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Dong Wang, Travis Tanner, eds. Avoiding the ‘Thucydides Trap’: U.S.-China Relations in Strategic Domains. New York: Routledge, 2020. xi + 173 pp. $47.95 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-351-20667-9; $160.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8153-8309-3.

Reviewed by Joseph Carignan (Air University, Air War College)
Published on H-War (March, 2022)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Yuri Kostenko. Ukraine’s Nuclear Disarmament: A History. Translated by Svitlana Krasynska, Lidia Wolanskyj, and Olena Jenning. Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies. Cambridge: Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, 2020. Illustrations. 350 pp. $96.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-24930-1. 

Dennis J. Frost. More Than Medals: A History of the Paralympics and Disability Sports in Postwar Japan. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. 336 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-5308-4.

Reviewed by Yasushi Miyazaki (Kwansei Gakuin University)
Published on H-Disability (March, 2022)
Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)

John Stewart. The Wreck of the San Francisco: Disaster and Aftermath in the Great Hurricane of December 1853. Jefferson: McFarland, 2018. 256 pp. $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4766-7410-0.

Reviewed by Dominic Bush (East Carolina University)
Published on H-Environment (March, 2022)
Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Lee B. Wilson. Bonds of Empire: The English Origins of Slave Law in South Carolina and British Plantation America, 1660–1783. Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 288 pp. $59.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-49525-7.

Reviewed by Trevor G. Burnard (University of Hull)
Published on H-Albion (March, 2022)
Commissioned by Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth (Red Deer Polytechnic)

Keith Pluymers. No Wood, No Kingdom: Political Ecology in the English Atlantic (The Early Modern Americas). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. 296 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-5307-8. 

Cathal Smith. American Planters and Irish Landlords in Comparative and Transnational Perspective. Routledge Studies in Modern History Series. New York: Routledge, 2021. Maps. 389 pp. $48.95 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-00-314354-3; $160.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-367-69851-5.

Reviewed by Angela F. Murphy (Texas State University)
Published on H-Atlantic (February, 2022)
Commissioned by W. Douglas Catterall (Cameron University of Oklahoma)

Chelsey L. Kivland. Street Sovereigns: Young Men and the Makeshift State in Urban Haiti. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. xxvii + 274 pp. $125.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-4698-7; $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5017-4699-4.

Reviewed by Vincent Joos (Florida State University)
Published on H-Haiti (February, 2022)
Commissioned by Grégory Pierrot (University of Connecticut at Stamford)

Geoff Levett, ed. Sport in History Podcast. United Kingdom: British Society of Sports History, 2020-21. Podcast, https://www.sportinhistory.org/categories/podcast.

Reviewed by Samuel Clevenger (Towson University)
Published on H-Podcast (February, 2022)
Commissioned by Robert Cassanello (he/him/his) (University of Central Florida)

Brian Frehner, Kathleen A. Brosnan, eds. The Greater Plains: Rethinking a Region's Environmental Histories. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. Illustrations, maps, tables. 406 pp. $30.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4962-2707-2; $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4962-2507-8; $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4962-2647-1.

Reviewed by Andrea Olive (University of Toronto Mississauga)
Published on H-Environment (February, 2022)
Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)