Last Week's Roundup | December 1 - 7, 2017 |
Network News
H-Net Reviews has a new home on the Commons
H-Judaic bids farewell to long time co-editor Sarah Imhoff, welcomes new co-editor Shalom Berger
Network Publications
H-Diplo shares:
- ISSF roundtable on Fighting for Credibility: U.S. Reputation and International Politics
- Roundtable on Dynamic Détente: The United States and Europe, 1964-1975
- ISSF review essay on How NATO Adapts: Strategy and Organization in the Atlantic Alliance Since 1950
- Article review on “Stimulating a Cooperative Spirit? Public Health and U.S.-Bolivia Relations in the 1950s”
- FRUS Review on Foreign Relations of the United States, 1977-1980, Volume II, Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs
H-Nationalism: Irish and Irish-American Nationalism: An Interview with Dr. David Brundage
Discussions
H-HistBibl shares article on changing nature of special collections
H-War discusses latest Handgrenade on operational history
H-Nationalism responds to latest The Left and Nationalism Monthly Series on Left and Right around (and within) Nationalism
H-World returns to discussion on public monuments at a global level
H-LatAm revisits discussion about university rankings
H-Midwest points to recent Twitter thread on how Midwest is studied and represented
H-Judaic continues discussion on utility of Academia.edu premium site
H-Nutrition discusses literature on New Deal food and nutrition policy
H-Diplo shares National Security Archive electronic briefing
H-War discusses German jet fuel during WWII
H-Scholar discusses creative legal workarounds for resource and archive access problems
H-Haiti shares article on replacing Columbus statue
Queries
H-War seeks information on British Commonwealth's role in Pacific War
H-Luso-Africa seeks resources on Mozambican Civil War memorials
H-Disability query for memoirs about disability
H-Judaic query about 1893 World Parliament of Religions in Hebrew and Yiddish Press
H-CivWar query on U.S. Colored Troops and freedpeople's vengeance during and after Civil War
Research Resources
H-Sport shares resources about Russia and doping in the Olympics
H-SEAsia shares article on Peranakan culture of Southeast Asia
H-Haiti and H-Caribbean share Haitian Creole translation of digital history project A Colony in Crisis: The Saint-Domingue Grain Shortage of 1789
H-SHERA shares Graphikportal, online portal for graphic art collections
Teaching Resources
H-HistBibl shares article on teaching with digital archives
H-SHERA starts syllabus bank for East European, Eurasian & Russian art
News & Publication Roundups
H-War's Military History Digest
H-Eugenics' recent publications in eugenics
H-Nationalism's Weekend Reading
H-Luso-Africa's recent publications on Lusophone Africa
Podcasts
H-Africa shares episode of Africa Past and Present on youth struggles in Africa
H-Podcast shares first of three episodes of Breaking History on living through dictatorship in Indonesia
Remembrances
H-HOAC remembers Vera Shlakman, economist ousted during Red Scare
H-Judaic remembers Alan Corré, scholar of ancient and medieval Hebrew
H-Asia remembers Arif Dirlik, scholar of Chinese communism
H-Net Reviews
H-Asia: Supriya Gandhi reviews Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court
H-Early-America: Shira Lurie reviews Experiencing Empire: Power, People, and Revolution in Early America
H-Asia: Anirudh Deshpande reviews India China: Rethinking Borders and Security
H-Music: Fiorella Montero Diaz reviews Song and Social Change in Latin America
H-AMCA: Emily Williamson reviews Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere
H-Ideas: Amy E. Wendling reviews Marx's Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital
H-Japan: James Ford reviews The Halo of Golden Light: Imperial Authority and Buddhist Ritual in Heian Japan
H-FedHist: Molly M. Wood reviews Cold War Games: Propaganda, the Olympics, and U.S. Foreign Policy
H-LatAm: Mónica Salas Landa reviews The Pursuit of Ruins: Archaeology, History, and the Making of Modern Mexico
H-LatAm: Andrea Queeley reviews Empire's Guestworkers: Haitian Migrants in Cuba during the Age of US Occupation
H-War: James Campbell reviews The New Army in Training: 150th Anniversary Edition
H-War: Shane Peterson reviews Grand Illusions: American Art and the First World War
H-War: Christopher Menking reviews The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War
H-Diplo: Osamah Khalil reviews A Half Century of Occupation: Israel, Palestine, and the World's Most Intractable Conflict
H-Net Commons Top Hits:
Most Viewed Page: H-LatAm's syllabus project
Top Discussion: H-Nationalism's discussion of Left and Right around (and within) Nationalism from The Left and Nationalism series
Top Review: Fatjon Kaja's 2016 review of The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism for H-Law
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