Reviews of Interest for H-Material Culture
The following reviews were posted to H-Net Commons recently, and may be of interest to H-Material Culture subscribers.
Reviewed for H-Sci-Med-Tech by Fiorella Foscarini
Robertson, Craig. _Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of
Information, The_. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,
2021. 280 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-1-5179-0946-8.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57992
Reviewed for H-Early-America by Scottie Buehler
Brandt, Susan H.. _Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine
in Early Philadelphia_. Early American Studies Series.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022.
Illustrations. 312 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8122-5386-3.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58149
Reviewed for H-Environment by Steven High
Desimini, Jill. _Cyclical City: Five Stories of Urban
Transformation_. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press,
2021. 294 pp. $42.50, ISBN 978-0-8139-4632-0.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58101
Reviewed for H-Environment by Anne Barjolin-Smith
Barbour, Dale. _Undressed Toronto: From the Swimming Hole to
Sunnyside, How a City Learned to Love the Beach, 1850–1935_.
Winnipeg, Manitoba: University of Manitoba Press, 2021. 328 pp.
$70.00, ISBN 978-0-88755-953-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57884
Reviewed for H-SHEAR by Thomas F. Connolly
Katz, Wendy Jean. _Humbug!: The Politics of Art Criticism in New
York City's Penny Press_. New York: Empire State Editions, 2020.
304 pp. $140.00, ISBN 978-0-8232-8537-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55499
Reviewed for H-War by John Chamberlin
Deutscher, Lisa; Kaiser, Mirjam; Wetzler, Sixt, eds.. _Sword:
Form and Thought, The_. Armour and Weapons Series. Melton:
Boydell & Brewer, 2019. Illustrations. 294 pp. $99.00, ISBN 978-
1-78327-427-7.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57345
Reviewed for H-Sci-Med-Tech by James Burnes
Plotnick, Roy. _Explorers of Deep Time: Paleontologists and the
History of Life_. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022.
Illustrations. 344 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-231-19534-8.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57678
Reviewed for H-Sci-Med-Tech by Nathan Kapoor
Montaño, Diana J.. _Electrifying Mexico: Technology and the
Transformation of a Modern City_. Austin: University of Texas
Press, 2021. xiv + 373 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-1-4773-2345-8.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58317
Reviewed for H-Sci-Med-Tech by Marie Stettler Kleine
Wakkary, Ron. _Things We Could Design For More Than Human-
Centered Worlds_. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2021. 312 pp. $25.99,
ISBN 978-0-262-36684-7.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57828
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