H-Net reviews posted to the H-Net Commons 25 Jan 2021 - 01 Feb 2021

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25 Jan 2021 and 01 Feb 2021.

Reviewed for H-CivWar by Michael Green
   Freehling, William W..  _Becoming Lincoln_.  Charlottesville:
   University of Virginia Press, 2018.  Illustrations. x + 369 pp.
   $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8139-4156-1.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=53840
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Reviewed for H-Africa by Adam H. Mohr
   Grant, Paul Glen.  _Healing and Power in Ghana: Early Indigenous
   Expressions of Christianity_.  Waco: Baylor University Press,
   2020.  341 pp.  $59.95, ISBN 978-1-4813-1267-7.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55363

Reviewed for H-Socialisms by Alexey Golubev
   Borenstein, Eliot.  _Plots against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy
   after Socialism_.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019.  306
   pp.  $24.95, ISBN 978-1-5017-3577-6.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55391

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Amie Campos
   Herr, Pilar M..  _Contested Nation: The Mapuche, Bandits, and
   State Formation in Nineteenth-Century Chile_.  Albuquerque:
   University of New Mexico Press, 2019.  169 pp.  $65.00, ISBN 978-0-
   8263-6095-3.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55402

Reviewed for H-Environment by Matthew S. Wiseman
   Frank, Susi K.; Jakobsen, Kjetil, eds..  _Arctic Archives: Ice,
   Memory and Entropy_.  Culture & Theory Series. Bielefeld:
   Transcript Verlag, 2019.  350 pp.  $45.00, ISBN 978-3-8376-4656-6.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55433

Reviewed for H-Environment by Erica Hannickel
   Hoenig, John.  _Garden Variety: The American Tomato from Corporate
   to Heirloom_.  New York: Columbia University Press, 2017.  288 pp.
   $35.00, ISBN 978-0-231-17908-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55434
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Reviewed for H-Diplo by Joshua First
   Djagalov, Rossen.  _From Internationalism to Postcolonialism:
   Literature and Cinema between the Second and the Third Worlds_.
   Montreal: McGill-Queen University Press, 2020.  320 pp.  $35.95,
   ISBN 978-0-228-00109-6.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55523
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Reviewed for H-Disability by Michael Rembis
   Wong, Alice,  ed..  _Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories
   from the Twenty-First Century_.  New York: Vintage Books, 2020.
   xxii + 309 pp.  $16.95, ISBN 978-1-984899-42-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55689
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Reviewed for H-LatAm by Holly Caldwell
   González Espitia, Juan Carlos.  _Sifilografía: A History of the
   Writerly Pox in the Eighteenth-Century Hispanic World_.
   Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019.  xii + 395
   pp.  $90.00, ISBN 978-0-8139-4315-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55705
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Reviewed for H-LatAm by Celia Crifasi
   Rowe, Erin Kathleen.  _Black Saints in Early Modern Global
   Catholicism_.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.  316
   pp.  $49.99, ISBN 978-1-108-42121-8.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55709

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Joshua Frens-String
   Chastain, Andra B.; Lorek, Timothy, eds..  _Itineraries of
   Expertise: Science, Technology, and the Environment in Latin
   America (INTERSECTIONS: Histories of Environment)_.  Pittsburgh:
   University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020.  366 pp.  $40.00, ISBN 978-0-
   8229-4596-3.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55767
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Reviewed for H-CivWar by Thomas C. Mackey
   Icenhauer-Ramirez, Robert.  _Treason on Trial: The United States
   v. Jefferson Davis_.  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University
   Press, 2019.  376 pp.  $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-7080-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55844
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Reviewed for H-War by Kathleen Hasson
   Blaydes, Lisa.  _State of Repression: Iraq under Saddam Hussein_.
   Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018.  xix + 354 pp.
   $35.00, ISBN 978-0-691-18027-4.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55981
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Reviewed for H-War by Benjamin Youngquist
   Mann, Jim.  _Great Rift: Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, and the Broken
   Friendship That Defined an Era, The_.  New York: Henry Holt and
   Company, 2020.  x + 416 pp.  $32.00, ISBN 978-1-62779-755-9.
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Reviewed for H-War by Tim Woolston
   Buchanan, Andrew N..  _World War II in Global Perspective, 1931-
   1953: A Short History_.  Wiley Short Histories Series. Newark:
   Wiley Blackwell, 2019.  264 pp.  $69.95, ISBN 978-1-119-36607-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56099

Reviewed for H-Genocide by Katja Grosse-Sommer
   Rosen, Alan.  _Holocaust's Jewish Calendars: Keeping Time Sacred,
   Making Time Holy, The_.  Jewish Literature and Culture Series.
   Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019.  Illustrations. xv +
   251 pp.  $14.99, ISBN 978-0-253-03830-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56105

Reviewed for H-FedHist by Joseph Stieb
   Sarantakes, Nicholas Evan.  _Fan in Chief: Richard Nixon and
   American Sports, 1969-1974_.  Lawrence: University Press of
   Kansas, 2019.  Illustrations. 360 pp.  $60.00, ISBN 978-0-7006-
   2852-0.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56134
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Reviewed for H-Empire by Timothy Jenks
   Lambert, Andrew.  _Seapower States: Maritime Culture, Continental
   Empires, and the Conflict that Made the Modern World_.  New Haven:
   Yale University Press, 2018.  320 pp.  $30.00, ISBN 978-0-300-
   23004-8.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56185
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