H-Net This Week (Roundup from around the Commons for the week of August 3 - 9, 2018)

Yelena Kalinsky Discussion

Last Week's RoundupAugust 3 - 9, 2018

Network News

Longtime H-Human-Rights editor Kurt Mills steps down, welcomes new lead editor Joel Pruce


Network Publications

H-Diplo article review of “To 'Keep the Genie Bottled Up': US Diplomacy, Nuclear Proliferation, and Gas Centrifuge Technology, 1962-1972”


Discussions

H-Scholar shares commentary on predatory publishing

H-Diplo discusses released records on Tet Offensive

H-Diplo responds to recent review of Creating the American Century: The Ideas and Legacies of America's Twentieth-Century Foreign Policy Founders

H-Buddhism discusses texts related to Buddhism and ecology for undergraduates

H-HistBibl shares essay about doing history online and in public

H-French-Colonial shares interview with Matthew G. Stanard on Congo Free State

H-Scholar shares essay about lack of access to research materials


Queries

H-German seeks information about Hamburg and crime under British occupation

H-LatAm queries on origin of enclosed church atrios in colonial Mexico

H-Histsex suggests films and readings about sexuality across American history, seeks additional recommendations

H-Judaic inquires after Abraham Boukabza catalogue, bookseller from mid-19th century Algiers

H-Medieval asks about literary portrayals of Theodoric the Ostrogoth in vernacular literature

H-Africa seeks films on pre-Apartheid South African history


Research Resources

H-HistBibl shares wealth of online resources for WWI centenary

H-Sci-Med-Tech shares 19th century obstetrician Thomas Radford's medical illustrations

H-Antisemitism shares news of revamped JDC Archives website

H-SHERA shares link to digitized Russian art magazine Mir iskusstva

 


Teaching Resources

Habsburg launches interactive digital history project on Hungary

H-Histsex subscriber suggests films and readings about sexuality across American history, seeks additional recommendations

H-Buddhism discusses texts related to Buddhism and ecology for undergraduates


Podcasts

H-Diplo shares podcast interview with Sarah Snyder about her new book From Selma to Moscow: How Human Rights Activists Transformed U.S. Foreign Policy

H-World shares latest episode of Breaking History on creepy diaries of the early Caribbean slave world


H-Net Reviews

H-War: Nicholas J. Cunigan reviews Nature of Empires and the Empires of Nature: Indigenous Peoples and the Great Lakes Environment

H-War: Richard Byers reviews Building a Nazi Europe: The SS's Germanic Volunteers

H-War: Melia Pfannenstiel reviews Transnational Actors in War and Peace: Militants, Activists, and Corporations in World Politics

H-SAWH: Elizabeth Gritter reviews Most of 14th Street is Gone: The Washington, DC Riots of 1968

H-Diplo: Michelle Getchell reviews New Perspectives on the End of the Cold War: Unexpected Transformations?

H-LatAm: Rocio Gomez reviews A Living Past: Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America

H-Diplo: Curt Cardwell reviews Creating the American Century: The Ideas and Legacies of America's Twentieth-Century Foreign Policy Founders

H-Albion: Mark Konnert reviews 1517: Martin Luther and the Invention of the Reformation

H-Asia: Vinita Damodaran reviews Indira Gandhi: A Life in Nature

H-California: Amanda Konkle reviews Nobody's Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood

H-TGS: Hasia R. Diner reviews Cities of Refuge: German Jews in London and New York, 1935-1945

H-Albion: Alison Shimko reviews The Oxford Illustrated History of Science

H-Judaic: Justin Rogers reviews Jewish, Christian, and Classical Exegetical Traditions in Jerome's Translation of the Book of Exodus: Translation Technique and the Vulgate

H-Disability: Time Vermande reviews The Bible and Disability: A Commentary

H-Diplo: Richard Spence reviews Spy Chiefs: Intelligence Leaders in the United States and United Kingdom

H-LatAm: Jaime Aguila reviews Of Forests and Fields: Mexican Labor in the Pacific Northwest

H-Buddhism: John Kieschnick reviews Chinese Buddhist Texts: An Introductory Reader

H-Disability: Morag Allan Campbell reviews Proper People: Early Asylum Life in the Words of Those Who Were There


H-Net Commons Top Hits:

This info is compiled from Google Analytics by the editor of HNTW on Friday, based on the previous Friday-Thursday.

Most Viewed Page: H-Asia's job page

Top Discussion: Discussion about standards and accuracy in historical scholarship on H-SHEAR

Top Review: Norma Kriger's 2005 review of Reclaiming Zimbabwe: The Exhaustion of the Patriarchal Model of Liberation

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