Author: 
Emma McCluskey
Reviewer: 
Caren J. Frost

Frost on McCluskey, 'From Righteousness to Far Right: An Anthropological Rethinking of Critical Security Studies'

Emma McCluskey. From Righteousness to Far Right: An Anthropological Rethinking of Critical Security Studies. McGill-Queen’s Studies in Ethnic History Series. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019. 248 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7735-5689-8; $110.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7735-5688-1.

Author: 
Agneta Pleijel
Reviewer: 
Anna Derksen

Derksen on Pleijel, 'Sister and Brother: A Family Story'

Agneta Pleijel. Sister and Brother: A Family Story. Translated by Harald Hille. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 2018. 248 pp. $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-944838-20-1.

Reviewed by Anna Derksen (Leiden University) Published on H-Disability (October, 2018) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)

Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=52668

Author: 
Mary Elizabeth Ailes
Reviewer: 
Lauren Swift

Swift on Ailes, 'Courage and Grief: Women and Sweden's Thirty Years' War'

Mary Elizabeth Ailes. Courage and Grief: Women and Sweden's Thirty Years' War. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017. 234 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4962-0086-0.

Reviewed by Lauren Swift (Rutgers) Published on H-War (February, 2019) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)

Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=52074

Author: 
Martin R. Gutmann
Reviewer: 
Richard Byers

Byers on Gutmann, 'Building a Nazi Europe: The SS's Germanic Volunteers'

Martin R. Gutmann. Building a Nazi Europe: The SS's Germanic Volunteers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xvi + 237 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-15543-5.

Reviewed by Richard Byers (University of North Georgia) Published on H-War (August, 2018) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air War College)

Author: 
Tanja Schult
Reviewer: 
J Franklin Williamson

Williamson on Schult, 'A Hero's Many Faces: Raoul Wallenberg in Contemporary Monuments'

Tanja Schult. A Hero's Many Faces: Raoul Wallenberg in Contemporary Monuments. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. xviii + 425 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-230-22238-0.

Reviewed by J Franklin Williamson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Published on H-German (October, 2013) Commissioned by Shannon Nagy

Memory in Two-and-a-Half-Dimensions

Author: 
Alex Kershaw
Reviewer: 
Shlomo Aronson

Aronson on Kershaw, 'The Envoy: The Epic Rescue of the Last Jews of Europe in the Desperate Closing Months of World War II'

Alex Kershaw. The Envoy: The Epic Rescue of the Last Jews of Europe in the Desperate Closing Months of World War II. Cambridge: Da Capo Press, Incorporated, 2010. x + 294 pp. $26.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-306-81557-7.

Reviewed by Shlomo Aronson (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Published on H-Judaic (February, 2011) Commissioned by Jason Kalman

Author: 
Hakan Forsell
Reviewer: 
Parker Everett

Everett on Forsell, 'Property, Tenancy, and Urban Growth in Stockholm and Berlin, 1860-1920'

Hakan Forsell. Property, Tenancy, and Urban Growth in Stockholm and Berlin, 1860-1920. Burlington: Ashgate, 2006. 303 pp. $99.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7546-5507-7.

Reviewed by Parker Everett (Department of History, University of Chicago) Published on H-German (July, 2008)

Landlords and Urban Politics

Author: 
Peter Baldwin
Reviewer: 
Jason Wolfe

Wolfe on Baldwin, 'Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830-1930'

Peter Baldwin. Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830-1930. New York: New York University Press, 2005. xiii + 581 pp. $33.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-521-61628-7; $110.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-64288-0.

Reviewed by Jason Wolfe (Department of History and Humanities, Lee University) Published on H-German (April, 2006)

Disease and European Responses between 1830 and 1930

Author: 
Jens Rydstrm
Reviewer: 
Clayton Whisnant

Whisnant on Rydstrm, 'Sinners and Citizens: Bestiality and Homosexuality in Sweden, 1880-1950'

Jens Rydstrm. Sinners and Citizens: Bestiality and Homosexuality in Sweden, 1880-1950. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2003. xiv + 416 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-73256-5; $20.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-226-73257-2.

Reviewed by Clayton Whisnant (Department of History, Wofford College) Published on H-German (September, 2005)

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