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Barbara J. Black. Hotel London: How Victorian Commercial Hospitality Shaped a Nation and Its Stories. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2019. x + 245 pp. $64.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8142-1417-6. 

Andrew Kettler. The Smell of Slavery: Olfactory Racism and the Atlantic World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Illustrations. 254 pp. $39.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-49073-3; $32.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-108-84827-5.

Reviewed by William Tullett (Anglia Ruskin University)
Published on H-Early-America (March, 2022)
Commissioned by Troy Bickham (Texas A&M University)

Scott Eastman, Stephen Jacobson, eds. Rethinking Atlantic Empire: Christopher Schmidt-Nowara’s Histories of Nineteenth-Century Spain and the Antilles. New York: Berghahn, 2021. 254 pp. $34.95 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-80073-121-9; $135.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-80073-120-2.

Reviewed by Cacey Farnsworth (Brigham Young University)
Published on H-LatAm (March, 2022)
Commissioned by Casey M. Lurtz (Johns Hopkins University)

Christy Thornton. Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 310 pp. $29.95 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-520-96963-6; $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-520-29716-6; $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-520-29715-9.

Reviewed by Edward Beatty (University of Notre Dame)
Published on H-LatAm (March, 2022)
Commissioned by Casey M. Lurtz (Johns Hopkins University)

Marion Andrea Schmidt. Eradicating Deafness? Genetics, Pathology, and Diversity in Twentieth-Century America. Disability History Series. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. 232 pp. $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5261-3817-0. 

Eleanor Herz Swent. One Shot for Gold: Developing a Modern Mine in Northern California. Mining and Society Series. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2021. Illustrations. xxvi + 228 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-64779-006-6.

Reviewed by John Baeten (Indiana University)
Published on H-Environment (March, 2022)
Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Simon Miles. Engaging the Evil Empire: Washington, Moscow, and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. 248 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-5169-1.

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

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)