Reviews

Author:

Khary Oronde Polk

Reviewer:

Le'Trice D. Donaldson

Donaldson on Polk, 'Contagions of Empire: Scientific Racism, Sexuality, and Black Military Workers Abroad, 1898-1948'

Khary Oronde Polk. Contagions of Empire: Scientific Racism, Sexuality, and Black Military Workers Abroad, 1898-1948. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. 288 pp. $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-5550-5.

Reviewed by Le'Trice D. Donaldson (Texas A and M, Corpus Christi ) Published on H-Diplo (September, 2021) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Lori Allen

Reviewer:

Zachary Lockman

Lockman on Allen, 'A History of False Hope: Investigative Commissions in Palestine'

Lori Allen. A History of False Hope: Investigative Commissions in Palestine. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021. xx + 408 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-0672-2.

Reviewed by Zachary Lockman (New York University) Published on H-Diplo (September, 2021) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Nathan A. Kurz

Reviewer:

Carole Fink

Fink on Nathan A. Kurz, 'Jewish Internationalism and Human Rights after the Holocaust'

Nathan A. Kurz. Jewish Internationalism and Human Rights after the Holocaust. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 310 pp. $39.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-83492-6.

Reviewed by Carole Fink (The Ohio State University) Published on H-Diplo (September, 2021) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Piotr H. Kosicki, Kyrill Kunakhovich, eds.

Reviewer:

Luka Lisjak Gabrijelčič

Lisjak Gabrijelčič on Kosicki and Kunakhovich, 'The Long 1989: Decades of Global Revolution'

Piotr H. Kosicki, Kyrill Kunakhovich, eds. The Long 1989: Decades of Global Revolution. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2019. x + 284 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-963-386-283-4.

Reviewed by Luka Lisjak Gabrijelčič (Independent Scholar) Published on H-Diplo (August, 2021) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Jeanne E. Abrams

Reviewer:

Christina Carrick

Carrick on Abrams, 'A View from Abroad: The Story of John and Abigail Adams in Europe'

Jeanne E. Abrams. A View from Abroad: The Story of John and Abigail Adams in Europe. New York: New York University Press, 2021. 296 pp. $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4798-0287-6.

Reviewed by Christina Carrick (Princeton University) Published on H-Diplo (August, 2021) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Sarah J. Zimmerman

Reviewer:

Sarah C. Dunstan

Dunstan on Zimmerman, 'Militarizing Marriage: West African Soldiers' Conjugal Traditions in Modern French Empire'

Sarah J. Zimmerman. Militarizing Marriage: West African Soldiers' Conjugal Traditions in Modern French Empire. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2020. 318 pp. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8214-2422-3.

Reviewed by Sarah C. Dunstan (Queen Mary University London) Published on H-Diplo (August, 2021) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Francis M. Carroll

Reviewer:

Elizabeth McKillen

McKillen on Carroll, 'America and the Making of an Independent Ireland'

Francis M. Carroll. America and the Making of an Independent Ireland. New York: New York University Press, 2021. 312 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4798-0565-5.

Reviewed by Elizabeth McKillen (The University of Maine) Published on H-Diplo (August, 2021) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

A. Naomi Paik

Reviewer:

Carl Lindskoog

Lindskoog on Paik, 'Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century'

A. Naomi Paik. Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century. American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present Series. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. 184 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-520-30511-3; $18.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-520-30512-0.

Reviewed by Carl Lindskoog (Raritan Valley Community College) Published on H-Diplo (August, 2021) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Carly Beckerman

Reviewer:

Maryanne Rhett

Rhett on Beckerman, 'Unexpected State: British Politics and the Creation of Israel'

Carly Beckerman. Unexpected State: British Politics and the Creation of Israel. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020. 224 pp. $32.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-253-04641-3.

Reviewed by Maryanne Rhett (Monmouth University) Published on H-Diplo (August, 2021) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Özlem Altan-Olcay, Evren Balta

Reviewer:

Annessa A. Babic

Babic on Altan-Olcay and Balta, 'The American Passport in Turkey: National Citizenship in the Age of Transnationalism'

Özlem Altan-Olcay, Evren Balta. The American Passport in Turkey: National Citizenship in the Age of Transnationalism. Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. 240 pp. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-5215-6.

Reviewed by Annessa A. Babic (Bronx Community College) Published on H-Diplo (July, 2021) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Kiran Klaus Patel

Reviewer:

Laurent Warlouzet

Warlouzet on Patel, 'Project Europe: A History'

Kiran Klaus Patel. Project Europe: A History. Translated by Meredith Dale. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Illustrations, maps, tables. 388 pp. $26.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-49496-0.

Reviewed by Laurent Warlouzet (Paris Sorbonne University) Published on H-Diplo (July, 2021) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Raúl Necochea López, eds.

Reviewer:

Paulo Drinot

Drinot on Birn and Necochea López, 'Peripheral Nerve: Health and Medicine in Cold War Latin America'

Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Raúl Necochea López, eds. Peripheral Nerve: Health and Medicine in Cold War Latin America. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020. 384 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4780-0956-6.

Reviewed by Paulo Drinot (University College London) Published on H-Diplo (July, 2021) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

William A. Taylor, Mark A. Stoler, eds.

Reviewer:

Wilson Miscamble

Miscamble on Taylor and Stoler, 'George C. Marshall and the Early Cold War: Policy, Politics, and Society'

William A. Taylor, Mark A. Stoler, eds. George C. Marshall and the Early Cold War: Policy, Politics, and Society. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020. 311 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8061-6543-1.

Reviewed by Wilson Miscamble (University of Notre Dame) Published on H-Diplo (July, 2021) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Jorge G. Castañeda

Reviewer:

Kryštof Kozák

Kozák on Castañeda, 'America through Foreign Eyes'

Jorge G. Castañeda. America through Foreign Eyes. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. viii + 307 pp. $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-022449-3.

Reviewed by Kryštof Kozák (Charles University) Published on H-Diplo (June, 2021) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

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Author:

Michael Gehler, Piotr H. Kosicki, Helmut Wohnout, eds.

Reviewer:

Miloslav Bednář

Bednář on Gehler and Kosicki and Wohnout, 'Christian Democracy and the Fall of Communism'

Michael Gehler, Piotr H. Kosicki, Helmut Wohnout, eds. Christian Democracy and the Fall of Communism. Civitas: Studies in Christian Democracy Series. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2019. 352 pp. $79.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-946270216-5.

Reviewed by Miloslav Bednář (Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic) Published on H-Diplo (June, 2021) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

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Donaldson on Polk, 'Contagions of Empire: Scientific Racism, Sexuality, and Black Military Workers Abroad, 1898-1948'

Lockman on Allen, 'A History of False Hope: Investigative Commissions in Palestine'

Fink on Nathan A. Kurz, 'Jewish Internationalism and Human Rights after the Holocaust'

Lisjak Gabrijelčič on Kosicki and Kunakhovich, 'The Long 1989: Decades of Global Revolution'

Carrick on Abrams, 'A View from Abroad: The Story of John and Abigail Adams in Europe'

Dunstan on Zimmerman, 'Militarizing Marriage: West African Soldiers' Conjugal Traditions in Modern French Empire'

McKillen on Carroll, 'America and the Making of an Independent Ireland'

Lindskoog on Paik, 'Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century'

Rhett on Beckerman, 'Unexpected State: British Politics and the Creation of Israel'

Babic on Altan-Olcay and Balta, 'The American Passport in Turkey: National Citizenship in the Age of Transnationalism'

Warlouzet on Patel, 'Project Europe: A History'

Drinot on Birn and Necochea López, 'Peripheral Nerve: Health and Medicine in Cold War Latin America'

Miscamble on Taylor and Stoler, 'George C. Marshall and the Early Cold War: Policy, Politics, and Society'

Kozák on Castañeda, 'America through Foreign Eyes'

Bednář on Gehler and Kosicki and Wohnout, 'Christian Democracy and the Fall of Communism'

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