H-Net This Week (Roundup from around the Commons for the week of June 16 - 22, 2017)
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Network Publications
H-Nutrition update on What is a Recipe? project
H-Nutrition What is a Recipe? contributions:
- "Branding Bran: School Breakfasts as a Recipe for Healthy Children"
- "Dehydrated Rations for Indian Soldiers in the Second World War"
- "Oehm’s and Allestein’s Recipes for Brain, Lung, and Udders, 1850-60s"
H-Diplo ISSF policy series: Stability versus Flexibility in Trumpian Foreign Policy
H-Diplo article reviews:
- “From Israel with Deterrence: Strategic Culture, Intra-war Coercion and Brute Force”
- “Envisioning Détente: The Johnson Administration and the October 1964 Khrushchev Ouster”
- “A Defense of Faith: SCAP and Japan’s Religious Rehabilitation in the Early Cold War”
H-Diplo roundtable: Busted Sanctions: Explaining Why Economic Sanctions Fail
Discussions
H-Asia discusses slides of China in the 1980s to give away
H-War discusses theory of study versus theory of doctrine
H-World discusses failed critical thinking skills in college graduates
H-Women discusses biographies of living subjects
H-OralHist discusses best medium to return recorded interviews
H-CivWar discusses Lt. Gen. Winfield Scott's 1860 memo
H-Judaic discusses Miriam's drum
H-Haiti shares interview with Bertin M. Louis, author of My Soul Is in Haiti
Queries
H-PRC subscriber inquires about consular missions outside of Beijing under Mao
H-Medieval subscriber asks about the value of écu in today's money
H-New-Jersey subscriber inquires about the pronunciation of a few New Jersey towns
H-PCAACA subscriber asks about reproduction rights for 1980's Cosmo magazines
H-Judaic subscriber asks about Bahya ben Asher quoting a ḥadith
H-PRC subscriber asks for data on Gaokao scores in post-Mao China
H-High-S subscriber seeks narrative US history text for high school students
H-Afro-Am subscriber seeks historiography on Reconstruction-era education
H-Migration subscriber seeks sources for teaching the current refugee crisis
H-Africa subscriber seeks resources discussing Africa's relationship with China
H-Folk subscriber seeks collaborators on project about Arabian fairy tails
Research Resources
H-Haiti shares article discussing Haitian mourning rituals
H-Pennsylvania shares PA election archive
H-New-Jersey shares Garden State Legacy Issue 36
H-War shares article questioning the place of animals in modern conflicts
H-Mideast-Medieval shares online access project on the medical corpus of the Cairo Genizah
H-HistBibl shares article about accessibility to open access collections
Teaching Resources
H-Digital-History shares 360-degree documentary on Banksy and Da Vinci
Blogs
H-Kentucky update on Kentucky Woman Suffrage Project themes
H-Nationalism shares latest Nationalism and the First World War Centenary
H-Catholic shares latest edition of The Archivist's Nook on Japanese Anti-Christian edicts
H-Empire shares post Remembering Dutch Decolonization through Historical Fiction
News & Publication Roundups
H-Democracy's Top Five for the week of June 11
H-Nationalism's latest Weekend Reading
H-Luso-Africa shares recent publications on Lusophone Africa
H-Empire shares This Week's Top Picks in Imperial & Global History
Podcasts
H-Africa shares latest episode of Africa Past and Present on Zimbabwe's deindustrialization and economic decline
H-Net Reviews
H-Slavery: Bram Hoonhout reviews The Dutch Moment: War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World
H-Russia: Volha Isakava reviews Between Truth and Time: A History of Soviet Central Television
H-Diplo: Justin Conrad reviews The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State
H-Diplo: Lise M. Howard reviews Land of Blue Helmets: The United Nations and the Arab World
H-War: Paul Springer reviews The Drone Debate: A Primer on the U.S. Use of Unmanned Aircraft Outside Conventional Battlefields
H-War: Sean Cosden reviews American Ambassadors: The Past, Present, and Future of America's Diplomats
H-War: Ryan Wadle reviews Red Team: How to Succeed by Thinking Like the Enemy
H-FedHist: Michael Chiarello reviews Camelot and Canada: Canadian-American Relations in the Kennedy Era
H-Carribean: Cecily Jones reviews Purchasing Whiteness: Pardos, Mulattos, and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish Indies
H-AmRel: Matthew Dougherty reviews Choosing the Jesus Way: American Indian Pentecostals and the Fight for the Indigenous Principle
H-SHGAPE: Cassie Brand reviews What Middletown Read: Print Culture in an American Small City
H-SHGAPE: Richard Mikulski reviews Circulating Literacy: Writing Instruction in American Periodicals, 1880-1910
H-Nationalism: Giacomo Lichtner reviews Italian Fascism's Empire Cinema
H-Net Commons Top Hits
Most Viewed Page: H-Buddhism's Journals for Buddhist Studies
Top Discussion: H-DC's discussion on the Washington Evening Star online, 1852-1981 through DC Public Library
Top Review: H-Law's 2001 review: Mylchreest on Reynolds, 'Why Weren't We Told?'
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