H-Net Reviews for May 2021 - 17 May 2021

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
Buy from Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/dp/168405138X?tag=hnetreviews-20&linkCode=osi&th=1&psc=1

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
Buy from Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/dp/1911096338?tag=hnetreviews-20&linkCode=osi&th=1&psc=1

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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