The following reviews were posted to the H-Net Commons between 25 Jan 2021 and 01 Feb 2021.
Reviewed for H-CivWar by Michael Green:
Freehling, William W. Becoming Lincoln. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2018. Illustrations. x + 369 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8139-4156-1.
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Reviewed for H-Africa by Adam H. Mohr:
Grant, Paul Glen. Healing and Power in Ghana: Early Indigenous Expressions of Christianity. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2020. 341 pp. $59.95, ISBN 978-1-4813-1267-7.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55363
Reviewed for H-Socialisms by Alexey Golubev:
Borenstein, Eliot. Plots against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. 306 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-1-5017-3577-6.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55391
Reviewed for H-LatAm by Amie Campos:
Herr, Pilar M. Contested Nation: The Mapuche, Bandits, and State Formation in Nineteenth-Century Chile. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2019. 169 pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-0- 8263-6095-3.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55402
Reviewed for H-Environment by Matthew S. Wiseman:
Frank, Susi K.; Jakobsen, Kjetil, eds. Arctic Archives: Ice, Memory and Entropy. Culture & Theory Series. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2019. 350 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-3-8376-4656-6.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55433
Reviewed for H-Environment by Erica Hannickel:
Hoenig, John. Garden Variety: The American Tomato from Corporate to Heirloom. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. 288 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-231-17908-9.
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Reviewed for H-Diplo by Joshua First:
Djagalov, Rossen. From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and the Third Worlds. Montreal: McGill-Queen University Press, 2020. 320 pp. $35.95, ISBN 978-0-228-00109-6.
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Reviewed for H-Disability by Michael Rembis:
Wong, Alice, ed. Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century. New York: Vintage Books, 2020. xxii + 309 pp. $16.95, ISBN 978-1-984899-42-2.
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Reviewed for H-LatAm by Holly Caldwell:
González Espitia, Juan Carlos. Sifilografía: A History of the Writerly Pox in the Eighteenth-Century Hispanic World. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019. xii + 395 pp. $90.00, ISBN 978-0-8139-4315-2.
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Reviewed for H-LatAm by Celia Crifasi:
Rowe, Erin Kathleen. Black Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 316 pp. $49.99, ISBN 978-1-108-42121-8.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55709
Reviewed for H-LatAm by Joshua Frens-String:
Chastain, Andra B.; Lorek, Timothy, eds. Itineraries of Expertise: Science, Technology, and the Environment in Latin America. (INTERSECTIONS: Histories of Environment) Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. 366 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0- 8229-4596-3.
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Reviewed for H-CivWar by Thomas C. Mackey:
Icenhauer-Ramirez, Robert. Treason on Trial: The United States v. Jefferson Davis. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2019. 376 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-7080-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55844
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Reviewed for H-War by Kathleen Hasson:
Blaydes, Lisa. State of Repression: Iraq under Saddam Hussein. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. xix + 354 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-691-18027-4.
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Reviewed for H-War by Benjamin Youngquist:
Mann, Jim. The Great Rift: Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, and the Broken Friendship That Defined an Era. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2020. x + 416 pp. $32.00, ISBN 978-1-62779-755-9.
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Reviewed for H-War by Tim Woolston:
Buchanan, Andrew N. World War II in Global Perspective, 1931- 1953: A Short History. Wiley Short Histories Series. Newark: Wiley Blackwell, 2019. 264 pp. $69.95, ISBN 978-1-119-36607-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56099
Reviewed for H-Genocide by Katja Grosse-Sommer:
Rosen, Alan. The Holocaust's Jewish Calendars: Keeping Time Sacred, Making Time Holy. Jewish Literature and Culture Series. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. Illustrations. xv + 251 pp. $14.99, ISBN 978-0-253-03830-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56105
Reviewed for H-FedHist by Joseph Stieb:
Sarantakes, Nicholas Evan. Fan in Chief: Richard Nixon and American Sports, 1969-1974. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2019. Illustrations. 360 pp. $60.00, ISBN 978-0-7006- 2852-0.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56134
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Reviewed for H-Empire by Timothy Jenks:
Lambert, Andrew. Seapower States: Maritime Culture, Continental Empires, and the Conflict that Made the Modern World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. 320 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-300- 23004-8.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56185
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