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Reynolds, Joel Michael. The Life Worth Living. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 211 pp. $92.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781517902650.$22.95 (paper), ISBN 9781517907785.ISBN 9781452961606.

Rasmussen, Anders Bo. Civil War Settlers: Scandinavians, Citizenship, and American Empire, 1848-1870. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xiii + 359 pp. $59.99 (cloth), ISBN 9781108845564.

Reviewed by Sophia Rouse (Texas A and M)
Published on H-War (September, 2023)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Brock, Lothar; Simon, Hendrik, eds.. The Justification of War and International Order: From Past to Present. The History and Theory of International Law Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 560 pp. $140.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780198865308.

Reviewed by David Lorenzo (National Defense University Norfolk)
Published on H-War (September, 2023)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Sheppard, Thomas. Commanding Petty Despots: The American Navy in the New Republic. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2022. Illustrations. 264 pp. $44.95 (cloth), ISBN 9781682477557.

Reviewed by Brian Hayes (The Citadel)
Published on H-War (September, 2023)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Rasmussen, Anders Bo. Civil War Settlers: Scandinavians, Citizenship, and American Empire, 1848-1870. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xiii + 359 pp. $59.99 (cloth), ISBN 9781108845564.

Reviewed by Evan C. Rothera (University of Arkansas - Fort Smith)
Published on H-Migration (September, 2023)
Commissioned by Tijl Vanneste (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

Gross, Stephen; Needham, Andrew, eds.. New Energies: A History of Energy Transitions in Europe and North America. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023. 304 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780822947769.

Martin, Alexander M.. From the Holy Roman Empire to the Land of the Tsars: One Family's Odyssey, 1768-1870. Oxford Studies in Modern European History Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. xiv + 393 pp. $125.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780192844378.

Robben, Antonius C. G. M.; Hinton, Alexander Laban. Perpetrators: Encountering Humanity's Dark Side. Stanford Studies in Human Rights. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2023. xvi + 253 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781503630673.$28.00 (paper), ISBN 9781503634275.

Adams, Will W.. A Wild and Sacred Call: Nature-Psyche-Spirit. SUNY Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2023. 420 pp. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781438492056.$33.95 (paper), ISBN 9781438492063.

West, E. James. A House for the Struggle. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2022. 296 pp. $110.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780252044328.$24.95 (paper), ISBN 9780252086397.