H-Net This Week (Roundup from around the Commons for the week of March 9 - 15, 2018)

Yelena Kalinsky Discussion

Last Week's RoundupMarch 9 - 15, 2018

Network Publications

H-Diplo:

  • Roundtable on Humiliation in International Relations: A Pathology of Contemporary International Systems
  • Roundtable on The Carter Administration and the Fall of Iran’s Pahlavi Dynasty: US-Iran Relations on the Brink of the 1979 Revolution
  • Article review of "Ronald Reagan’s Strategies and Policies: Of Ideology, Pragmatism, Loyalties, and Management Style"
  • Article review of "Missing Revolution: The American Intelligence Failure in Iraq, 1958"

H-EarlySlavic tribute to Sergei Nikolaevich Azbelev (1926-2017) and review of recent volume on Novgorod chronicles


Discussions

H-SHGAPE's Question of the Week on simulations in the classroom

H-Nationalism responds to English Nationalism and Brexit, latest installment of Brexit, Nationalism, and the Future of Europe series

H-Judaic continues midrash discussion

H-High-S suggests primary sources for teaching US History

H-OralHist responds to query on slander

H-Kentucky discusses Dr. Mary Walker's Medal of Honor

H-Scholar discusses article on citing pre-prints


Queries

H-CivWar researcher seeks co-author on Civil War, Reconstruction notions of evil

H-Turk asks of 17th-century "Caesarian ambassador" in Istanbul

H-Nutrition seeks readings on food security and international security

H-CivWar query about Union Army Data, Historical Urban Ecology GIS Data Set


Research Resources

H-Spain shares research project on Spanish society under Franco

H-HistBibl shares digital preservation project that revives old software, preserves "born-digital" data

H-TGS shares digital collection of German-American baptismal, birth certificates from 1700-1900


Teaching Resources

H-Sport uploads resources to H-Sport Teaching Initiative

H-High-S suggests primary sources for teaching US History


Blogs

H-Albion shares James Vernon's post Teaching and Writing the History of Modern Britain

H-Haiti shares British Museum blog Visualising Toussaint Louverture


News & Publication Roundups

H-Nationalism's Weekend Reading

H-Luso-Africa's recent publications


Podcasts

H-HistBibl shares new podcast How It Began: A History of The Modern World

H-Canada shares Witness to Yesterday: Rediscovering the Explorer Philip Turnor
 
H-Law shares H-Law Podcast interview with A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950 author Fahad Ahmad Bishara

H-Podcast shares Breaking History: Women, War Trauma, and the First World War with Bridget Keown

H-Asia shares New Books Network call for hosts for New Books in East Asian Studies

H-Sci-Med-Tech shares New Books Network call for hosts for New Books in Science, Technology, and Society


Remembrances

H-EarlySlavic remembers Sergei Nikolaevich Azbelev, scholar of folklore studies and Novgorod chronicles

H-Judaic remembers David S. Wyman, scholar of American Jews and the Holocaust

H-LatAm remembers Alfred W. Crosby, scholar of geography, history, and American studies


H-Net Reviews

H-Socialisms: Luce Dubois reviews Against the Fascist Creep

H-War: Jobie Turner reviews The Strategy of Victory: How George Washington Won the American Revolution

H-War: Kate Imy reviews Call of Empire: From the Highlands to Hindostan

H-War: Jeff Rutherford reviews The Devils' Alliance: Hitler's Pact With Stalin, 1939-41

H-Buddhism: David Templeman reviews Building a Tradition: The Lives of Mar-pa the Translator

H-Diplo: Ryan Kirkby reviews Women's Antiwar Diplomacy during the Vietnam War Era

H-Disability: Henry C. Alphin Jr reviews Barriers and Belonging: Personal Narratives of Disability

H-FedHist: J. Denis Clark reviews Harold and Jack: The Remarkable Friendship of Prime Minister Macmillan and President Kennedy

H-Midwest: Brandon M. Ward reviews Demolition Means Progress: Flint, Michigan and the Fate of the American Metropolis

Habsburg: Robert Deam Tobin reviews The World of Prostitution in Late Imperial Austria

H-Law: Jay Gates reviews Law and Order in Anglo-Saxon England

H-Asia: Jason Cons reviews Rivers Divided: Indus Basin Waters in the Making of India and Pakistan

H-Socialisms: Andrija Filipovic reviews The Green Bloc: Neo-avant-garde Art and Ecology under Socialism

H-Empire: Jack Daniel Webb reviews The English Conquest of Jamaica: Oliver Cromwell's Bid for Empire

H-Pennsylvania: Vagel Keller reviews Wood Hicks and Bark Peelers: A Visual History of Pennsylvania's Railroad Lumbering Communities; The Photographic Legacy of William T. Clarke

H-Early-America: Sean P. Harvey reviews Informed Power: Communication in the Early American South


H-Net Commons Top Hits:

Most Viewed Page: H-Women March 1997 discussion thread on suffragist colors

Top Discussion: H-Diplo's roundtable on The Carter Administration and the Fall of Iran’s Pahlavi Dynasty: US-Iran Relations on the Brink of the 1979 Revolution

Top Review: Richard N. Price's 2016 review of The Trouble with Empire: Challenges to Modern British Imperialism for H-Empire

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