H-Net Reviews for March 29 - April 5, 2021
The following reviews were posted to the H-Net Commons between 29 Mar 2021 and 05 Apr 2021.
Reviewed for H-Asia by Angela Rudert:
McLain, Karline. Afterlife of Sai Baba: Competing Visions of a
Global Saint, The. Seattle: University of Washington Press,
2016. 278 pp. $95.00, ISBN 978-0-295-99551-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54210
Reviewed for H-Environment by Les Beldo:
Ravalli, Richard. Sea Otters: A History. Studies in Pacific
Worlds Series. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018.
Illustrations. xxiv + 189 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8032-8440-1.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55064
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Reviewed for H-Empire by Stephen Hague:
Abbenhuis, Maartje M.; Morrell, Gordon W. First Age of
Industrial Globalization: An International History 1815-1918,
The. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. 324 pp. $88.00, ISBN
978-1-4742-6710-6.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55142
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Reviewed for H-War by Patrick E. Brady:
Greer, Kirsten A. Red Coats and Wild Birds: How Military
Ornithologists and Migrant Birds Shaped Empire. Flows,
Migrations, and Exchanges Series. Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, 2020. Illustrations. 190 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-
4696-4983-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55411
Reviewed for H-Asia by Berenice Guyot-Rechard:
Baruah, Sanjib. In the Name of the Nation: India and Its
Northeast. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020. 296 pp.
$30.00, ISBN 978-1-5036-1128-3.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55627
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Reviewed for H-LatAm by Brenda Elsey:
Acree, William Garrett. Staging Frontiers: The Making of Modern
Popular Culture in Argentina and Uruguay. Diálogos Series.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2019. Illustrations.
288 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8263-6105-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55726
Reviewed for H-Disability by Andrew McKendry:
Dierenfield, Bruce J., David A. Gerber. Disability Rights and
Religious Liberty in Education: The Story behind Zobrest v.
Catalina Foothills School District (Disability Histories).
Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2020. 240 pp. $27.95,
ISBN 978-0-252-08507-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55729
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Reviewed for H-Asia by Rohit Wanchoo:
Moffat, Chris. India's Revolutionary Inheritance: Politics and
the Promise of Bhagat Singh. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2019. 292 pp. $105.00, ISBN 978-1-108-49690-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55770
Reviewed for H-Socialisms by John Graham:
Misak, Cheryl. Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2020. Illustrations. 464 pp. $32.95,
ISBN 978-0-19-875535-7.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55876
Reviewed for H-Africa by Gregory H. Maddox:
Styles, Megan A. Roses from Kenya: Labor, Environment, and the
Global Trade in Cut Flowers. Culture, Place, and Nature Series.
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. Illustrations,
map, charts. 256 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-295-74650-0.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55904
Reviewed for H-Environment by Emma Dewhirst:
Milne, Ida. Stacking the Coffins: Influenza, War and Revolutions
in Ireland, 1918-19. Manchester: Manchester University Press,
2018. 280 pp. $36.95, ISBN 978-1-5261-2269-8.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55978
Reviewed for H-War by Meghan Ashley Vance:
Anderton, Abby. Rubble Music: Occupying the Ruins of Postwar
Berlin, 1945-1950. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019.
194 pp. $70.00, ISBN 978-0-253-04242-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56003
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Reviewed for H-War by Ian Varga:
Spitzmiller, Ted. History of Human Space Flight, The.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2017. Illustrations.
648 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8130-5427-8.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56048
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Reviewed for H-Empire by Amanda Lanzillo:
Robinson, Francis. Muslim World in Modern South Asia: Power,
Authority, Knowledge, The. Albany: State University of New York
Press, 2021. 419 pp. $95.00, ISBN 978-1-4384-8301-6.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56255
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Reviewed for H-CivWar by William Glenn Robertson:
Powell, David A. Impulse of Victory: Ulysses S. Grant at
Chattanooga, The. The World of Ulysses S. Grant Series.
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2020.
Illustrations, maps. 264 pp. $34.50, ISBN 978-0-8093-3801-6.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56325
Reviewed for H-Nationalism by Heather C. Walser:
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=56425
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Reviewed for H-Judaic by Eugene Korn:
Kellner, Menachem Marc; Gillis, David. Maimonides the
Universalist: The Ethical Horizons of the Mishneh Torah. London:
Littman Library Of Jewish Civilization and Liverpool University
Press, 2020. 368 pp. $59.50, ISBN 978-1-906764-55-5.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56450
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