ANN: H-Net reviews posted to the web 29 Apr 2019 - 20 May 2019

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The following reviews were posted to the H-Net web site between
29 Apr 2019 and 20 May 2019.

Reviewed for H-War by Hayley Hasik
   Gallagher, Patrick.  _Traumatic Defeat: POWs, MIAs, and National
   Mythmaking_.  Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2018.  200 pp.
   $29.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-2644-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=52574

Reviewed for H-Italy by Theresa Jäckh
   Davis-Secord, Sarah C..  _Where Three Worlds Met: Sicily in the
   Early Medieval Mediterranean_.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
   2017.  316 pp.  $59.95, ISBN 978-1-5017-0464-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=53350

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Julia Young
   Flores, John H..  _Mexican Revolution in Chicago: Immigration
   Politics from the Early Twentieth Century to the Cold War, The_.
   Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2018.  252 pp.  $28.00, ISBN
   978-0-252-08342-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=53366

Reviewed for H-FedHist by Alexander V. Marriott
   Gienapp, Jonathan.  _Second Creation: Fixing the American
   Constitution in the Founding Era, The_.  Cambridge: Belknap Press,
   2018.  451 pp.  $35.00, ISBN 978-0-674-18504-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=53372

Reviewed for H-Poland by Łukasz Jasiński
   Finder, Gabriel N.; Prusin, Alexander V..  _Justice behind the
   Iron Curtain: Nazis on Trial in Communist Poland_.  German and
   European Studies Series. Toronto: University of Toronto Press,
   2018.  400 pp.  $90.00, ISBN 978-1-4426-3745-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=53400

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Debbie Sharnak
   Brennan, James P..  _Argentina's Missing Bones: Revisiting the
   History of the Dirty War_.  Berkeley: University of California
   Press, 2018.  xi + 195 pp.  $85.00, ISBN 978-0-520-29791-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=53422

Reviewed for H-War by Ron Gurantz
   Getchell, Michelle.  _Cuban Missile Crisis and the Cold War: A
   Short History with Documents, The_.  Passages: Key Moments in
   History Series. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2018.
   Illustrations. 200 pp.  $18.00, ISBN 978-1-62466-741-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=53509

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Shaul Mitelpunkt
   Walker, William O..  _Rise and Decline of the American Century,
   The_.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018.  306 pp.  $46.95,
   ISBN 978-1-5017-2613-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=53525

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Bonnie A. Lucero
   Dorr, Lisa Lindquist.  _Thousand Thirsty Beaches: Smuggling
   Alcohol from Cuba to the South during Prohibition, A_.  Chapel
   Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018.  312 pp.  $39.95,
   ISBN 978-1-4696-4327-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=53534

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Colin M. Snider
   Pensado, Jaime M.; Ochoa, Enrique C., eds..  _Mexico beyond 1968:
   Revolutionaries, Radicals, and Repression during the Global
   Sixties and Subversive Seventies_.  Tucson: University of Arizona
   Press, 2018.  xv + 342 pp.  $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8165-3842-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=53559

Reviewed for H-Japan by Michael Lee
   Groemer, Gerald.  _Land We Saw, the Times We Knew: An Anthology of
   Zuihitsu Writing from Early Modern Japan, The_.  Honolulu:
   University of Hawaii Press, 2018.  376 pp.  $68.00, ISBN 978-0-
   8248-7444-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=53565

Reviewed for H-War by Mario Serna
   Busch, Nathan E.; Pilat, Joseph F..  _Politics of Weapons
   Inspections: Assessing WMD Monitoring and Verification Regimes,
   The_.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017.  400 pp.
   $29.95, ISBN 978-1-5036-0160-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=53596

Reviewed for H-Nationalism by Benjamin V. Allison
   Churchwell, Sarah.  _Behold, America: The Entangled History of
   "America First" and "the American Dream"_.  New York: Basic Books,
   2018.  368 pp.  $32.00, ISBN 978-1-5416-7340-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=53671

Reviewed for H-War by Steven Vincent
   Brown, Howard G..  _Mass Violence and the Self: From the French
   Wars of Religion to the Paris Commune_.  Ithaca: Cornell
   University Press, 2018.  xii + 283 pp. Illustrations.  $50.000,
   ISBN 978-1-5017-3061-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=53781

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Carrie Gibson
   Martínez-Fernández, Luis.  _Key to the New World: A History of
   Early Colonial Cuba_.  Gainesville: University of Florida Press,
   2018.  236 pp.  $74.95, ISBN 978-1-68340-032-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=53819

Reviewed for H-Poland by Robert E. Blobaum
   Marzec, Wiktor.  _Rebelia i reakcja: Rewolucja 1905 roku i
   plebejskie doświadczenie polityczne_.  Łódź: Wydawnictwo
   Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016.  524 pp.  49.90 PLN, ISBN 978-83-
   242-3001-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=53941

Reviewed for H-Italy by John J. Kinder
   Ricatti, Francesco.  _Italians in Australia: History, Memory,
   Identity_.  Palgrave Studies in Migration History. London:
   Palgrave Pivot, 2018.  147 pp.  $54.99, ISBN 978-3-319-78872-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=54046

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Rafael Medoff
   Penkower, Monty Noam.  _Palestine to Israel: Mandate to State,
   1945-1948: Vol. 1: Rebellion Launched, 1945-1946; Vol. 2: Rebelion
   Launched, 1945-1946_.  Vallejo, CA: Touro University Press, 2019.
   2 volumes. xvii + 804 pp.  $119.00, ISBN 978-1-61811-873-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=54063

Reviewed for H-War by Denis Alfin
   Lookingbill, Brad D., ed..  _Companion to Custer and the Little
   Bighorn Campaign, A_.  Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.  536 pp.
   $195.00, ISBN 978-1-4443-5109-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=51653

Reviewed for H-War by Benjamin Griffin
   Westad, Odd Arne.  _Cold War: A World History, The_.  New York:
   Basic Books, 2017.  720 pp.  $40.00, ISBN 978-0-465-05493-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=52202

Reviewed for H-War by Harry Franqui-Rivera
   Coronado, Juan David.  _"I'm Not Gonna Die in This Damn Place":
   Manliness, Identity, and Survival of the Mexican American Vietnam
   Prisoners of War_.  East Lansing: Michigan State University Press,
   2018.  xxxv + 180 pp.  $29.95, ISBN 978-1-61186-272-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=52499

Reviewed for H-War by Chris Callahan
   Paterson, Linda.  _Singing the Crusades: French and Occitan Lyric
   Responses to the Crusading Movements, 1137-1336_.  Rochester:
   Boydell & Brewer, 2018.  xviii + 332 pp.  $99.00, ISBN 978-1-84384-
   482-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=53298

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Barbara Elias
   Coll, Steve.  _Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars
   in Afghanistan and Pakistan_.  New York: Penguin Books, 2018.
   Illustrations. xxiii + 757 pp.  $35.00, ISBN 978-1-59420-458-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=53436

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Giuliano Garavini
   Warlouzet, Laurent.  _Governing Europe in a Globalizing World:
   Neoliberalism and Its Alternatives following the 1973 Oil Crisis_.
   Routledge Studies on Government and the European Union Series.
   London: Routledge, 2018.  288 pp.  $145.00, ISBN 978-1-138-72942-
   1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=53497

Reviewed for H-CivWar by Adam Zucconi
   Freeman, Joanne.  _Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the
   Road to Civil War, The_.  New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
   2018.  384 pp.  $28.00, ISBN 978-0-374-15477-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=53558

Reviewed for H-Nationalism by Shae Smith Cox
   Sandow, Robert M., ed..  _Contested Loyalty: Debates over
   Patriotism in the Civil War North_.  The North's Civil War Series.
   New York: Fordham University Press, 2018.  328 pp.  $65.00, ISBN
   978-0-8232-7975-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=53719

Reviewed for H-Disability by Shu Wan
   Hamraie, Aimi.  _Building Access: Universal Design and the
   Politics of Disability_.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
   Press, 2017.  336 pp.  $30.00, ISBN 978-1-5179-0164-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=54095

Reviewed for H-War by Augustine Meaher
   McKenna, Joseph.  _IRA Bombing Campaign against Britain, 1939-
   1940, The_.  Jefferson: McFarland, 2016.  216 pp.  $35.00, ISBN
   978-1-4766-6258-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=50980

Reviewed for H-War by Kathleen Alfin
   Thomas, Kevin J. A,.  _Contract Workers, Risk, and the War in
   Iraq: Sierra Leonean Labor Migrants at US Military Bases_.
   Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017.  256 pp.  $34.95,
   ISBN 978-0-7735-5123-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=51654

Reviewed for H-Socialisms by Graeme Pente
   Smith, Neil; Mitchell, Don; eds..  _Revolting New York: How 400
   Years of Riot, Rebellion, Uprising, and Revolution Shaped a City_.
   Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2018.  368 pp.  $29.95, ISBN
   978-0-8203-5282-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=53213

Reviewed for H-War by Nicholas Sambaluk
   Guitton, Clement.  _Inside the Enemy's Computer: Identifying Cyber-
   Attackers_.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.  320 pp.
   $34.95, ISBN 978-0-19-069999-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=53479

Reviewed for H-Japan by Iris Haukamp
   Bogue, Mike.  _Apocalypse Then: American and Japanese Atomic
   Cinema, 1951-1967_.  Jefferson: McFarland, 2017.  Illustrations.
   316 pp.  $19.99, ISBN 978-1-4766-2900-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=53561

Reviewed for H-CivWar by Jim Zibro
   Marvel, William.  _Lincoln's Mercenaries: Economic Motivation
   among Union Soldiers during the Civil War_.  Conflicting Worlds:
   New Dimensions of the American Civil War Series. Baton Rouge:
   Louisiana State University Press, 2018.  352 pp.  $48.00, ISBN 978-
   0-8071-6952-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=53584

Reviewed for H-IslamInAfrica by Samuel Anderson
   Calderwood, Eric.  _Colonial al-Andalus: Spain and the Making of
   Modern Moroccan Culture_.  Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard
   University Press, 2018.  408 pp.  $45.00, ISBN 978-0-674-98032-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=53657

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Andrew Patrick
   Sahin, Emrah.  _Faithful Encounters: Authorities and American
   Missionaries in the Ottoman Empire_.  Montreal: McGill-Queen's
   University Press, 2018.  264 pp.  $34.95, ISBN 978-0-7735-5462-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=53715

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Chris Foss
   Allcock, Thomas Tunstall.  _Thomas C. Mann: President Johnson, the
   Cold War, and the Restructuring of Latin American Foreign Policy_.
   Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2018.  284 pp.  $60.00,
   ISBN 978-0-8131-7615-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=53794

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Maya Balakirsky Katz
   Hoffman-Cortius, Kathryn.  _Judenmord: Art and the Holocaust in
   Post-war Germany_.  London: REAKTION BOOKS, 2018.  400 pp.
   $57.00, ISBN 978-1-78023-907-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=54105
 

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