Communication

Matthew Hockenberry, Nicole Starosielski, Susan Zieger, eds. Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021. Illustrations. 264 pp. $26.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4780-1076-0; $99.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4780-0973-3.

Reviewed by Jennessa Hester (Texas Tech University) Published on H-Sci-Med-Tech (November, 2022) Commissioned by Penelope K. Hardy (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)

Jean-Michel Johnston. Networks of Modernity: Germany in the Age of the Telegraph, 1830-1880. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 304 pp. $80.75 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-19-259894-3; $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-885688-7.

Reviewed by Robert Radu (Universität Bonn) Published on H-German (October, 2022) Commissioned by Matthew Unangst (SUNY Oneonta)

Céline Carayon. Eloquence Embodied: Nonverbal Communication among French and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. 472 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-5262-7.

Reviewed by Christophe Boucher (College of Charleston) Published on H-AmIndian (December, 2021) Commissioned by F. Evan Nooe (University of North Carolina, Charlotte)

Torsten Kathke. Wires That Bind: Nation, Region, and Technology in the Southwestern United States, 1854-1920. American Culture Studies Series. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2017. 312 pp. $45.00 (paper), ISBN 978-3-8376-3790-8. 

Reviewed by Bryant Macfarlane (Kansas State University) Published on Jhistory (November, 2020) Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe

Heidi Tworek. News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900-1945. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019. 344 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-98840-8.

Reviewed by Christian Heinrich-Franke (Universität Siegen) Published on H-TGS (April, 2020) Commissioned by Benjamin Bryce (University of Northern British Columbia)

Sonia Robles. Mexican Waves: Radio Broadcasting along Mexico's Northern Border, 1930-1950. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2019. Illustrations. 232 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8165-3954-3.

Reviewed by Justin Castro (Arkansas State University) Published on H-LatAm (January, 2020) Commissioned by Casey M. Lurtz (Johns Hopkins University)

Kerim Yasar. Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868–1945. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. xv + 277 pp. $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-231-18713-8.

Reviewed by Martyn Smith (University of Sheffield) Published on H-Japan (September, 2019) Commissioned by Martha Chaiklin

Alejandra Dubcovsky. Informed Power: Communication in the Early American South. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016. 287 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-66018-2.

Reviewed by Sean P. Harvey (Seton Hall University) Published on H-Early-America (March, 2018) Commissioned by Joshua J. Jeffers (Middle Tennessee State University)

Marisa Elena Duarte. Network Sovereignty: Building the Internet across Indian Country. Indigenous Confluences Series. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017. 192 pp. $25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-295-74182-6; $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-295-74181-9.

Reviewed by David Gaertner (University of British Columbia, Vancouver Campus) Published on H-AmIndian (March, 2018) Commissioned by F. Evan Nooe (University of North Carolina, Charlotte)

Jim Cullen. A Short History of the Modern Media. Hoboken: Wiley Blackwell, 2013. 304 pp. $35.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4443-5142-2.

Reviewed by Christopher D. Worrall (University of Sheffield) Published on Jhistory (March, 2016) Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe