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Fox, Thomas. John C. O'Neill: The Irish Nationalist and U.S. Army Officer Who Invaded Canada. Jefferson: McFarland, 2019. Illustrations. 240 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 9780786497935.

Reviewed by Patrick Grigsby (Texas A&M)
Published on H-War (August, 2023)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

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van Dijk, Boyd. Preparing for War: The Making of the 1949 Geneva Conventions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 400 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780198868071.

Reviewed by Jean-Michel Turcotte (Directorate of History and Heritage/Canadian Department of National Defence in Ottawa)
Published on H-War (August, 2023)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Xiang, Sunny. Tonal Intelligence: The Aesthetics of Asian Inscrutability during the Long Cold War. Literature Now Series. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. 368 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 9780231196970.$105.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780231196963.

Heathcott, Joseph; Soffer, Jonathan; Zimmerman, Rae, eds.. Urban Infrastructure: Historical and Social Dimensions of an Interconnected World. History of the Urban Environment Series. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022. xii + 281 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780822946380.

Priest, Claire. Credit Nation: Property Laws and Institutions in Early America. The Princeton Economic History of the Western World, 121. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. xi + 226 pp. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 9780691241722.

Cifor, Marika. Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 297 pp. $25.65 (e-book), ISBN 9781452963556.$27.00 (paper), ISBN 9781517909369.

Reviewed by Salonee Bhaman (Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Women's and Public History, New York Historical Society)
Published on H-Sci-Med-Tech (August, 2023)
Commissioned by Penelope K. Hardy (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)

Smith, Chloe Wigston; Tobin, Beth Fowkes, eds.. Small Things in the Eighteenth Century: The Political and Personal Value of the Miniature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xv + 328 pp. $77.45 (cloth), ISBN 9781108993296.

Lehmann, Philipp. Desert Edens: Colonial Climate Engineering in the Age of Anxiety. Histories of Economic Life Series. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. x + 244 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780691168869.

Fratto, Elena. Medical Storyworlds: Health, Illnesses, and Bodies in Russian and European Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. 272 pp. $29.99 (e-book), ISBN 9780231554503.

Reviewed by Ekaterina Neklyudova (McMaster University)
Published on H-Sci-Med-Tech (August, 2023)
Commissioned by Penelope K. Hardy (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)

Henry, Matthew S.. Hydronarratives: Water, Environmental Justice, and a Just Transition. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2023. xii + 217 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781496227898.$30.00 (paper), ISBN 9781496233752.