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Alan Dowty. Arabs and Jews in Ottoman Palestine: Two Worlds Collide. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. 312 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-03865-4.
Reviewed by Tamir Karkason (Ben-Gurion University)
Published on H-Judaic (May, 2020)
Commissioned by Barbara Krawcowicz (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Robert McGreevey, Christopher T. Fisher, Alan Dawley. Global America: The United States in the Twentieth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. xxxii + 446 pp. $44.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-027990-5.
Reviewed by Jingbin Wang (Elizabeth City State University)
Published on H-Empire (May, 2020)
Commissioned by Charles V. Reed (Elizabeth City State University)
Allan Kulikoff. Abraham Lincoln and Karl Marx in Dialogue. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. 150 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-084464-6; $18.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-021080-9.
Tyrone L. Groh. Proxy War: The Least Bad Option. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019. 255 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-0818-4.
Reviewed by Alexandra Chinchilla (University of Chicago)
Published on H-Diplo (May, 2020)
Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)
Vince Houghton. The Nuclear Spies: America's Atomic Intelligence Operation against Hitler and Stalin. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. 248 pp. $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-3959-0.
Reviewed by Paul M. McGarr (University of Nottingham)
Published on H-Diplo (May, 2020)
Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)
Jennifer L. Derr. The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019. 264 pp. $26.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5036-0965-5.
Reviewed by George M. La Rue (Clarion University)
Published on H-Africa (May, 2020)
Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Boston University)
Ron Harris. Going the Distance: Eurasian Trade and the Rise of the Business Corporation, 1400-1700. The Princeton Economic History of the Western World Series. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. 488 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-15077-2.
Peter Campbell. Military Realism: The Logic and Limits of Force and Innovation in the US Army. American Military Experience Series. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2019. 390 pp. $50.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-8262-7426-7; $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8262-2184-1.
Reviewed by Kathryn Boehlefeld (Air University)
Published on H-War (May, 2020)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
David Cheng Chang. The Hijacked War: The Story of Chinese POWs in the Korean War. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019. 238 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-0460-5.
Reviewed by Jean-Michel Turcotte (Chair of War Studies, University of Potsdam)
Published on H-War (May, 2020)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)
Lisa Blackmore. Spectacular Modernity: Dictatorship, Space, and Visuality in Venezuela, 1948-1958. Pitt Illuminations Series. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017. Illustrations. 240 pp. $28.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8229-6438-4.