H-Net reviews posted to the H-Net Commons 13 Sep 2021 - 20 Sep 2021
The following reviews were posted to the H-Net Commons between
13 Sep 2021 and 20 Sep 2021.
Reviewed for H-War by Kathryn Boehlefeld
Miller, Nicholas L.. _Stopping the Bomb: The Sources and
Effectiveness of US Nonproliferation Policy_. Cornell Studies in
Security Affairs Series. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018.
330 pp. $47.95, ISBN 978-1-5017-1780-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=53600
Reviewed for H-Borderlands by Cristina Florea
Eckert, Astrid M.. _West Germany and the Iron Curtain:
Environment, Economy, and Culture in the Borderlands_. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2019. 445 pp. $99.00, ISBN 978-0-19-
069005-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54717
Reviewed for H-Asia by Erik L. Harms
Nguyen-Thu, Giang. _Television in Post-Reform Vietnam: Nation,
Media, Market_. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2019. xii + 150 pp.
$160.00, ISBN 978-1-138-06902-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55651
Reviewed for H-CivWar by Lisa M. Brady
Noe, Kenneth W.. _Howling Storm: Climate, Weather, and the
American Civil War, The_. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University
Press, 2020. 688 pp. $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8071-7320-6.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55884
Reviewed for H-Environment by Josiah Rector
Montgomery, Alesia. _Greening the Black Urban Regime: The Culture
and Commerce of Sustainability in Detroit (Great Lakes Books
Series)_. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2020. 332 pp.
$34.99, ISBN 978-0-8143-4651-8.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56167
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Reviewed for H-Africa by Paul G. Grant
Mugambi, Kyama M.. _Spirit of Revitalization: Urban
Pentecostalism in Kenya, A_. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2020.
348 pp. $54.99, ISBN 978-1-4813-1355-1.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56179
Reviewed for H-Environment by James Skillen
Baldridge, Kenneth W.. _Civilian Conservation Corps in Utah, 1933-
1942: Remembering Nine Years of Achievement, The_. Salt Lake
City: University of Utah Press, 2019. Illustrations, tables. xvi
+ 508 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-1-60781-651-5.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56225
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Reviewed for H-Diplo by Le'Trice D. Donaldson
Polk, Khary Oronde. _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,
ISBN 978-1-4696-5550-5.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56340
Reviewed for H-Environment by India Luxton
Pritikin, Trisha T.. _Hanford Plaintiffs: Voices from the Fight
for Atomic Justice, The_. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas,
2020. Illustrations. xvi + 348 pp. $28.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-2904-
6.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56390
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Reviewed for H-Pennsylvania by Matthew J. Smalarz
Gamper-Rabindran, Shanti, ed.. _Shale Dilemma: A Global
Perspective on Fracking and Shale Development, The_. Pittsburgh:
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. 460 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-
8229-4513-0.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56406
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Reviewed for H-Early-America by Matthew Vajda
Weddle, Kevin John. _Compleat Victory: Saratoga and the American
Revolution, The_. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. xvii
+ 519 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-19-533140-0.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56421
Reviewed for H-Pennsylvania by Stephen E. Nepa
Kneeland, Timothy W.. _Playing Politics with Natural Disaster:
Hurricane Agnes, the 1972 Election, and the Origins of FEMA_.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. xvi + 227 pp. $36.95,
ISBN 978-1-5017-4853-0.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56463
Reviewed for H-LatAm by Allison Caplan
Wasserman-Soler, Daniel I.. _Truth in Many Tongues: Religious
Conversion and the Languages of the Early Spanish Empire_.
University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020.
Illustrations. 227 pp. $84.95, ISBN 978-0-271-08599-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56507
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Reviewed for H-Canada by Michael Seidman
Robins Sharpe, Emily. _Mosaic Fictions: Writing Identity in the
Spanish Civil War_. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020.
Illustrations. 240 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-1-4875-0142-6.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56562
Reviewed for H-War by Alex Beckstrand
Demm, Eberhard. _Censorship and Propaganda in World War I: A
Comprehensive History_. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. xviii
+ 330 pp. $115.00, ISBN 978-1-78453-851-4.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56607
Reviewed for H-Nationalism by Caroline Hackett
Chapman-Adisho, Annette. _Patriot and Priest: Jean-Baptiste
Volfius and the Constitutional Church in the Côte-d'Or_. McGill-
Queen's Studies in the History of Religion Series. Montreal:
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019. 272 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-
0-7735-5988-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56643
Reviewed for H-Africa by John K. Thornton
Oliveira, Vanessa S.. _Slave Trade and Abolition: Gender,
Commerce, and Economic Transition in Luanda_. Women in Africa and
the Diaspora Series. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2021.
Illustrations, maps, tables. 272 pp. $79.95, ISBN 978-0-299-32580-
0.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56688
Reviewed for H-Africa by Michael Cserkits
Comolli, Virginia. _Boko Haram: Nigeria's Islamist Insurgency_.
London: Hurst & Company, 2018. Maps. 208 pp. $19.50, ISBN 978-1-
84904-661-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56689
Reviewed for H-LatAm by Kelly Donahue-Wallace
Engel, Emily A.. _Pictured Politics: Visualizing Colonial History
in South American Portrait Collections_. Austin: University of
Texas Press, 2020. viii + 173 pp. Ill. $60.00, ISBN 978-1-4773-
2059-4.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56839
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Reviewed for H-Slavery by Spencer Gomez
Sheinin, David; Bryce, Benjamin, eds.. _Race and Transnationalism
in the Americas_. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press,
2021. 304 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-8229-4671-7.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56867
Reviewed for H-Africa by Diana Wylie
Freund, Bill. _Bill Freund: An Historian’s Passage to Africa_.
Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2021. Illustrations. 288 pp.
$30.00, ISBN 978-1-77614-672-7.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56887
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