Brian J. McVeigh. The History of Japanese Psychology: Global Perspectives, 1875-1950. SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan Series. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. 336 pp. $114.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4742-8308-3.
Reviewed by Karoly K. Schlosser (Goldsmiths, University of London) Published on H-Japan (October, 2018) Commissioned by Martha Chaiklin
Hilda Sabato. Republics of the New World: The Revolutionary Political Experiment in Nineteenth-Century Latin America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. 240 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-16144-0.
Reviewed by Timo Schaefer (Independent Scholar) Published on H-LatAm (October, 2018) Commissioned by Casey M. Lurtz (Johns Hopkins University)
Megan Raby. American Tropics: The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science. Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges Series. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Illustrations. 336 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-3560-6; $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-3559-0.
Reviewed by Leida Fernández Prieto (Instituto de Historia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas) Published on H-LatAm (October, 2018) Commissioned by Casey M. Lurtz (Johns Hopkins University)
Hana Wirth-Nesher, ed. The Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Illustrations. xviii + 732 pp. $189.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-04820-1.
Reviewed by Emily Robins Sharpe (Keene State College) Published on H-Judaic (October, 2018) Commissioned by Katja Vehlow (University of South Carolina)
Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm. The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2017. xiv + 411 pp. $96.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-40322-9; $32.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-226-40336-6.
Sarah Osten. The Mexican Revolution's Wake: The Making of a Political System, 1920-1929. Cambridge Latin American Studies Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 302 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-41598-9.
Reviewed by Barry Carr (La Trobe University) Published on H-LatAm (October, 2018) Commissioned by Casey M. Lurtz (Johns Hopkins University)
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Hello, everyone!
If I may introduce myself: I am the new Book Review Editor on H-Rhetor, and I am excited to work with you. I am currently a PhD fellow in the Institute for Writing Studies at St. John's University, focusing on feminist rhetoric and digital feminism.
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