H-Net reviews posted to the H-Net Commons 04 Jan 2021 - 11 Jan 2021

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04 Jan 2021 and 11 Jan 2021.

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Aiala Levy
   Navitski, Rielle.  _Public Spectacles of Violence: Sensational
   Cinema and Journalism in Early Twentieth-Century Mexico and
   Brazil_.  Durham: Duke University Press, 2017.  Illustrations. 344
   pp.  $38.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-6975-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=53428

Reviewed for H-FedHist by Christopher Childers
   Klotter, James C..  _Henry Clay: The Man Who Would Be President_.
   New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.  536 pp.  $34.95, ISBN
   978-0-19-049804-7.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=53457
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Reviewed for H-Nationalism by Grace Miller
   Unger, Harlow Giles.  _First Founding Father: Richard Henry Lee
   and the Call for Independence_.  New York: Da Capo Press, 2017.
   336 pp.  $28.00, ISBN 978-0-306-82561-3.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54369
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Reviewed for H-Atlantic by Myra Ann Houser
   Gaibazzi, Paolo; Bellagamba, Alice; Dünnwald, Stephan; eds..
   _EurAfrican Borders and Migration Management: Political Cultures,
   Contested Spaces, and Ordinary Lives_.  Palgrave Series in African
   Borderlands Studies. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.  307 pp.
   $159.99, ISBN 978-1-349-94971-7.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54634

Reviewed for H-Environment by Karen Routledge
   Cusack-McVeigh, Holly.  _Stories Find You, Places Know: Yup'ik
   Narratives of a Sentient World_.  Salt Lake City: University of
   Utah Press, 2017.  328 pp.  $24.95, ISBN 978-1-60781-582-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54714
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Reviewed for H-War by Brian D. Green
   Blum, Yehuda Z..  _Will "Justice" Bring Peace? International Law -
   Selected Articles and Legal Opinions_.  Leiden: Brill Academic
   Publishers, 2016.  504 pp.  $198.00, ISBN 978-90-04-23395-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55269

Reviewed for H-Pennsylvania by Nancy Locke
   Thompson, Jennifer A.; Rishel, Joseph J.; Owens, Eileen; Rub,
   Timothy, eds..  _Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: Highlights
   from the Philadelphia Museum of Art_.  New Haven: Yale University
   Press, 2019.  216 pp.  $35.00, ISBN 978-0-87633-289-4.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55313
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Reviewed for H-Environment by Raechel Lutz
   Lieberman, Benjamin A.; Gordon, Elizabeth.  _Climate Change in
   Human History: Prehistory to the Present_.  London: Bloomsbury,
   2018.  244 pp.  $29.95, ISBN 978-1-4725-9850-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55362
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Reviewed for H-Africa by Andrew E. Barnes
   de Paniagua, Juan Carlos Miguel.  _Black Bride of Christ: Chicaba,
   an African Nun in Eighteenth-Century Spain_.  Translated and
   edited by Sue E. Houchins and Baltasar Fra-Molinero. Nashville:
   Vanderbilt University Press, 2018.  Illustrations. 324 pp.
   $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8265-2104-0.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55417
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Reviewed for H-Asia by Claire Maes
   Markham, Ian S.; Lohr Sapp, Christy, eds..  _World Religions
   Reader, A_.  Newark: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2020.  408
   pp.  $44.95, ISBN 978-1-119-35709-4.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55420

Reviewed for H-LatAm by José Juan Pérez Meléndez
   Grinberg, Keila.  _Black Jurist in a Slave Society: Antonio
   Pereira Rebouças and the Trials of Brazilian Citizenship, A_.
   Translated by Kristin M. McGuire. Latin America in Translation/en
   Traducción/em Tradução Series. Chapel Hill: University of North
   Carolina Press, 2019.  226 pp.  $29.95, ISBN 978-1-4696-5277-1.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55450

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Alsu Tagirova
   Afinogenov, Gregory.  _Spies and Scholars: Chinese Secrets and
   Imperial Russia's Quest for World Power_.  Cambridge: Harvard
   University Press, 2020.  384 pp.  $45.00, ISBN 978-0-674-24185-5.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55501
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Reviewed for H-Environment by Linda R. Gosner
   Walsh, Joseph J..  _Great Fire of Rome: Life and Death in the
   Ancient City, The_.  Witness to Ancient History Series. Baltimore:
   Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.  Illustrations. 192 pp.
   $59.95, ISBN 978-1-4214-3370-7.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55525
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Reviewed for H-Environment by Kesia Kvill
   Blom, Rick.  _Hunger: How Food Shaped the Course of the First
   World War_.  Trans. Suzanne Jansen. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier
   University Press, 2019.  xi + 236 pp.  $29.99, ISBN 978-1-77112-
   417-1.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55559
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Reviewed for H-Migration by Steven T. Green
   Marinari, Maddalena.  _Unwanted: Italian and Jewish Mobilization
   against Restrictive Laws, 1882-1965_.  Chapel Hill: University of
   North Carolina Press, 2020.  280 pp.  $90.00, ISBN 978-1-4696-5292-
   4.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55583

Reviewed for H-War by Toby Clark
   Abrutat, David.  _Vanguard: The True Stories of the Reconnaissance
   and Intelligence Missions behind D-Day_.  Annapolis: Naval
   Institute Press, 2019.  368 pp.  $46.95, ISBN 978-1-68247-454-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55668
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Reviewed for H-Environment by David Welky
   Solberg, Winton U..  _Arctic Mirage: The 1913-1920 Expedition in
   Search of Crocker Land_.  Jefferson: McFarland, 2019.
   Illustrations. 263 pp.  $35.00, ISBN 978-1-4766-7995-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55676
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Reviewed for H-Disability by Ian Miller
   Ben-Moshe, Liat.  _Decarcerating Disability:
   Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition_.  Minneapolis:
   University of Minnesota Press, 2020.  Illustrations. xiii + 349
   pp.  $30.00, ISBN 978-1-5179-0443-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55684

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Timothy Lorek
   Blanc, Jacob.  _Before the Flood: The Itaipu Dam and the
   Visibility of Rural Brazil_.  Durham: Duke University Press, 2019.
   Illustrations. 308 pp.  $27.95, ISBN 978-1-4780-0489-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55777
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Reviewed for H-LatAm by Wonjung Min
   Vogel, Erica.  _Migrant Conversions_.  Oakland: University of
   California Press, 2020.  xiii + 168 pp.  $34.95, ISBN 978-0-520-
   34117-3.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55793

Reviewed for H-War by David Hadley
   Kaplan, Fred.  _Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History
   of Nuclear War, The_.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 2020.  384 pp.
   $30.00, ISBN 978-1-982107-29-1.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55841
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Reviewed for Jhistory by Eric Walls
   Haywood, D'Weston.  _Let Us Make Men: The Twentieth-Century Black
   Press and a Manly Vision for Racial Advancement_.  Chapel Hill:
   University of North Carolina Press, 2018.  352 pp.  $34.95, ISBN
   978-1-4696-4339-7.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55896

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Rodger A. Payne
   Greenberg, Karen J..  _Reimagining the National Security State:
   Liberalism on the Brink_.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
   2020.  xv + 247 pp.  $110.00, ISBN 978-1-108-48438-1.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56012

Reviewed for H-Russia by Julie deGraffenried
   White, Elizabeth.  _Modern History of Russian Childhood: From the
   Late Imperial Period to the Collapse of the Soviet Union, A_.  The
   Bloomsbury History of Modern Russia Series. London: Bloomsbury
   Publishing, 2020.  Illustrations. 224 pp.  $26.95, ISBN 978-1-4742-
   4021-5.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56143

Reviewed for H-Atlantic by Lewis Eliot
   Burroughs, Robert; Huzzey, Richard, eds..  _Suppression of the
   Atlantic Slave Trade: British Policies, Practices and
   Representations of Naval Coercion, The_.  Studies in Imperialism
   Series. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015.  viii + 216
   pp.  $120.00, ISBN 978-0-7190-8511-6.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56150
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