H-Net reviews posted to the web 17 Jul 2017 - 24 Jul 2017
The following reviews were posted to the H-Net web site between 17 Jul 2017 and 24 Jul 2017.
Reviewed for H-Japan by Galen Amstutz
Fumiaki, Iwata. Kindai Bukkyō to seinen: Chikazumi Jōkan to
sono jidai. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2014. 332 pp. JPY 3,600,
ISBN 978-4-00-025988-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=43531
Reviewed for H-Socialisms by Deeptanil Ray
Desai, Gaurav. Commerce with the Universe: Africa, India, and
the Afrasian Imagination. New York: Columbia University Press,
2013. 352 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-231-16454-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=47458
Reviewed for H-USA by Brian Kennedy
Gould, Lewis L.. The First Modern Clash over Federal Power: Wilson
versus Hughes in the Presidential Election of 1916.
Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2016. xiv + 178 pp.
$34.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-2280-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=47594
Reviewed for H-Socialisms by Nicolas Lepine
Garner, Jason. Goals and Means: Anarchism, Syndicalism, and
Internationalism in the Origins of the Federación Anarquista
Ibérica. Oakland: AK Press, 2016. 384 pp. $19.00, ISBN 978-1-
84935-225-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=47856
Reviewed for H-LatAm by Christopher Boyer
Alexander, Anna Rose. City on Fire: Technology, Social Change,
and the Hazards of Progress in Mexico City, 1860-1910. History
of the Urban Environment Series. Pittsburgh: University of
Pittsburgh Press, 2016. 216 pp. $26.95, ISBN 978-0-8229-6418-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=48139
Reviewed for H-Asia by Nga Dao
McElwee, Pamela D.. Forests Are Gold: Trees, People, and
Environmental Rule in Vietnam. Seattle: University of Washington
Press, 2016. 312 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-295-99548-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=48585
Reviewed for H-Sci-Med-Tech by Daniel A. Stolz
Shefer-Mossensohn, Miri. Science among the Ottomans: The
Cultural Creation and Exchange of Knowledge. Austin: University
of Texas Press, 2015. 262 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-1-4773-0359-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=48665
Reviewed for H-War by Geoffrey Jensen
Egerton, Douglas. Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War
Regiments that Redeemed America. New York: Basic Books, 2016.
448 pp. $29.99, ISBN 978-0-465-09664-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=48690
Reviewed for H-Disability by Andrea Zittlau
Kritsotaki, Despo; Long, Vicky; Smith, Matthew, eds..
Deinstitutionalisation and After: Post-War Psychiatry in the
Western World. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2016. 323 pp. $99.99, ISBN 978-3-319-45359-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=48805
Reviewed for H-1960s by Thomas B. Weyant
Klein, Benjamin, ed.. Irwin Klein and the New Settlers:
Photographs of Counterculture in New Mexico. Lincoln: University
of Nebraska Press, 2016. 192 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8032-8510-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=48863
Reviewed for H-Diplo by Hiroki Takeuchi
Gewirtz, Julian. Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western
Economists, and the Making of Global China. Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 2017. 416 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-674-97113-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=48966
Reviewed for H-Russia by Orel Beilinson
Luehrmann, Sonja. Religion in Secular Archives: Soviet Atheism
and Historical Knowledge. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
256 pp. $74.00, ISBN 978-0-19-994362-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=48967
Reviewed for H-War by Lindsay Chervinsky
Levy, Philip. George Washington Written Upon the Land: Nature,
Memory, Myth, and Landscape. Morgantown: West Virginia
University Press, 2015. 224 pp. $22.99, ISBN 978-1-940425-90-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=49018
Reviewed for H-FedHist by Lindsay Chervinsky
Prakash, Saikrishna Bangalore. Imperial from the Beginning: The
Constitution of the Original Executive. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 2015. 464 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-300-19456-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=49125
Reviewed for H-Emotions by Fayah Haussker
Chaniotis, Angelos. Unveiling Emotions: Sources and Methods for
the Study of Emotions in the Greek World. Stuttgart: Franz
Steiner Verlag, 2012. 490 pp. $110.00, ISBN 978-3-515-10226-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=49143
Reviewed for H-FedHist by Mark A. Barron
Benton-Short, Lisa. The National Mall: No Ordinary Public Space.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016. 296 pp.
$80.00, ISBN 978-1-4426-3054-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=49195
Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Brent Ruswick
Baron, David. American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch
the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World. New York:
Liveright, 2017. 352 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-1-63149-016-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=49509
Reviewed for H-Nationalism by Hana Kubátová
Segal, Raz. Genocide in the Carpathians: War, Social Breakdown,
and Mass Violence, 1914–1945. Stanford: Stanford University
Press, 2016. 232 pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-9666-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=50018
Reviewed for H-Nationalism by Paul Steege
Stargardt, Nicholas. The German War: A Nation under Arms, 1939-1945.
New York: Basic Books, 2015. Illustrations. 760 pp.
$35.00, ISBN 978-0-465-01899-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=50046
Reviewed for H-Italy by Mila Milani
Wood, Sharon; Moretti, Erica, eds. Annie Chartres Vivanti:
Transnational Politics, Identity, and Culture. Madison: Farleigh
Dickinson University Press, 2016. 312 pp. $95.00, ISBN 978-1-
68393-006-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=50079
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Jörg Requate
Hodenberg, Christina von. Television's Moment: Sitcom Audiences
and the Sixties Cultural Revolution. Oxford: Berghahn Books,
2015. X, 331 S. , ISBN 978-1-78238-699-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=50225
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Christian Henrich-Franke
Birkner, Thomas; Löblich, Maria; Tiews, Alina Laura; Wagner, Hans-
Ulrich. Neue Vielfalt: Medienpluralität und -konkurrenz in
historischer Perspektive. Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag, 2016.
331 S. , ISBN 978-3-86962-204-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=50226
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Anna Derksen
Schall, Carly Elizabeth. The Rise and Fall of the Miraculous
Welfare Machine: Immigration and Social Democracy in Twentieth-
Century Sweden. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016. XI,
245 S. , ISBN 978-1-5017-0409-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=50229
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Axel Ehlers
Laudage, Christiane. Das Geschäft mit der Sünde: Ablass und
Ablasswesen im Mittelalter. Freiburg i. Br.: Herder Verlag,
2016. 352 S. , ISBN 978-3-451-31598-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=50238
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Frank Rochow
Berger, Stefan; Miller, Alexei. Nationalizing Empires.
Budapest: Central European University Press, 2015. 700 S. ,
ISBN 978-963-386-017-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=50240
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Martin Stallmann
Sung Jung, Dae. Der Kampf gegen das Presse-Imperium: Die Anti-
Springer-Kampagne der 68er-Bewegung. Bielefeld: Transcript –
Verlag für Kommunikation, Kultur und soziale Praxis, 2016. 372S.
, ISBN 978-3-8376-3371-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=50253
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Anita Winkler
Hofmann, Simon. Umstrittene Körperteile: Eine Geschichte der
Organspende in der Schweiz. Bielefeld: Transcript – Verlag
für Kommunikation, Kultur und soziale Praxis, 2016. 334 S. ,
ISBN 978-3-8394-3232-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=50254
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Stefan Goch
Kocka, Jürgen. Arbeiterleben und Arbeiterkultur: Die Entstehung
einer sozialen Klasse. Bonn: Verlag J.H.W. Dietz Nachf., 2015.
509 S. , ISBN 978-3-8012-5040-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=50260
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Anna Derksen
Makko, Aryo. Ambassadors of Realpolitik: Sweden, the CSCE, and
the Cold War. New York: Berghahn Books, 2017. XI, 287 S. ,
ISBN 978-1-78533-284-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=50261
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Isabella Löhr
Osterhammel, Jürgen. Die Flughöhe der Adler: Historische
Essays zur globalen Gegenwart. München: C.H. Beck Verlag, 2017.
300 S. , ISBN 978-3-406-70484-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=50268
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