Jacqueline Chao
Li, Yuhang. Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion of Buddhist
Women in Late Imperial China. New York: Columbia University
Press, 2020. xii + 299 pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-90-04-40088-7.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55355
Reviewed for H-Early-America by Mara Cohen Ioannides
Rabin, Shari. Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in
Nineteenth-Century America. North American Religions Series. New
York: New York University Press, 2017. viii + 193 pp. $37.00,
ISBN 978-1-4798-3047-3.
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Reviewed for H-Environment by Brian Spivey
Eisenman, Joshua. Red China's Green Revolution: Technological
Innovation, Institutional Change, and Economic Development under
the Commune. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. xxxii +
436 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-231-18667-4.
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Reviewed for H-Russia by Samantha Clarke
Richardson-Little, Ned. The Human Rights Dictatorship: Socialism,
Global Solidarity and Revolution in East Germany. Human
Rights in History Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2020. 284 pp. $24.00, ISBN 978-1-108-56003-0.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55427
Reviewed for H-Environment by Sean Fraga
Kershner, Jim; Staff of HistoryLink. Transit: The Story of
Public Transportation in the Puget Sound Region. Seattle:
University of Washington Press, 2019. Illustrations. 144 pp.
$29.95, ISBN 978-1-933245-55-3.
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Reviewed for H-Environment by Sharika Crawford
Fielding, Russell. The Wake of the Whale: Hunter Societies in the
Caribbean and North Atlantic. Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 2018. 342 pp. Ill. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-674-98637-4.
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Reviewed for H-Diplo by Sonja Wentling
Bialer, Uri. Israeli Foreign Policy: A People Shall Not Dwell
Alone. Perspectives on Israel Studies. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 2020. 370 pp. $48.99, ISBN 978-0-253-04621-5.
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Reviewed for H-Diplo by Charles E. Ziegler
Savage, Jesse Dillon. Political Survival and Sovereignty in
International Relations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2020. 280 pp. $99.99, ISBN 978-1-108-49450-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55540
Reviewed for H-Nationalism by Debbie Sharnak
Harmer, Tanya. Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War
Latin America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
2020. 384 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-1-4696-5429-4.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55616
Reviewed for H-Nationalism by Maureen Santelli
Costanzo, Adam. George Washington's Washington: Visions for the
National Capital in the Early American Republic. Early American
Places Series. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2018. 264 pp.
$29.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-5389-0.
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Reviewed for H-Africa by Muey C. Saeteurn
Moskowitz, Kara. Seeing Like a Citizen: Decolonization,
Development, and the Making of Kenya, 1945-1980. New African
Histories Series. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2019.
Illustrations. 336 pp. $80.00, ISBN 978-0-8214-2395-0.
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Reviewed for H-NewMexico by Eva Castringius
James L. Nolan. Atomic Doctors: Conscience and Complicity at the
Dawn of the Nuclear Age. Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
2020. 304 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-674-24863-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55771
Reviewed for H-LatAm by Elizabeth Manley
Johnson, Hume; Gentles-Peart, Kamille, eds. Brand Jamaica:
Reimagining a National Image and Identity. Lincoln: University
of Nebraska Press, 2019. 252 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-1-4962-0056-3.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55776
Reviewed for H-Buddhism by Zhenru Zhou
Wang, Michelle C. Maṇḍalas in the Making: The Visual
Culture of Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang. Leiden: Brill Academic
Publishers, 2018. xvii + 318 pp. , ISBN 978-90-04-35765-5.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55814
Reviewed for H-Albion by Richard Butler
Murphy, James H. The Politics of Dublin Corporation, 1840-1900:
From Reform to Expansion. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2020.
240 pp. $70.00, ISBN 978-1-84682-853-9.
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Reviewed for H-Judaic by Rafael Medoff
Lazin, Frederick A. American Christians and the National
Interreligious Task Force on Soviet Jewry: A Call to Conscience.
Lanham: Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield
Publishing Group, Inc., 2019. x + 253 pp. $95.00, ISBN 978-1-
4985-8323-7.
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Reviewed for H-War by Michael McInerney
Porter, Patrick. Blunder: Britain's War in Iraq. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2019. 254 pp. $41.95, ISBN 978-0-19-
880796-4.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55982
Reviewed for H-War by Jonathan Abel
Walsh, Michael. Last Stands: Why Men Fight When All Is Lost.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2020. 368 pp. $28.99, ISBN 978-1-
250-21708-0.
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Reviewed for H-War by Shawn Conroy
D'Anieri, Paul. Ukraine and Russia: From Civilized Divorce to
Uncivil War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Maps,
tables. 296 pp. $29.99, ISBN 978-1-108-71395-5.
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Reviewed for H-Africa by Diana Wylie
Walraven, Klaas van, ed. The Individual in African History: The
Importance of Biography in African Historical Studies.
African Dynamics Series. Leiden: Brill, 2020. Illustrations. xii
+ 304 pp. $73.00, ISBN 978-90-04-40781-7.
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Reviewed for H-Italy by Stefano Luconi
Argenteri, Letizia. Lelio Lagorio. Un socialista. Soveria
Mannelli: Rubbettino, 2020. 328 pp. EUR 19.00, ISBN 978-88-498-
6115-0.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56162
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