Europe

Ann L. Tucker. Newest Born of Nations: European Nationalist Movements and the Making of the Confederacy. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020. 272 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8139-4428-9.

Reviewed by Timothy Roberts (Western Illinois University) Published on H-Nationalism (May, 2022) Commissioned by Evan C. Rothera (University of Arkansas - Fort Smith)

Marcus M. Payk, Roberta Pergher, eds. Beyond Versailles: Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and the Formation of New Polities After the Great War. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. 254 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-253-04091-6.

Reviewed by Mary Bridges (Yale University) Published on H-War (April, 2022) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Margaret E. Schotte. Sailing School: Navigating Science and Skill, 1550-1800. Information Cultures Series. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. Illustrations. xi + 297 pp. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4214-2953-3. 

Christopher R. L. Blake. Reckless Misfortune: The Century We Inherited from the First World War. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2021. 256 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-88146-804-5. 

Reviewed by Toby Clark (Independent Scholar) Published on H-War (April, 2022) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Brian Ladd. The Streets of Europe: The Sights, Sounds, and Smells that Shaped Its Great Cities. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. x + 303 pp. Maps, ill. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-67794-1.

Reviewed by Paul Steege (Villanova University) Published on H-German (April, 2022) Commissioned by Jasper Heinzen (Department of History, University of York)

D. H. Robinson. The Idea of Europe and the Origins of the American Revolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Illustrations, tables. x + 433 pp. $100.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-886292-5.

Reviewed by Tristan Stubbs (Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World Program at the College of Charleston) Published on H-Early-America (January, 2022) Commissioned by Troy Bickham (Texas A&M University)

Dagmar Herzog. Unlearning Eugenics: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Disability in Post-Nazi Europe. George L. Mosse Series in Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2018. Illustrations. 176 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-299-31920-5. 

Mai'a K. Davis Cross, Ireneusz Paweł Karolewski, eds. European-Russian Power Relations in Turbulent Times. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021. 309 pp. Open access (pdf), ISBN 978-0-472-90253-8; $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-472-13228-7.

Reviewed by Margarita Balmaceda (Seton Hall University) Published on H-Diplo (January, 2022) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Steven Press. Rogue Empires: Contracts and Conmen in Europe's Scramble for Africa. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017. Maps. 384 pp. $43.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-97185-1. 

Reviewed by Tyson Luneau (University at Albany) Published on H-War (November, 2021) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Stephen Smith. The Scramble for Europe: Young Africa on Its Way to the Old Continent. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2019. viii + 197 pp. $69.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5095-3456-2; $22.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5095-3457-9. 

Reviewed by Haythem Guesmi (Independent Scholar) Published on H-Africa (October, 2021) Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Independent Scholar)