The following reviews were posted to the H-Net Commons between
10 May 2021 and 17 May 2021.
Reviewed for Jhistory by Caryn E. Neumann:
Campbell, Eddie. The Goat Getters: Jack Johnson, the Fight of the
Century, and How a Bunch of Raucous Cartoonists Reinvented Comics.
Studies in Comics and Cartoons Series. Columbus: IDW
Publishing, 2018. Illustrations. 320 pp. $49.99, ISBN 978-1-
68405-138-0.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54257
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Reviewed for H-SHERA by Alla Myzelev:
Mihailovic, Alexandar. The Mitki and the Art of Postmodern Protest
in Russia. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2018.
xvii + 254 pp. $79.95, ISBN 978-0-299-31490-3.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54273
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Reviewed for H-Environment by Kyuhyun Han:
Songster, E. Elena. Panda Nation: The Construction and
Conservation of China's Modern Icon. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2018. 264 pp. $38.95, ISBN 978-0-19-939367-1.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55436
Reviewed for H-Socialisms by Burak Sayim:
Kassab, Elizabeth Suzanne. Enlightenment on the Eve of the
Revolution: The Egyptian and Syrian Debates. New York: Columbia
University Press, 2019. 240 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-231-17633-0.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55661
Reviewed for H-Atlantic by Dylan LeBlanc:
Ogborn, Miles. The Freedom of Speech: Talk and Slavery in the Anglo-
Caribbean World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
2019. x + 309 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-226-65768-4.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55712
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Reviewed for H-CivWar by Roberto Saba:
Wolnisty, Claire M. A Different Manifest Destiny: U.S. Southern
Identity and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century South America.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020. 180 pp. $50.00,
ISBN 978-1-4962-0790-6.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55774
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Reviewed for H-LatAm by Nathan Ellstrand:
Spenser, Daniela. In Combat: The Life of Lombardo Toledano.
Historical Materialism Series. Leiden: Brill, 2019.
Illustrations. xiv + 422 pp. $234.00, ISBN 978-90-04-41000-8.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55856
Reviewed for H-War by Eric Boutin-Bloomberg:
Dahlm, Adam. Empire of the People: Settler Colonialism and the
Foundations of Modern Democratic Thought. American Political
Thought Series. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2018. 272
pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-7006-2606-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56020
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Reviewed for H-War by Christopher Kinley:
Prekatsounakis, Yannis. The Battle for Heraklion. Crete 1941: The
Campaign Revealed through Allied and Axis Accounts.
Warwick: Helion and Company Limited, 2017. 304 pp. $69.95, ISBN
978-1-911096-33-7.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56049
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Reviewed for H-War by John Haberstroh:
Matyszak, Philip. The Rise of the Hellenistic Kingdoms, 336-250 BC.
Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Military, 2019. Illustrations. 176
pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-1-4738-7476-3.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56072
Reviewed for Jhistory by Bryant Macfarlane:
Galili, Doron. Seeing by Electricity: Cinema, Moving Image
Transmission, and the Emergence of Television, 1878-1939.
Durham: Duke University Press, 2020. xii + 247 pp. $25.95, ISBN
978-1-4780-0822-4.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56177
Reviewed for H-Nationalism by Pearl J. Young:
Brodrecht, Grant R. Our Country: Northern Evangelicals and the
Union during the Civil War Era. New York: Fordham University
Press, 2018. 278 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-8232-7991-3.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56222
Reviewed for H-Albion by Claire Arnold:
O'Dowd, Mary; Luddy, Maria. Marriage in Ireland, 1660-1925.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xiv + 448 pp.
$32.99, ISBN 978-1-108-73190-4.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56240
Reviewed for H-Buddhism by John Osburg:
Esler, Joshua. Tibetan Buddhism among Han Chinese: Mediation and
Superscription of the Tibetan Tradition in Contemporary Chinese
Society. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020. 266 pp. $115.00, ISBN
978-1-4985-8464-7.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56552
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