Reviews

Author: 
Gregory A. Daddis
Reviewer: 
Amy Rutenberg

Rutenberg on Daddis, 'Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men's Adventure Magazines'

Gregory A. Daddis. Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men's Adventure Magazines. Military, War, and Society in Modern American History Series. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Illustrations. 358 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-49350-5

Author: 
Alexandru Grigorescu
Reviewer: 
Bob Reinalda

Reinalda on Grigorescu, 'The Ebb and Flow of Global Governance: Intergovernmentalism versus Nongovernmentalism in World Politics'

Alexandru Grigorescu. The Ebb and Flow of Global Governance: Intergovernmentalism versus Nongovernmentalism in World Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Illustrations, tables. 274 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-49550-9.

Reviewed by Bob Reinalda (Radboud University) Published on H-Diplo (May, 2021) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author: 
Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz
Reviewer: 
Sarah Steinbock-Pratt

Steinbock-Pratt on CuUnjieng Aboitiz, 'Asian Place, Filipino Nation: A Global Intellectual History of the Philippine Revolution, 1887-1912'

Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz. Asian Place, Filipino Nation: A Global Intellectual History of the Philippine Revolution, 1887-1912. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. 272 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-231-19215-6.

Reviewed by Sarah Steinbock-Pratt (University of Alabama) Published on H-Diplo (May, 2021) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author: 
Deborah Shnookal
Reviewer: 
Bonnie A. Lucero

Lucero on Shnookal, 'Operation Pedro Pan and the Exodus of Cuba's Children'

Deborah Shnookal. Operation Pedro Pan and the Exodus of Cuba's Children. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2020. 326 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-68340-155-1

Reviewed by Bonnie A. Lucero (University of Houston-Downtown) Published on H-Diplo (May, 2021) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author: 
Erik Grimmer-Solem
Reviewer: 
Jennifer Jenkins

Jenkins on Grimmer-Solem, 'Learning Empire: Globalization and the German Quest for World Status, 1875-1919'

Erik Grimmer-Solem. Learning Empire: Globalization and the German Quest for World Status, 1875-1919. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 668 pp. $44.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-48382-7

Reviewed by Jennifer Jenkins (University of Toronto) Published on H-Diplo (May, 2021) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author: 
John Maxwell Hamilton
Reviewer: 
Lloyd Ambrosius

Ambrosius on Hamilton, 'Manipulating the Masses: Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of American Propaganda'

John Maxwell Hamilton. Manipulating the Masses: Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of American Propaganda. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2020. 656 pp. Ill. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8071-7077-9.

Reviewed by Lloyd Ambrosius (University of Nebraska) Published on H-Diplo (April, 2021) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author: 
Nancy Shoemaker
Reviewer: 
Edward D. Melillo

Melillo on Shoemaker, 'Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles: Americans in Nineteenth-Century Fiji'

Nancy Shoemaker. Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles: Americans in Nineteenth-Century Fiji. The United States in the World Series. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. Illustrations. 352 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-4034-3

Author: 
Heather Marie Stur
Reviewer: 
Jessica M. Frazier

Frazier on Stur, 'Saigon at War: South Vietnam and the Global Sixties'

Heather Marie Stur. Saigon at War: South Vietnam and the Global Sixties. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 292 pp. $29.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-316-61411-2.

Reviewed by Jessica M. Frazier (University of Rhode Island) Published on H-Diplo (March, 2021) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author: 
Martyn Jolly, Elisa DeCourcy, eds.
Reviewer: 
Veronica Johnson

Johnson on Jolly and DeCourcy, 'The Magic Lantern at Work: Witnessing, Persuading, Experiencing and Connecting'

Martyn Jolly, Elisa DeCourcy, eds. The Magic Lantern at Work: Witnessing, Persuading, Experiencing and Connecting. Routledge Studies in Cultural History Series. New York: Routledge, 2020. Illustrations. 228 pp. $160.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-367-32256-4.

Reviewed by Veronica Johnson (National University of Ireland, Galway) Published on H-Diplo (March, 2021) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author: 
David Webster
Reviewer: 
Bradley R. Simpson

Simpson on Webster, 'Challenge the Strong Wind: Canada and East Timor, 1975-99'

David Webster. Challenge the Strong Wind: Canada and East Timor, 1975-99. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2020. 312 pp. $89.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7748-6297-4.

Reviewed by Bradley R. Simpson (University of Connecticut) Published on H-Diplo (March, 2021) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author: 
Vincent Brown
Reviewer: 
Christine Walker

Walker on Brown, 'Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War'

Vincent Brown. Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020. viii + 320 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-73757-0

Reviewed by Christine Walker (Yale-NUS College) Published on H-Diplo (March, 2021) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author: 
Ali Raza
Reviewer: 
Michele L. Louro

Louro on Raza, 'Revolutionary Pasts: Communist Internationalism in Colonial India'

Ali Raza. Revolutionary Pasts: Communist Internationalism in Colonial India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 294 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-48184-7.

Reviewed by Michele L. Louro (Salem State University) Published on H-Diplo (March, 2021) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author: 
Mark Brilliant, David M. Kennedy
Reviewer: 
Carter Jones Meyer

Jones Meyer on Brilliant and Kennedy, 'World War II and the West It Wrought'

Mark Brilliant, David M. Kennedy. World War II and the West It Wrought. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020. 256 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-1157-3; $28.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5036-1287-7.

Reviewed by Carter Jones Meyer (Ramapo College of New Jersey) Published on H-Diplo (March, 2021) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author: 
Kamari Maxine Clarke
Reviewer: 
Claude Welch

Welch on Clarke, 'Affective Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Pan-Africanist Pushback'

Kamari Maxine Clarke. Affective Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Pan-Africanist Pushback. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019. 384 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4780-0670-1; $109.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4780-0575-9

Author: 
Marie A. Muschalek
Reviewer: 
Jason M. Wolfe

Wolfe on Muschalek, 'Violence as Usual: Policing and the Colonial State in German Southwest Africa'

Marie A. Muschalek. Violence as Usual: Policing and the Colonial State in German Southwest Africa. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. xi + 255 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-4285-9.

Reviewed by Jason M. Wolfe (Louisiana State University) Published on H-Diplo (February, 2021) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

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