H-Net Reviews for January 11 - 18, 2021

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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.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54254
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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.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55333
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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.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55352
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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.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55364
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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.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55409
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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.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55488
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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.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55496
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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.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55514
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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.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55646
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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.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55711
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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.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55815
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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.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55834
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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.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56033
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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.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56059
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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.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56131
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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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