Weekend Reading 4/18/2014

David Prior Discussion

 

H-Nationalism’s Weekend Reading series highlights recent and thought-provoking reviews, blogposts, brief articles, and op-ed pieces.


 

This week we have more thoughtful commentaries on the situation in the Ukraine, including one by Juliane Fuerst from the University of Bristol on German attitudes to Russia; another by Mark D. Steinberg of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on Putin’s beliefs; and one by Walter G. Moss of of Eastern Michigan University examining the crisis in comparison to the start of World War I.  The blog NationalismWatch has cross-posted two recent commentaries on the situation that are also worth reading.  We’re a week behind in catching it, but The Guardian had an editorial on the recent elections in Hungary.

Also of interest, the New York Review of Books has an essay by Wendy Doniger concerning the banning of her book, The Hindus: An Alternative History, in India.

With book reviews… H-War has a review by Amanda Boczar of Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman’s American Umpire, which addresses whether or not the United States is and has been an empire.  At H-Soz-u-Kult there is a recent review by Gilad Ben-Nun of Anne Orford’s, International Authority and the Responsibility to Protect, which some of you IR followers may want to read.  H-Empire has a review of Vincent O’Malley’s The Meeting Place that will be of interest to ethnohistorians and curious readers more generally. 

 

Kind Regards,

 

H-Nationalism