Recent reviews of interest

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Hello H-Material Culture subscribers, 

The following reviews have been culled from across H-Net's various networks, and may be of interest. 

 

Reviewed for H-Environment by Lily B. Pollans
   Melosi, Martin V..  _Fresh Kills: A History of Consuming and
   Discarding in New York City_.  New York: Columbia University
   Press, 2020.  800 pp.  $40.00, ISBN 978-0-231-18949-1.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58197

 

Reviewed for H-Socialisms by Jon Bekken
   Yeoman, John Michael.  _Print Culture and the Formation of the
   Anarchist Movement in Spain, 1890–1915_.  Routledge Studies in
   Cultural History Series. Chico: AK Press, 2022.  Charts, maps,
   tables. 300 pp.  $22.00, ISBN 978-1-84935-458-5.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58802

 

Reviewed for H-German by Alexandria Ruble
   Bruce, Emily C..  _Revolutions at Home: The Origin of Modern
   Childhood and the German Middle Class_.  Childhoods:
   Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children and Youth Series.
   Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2021.  Illustrations.
   224 pp.  $90.00, ISBN 978-1-62534-563-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58328

 

Reviewed for H-Early-America by Mairin Odle
   Seeman, Erik R..  _Speaking with the Dead in Early America_.
   Early American Studies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
   Press, 2022.  344 pp.  $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8122-2518-1.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57888

 

Reviewed for H-Sci-Med-Tech by James J. Esposito
   Grayzel, Susan R..  _Age of the Gas Mask: How British Civilians
   Faced the Terror of Total War, The_.  New York: Cambridge
   University Press, 2022.  288 pp.  $34.99, ISBN 978-1-108-49127-3.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58345

 

Reviewed for H-Environment by Jonathan Hancock
   Shay, C. Thomas.  _Under Prairie Skies: The Plants and Native
   Peoples of the Northern Plains_.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska
   Press, 2022.  312 pp.  $29.95, ISBN 978-1-4962-2338-8.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58204

 

Reviewed for H-Environment by Samantha Muka
   Bohan, Gary.  _Sharkey: When Sea Lions Were Stars of Show
   Business_.  Excelsior Editions. Albany: Excelsior Editions, 2022.
   316 pp.  $24.95, ISBN 978-1-4384-8712-0.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57917

 

Reviewed for H-War by Gwyn Davies
   Kaufmann, J. E.; Kaufmann, H. W..  _Castrum to Castle: Classical
   to Medieval Fortifications in the Lands of the Western Roman
   Empire_.  Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Military, 2018.  288 pp.  , ISBN
   978-1-4738-9582-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57591

 

Reviewed for H-Environment by Sarah Pickman
   Cowie, Helen Louise.  _Victims of Fashion: Animal Commodities in
   Victorian Britain_.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
   300 pp.  $39.99, ISBN 978-1-108-86126-7.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57668

 

Reviewed for H-Environment by Tanya Matthan
   Elkin, Rosetta S..  _Plant Life: The Entangled Politics of
   Afforestation_.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022.
   Illustrations, tables. xxiv + 250 pp.  $120.00, ISBN 978-1-5179-
   1261-1.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58173

 

Reviewed for H-Sci-Med-Tech by SJ Zanolini
   Menzies, Nicholas K..  _Ordering the Myriad Things: From
   Traditional Knowledge to Scientific Botany in China_.  Culture,
   Place, and Nature Series. Seattle: University of Washington Press,
   2021.  xx + 288 pp.  $32.00, ISBN 978-0-295-74946-4.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57595

 

Reviewed for H-Sci-Med-Tech by Graeme Gooday
   Farley, Robert M.; Isaacs, Davida H..  _Patents for Power:
   Intellectual Property Law and the Diffusion of Military
   Technology_.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020.  224 pp.
   $40.00, ISBN 978-0-226-71652-7.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58081

 

Reviewed for H-Environment by Alison J. Miller
   Winther-Tamaki, Bert.  _Tsuchi: Earthy Materials in Contemporary
   Japanese Art_.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022.
   306 pp.  $140.00, ISBN 978-1-5179-1190-4.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58293

 

Reviewed for H-Sci-Med-Tech by Sarah Qidwai
   Goss, Andrew, ed..  _Routledge Handbook of Science and Empire,
   The_.  London: Routledge, 2021.  Illustrations. 324 pp.  $52.95,
   ISBN 978-0-429-27336-0.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57064

 

Reviewed for H-Disability by Will Rogers
   Cartwright, Ryan Lee.  _Peculiar Places: A Queer Crip History of
   White Rural Nonconformity_.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
   2021.  272 pp.  $30.00, ISBN 978-0-226-69688-1.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57267

 

Reviewed for H-Environment by Amanda Wells
   Hore, Jarrod.  _Visions of Nature: How Landscape Photography
   Shaped Settler Colonialism_.  Oakland: University of California
   Press, 2022.  xvii + 333 pp.  $29.95, ISBN 978-0-520-38126-1.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58303

 

Reviewed for Jhistory by Evan C. Rothera
   Diffley, Kathleen Elizabeth.  _Fateful Lightning: Civil War
   Stories and the Magazine Marketplace, 1861-1876, The_.  Print
   Culture in the South Series. Athens: University of Georgia Press,
   2021.  268 pp.  $36.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-6065-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58459

 

Reviewed for H-Environment by Tobias Hrynick
   Turner, Derek.  _Edge of England: Landfall in Lincolnshire_.
   London: Hurst, 2022.  Illustrations. xxi + 446 pp.  $29.95, ISBN
   978-1-78738-698-3.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58475

Reviewed for H-Environment by Charlotte A. Abney Salomon
   Dodds, Phil.  _Geographies of Enlightenment Edinburgh, The_.
   Studies in the Eighteenth Century Series. Woodbridge: Boydell
   Press, 2022.  Illustrations. 384 pp.  $115.00, ISBN 978-1-78327-
   703-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58012
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Reviewed for H-Sci-Med-Tech by Katherine Hite
   Iturriaga, Nicole.  _Exhuming Violent Histories: Forensics,
   Memory, and Rewriting Spain’s Past_.  New York: Columbia
   University Press, 2022.  xv + 234 pp.  $120.00, ISBN 978-0-231-
   20112-4.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58079

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