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Boonshoft, Mark. Aristocratic Education and the Making of the American Republic. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Illustrations. 296 pp. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781469659534.$29.95 (paper), ISBN 9781469661360.

Boddice, Rob; Hitzer, Bettina, eds.. Feeling Dis-ease in Modern History: Experiencing Medicine and Illness. History of Emotions Series. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. Illustrations. x + 275 pp. $115.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781350228375.

White, Ashli. Revolutionary Things: Material Culture and Politics in the Late Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023. 392 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780300259018.

Reviewed by Stephen Hague (Rowan University)
Published on H-Empire (September, 2023)
Commissioned by Gemma Masson (University of Birmingham)

Tillman, Kacy Dowd. Stripped and Script: Loyalist Women Writers of the American Revolution. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2019. Illustrations. 224 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781625344311.$28.95 (paper), ISBN 9781625344328.

Pellegrin, Pierre. Animals in the World: Five Essays on Aristotle's Biology. Translated by Anthony Preus. SUNY in Ancient Greek Philosophy Series. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2023. 330 pp. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781438491479.$33.95 (paper), ISBN 9781438491462.

Barrau, Julie; Bates, David; eds.. Lives, Identities and Histories in the Central Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 320 pp. $99.99 (pdf), ISBN 9781316676004.$99.99 (cloth), ISBN 9781107160804.$99.99 (e-book), ISBN 9781009064415.

Reviewed by Michail Kitsos (Tel Aviv University)
Published on H-Medieval (September, 2023)
Commissioned by Evan Zarkadas ()

Guha, Sumit. History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200-2000. Global South Asia Series. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. 264 pp. $32.00 (paper), ISBN 9780295746210.$105.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780295746227.

Reviewed by Ramya Sreenivasan (University of Pennsylvania)
Published on H-Asia (September, 2023)
Commissioned by Bradley C. Davis (Eastern Connecticut State University)

King, Brenda M.. The Wardle Family and Its Circle: Textile Production in the Arts and Crafts Era. Rochester: Boydell Press, 2019. xix + 218 pp. Ill. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781783273959.

Reviewed by Antonia Behan (Queen's University)
Published on H-Material-Culture (September, 2023)
Commissioned by Colin Fanning (Bard Graduate Center)

Lemire, Beverly; Peers, Laura L.; Whitelaw, Anne, eds.. Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America: Material Culture in Motion, c. 1780-1980. Volume 32, McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021. 560 pp. $44.95 (paper), ISBN 9780228003991.

Zuckert, Michael P.. A Nation So Conceived: Abraham Lincoln and the Paradox of Democratic Sovereignty. Constitutional Thinking. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2023. 416 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780700633920.

Reviewed by Thomas C. Mackey (University of Louisville)
Published on H-CivWar (September, 2023)
Commissioned by G. David Schieffler (Crowder College)