The following reviews were posted to the H-Net Commons between
21 Sep 2020 and 28 Sep 2020.
Reviewed for H-War by David Zonderman
Yamin, Rebecca. _Archaeology at the Site of the Museum of the
American Revolution: A Tale of Two Taverns and the Growth of
Philadelphia_. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018.
Illustrations. 160 pp. $19.95, ISBN 978-1-4399-1642-1.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=53791
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Reviewed for H-LatAm by Elizabeth O'Brien
Weber, Jonathan M.. _Death Is All around Us: Corpses, Chaos, and
Public Health in Porfirian Mexico City_. The Mexican Experience
Series. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019.
Illustrations, maps. 294 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-1-4962-1434-8.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54501
Reviewed for H-Environment by Samm Newton
Spezio, Teresa Sabol. _Slick Policy: Environmental and Science
Policy in the Aftermath of the Santa Barbara Oil Spill_. History
of the Urban Environment Series. Pittsburgh: University of
Pittsburgh Press, 2018. 248 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-8229-6532-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54778
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Reviewed for H-Environment by Ela Miljkovic
Kenner, Alison. _Breathtaking: Asthma Care in a Time of Climate
Change_. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018.
Illustrations. 248 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-1-5179-0287-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54944
Reviewed for H-Slavery by Patrick Barker
Fuente, Alejandro de la; Gross, Ariela Julie. _Becoming Free,
Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and
Louisiana_. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 294 pp.
$24.95, ISBN 978-1-108-48064-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55043
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Reviewed for H-Nationalism by Roxy Wylie
Harmon, F. Martin. _Presidents by Fate: Nine Who Ascended through
Death or Resignation_. Jefferson: McFarland, 2019.
Illustrations. 231 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-4766-7742-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55182
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Reviewed for H-War by Sara Friedman
Williamson, David G.. _British in Interwar Germany: The Reluctant
Occupiers, 1918-30, The_. Second Edition. London: Bloomsbury
Academic, 2017. Illustrations. 360 pp. $130.00, ISBN 978-1-4725-
9582-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55186
Reviewed for H-War by Mark J. Conversino
Hill, Alexander. _Red Army and the Second World War, The_.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xviii + 738 pp.
$19.95, ISBN 978-1-107-68815-5.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55197
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Reviewed for H-Africa by Derick Becker
Berhe, Mulugeta Gebrehiwot. _Laying the Past to Rest: The EPRDF
and the Challenges of Ethiopian State-Building_. London: Hurst
Publishers, 2020. 376 pp. $70.00, ISBN 978-1-78738-291-6.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55365
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Reviewed for H-Maps by Matthew D. Mingus
Wampuszyc, Ewa. _Mapping Warsaw: The Spatial Poetics of a Postwar
City_. Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 2018. 240 pp.
$34.95, ISBN 978-0-8101-3789-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55378
Reviewed for H-LatAm by Alex Borucki
Freeman, David. _Silver River in a Silver World: Dutch Trade in
the Rio de la Plata, 1648-1678, A_. Cambridge Latin American
Studies Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xiv
+ 226 pp. $99.99, ISBN 978-1-108-41749-5.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55407
Reviewed for H-Buddhism by James Taylor
Veidlinger, Daniel. _From Indra's Net to Internet: Communication,
Technology, and the Evolution of Buddhist Ideas_. Contemporary
Buddhism Series. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2018. 284
pp. $68.00, ISBN 978-0-8248-7340-0.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55472
Reviewed for H-Buddhism by Tyler Carter
Pagis, Michal. _Inward: Vipassana Meditation and the Embodiment
of the Self_. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. 240
pp. $27.50, ISBN 978-0-226-36187-1.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55483
Reviewed for H-Buddhism by Stefan Grace
Victoria, Brian Daizen. _Zen Terror in Prewar Japan: Portrait of
an Assassin_. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2020. 392
pp. $34.00, ISBN 978-1-5381-3166-4.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55549
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Reviewed for H-Diplo by Sarah J. Zimmerman
Joseph-Gabriel, Annette K... _Reimagining Liberation: How Black
Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire_. Urbana:
University of Illinois Press, 2019. 264 pp. $22.95, ISBN 978-0-
252-04293-5.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55560
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Reviewed for H-Nationalism by Cecily Zander
Nelson, Megan Kate. _Three-Cornered War: The Union, the
Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West, The_.
New York: Scribner, 2020. xx + 331 pp. $28.00, ISBN 978-1-5011-
5254-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55636
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