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Li, Wai-yee. The Promise and Peril of Things: Literature and Material Culture in Late Imperial China. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. 376 pp. $140.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780231201025.$35.00 (paper), ISBN 9780231201032.

Laxer, Daniel Robert. Listening to the Fur Trade: Soundways and Music in the British North American Fur Trade, 1760–1840. McGill-Queen's Studies in Early Canada / Avant le Canada Series. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022. Illustrations, tables. 320 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780228008590.

Stackhouse, J. Ryan. Enemies of the People: Hitler's Critics and the Gestapo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 330 pp. ISBN 9781108961677.$39.99 (cloth), ISBN 9781108832601.

Reviewed by Winfried Heinemann (Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg)
Published on H-German (September, 2023)
Commissioned by Matthew Unangst (SUNY Oneonta)

Popkin, Maggie L.. The Architecture of the Roman Triumph: Monuments, Memory, and Identity. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Illustrations. 310 pp. $106.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781107103573.

Reviewed by Julia Wetzel (University of North Texas)
Published on H-War (September, 2023)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Williams, Kidada E.. I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War against Reconstruction. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. 384 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781635576634.$21.00 (e-book), ISBN 9781635576641.

Stillwell, Paul. Battleship Commander: The Life of Vice Admiral Willis A. Lee Jr.. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2021. Illustrations, maps. xvii + 339 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 9781682475935.

Reviewed by John T. Kuehn (US Army Command and General Staff College)
Published on H-War (September, 2023)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Shackelford, Jole. An Introduction to the History of Chronobiology, vol. 3, The Search for Biological Clocks: Metaphors, Models, and Mechanisms. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022. 400 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780822947332.

Reviewed by Jessica Tomberlin (Independent Scholar)
Published on H-Sci-Med-Tech (September, 2023)
Commissioned by Penelope K. Hardy (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)

Malpas, Jeff. In the Brightness of Place: Topological Thinking with and after Heidegger. SUNY Contemporary Continental Philosophy Series. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2022. x + 312 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781438490038.$36.95 (paper), ISBN 9781438490021.

Wood, Larry. Lady Rebels of Civil War Missouri. Civil War Series. Charleston: History Press, 2022. 160 pp. $23.99 (paper), ISBN 9781467150095.

Reviewed by Thomas F. Curran (Cor Jesu Academy)
Published on H-CivWar (September, 2023)
Commissioned by G. David Schieffler (Crowder College)

Gemächlich, Andreas. The Kenyan Cut Flower Industry and Global Market Dynamics. Future Rural Africa Series. Suffolk: James Currey, 2022. Illustrations. xiii + 229 pp. $115.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781847012951.$29.95 (e-book), ISBN 9781800105614.