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The following reviews were posted to the H-Net website between 02 Apr 2012 and 30 Apr 2012.

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Deborah Goodwin
Grafton, Anthony; Weinberg, Joanna. "I have always loved the Holy Tongue": Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. x + 380 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-674-04840-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33109

Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Anne Sarah Rubin
Marten, James. Sing Not War: The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. 368 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3476-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33162

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Sonja Mekel
Alroey, Gur. Bread to Eat and Clothes to Wear: Letters from Jewish Migrants in the Early Twentieth Century. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2011. 256 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8143-3519-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33190

Reviewed for H-Environment by Helga Ögmundardóttir
Oslund, Karen. Iceland Imagined: Nature, Culture, and Storytelling in the North Atlantic. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011. xvi + 260 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-295-99083-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33887

Reviewed for H-War by Robert Thompson
McKenna, Thomas P.. Kontum: The Battle to Save South Vietnam. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2011. xvi + 344 pp. Illustrations $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8131-3398-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34468

Reviewed for H-Memory by Andrew Keating
Frost, Diane; Phillips, Richard, eds.. Liverpool '81: Remembering the Riots. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2011. ix + 150 pp. $32.95, ISBN 978-1-84631-668-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34521

Reviewed for H-War by Richard Campbell
Brown, Gordon S.. Captain Who Burned His Ships: Captain Thomas Tingey, USN, 1750-1829, The. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2011. Illustrations. x + 201 pp. $28.95, ISBN 978-1-61251-044-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34533

Reviewed for Jhistory by Joseph A. Rodriguez
Suarez-Orozco, Marcelo M.; Louie, Vivian S.; Suro, Roberto, eds.. Writing Immigration: Scholars and Journalists in Dialogue. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. xxvi + 264 pp. $60.00, ISBN 978-0-520-26717-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35694

Reviewed for H-Empire by Richard N. Price
Gott, Richard. Britain's Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt. New York: Verso Books, 2011. 480 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-1-84467-738-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35775

Reviewed for H-Empire by Evan Smith
Kirk, Neville. Labour and the Politics of Empire: Britain and Australia, 1900 to the Present. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011. 336 pp. $105.00, ISBN 978-0-7190-8079-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35778

Reviewed for H-Genocide by Robyn Bourgeois
Perry, Barbara. Silent Victims: Hate Crimes against Native Americans. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2008. 176 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8165-2596-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=29737

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Robbie Harris
Berger, David. Cultures in Collision and Conversation: Essays in the Intellectual History of the Jews. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2011. xiii + 367 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-1-936235-24-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33131

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Mara Benjamin
Batnitzky, Leora. How Judaism Became a Religion: An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. 224 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-691-13072-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33919

Reviewed for H-Russia by Krista Sigler
Hilton, Marjorie L.. Selling to the Masses: Retailing in Russia, 1880-1930. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012. 344 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-8229-6167-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35154

Reviewed for H-CivWar by Mark Neels
Hatch, Frederick. Protecting President Lincoln: The Security Effort, the Thwarted Plots and the Disaster at Ford's Theatre. Jefferson: McFarland & Co., 2011. vii + 200 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-7864-6362-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35192

Reviewed for H-CivWar by Matthew A. Borders
Makely, Wesley. I Fear I Shall Never Leave This Island: Life in a Civil War Prison. Edited by David R. Bush. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011. xiii + 269 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8130-3744-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35293

Reviewed for H-War by Daniel Haulman
Moye, J. Todd. Freedom Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 256 pp. $17.95, ISBN 978-0-19-989655-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35418

Reviewed for H-War by Ami Pedahzur
Tovy, Tal. Gerilah ṿeha-milḥamah negdah: morashto ha-tsevaʼit shel Maʼo._ Yerushalayim: (Karmel), 2010. 216 pp. $27.00, ISBN 978-965-540-069-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35787

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Rachel Gordan
Kaplan, Dana Evan. Contemporary American Judaism: Transformation and Renewal. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. xxxiv + 446 pp. $34.50, ISBN 978-0-231-13728-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=29293

Reviewed for H-Buddhism by Vincent Eltschinger
McCrea, Lawrence J., and Parimal G. Patil. Buddhist Philosophy of Language in India: Jnanasrimitra on Exclusion. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. 216 pp. $27.50, ISBN 978-0-231-15095-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=31656

Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Jennifer Keene
Glasrud, Bruce A., ed.. Brothers to the Buffalo Soldiers: Perspectives on the African American Militia and Volunteers, 1865-1917. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2011. viii + 246 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8262-1904-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33096

Reviewed for H-Histsex by Laura Agustín
Lancaster, Roger N.. Sex Panic and the Punitive State. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. 328 pp. $60.00,
ISBN 978-0-520-25565-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33954

Reviewed for H-Memory by David A. Messenger
Renshaw, Layla. Exhuming Loss: Memory, Materiality and Mass Graves of the Spanish Civil War. Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press, 2011. 259 pp. $89.00, ISBN 978-1-61132-041-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34575

Reviewed for H-Asia by Sasheej Hegde
Rawat, Ramnarayan S.. Reconsidering Untouchability: Chamars and Dalit History in North India. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011. xix + 272 pp. $70.00, ISBN 978-0-253-35558-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34714

Reviewed for H-NewMexico by Sandra K. Schackel
Snyder, Sharon. At Home on the Slopes of Mountains: The Story of Peggy Pond Church. Los Alamos: Los Alamos Historical Society Publications, 2011. v + 296 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-941232-39-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35015

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Michael A. Meyer
Volkov, Shulamit. Walther Rathenau: Weimar's Fallen Statesman. Jewish Lives Series. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. ix + 240 pp. $25.00, ISBN 978-0-300-14431-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35248

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Joseph Margulies
Dudziak, Mary L.. War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 232 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-19-977523-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35306

Reviewed for H-War by Annessa Stagner
Millard, Shirley. I Saw Them Die: Diary and Recollections of Shirley Millard. New Orleans: Quid Pro Books, 2011. 100 pp. $16.99, ISBN 978-1-61027-023-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35402

Reviewed for H-War by Jaideep Prabhu
Hayes, Romain. Subhas Chandra Bose In Nazi Germany: Politics, Intelligence, and Propaganda 1941-43. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011. xxx + 249 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-231-70234-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35513

Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Jeffrey O'Leary
Miller, Bonnie M.. From Liberation to Conquest: The Visual and Popular Cultures of the Spanish-American War of 1898. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2011. xv + 324 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-55849-924-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35539

Reviewed for H-Urban by Julianna Delgado
Sam Gennawey. Walt and the Promise of Progress City. n.p.: Ayefour Publishing, 2011. 374 pp. paper, ISBN 978-0-615-54024-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35874

Reviewed for H-Law by Lisa Dorr
Hicks, Cheryl D.. Talk with You Like a Woman: African American Women, Justice, and Reform in New York, 1890-1935. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. xiv + 372 pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3424-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=32361

Reviewed for H-Asia by Ramnarayan Rawat
Ciotti, Manuela. Retro-modern India: Forging the Low-caste Self. London: Routledge, 2010. xix + 292 pp. $95.00, ISBN 978-0-415-56311-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33133

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Ofer Ashkenazi
Talmon, Miri; Peleg, Yaron, eds.. Israeli Cinema: Identities in Motion. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011. xvii + 373 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-292-72560-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34187

Reviewed for H-1960s by John J. Munro
McDuffie, Erik S.. Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011. 328 pp. $84.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-5033-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34341

Reviewed for H-War by Justin Barr
Wintermute, Bobby A.. Public Health and the U.S. Military: A History of the Army Medical Department, 1818-1917. Routledge Advances in American History Series. New York: Routledge, 2011. 283 pp. $95.00, ISBN 978-0-415-88170-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34379

Reviewed for HABSBURG by Rajendra Chitnis
Bílek, Petr A.; Papoušek, Vladimir. Models of Representation in Czech Literary History. Boulder: East European Monographs, 2010. 200 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-88033-680-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34490

Reviewed for H-Memory by William Kelly
Pick, Zuzana M. Constructing the Image of the Mexican Revolution: Cinema and the Archive. Austin: University Of Texas Press, 2011. 265 pp. $25.00, ISBN 978-0-292-72562-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34565

Reviewed for H-Law by William Benemann
Botham, Fay. Almighty God Created the Races: Christianity, Interracial Marriage, and American Law. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xiii + 271 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3318-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34822

Reviewed for H-War by Thomas Sheppard
Daughan, George C.. 1812: The Navy's War. New York: Basic Books, 2011. 528 pp. $32.50, ISBN 978-0-465-02046-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34838

Reviewed for Jhistory by Ida Jones
Wiant, Susan E.. Between the Bylines: A Father's Legacy. World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension Series. New York: Fordham University Press, 2011. Illustrations. 256 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8232-3301-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34872

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Yoel Finkelman
Sztokman, Elana Maryles. Men's Section: Orthodox Jewish Men in an Egalitarian World, The. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2011. 288 pp. $85.00, ISBN 978-1-61168-078-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34942

Reviewed for Jhistory by Dale Moler
Hanna, Emma. Great War on the Small Screen: Representing the First World War in Contemporary Britain, The. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009. viii + 190 pp. $75.00, ISBN 978-0-7486-3389-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35947

Reviewed for H-HistGeog by Tristan Stein
Scott, Jonathan. When the Waves Ruled Britannia: Geography and Political Identities, 1500-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, . 240 pp. $32.99, ISBN 978-0-521-15241-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35969

Reviewed for H-Histsex by Chris Brickell
Murdoch, Wayne; Marshall, Daniel; Willett, Graham; Carr, Adam, eds.. Secret Histories of Queer Melbourne. Parkville: Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives, 2011. 172 pp. AU$40, ISBN 978-0-646-54940-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35970

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