H-Net This Week (Roundup from around the Commons for the week of June 23 - 29, 2017)
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Network Publications
H-Nutrition updates its What is a Recipe? series with a post about Bachelorette Chow
H-Diplo article reviews:
H-Diplo ISSF Policy Series:
H-Diplo roundtable reviews:
- The Euro Missile Crisis and the End of the Cold War
- War and Democratic Constraint: How the Public Influences Foreign Policy
Discussions
H-Celebration discusses Mardi Gras documentaries
H-Nutrition discusses the pedagogical aspects of food diaries
Queries
H-High-S subscriber seeks narrative text about US history for High School students
H-New-Jersey subscriber inquires about proof of African-American voters in New Jersey prior to the 15th amendement
H-Afro-Am subscriber seeks texts dealing with the histioriography of education during Reconstruction
H-Bahai subscriber inquires about obligatory prayers translation
H-Medieval subscriber asks for the value for the écu
H-Early-America subscriber asks about the William Hutchinson house in a 1635 Boston map
H-Citizenship subscriber inquires about heredity in the U.S. from the Revolution to the Civil War
H-History-and-Theory subscriber seeks suggestions for a concise text describing major historical theories
Research Resources
H-Film shares an article about the audiovisual essay
H-Diplo posts recently declassified CIA documents about the Soviet Navy
H-Histbibl shares article about ways to compute topics over time
H-Histbibl posts most recent JSTOR lab report on the digital monograph
H-MedAnthro shares open-access issue of Anthropology & Aging
H-New-Jersey shares article about The Legend of Watchung mural
H-Nahuatl shares article discussing the use of Nahuatl words in Tagalog
Blogs
H-Celebration begins its Parade Talk blog with a post on parade strategy
H-Empire shares the latest Imperial & Global Forum post about Britain's imperial ghosts and Brexit
News & Publication Roundups
H-Nationalism shares its latest Weekend Reading
H-Luso-Africa shares compilation of Recent Publications
H-SHERA shares biweekly opportunities roundup
Podcasts
H-World shares latest episode of the On Top of the World podcast
Remembrances
H-Asia remembers Dr. Biswamoy Pati, teacher and author on South Asian history
H-Net Reviews
H-Diplo: Robert Farley reviews Oppose Any Foe: The Rise of America’s Special Operations Forces
H-Sci-Med-Tech: Andy C. Brown reviews Dickens’s Forensic Realism: Truth, Bodies, Evidence
H-Buddhism: David Templeman reviews The Buddha Party: How the People's Republic of China Works to Define and Control Tibetan Buddhism
H-War: Nathan Michalewicz reviews The Essential Thirty Years War: A Documentary History
H-War: Robert Niebuhr reviews An International Civil War: Greece, 1943-1949
H-War: James N. Tallon reviews Shattered Dreams of Revolution: From Liberty to Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire
H-LatAm: John Gram reviews Indian Given: Racial Geographies across Mexico and the United States
H-FedHist: Mindy Farmer reviews Presidential Libraries as Performance: Curating American Character from Herbert Hoover to George W. Bush
H-Asia: Andre Wink reviews A Book of Conquest: The Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia
H-SHGAPE: Nathan Cardon reviews Lifted: A Cultural History of the Elevator
H-Music: Penelope Gouk reviews Damnable Practises: Witches, Dangerous Women, and Music in Seventeenth-Century English Broadside Ballads
H-AmIndian: Kenneth Zontek reviews The River of Life: Sustainable Practices of Native Americans and Indigenous Peoples
H-Russia: Andrei Liuby reviews Visual Cultures of Death in Central Europe: Contemplation and Commemoration in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania
H-Slavery: Chris Fobare reviews American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
H-Nationalism: Yasar T. Cora reviews Recovering Armenia: The Limits of Belonging in Post-Genocide Turkey' and Suciyan, 'The Armenians in Modern Turkey: Post-Genocide Society, Politics and History
H-Diplo: Chia Youyee Vang reviews A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA
H-Net Commons Top Hits:
Most Viewed Page: H-DC's Swamps and the City of Washington
Top Discussion: H-DC's discusses the Washington Evening Star online1852-1981 through DC Public Library
Top Review: Andre Wink's review of A Book of Conquest: The Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia for H-Asia
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