Love

Naftali Rothenberg. Torat ha-ahavah shel Rabi ʻAḳiva: Rabbi Akiva's philosophy of love. Jerusalem: Carmel Publishing House, 2018. 250 pp. NIS 94.00, ISBN 978-965-540-835-5.

Reviewed by Eugene Korn (Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation) Published on H-Judaic (December, 2019) Commissioned by Barbara Krawcowicz (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Matthew T. Lee, Margaret M. Poloma. A Sociological Study of the Great Commandment in Pentecostalism: The Practice of Godly Love As Benevolent Service. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2009. vi + 175 pp. $99.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7734-3902-3.

Reviewed by William Kay (Glyndŵr University) Published on H-Pentecostalism (May, 2010) Commissioned by Gene Mills

Rebecca J. Fraser. Courtship and Love among the Enslaved in North Carolina. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007. x + 137 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-934110-07-2.

Reviewed by Victoria Ott Published on H-SAWH (January, 2009) Commissioned by Antoinette G. van Zelm

Love and Resistance in the Slave Community

Frances Restuccia. Amorous Acts: Lacanian Ethics in Modernism, Film and Queer Theory. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. xvi + 152 pp. $49.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-5182-7.

Reviewed by Amy Swiffen (Department of Sociology, University of Alberta) Published on H-Ideas (January, 2008)

For the Love of the Good

Peter Pagnamenta, Momoko Williams. Sword and Blossom: A British Officer's Enduring Love for a Japanese Woman. New York: Penguin Books, 2006. ix + 345 pp. $16.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-14-311214-3.

Reviewed by David Smith (Department of History, Lingnan University, Hong Kong) Published on H-Albion (November, 2007)

Luisa Passerini. Europe in Love. Love in Europe. also New York: New York University Press, 1999. vii + 358 pp. $38.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8147-6698-9.

Reviewed by John Foot (Department of Italian, University College London) Published on H-Italy (January, 2001)