Mark Strecker. Shanghaiing Sailors: A Maritime History of Forced Labor, 1849/1915. Jefferson: McFarland & Company, 2014. 260 pp. $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7864-9451-4.

Reviewed by Bradley Cesario (Texas A&M University)
Published on H-War (August, 2017)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey

Jaap Jacobs, L. H. Roper, eds. The Worlds of the Seventeenth-Century Hudson Valley. An American Region: Studies in the Hudson Valley Series. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2014. 277 pp. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4384-5097-1.

Reviewed by Greg Rogers (SUNY Cobleskill)
Published on H-War (August, 2017)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey

Aynne Kokas. Hollywood Made in China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017. 272 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-520-29402-8.

Reviewed by Ying Zhu (College of Staten Island​)
Published on H-Diplo (August, 2017)
Commissioned by Seth Offenbach

Emily Abel. Living in Death’s Shadow: Family Experiences of Terminal Care and Irreplaceable Loss. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. 184 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4214-2184-1.

Reviewed by Pamela L. Dale (University of Exeter)
Published on H-Disability (August, 2017)
Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison

Benjamin Madley. An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. 712 pp. $38.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-18136-4.

Reviewed by Lauren Brand
Published on H-FedHist (August, 2017)
Commissioned by Kate Brown

Nate Jones, ed. Able Archer 83: The Secret History of the NATO Exercise That Almost Triggered Nuclear War. New York: New Press, 2016. 320 pp. $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-62097-261-8.

Reviewed by Jonathan M. DiCicco (Canisius College)
Published on H-Diplo (August, 2017)
Commissioned by Seth Offenbach

Nicolas Berg. The Holocaust and the West German Historians: Historical Interpretation and Autobiographical Memory. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2015. 346 pp. $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-299-30084-5.

Reviewed by Anna Corsten (Universität Erfurt)
Published on H-German (August, 2017)
Commissioned by Jeremy DeWaal

Toufoul Abou-Hodeib. A Taste for Home: The Modern Middle Class in Ottoman Beirut. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017. 280 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-9979-9.

Reviewed by Naz Yucel (George Washington University)
Published on H-Levant (August, 2017)
Commissioned by Ghenwa Hayek

Eva Cherniavsky. Neocitizenship: Political Culture after Democracy. New York: New York University Press, 2017. 232 pp. $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4798-9357-7; $89.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4798-8091-1.

Reviewed by Leslie Gross-Wyrtzen (Clark University)
Published on H-Citizenship (August, 2017)
Commissioned by Emily Mitchell-Eaton

Ruth E. Rosenberg. Music, Travel, and Imperial Encounter in 19th-Century France: Musical Apprehensions. New York: Routledge, 2015. xii + 222 pp. $148.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-138-77799-6.

Reviewed by Kristy Barbacane (Columbia University)
Published on H-Music (August, 2017)
Commissioned by Lars Fischer