H-Net reviews posted to the web 11 Nov 2019 - 18 Nov 2019
The following reviews were posted to the H-Net web site between 11 Nov 2019 and 18 Nov 2019.
Reviewed for H-War by Sharmishtha Roychowdhury
Streets-Salter, Heather. _World War One in Southeast Asia:
Colonialism and Anticolonialism in an Era of Global Conflict_.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xii + 236 pp.
$29.99, ISBN 978-1-316-50109-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=53225
Reviewed for H-Sci-Med-Tech by John Lidwell-Durnin
Porter, Theodore M.. _Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown
History of Human Heredity_. Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 2018. Illustrations. xii + 447 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-691-
16454-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=53250
Reviewed for H-Low-Countries by Andrew J. Kettler
Helmers, Helmer J.; Janssen, Geert H., eds.. _Cambridge Companion
to the Dutch Golden Age, The_. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press, 2018. xix + 428 pp. $29.99, ISBN 978-1-316-
62353-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=53529
Reviewed for H-Disability by Alice Brumby
Taylor, Barbara. _Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times,
The_. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. 320 pp.
$20.00, ISBN 978-0-226-27392-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=53723
Reviewed for H-Africa by Harrouna Malgoubri
Gamble, Harry. _Contesting French West Africa: Battles over
Schools and the Colonial Order, 1900-1950_. Lincoln: University
of Nebraska Press, 2017. 378 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-8032-9549-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=53876
Reviewed for H-Genocide by Grace Leksana
Melvin, Jess. _Army and the Indonesian Genocide: Mechanics of
Mass Murder, The_. Routledge, 2018. xxv + 319 pages. $145.00,
ISBN 978-1-138-57469-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=53909
Reviewed for H-NewMexico by Carter Jones Meyer
Ebright, Malcolm; Hendricks, Rick. _Pueblo Sovereignty: Indian
Land and Water in New Mexico and Texas_. Norman: University of
Oklahoma Press, 2019. 260 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8061-6199-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=54010
Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Andrew Seal
Maggor, Noam. _Brahmin Capitalism: Frontiers of Wealth and
Populism in America's First Gilded Age_. Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 2017. Illustrations, graphs. 304 pp. $39.95,
ISBN 978-0-674-97146-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=54079
Reviewed for H-Judaic by C. Lynn Carr
Sands, Roberta G.. _Spiritual Transformation of Jews Who Become
Orthodox, The_. Albany: SUNY Press, 2019. Tables. xiii + 297 pp.
$85.00, ISBN 978-1-4384-7429-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=54204
Reviewed for H-FedHist by Heather McNamee
Perkins, J. Blake. _Hillbilly Hellraisers: Federal Power and
Populist Defiance in the Ozarks_. Working Class in American
History Series. Urbana: University of Illinois, 2017.
Illustrations. xi + 277 pp. $95.00, ISBN 978-0-252-04137-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=54217
Reviewed for H-Diplo by Patricia Harms
Marino, Katherine M.. _Feminism for the Americas: The Making of
an International Human Rights Movement_. Chapel Hill: University
of North Carolina Press, 2019. 368 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-1-4696-
4970-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=54252
Reviewed for H-Diplo by Derek Sheridan
Hubbert, Jennifer. _China in the World: An Anthropology of
Confucius Institutes, Soft Power, and Globalization_. Honolulu:
University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019. viii + 234 pp. $68.00, ISBN
978-0-8248-7820-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=54259
Reviewed for H-Nationalism by Mathias Fuelling
Drake, Richard. _Charles Austin Beard: The Return of the Master
Historian of American Imperialism_. Ithaca: Cornell University
Press, 2018. 336 pp. $42.95, ISBN 978-1-5017-1516-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=54265
Reviewed for H-Judaic by Alan T. Levenson
Lehnardt, Andreas, ed.. _Judaistik im Wandel: Ein halbes
Jahrhundert Forschung und Lehre über das Judentum in
Deutschland_. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017. vi + 239 pp. $80.99,
ISBN 978-3-11-052103-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=54267
Reviewed for H-Urban by Pepper Stetler
Paeslack, Miriam. _Constructing Imperial Berlin: Photography and
the Metropolis_. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,
2019. 216 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-1-5179-0295-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=54356
Reviewed for H-Urban by Benjamin Fraser
Bermúdez, Silvia; Geist, Anthony L., eds.. _Cartographies of
Madrid: Contesting Urban Space at the Crossroads of the Global
South and Global North_. Hispanic Issues Series. Nashville:
Vanderbilt University Press, 2019. 232 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-
8265-2215-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=54389
Reviewed for H-Early-America by Lisa A. Francavilla
Crane, Elaine Forman. _Poison Plot: A Tale of Adultery and Murder
in Colonial Newport, The_. Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
2018. 264 pp. $32.95, ISBN 978-1-5017-2131-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=54420
Reviewed for H-War by Owen P. Flanagan
Myers, Michael W.. _Pacific War and Contingent Victory: Why
Japanese Defeat Was Not Inevitable, The_. Lawrence: University
Press of Kansas, 2015. x + 198 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-2087-
6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=54447
Reviewed for H-War by Eric Lizon
Sykes, L. R.. _Silencing the Bomb: One Scientist's Quest to Halt
Nuclear Testing_. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. 304
pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-231-18248-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=54472
Reviewed for H-Empire by Amanda Lagji
Gandhi, Leela. _Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction:
Second Edition_. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. xv +
275 pp. $26.00, ISBN 978-0-231-17839-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=54600
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