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David Waldstreicher. The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys through American Slavery and Independence. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. 496 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780809098248.$14.99 (e-book), ISBN 9781429969451.
Reviewed by
G J. Barker-Benfield (University at Albany)
Published on
H-Nationalism (February, 2024)
Commissioned by
Evan C. Rothera (University of Arkansas - Fort Smith)
Moss, Kenneth B.. An Unchosen People: Jewish Political Reckoning in Interwar Poland. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021. 400 pp. $46.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780674245105.$47.00 (e-book), ISBN 9780674269989.
Reviewed by
Sean Martin (Western Reserve Historical Society)
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H-Poland (February, 2024)
Commissioned by
Anna Muller (University of Michigan - Dearborn)
Najar, Jose D.. Transimperial Anxieties: The Making and Unmaking of Arab Ottomans in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1850-1940. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2023. 356 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781496214683.
Reviewed by
Michael Rom (University of British Columbia)
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H-LatAm (February, 2024)
Commissioned by
Casey M. Lurtz (Johns Hopkins University)
Hård, Mikael. Microhistories of Technology: Making the World. Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology Series. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. 297 pp. $49.99 (paper), ISBN 9783031228155.
Reviewed by
Jason Ludwig (Cornell University)
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H-Sci-Med-Tech (February, 2024)
Commissioned by
Penelope K. Hardy (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)
Giddens, Elizabeth. Oconaluftee: The History of a Smoky Mountain Valley. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023. xiii + 287 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781469673400.$25.00 (paper), ISBN 9781469673417.
von Binzer, Ina. The Joys and Disappointments of a German Governess in Imperial Brazil. Edited by Linda Lewin. Translated by Gabriel Trop. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2022. 200 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780268201777.
Reviewed by
Nathalia Cocenza (University of South Carolina)
Published on
H-Slavery (February, 2024)
Commissioned by
Andrew J. Kettler (University of South Carolina)
Visser, Robin. Questioning Borders: Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan. Global Chinese Culture Series. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. 339 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 9780231199810.$140.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780231199803.
Reviewed by
Stevan Harrell (University of Washington)
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H-Environment (February, 2024)
Commissioned by
Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Chiozza, Giacomo. Leverage and Cooperation in the US World Order: The Shrewd Sheriff. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 280 pp. $110.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781009355063.
Reviewed by
H. Richard Friman (Marquette University)
Published on
H-Diplo (February, 2024)
Commissioned by
Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)
Byers, Michael; Boley, Aaron. Who Owns Outer Space? International Law, Astrophysics, and the Sustainable Development of Space. Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. xi + 407 pp. $105.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781108497831.$34.99 (paper), ISBN 9781108721875.free (Open Access), ISBN 9781108597135.
Manzullo-Thomas, Devin C.. Exhibiting Evangelicalism: Commemoration and Religion’s Presence of the Past. Public History in Historical Perspective Series. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2022. Illustrations. 240 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781625346520.$28.95 (paper), ISBN 9781625346513.