H-Net This Week (Roundup from around the Commons for the week of March 30 - April 5, 2018)
Network News
H-Net's Executive Director Peter Knupfer shares message on H-Net's 25 Year Celebration
#HNet25 Crossroads is sharing treasures from 25 years of H-Net's listserv logs
Network Publications
H-Diplo:
- Article review of “To Catch a Tiger by Its Toe: The U.S.-Japan Security Treaty, Moral Re-Armament, and Cold War Orientalism”
- Roundtable on Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century
- Article review of “Neutralizing Indochina: The 1954 Geneva Conference and China’s Efforts to Isolate the United States”
- ISSF policy series Beyond Cyber-Threats: The Technopolitics of Vulnerability
- Article review of “A Nation of Outposts: Forts, Factories, Bases, and the Making of American Power”
H-Kentucky: Celebrating UKy’s First Women - up to 1920
Discussions
H-SHGAPE's Question of the Week: GAPE Fiction
H-SHGAPE continues to discuss time period labels
H-SHEAR dips into its logs, shares roundtable and discussion of new narrative history
H-Scholar shares article on FBI arrests for intellectual property theft and report on forms of open access
H-World continues to discuss when classroom material becomes political
H-Rural seeks opinions, discussion of two landmark theories of agricultural growth
H-Italy shares linguistic news on proto-Romance manuscript
Queries
H-Asia requests information on classical and literary Chinese curriculum in North America
H-Russia posts 19th century financial historian's query on Moscow Discount Bank
H-Childhood seeks resources on childhood in 19th-, early 20th-century Germany
H-Childhood seeks information about colonial-era orphanages in 19th-, 20th-century South Asia
H-Turk request for scans from Suleymaniye Library
H-Catholic seeks secondary sources on modernization of Papal States in 1860s-1870s
H-Levant user seeks Italian-English translator
H-Childhood seeks bibliography of rural childhood
Research Resources
H-Peace compiles roundup of peace museums
H-HistBibl shares annotated bibliography of digital scholarship in libraries
H-Buddhism shares DDB/CJKV-E update report
H-Haiti shares essay on Spain's Black Auxiliaries officer Lesec
H-Slavery adds links to digital projects:
- Slavery: supporters and abolitionists, 1675-1865
- Antigua, slavery and emancipation in the records of a sugar plantation, 1689-1907
H-Canada shares Special Joint Committee on the Constitution
H-HistBibl shares research decluttering app
H-NC shares Going Viral, website about 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic
Blogs
H-War's latest Hand Grenade of the Month: Korea, Historically Troublesome?
JHistory shares News for the Capital and the Nation: Politics and Washington’s Daily Newspapers
News & Publication Roundups
H-War's Military History Digest
H-Nationalism's Weekend Reading
H-AfroAm's news items of interest
H-Disability's current journal articles
H-Borderlands' Book Channel publications
H-Luso-Africa's recent publications on Lusophone Africa
Podcasts
H-Podcast:
- Filibustering History - Jeffrey Henry, Museum Professional
- Breaking History - Animal Imagery in the British Empire with Dave DeCamp
H-Canada shares Witness to Yesterday - The Universe of John Plaskett, Astronomer
Remembrances
H-Minerva remembers women who died during April while in US armed services
H-Japan remembers Michael Cooper, scholar of pre-modern Japanese history
H-Net Reviews
H-AMCA: Rebecca Wolff reviews Assuming Boycott: Resistance, Agency, and Cultural Production
H-War: Zoe Rose Buonaiuto reviews Omar Nelson Bradley: America's GI General
H-War: Gregory Moore reviews America's Dream Palace: Middle East Expertise and the Rise of the National Security State
H-War: James E. Platte reviews To Kill Nations: American Strategy in the Air-Atomic Age and the Rise of Mutually Assured Destruction
H-Diplo: Norman J. W. Gorda reviews Our Germans: Project Paperclip and the National Security State
H-German: Robbie Aitken reviews Remapping Black Germany: New Perspectives on Afro-German History, Politics, and Culture
H-FedHist: David Jamison reviews Ties That Bound: Founding First Ladies and Slaves
H-Music: Bell Yung reviews The Rise of Cantonese Opera
H-SHERA: Alla Myzelev reviews Material Culture in Russia and the USSR Things, Values, Identities
H-Socialisms: Faisal Chaudhry reviews Uprising of the Fools: Pilgrimage as Moral Protest in Contemporary India
H-Sci-Med-Tech: Francesca Bray reviews The Profit of the Earth: The Global Seeds of American Agriculture
H-Sci-Med-Tech: Boris Jardine reviews Science in the Archives: Pasts, Presents, Futures
H-Net Commons Top Hits:
This info is compiled from Google Analytics by the editor of HNTW on Friday, based on the previous Friday-Thursday.
Most Viewed Page: H-Ideas discussion logs on Nihilism, Existentialism, and Christianity
Top Discussion: H-SHGAPE's Question of the Week on labels "Gilded Age" and the "Progressive Era"
Top Review: Janet Nelson's 2009 review of The Political Thought of King Alfred the Great for H-Albion
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