H-Net This Week (Mar. 19-25, 2016)

Network News

H-Shehr, the network on urban landscapes in MENA and South Asia, seeks editors and contributors

H-War shares its event & deadline calendar

H-Asia invites submissions for the network's new "Digital Asia" reference site

H-Podcast announces No Sounds Are Forbidden, an upcoming podcast about avant-garde music

Discussions

The discussion about State history continues as H-Midwest's Tyler Priest responds to Jennifer Van Haaften's commentary; H-New-Jersey joins the discussion

H-War shares Bob Neer's essay about the dearth of military history courses at elite universities and a response from historian Ann Little

H-Buddhism query leads to discussion about Huiyuan's Dasheng qixin lun yishu

The H-Net Book Channel shares an interview about writing with Laura Kipnis

H-Teach reader shares blog posts and a Cuban source on President Obama's visit to Cuba

H-Scholar shares comment on indepenedent scholars and the American Sociological Association

H-Nationalism posts on recent article on the literature of transnationalism by Gayle Munro

H-Teach shares article on the state of the tenure system at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

H-Disability reader advocates for disability scholarship at major conference

H-Podcast invites discussion of history podcasting

EDTECH notes that Google has purchased and made free the Word Lens visual translation app

H-HistBibl shares post about book digitization and news about Associated Press corporate archives

H-Minerva shares report about U.S. special forces and integration of women

H-DC posts about the history of the Washington City Canal

Queries

H-Judaic query about Bialik "kissing the bride" quote about translation

H-Judaic question about the prescence of Jews in Venice before ghettoization

H-LatAm reader seeks map maker for book on colonial Andes

H-PRC seeks information about STIs and fertility in 1950s-60s China

H-Luso-Africa query about "mujimbo" in Angola

H-Anti-Semitism query about legal grounds for trying Yuce Franco and other Jews in the Inquisition

H-Histsex seeks 1970s issues of Advocate magazine

H-War seeks English or Spanish sources on 1898 Battle of Manila Bay

H-PRC query & discussion about the Beatles' populatiry in 1960s China

Resources

H-HistBibl shares recently "unlatched" Open Access books in anthropology, history, literature, media & communications, and politics

H-OralHist reader shares oral histories and lesson plans on volunteering

H-Mideast-Medieval shares digitized illustrated Arabic treatise on the Constellations from the Bodleian Library, Oxford

H-Scholar shares limited time download of directory of US and Canadian collections with pre-1600 manuscript holdings

H-High-S shares teaching resources in African studies

H-Teach shares community sourced transcription project Papers of the War Department, 1784-1800

H-Judaic shares teaching resources on Great Jewish Books

Blogs

H-Nationalism posts "Gendering Secession” by Jill Vickers, the latest in the Secessionism and Separatism Monthly Series

David Nichols' latest post on Agency, Culpability, and the Fox Wars from H-AmIndian blog The Turtle Island Examiner

H-Empire shares David Thackeray's post on the 1975 and 2016 referendums on Britain's EEC/EU membership, Timothy Nunan's post on the global history of development in Cold War Afghanistan, and Jon Piccini's post about online activism in relation to Austrialian activism of the 1960s.

H-OralHist shares recent Oral History Review posts

News & Publication Roundups

H-Afro-Am shares news items of interest

H-Luso-Africa posts recent publications on Lusophone Africa 

H-Horn shares a list of recent publications

H-Education compiles list of completed doctorates in education history for 2015-16

H-Empire shares latest weekly picks in imperial and global history

H-Early-Slavic shares roundup of several new source publications

H-Nationalism shares latest weekend reading

Podcasts

The Art of the Review - Episode 21 H-Net History, Part 2 features long-time H-Law editor Charles Zelden

H-Podcast subscriber shares first episode "Beer & Empire with Malcolm Purinton" of new world history podcast Breaking History, 

Remembrances

H-Albion remembers David Roberts, historian of England

H-Luso-Africa remembers Angolan liberation fighter Lúcio Lara

Reviews and Network Publications

H-Diplo: Olga Daksueva reviews China's International Roles

H-Diplo: Herman Schwartz reviews Failed: What the "Experts" Got Wrong about the Global Economy

H-Judaic: George Kohler reviews Maimonides and the Shaping of the Jewish Canon

H-SHGAPE: Nicole Phelps reviews Dissolving Tensions: Rapprochement and Resolution in British-American-Canadian Relations in the Treaty of Washington Era, 1865 1914

H-Diplo: Roundtable review of Iran-Contra:  Reagan’s Scandal and the Unchecked Abuse of Presidential Power

H-German: Ellen Yutzy Glebe reviews Following Zwingli: Applying the Past in Reformation Zurich

H-War: Kendra Preston Leonard reviews Music and Diplomacy from the Early Modern Era to the Present

H-War: Lisa Beckenbaugh reviews American Airman in the Belgian Resistance: Gerald E. Sorensen and the Transatlantic Alliance

H-War: Anwar Mhajne reviews Cairo: Images of Transition - Perspectives on Visuality in Egypt, 2011-2013

H-War: Terry Beckenbaugh reviews The Civil War in the West: Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi

H-Early-Slavic: Daniel Waugh reviews Kalinina's essays about Eastern sources on the Khazars

H-Early-Slavic: Daniel Waugh reviews new documentary anthology on Novgorod in the era of Peter the Great

H-Early-Slavic: Daniel Waugh reviews Gerasimova on Vilna under Russian occupation

H-Early-Slavic: Daniel Waugh reviews new guide to Kostroma monastic bookmen

H-Albion: Olivia Weisser reviews Uroscopy in Early Modern Europe

H-Poland: Alexander Pershái reviews The Rise and Fall of Belarusian Nationalism, 1906-1931

H-Diplo: Article review of "The 'Most Difficult Journey of All': Willy Brandt's Trip to Israel in June 1973"

H-Genocide: Jeffrey Barnes reviews National Minority, Regional Majority: Palestinian Arabs Versus Jews in Israel

H-War: Jill S. Russell reviews Marie von Clausewitz: The Woman behind the Making of On War

H-Diplo: Article review of "Malleable Modernity: Rethinking the Role of Ideology in American Policy, Aid Programs, and Propaganda in Fifties' Turkey"

H-Judaic: Sol Goldberg reviews The Significance of Religious Experience

H-Disability: Jacqueline Foertsch reviews Polio Wars: Sister Kenny and the Golden Age of American Medicine

H-Diplo: Article review of "'A Haven for Tortured Souls': Hong Kong in the Vietnam War"