Alison Rowley. Putin Kitsch in America. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019. 208 pp. $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7735-5901-1.
Reviewed by Cynthia Hooper (College of the Holy Cross) Published on H-Diplo (August, 2020) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)
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David O. McKay. Pacific Apostle: The 1920-21 Diary of David O. McKay in the Latter-Day Saint Island Missions. Edited by Reid L. Neilson and Carson V. Teuscher. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2020. Illustrations. xlvi + 314 pp. $14.95 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-252-05171-5; $110.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-04285-0; $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-08467-6.
Kristin L. Hoganson, Jay Sexton, eds.
Crossing Empires: Taking U.S. History into Transimperial Terrain.
American Encounters/Global Interactions Series. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020. 360 pp.
$28.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4780-0694-7; $104.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4780-0603-9. 
Oya Dursun-Özkanca.
Turkey-West Relations: The Politics of Intra-alliance Opposition.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 140 pp.
$29.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-108-72672-6; $89.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-48862-4.
Hannah Barker.
That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. 328 pp.
$79.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-5154-8.
Reviewed by Veruschka Wagner (Universität Bonn) Published on H-Diplo (July, 2020) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)
Jeremy D. Popkin.
A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution.
New York: Basic Books, 2019. 640 pp.
$35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-465-09666-4.
Reviewed by Edward J. Kolla (Georgetown University) Published on H-Diplo (July, 2020) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)
Amy J. Rutenberg.
Rough Draft: Cold War Military Manpower Policy and the Origins of Vietnam-Era Draft Resistance.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. 276 pp.
$95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-3936-1; $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5017-3958-3.
Thomas Colley.
Always at War: British Public Narratives of War.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2019. x + 274 pp.
$75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-472-13144-0.
Reviewed by Allison Abra (University of Southern Mississippi) Published on H-Diplo (July, 2020) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)
Samuel F. Wells Jr. Fearing the Worst: How Korea Transformed the Cold War. Woodrow Wilson Center Series. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. Illustrations, tables. 600 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-54994-3.
Reviewed by James Matray (California State University, Chico) Published on H-Diplo (June, 2020) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)
Marina E. Henke. Constructing Allied Cooperation: Diplomacy, Payments, and Power in Multilateral Military Coalitions. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. Illustrations, charts. 258 pp. $23.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-5017-3971-2; $47.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-3969-9.
Reviewed by Paul Poast (University of Chicago) Published on H-Diplo (June, 2020) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)
Victoria Reyes.
Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Violence, and Empire in Subic Bay, Philippines.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019. 312 pp.
$90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-0799-6; $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5036-0941-9.
T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Leah Zamore.
The Arc of Protection: Reforming the International Refugee Regime.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019. viii + 169 pp.
$14.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5036-1141-2.
Kirsten L. Ziomek.
Lost Histories: Recovering the Lives of Japan’s Colonial Peoples.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019. xix + 406 pp.
$35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-674-23728-5.
Reviewed by Brian W. Platt (George Mason University) Published on H-Diplo (June, 2020) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)
Steve Marti, William John Pratt, eds.
Fighting with the Empire: Canada, Britain, and Global Conflict, 1867-1947.
Studies in Canadian Military History Series. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2019. 220 pp.
$32.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7748-6041-3; $89.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7748-6040-6.
Maile Arvin.
Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai‘i and Oceania.
Durham: Duke University Press, 2019. Illustrations. 311 pp.
$27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4780-0633-6.
Reviewed by Tom Smith (University of Cambridge) Published on H-Diplo (May, 2020) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)
