The following reviews were posted to the H-Net Commons between
14 Dec 2020 and 21 Dec 2020.
Reviewed for H-Empire by Joseph Frechette
Chaniotis, Angelos. _Age of Conquests: The Greek World from
Alexander to Hadrian_. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018.
480 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-674-65964-3.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=52705
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Reviewed for H-Poland by Tomasz Jędrzejewski
Rudaś-Grodzka, Monika. _Sfinks słowiański i mumia polska_.
Warsaw: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk, 2013.
Maps. 392 pp. 27 złoty, ISBN 978-83-61750-32-1.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=53177
Reviewed for H-Judaic by Elias Sacks
Gillman, Abigail. _History of German Jewish Bible Translation,
A_. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. xxiii + 332 pp.
$35.00, ISBN 978-0-226-47772-5.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54785
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Reviewed for H-Poland by Joanna Sliwa
Koerber, Jeffrey. _Borderland Generation: Soviet and Polish Jews
under Hitler_. Modern Jewish History Series. Syracuse: Syracuse
University Press, 2020. Illustrations, maps. 286 pp. $39.95,
ISBN 978-0-8156-5465-0.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55255
Reviewed for H-Albion by Nigel Aston
Whatmore, Richard. _Terrorists, Anarchists, and Republicans: The
Genevans and the Irish in Time of Revolution._. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2019. 511 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-691-
16877-7.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55277
Reviewed for H-Diplo by Padraic Kenney
Mark, James; Kalinovsky, Artemy M.; Marung, Steffi, eds..
_Alternative Globalizations: Eastern Europe and the Postcolonial
World_. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020. 352 pp.
$48.00, ISBN 978-0-253-04651-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55331
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Reviewed for H-War by Frank A. Blazich
Scheibach, Michael. _Alert America!: The Atomic Bomb and "The
Show That May Save Your Life"_. Jefferson: McFarland, 2019. 204
pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-4766-7804-7.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55358
Reviewed for H-War by Paul Springer
Abnet, Dustin A.. _American Robot: A Cultural History, The_.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 376 pp. $35.00, ISBN
978-0-226-69271-5.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55372
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Reviewed for H-Urban by Nick Dunn
Mindrup, Matthew. _Architectural Model: Histories of the
Miniature and the Prototype, the Exemplar and the Muse, The_.
Cambridge: MIT Press, 2019. Illustrations. xviii + 326 pp.
$45.00, ISBN 978-0-262-04275-8.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55428
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Reviewed for H-War by Sean Scanlon
Riedel, Bruce O.. _Beirut 1958: How America's Wars in the Middle
East Began_. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2020. 136
pp. $24.99, ISBN 978-0-8157-3729-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55493
Reviewed for H-Buddhism by Brenton Sullivan
King, Matthew W.. _Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood: A Mongolian
Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire_. New York: Columbia
University Press, 2019. 304 pp. $64.99, ISBN 978-0-231-54922-6.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55519
Reviewed for H-Nationalism by Erica Edwards
Steinberg, Ronen. _Afterlives of the Terror: Facing the Legacies
of Mass Violence in Postrevolutionary France, The_. Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 2019. 240 pp. $19.95, ISBN 978-1-5017-
3924-8.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55645
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Reviewed for H-Africa by Valentina Bryndina
Olsson, Hans. _Jesus for Zanzibar: Narratives of Pentecostal (Non-
)Belonging, Islam, and Nation_. Leiden: Brill, 2019. xvi + 291
pp. $192.00, ISBN 978-90-04-40681-0.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55707
Reviewed for H-Africa by Christoph Kalter
Ballinger, Pamela. _World Refugees Made: Decolonization and the
Foundations of Postwar Italy, The_. Ithaca: Cornell University
Press, 2020. xxiii + 305 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-1-5017-4758-8.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55741
Reviewed for H-LatAm by Miles Culpepper
Field, Thomas C.; Krepp, Stella; Pettinà, Vanni, eds.. _Latin
America and the Global Cold War_. The New Cold War History
Series. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
xii + 422 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-4696-5569-7.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55848
Reviewed for H-Luso-Africa by Malyn Newitt
Marcum, John A.. _Conceiving Mozambique_. Edited by Edmund Burke
III and Michael W. Clough. African Histories and Modernities
Series. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 199 pp. $79.99, ISBN
978-3-319-65987-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56036
Reviewed for H-Socialisms by Wayne Price
Blumenfeld, Jacob. _All Things Are Nothing to Me: The Unique
Philosophy of Max Stirner_. Winchester: Zero Books, 2018. 155
pp. $17.46, ISBN 978-1-78099-663-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56060
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