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

Compiled by the H-Net Clerks and edited by Yelena KalinskyPrevious issues  of H-Net This Week