H-Net This Week (Roundup from around the Commons for the week of August 24 - 30, 2018)

Network News

H-Scholar add content to its Resources Tab

Discussions

H-Judaic continues to discuss ancient Egyptian headgear totafot

H-Judaic query yields information about new dictionary of Hebrew philosophical terminology to replace Klatzkin

H-Scholar shares article for researchers without library access

H-Haiti shares news item on recent uprising in Port-au-Prince

Queries

H-Childhood query about toy manufacturer, retailer archives for project on postwar American toys

H-Judaic seeks scholars working on African American-Jewish interactions between Emancipation and Civil Rights Movement

H-New-Jersey subscriber seeks artifacts for NJ in 1950s exhibit 

Research Resources

H-Romania shares new journal issue on Romanian archives specializing in German, German-Jewish history and culture

H-Judaic discusses Philosophical and Scientific Hebrew Terminology in Context project

H-Scholar shares article for researchers without libraries to its Resources Tab

Blogs

H-DC shares Streets of Washington blog on Washington's Rum Row

News & Publication Roundups

H-Nationalism's Weekend Reading

H-Democracy's Weekly Five: Democracy in the News

H-Luso-Africa's recently completed and in progress dissertations and theses

Podcasts

H-Podcast shares new episode of Somatic Podcast on Running and Gender Politics

H-Net Reviews

H-Diplo: Samuel Finesurrey reviews America's Forgotten Colony: Cuba's Isle of Pines

H-War: Thomas Arnold reviews Divided Lenses: Screen Memories of War in East Asia

H-War: Abigail Chandler reviews Boston's Massacre

H-War: Isaac Meyer reviews Japan's Security Renaissance: New Policies and Politics for the Twenty-First Century

H-LatAm: Heather F. Roller reviews Frontiers of Citizenship: A Black and Indigenous History of Postcolonial Brazil

H-Nationalism: Hilde De Weerdt reviews The Origins of the Chinese Nation: Song China and the Forging of an East Asian World Order

H-Levant: Orit Bashkin reviews Citizen Strangers: Palestinians and the Birth of Israel's Liberal Settler State

H-Asia: Donald Davis reviews Notes of Dissent: Essays on Indian History

H-California: Justin Gomer reviews City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965

H-Teach: Jeffrey Smith reviews Bound to the Fire: How Virginia's Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine

H-Diplo: Paul J. Heer reviews The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War

H-Medieval: K. Patrick Fazioli reviews Shifting Ethnic Identities in Spain and Gaul, 500-700: From Romans to Goths and Franks

H-FedHist: Sean Brennan reviews Richard M. Nixon and European Integration: A Reappraisal

H-FedHist: Andrew O'Shaughnessy reviews The Elusive Thomas Jefferson: Essays on the Man behind the Myths 

H-Early-America: John L. Larson reviews Rethinking America: From Empire to Republic

H-FedHist: Elizabeth A. Georgian reviews Religion in America: A Political History

H-Disability: Deborah Fratz reviews Phallacies: Historical Intersections of Disability and Masculinity

H-Diplo: James Lockhart reviews Empire in Retreat: The Past, Present, and Future of the United States

H-Sci-Med-Tech: Andy C. Brown reviews The Rise of Autobiographical Medical Poetry and the Medical Humanities

H-Socialisms: Antoine Capet reviews The Duty to Stand Aside: Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Wartime Quarrel of George Orwell and Alex Comfort

H-Diplo: Autumn Lass reviews America Enters the Cold War: The Road to Global Commitment, 1945–1950

H-Empire: Carson Bay reviews The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire

H-Net Commons Top Hits:

Most Viewed Page: H-DC and H-Urban listserv thread from 2001 on swamps and City of Washington

Top Discussion: H-Nationalism's Brexit, Nationalism and the Future of Europe monthly series installment, Brexit and the rise of right wing populism in Europe 

Top Review: Fatjon Kaja's 2016 review of The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism for H-Law