Author: 
George H. Schwartz
Reviewer: 
Paul J. O'Pecko

O'Pecko on Schwartz, 'Collecting the Globe: The Salem East India Marine Society Museum'

George H. Schwartz. Collecting the Globe: The Salem East India Marine Society Museum. Public History in Historical Perspective Series. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2020. 240 pp. $28.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-62534-472-4; $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-62534-471-7. 

Author: 
Lily Baum Pollans
Reviewer: 
Christine Keiner

Keiner on Pollans, 'Resisting Garbage: The Politics of Waste Management in American Cities'

Lily Baum Pollans. Resisting Garbage: The Politics of Waste Management in American Cities. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021. 248 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4773-2370-0; $45.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4773-2372-4. 

Author: 
Christa Wirth
Reviewer: 
Susanna Garroni

Garroni on Wirth, 'Memories of Belonging: Descendants of Italian Migrants to the United Sates, 1884-Present'

Christa Wirth. Memories of Belonging: Descendants of Italian Migrants to the United Sates, 1884-Present. Studies in Global Social History/Studies in Global Migration Series. Leiden: Brill, 2015. Illustrations. 406 pp. $179.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-90-04-28457-9; $179.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-90-04-28456-2.

Reviewed by Susanna Garroni (University Roma Tre) Published on H-Italy (June, 2021) Commissioned by Matteo Pretelli (University of Naples "L'Orientale")

Author: 
Francis J. Bremer
Reviewer: 
Jordan Landes

Landes on Bremer, 'One Small Candle: The Plymouth Puritans and the Beginning of English New England'

Francis J. Bremer. One Small Candle: The Plymouth Puritans and the Beginning of English New England. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 272 pp. $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-751004-9.

Reviewed by Jordan Landes (Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College) Published on H-Early-America (November, 2021) Commissioned by Troy Bickham (Texas A&M University)

Author: 
Nina Sankovitch
Reviewer: 
Rhonda Barlow

Barlow on Sankovitch, 'American Rebels: How the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy Families Fanned the Flames of Revolution'

Nina Sankovitch. American Rebels: How the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy Families Fanned the Flames of Revolution. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2020. Maps. 416 pp. $29.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-250-16328-8

Reviewed by Rhonda Barlow (Massachusetts Historical Society) Published on H-Early-America (October, 2021) Commissioned by Troy Bickham (Texas A&M University)

Author: 
Marla R. Miller
Reviewer: 
Katheryn Viens

Viens on Miller, 'Entangled Lives: Labor, Livelihood, and Landscapes of Change in Rural Massachusetts'

Marla R. Miller. Entangled Lives: Labor, Livelihood, and Landscapes of Change in Rural Massachusetts. Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia Series. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. Illustrations. 384 pp. $64.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4214-3274-8

Author: 
Karen Woods Weierman
Reviewer: 
Sue Kozel

Kozel on Weierman, 'The Case of the Slave-Child, Med: Free Soil in Antislavery Boston'

Karen Woods Weierman. The Case of the Slave-Child, Med: Free Soil in Antislavery Boston. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2019. xv + 164 pp. $26.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-62534-476-2

Reviewed by Sue Kozel (Independent Scholar) Published on H-Nationalism (January, 2021) Commissioned by Evan C. Rothera (University of Arkansas - Fort Smith)

Author: 
Melissa D. Burrage
Reviewer: 
Petra DeWitt

DeWitt on Burrage, 'The Karl Muck Scandal: Classical Music and Xenophobia in World War I America'

Melissa D. Burrage. The Karl Muck Scandal: Classical Music and Xenophobia in World War I America. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2019. 445 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-58046-950-0.

Reviewed by Petra DeWitt (Missouri University of Science and Technology) Published on H-TGS (September, 2020) Commissioned by Alison C. Efford (Marquette University)

Author: 
Noam Maggor
Reviewer: 
Andrew Seal

Seal on Maggor, 'Brahmin Capitalism: Frontiers of Wealth and Populism in America's First Gilded Age'

Noam Maggor. Brahmin Capitalism: Frontiers of Wealth and Populism in America's First Gilded Age. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017. Illustrations, graphs. 304 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-97146-2.

Reviewed by Andrew Seal (University of New Hampshire) Published on H-SHGAPE (November, 2019) Commissioned by William S. Cossen (The Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology)

Author: 
Damien Murray
Reviewer: 
Catherine Bateson

Bateson on Murray, 'Irish Nationalists in Boston: Catholicism and Conflict, 1900-1928'

Damien Murray. Irish Nationalists in Boston: Catholicism and Conflict, 1900-1928. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2018. Illustrations. 296 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8132-3001-6.

Reviewed by Catherine Bateson (University of Durham) Published on H-Nationalism (September, 2019) Commissioned by Evan C. Rothera (University of Arkansas - Fort Smith)

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