H-Net This Week (Roundup from around the Commons for the week of August 3 - 9, 2018)
Network News
Longtime H-Human-Rights editor Kurt Mills steps down, welcomes new lead editor Joel Pruce
Network Publications
H-Diplo article review of “To 'Keep the Genie Bottled Up': US Diplomacy, Nuclear Proliferation, and Gas Centrifuge Technology, 1962-1972”
Discussions
H-Scholar shares commentary on predatory publishing
H-Diplo discusses released records on Tet Offensive
H-Diplo responds to recent review of Creating the American Century: The Ideas and Legacies of America's Twentieth-Century Foreign Policy Founders
H-Buddhism discusses texts related to Buddhism and ecology for undergraduates
H-HistBibl shares essay about doing history online and in public
H-French-Colonial shares interview with Matthew G. Stanard on Congo Free State
H-Scholar shares essay about lack of access to research materials
Queries
H-German seeks information about Hamburg and crime under British occupation
H-LatAm queries on origin of enclosed church atrios in colonial Mexico
H-Histsex suggests films and readings about sexuality across American history, seeks additional recommendations
H-Judaic inquires after Abraham Boukabza catalogue, bookseller from mid-19th century Algiers
H-Medieval asks about literary portrayals of Theodoric the Ostrogoth in vernacular literature
H-Africa seeks films on pre-Apartheid South African history
Research Resources
H-HistBibl shares wealth of online resources for WWI centenary
H-Sci-Med-Tech shares 19th century obstetrician Thomas Radford's medical illustrations
H-Antisemitism shares news of revamped JDC Archives website
H-SHERA shares link to digitized Russian art magazine Mir iskusstva
Teaching Resources
Habsburg launches interactive digital history project on Hungary
H-Histsex subscriber suggests films and readings about sexuality across American history, seeks additional recommendations
H-Buddhism discusses texts related to Buddhism and ecology for undergraduates
Podcasts
H-Diplo shares podcast interview with Sarah Snyder about her new book From Selma to Moscow: How Human Rights Activists Transformed U.S. Foreign Policy
H-World shares latest episode of Breaking History on creepy diaries of the early Caribbean slave world
H-Net Reviews
H-War: Nicholas J. Cunigan reviews Nature of Empires and the Empires of Nature: Indigenous Peoples and the Great Lakes Environment
H-War: Richard Byers reviews Building a Nazi Europe: The SS's Germanic Volunteers
H-War: Melia Pfannenstiel reviews Transnational Actors in War and Peace: Militants, Activists, and Corporations in World Politics
H-SAWH: Elizabeth Gritter reviews Most of 14th Street is Gone: The Washington, DC Riots of 1968
H-Diplo: Michelle Getchell reviews New Perspectives on the End of the Cold War: Unexpected Transformations?
H-LatAm: Rocio Gomez reviews A Living Past: Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America
H-Diplo: Curt Cardwell reviews Creating the American Century: The Ideas and Legacies of America's Twentieth-Century Foreign Policy Founders
H-Albion: Mark Konnert reviews 1517: Martin Luther and the Invention of the Reformation
H-Asia: Vinita Damodaran reviews Indira Gandhi: A Life in Nature
H-California: Amanda Konkle reviews Nobody's Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood
H-TGS: Hasia R. Diner reviews Cities of Refuge: German Jews in London and New York, 1935-1945
H-Albion: Alison Shimko reviews The Oxford Illustrated History of Science
H-Judaic: Justin Rogers reviews Jewish, Christian, and Classical Exegetical Traditions in Jerome's Translation of the Book of Exodus: Translation Technique and the Vulgate
H-Disability: Time Vermande reviews The Bible and Disability: A Commentary
H-Diplo: Richard Spence reviews Spy Chiefs: Intelligence Leaders in the United States and United Kingdom
H-LatAm: Jaime Aguila reviews Of Forests and Fields: Mexican Labor in the Pacific Northwest
H-Buddhism: John Kieschnick reviews Chinese Buddhist Texts: An Introductory Reader
H-Disability: Morag Allan Campbell reviews Proper People: Early Asylum Life in the Words of Those Who Were There
H-Net Commons Top Hits:
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Most Viewed Page: H-Asia's job page
Top Discussion: Discussion about standards and accuracy in historical scholarship on H-SHEAR
Top Review: Norma Kriger's 2005 review of Reclaiming Zimbabwe: The Exhaustion of the Patriarchal Model of Liberation
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