The following reviews were posted to the H-Net Commons between
12 Dec 2022 and 19 Dec 2022.
Reviewed for H-Environment by Katharina Steiner
Anctil, Michel. _Luminous Creatures: The History and Science of
Light Production in Living Organisms_. Montreal: McGill-Queen's
University Press, 2018. 488 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-7735-5312-5.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55319
Reviewed for H-War by Sarah Davis-Secord
Rowley, Trevor. _Normans: A History of Conquest, The_. New York:
Pegasus Books, 2021. 224 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-1-64313-634-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57255
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Reviewed for H-War by Jean-Michel Turcotte
Cabanes, Bruno, ed.. _Une histoire de la guerre: Du XIXe siècle
à nos jours_. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 2018. 800 pp. 32.00
€, ISBN 978-2-02-128722-6.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57403
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Reviewed for H-Biography by Stig Thøgersen
Gamsa, Mark. _Harbin: A Cross-Cultural Biography_. Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 2022. 394 pp. $42.95, ISBN 978-1-
4875-4424-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57411
Reviewed for H-LatAm by Alexandre Pelegrino
Stone, Erin Woodruff. _Captives of Conquest: Slavery in the Early
Modern Spanish Carribean_. Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press, 2021. 288 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8122-9958-
8.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57462
Reviewed for H-Early-America by Mark Markov
Norwood, Dael A.. _Trading Freedom: How Trade with China Defined
Early America_. American Beginnings, 1500-1900 Series. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2022. Illustrations. 312 pp.
$45.00, ISBN 978-0-226-81558-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57572
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Reviewed for H-Empire by Aidan Beatty
Berthelot, Katell. _Jews and Their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome's
Challenge to Israel_. Princeton: Princeton University Press,
2021. Illustrations, maps. 552 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-691-19929-
0.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57639
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Reviewed for H-Buddhism by Julia Cassaniti
Schedneck, Brooke. _Religious Tourism in Northern Thailand:
Encounters with Buddhist Monks_. Seattle: University of
Washington Press, 2021. 242 pp. $28.50, ISBN 978-0-295-74893-1.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57700
Reviewed for H-Sci-Med-Tech by Douglas Jones
Smith, Jessica M.. _Extracting Accountability: Engineers and
Corporate Social Responsibility_. Engineering Studies Series.
Cambridge: MIT Press, 2021. Illustrations. 328 pp. $65.00, ISBN
978-0-262-54216-6.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57718
Reviewed for H-Early-America by John G. McCurdy
Flavell, Julie. _Howe Dynasty: The Untold Story of a Military
Family and the Women behind Britain's Wars for America, The_. New
York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton
& Company, Inc., 2021. xiii + 462 pp. Ill. $26.99, ISBN 978-1-
63149-061-3.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57836
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Reviewed for H-Sci-Med-Tech by John R. Emery
Chapa, Joseph O.. _Is Remote Warfare Moral?: Weighing Issues of
Life and Death from 7,000 Miles_. New York: PublicAffairs, 2022.
336 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-1-5417-7445-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57845
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Reviewed for H-War by Paxton Stover
Robb, Thomas K.; Gill, David James. _Divided Allies: Strategic
Cooperation against the Communist Threat in the Asia-Pacific
during the Early Cold War_. Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
2019. 288 pp. $35.99, ISBN 978-1-5017-4185-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57860
Reviewed for H-Environment by Lorena Campuzano Duque
Nobbs-Thiessen, Ben. _Landscape of Migration: Mobility and
Environmental Change on Bolivia's Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the
Present_. Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges Series. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 2020. 342 pp. $37.50, ISBN
978-1-4696-5610-6.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57861
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Reviewed for H-Sci-Med-Tech by Jess Dillard-Wright
Hamington, Maurice; Flower, Michael, eds.. _Care Ethics in the
Age of Precarity_. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,
2021. Illustrations. 326 pp. $27.00, ISBN 978-1-4529-6623-6.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57874
Reviewed for H-LatAm by Leandro Sessa
Dorais, Geneviève. _Journey to Indo-América: APRA and the
Transnational Politics of Exile, Persecution, and Solidarity,
1918–1945_. Cambridge Latin American Studies Series. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2021. x + 266 pp. $99.99, ISBN 978-1-
108-83804-7.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57886
Reviewed for H-Empire by Timothy Roberts
Legg, Charlotte Ann. _New White Race: Settler Colonialism and the
Press in French Algeria, 1860-1914, The_. Lincoln: University of
Nebraska Press, 2021. 304 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-1-4962-2523-8.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57894
Reviewed for H-LatAm by Mark Petersen
Crandall, Britta H.; Crandall, Russell C.. _"Our Hemisphere"?:
The United States in Latin America, from 1776 to the Twenty-First
Century_. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021. xiv + 485 pp.
$35.00, ISBN 978-0-300-24810-4.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58185
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Reviewed for H-Nationalism by Ginette Aley
Quist, John W., ed.. _Michigan's War: The Civil War in
Documents_. Civil War in the Great Interior Series. Athens: Ohio
University Press, 2019. Illustrations. 268 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-
0-8214-2312-7.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58332
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Reviewed for H-Sci-Med-Tech by Sam Clem
Small, Nancy; Longo, Bernadette, eds.. _Transnational Research in
Technical Communication: Stories, Realities, and Reflections_.
Studies in Technical Communication Series. Albany: SUNY Press,
2022. xiii + 219 pp. $95.00, ISBN 978-1-4384-8903-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58423
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Reviewed for H-Environment by Garret McDonald
Bruno, Andy. _Tunguska: A Siberian Mystery and Its Environmental
Legacy_. Studies in Environment and History Series. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2022. xvi + 305 pp. $39.99, ISBN 978-
1-108-84091-0.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58453
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Reviewed for H-Russia by Sebastian Rimestad
Scarborough, Daniel. _Russia's Social Gospel: The Orthodox
Pastoral Movement in Famine, War, and Revolution_. Madison:
University of Wisconsin Press, 2022. 320 pp. $79.95, ISBN 978-0-
299-33720-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58574
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Reviewed for H-Environment by Andrew Watson
Seow, Victor. _Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East
Asia_. Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2021. 376 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-
226-72199-6.
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