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Vuic, Jason. The Swamp Peddlers: How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. 268 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 9781469663333.

Reviewed by Charles Closmann (University of North Florida)
Published on H-Environment (October, 2023)
Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Conklin, Carli N.. The Pursuit of Happiness in the Founding Era: An Intellectual History. Studies in Constitutional Democracy Series. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2019. 256 pp. $25.00 (paper), ISBN 9780826222237.

Reviewed by Kate Brown (Western Kentucky University)
Published on H-Nationalism (October, 2023)
Commissioned by Evan C. Rothera (University of Arkansas - Fort Smith)

Johnson, Michael K.. Speculative Wests: Popular Representations of a Region and Genre. Postwestern Horizons Series. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2023. 286 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781496233509.$30.00 (paper), ISBN 9781496234582.

Lewis, Joanna I.. Cooperating for the Climate: Learning from International Partnerships in China's Clean Energy Sector. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2023. 304 pp. $45.00 (paper), ISBN 9780262544825.

Reviewed by Mark Purdon (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Published on H-Sci-Med-Tech (October, 2023)
Commissioned by Penelope K. Hardy (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)

Wehrman, Andrew M.. The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. 416 pp. $32.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781421444666.

Reviewed by Blake McGready (CUNY)
Published on H-War (October, 2023)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Symonds, Craig L.. Neptune: The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. xvii + 422 pp. Ill. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780199986118.

Reviewed by Brian W. Refford (Lehigh University)
Published on H-War (October, 2023)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

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Jones, Howard. My Lai: Vietnam, 1968, and the Descent into Darkness. Pivotal Moments in American History Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Illustrations. 504 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780195393606.

Reviewed by Olli Siitonen (University of Helsinki)
Published on H-War (October, 2023)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Hofmeyr, Isabel. Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022. Illustrations. xii + 121 pp. $22.95 (paper), ISBN 9781478017745.$89.95 (cloth), ISBN 9781478015123.

Reviewed by Julia Stryker (University of Texas, Austin)
Published on H-Environment (October, 2023)
Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Jackson, Catherine M.. Molecular World: Making Modern Chemistry. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2023. Illustrations. 460 pp. $75.00 (paper), ISBN 9780262545549.

Reviewed by Sarah Hijmans (Université Paris-Cité)
Published on H-Sci-Med-Tech (October, 2023)
Commissioned by Penelope K. Hardy (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)

Kamusella, Tomasz. Words in Space and Time: A Historical Atlas of Language Politics in Modern Central Europe. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2021. 308 pp. $125.00 (cloth), ISBN 9789633864173.

Reviewed by James Koranyi (Durham University)
Published on H-German (October, 2023)
Commissioned by Jasper Heinzen (Department of History, University of York)