H-Net This Week (Roundup from around the Commons for the week of November 9 - 15, 2018)
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Network News
H-Net holds elections for Council officers and members-at-large
H-Podcast launches new reviews program, invites suggestions for titles, reviewers
H-Net welcomes new sponsor Readex's Territorial Papers of the United States
Network Publications
H-Diplo:
- Review essay on Max Weber and International Relations
- Roundtable on Withdrawal: Reassessing America’s Final Years in Vietnam
- Article review of “America’s Role in the Five Power Defence Arrangements: Anglo-American Power Transition in South-East Asia, 1967-1971”
- Article review of “From the Sands of the Ogaden to Black Hawk Down: The End of the Cold War in the Horn of Africa”
H-Ideas: Politics and the Study of Sexual Science? An Exchange Between Harry Oosterhuis and Ralph Leck
H-Kentucky adds Mattie Bruce Reynolds to KY Woman Suffrage Trail map
H-War publishes Armistice Day Centennial Handgrenade
Discussions
H-HistBibl shares article on importance of web archiving
H-War continues to discuss origins of First World War
H-Scholar shares column on peer review's problems, strategies for improvement
H-Russia discusses scholarship on night & dark in Russian/Eurasian history
H-Judaic responds to same query on night & darkness in Ashkenazi culture
H-War discusses November's Handgrenade of the Month about Armistice Day
H-Scholar shares further materials on Plan S, concerns from scientists about hybrid journal ban
H-Japan responds to query about Japanese culture of game and play
H-Judaic responds to query about Rabbi Ishmael's thirteenth principle
H-Haiti shares article on erasure of birthright citizenship
Queries
H-Holocaust seeks contact information for daughter of Otto Heller, Austrian communist of Jewish origin
H-ANZAU and H-Albion seek historiography on religious education in British world, 1900-1970
H-CivWar and H-Education inquire about public schools in Midwest during Civil War
Research Resources
H-Scholar shares Transcribus transcription resource
H-Holocaust shares video archive of Holocaust testimonies
H-Haiti shares Haitian Creole translation of digital history project A Colony in Crisis: The Saint-Domingue Grain Shortage of 1789
H-Asia adds The Maoist Legacy digital archive to Digital Asia
H-EarlySlavic shares new website for Medieval, early modern Russian history journal
H-Asia shares Jangseogak digital image service in Korean studies
H-HistBibl shares ReSounding the Archives, digital project on sheet music, performance, and research
H-Japan shares online exhibit Crossing the Divide: An American Dream Made in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952
Teaching Resources
H-HistBibl shares resource for turning clean data into messy data for teaching
H-Lat-Am updates its syllabi collection
H-Russia suggests scholarship on night & dark in Russian/Eurasian history
Blogs
H-War posts Armistice Day Centennial Handgrenade
H-CivWar shares post on European medicine and US Civil War treatment
News & Publication Roundups
H-AfroAm's News Items of Interest
H-War's Military History Digest
H-Diplo's Journal Watch
H-Slavery's latest Twitter roundup
Podcasts
H-Podcast shares 15 Minute History roundtables on legacy of First World War
H-Africa shares Africa Past and Present on jazz music and African borderlands
H-USA shares Breaking History roundtable on centenary of First World War Armistice
H-Canada shares Champlain Society podcast on Armistice Day
H-Podcast shares Once Upon a Patriarchy podcast on Disney's fairy tale adaptations
Remembrances
H-Japan remembers Ronald P. Dore, sociologist of Japanese economy and society
H-Asia remembers Vincent Shen, scholar of Chinese philosophy
H-Net Reviews
H-SHERA: Svitlana Krys reviews She-wolf: A Cultural History of Female Werewolves
H-Diplo: Ronald W. Cox reviews Sovereign Soldiers: How the U.S. Military Transformed the Global Economy After World War II
H-Poland: Patrice M. Dabrowski reviews Map Men: Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe
H-Judaic: Heather Blurton reviews The Accommodated Jew: English Antisemitism from Bede to Milton
H-Judaic: Jason Kalman reviews Ecclesiastes and the Riddle of Authorship
H-Nationalism: Rena Bood reviews The Spanish Tragedy: A Critical Reader
H-Italy: John Hosler reviews John of Salisbury and the Medieval Roman Renaissance
H-FedHist: Julia C. Ehrhardt reviews The President's Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas
H-SHGAPE: Kimberly Reilly reviews Lust on Trial: Censorship and the Rise of American Obscenity in the Age of Anthony Comstock
H-Texas: Ian A. Lee reviews From Santa Anna to Selena: Notable Mexicanos and Tejanos in Texas History since 1821
H-Ideas: Harry Oosterhuis reviews Vita Sexualis: Karl Ulrichs and the Origins of Sexual Science (with author response by Ralph Matthew Leck)
JHistory: Eugenia M. Palmegiano reviews Wiring the Nation: Telecommunication, Newspaper-Reportage, and Nation-Building in British India 1850–1930
H-Net Commons Top Hits:
Most Viewed Page: Emily Talen's lecture notes for urban structure and function on H-Urban
Top Discussion: H-Diplo's roundtable on Gregory A. Daddis's Withdrawal: Reassessing America’s Final Years in Vietnam
Top Review: Sophie Maríñez's review of We Dream Together: Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom on H-Haiti
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