H-Net reviews posted to the web 28 Nov 2016 - 05 Dec 2016
The following reviews were posted to the H-Net web site between
28 Nov 2016 and 05 Dec 2016.
Reviewed for H-War by Daniel Curzon
Ruoff, Kenneth J.. Imperial Japan at Its Zenith: The Wartime
Celebration of the Empire's 2,600th Anniversary. Studies of the
Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University, Series.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010. Illustrations. xv + 236
pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8014-4866-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35724
Reviewed for H-Asia by Jessica V. Birkenholtz
Davis, Coralynn V.. Maithil Women's Tales: Storytelling on the
Nepal-India Border. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2014.
272 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03842-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=43942
Reviewed for H-War by Jun Suk Hyun
Kawato, Yuko. Protests against U.S. Military Base Policy in
Asia: Persuasion and Its Limits in Base Politics. Studies in
Asian Security Series. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015.
248 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-9416-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=44278
Reviewed for H-War by Laurence M. Burke
Rossano, Geoffrey L.; Wildenberg, Thomas. Striking the Hornets'
Nest: Naval Aviation and the Origins of Strategic Bombing in World
War I. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2015. 304 pp. $49.95,
ISBN 978-1-61251-390-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=45511
Reviewed for H-German by Paul B. Jaskot
Kitchen, Martin. Speer: Hitler's Architect. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 2015. xii + 442 pp. $37.50, ISBN 978-0-300-
19044-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=45595
Reviewed for H-Diplo by Jessica C.E. Gienow-Hecht
Jimenez, Francisco Javier Rodriguez; Gómez-Escalonilla, Lorenzo
Delgado; Cull, Nicholas J., eds.. US Public Diplomacy and
Democratization in Spain: Selling Democracy?. New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2015. xi + 237 pp. $109.00, ISBN 978-1-137-46144-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=46779
Reviewed for H-Diplo by Tobias Hof
Etheridge, Brian C.. Enemies to Allies: Cold War Germany and
American Memory. Studies in Conflict Diplomacy Peace Series.
Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016. Illustrations. 366
pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-6640-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=46981
Reviewed for H-1960s by William Rorabaugh
Siff, Stephen. Acid Hype: American News Media and the
Psychedelic Experience. History of Communication Series. Urbana:
University of Illinois Press, 2015. 264 pp. $28.00, ISBN 978-0-
252-08076-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=47111
Reviewed for H-South by Ryan Schilling
Greene, Alison Collis. No Depression in Heaven: The Great
Depression, the New Deal, and the Transformation of Religion in
the Delta. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 336 pp.
$27.99, ISBN 978-0-19-937187-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=47153
Reviewed for H-War by Rebecca E. Powell
Venet, Wendy Hamand. Changing Wind: Commerce and Conflict in
Civil War Atlanta, A. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014.
Illustrations. x + 280 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-300-19216-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=47181
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Veronika Springmann
Dillon, Christopher. Dachau and the SS: A Schooling in
Violence. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. XIII, 282 S.
, ISBN 978-0-19-965652-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=48501
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Emmanuel Droit
Camarade, Hélène; Goepper, Sibylle. Résistance, dissidence et
opposition en RDA 1949–1990. Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses
Universitaires du Septentrion, 2016. 403 S. , ISBN 978-2-7574-
1160-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=48549
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Sandra Eckardt
Wirth, Sven; Laue, Anett; Kurth, Markus; Dornenzweig, Katharina;
Bossert, Leonie; Balgar, Karsten. Das Handeln der Tiere:
Tierliche Agency im Fokus der Human-Animal Studies. Bielefeld:
Transcript – Verlag für Kommunikation, Kultur und soziale
Praxis, 2015. 269 S. , ISBN 978-3-8376-3226-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=48551
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Benjamin Beuerle
Plokhy, Serhii. The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet
Union. London: Oneworld Publications, 2014. XXII, 489 S. ,
ISBN 978-1-78074-529-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=48552
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Alheydis Plassmann
Reimitz, Helmut. History, Frankish Identity and the Framing of
Western Ethnicity, 550–850. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2015. xiv, 511 S. $139.00, ISBN 978-1-107-03233-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=48559
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Heinrich Schwendemann
Trommer, Isabell. Rechtfertigung und Entlastung: Albert Speer in
der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Frankfurt am Main: Campus
Verlag, 2016. 367 S. , ISBN 978-3-593-50529-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=48560
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Jan Winkelmann
Heidemann, Franziska. Regesten der Markgrafen von Brandenburg
aus dem Hause Luxemburg: Karl IV., Wenzel, Sigismund und Johann
sowie deren Hauptmänner 1373–1415. Warendorf: Fahlbusch
Verlag, 2016. XVII, 386 S. , ISBN 978-3-925522-27-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=48561
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Eva-Maria Ziege
Neumann, Franz; Marcuse, Herbert; Kirchheimer, Otto. Im Kampf
gegen Nazideutschland: Die Berichte der Frankfurter Schule für
den amerikanischen Geheimdienst 1943–1949. Herausgegeben von
Raffaele Laudani. Aus dem Englischen von Christine Pries.
Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag, 2016. 812 S. , ISBN 978-3-593-
50345-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=48570
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Ariane Brill
Reinfeldt, Alexander. Unter Ausschluss der Öffentlichkeit?:
Akteure und Strategien supranationaler Informationspolitik in der
Gründungsphase der europäischen Integration, 1952–1972.
Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2014. 329 S. , ISBN 978-3-515-
10203-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=48573
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Klaus Nathaus
Morat, Daniel; Becker, Tobias; Lange, Kerstin; Niedbalski,
Johanna; Gnausch, Anne; Nolte, Paul. Weltstadtvergnügen: Berlin
1880–1930. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2016. 272 S.
$38.00, ISBN 978-3-525-30087-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=48575
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Annette Weinke
Jensen, Steven. The Making of International Human Rights: The
1960s, Decolonization, and the Reconstruction of Global Values.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 334 S. $99.99,
ISBN 978-1-107-11216-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=48588
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Enrico Heitzer
Kühling, Gerd. Erinnerung an nationalsozialistische Verbrechen
in Berlin: Verfolgte des Dritten Reiches und geschichtspolitisches
Engagement im Kalten Krieg 1945–1979. Berlin: Metropol Verlag,
2016. 581 S. , ISBN 978-3-86331-278-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=48589
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Alexander Schmidt
Düwel, Jörn; Gutschow, Niels. und Nationalsozialismus:
Demonstration von Macht in Europa 1940–1943. Die Ausstellung
von Rudolf Wolters. Berlin: DOM-Publishers, 2015. 480 S. ,
ISBN 978-3-86922-026-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=48590
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Michael G. Esch
Schmidt-Rost, Christian. Jazz in der DDR und Polen: Geschichte
eines transatlantischen Transfers. Frankfurt am Main: Peter
Lang/Frankfurt am Main, 2015. , ISBN 978-3-653-04465-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=48595
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