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Paul Barba. Country of the Cursed and the Driven: Slavery and the Texas Borderlands. Borderlands and Transcultural Studies Series. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. Maps, tables. 474 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4962-0835-4.

Reviewed by James Nichols (City University of New York, Queensborough Community College)
Published on H-Nationalism (August, 2022)
Commissioned by Evan C. Rothera (University of Arkansas - Fort Smith)

Dana Hollander. Ethics Out of Law: Hermann Cohen and the “Neighbor”. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. 324 pp. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4875-0624-7.

Reviewed by Jeffrey Bernstein (College of the Holy Cross)
Published on H-Judaic (August, 2022)
Commissioned by Barbara Krawcowicz (Jagiellonian University)

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Elizabeth Edwards. Photographs and the Practice of History. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. 184 pp. $24.25 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-350-12066-2; ISBN 978-1-350-12067-9.

Reviewed by Michaela Clark (University of Manchester)
Published on H-Sci-Med-Tech (August, 2022)
Commissioned by Penelope K. Hardy (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)

Conrad C. Crane. Cassandra in Oz: Counterinsurgency and Future War. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2016. 320. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-68247-007-7. 

Reviewed by Brian R. Price (Air University)
Published on H-War (August, 2022)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air 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 Paxton Stover (Kansas State University)
Published on H-War (August, 2022)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Salvatore R. Mercogliano. Fourth Arm of Defense: Sealift and Maritime Logistics in the Vietnam War. The U.S. Navy and Vietnam War Series. Washington, DC: Naval History and Heritage Command, 2017. Illustrations. 78 pp. n.p. (paper), ISBN 978-0-945274-96-4; free (pdf), ISBN 978-0-945274-97-1.

Reviewed by Jobie Turner (Air University)
Published on H-War (August, 2022)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Michael Falser. Angkor Wat: A Transcultural History of Heritage. Volume 1, Angkor in France: From Plaster Casts to Exhibition Pavilions. Volume 2, Angkor in Cambodia: From Jungle Find to Global Icon. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019. Illustrations, maps. xix + 1150 pp. $198.99 (pdf), ISBN 978-3-11-033584-2; $198.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-11-033572-9.

Eugenia Lean. Vernacular Industrialism in China: Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in the Making of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900-1940. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. 416 pp. (e-book), ISBN 978-0-231-55033-8; $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-19348-1.

Reviewed by Tani Barlow (Rice University)
Published on H-Sci-Med-Tech (August, 2022)
Commissioned by Penelope K. Hardy (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)

Jonathan D. Sarna. Coming to Terms with America: Essays on Jewish History, Religion, and Culture. A JPS Scholar of Distinction Series. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. Illustrations. xxiv + 399 pp. $45.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-8276-1879-4; $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8276-1511-3.

Reviewed by Edward S. Shapiro (Seton Hall University)
Published on H-Judaic (August, 2022)
Commissioned by Robin Buller (University of California - Berkeley)

Lansing Shepard, Don Luce, Barbara Coffin, Gwen Schagrin. A Natural Curiosity: The Story of the Bell Museum. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. Illustrations. 400 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5179-1036-5.