Reviews

Review published on Tuesday, May 23, 2023
Author: 
Adrian Brettle
Reviewer: 
Ashley Steenson

Steenson on Brettle, 'Colossal Ambitions: Confederate Planning for a Post-Civil War World'

Adrian Brettle. Colossal Ambitions: Confederate Planning for a Post-Civil War World. A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era Series. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020. 330 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8139-4437-1.

Reviewed by Ashley Steenson (University of Alabama) Published on H-Nationalism (May, 2023) Commissioned by Evan C. Rothera (University of Arkansas - Fort Smith)

Review published on Thursday, April 13, 2023
Author: 
Jeff Forret, Bruce E. Baker, eds.
Reviewer: 
Dru Sanders

Sanders on Forret and Baker, 'Southern Scoundrels: Grifters and Graft in the Nineteenth Century'

Jeff Forret, Bruce E. Baker, eds. Southern Scoundrels: Grifters and Graft in the Nineteenth Century. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2021. 272 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8071-7219-3.

Reviewed by Dru Sanders (Rice University) Published on H-Nationalism (April, 2023) Commissioned by Evan C. Rothera (University of Arkansas - Fort Smith)

Review published on Thursday, March 2, 2023
Author: 
Bradley R. Clampitt
Reviewer: 
Cecily Zander

Zander on Clampitt, 'Lost Causes: Confederate Demobilization and the Making of Veteran Identity (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)'

Bradley R. Clampitt. Lost Causes: Confederate Demobilization and the Making of Veteran Identity (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War). Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2022. 324 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8071-7716-7. 

Review published on Wednesday, December 7, 2022
Author: 
A. Ricardo López-Pedreros
Reviewer: 
Laura Correa Ochoa

Correa Ochoa on López-Pedreros, 'Makers of Democracy: A Transnational History of the Middle Classes in Colombia'

A. Ricardo López-Pedreros. Makers of Democracy: A Transnational History of the Middle Classes in Colombia. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019. 360 pp. $28.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4780-0285-7.

Reviewed by Laura Correa Ochoa (Harvard University) Published on H-Nationalism (December, 2022) Commissioned by Evan C. Rothera (University of Arkansas - Fort Smith)

Review published on Wednesday, November 9, 2022
Author: 
Kellie Carter Jackson
Reviewer: 
Beverly Tomek

Tomek on Carter Jackson, 'Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence'

Kellie Carter Jackson. Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence. America in the Nineteenth Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. 225 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8122-2470-2. 

Review published on Thursday, September 29, 2022
Author: 
Sonia Hernández, John Morán González, eds.
Reviewer: 
Michael A. Hill

Hill on Adams, 'Murder and Intrigue on the Mexican Border: Governor Colquitt, President Wilson, and the Vergara Affair' and Crandall, 'These People Have Always Been a Republic: Indigenous Electorate in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1598-1912' and Herná ...

John A. Adams. Murder and Intrigue on the Mexican Border: Governor Colquitt, President Wilson, and the Vergara Affair. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2018. xiv + 211 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-62349-584-8. Maurice Crandall. These People Have Always Been a Republic: Indigenous Electorate in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1598-1912.

Review published on Friday, September 23, 2022
Author: 
Adam Fairclough
Reviewer: 
Michael S. Powers

Powers on Fairclough, 'Bulldozed and Betrayed: Louisiana and the Stolen Elections of 1876'

Adam Fairclough. Bulldozed and Betrayed: Louisiana and the Stolen Elections of 1876. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2021. 328 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8071-7559-0.

Reviewed by Michael S. Powers (Angelo State University) Published on H-Nationalism (September, 2022) Commissioned by Evan C. Rothera (University of Arkansas - Fort Smith)

Review published on Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Author: 
ed. Dennis D. Moore
Reviewer: 
Roxanna E. Wylie

Wylie on Dennis D. Moore, 'More Letters from the American Farmer: An Edition of the Essays in English Left Unpublished by Crèvecoeur'

ed. Dennis D. Moore. More Letters from the American Farmer: An Edition of the Essays in English Left Unpublished by Crèvecoeur. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2019. 584 pp. $54.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8203-4104-0. 

Review published on Monday, August 29, 2022
Author: 
Michael Keating
Reviewer: 
Ben Wellings

Wellings on Keating, 'State and Nation in the United Kingdom: The Fractured Union'

Michael Keating. State and Nation in the United Kingdom: The Fractured Union. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 256 pp. $100.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-884137-1.

Reviewed by Ben Wellings (Monash University) Published on H-Nationalism (August, 2022) Commissioned by Evan C. Rothera (University of Arkansas - Fort Smith)

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Review published on Wednesday, August 10, 2022
Author: 
Paul Barba
Reviewer: 
James Nichols

Nichols on Barba, 'Country of the Cursed and the Driven: Slavery and the Texas Borderlands'

Paul Barba. Country of the Cursed and the Driven: Slavery and the Texas Borderlands. Borderlands and Transcultural Studies Series. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. Maps, tables. 474 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4962-0835-4.

Reviewed by James Nichols (City University of New York, Queensborough Community College) Published on H-Nationalism (August, 2022) Commissioned by Evan C. Rothera (University of Arkansas - Fort Smith)

Review published on Friday, July 22, 2022
Author: 
Stephen D. Bosworth
Reviewer: 
Andre M. Fleche

Fleche on Bosworth, 'Lionel Jobert and the American Civil War: An Atlantic Identity in the Making'

Stephen D. Bosworth. Lionel Jobert and the American Civil War: An Atlantic Identity in the Making. Albany: SUNY Press, 2021. Illustrations. 208 pp. $31.95 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4384-8511-9; $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4384-8509-6.

Reviewed by Andre M. Fleche (Castleton University) Published on H-Nationalism (July, 2022) Commissioned by Evan C. Rothera (University of Arkansas - Fort Smith)

Review published on Tuesday, July 12, 2022
Author: 
Erika Denise Edwards
Reviewer: 
Candela Marini

Marini on Edwards, 'Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic'

Erika Denise Edwards. Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2020. xvi + 168 pp. $54.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8173-2036-2.

Reviewed by Candela Marini (Milwaukee School of Engineering) Published on H-Nationalism (July, 2022) Commissioned by Evan C. Rothera (University of Arkansas - Fort Smith)

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