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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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