H-Net Reviews for July 19 - August 2, 2021

The following reviews were posted to the H-Net Commons between
19 Jul 2021 and 02 Aug 2021.

Reviewed for H-War by Eugene Miakinkov:
  Reese, Roger R.  The Imperial Russian Army in Peace, War, and
  Revolution, 1856-1917.  Modern War Studies Series. Lawrence:
  University Press of Kansas, 2019.  Illustrations. xviii + 494 pp.
  $45.00, ISBN 978-0-7006-2860-5.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55165
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Reviewed for H-Asia by James Anderson:
  Giersch, C. Patterson.  Corporate Conquests: Business, the State,
  and the Origins of Ethnic Inequality in Southwest China.
  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020.  Illustrations. 284 pp.
  $32.00, ISBN 978-1-5036-1216-7.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55516

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Annessa A. Babic:
  Altan-Olcay, Özlem; Balta, Evren.  The American Passport in Turkey:
  National Citizenship in the Age of Transnationalism.
  Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism Series.
  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.  240 pp.
  $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8122-5215-6.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55994

Reviewed for H-Asia by Robert Oppenheim:
  Lee, S. Heijin; Mehta, Monika; Ku, Robert Ji-Song, eds.  Pop
  Empires: Transnational and Diasporic Flows of India and Korea.
  Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2019.  360 pp.  $30.00, ISBN
  978-0-8248-8000-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56090
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Reviewed for H-Albion by Walter Scheidel:
  Antony, Robert; Carroll, Stuart; Pennock, Caroline Dodds, eds.
  The Cambridge World History of Violence (Volume 3).  Cambridge:
  Cambridge University Press, 2020.  xv + 716 pp.  $147.25, ISBN 978-
  1-107-11911-6.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56119
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Reviewed for H-Disability by Lynsey Cullen:
  Jansson, Åsa.  From Melancholia to Depression: Disordered Mood
  in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry.  Mental Health in Historical
  Perspective Series. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.  249 pp.
  $59.99, ISBN 978-3-030-54801-8.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56170

Reviewed for H-Environment by Hannah Cutting-Jones:
  Katz-Rosene, Ryan M.; Martin, Sarah J., eds.  Green Meat?
  Sustaining Eaters, Animals, and the Planet.  Montreal: McGill-
  Queen's University Press, 2020.  Illustrations. 272 pp.  $27.95,
  ISBN 978-0-228-00133-1.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56205

Reviewed for H-Atlantic by Peter Ferdinando:
  Boudreaux III, Edmond A.; Meyers, Maureen; Johnson, Jay K., eds.
  Contact, Colonialism, and Native Communities in the Southeastern
  United States.  Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P.
  Bullen Series. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2020.
  Illustrations, tables. 322 pp.  $90.00, ISBN 978-1-68340-117-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56251
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Reviewed for H-Disability by M. Lynn Rose:
  Singal, Nidhi; Lynch, Paul; Johansson, Shruti Taneja, eds.
  Education and Disability in the Global South: New Perspectives
  from Africa and Asia.  London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
  Illustrations. xv + 322 pp.  $130.00, ISBN 978-1-4742-9120-0.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56514
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Reviewed for H-Buddhism by Cameron Bailey:
  Van Schaik, Sam.  Buddhist Magic: Divination, Healing, and
  Enchantment through the Ages.  Boulder: Shambhala Publications,
  2020.  240 pp.  $18.95, ISBN 978-1-61180-825-4.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56639
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Reviewed for H-Environment by Kathleen Cairns:
  Luis, Keridwen N.  Herlands: Exploring the Women's Land Movement
  in the United States.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
  Press, 2018.  Illustrations. 320 pp.  $28.00, ISBN 978-0-8166-9825-
  7.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56641

Reviewed for H-Slavery by John D. Saillant:
  Burrowes, C. Patrick.  Liberia & the Quest for Freedom.
  Liberia: Know Your Self Press, 2019.  114 pp.  $19.95, ISBN 978-1-
  08-943806-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56726
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Reviewed for H-Asia by Phillip Wagoner:
  Ramaswamy, Vijaya.  In Search of Vishwakarma: Mapping Indian
  Craft Histories.  Delhi: Primus Books, 2019.  x + 282 pp.
  $49.95, ISBN .
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56810
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Reviewed for H-Slavery by David Hunter:
  Hardesty, Jared Ross.  Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A
  History of Slavery in New England.  Amherst: University of
  Massachusetts Press, 2019.  Illustrations. xx + 175 pp.  $22.95,
  ISBN 978-1-62534-457-1.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54900
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Reviewed for H-LatAm by Paula Halperin:
  Graham, Jessica Lynn.  Shifting the Meaning of Democracy: Race,
  Politics, and Culture in the United States and Brazil.  Oakland:
  University of California Press, 2019.  391 pp.  $29.95, ISBN 978-0-
  520-29376-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54949

Reviewed for H-Environment by Jo Guldi:
  Kingsbury, Benjamin.  An Imperial Disaster: The Bengal Cyclone of
  1876.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.  256 pp.
  $34.95, ISBN 978-0-19-087609-8.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55603
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Reviewed for H-Disability by Vicky Long:
  Bohata, Kirsti; Jones, Alexandra; Mantin, Mike; Thompson, Steven.
  Disability in Industrial Britain: A Cultural and Literary History
  of Impairment in the Coal Industry, 1880-1948.  Disability
  History Series. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020.
  Illustrations. 320 pp.  $120.00, ISBN 978-1-5261-2431-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55959
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Reviewed for H-Africa by Valentina Bryndina:
  Wimmler, Jutta.  The Sun King's Atlantic: Drugs, Demons and Dyestuffs
  in the Atlantic World, 1640-1730.  Leiden: Brill, 2017.  xiv
  + 230 pp. Ill.  $64.00, ISBN 978-90-04-33608-7.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56117

Reviewed for H-Africa by Andrew E. Barnes:
  Jones, Danell.  An African in Imperial London: The Indomitable Life
  of A. B. C. Merriman-Labor.  London: Hurst Publishers, 2018.
  320 pp.  $37.50, ISBN 978-1-84904-960-3.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56180

Reviewed for H-Early-America by Joanne S. Grasso:
  Chervinsky, Lindsay M.  The Cabinet: George Washington and the
  Creation of an American Institution.  Cambridge: Belknap
  Press of Harvard University Press, 2020.  432 pp.  $29.95, ISBN
  978-0-674-98648-0.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56188
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Reviewed for H-Material-Culture by Alexandra M. Macdonald:
  Town, Edward; McShane, Angela, eds. Marking Time: Objects,
  People, and Their Lives, 1500-1800.  New Haven: Yale Center for
  British Art, 2020.  518 pp.  $65.00, ISBN 978-0-300-25410-5.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56234
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Reviewed for H-Diplo by Laurent Warlouzet:
  Patel, Kiran Klaus.  Project Europe: A History.  Translated by
  Meredith Dale. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
  Illustrations, maps, tables. 388 pp.  $26.95, ISBN 978-1-108-49496-
  0.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56260

Reviewed for H-Material-Culture by Jennifer Green-Lewis:
  Waggoner, Diane.  Lewis Carroll's Photography and Modern
  Childhood.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020.
  Illustrations. xv + 264 pp.  $65.00, ISBN 978-0-691-19318-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56263
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Reviewed for H-Ukraine by Dexter Blackwell:
  Puleri, Marco.  Ukrainian, Russophone, (Other) Russian: Hybrid
  Identities and Narratives in Post-Soviet Culture and Politics.
  Postcolonial Perspectives on Eastern Europe Series. Frankfurt:
  Peter Lang, 2020.  294 pp.  $59.95, ISBN 978-3-631-82367-5.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56275

Reviewed for H-CivWar by Peter Porsche:
  Turner, Nicole Myers.  Soul Liberty: The Evolution of Black
  Religious Politics in Postemancipation Virginia.  Chapel Hill:
  University of North Carolina Press, 2020.  Illustrations, graphs,
  tables, maps. 223 pp.  $90.00, ISBN 978-1-4696-5522-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56341
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Reviewed for H-Environment by Lori Flores:
  Keller, Julie C.  Milking in the Shadows: Migrants and Mobility
  in America’s Dairyland.  New Brunswick: Rutgers University
  Press, 2019.  196 pp.  $28.95, ISBN 978-0-8135-9641-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56358
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Reviewed for H-Buddhism by Clinton G. Godart:
  Mackenzie, C. Brown, ed.  Asian Religious Responses to
  Darwinism: Evolutionary Theories in Middle Eastern, South Asian,
  and East Asian Cultural Contexts.  Sophia Studies in Philosophy
  of Traditions and Cultures, 33. New York: Springer, 2020.  391 pp.
  $149.99, ISBN 978-3-030-37339-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56369
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Reviewed for H-War by Matthew Brand:
  Forsyth, Michael J.  A Year in Command in Afghanistan: Journal of
  a United States Army Battalion Commander, 2009-2010.
  Jefferson: McFarland, 2016.  364 pp.  $25.00, ISBN 978-0-7864-7287-
  1.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56586

Reviewed for H-Buddhism by Andrew S. Taylor:
  Gayley, Holly, ed.  Voices from Larung Gar: Shaping Tibetan
  Buddhism for the Twenty-First Century.  Boulder: Snow Lion
  Publications, an imprint of Shambhala Publications, Inc., 2021.
  xxiii + 292 pp.  $19.95, ISBN 978-1-61180-894-0.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56640
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Reviewed for H-Ukraine by Nicholas Kupensky:
  Shkandrij, Myroslav.  Avant-Garde Art in Ukraine, 1910-1930:
  Contested Memory.  Brookline: Academic Studies Press, 2019.
  Illustrations. 202 pp.  $99.00, ISBN 978-1-61811-975-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56727
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Reviewed for H-Italy by Costanza Bonelli:
  Schill, Pierre, ed.  Réveiller l'archive d'une guerre
  coloniale. Gaston Chérau, correspondant de guerre, 1911-1912.
  Ivry-sur-Seine: Creaphis éditions, 2018.  478 pp.  EUR 35.00,
  ISBN 978-2-35428-141-0.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56739
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