Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman. American Umpire. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013. 442 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-05547-6.
Reviewed by Gregg French (Western University) Published on H-Empire (July, 2015) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed
Reinforcing American Exceptionalism in an Era of Multipolarity
Janet L. Polasky. Revolutions without Borders. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. 392 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-20894-8.
Reviewed by Bryan Rindfleisch (Marquette University) Published on H-Empire (July, 2015) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed
Itinerant Revolutionaries and Transnational Revolutions in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Takashi Fujitani. Race for Empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans during World War II. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. 520 pp. $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-520-28021-2.
Reviewed by John Hennessey (Linnaeus University) Published on H-Empire (June, 2015) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed
A Tale of Two Biopolitical Regimes: The Mutually Constitutive Politics of Inclusion in Wartime Japan and America
Philip J. Stern, Carl Wennerlind, eds. Mercantilism Reimagined: Political Economy in Early Modern Britain and Its Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. ix + 404 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-998853-2.
Reviewed by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin) Published on H-Empire (April, 2015) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed
Kojin Karatani. The Structure of World History: From Modes of Production to Modes of Exchange. Translated by Michael K. Bourdaghs. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014. xxi + 352 pp. $26.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-5676-9; $94.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8223-5665-3.
Reviewed by Gemma Masson (University of Birmingham) Published on H-Empire (April, 2015) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed
Ann Laura Stoler, ed. Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination. Durham: Duke University Press, 2013. 384 pp. $94.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8223-5348-5; $25.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-5361-4.
Reviewed by Ronald Schultz (University of Wyoming) Published on H-Empire (February, 2015) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed
Gabriel Paquette. Imperial Portugal in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions: The Luso-Brazilian World, c. 1770-1850. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 466 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-02897-5.
Reviewed by Rainer Buschmann (California State University Channel Islands) Published on H-Empire (November, 2014) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed
A History of the Southern Atlantic World
Jeffrey Glover. Paper Sovereigns: Anglo-Native Treaties and the Law of Nations, 1604-1664. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. viii + 312 pp. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-4596-7.
Reviewed by Lou Roper (Dept. of History, State University of New York--New Paltz) Published on H-Empire (November, 2014) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed
Apprehending Sovereign Matters in Seventeenth-Century North America
Dane Kennedy. The Last Blank Spaces: Exploring Africa and Australia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013. Illustrations. 368 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-04847-8.
Reviewed by Toby Harper (Providence College) Published on H-Empire (November, 2014) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed
Rough Terrain
Peter Heather. The Restoration of Rome: Barbarian Popes and Imperial Pretenders. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. 470 pp. Illustrations. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-936851-8.
Reviewed by Joseph Frechette (U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command and University of Maryland, College Park) Published on H-Empire (August, 2014) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed
Reestablishment of the Western Empire?
Prakash Kumar. Indigo Plantations and Science in Colonial India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 350 pp. $103.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-02325-3.
Reviewed by Darren Speece (Sidwell Friends School) Published on H-Empire (August, 2014) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed
Noriko Aso. Public Properties: Museums in Imperial Japan. Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society Series. Durham: Duke University Press, 2013. 320 pp. $99.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8223-5413-0; $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-5429-1.
Reviewed by John Hennessey (Linnaeus University) Published on H-Empire (August, 2014) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed
Mutable Content, Durable Institutions: Reconceptualizing the "Public" in Prewar Japanese Museums
Yuri Pines. The Everlasting Empire: The Political Culture of Ancient China and Its Imperial Legacy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. 248 pp. $39.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-13495-6.
Reviewed by Jingbin Wang (Elizabeth City State University) Published on H-Empire (July, 2014) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed
Nico Slate. Colored Cosmopolitanism: The Shared Struggle for Freedom in the United States and India. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011. 344 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-05967-2.
Reviewed by Hilary N. Green (University of Alabama) Published on H-Empire (July, 2014) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed
John D'Emilio, Estelle B. Freedman. Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America. Third edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. xix + 476 pp. $25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-226-92380-2; $25.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-226-92381-9.
Reviewed by Chris Herbert (Columbia Basin College) Published on H-Empire (May, 2014) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed
Anything Goes? Charting and Explaining Changes in American Sexuality
