Reviews

Author:

Manu Karuka

Reviewer:

Brenden W. Rensink

Rensink on Karuka, 'Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad'

Manu Karuka. Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad. American Crossroads Series. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019. Illustrations. xv + 297 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-520-29664-0; $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-520-29662-6.

Reviewed by Brenden W. Rensink (Brigham Young University) Published on H-Diplo (November, 2019) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Raffael Scheck, Fabien Théofilakis, Julia S. Torrie, eds.

Reviewer:

Aviel Roshwald

Roshwald on Scheck and Théofilakis and Torrie, 'German-occupied Europe in the Second World War'

Raffael Scheck, Fabien Théofilakis, Julia S. Torrie, eds. German-occupied Europe in the Second World War. Abingdon: Routledge, 2019. 276 pp. $140.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-138-50149-2.

Reviewed by Aviel Roshwald (Georgetown University) Published on H-Diplo (November, 2019) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Timothy Andrews Sayle

Reviewer:

Andrea Chiampan

Chiampan on Sayle, 'Enduring Alliance: A History of NATO and the Postwar Global Order'

Timothy Andrews Sayle. Enduring Alliance: A History of NATO and the Postwar Global Order. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. 360 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-3550-9.

Reviewed by Andrea Chiampan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Published on H-Diplo (November, 2019) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Jennifer Hubbert

Reviewer:

Derek Sheridan

Sheridan on Hubbert, 'China in the World: An Anthropology of Confucius Institutes, Soft Power, and Globalization'

Jennifer Hubbert. China in the World: An Anthropology of Confucius Institutes, Soft Power, and Globalization. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019. viii + 234 pp. $68.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8248-7820-7.

Reviewed by Derek Sheridan (Academia Sinica) Published on H-Diplo (November, 2019) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Katherine M. Marino

Reviewer:

Patricia Harms

Harms on Marino, 'Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement'

Katherine M. Marino. Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. 368 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-4970-2.

Reviewed by Patricia Harms (Brandon University) Published on H-Diplo (November, 2019) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Beth C. Caldwell

Reviewer:

Tobin Hansen

Hansen on Caldwell, 'Deported Americans: Life after Deportation to Mexico'

Beth C. Caldwell. Deported Americans: Life after Deportation to Mexico. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019. xii + 232 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4780-0390-8; $94.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4780-0360-1.

Reviewed by Tobin Hansen (University of Oregon) Published on H-Diplo (November, 2019) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Audra J. Wolfe

Reviewer:

Elena Aronova

Aronova on Wolfe, 'Freedom's Laboratory: The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science'

Audra J. Wolfe. Freedom's Laboratory: The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. x + 302 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4214-2673-0.

Reviewed by Elena Aronova (University of California, Santa Barbara) Published on H-Diplo (November, 2019) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Elana Wilson Rowe

Reviewer:

Heather Nicol

Nicol on Rowe, 'Arctic Governance: Power in Cross-Border Cooperation'

Elana Wilson Rowe. Arctic Governance: Power in Cross-Border Cooperation. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018. xi + 164 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5261-2173-8.

Reviewed by Heather Nicol (Trent University) Published on H-Diplo (November, 2019) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Eugenio Cusumano, Christopher Kinsey, eds.

Reviewer:

G. R. Berridge

Berridge on Cusumano and Kinsey, 'Diplomatic Security: A Comparative Analysis'

Eugenio Cusumano, Christopher Kinsey, eds. Diplomatic Security: A Comparative Analysis. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019. 280 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-0898-6.

Reviewed by G. R. Berridge (University of Leicester) Published on H-Diplo (November, 2019) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Emma McCluskey

Reviewer:

Caren J. Frost

Frost on McCluskey, 'From Righteousness to Far Right: An Anthropological Rethinking of Critical Security Studies'

Emma McCluskey. From Righteousness to Far Right: An Anthropological Rethinking of Critical Security Studies. McGill-Queen’s Studies in Ethnic History Series. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019. 248 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7735-5689-8; $110.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7735-5688-1.

Author:

Oren Barak

Reviewer:

Johannes Becke

Becke on Barak, 'State Expansion and Conflict: In and between Israel/Palestine and Lebanon'

Oren Barak. State Expansion and Conflict: In and between Israel/Palestine and Lebanon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 292 pp. $105.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-41579-8.

Reviewed by Johannes Becke (Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies) Published on H-Diplo (October, 2019) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Jennifer M. Dixon

Reviewer:

Khatchig Mouradian

Mouradian on Dixon, 'Dark Pasts: Changing the State's Story in Turkey and Japan'

Jennifer M. Dixon. Dark Pasts: Changing the State's Story in Turkey and Japan. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018. 276 pp. $26.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-5017-3025-2; $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-3024-5.

Reviewed by Khatchig Mouradian (Columbia University) Published on H-Diplo (October, 2019) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Gerald M. Steinberg, Ziv Rubinovitz

Reviewer:

Jørgen Jensehaugen

Jensehaugen on Steinberg and Rubinovitz, 'Menachem Begin and the Israel-Egypt Peace Process: Between Ideology and Political Realism'

Gerald M. Steinberg, Ziv Rubinovitz. Menachem Begin and the Israel-Egypt Peace Process: Between Ideology and Political Realism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. 378 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-03952-1.

Reviewed by Jørgen Jensehaugen (Peace Research Institute Oslo) Published on H-Diplo (October, 2019) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Daniel Schönpflug

Reviewer:

Jay Winter

Winter on Schönpflug, 'A World on Edge: The End of the Great War and the Dawn of a New Age'

Daniel Schönpflug. A World on Edge: The End of the Great War and the Dawn of a New Age. Metropolitan Books, 2018. 300 pages. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-62779-762-7.

Reviewed by Jay Winter (Yale University) Published on H-Diplo (October, 2019) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author:

Andrew Yeo

Reviewer:

Stephen Herzog

Herzog on Yeo, 'Asia's Regional Architecture: Alliances and Institutions in the Pacific Century'

Andrew Yeo. Asia's Regional Architecture: Alliances and Institutions in the Pacific Century. Studies in Asian Security Series. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019. 264 pp. $70.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-0844-3.

Reviewed by Stephen Herzog (Yale University) Published on H-Diplo (October, 2019) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

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Rensink on Karuka, 'Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad'

Roshwald on Scheck and Théofilakis and Torrie, 'German-occupied Europe in the Second World War'

Chiampan on Sayle, 'Enduring Alliance: A History of NATO and the Postwar Global Order'

Sheridan on Hubbert, 'China in the World: An Anthropology of Confucius Institutes, Soft Power, and Globalization'

Harms on Marino, 'Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement'

Hansen on Caldwell, 'Deported Americans: Life after Deportation to Mexico'

Aronova on Wolfe, 'Freedom's Laboratory: The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science'

Nicol on Rowe, 'Arctic Governance: Power in Cross-Border Cooperation'

Berridge on Cusumano and Kinsey, 'Diplomatic Security: A Comparative Analysis'

Frost on McCluskey, 'From Righteousness to Far Right: An Anthropological Rethinking of Critical Security Studies'

Becke on Barak, 'State Expansion and Conflict: In and between Israel/Palestine and Lebanon'

Mouradian on Dixon, 'Dark Pasts: Changing the State's Story in Turkey and Japan'

Jensehaugen on Steinberg and Rubinovitz, 'Menachem Begin and the Israel-Egypt Peace Process: Between Ideology and Political Realism'

Winter on Schönpflug, 'A World on Edge: The End of the Great War and the Dawn of a New Age'

Herzog on Yeo, 'Asia's Regional Architecture: Alliances and Institutions in the Pacific Century'

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