Reviews

Author: 
Holger Droessler
Reviewer: 
Sean Andrew Wempe

Wempe on Droessler, 'Coconut Colonialism: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa'

Holger Droessler. Coconut Colonialism: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa. Harvard Historical Studies Series. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2022. Illustrations, maps. 304 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-26333-8

Author: 
Alexander Freund
Reviewer: 
Jan Raska

Raska on Freund, 'Being German Canadian: History, Memory, Generations'

Alexander Freund. Being German Canadian: History, Memory, Generations. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2021. 288 pp. $31.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-88755-847-4.

Reviewed by Jan Raska (Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21) Published on H-TGS (February, 2022) Commissioned by Jeremy Best (Iowa State University)

Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=56961

Author: 
Kevin T. Hall
Reviewer: 
Sheldon Goldberg

Goldberg on Hall, 'Terror Flyers: The Lynching of American Airmen in Nazi Germany'

Kevin T. Hall. Terror Flyers: The Lynching of American Airmen in Nazi Germany. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2021. 400 pp. Ill. Tables. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-05015-1.

Reviewed by Sheldon Goldberg (Independent Scholar) Published on H-TGS (January, 2022) Commissioned by Jeremy Best (Iowa State University)

Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=57037

Author: 
Ulrike Strasser
Reviewer: 
David Dzurec

Dzurec on Strasser, 'Missionary Men in the Early Modern World: German Jesuits and Pacific Journeys'

Ulrike Strasser. Missionary Men in the Early Modern World: German Jesuits and Pacific Journeys. Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World Series. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. 274 pp. $127.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-946298630-5.

Reviewed by David Dzurec (University of Scranton) Published on H-TGS (January, 2022) Commissioned by Alison C. Efford (Marquette University)

Author: 
Robert Teigrob
Reviewer: 
Asa McKercher

McKercher on Teigrob, 'Four Days in Hitler's Germany: Mackenzie King's Mission to Avert a Second World War'

Robert Teigrob. Four Days in Hitler's Germany: Mackenzie King's Mission to Avert a Second World War. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019. Illustrations. xix + 292 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4875-0550-9

Author: 
Jeremy Best
Reviewer: 
Robert E. Alvis

Alvis on Best, 'Heavenly Fatherland: German Missionary Culture and Globalization in the Age of Empire'

Jeremy Best. Heavenly Fatherland: German Missionary Culture and Globalization in the Age of Empire. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. xiv + 322 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4875-0563-9.

Reviewed by Robert E. Alvis (Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology) Published on H-TGS (July, 2021) Commissioned by Caryn E. Neumann (Miami University of Ohio Regionals)

Author: 
Thomas Fleischman
Reviewer: 
Michael Belding

Belding on Fleischman, 'Communist Pigs: An Animal History of East Germany's Rise and Fall'

Thomas Fleischman. Communist Pigs: An Animal History of East Germany's Rise and Fall. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. 296 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-295-74730-9.

Reviewed by Michael Belding (Iowa State University) Published on H-TGS (June, 2021) Commissioned by Jeremy Best (Iowa State University)

Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=56040

Author: 
Caroline Mezger
Reviewer: 
Gregor Kranjc

Kranjc on Mezger, 'Forging Germans: Youth, Nation, and the National Socialist Mobilization of Ethnic Germans in Yugoslavia, 1918-1944'

Caroline Mezger. Forging Germans: Youth, Nation, and the National Socialist Mobilization of Ethnic Germans in Yugoslavia, 1918-1944. Studies in German History Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Illustrations, maps. 360 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-885016-8.

Reviewed by Gregor Kranjc (Brock University) Published on H-TGS (April, 2021) Commissioned by Benjamin Bryce (University of British Columbia)

Author: 
John P. R. Eicher
Reviewer: 
Brandon Bloch

Bloch on Eicher, 'Exiled Among Nations: German and Mennonite Mythologies in a Transnational Age'

John P. R. Eicher. Exiled Among Nations: German and Mennonite Mythologies in a Transnational Age. Cambridge University Press, 2020. . ISBN 978-1-108-62639-2; $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-48611-8

Author: 
Black Central European Studies Network (BCESN)
Reviewer: 
Samuel Ludwig

Ludwig on Black Central European Studies Network (BCESN), 'Black Central Europe'

Black Central European Studies Network (BCESN). Black Central Europe. blackcentraleurope.com: Black Central European Studies Network (BCESN), 2014. A website combining teaching and research resources, the work of Black artists, and facilitation of conversations among stakeholders on Black people in Central European history.

Reviewed by Samuel Ludwig (Universite de Haute-Alsace) Published on H-TGS (December, 2020) Commissioned by Jeremy Best (Iowa State University)

Author: 
Robert Vincent Kelz
Reviewer: 
Patricia Simpson

Simpson on Kelz, 'Competing Germanies: Nazi, Antifascist, and Jewish Theater in German Argentina, 1933-1965'

Robert Vincent Kelz. Competing Germanies: Nazi, Antifascist, and Jewish Theater in German Argentina, 1933-1965. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. xiv + 355 pp. $115.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-3985-9.

Reviewed by Patricia Simpson (University of Nebraska, Lincoln) Published on H-TGS (November, 2020) Commissioned by Benjamin Bryce (University of Northern British Columbia)

Author: 
Kathleen M. Fernandez
Reviewer: 
Robert W. Frizzell

Frizzell on Fernandez, 'Zoar: The Story of an Intentional Community'

Kathleen M. Fernandez. Zoar: The Story of an Intentional Community. Kent: Kent State University Press, 2019. 313 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-63101-156-6.

Reviewed by Robert W. Frizzell (Independent Scholar) Published on H-TGS (October, 2020) Commissioned by Alison C. Efford (Marquette University)

Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=55431

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