ARTICLES
Skull Walls: The Peruvian Dead and the Remains of Entanglement Christopher Heaney
Translating God on the Borders of Sovereignty Gili Kliger
Decolonizing Renaissance Humanism Stuart Michael McManus
Urdu Ethics Literature and the Diversity of Muslim Thought in Colonial India Farina Mir
A Diaspora Moment: Writing Global History Through Palestinian-West German Ties Joseph Ben Prestel
The Limits of Brotherhood: Race, Religion, and World Order in American Ecumenical Protestantism Andrew Preston
Reading beneath the Skin: Indigenous Tattooing in the Early Spanish Philippines, ca. 1520–1720 Sebestian Kroupa
AHR HISTORY LAB
Inside the History Lab Mark Philip Bradley
Art as Historical Method
We Are Not the Stories We Tell Ourselves: Weaving Differing Registers of Memory in the Arts Zoe Butt; Lee Weng-Choy
Engaged History
Okinawa: Territory as Monument Alexis Dudden ; Kim Inthavong
The Pandemic and History Mark Philip Bradley; David Arnold; Pablo F. Gómez; Maria Johns ; Angela Ki Che Leung ...
History Unclassified
Seeing Madness in the Archives Ariel Mae Lambe
FEATURED REVIEWS
AUTHORS IN CONVERSATION
An Empirical Synthesis of Human Labor History Patrick Manning
How to Write World History: Manning’s Step Forward Jan Lucassen
FEATURES
The Work-Wage Exchange Gary S Cross
A Biography of Black Power Peniel E Joseph
Social Structure in Theresienstadt Amos Goldberg
The Indo-Pacific and the Age of Revolution Kate Fullagar
Empire, Bureaucracy, and the Opium Trade in Southeast Asia Andrew J Rotter
Cattle and Silkworms Héctor Hoyos
Striking Gold Madeline Y Hsu
The Rule of Law in History Deborah Valenze
Radical Diaspora and Utopian Upheaval Ronald Grigor Suny
Piracy in the Book Trade Adrian Johns
Numeracy and Archival Fragments in Understanding the Black Atlantic Brooke N Newman
REAPPRAISAL
Capitalism and Africa: Revisiting Way of Death Thirty-Five Years after its Publication Mariana P Candido
REVIEWS
EUROPE: EARLY MODERN AND MODERN
William J. Ashworth. The Trinity Circle: Anxiety, Intelligence, and Knowledge Creation in Nineteenth-Century England. Diarmid A. Finnegan
Rebecca Ayako Bennette. Diagnosing Dissent: Hysterics, Deserters, and Conscientious Objectors in Germany during World War One. Ana Antić
George R. Boyer. The Winding Road to the Welfare State: Economic Insecurity and Social Welfare Policy in Britain. Martin Daunton
Andrew Demshuk. Bowling for Communism: Urban Ingenuity at the End of East Germany. Katherine Pence
Andrew W. Devereux. The Other Side of Empire: Just War in the Mediterranean and the Rise of Early Modern Spain. Céline Dauverd
Paul M. Farber. A Wall of Our Own: An American History of the Berlin Wall. Tiffany N. Florvil
Montse Feu. Fighting Fascist Spain: Worker Protest from the Printing Press. Ana de la Rosa Castro
Peter Fritzsche. Hitler’s First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich. Pamela E. Swett
Alexey Golubev. The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia. Christine E. Evans
Kate Guthrie. The Art of Appreciation: Music and Middlebrow Culture in Modern Britain. Sarah Collins
Jiří Hutečka. Men Under Fire: Motivation, Morale, and Masculinity Among Czech Soldiers in the Great War, 1914–1918. Rok Stergar
Kristy Ironside. A Full-Value Ruble. The Promise of Prosperity in the Postwar Soviet Union. Donald Filtzer
Roman Krakovský. State and Society in Communist Czechoslovakia: Transforming the Everyday from World War II to the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Melissa Feinberg
Tudor Parfitt. Hybrid Hate: Conflations of Antisemitism and Anti-Black Racism from the Renaissance to the Third Reich. Jonathan Judaken
Paul Preston. A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain, 1876–2016. Matthew Kerry
Karl D. Qualls. Stalin’s Niños: Educating Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the Soviet Union, 1937–1951. E. Thomas Ewing
Linda Reeder. Italy in the Modern World: Society, Culture, and Identity. Konstantina Zanou
Alan D. Roe. Into Russian Nature: Tourism, Environmental Protection, and National Parks in the Twentieth Century. Adrian Howkins
Danielle Ross. Tatar Empire: Kazan’s Muslims and the Making of Imperial Russia. Adeeb Khalid
James F. Stark. The Cult of Youth: Anti-Ageing in Modern Britain. Charlotte Greenhalgh
Jelena Subotić. Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism. Carol S. Lilly
Philipp Ther. The Outsiders: Refugees in Europe since 1492. G. Daniel Cohen
Kaius Tuori. Empire of Law: Nazi Germany, Exile Scholars and the Battle for the Future of Europe. Michael S. Bryant
Zhivka Valiavicharska. Restless History: Political Imaginaries and Their Discontents in Post-Stalinist Bulgaria. Ulf Brunnbauer
Karin Vélez. The Miraculous Flying House of Loreto: Spreading Catholicism in the Early Modern World. Cornelius Conover
Alun Withey. Concerning Beards: Facial Hair, Health and Practice in England 1650–1900. Joseph Roach
Alexander Watson. The Fortress: The Siege of Przemyśl and the Making of Europe’s Bloodlands. Jiří Hutečka
Frank Wolff. Yiddish Revolutionaries in Migration: The Transnational History of the Jewish Labour Bund. Faith Hillis
Andriy Zayarnyuk. Lviv’s Uncertain Destination: A City and Its Train Terminal from Franz Joseph I to Brezhnev. Kathryn Ciancia
Ingrid de Zwarte. The Hunger Winter: Fighting Famine in the Occupied Netherlands, 1944–1945. Shelley Baranowski
METHODS AND THEORY
Elena Aronova. Scientific History: Experiments in History and Politics from the Bolshevik Revolution to the End of the Cold War. Barbara Walker
Nancy L. Green. The Limits of Transnationalism. Jessica Reinisch
Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo, translated by Mary Ellen Fieweger. Clio’s Laws: On History and Language. Ian Milligan
T. K. Wilson. Killing Strangers: How Political Violence Became Modern. Max Bergholz
ASIA
Stefan Eklöf Amirell. Pirates of Empire: Colonisation and Maritime Violence in Southeast Asia. Lakshmi Subramanian
Maile Arvin. Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai’i and Oceania. Matt K. Matsuda
Neeladri Bhattacharya. The Great Agrarian Conquest: The Colonial Reshaping of a Rural World. Peter Robb
Ulbe Bosma. The Making of a Periphery: How Island Southeast Asia Became a Mass Exporter of Labor. Martin W. Lewis
John W. Dardess. More Than the Great Wall: The Northern Frontier and Ming National Security, 1368–1644. Nicola Di Cosmo
Austin Dean. China and the End of Global Silver, 1873–1937. Richard von Glahn
Lorenz Gonschor. A Power in the World: The Hawaiian Kingdom in Oceania. Glenn Petersen
Justin M. Jacobs. The Compensations of Plunder: How China Lost Its Treasures. Magnus Fiskesjö
Eugenia Lean. Vernacular Industrialism in China: Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in the Making of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900–1940. Micah Muscolino
Ronit Ricci. Banishment and Belonging: Exile and Diaspora in Sarandib, Lanka and Ceylon. Michael Laffan
Nobuko Toyosawa. Imaginative Mapping: Landscape and Japanese Identity in the Tokugawa and Meiji Eras. Michelle M. Damian
CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICA
Merle L. B Bowen. For Land and Liberty: Black Struggles in Rural Brazil. Oscar de la Torre
Ada Ferrer. Cuba: An American History. Philip Brenner
Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall. Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games. Christian Høgsbjerg
Elizabeth Shesko. Conscript Nation: Coercion and Citizenship in the Bolivian Barracks. Nicola Foote
CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES
Samantha Barbas. The Rise and Fall of Morris Ernst, Free Speech Renegade. Brett Gary
César J. Ayala and Laird W. Bergad. Agrarian Puerto Rico: Reconsidering Rural Economy and Society, 1899–1940. Ismael García-Colón
Adrian Brettle. Colossal Ambitions: Confederate Planning for a Post–Civil War World. Michael T. Bernath
Brandi Clay Brimmer. Claiming Union Widowhood: Race, Respectability, and Poverty in the Post-Emancipation South. Amy Murrell Taylor
Judkin Browning and Timothy Silver. An Environmental History of the Civil War. Kathryn Olivarius
Brian D. Bunk. From Football to Soccer: The Early History of the Beautiful Game in the United States. Brian M. Ingrassia
Keith L. Camacho. Sacred Men: Law, Torture, and Retribution in Guam. Carl Lindskoog
Francis M. Carroll. America and the Making of an Independent Ireland: A History. Emmanuel Destenay
Dennis C. Dickerson. The African Methodist Episcopal Church: A History. Stephen W. Angell
Jacob S. Dorman. The Princess and the Prophet: The Secret History of Magic, Race, and Moorish Muslims in America. Alaina Morgan
Kate Dossett. Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal. Erin D. Chapman
David J. Dzurec. Our Suffering Brethren: Foreign Captivity and Nationalism in the Early United States. Brett Goodin
Lauren Jae Gutterman. Her Neighbor’s Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire Within Marriage. Jordan Biro Walters
Dallas Hanbury. The Development of Southern Public Libraries and the African American Quest for Library Access, 1898–1963. Amato Nocera
Laurence M. Hauptman. Coming Full Circle: The Seneca Nation of Indians, 1848–1934. Melissa Otis
Keith S. Hébert. Cornerstone of the Confederacy: Alexander Stephens and the Speech that Defined the Lost Cause. Lacy K. Ford
Aaron Hiltner. Taking Leave, Taking Liberties: American Troops on the World War II Home Front. Ruth Lawlor
Paul S. Hirsch. Pulp Empire: The Secret History of Comic Book Imperialism. Christine Noelle Peralta
Alison Rose Jefferson. Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites during the Jim Crow Era. Victoria W. Wolcott
Ariane Liazos. Reforming the City: The Contested Origins of Urban Government, 1890–1930. Alan Lessoff
Brian P. Luskey. Men Is Cheap: Exposing the Frauds of Free Labor in Civil War America. Bruce E. Baker
Joanne Meyerowitz. A War on Global Poverty: The Lost Promise of Redistribution and the Rise of Microcredit. Amy Sayward
Wilson Jeremiah Moses. Thomas Jefferson: A Modern Prometheus. Hannah Spahn
Paul Musselwhite. Urban Dreams, Rural Commonwealth: The Rise of Plantation Society in the Chesapeake. Vaughn Scribner
Cynthia E. Orozco. Agent of Change: Adela Sloss-Vento, Mexican American Civil Rights Activist and Texas Feminist. Marc Simon Rodriguez
Vernon L. Pederson. The Communist Party on the American Waterfront: Revolution, Reform, and the Quest for Power. James R. Barrett
Mark Peterson. The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865. Liam Riordan
Paul J. Polgar. Standard-Bearers of Equality: America’s First Abolition Movement. Sue Kozel
Rand Quinn. Class Action: Desegregation and Diversity in San Francisco Schools. Jeffrey L. Littlejohn
Tyson Reeder. Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots: Free Trade in the Age of Revolution. Alan L. Karras
Jack Reid. Roadside Americans: The Rise and Fall of Hitchhiking in a Changing Nation. Silas Chamberlin
Donald A. Ritchie. The Columnist: Leaks, Lies, and Libel in Drew Pearson’s Washington. John Maxwell Hamilton
Jarod Roll. Poor Man’s Fortune: White Working-Class Conservatism in American Metal Mining, 1850–1950. Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
Paul Sabin. Public Citizens: The Attack on Big Government and the Remaking of American Liberalism. Bruce J. Schulman
Jeffrey C. Sanders. Razing Kids: Youth, Environment, and the Postwar American West. John Wills
Ian Saxine. Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier. Jenny Hale Pulsipher
Hayden R. Smith. Carolina’s Golden Fields: Inland Rice Cultivation in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1670–1860. James H. Tuten
Derrick R. Spires. The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States. Erica L. Ball
Christopher Tomlins. In the Matter of Nat Turner: A Speculative History. Douglas R. Egerton
Stephen Tuffnell. Made in Britain: Nation and Emigration in Nineteenth-Century America. Hugh Dubrulle
Betsy Wood. Upon the Altar of Work: Child Labor and the Rise of a New American Sectionalism. Catherine A. Jones
Rita Zajácz. Reluctant Power: Networks, Corporations, and the Struggle for Global Governance in the Early 20th Century. Heidi Tworek
COMPARATIVE/WORLD/TRANSNATIONAL
Lucia Allais. Designs of Destruction: The Making of Monuments in the Twentieth Century. David A. Messenger
Eiichiro Azuma. In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese American and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan’s Borderless Empire. Katsuya Hirano
Janet Greenlees. When the Air Became Important: A Social History of the New England and Lancashire Textile Industries. Jamie L. Bronstein
Petra Goedde. The Politics of Peace: A Global Cold War History. Christopher Endy
Mitchell L. Hammond. Epidemics and the Modern World. Katerina Gardikas
Erica Heinsen-Roach. Consuls and Captives: Dutch-North African Diplomacy in the Early Modern Mediterranean. Paul M. Love, Jr.
Bob Johnson. Mineral Rites: An Archaeology of the Fossil Economy. Anthony Chaney
Rudolf Mrázek. The Complete Lives of Camp People: Colonialism, Fascism, Concentrated Modernity. Jean-Marc Dreyfus
Simon Pirani. Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption. Martin V. Melosi
James Poskett. Materials of the Mind: Phrenology, Race, and the Global History of Science, 1815–1920. Moritz von Brescius
Vaughn Scribner. Merpeople: A Human History. Laurence Talairach
Nico Slate. Lord Cornwallis Is Dead: The Struggle for Democracy in the United States and India. Benjamin Robert Siegel
Anna Suranyi. Indentured Servitude: Unfree Labour and Citizenship in the British Colonies. Mishal Khan
Elizabeth A. Williams. Appetite and Its Discontents: Science, Medicine and the Urge to Eat, 1750–1950. Ian Miller
EUROPE: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL
Guy Geltner. Roads to Health: Infrastructure and Urban Wellbeing in Later Medieval Italy. Caroline Goodson
Maria Serena Mazzi, translated by Joyce Myerson. A Life of Ill Repute: Public Prostitution in the Middle Ages. Joëlle Rollo-Koster
MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
Noura Erakat. Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine. Michael R. Fischbach
Shana Minkin. Imperial Bodies: Empire and Death in Alexandria, Egypt. Hannah-Louise Clark
Dominque Valérian. Ports et réseaux d’échanges dans le Maghreb médiéval. Allen Fromherz
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
Michael Bollig. Shaping the African Savannah: From Capitalist Frontier to Arid Eden in Namibia. Bernard C. Moore
Chima J. Korieh. Nigeria and World War II: Colonialism, Empire, and Global Conflict. Samuel Fury Childs Daly