H-Net This Week (Roundup from around the Commons for the week of April 6 - 12, 2018)
Network News
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H-Diplo:
- Article review of “Bandung as the Call for a Better Development Project: US, British, French and Gold Coast Perceptions of the Afro-Asian Conference (1955)”
- Roundtable on The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR
- Article review of “Why U.S. Efforts to Promote the Rule of Law in Afghanistan Failed”
- Article review of “In Plain Sight: The Neglected Linkage between Brideprice and Violent Conflict”
Discussions
H-SHGAPE shares multi-media sources on GAPE in response to latest Question of the Week
H-Nationalism discusses latest installment of Brexit, Nationalism, and the Future of Europe series, Brexit and Scotland
H-World shares more thoughts on when subjects become "political"
H-ItalianDispora shares essay on Italian-American discrimination
H-SHGAPE continues to discuss time period labels
H-War continues discussion on Hand Grenade of the Month, Korea, Historically Troublesome?
H-New-Jersey discusses perplexing research conditions at NJ repositories
Queries
H-Africa subscriber seeks help identifying online slavery databases/repositories
H-Judaic searches for sources on Nahman of Bratslav's theology of miracles
H-SHEAR query of New York newspaper to research 1847 feud over history education
H-Maritime seeks logbooks for 19th-century British and American ships in Persian Gulf
H-French-Colonial seeks Adolphe Crémieux resources as lawyer in colonial Algeria
Research Resources
H-Scholar recommends Tropy app to organize photographs
H-Haiti shares digital history project A Colony in Crisis update
H-Japan shares database for Japanese Historical Text Initiative
H-Haiti shares article on French/Haitian sites of memory and commemoration of abolition
H-HistBibl shares digitization of Royal Commonwealth Society Library collections; machine reading software
Teaching Resources
H-World discussion of when teaching becomes political
Blogs
H-Kentucky: What is the difference between a 'suffragist' and a 'suffragette'?
News & Publication Roundups
H-Nationalism's Weekend Reading
Podcasts
H-Podcast shares No Easy Answers in Bioethics episode Organ Donation Models
H-Africa shares Hip Hop African Podcast - Thiat of Keur Gui on Hip Hop and Activism Beyond Senegal
H-Asia shares Online Gods - Lies and Comedy
H-World shares Historias episode with Michael Goebel, scholar of nationalism
Remembrances
H-LatAm remembers John Lynch, historian of Latin America
H-Japan remembers Hisao "Mat" Matsumoto, Hiroshima atomic bombing survivor, US Air Force veteran, and employee of US Library of Congress
H-Judaic remembers Jonathan M. Hess, scholar of German-Jewish studies
H-Asia remembers Hans Stumpfeldt, German sinologist
H-Judaic remembers Edna Aizenberg, scholar of Latin American Jewish literature
H-Net Reviews
H-AMCA: Erin Hyde Nolan reviews Mediterranean Encounters: Artists between Europe and the Ottoman Empire, 1774-1839
H-Diplo: Allen Lynch reviews Putin: His Downfall and Russia's Coming Crash
H-War: Paul Springer reviews The Fightin' Texas Aggie Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor
H-War: Amanda Boczar reviews The Eve of Destruction: How 1965 Transformed America
H-War: Ian Yunker reviews Interpreting Naval History at Museums and Historic Sites
H-Nationalism: Hana Kubátová reviews Budapest Building Managers and the Holocaust in Hungary
H-Asia: Daiel Marston reviews Counter Jihad: America’s Military Experience in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria
H-Asia: Cynthia Talbo reviews Romanticism's Child: An Intellectual History of James Tod's Influence on Indian History and Historiography
H-Early America: Faith Barter reviews Reading Abolition: The Critical Reception of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass
H-LatAm: Evan Ward reviews San Miguel de Allende: Mexicans, Foreigners, and the Making of a World Heritage Site
H-1960s: Jeremy Kuzmarov reviews Grass Roots: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana in America
H-SHGAPE: Christopher Hayashida-Knight Colored No More: Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington, DC
H-Net Commons Top Hits:
Most Viewed Page: H-EnviroHealth 2016 roundtable on the Flint Water Crisis
Top Discussion: H-World's discussion on credit worth of AP World History
Top Review: Anthony Andersson's recent review of This City Belongs to You: A History of Student Activism in Guatemala, 1944-1996 for H-LatAm
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