H-Net reviews posted to the H-Net Commons 27 Jul 2020 - 03 Aug 2020
The following reviews were posted to the H-Net Commons between
27 Jul 2020 and 03 Aug 2020.
Reviewed for H-War by John Worsencroft
Woods, Randall B.. _Prisoners of Hope: Lyndon B. Johnson, the
Great Society, and the Limits of Liberalism_. New York: Basic
Books, 2016. 480 pp. $32.00, ISBN 978-0-465-05096-3.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=46584
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Reviewed for H-Asia by Jinah Kim
May, San San; Igunma, Jana. _Buddhism Illuminated: Manuscript Art
from South-East Asia_. Seattle: University of Washington Press,
2018. Illustrations. 256 pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-295-74378-3.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=52593
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Reviewed for H-Albion by Kirsten Walsh
Miller, Laura. _Reading Popular Newtonianism: Print, the
Principia, and the Dissemination of Newtonian Science_.
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2018. 248 pp.
$45.00, ISBN 978-0-8139-4125-7.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=53076
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Reviewed for H-LatAm by Nichole Sanders
Porter, Susie S.. _From Angel to Office Worker: Middle-Class
Identity and Female Consciousness in Mexico, 1890-1950_. The
Mexican Experience Series. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,
2018. Illustrations, tables, graphs. 372 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-1-
4962-0649-7.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=53325
Reviewed for H-LatAm by Carlos Dimas
Reber, Vera Blinn. _Tuberculosis in the Americas, 1870-1945:
Beneath the Anguish in Philadelphia and Buenos Aires_. New York:
Routledge, 2018. 348 pp. $149.95, ISBN 978-1-138-35950-5.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=53753
Reviewed for H-War by Sean Kennedy
Gordon, Bertram M.. _War Tourism: Second World War France from
Defeat and Occupation to the Creation of Heritage_. Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 2018. Illustrations, charts. 294 pp.
$42.95, ISBN 978-1-5017-1587-7.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=53809
Reviewed for Jhistory by Eric Walls
Graber, Samuel. _Twice-Divided Nation: National Memory,
Transatlantic News, and American Literature in the Civil War Era_.
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019. 288 pp.
$70.00, ISBN 978-0-8139-4238-4.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54065
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Reviewed for H-SHERA by Sergiy Yakovenko
Bucur, Maria. _Gendering Modernism: A Historical Reappraisal of
the Canon_. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017. 168 pp.
$25.95, ISBN 978-1-350-02625-4.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54208
Reviewed for H-LatAm by Alberto Ortiz Díaz
LeBrón, Marisol. _Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and
Resistance in Puerto Rico_. Berkeley: University of California
Press, 2019. xv + 301 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-520-30017-0.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54245
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Reviewed for H-Environment by Andrew Avery
Taylor, Andrew. _Two Years below the Horn: Operation Tabarin,
Field Science, and Antarctic Sovereignty, 1944-1946_. Edited by
Daniel Heidt and P. Whitney Lackenbauer. Winnipeg: University of
Manitoba Press, 2017. Illustrations, maps. 496 pp. $37.95, ISBN
978-0-88755-791-0.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54412
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Reviewed for Jhistory by Fabrizio Martino
Raboy, Marc. _Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World_. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2016. 872 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-19-
931358-7.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54659
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Reviewed for H-Asia by Mahesh Shankar
Guyot-Réchard, Bérénice. _Shadow States: India, China and
the Himalayas, 1910-1962_. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2018. 347 pp. $31.99, ISBN 978-1-316-62724-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54660
Reviewed for H-Judaic by Caroline A. Kita
Cypess, Rebecca; Sinkoff, Nancy, eds.. _Sara Levy's World:
Gender, Judaism, and the Bach Tradition in Enlightenment Berlin_.
Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2018. x + 292 pp.
$99.00, ISBN 978-1-58046-921-0.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54709
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Reviewed for H-Migration by Jonathan Dresner
Matsuda, Hiroko. _Liminality of the Japanese Empire: Border
Crossings from Okinawa to Colonial Taiwan_. Perspectives on the
Global Past Series. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2018.
Illustrations, maps, tables. 220 pp. $68.00, ISBN 978-0-8248-6756-
0.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54890
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Reviewed for H-Environment by Graeme Pente
Hunt, Lester H.. _Philosophy of Henry Thoreau: Ethics, Politics,
and Nature, The_. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
184 pp. $115.00, ISBN 978-1-350-07902-1.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54948
Reviewed for H-CivWar by Brianna Kirk
Lowenthal, Larry. _Yankee Regiment in Confederate Louisiana: The
31st Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in the Gulf South, A_.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2019. 360 pp.
$48.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-7190-5.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54965
Reviewed for H-Albion by Nigel Leask
Coltman, Viccy. _Art and Identity in Scotland: A Cultural History
from the Jacobite Rising of 1745 to Walter Scott_. Cambridge
Social and Cultural Histories Series. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2019. Illustrations. xviii + 302 pp. $99.99,
ISBN 978-1-108-41768-6.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54984
Reviewed for H-Environment by Joseph Ukockis
Huizar-Hernández, Anita. _Forging Arizona: A History of the
Peralta Land Grant and Racial Identity in the West_. Latinidad:
Transnational Cultures in the United States Series. New Brunswick:
Rutgers University Press, 2019. Illustrations, maps. 180 pp.
$27.95, ISBN 978-0-8135-9881-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55034
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Reviewed for H-Environment by John Vsetecka
Darrow, David W.. _Tsardom of Sufficiency, Empire of Norms:
Statistics, Land Allotments, and Agrarian Reform in Russia, 1700-
1921_. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018. 376 pp.
$49.95, ISBN 978-0-7735-5507-5.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55036
Reviewed for H-Diplo by Sarah Steinbock-Pratt
Hoganson, Kristin L.; Sexton, Jay, eds.. _Crossing Empires:
Taking U.S. History into Transimperial Terrain_. American
Encounters/Global Interactions Series. Durham: Duke University
Press, 2020. 360 pp. $28.95, ISBN 978-1-4780-0694-7.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55075
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Reviewed for H-Environment by Kyra Sanchez Clapper
Ives, Colta. _Public Parks, Private Gardens: Paris to Provence_.
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018. Illustrations. 208
pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-1-58839-584-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55155
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Reviewed for H-War by Paul Springer
Bloom, Mia; Horgan, John. _Small Arms: Children and Terrorism_.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. 248 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-
0-8014-5388-5.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55208
Reviewed for H-Asia by Keith Taylor
Nguyen, Duy Lap. _Unimagined Community: Imperialism and Culture
in South Vietnam, The_. Manchester: Manchester University Press,
2020. 280 pp. $120.00, ISBN 978-1-5261-4396-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55242
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Reviewed for H-Diplo by Benjamin E. Park
McKay, David O.. _Pacific Apostle: The 1920-21 Diary of David O.
McKay in the Latter-Day Saint Island Missions_. Edited by Reid L.
Neilson and Carson V. Teuscher. Champaign: University of Illinois
Press, 2020. Illustrations. xlvi + 314 pp. $14.95, ISBN 978-0-
252-05171-5.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55275
Reviewed for H-Buddhism by Stephanie Balkwill
Bryson, Megan. _Goddess on the Frontier: Religion, Ethnicity, and
Gender in Southwest China_. Stanford: Stanford University Press,
2017. 264 pp. $60.00, ISBN 978-1-5036-0045-4.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55312
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