H-Net reviews posted to the web 09 Dec 2019 - 16 Dec 2019

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The following reviews were posted to the H-Net web site between
09 Dec 2019 and 16 Dec 2019.

Reviewed for H-War by Erica Ryan
   Scheibach, Michael.  _Protecting the Home Front: Women in Civil
   Defense in the Early Cold War_.  Jefferson: McFarland, 2017.  258
   pp.  $39.95, ISBN 978-1-4766-7212-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=52196

Reviewed for H-Asia by Azfar Moin
   Hallaq, Wael B..  _Restating Orientalism: A Critique of Modern
   Knowledge_.  New York: Columbia University Press, 2018.  380 pp.
   $40.00, ISBN 978-0-231-18762-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=53061

Reviewed for H-Nationalism by Moshe Behar
   Shumsky, Dmitry.  _Beyond the Nation-State: The Zionist Political
   Imagination from Pinsker to Ben-Gurion_.  New Haven: Yale
   University Press, 2018.  320 pp.  $40.00, ISBN 978-0-300-23013-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=53474

Reviewed for H-Poland by Michal Wilczewski
   Holmgren, Beth.  _Warsaw Is My Country: The Story of Krystyna
   Bierzynska, 1928-1945_.  Brighton: Academic Studies Press, 2018.
   130 pp.  $21.00, ISBN 978-1-61811-759-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=53617

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Eliyahu Stern
   Hacohen, Malachi Haim.  _Jacob & Esau: Jewish European History
   between Nation and Empire_.  Cambridge: Cambridge University
   Press, 2019.  752 pp.  $34.99, ISBN 978-1-316-64984-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=53953

Reviewed for H-Socialisms by Lorna Lueker Zukas
   Cockburn, Cynthia.  _Looking to London: Stories of War, Escape and
   Asylum_.  London: Pluto Press, 2017.  240 pp.  $25.00, ISBN 978-0-
   7453-9921-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=54020

Reviewed for H-Albion by Karen Sonnelitter
   Kinealy, Christine; King, Jason; Moran, Gerard, eds..  _Children
   and the Great Hunger in Ireland_.  Cork: Cork University Press,
   2018.  330 pp.  $25.00, ISBN 978-0-9904686-9-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=54053

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Devyn Spence Benson
   Bustamante, Michael J.; Lambe, Jennifer L., eds..  _Revolution
   from Within: Cuba, 1959-1980, The_.  Durham: Duke University
   Press, 2019.  344 pp.  $27.95, ISBN 978-1-4780-0296-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=54196

Reviewed for H-SHERA by Juliette Milbach
   Gilburd, Eleonory.  _To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of
   Western Culture_.  Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2018.  ix + 458 pp.
   $35.00, ISBN 978-0-674-98071-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=54209

Reviewed for H-Ideas by Tracie Matysik
   Whatmore, Richard, ed..  _Intellectual History, 1st Edition_.  New
   York and London: Routledge, 2015.  2,134 pages, 12 B/W Illus.
   $1590.00, ISBN 978-0-415-66299-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=54298

Reviewed for H-Diplo by David S. Painter
   Graf, Rüdiger.  _Oil and Sovereignty: Petro-Knowledge and Energy
   Policy in the United States and Western Europe in the 1970s_.  New
   York: Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2018.  474 pp.  $130.00, ISBN
   978-1-78533-806-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=54310

Reviewed for H-War by Michael R. Hall
   Dimitrakis, Panagiotis.  _Hidden War in Argentina: British and
   American Espionage in World War II, The_.  London: I.B. Tauris,
   2019.  xiii + 251 pp.  $115.00, ISBN 978-1-78831-341-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=54406

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Jeanette Favrot Peterson
   Rajagopalan, Angela Herren.  _Portraying the Aztec Past: The
   Codices Boturini, Azcatitlan, and Aubin_.  Austin: University of
   Texas Press, 2018.  Illustrations. xii + 198 pp.  $90.00, ISBN 978-
   1-4773-1606-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=54457

Reviewed for H-Africa by Robin Law
   Fuglestad, Finn.  _Slave Traders by Invitation : West Africa's
   Slave Coast in the Precolonial Era_.  Oxford: Oxford University
   Press, 2018.  500 pp.  $74.00, ISBN 978-0-19-087610-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=54460

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Timothy J. White
   Cottey, Andrew, ed..  _European Neutrals and NATO: Non-alignment,
   Partnership, Membership?, The_.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
   xiii + 237 pp.  $129.00, ISBN 978-1-349-95544-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=54486

Reviewed for H-Socialisms by John Knight
   Nakajima, Chieko.  _Body, Society, and Nation: The Creation of
   Public Health and Urban Culture in Shanghai_.  Cambridge: Harvard
   University Asia Center, 2018.  xvi + 312 pp.  $45.00, ISBN 978-0-
   674-98717-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=54499

Reviewed for H-Africa by David Bresnahan
   Campbell, Gwyn.  _Africa and the Indian Ocean World from Early
   Times to Circa 1900_.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
   2019.  316 pp.  $29.99, ISBN 978-0-521-00806-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=54513

Reviewed for H-Atlantic by Andrew J. Kettler
   Bystrom, Kerry; Slaughter, Joseph R., eds..  _Global South
   Atlantic, The_.  New York: Fordham University Press, 2017.  345
   pp.  $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8232-7788-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=54678

Reviewed for H-War by Peter Kuechler
   Ambinder, Marc.  _Brink: President Reagan and the Nuclear War
   Scare of 1983, The_.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 2018.  xx + 364
   pp. Ill.  $27.00, ISBN 978-1-4767-6037-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=54691

Reviewed for H-SHERA by Amy Bryzgel
   Astahovska, Ieva; Priede-Krievkalne, Antra; eds..  _Valdis
   Āboliņš: The Avant-Garde, Mailart, the New Left and Cultural
   Relations during the Cold War_.  Riga: Latvian Centre for
   Contemporary Art, 2019.  Illustrations. 662 pp.  EUR 20, ISBN .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=54746

Reviewed for H-Disability by Simon Jarrett
   Trenery, Claire.  _Madness, Medicine and Miracle in Twelfth-
   Century England_.  London: Routledge, 2019.  196 pp.  $155.00,
   ISBN 978-0-8153-6745-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=54829

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