H-Maritime Book Reviews
Book Reviews published on H-Maritime.
Power on Grzymaa-Busse, 'Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State'
Grzymaa-Busse, Anna Maria. Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. xii + 235 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 9780691245089. 
Sjoholm, Barbara. From Lapland to Sápmi: Collecting and Returning Sámi Craft and Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023. 352 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 9781517911973.
Reviewed by
Ashley Couto (University of Toronto)
Published on
H-Material-Culture (September, 2023)
Commissioned by
Jennifer M. Black (Misericordia University)
Blakesley, Rosalind P.. Women Artists in the Reign of Catherine the Great. Northern Lights. London: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd., 2023. 152 pp. $64.99 (cloth), ISBN 9781848225459.
Reviewed by
Myroslava Mudrak (The Ohio State University (Emerita))
Published on
H-SHERA (September, 2023)
Commissioned by
Hanna Chuchvaha (University of Calgary)
Godin, M. Leona. There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness. New York: Pantheon Books, 2021. xviii + 331 pp. $28.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781984898401.
Reviewed by
Cristina Hartmann (Independent Scholar)
Published on
H-Disability (September, 2023)
Commissioned by
Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)
Cody, Eric P.. Rescuing Ellisville Marsh: The Long Fight to Restore Lost Connections. Amherst: Bright Leaf, an imprint of University of Massachusetts Press, 2023. 232 pp. $26.95 (paper), ISBN 9781625346773.$90.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781625346780.
Lessa, Francesca. The Condor Trials: Transnational Repression and Human Rights in South America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. xvi + 375 pp. Ill. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780300254099.
Reviewed by
Alison J. Bruey (University of North Florida)
Published on
H-LatAm (September, 2023)
Commissioned by
Casey M. Lurtz (Johns Hopkins University)
Garfield, Seth. Guaraná: How Brazil Embraced the World's Most Caffeine-Rich Plant. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Illustrations, maps. xiii + 320 pp. $34.95 (paper), ISBN 9781469671277.$99.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781469671260.$22.99 (e-book), ISBN 9781469671284.
Ward, Ian. The Trials of Charles I. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. 254 pp. $110.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781350024977.$36.95 (paper), ISBN 9781350025141.
Li, Wai-yee. The Promise and Peril of Things: Literature and Material Culture in Late Imperial China. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. 376 pp. $140.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780231201025.$35.00 (paper), ISBN 9780231201032.
Laxer, Daniel Robert. Listening to the Fur Trade: Soundways and Music in the British North American Fur Trade, 1760–1840. McGill-Queen's Studies in Early Canada / Avant le Canada Series. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022. Illustrations, tables. 320 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780228008590.
Power on Grzymaa-Busse, 'Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State'
Grzymaa-Busse, Anna Maria. Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. xii + 235 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 9780691245089.
Sjoholm, Barbara. From Lapland to Sápmi: Collecting and Returning Sámi Craft and Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023. 352 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 9781517911973.
Reviewed by
Ashley Couto (University of Toronto)
Published on
H-Material-Culture (September, 2023)
Commissioned by
Jennifer M. Black (Misericordia University)
Blakesley, Rosalind P.. Women Artists in the Reign of Catherine the Great. Northern Lights. London: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd., 2023. 152 pp. $64.99 (cloth), ISBN 9781848225459.
Reviewed by
Myroslava Mudrak (The Ohio State University (Emerita))
Published on
H-SHERA (September, 2023)
Commissioned by
Hanna Chuchvaha (University of Calgary)
Godin, M. Leona. There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness. New York: Pantheon Books, 2021. xviii + 331 pp. $28.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781984898401.
Reviewed by
Cristina Hartmann (Independent Scholar)
Published on
H-Disability (September, 2023)
Commissioned by
Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)
Cody, Eric P.. Rescuing Ellisville Marsh: The Long Fight to Restore Lost Connections. Amherst: Bright Leaf, an imprint of University of Massachusetts Press, 2023. 232 pp. $26.95 (paper), ISBN 9781625346773.$90.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781625346780.
Lessa, Francesca. The Condor Trials: Transnational Repression and Human Rights in South America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. xvi + 375 pp. Ill. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780300254099.
Reviewed by
Alison J. Bruey (University of North Florida)
Published on
H-LatAm (September, 2023)
Commissioned by
Casey M. Lurtz (Johns Hopkins University)
Garfield, Seth. Guaraná: How Brazil Embraced the World's Most Caffeine-Rich Plant. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Illustrations, maps. xiii + 320 pp. $34.95 (paper), ISBN 9781469671277.$99.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781469671260.$22.99 (e-book), ISBN 9781469671284.
Ward, Ian. The Trials of Charles I. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. 254 pp. $110.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781350024977.$36.95 (paper), ISBN 9781350025141.
Li, Wai-yee. The Promise and Peril of Things: Literature and Material Culture in Late Imperial China. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. 376 pp. $140.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780231201025.$35.00 (paper), ISBN 9780231201032.
Laxer, Daniel Robert. Listening to the Fur Trade: Soundways and Music in the British North American Fur Trade, 1760–1840. McGill-Queen's Studies in Early Canada / Avant le Canada Series. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022. Illustrations, tables. 320 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780228008590.
Call for Papers: Maritime Technologies, Livelihoods and Economies
Mainsheet is a new scholarly journal of interdisciplinary maritime studies published by Mystic Seaport Museum. There will be two issues a year, each with a theme that broadly relates to exhibits and initiatives at the Museum. Research papers will be subject to peer review and publication will be both in print and in an online open access edition with no fee to authors.
Edward A. Alpers. The Indian Ocean in World History. New Oxford World History Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 172 pp. Illustrations, maps. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-533787-7; $44.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-516593-7.
Reviewed by Mahmood KOORIA (Leiden University Institute for History)
Published on H-Maritime (May, 2018)
Commissioned by Donna Sinclair (Central Michigan University)
Joanne M. Ferraro. Venice: History of the Floating City. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Maps, illustrations. 310 pp. $29.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-316-60661-2.
Reviewed by Brian N. Becker (Delta State University)
Published on H-Maritime (May, 2018)
Commissioned by Donna Sinclair (Central Michigan University)
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=47534
Katherine Archibald. Wartime Shipyard: A Study in Social Disunity. Originally published by University of California Press, 1947. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. lxxxii + 244 pp. $25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-07386-1.
Reviewed by Stephen Gilford (Independent Scholar)
Published on H-Maritime (April, 2008)
Rosie Revisited
Ira Dye. Uriah Levy: Reformer of the Antebellum Navy. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. xii + 299 pp. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-3004-3.
Reviewed by Jennifer Speelman (Department of History, The Citadel)
Published on H-Maritime (January, 2008)
Trials and Tribulations of a Jewish Naval Officer
Donald R. Hickey. Don't Give Up the Ship!: Myths of the War of 1812. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xxvi + 430 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-03179-3.
Reviewed by Claire Phelan (Department of History, Texas Christian University)
Published on H-Maritime (June, 2007)
Mr. Madison's Forgotten War
William N. Still, Jr. Crisis at Sea: The United States Navy in European Waters in World War I. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. xxviii + 742 pp. $100.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-2987-0.
Reviewed by Michael Besch (Department of History, Concordia University)
Published on H-Maritime (June, 2007)
The Monograph to End All Monographs
Angus Curry. The Officers of the CSS Shenandoah. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. xiv + 428 pp. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-2943-6.
Reviewed by Kenneth J. Blume (Department of Arts and Sciences, Albany College of Pharmacy)
Published on H-Maritime (May, 2007)
Conflict and Tensions on a Confederate Cruiser
Arthur Donovan, Joseph Bonney. The Box That Changed the World: Fifty Years of Container Shipping- An Illustrated History. East Windsor: Commonwealth Business Media, 2006. xxiii + 261 pp. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-891131-95-0.
Reviewed by William J. Schmid (The California Maritime Academy, California State University)
Published on H-Maritime (May, 2007)
Helen M. Rozwadowski. Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea. Earle. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2005. xiv + 276 pp. $25.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-01691-0.
Reviewed by Harold Burstyn (L. C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, Syracuse University)
Published on H-Maritime (February, 2007)
Joshua M. Smith. Borderland Smuggling: Patriots, Loyalists, and Illicit Trade in the Northeast, 1783-1820. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. x + 160 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-2986-3.
Reviewed by Chris Magra (Department on History, The California State University at Northridge)
Published on H-Maritime (December, 2006)
Contraband Chronicles