The following reviews were posted to the H-Net Commons between
05 Dec 2022 and 12 Dec 2022.
Reviewed for H-IslamInAfrica by Wendell H. Marsh
Brigaglia, Andrea; Nobili, Mauro, eds.. _Arts and Crafts of
Literacy: Islamic Manuscript Cultures in Sub-Saharan Africa, The_.
Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017. 377 pp. $137.99, ISBN 978-3-11-054140-
3.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=53722
Reviewed for H-Nationalism by Laura Correa Ochoa
López-Pedreros, A. Ricardo. _Makers of Democracy: A
Transnational History of the Middle Classes in Colombia_. Durham:
Duke University Press, 2019. 360 pp. $28.95, ISBN 978-1-4780-
0285-7.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56344
Reviewed for H-War by Grant Harward
Solonari, Vladimir. _Satellite Empire: Romanian Rule in
Southwestern Ukraine, 1941-1944, A_. Ithaca: Cornell University
Press, 2019. Illustrations, maps. 328 pp. $38.99, ISBN 978-1-
5017-4320-7.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57194
Reviewed for H-War by Robert Dienesch
Powers Jr., Francis Gary; Dunnavant, Keith. _Spy Pilot: Francis
Gary Powers, the U-2 Incident, and a Controversial Cold War
Legacy_. Amherst: Prometheus, 2019. Illustrations. 312 pp.
$25.00, ISBN 978-1-63388-468-7.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57248
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Reviewed for H-Japan by Katalin Ferber
Muminov, Sherzod. _Eleven Winters of Discontent: The Siberian
Internment and the Making of a New Japan_. Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 2022. 384 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-674-98643-5.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57518
Reviewed for H-War by Eric Lob
Chubin, Shahram; Tripp, Charles. _Iran and Iraq at War_. Milton:
Routledge, 2020. 336 pp. $39.96, ISBN 978-0-367-15305-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57578
Reviewed for H-Sci-Med-Tech by Paul J. O'Pecko
Schwartz, George H.. _Collecting the Globe: The Salem East India
Marine Society Museum_. Public History in Historical Perspective
Series. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2020. 240 pp.
$28.95, ISBN 978-1-62534-472-4.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57632
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Reviewed for H-Sci-Med-Tech by Lily Hindy
Tsacoyianis, Beverly A.. _Disturbing Spirits: Mental Illness,
Trauma, and Treatment in Modern Syria and Lebanon_. Notre Dame:
University of Notre Dame Press, 2021. 370 pp. $43.99, ISBN 978-0-
268-20071-8.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57715
Reviewed for H-SAfrica by Walima T. Kalusa
Tembo, Alfred. _War and Society in Colonial Zambia, 1939–1953_.
Athens: Ohio University Press, 2021. 256 pp. $80.00, ISBN 978-0-
8214-2462-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57966
Reviewed for H-Sci-Med-Tech by Julian Gee
Csikszentmihalyi, Mark; Nylan, Michael, eds.. _Technical Arts in
the Han Histories: Tables and Treatises in the Shiji and Hanshu_.
Albany: State University of New York Press, 2022. 428 pp.
$95.00, ISBN 978-1-4384-8543-0.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58083
Reviewed for H-Environment by Michael Weeks
McKibben, Carol Lynn. _Salinas: A History of Race and Resilience
in an Agricultural City_. Stanford: Stanford University Press,
2022. 464 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-1-5036-2991-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58119
Reviewed for H-Environment by Sebastian Lundsteen
Cirino, Erica. _Thicker Than Water: The Quest for Solutions to
the Plastic Crisis_. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2021. 272 pp.
$28.00, ISBN 978-1-64283-137-5.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58121
Reviewed for H-Sci-Med-Tech by Chau J. Kelly
Hadfield, Leslie Anne. _Bold Profession: African Nurses in Rural
Apartheid South Africa, A_. Women in Africa and the Diaspora
Series. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2021. 304 pp.
$79.95, ISBN 978-0-299-33120-7.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58134
Reviewed for H-Environment by Alyssa Fahringer
Barnes, Jay. _Fifteen Hurricanes That Changed the Carolinas:
Powerful Storms, Climate Change, and What We Do Next_. Chapel
Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Illustrations.
374 pp. $27.00, ISBN 978-1-4696-6630-3.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58158
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Reviewed for H-Environment by Anna Bettini
Grasso, Marco. _From Big Oil to Big Green: Holding the Oil
Industry to Account for the Climate Crisis_. Cambridge: MIT
Press, 2022. 368 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-262-54374-3.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58159
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Reviewed for H-Early-America by Eric Trautman-Mosher
Randall, Willard Sterne. _Founders' Fortunes: How Money Shaped
the Birth of America, The_. New York: Dutton, 2022. x + 325 pp.
$29.00, ISBN 978-1-5247-4592-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58201
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Reviewed for H-Sci-Med-Tech by Filip Geaman
Mendillo, M.. _Saints and Sinners in the Sky: Astronomy, Religion
and Art in Western Culture_. Cham: Springer, 2022. xiii + 252
pp. $34.99, ISBN 978-3-030-84269-7.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58266
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Reviewed for H-Environment by Elijah Doro
Wynn, Graeme; Carruthers, Jane; Jacobs, Nancy J., eds..
_Environment, Power, and Justice: Southern African Histories_.
Ecology & History Series. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2022.
xii + 354 pp. $36.95, ISBN 978-0-8214-2485-8.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58292
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Reviewed for H-Environment by Kunyan Zheng
De Wolff, Kim; Faletti, Rina C.; López-Calvo, Ignacio, eds..
_Hydrohumanities: Water Discourse and Environmental Futures_.
Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. Illustrations. 270
pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-520-38045-5.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58503
Reviewed for H-Podcast by Dan R. Morris
McHugh, Siobhán. _Power of Podcasting: Telling Stories through
Sound, The_. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. 320 pp.
$32.00, ISBN 978-0-231-20877-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58526
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Reviewed for H-Empire by Richard N. Price
Elkins, Caroline. _Legacy of Violence: A History of the British
Empire_. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. x + 875 pp. $37.50,
ISBN 978-0-307-27242-3.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58568
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Type:
Announcements Administration
Date:
December 12, 2022
Location:
United States
Subject Fields:
Colonial and Post-Colonial History / Studies, Communication, Race / Ethnic Studies, Social History / Studies