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H-Net Reviews

The following reviews were posted to the H-Net web site between
24 Jun 2013 and 28 Oct 2013 .

Reviewed for H-War by Emrah Safa Gürkan
Blackmore, David S. T.. _Warfare on the Mediterranean in the Age
of Sail: A History, 1571-1866_. Jefferson: Mcfarland, 2010. 402
pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-7864-4799-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35730

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Sarah Benor
Soldat-Jaffe, Tatjana. Twenty-First Century Yiddishism.
Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2012. viii + 178 pp. $59.50,
ISBN 978-1-84519-406-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35886

Reviewed for H-German by Donna Harsch
Betts, Paul. _Within Walls: Private Life in the German Democratic
Republic_. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. xi + 321 pp.
$65.00, ISBN 978-0-19-920884-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36433

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Stuart Hecht
Berkowitz, Joel; Henry, Barbara, eds.. _Inventing the Modern
Yiddish Stage: Essays in Drama, Performance, and Show Business_.
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2012. Illustrations. 416
pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8143-3504-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36706

Reviewed for HABSBURG by Jiri Pesek
Albrecht, Stefan; Malír, Jirí; Melville, Ralph. _Die
„sudetendeutsche Geschichtsschreibung“ 1918-1960: Zur
Vorgeschichte und Gründung der Historischen Kommission der
Sudetenländer_. München: Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2008.
301 S. , ISBN 978-3-486-58374-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36852

Reviewed for Jhistory by Simon Huxtable
Berkhoff, Karel C.. _Motherland in Danger: Soviet Propaganda
during World War II_. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012.
407 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-674-04924-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37787

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Julie Kalman
Sanos, Sandrine. _Aesthetics of Hate: Far-Right Intellectuals,
Antisemitism, and Gender in 1930s France, The_. Stanford:
Stanford University Press, 2012. xi + 369 pages. $65.00, ISBN
978-0-8047-7457-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37971

Reviewed for H-War by Alan Lamm
Burke, James C.. _Wilmington & Weldon Railroad in the Civil War,
The_. Jefferson: McFarland, 2013. Illustrations, maps, charts. x
+ 262 pages $35.00, ISBN 978-0-7864-7154-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38252

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Kevin Kim
W. McCoy, Alfred; Fradera, Josep M.; Jacobson, Stephen, eds..
_Endless Empire: Spain's Retreat, Europe's Eclipse, America's
Decline_. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012. 477 pp.
$29.95, ISBN 978-0-299-29024-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38492

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Benjamin Smuin
Tripp, Charles. _Power and the People: Paths of Resistance in the
Middle East, The_. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
416 pp. $80.00, ISBN 978-0-521-80965-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38629

Reviewed for H-War by Donald MacCuish
Schaller, Barry R.. _Veterans on Trial: The Coming Court Battles
over PTSD_. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2012. xxiv + 263
pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-59797-696-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38702

Reviewed for H-Caribbean by James Braun
Hahamovitch, Cindy. _No Man's Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in
America and the Global History of Deportable Labor_. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2013. Illustrations. 352 pp. $24.95,
ISBN 978-0-691-16015-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38927

Reviewed for H-Shukyo by Mark Rowe
Ambros, Barbara R.. _Bones of Contention: Animals and Religion in
Modern Japan_. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2012. 265
pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8248-3626-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38989

Reviewed for Jhistory by Jeanette McVicker
Underwood, Doug. _Chronicling Trauma: Journalists and Writers on
Violence and Loss_. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011.
244 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03640-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39307

Reviewed for H-Environment by Douglas C. Sackman
Turner, James Morton. _Promise of Wilderness: American
Environmental Politics since 1964, The_. Seattle: University of
Washington, 2012. 576 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-295-99175-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=32199

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Michael Reisch
Gardella, Lorrie Greenhouse. _Life and Thought of Louis Lowy:
Social Work Through the Holocaust, The_. Syracuse: Syracuse
University Press, 2011. 240 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8156-0965-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34530

Reviewed for H-War by Chris Trobridge
Harris, Samuel R. _Attacking Japan from Saipan: The Diary of A B-
29 Group Commander, 1944-1945_. Jefferson: Mcfarland, 2011. 259
pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-7864-6297-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35525

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Sarah E. Wobick-Segev
Liberles, Robert. _Jews Welcome Coffee: Tradition and Innovation
in Early Modern Germany_. Waltham: Brandeis University Press,
2012. 216 pp. $85.00, ISBN 978-1-61168-245-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35871

Reviewed for H-Canada by Andre Narbonne
Roberts, Gillian. _Prizing Literature: The Celebration and
Circulation of National Culture_. Toronto: University of Toronto
Press, 2011. x + 261 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-1-4426-4271-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36782

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Alexandra Guerson de Oliveira
Tartakoff, Paola. _Between Christian and Jew: Conversion and
Inquisition in the Crown of Aragon, 1250-1391_. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. x + 209 pp. $55.00, ISBN
978-0-8122-4421-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36822

Reviewed for H-CivWar by Adam Rock
Williams, George Washington. _History of the Negro Troops in the
War of Rebellion, 1861-1865, A_. Foreword by John David Smith.
The North's Civil War Series. 1887; repr., New York: Fordham
University Press, 2012. xl + 257 pp. $25.00, ISBN 978-0-8232-
3385-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36839

Reviewed for H-Canada by Sally E. Mennill
Anderson, Kim. _Life Stages and Native Women: Memory, Teachings,
and Story Medicine_. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press,
2011. 223 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-88755-726-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36933

Reviewed for H-War by Cameron Zinsou
Marble, Sanders. _Scraping the Barrel: The Military Use of
Substandard Manpower, 1860-1960_. New York: Fordham University
Press, 2012. vi + 354 pp. , ISBN 978-0-8232-3977-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37101

Reviewed for H-CivWar by Hampton Smith
Eggleston, Michael A.. _10th Minnesota Volunteers, 18621865: A
History of Action in the Sioux Uprising and the Civil War, with a
Regimental Roster, The_. Jefferson: McFarland & Co., 2012. 229
pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-7864-6593-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37332

Reviewed for H-Mideast-Medieval by Zohar Hadromi-Allouche
El-Hibri, Tayeb. _Parable and Politics in Early Islamic History:
The Rashidun Caliphs_. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010.
xi + 471 pp. $60.00, ISBN 978-0-231-15082-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37970

Reviewed for H-CivWar by Frank Cirillo
Lundstrom, John B.. _One Drop in a Sea of Blue: The Liberators of
the Ninth Minnesota_. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society
Press, 2012. 499 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-87351-821-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38385

Reviewed for H-War by Stephen Williams
Nemerov, Alexander. _Wartime Kiss: Visions of the Moment in the
1940s_. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013.
Illustrations. 175 pp. $22.95, ISBN 978-0-691-14578-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38454

Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Jonathan Soffer
Halloran, Fiona Deans. _Thomas Nast: The Father of Modern
Political Cartoons_. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 2013. 352 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3587-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38487

Reviewed for H-SAWH by Giselle Roberts
Dickinson, Anna E.. _Tour of Reconstruction: Travel Letters of
1875, A_. Edited by J. Matthew Gallman. Lexington: University
Press of Kentucky, 2011. 188 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-3424-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38676

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Richard J. Smith
Mosca, Matthew W.. _From Frontier Policy to Foreign Policy: The
Question of India and the Transformation of Geopolitics in Qing
China_. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013. 408 pp.
$60.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-8224-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38738

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Autumn Lass
Mieczkowski, Yanek. _Eisenhower's Sputnik Moment: The Race for
Space and World Prestige_. Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
2013. 368 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8014-5150-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39325

Reviewed for H-Genocide by Jill E. Kelly
Adhikari, Mohamed. _Anatomy of a South African Genocide: The
Extermination of the Cape San Peoples_. Athens: Ohio University
Press, 2011. 120 pp. $16.95, ISBN 978-0-8214-1987-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35534

Reviewed for H-War by Frank Blazich
Craig, Campbell; Radchenko, Sergey. _Atomic Bomb and the Origins
of the Cold War, The_. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.
xxv + 201 pp. $27.00, ISBN 978-0-300-11028-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36371

Reviewed for H-South by Karen Ross
Downs, Jim. _Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and
Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction_. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2012. 280 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-19-
975872-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36498

Reviewed for H-German by Konrad H. Jarausch
Kocka, Ju?rgen. _Civil Society and Dictatorship in Modern German
History_. Hanover: University Press of New England, 2010. xi +
162 pp. $85.00, ISBN 978-1-58465-865-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37093

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Zachary M. Baker
Komoro?czy, Szonja Ra?hel. _Yiddish Printing in Hungary: An
Annotated Bibliography_. Budapest: Center for Jewish Studies at
the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2011. 355 pp. , ISBN 978-963-
87162-4-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37147

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Tobias Brinkmann
Moore, Deborah Dash; Rock, Howard B.; Polland, Annie; Soyer,
Daniel; Gurock, Jeffrey S.. _City of Promises: A History of the
Jews of New York_. New York: New York University Press, 2012. 3
volumes. 1,000 pp. $125.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-1731-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37514

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Arnon Golan
Azaryahu, Maoz; Troen, S. Ilan, eds.. _Tel-Aviv, the First
Century: Visions, Designs, Actualities_. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 2012. xxvii + 449 pp. $70.00, ISBN 978-0-253-
35694-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38016

Reviewed for H-Russia by Michael Hamm
Evtuhov, Catherine. _Portrait of a Russian Province: Economy,
Society, and Civilization in Nineteenth-Century Nizhnii Novgorod_.
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011. Illustrations,
tables, figures. xv + 320 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8229-6171-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38047

Reviewed for H-War by Greg Rogers
Reid, Chipp. _Intrepid Sailors: The Legacy of Preble's Boys and
the Tripoli Campaign_. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2012.
xii + 295 pp. $35.95, ISBN 978-1-61251-117-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38292

Reviewed for H-War by Edward A. McCord
Meyer-Fong, Tobie. _What Remains: Coming to Terms with Civil War
in 19th century China_. Stanford: Stanford University Press,
2013. 336 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-5425-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38608

Reviewed for H-Kentucky by A. Glenn Crothers
Ramage, James A.; Watkins, Andrea S.. _Kentucky Rising:
Democracy, Slavery, and Culture from the Early Republic to the
Civil War_. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2011. 480
pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-3440-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38624

Reviewed for H-1960s by Thomas B. Weyant
Turse, Nick. _Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in
Vietnam_. New York: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2013.
370 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-8050-8691-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38666

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Igor Lukes
Raška, Francis D.. _Long Road to Victory: A History of
Czechoslovak Exile Organizations after 1968, The_. New York:
Columbia University Press, 2012. 250 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-
88033-706-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38774

Reviewed for H-Law by Marjorie Heins
Braukman, Stacy Lorraine. _Communists and Perverts under the
Palms: The Johns Committee in Florida, 1956-1965_. Gainesville:
University Press of Florida, 2012. xiii + 250 pp. $69.95, ISBN
978-0-8130-3982-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38895

Reviewed for H-Southern-Lit by Amy Schmidt
Lillios, Anna. _Crossing the Creek: The Literary Friendship of
Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings_. Gainesville:
University Press of Florida, 2010. xv + 198 pp. $29.95, ISBN
978-0-8130-3500-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39036

Reviewed for H-Southern-Lit by Barry A. Hudek
Reed, John Shelton. _Dixie Bohemia: A French Quarter Circle in
the 1920s_. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2012.
Illustrations. viii + 334 pp. $38.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-4764-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39250

Reviewed for H-AmIndian by Kristalyn M. Shefveland
LeMaster, Michelle. _Brothers Born of One Mother: British-Native
American Relations in the Colonial Southeast_. Charlottesville:
University of Virginia Press, 2012. x + 292 pp. $39.50, ISBN
978-0-8139-3241-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39373

Reviewed for H-AmIndian by Dustin Mack
Hahn, Steven C.. Life and Times of Mary Musgrove, The.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2012. 272 pp. $34.95,
ISBN 978-0-8130-4221-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39435

Reviewed for H-Albion by Philip J. Stern
Pickett, Catherine. _Bibliography of the East India Company:
Books, Pamphlets and Other Materials Printed between 1600 and
1785_. London: British Library, 2011. Maps. 301 pp. $75.00,
ISBN 978-0-7123-5844-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35269

Reviewed for H-Law by Ian J. Drake
Peppers, Todd C.; Ward, Artemus, eds.. _In Chambers: Stories of
Supreme Court Law Clerks and Their Justices_. Constitutionalism
and Democracy Series. Charlottesville: University of Virginia
Press, 2012. xi + 445 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8139-3265-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35863

Reviewed for H-German by Daniel Becker
Baranowski, Shelley. _Nazi Empire: German Colonialism and
Imperialism from Bismarck to Hitler_. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2010. 368 pp. $95.00, ISBN 978-0-521-85739-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36423

Reviewed for H-Italy by Joshua Arthurs
Hametz, Maura. _In the Name of Italy: Nation, Family, and
Patriotism in a Fascist Court_. New York: Fordham University
Press, 2012. x + 278 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8232-4339-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37084

Reviewed for H-War by Caroline D'Amours
Glassford, Sarah; Shaw, Amy, eds.. _Sisterhood of Suffering and
Service: Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland during the
First World War, A_. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2012. 345 pp.
$37.95, ISBN 978-0-7748-2257-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37345

Reviewed for H-War by Douglas Peifer
Rynning, Sten. NATO in Afghanistan: The Liberal Disconnect.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. 288 pp. $90.00, ISBN
978-0-8047-8237-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37698

Reviewed for H-Disability by Andrea Zittlau
Wu, Cynthia. _Chang and Eng Reconnected: The Original Siamese
Twins in American Culture_. Philadelphia: Temple University
Press, 2012. xiii + 203 pp. $84.50, ISBN 978-1-4399-0868-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37838

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Marc B. Shapiro
Eliyahu Stern. _Genius: Elijah of Vilna and the Making of Modern
Judaism, The_. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. 336 pp.
$35.00, ISBN 978-0-300-17930-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37984

Reviewed for H-Diplo by J. Garry Clifford
Bell, Christopher M.. Churchill and Sea Power. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2013. xvi + 429 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-19-
969357-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38013

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Anselm Schubert
Rebekka Voss. _Umstrittene Erloser: Politik, Ideologie und
judisch-christicher Messianismus in Deutschland, 1500-1600_.
Judische Religion, Geschichte und Kultur Series. Gottingen:
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2012. 272 pp. $86.00, ISBN 978-3-525-
56900-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38221

Reviewed for H-Histsex by Gillian Fletcher
Lepani, Katherine. _Islands of Love, Islands of Risk: Culture and
HIV in the Trobriands_. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, .
264 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8265-1875-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38293

Reviewed for H-Albion by Anne Skoczylas
McDaniel, Iain. _Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment: The
Roman Past and Europe's Future_. Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 2013. 288 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-674-07296-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38480

Reviewed for H-War by Eric Setzekorn
Macri, Franco David. _Clash of Empires in South China: The Allied
Nations' Proxy War with Japan, 1935-1941_. Modern War Studies
Series. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2012. 480 pp.
$45.00, ISBN 978-0-7006-1877-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38605

Reviewed for H-Diplo by James A. Russell
Kamrava, Mehran, ed.. Nuclear Question in the Middle East, The.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. xi + 297 pp. $40.00,
ISBN 978-0-19-932780-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38762

Reviewed for H-Law by Jeffrey S. Adler
Lombardo, Robert M.. _Organized Crime in Chicago: Beyond the
Mafia_. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2013.
Illustrations. xv + 257 pp. $85.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03730-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38893

Reviewed for H-Shukyo by Wilburn Hansen
Josephson, Jason A?nanda. Invention of Religion in Japan, The.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. xiii + 387 pages.
$90.00, ISBN 978-0-226-41233-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38984

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Aaron Hughes
Magid, Shaul. _American Post-Judaism: Identity and Renewal in a
Postethnic Society_. Indiana University Press, 2013. xiv + 388
pages. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-253-00802-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39106

Reviewed for Jhistory by James Aucoin
Nelson, Jack. Scoop: The Evolution of a Southern Reporter.
Edited by Barbara Matusow. Jackson: University Press of
Mississippi, 2013. Illustrations. xiv + 188 pp. $26.00, ISBN
978-1-61703-658-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39424

Reviewed for H-SAfrica by Roger Southall
Limb, Peter. _ANC's Early Years: Nation, Class and Place in South
Africa before 1940, The_. Hidden Histories Series. Pretoria:
Unisa Press, 2010. xvi + 586 pp. $48.95, ISBN 978-1-86888-529-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36461

Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Scott E. Randolph
Suarez-Potts, William J.. _Making of Law: The Supreme Court and
Labor Legislation in Mexico, 1875-1931, The_. Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 2012. 360 pp. $60, ISBN 978-0-8047-7551-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37023

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Maria Diemling
Michael T. Walton. _Anthonius Margaritha and the Jewish Faith:
Jewish Life and Conversion in Sixteenth-Century Germany_.
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2012. Illustrations. 264
pp. $44.95, ISBN 978-0-8143-3800-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37981

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Andrea Weiss
Meyers, Carol L.. _Rediscovering Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in
Context_. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. xi + 295 pp.
$24.95, ISBN 978-0-19-973462-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38015

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Simon Davis
Cummings, Sally N.; Hinnebusch, Raymond; eds.. _Sovereignty after
Empire: Comparing the Middle East and Central Asia_. Edinburgh:
Edinburgh University Press, 2012. xii + 396 pp. $105.00, ISBN
978-0-7486-4304-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38033

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Jonathan Druker
Roskies, David G.; Diamant, Naomi. _Holocaust Literature: A
History and Guide_. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2012.
368 pp. $85.00, ISBN 978-1-61168-357-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38226

Reviewed for H-War by David Bath
Watson, Samuel J.. _Jackson's Sword: The Army Officer Corps on
the American Frontier, 1810-1821_. Lawrence: University Press of
Kansas, 2012. xx + 460 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1884-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38269

Reviewed for H-Disability by Paula Hellal
Dale, Pamela; Borsay, Anne, eds.. _Disabled Children: Contested
Caring, 1850-1979_. London: Pickering & Chatto Ltd, 2012. 256
pp. $99.00, ISBN 978-1-84893-361-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38319

Reviewed for H-War by Nikolaus Overtoom
Ando, Clifford. _Imperial Rome AD 193 to 284: The Critical
Century_. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. XIV,
256 S. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-7486-2051-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38697

Reviewed for H-Southern-Lit by Robert Rea
Powell, Tara. _Intellectual in Twentieth-Century Southern
Literature, The_. Southern Literary Studies Series. Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State University Press, 2012. xi + 266 pp. $42.50,
ISBN 978-0-8071-3898-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39035

Reviewed for H-War by Roger Chapman
Neer, Robert M.. Napalm: An American Biography. Cambridge:
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013. viii + 310 pp.
$29.95, ISBN 978-0-674-07301-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39317

Reviewed for H-AmIndian by Rachel Purvis
Miles, Tiya. _House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story,
The_. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. xv
+ 315 pp. $32.50, ISBN 978-0-8078-3418-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39560

Reviewed for H-Empire by Toby Harper
Yerxa, Donald A., ed.. _British Abolitionism and the Question of
Moral Progress in History_. Columbia: University of South
Carolina Press, 2012. vi + 286 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-61117-015-
3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39621

Reviewed for H-Empire by Vincent O'Malley
Russell, Lynette. _Roving Mariners: Australian Aboriginal Whalers
and Sealers in the Southern Oceans, 1790-1870_. Albany: State
University of New York Press, 2012. xiv + 221 pp. $80.00, ISBN
978-1-4384-4423-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39650

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch
Lanfer, Peter Thacher. _Remembering Eden: The Reception History
of Genesis 3: 22-24_. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
272 pp. $74.00, ISBN 978-0-19-992674-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37000

Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Susan W. Thomas
Ring, Natalie J.. _Problem South: Region, Empire, and the New
Liberal State, 1880-1930, The_. Athens: University of Georgia
Press, 2012. xiv + 334 pp. $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2903-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37014

Reviewed for H-War by Tal Tovy
Bell, P. M. H.. Twelve Turning Points of the Second World War.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. 288 pp. $16.00, ISBN
978-0-300-18770-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37477

Reviewed for H-Judaic by David Sandmel
Jon D. Levenson. _Inheriting Abraham: The Legacy of the Patriarch
in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam_. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2012. 288 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-691-15569-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37973

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Barry L. Stiefel
Coenen Snyder, Saskia. _Building a Public Judaism: Synagogues and
Jewish Identity in Nineteenth-Century Europe_. Cambrdige: Harvard
University Press, 2013. 360 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-674-05989-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37999

Reviewed for H-Russia by David Moon
Costlow, Jane T.. _Heart-Pine Russia: Walking and Writing the
Nineteenth-Century Forest_. Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
2013. xi + 270 pp. $36.50, ISBN 978-0-8014-5059-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38239

Reviewed for H-California by Roger Eardley-Pryor
Westwick, Peter J., ed.. _Blue Sky Metropolis: The Aerospace
Century in Southern California_. Western Histories Series.
Berkeley and San Marino: University of California Press and
Huntington Library, 2012. Illustrations. 290 pp. $44.95, ISBN
978-0-87328-249-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38349

Reviewed for H-SAE by Rory Naismith
Le Goff, Jacques. _Money and the Middle Ages: An Essay in
Historical Anthropology_. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2012. vi +
178 pp. $64.95, ISBN 978-0-7456-5298-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38526

Reviewed for H-1960s by David Farber
Smith, Sherry L.. Hippies, Indians and the Fight for Red Power.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. xiv + 265 pp. $34.95,
ISBN 978-0-19-985559-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38813

Reviewed for H-War by Michael Neiberg
Grainger, John D.. Battle for Syria, 1918-1920, The.
Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer Ltd., 2013. 270 pp. $45.00, ISBN
978-1-84383-803-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38836

Reviewed for H-CivWar by Sarah Handley-Cousins
Hasegawa, Guy R.. _Mending Broken Soldiers: The Union and
Confederate Programs to Supply Artificial Limbs_. Carbondale:
Southern Illinois University Press, 2012. 160 pp. $24.95, ISBN
978-0-8093-3130-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38839

Reviewed for H-War by Ian Johnson
Stone, Norman. World War Two: A Short History. New York: Basic
Books, 2012. xxvi + 238 pp. $25.00, ISBN 978-0-465-01372-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38937

Reviewed for H-Law by Katherine Turk
Tiemeyer, Phil. _Plane Queer: Labor, Sexuality, and AIDS in the
History of Male Flight Attendants_. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 2013. xi + 288 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-520-
27477-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39051

Reviewed for H-CivWar by Amy Fluker
Burchett, Kenneth E.. _Battle of Carthage, Missouri: First Trans-
Mississippi Conflict of the Civil War, The_. Jefferson: McFarland
& Company Inc., 2013. x + 230 pages. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-7864-
6959-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39072

Reviewed for H-Nationalism by Erika L. Briesacher
Kramer, Lloyd S.. _Nationalism in Europe and America: Politics,
Cultures, and Identities since 1775_. Chapel Hill: University of
North Carolina Press, 2011. xii + 260 pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-
8078-3484-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39260

Reviewed for H-Skand by Joy K. Lintelman
Judit Martin. _Augusta's Daughter: Life in Nineteenth-Century
Sweden_. Iowa City: Penfield Books, 2012. 238 pp. $21.95, ISBN
978-1-932043-81-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39449

Reviewed for H-HistGeog by Maike Sach
Berry, Lloyd E.; Crummey, Robert O., eds.. _Rude and Barbarous
Kingdom: Russia in the Accounts of Sixteenth-Century English
Voyagers_. 1968; Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012.
xxiii + 391 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-299-04764-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37799

Reviewed for H-HistGeog by Michael Kantor
Biggs, David. _Quagmire: Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong
Delta_. Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books Series. Seattle:
University of Washington Press, 2010. Illustrations. xviii + 300
pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-295-99067-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37849

Reviewed for H-War by Pau Valdés Matías
Mithen, Steven. Thirst: Water and Power in the Ancient World.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012. Illustrations, maps.
384 pp. $25.95, ISBN 978-0-674-06693-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37871

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Neta Stahl
Rachel S. Harris, Ranan Omer-Sherman, eds.. _Narratives of
Dissent: War in Contemporary Israeli Arts and Culture_. Wayne
State University Press, 2013. 384 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8143-
3803-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37974

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Davis Hankins
Aaron W. Hughes. _Abrahamic Religions: On the Uses and Abuses of
History_. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 208 pp.
$55.00, ISBN 978-0-19-993464-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37982

Reviewed for H-SAfrica by Danelle van Zyl-Hermann
Giliomee, Hermann. _Last Afrikaner Leaders: A Supreme Test of
Power, The_. Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2012. 447 pp. Illustrations
$39.50, ISBN 978-0-624-04971-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38067

Reviewed for H-Empire by John McAleer
Crowley, John. _Imperial Landscapes: Britain's Global Visual
Culture, 1745-1820_. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011.
Illustrations. 320 pp. $85.00, ISBN 978-0-300-17050-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38107

Reviewed for Jhistory by Janice R. Wood
Bak, John S.; Reynolds, Bill, eds.. _Literary Journalism Across
the Globe: Journalistic Traditions and Transnational Influences_.
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2011. x + 306 pp.
$28.95, ISBN 978-1-55849-877-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38338

Reviewed for H-Buddhism by John Jorgensen
Cartelli, Mary Anne. _Five-Colored Clouds of Mount Wutai: Poems
from Dunhuang, The_. Leiden: Brill, 2012. xii + 224 pp.
$129.00, ISBN 978-90-04-18481-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38617

Reviewed for H-War by Mark Bernhardt
Hake, Sabine. Screen Nazis: Cinema, History, and Democracy.
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012. xiii + 308 pp.
$34.95, ISBN 978-0-299-28714-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38664

Reviewed for H-War by Heather M. Stur
Turse, Nick. _Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in
Vietnam_. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2013. 370 pp. $30.00,
ISBN 978-0-8050-8691-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38908

Reviewed for H-Environment by David Stradling
Wills, John. US Environmental History: Inviting Doomsday.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013. 233 pp. $95.00,
ISBN 978-0-7486-2263-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39024

Reviewed for H-Diplo by J. Garry Clifford
Mayers, David. _FDR's Ambassadors and the Diplomacy of Crisis:
From the Rise of Hitler to the End of World War II_. New York:
Cambridge University Press, 2012. 384 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-1-
107-03126-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39635

Reviewed for H-NC by Derek W. Frisby
Myers, Barton A.. _Executing Daniel Bright: Race, Loyalty, and
Guerrilla Violence in a Coastal Carolina Community, 1861-1865_.
Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
Series. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2011. 193
pp. $18.95, ISBN 978-0-8071-4362-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36910

Reviewed for H-Disability by Winston Black
Richardson, Kristina L.. _Difference and Disability in the
Medieval Islamic World: Blighted Bodies_. Edinburgh: Edinburgh
University Press, 2012. ix + 158 pp. $115.95, ISBN 978-0-7486-
4507-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37135

Reviewed for H-Antisemitism by Anna Motyczka
Jockusch, Laura. _Collect and Record! Jewish Holocaust
Documentation in Early Postwar Europe_. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2012. xv + 320 pp. $74.00, ISBN 978-0-19-
976455-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37397

Reviewed for H-War by Daniel Spector
Natali, Denise. _Kurdish Quasi-State: Development and Dependency
in Post-Gulf War Iraq, The_. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press,
2010. 186 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8156-3217-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38490

Reviewed for H-War by Autumn Lass
Donald, Aida D.. Citizen Soldier: A Life of Harry S. Truman.
New York: Basic Books, 2012. xvi + 265 pp. $26.99, ISBN 978-0-
465-03120-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38663

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Jo Ellen Fair
Higgins, MaryEllen, ed.. Hollywood's Africa after 1994.
Athens: Ohio University Press, 2012. vi + 274 pp. $28.95, ISBN
978-0-8214-2015-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38957

Reviewed for H-War by Irving Levinson
Rath, Thomas. _Myths of Demilitarization in Postrevolutionary
Mexico, 1920-1960_. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 2013. 272 pp. $69.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3928-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38994

Reviewed for H-SAWH by Jeannette Cockroft
Williams, Keira V.. _Gendered Politics in the Modern South: The
Susan Smith case and the Rise of a New Sexism_. Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State University Press, 2012. 272 pp. $39.95, ISBN
978-0-8071-4768-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39306

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Robert E. Kelly
Harrison, James, ed.. _European Union and South Korea: The Legal
Framework for Strengthening Trade, Economic and Political
Relations, The_. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013.
272 pp. $120.00, ISBN 978-0-7486-6860-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39324

Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Branden Little
Jones, Marian Moser. _American Red Cross from Clara Barton to the
New Deal, The_. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
404 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-4214-0738-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39722

Reviewed for H-California by Christine M. Lamberson
Zilberg, Elana. _Space of Detention: The Making of a
Transnational Gang Crisis between Los Angeles and San Salvador_.
Durham: Duke University Press, 2011. 344 pp. $89.95, ISBN 978-0-
8223-4713-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39779

Reviewed for H-Law by Emily Zack Tabuteau
Brown, Keith M.; Mann, Alastair J., eds.. _History of the
Scottish Parliament, Volume 3, Parliament in Context, 1235-1707,
The_. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, . 416 pp. $105.00,
ISBN 978-0-7486-1486-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33218

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Wendy Bergoffen
Davis, Marni. _Jews and Booze: Becoming American in the Age of
Prohibition_. Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History.
New York: New York University Press, 2012. x + 262 pp. $32.00,
ISBN 978-0-8147-2028-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35090

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Nili Fox
Dever, William G.. _Lives of Ordinary People in Ancient Israel:
Where Archaeology and the Bible Intersect, The_. Grand Rapids: W.
B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2012. x + 436 pp. $25.00, ISBN
978-0-8028-6701-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36707

Reviewed for H-Histsex by Mark Rothery
Harvey, Karen. _Little Republic: Masculinity and Domestic
Authority in Eighteenth-Century Britain, The_. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2012. 256 pp. $110.00, ISBN 978-0-19-953384-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37360

Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Paul M. Taillon
Yarbrough, Jean M.. _Theodore Roosevelt and the American
Political Tradition_. American Political Thought Series.
Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2012. 400 pp. $39.95, ISBN
978-0-7006-1886-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37645

Reviewed for H-Disability by Dee Hoole
Anderson, Julie. _War, Disability and Rehabilitation in Britain:
'Soul of a Nation'_. Manchester: Manchester University Press,
2011. xii + 239 pp. $95.00, ISBN 978-0-7190-8250-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37813

Reviewed for H-Disability by Beth R. Handler
Wright, David. Downs: The History of a Disability. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2011. xiii + 239 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-
0-19-956793-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37937

Reviewed for H-Albion by Dana Rabin
Rogers, Nicholas. _Mayhem: Post-War Crime and Violence in
Britain, 1748-53_. Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century
Culture and History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. xi +
258 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-300-16962-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38138

Reviewed for H-War by Roger Chapman
Fraser, Gordon. _Quantum Exodus: Jewish Fugitives, the Atomic
Bomb, and the Holocaust, The_. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2012. viii + 267 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-19-959215-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38578

Reviewed for H-War by Nathan Albright
Davis, Paul K.. _Masters of the Battlefield: Great Commanders
from the Classical Age to the Napoleonic Era_. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2013. 624 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-19-534235-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38961

Reviewed for H-War by Thomas Sheppard
Gilje, Paul A.. _Free Trade and Sailors' Rights in the War of
1812_. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xii + 425 pp.
$85.00, ISBN 978-1-107-02508-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39006

Reviewed for H-SAE by Jessica Mason
LaPierre, Brian. _Hooligans in Khrushchev’s Russia: Defining,
Policing, and Producing Deviance during the Thaw_. Madison:
University of Wisconsin Press, 2012. 264 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-
299-28744-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39085

Reviewed for H-CivWar by Matthew E. Mason
Gallagher, Gary W.; Shelden, Rachel A., eds.. _Political Nation:
New Directions in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Political
History, A_. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012.
272 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-8139-3282-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39093

Reviewed for H-SAWH by Deanna Gillespie
Gillespie, Michele. _Katharine and R. J. Reynolds: Partners of
Fortune in the Making of the New South_. Athens: University of
Georgia Press, 2012. xiii + 381 pp. Illustrations $32.95, ISBN
978-0-8203-3226-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39131

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Edward J. Kolla
Desan, Suzanne; Hunt, Lynn; Nelson, William Max, eds.. _French
Revolution in Global Perspective, The_. Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 2013. vi + 236 pp. $75.00, ISBN 978-0-8014-
5096-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39141

Reviewed for H-Spain by José Antonio Sánchez Román
Niño Rodríguez, Antonio; Montero, José Antonio, eds.. _Guerra
fría y propaganda: Estados Unidos y su cruzada cultural en Europa
y América Latina_. Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 2012. 430 pp. EUR
28.00, ISBN 978-84-9940-437-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39569

Reviewed for H-NC by Franklin Forts
Hornsby-Gutting, Angela. _Black Manhood and Community Building in
North Carolina, 1900-1930_. Gainesville: University Press of
Florida, 2009. xiv + 244 pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-8130-3293-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39634

Reviewed for H-CivWar by Lewie Reece
Burlingame, Michael. Lincoln and the Civil War. Carbondale:
Southern Illinois University Press, 2011. 165 pp. $19.95, ISBN
978-0-8093-3053-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35142

Reviewed for H-War by Drew Bergerson
Kuhlman, Erika. _Of Little Comfort: War Widows, Fallen Soldiers,
and the Remaking of the Nation after the Great War_. New York:
New York University Press, 2012. x + 225 pp. $49.00, ISBN 978-0-
8147-4839-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35725

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Aya Elyada
Deutsch, Yaacov. _Judaism in Christian Eyes: Ethnographic
Descriptions of Jews and Judaism in Early Modern Europe_.
Translated by Avi Aronsky. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
xi + 304 pp. $74.00, ISBN 978-0-19-975653-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36682

Reviewed for H-Albion by Lowell Gallagher
Baker, Geoff. _Reading and Politics in Early Modern England: The
Mental World of a Seventeenth-Century Catholic Gentleman_.
Politics, Culture, and Society in Early Modern Britain Series.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010. xiii + 236 pp.
$89.95, ISBN 978-0-7190-8024-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37120

Reviewed for H-Disability by Laurel Daen
Bogdan, Robert; With contributions from Martin Elks and James A.
Knoll.. _Picturing Disability: Beggar, Freak, Citizen, and Other
Photographic Rhetoric_. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press,
2012. 198 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8156-3302-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38430

Reviewed for H-War by Jason McHale
Letourneau, Roger; Letourneau, Dennis. _Operation KE: The Cactus
Air Force and the Japanese Withdrawal from Guadalcanal_.
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2012. Illustrations. xx + 370
pp. $42.95, ISBN 978-1-59114-446-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38451

Reviewed for H-War by Paul Springer
Mansell, Roger. Captured: The Forgotten Men of Guam. Edited by
Linda Goetz Holmes. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2012. 288
pp. $33.95, ISBN 978-1-61251-114-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38688

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Nikolai Sokov
Stulberg, Adam N.; Fuhrmann, Matthew, eds.. _Nuclear Renaissance
and International Security, The_. Palo Alto: Stanford University
Press, 2013. 376 pp. $60.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-8417-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38782

Reviewed for H-Memory by Drew Flanagan
Kuhlman, Erika. _Of Little Comfort: War Widows, Fallen Soldiers,
and the Remaking of the Nation after the Great War_. New York:
New York University Press, 2012. x + 225 pp. $49.00, ISBN 978-0-
8147-4839-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38880

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Michael Cairo
Braumoeller, Bear F.. _Great Powers and the International System:
Systemic Theory in Empirical Perspective, The_. Cambridge Studies
in International Relations Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2012. xviii + 276 pp. $90.00, ISBN 978-1-107-00541-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38944

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Christopher Gennari
Malegam, Jehangir Yezdi. _Sleep of Behemoth: Disputing Peace and
Volence in Medieval Europe, 1000-1200, The_. Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 2013. 352 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8014-5132-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39002

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Winifred Connerton
Irwin, Julia. _Making the World Safe: The American Red Cross and
a Nation's Humanitarian Awakening_. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2013. xii + 273 pages. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-19-976640-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39017

Reviewed for H-SAWH by Danielle E. Demiantschuk
West, Emily. _Family or Freedom: People of Color in the
Antebellum South_. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2012.
233 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-3692-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39274

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Stephen J. Whitfield
Most, Andrea. _Theatrical Liberalism: Jews and Popular
Entertainment in America_. New York: New York University Press,
2013. 304 pp. $75.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-0819-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39349

Reviewed for H-California by Thomas Osborne
Igler, David. _Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to
the Gold Rush, The_. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 272
pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-19-991495-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39352

Reviewed for H-Luso-Africa by William G. Clarence Smith
Higgs, Catherine. _Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and
Colonial Africa_. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2012. xv + 230
pp. $26.95, ISBN 978-0-8214-2006-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39823

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Alexandra Korros
Murav, Harriet; Avrutin, Eugene M., eds.. _Jews in the East
European Borderlands: Essays in Honor of John D. Klier_.
Brighton: Academic Studies Press, 2011. 350 pp. $99.00, ISBN
978-1-936235-59-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36250

Reviewed for H-Urban by Joshua First
Risch, William Jay. _Ukrainian West: Culture and the Fate of
Empire in Soviet Lviv, The_. Harvard Historical Studies Series.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011. 374 pp. $49.95, ISBN
978-0-674-05001-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36466

Reviewed for H-Genocide by David Williams
Aydin, Aysegul. _Foreign Powers and Intervention in Armed
Conflicts_. Stanford Security Studies Series. Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 2012. viii + 202 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-
8281-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36833

Reviewed for H-War by Sean Seyer
Bishop, Ryan; Phillips, John. _Modernist Avant-Garde Aesthetics
and Contemporary Military Technology: Technicities of Perception_.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011. 288 pp. $32.00,
ISBN 978-0-7486-4319-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37870

Reviewed for H-World by Ousmane Traoré
Austen, Ralph A.. Trans-Saharan Africa in World History. New
York: Oxford University Press, 2010. x + 157 pp. $99.00, ISBN
978-0-19-515731-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37980

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Andrew Riley
Carl S. Ehrlich; ed.. _From an Antique Land: An Introduction to
Ancient Near Eastern Literature_. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield,
2011. 522 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-7425-4335-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37983

Reviewed for H-War by Keith Altavilla
Grandchamp, Robert. _Colonel Edward E. Cross, New Hampshire
Fighting Fifth: A Civil War Biography_. Jefferson: McFarland &
Company, Inc., Publishers, 2013. xi + 217 pages. $39.95, ISBN
978-0-7864-7191-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38093

Reviewed for H-War by Richard Harding
Buchet, Christian. _British Navy, Economy and Society in the
Seven Years War, The_. Rochester: Boydell and Brewer Press, 2013.
316 pp. $115.00, ISBN 978-1-84383-801-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38423

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Erin K. Jenne
Wimmer, Andreas. _Waves of War: Nationalism, State Formation, and
Ethnic Exclusion in the Modern World_. Cambridge Studies in
Comparative Politics Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2013. xi + 328 pp. $99.00, ISBN 978-1-107-02555-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38685

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Lori Clune
Scott, Katherine A.. _Reining in the State: Civil Society and
Congress in the Vietnam and Watergate Eras_. Lawrence: University
Press of Kansas, 2013. 248 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1897-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39073

Reviewed for H-1960s by Darren Mulloy
Williams, Jakobi. _From the Bullet to the Ballot: The Illinois
Chapter of the Black Panther Party and Racial Coalition Politics
in Chicago_. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
2013. 312 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3816-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39228

Reviewed for H-SAE by Katharine A. Keenan
Harris, Amy. _Siblinghood and Social Relations in Georgian
England: Share and Share Alike_. Manchester: Manchester
University Press, 2012. xiv. + 205 pp. $100.00, ISBN 978-0-7190-
8737-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39246

Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Stephen Pimpare
Ruswick, Brent. _Almost Worthy: The Poor, Paupers, and the
Science of Charity in America, 1877-1917_. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 2013. xi + 267 pp. $37.00, ISBN 978-0-253-
00634-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39601

Reviewed for H-AmIndian by Susan M. Abram
Hudson, Angela Pulley. _Creek Paths and Federal Roads: Indians,
Settlers, and Slaves and the Making of the American South_.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. 272 pp.
$65.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3393-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39604

Reviewed for H-AmIndian by Sebastian F. Braun
Wallace, Anthony F. C.. Tuscarora: A History. Albany: State
University of New York Press, 2012. xv + 278 pp. Illustrations
$90.00, ISBN 978-1-4384-4429-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39618

Reviewed for H-Empire by Denise Jenison
McMurray, David A.; Ufheil-Somers, Amanda, eds.. _Arab Revolts:
Dispatches on Militant Democracy in the Middle East, The_.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. ix + 260 pp.
$80.00, ISBN 978-0-253-00968-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39651

Reviewed for H-Luso-Africa by Antonia Barreto
Bénard da Costa, Ana; Lima de Faria, Margarida, eds.. _Ensino
Superior e Desenvolvimento_. Lisbon: Almedina, 2013. 276 pp.
EUR 18.00, ISBN 978-972-40-5112-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39710

Reviewed for H-Nationalism by Aidan Beatty
McAndrew, Marie. _Fragile Majorities and Education: Belgium,
Catalonia, Northern Ireland, and Quebec_. Translated by Michael
O'Hearn. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012. 280 pp.
$100.00, ISBN 978-0-7735-4090-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39805

Reviewed for H-Spain by Wayne Bowen
Ofer, Inbal. _Señoritas in Blue: The Making of a Female Political
Elite in Franco's Spain_. Sussex Studies in Spanish History
Series. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2010. x + 160 pp.
$32.95, ISBN 978-1-84519-411-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39854

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Monica Grin
Klein, Misha. _Kosher Feijoada and Other Paradoxes of Jewish Life
in São Paulo_. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2012.
xiii + 256 pp. $74.95, ISBN 978-0-8130-3987-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36092

Reviewed for H-Borderlands by Sonia Hernandez
Valerio-Jiménez, Omar S.. _River of Hope: Forging Identity and
Nation in the Rio Grande Borderlands_. Durham: Duke University
Press, 2013. xiv + 369 pp. $99.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-5171-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38259

Reviewed for H-War by Brad Madsen
Mahoney, Michael Owen. Ravaged Lands 1900-1914, The. Mountain
View: Pucker Up Press, 2013. 504 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-9883258-
0-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38468

Reviewed for H-Disability by Emmeline Burdett
Turner, David M.. _Disability in Eighteenth-Century England:
Imagining Physical Impairment_. Routledge Studies in Modern
British History Series. New York: Routledge, 2012. xiv + 213 pp.
$125.00, ISBN 978-0-415-88644-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38525

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Zhiqun Zhu
Kueh, Y. Y.. _Pax Sinica: Geopolitics and Economics of China's
Ascendance_. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2012. 400
pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-988-8083-82-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38633

Reviewed for H-War by Devin Fields
Gristwood, Sarah. _Blood Sisters: The Women behind the Wars of
the Roses_. New York: Basic Books, 2013. Illustrations. xxv +
390 pp. $29.99, ISBN 978-0-465-01831-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38647

Reviewed for H-War by Paul Springer
Woolf, Greg. Rome: An Empire's Story. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2012. xiii + 366 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-19-
977529-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38689

Reviewed for H-Law by Kathleen Cairns
Flood, Dawn Rae. Rape in Chicago: Race, Myth, and the Courts.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012. 272 pp. $55.00, ISBN
978-0-252-03689-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38850

Reviewed for H-Law by Rachel T. Van
Clark, Emily. _Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free
Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World, The_. Chapel
Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. 279 pp. $35.00,
ISBN 978-1-4696-0752-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39041

Reviewed for H-Judaic by F. K. Clementi
Finkler, Kaja; Finkler, Golda. _Lives Lived and Lost: East
European History Before, During, and After World War II as
Experienced by an Anthropologist and Her Mother_. Brighton:
Academic Studies Press, 2012. 350 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-1-936235-
90-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39297

Reviewed for H-Law by David Siemers
Gerhardt, Michael J.. _Forgotten Presidents: Their Untold
Constitutional Legacy, The_. New York: Oxford University Press,
2013. xxi + 313 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-19-996779-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39351

Reviewed for H-California by Karen Raines
Zesch, Scott. _Chinatown War: Chinese Los Angeles and the
Massacre of 1871, The_. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Illustrations. xii + 283 pp $29.95, ISBN 978-0-19-975876-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39353

Reviewed for Jhistory by Florian Greiner
Roode, Sven Leif Ragnar de. _Seeing Europe through the Nation:
The Role of National Self-Images in the Perception of European
Integration in the English, German, and Dutch Press in the 1950s
and 1990s_. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012. 269 pp.
$68.99, ISBN 978-3-515-10202-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39891

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Hank Greenspan
Rosen, Alan. _Wonder of Their Voices: The 1946 Holocaust
Interviews of David Boder, The_. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2010. xvii + 310 pp. $74.00, ISBN 978-0-19-539512-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=32512

Reviewed for H-Albion by Jennifer Redmond
hÓgartaigh, Margaret Ó. _Quiet Revolutionaries: Irish Women in
Education, Sport and Medicine, 1861-1964_. Stroud: History Press,
2011. 256 pp. $17.95, ISBN 978-1-84588-696-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35063

Reviewed for H-Histsex by Karen Harvey
French, Henry; Rothery, Mark. _Man's Estate: Landed Gentry
Masculinities, 1660-1900_. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
viii + 281 pp. $125.00, ISBN 978-0-19-957669-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36829

Reviewed for H-German by Jacques Adler
Rosenfeld, Alvin H.. End of the Holocaust, The. Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 2011. x + 310 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-
253-35643-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37087

Reviewed for H-SAE by Mikaela Rogozen-Soltar
Howe, Marvine. Al-Andalus Rediscovered: Iberia's New Muslims.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. v + 289 pp. $25.00,
ISBN 978-0-231-70274-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38212

Reviewed for H-Canada by Matthew Wiseman
Bratt, Duane. _Canada, the Provinces, and the Global Nuclear
Revival: Advocacy Coalitions in Action_. Montre?al: McGill-
Queen's University Press, 2012. xv + 398 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-
7735-4069-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38393

Reviewed for H-War by Tal Tovy
Namikas, Lise A.. _Battleground Africa: Cold War in the Congo,
1960-1965_. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. 288 pp.
$60.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-8486-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38450

Reviewed for H-Albion by Louis Knafla
Lemmings, David. _Crime, Courtrooms, and the Public Sphere in
Britain, 1700-1850_. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012. xii + 234 pp.
$124.95, ISBN 978-1-4094-1803-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38479

Reviewed for H-Urban by Samantha Christiansen
Spodek, Howard. _Ahmedabad: Shock City of Twentieth-Century
India_. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011. 352 pp.
$49.95, ISBN 978-0-253-35587-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38494

Reviewed for H-War by Mack Easter III
Nenninger, Timothy K., ed.. _Way of Duty, Honor, Country: The
Memoir of General Charles Pelot Summerall, The_. Lexington:
University Press of Kentucky, 2010. 328 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-
8131-2618-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38733

Reviewed for H-War by John Hess
Roll, David L.. _Hopkins Touch: Harry Hopkins and the Forging of
the Alliance to Defeat Hitler, The_. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2013. 510 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-19-989195-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38928

Reviewed for H-Environment by Micah S. Muscolino
Shapiro, Judith. China's Environmental Challenges. Chichester:
Polity Press, 2012. 200 pp. $22.95, ISBN 978-0-7456-6091-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39042

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Shaun Narine
Acharya, Amitav. _Making of Southeast Asia: International
Relations of a Region, The_. Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
2012. 240 pp. $26.95, ISBN 978-0-8014-7736-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39197

Reviewed for H-CivWar by Lisa Zevorich
Marten, James Alan. _Children and Youth during the Civil War
Era_. New York: New York University Press, 2012. xii + 270 pp.
$75.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-9607-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39239

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Abdullah Al-Arian
Thompson, Elizabeth F.. _Justice Interrupted: The Struggle for
Constitutional Government in the Middle East_. Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 2013. Illustrations, maps. xi + 418 pp.
$39.95, ISBN 978-0-674-07313-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39247

Reviewed for H-Urban by Dylan Gottlieb
Heller, Gregory L.. _Ed Bacon: Planning, Politics, and the
Building of Modern Philadelphia_. Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press, 2013. 320 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8122-4490-
8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39308

Reviewed for H-SAWH by Giselle Roberts
Cutts, Mary; Allgor, Catherine. _Queen of America: Mary Cutts's
Life of Dolley Madison, The_. Jeffersonian America Series.
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012. xvi + 218
pp. $29.50, ISBN 978-0-8139-3298-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39444

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Diane Matza
Renee Levine Melammed. _Ode to Salonika: The Ladino Verses of
Bouena Sarfatty, An_. Bloomington: Indiana University Press,
2013. 336 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-253-00681-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39553

Reviewed for H-Empire by Matthew Phillips
Werry, Margaret. _Tourist State: Performing Leisure, Liberalism,
and Race in New Zealand, The_. Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press, 2011. Illustrations, glossary. xxxix + 313 pp.
$75.00, ISBN 978-0-8166-6605-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39652

Reviewed for H-Albion by Padhraig Higgins
David Ryan. _Blasphemers & Blackguards: The Irish Hellfire
Clubs_. Dublin: Merrion, 2012. 248 pp. $59.95, ISBN 978-1-
908928-03-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39955

Reviewed for H-SAfrica by Derek Catsam
Lodge, Tom. Sharpeville: A Massacre and Its Consequences.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. xix + 423 pp.
Illustrations, maps. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-19-280185-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34074

Reviewed for H-German by Berna Gueneli
Cooke, Paul; Homewood, Chris, eds.. _New Directions in German
Cinema_. London: I.B. Tauris, 2011. xii + 308 pp. $95.00, ISBN
978-1-84885-908-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36913

Reviewed for H-War by Alyssa Tavernia
Pitassi, Michael. Roman Warships. Woodbridge: Boydell &
Brewer, 2011. 191 pp. $90.00, ISBN 978-1-84383-610-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37746

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Dov Weiss
Cohn, Naftali S.. _Memory of the Temple and the Making of the
Rabbis, The_. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,
2012. 248 pp. $69.95, ISBN 978-0-8122-4457-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38222

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Shmuel Lederman
Rechnitzer, Haim O.. _Prophecy and the Perfect Political Order:
The Political Theology of Leo Strauss_. In Hebrew. Jerusalem:
Bialik Institute, 2012. 319 pp. $30.28, ISBN 978-965-536-074-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38291

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Hanne Hagtvedt Vik
Becker, Jo. _Campaigning for Justice: Human Rights Advocacy in
Practice_. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013. viii + 318
pages. $85.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-7450-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38371

Reviewed for H-War by William Taylor
Busch, Andrew E.. _Truman's Triumphs: The 1948 Election and the
Making of Postwar America_. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas,
2012. 272 pp. $37.50, ISBN 978-0-7006-1866-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38748

Reviewed for H-War by Ian Saxine
Hill, Peter P.. _Joel Barlow: American Diplomat and Nation
Builder_. Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2012. 271 pp. $34.95,
ISBN 978-1-59797-682-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38750

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Susanne Urban
Jockusch, Laura. _Collect and Record! Jewish Holocaust
Documentation in Early Postwar Europe_. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2012. xv + 320 pp. $74.00, ISBN 978-0-19-
976455-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38888

Reviewed for H-1960s by Ryan Kirkby
Cohen, Robert; Snyder, David J., eds.. _Rebellion in Black and
White: Southern Student Activism in the 1960s_. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2013. 368 pp. $60.00, ISBN 978-1-4214-
0849-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38980

Reviewed for H-Environment by German Vergara
Boyer, Christopher R., ed.. _Land between Waters: Environmental
Histories of Modern Mexico_. Latin American Landscapes Series.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2012. 328 pp. $55.00, ISBN
978-0-8165-0249-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39043

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Sally Marks
Clavin, Patricia. _Securing the World Economy: The Reinvention of
the League of Nations, 1920-1946_. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2013. xii + 400 pp. $125.00, ISBN 978-0-19-957793-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39130

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Jeannette Money
Eckstein, Susan; Najam, Adil, eds.. _How Immigrants Impact Their
Homelands_. Durham: Duke University Press, 2013. xvi + 261 pp.
$84.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-5381-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39198

Reviewed for H-CivWar by Adrian Brettle
Quigley, Paul. _Shifting Grounds: Nationalism and the American
South, 1848-1865_. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. xi +
325 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-19-973548-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39204

Reviewed for H-Spain by Richard Ryan
Espinosa Maestre, Francisco. _Shoot the Messenger?: Spanish
Democracy and the Crimes of Francoism: From the Pact of Silence to
the Trial of Baltasar Garzón_. Translated by Richard Barker. East
Sussex: Sussex Academic Press, 2013. xxv + 185 pages. $34.95,
ISBN 978-1-84519-542-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39855

Reviewed for H-War by Ryan Wadle
Sbardellati, John. _J. Edgar Hoover Goes to the Movies: The FBI
and the Origins of Hollywood's Cold War_. Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 2012. viii + 256 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-8014-
5008-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36508

Reviewed for H-Ethnic by Monica Pelayo
Alba, Richard. _Blurring the Color Line: The New Chance for a
More Integrated America_. Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
2009. xii + 306 pp. $32.50, ISBN 978-0-674-03513-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37047

Reviewed for H-Asia by Jinah Kim
Kaimal, Padma Audrey. _Scattered Goddesses: Travels with the
Yoginis_. Ann Arbor: Association for Asian Studies, 2012. xxvii
+ 281 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-924304-67-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37075

Reviewed for H-German by Paul Brykczynski
Orzoff, Andrea. _Battle for the Castle: The Myth of
Czechoslovakia in Europe 1914-1948_. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2009. xi + 286 pp. $74.00, ISBN 978-0-19-536781-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37344

Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Robert C. Chidester
Rees, Jonathan. _Industrialization and the Transformation of
American Life: A Brief Introduction_. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 2013.
xi + 139 pp. $79.95, ISBN 978-0-7656-2255-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37630

Reviewed for H-Genocide by Dan McMillan
Eberle, Henrik. Letters to Hitler. Edited by Victoria Harris.
Tranlated by Steven Rendall. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2012. x +
262 pp. $25.00, ISBN 978-0-7456-4873-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37744

Reviewed for H-Ethnic by Stephanie Parham
Padilla, Yajaira M.. _Changing Women, Changing Nation: Female
Agency, Nationhood, and Identity in Trans-Salvadoran Narratives_.
Albany: State University of New York Press, 2012. viii + 191 pp.
$70.00, ISBN 978-1-4384-4277-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37950

Reviewed for H-War by Johnny Rishmawi
Yetiv, Steve A.. _Petroleum Triangle: Oil, Globalization, and
Terror, The_. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011. 224 pp.
$35.00, ISBN 978-0-8014-5002-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38737

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Paul Ashby
O'Neil, Shannon K.. _Two Nations Indivisible: Mexico, the United
States, and the Road Ahead_. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2013. xx + 239 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-19-989833-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39005

Reviewed for H-Southern-Lit by Christina Triezenberg
Stern, Julia A.. Mary Chesnut's Civil War Epic. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2010. xv + 330 pp. $45.00, ISBN
978-0-226-77328-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39039

Reviewed for H-Environment by Brittany Luby
Armstrong, Christopher; Nelles, H. V.. _Wilderness and
Waterpower: How Banff National Park Became a Hydroelectric Storage
Reservoir_. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2013. 272 pp.
$41.95, ISBN 978-1-55238-634-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39040

Reviewed for H-War by Robert Tiegs
Cressy, David. Saltpeter: The Mother of Gunpowder. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2013. xii + 237 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-
19-969575-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39062

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Jennifer De Maio
Jerven, Morten. _Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African
Development Statistics and What to Do about It_. Cornell Studies
in Political Economy Series. Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
2013. 176 pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-8014-5163-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39084

Reviewed for H-CivWar by Sally Heinzel
Voss-Hubbard, Mark, ed.. _Illinois's War: The Civil War in
Documents_. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2013. xviii + 244 pp.
$18.65, ISBN 978-0-8214-2010-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39572

Reviewed for H-CivWar by Michael Landis
Finkelman, Paul; Kennon, Donald R.. _Congress and the Crisis of
the 1850s_. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2012. vi + 231 pp.
$49.95, ISBN 978-0-8214-1977-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39594

Reviewed for H-Childhood by Johan Dahlbeck
Semetsky, Inna; Masny, Diana, eds.. Deluze and Education.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013. 288 pp. $40.00,
ISBN 978-0-7486-4302-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39657

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Sebastian Wogenstein
Bush, Andrew. Jewish Studies: A Theoretical Introduction. Key
Words in Jewish Studies Series. New Brunswick: Rutgers University
Press, 2011. xii + 150 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8135-4954-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33127

Reviewed for H-Law by Jane E. Calvert
Sagafi-nejad, Nancy Black. _Friends at the Bar: A Quaker View of
Law, Conflict Resolution, and Legal Reform_. Albany: State
University of New York Press, 2011. xvii + 254 pp. $75.00, ISBN
978-1-4384-3413-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36695

Reviewed for H-German by Tom J. Arnold
Wilson, Jeffrey K.. _German Forest: Nature, Identity, and the
Contestation of a National Symbol, 1871-1914, The_. Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 2012. xi + 326 pp. $75.00, ISBN
978-1-4426-4099-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36911

Reviewed for H-German by J Franklin Williamson
Schult, Tanja. _Hero's Many Faces: Raoul Wallenberg in
Contemporary Monuments, A_. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan,
2009. xviii + 425 pp. $90.00, ISBN 978-0-230-22238-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36926

Reviewed for H-Disability by Michelle White
Mahon, Patricia. _Mrs. Spencer Tracy and the John Tracy Clinic: A
Tireless Drive to Educate Deaf Children_. Jefferson: McFarland &
Co., 2012. xii + 309 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-7864-4765-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37464

Reviewed for H-War by Brian Sandberg
Orsini, Alessandro. _Anatomy of the Red Brigades: The Religious
Mind-Set of Modern Terrorists_. Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
2011. vi + 317 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8014-4986-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37917

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Susan Einbinder
Kanarfogel, Ephraim. _Intellectual History and Rabbinic Culture
of Medieval Ashkenaz, The_. Detroit: Wayne State University
Press, 2013. 600 pp. $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8143-3024-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38181

Reviewed for Jhistory by Christos Mais
Peycam, Philippe M. F.. _Birth of Vietnamese Political
Journalism: Saigon, 1916-1930, The_. New York: Columbia
University Press, 2012. xi + 306 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-231-
15850-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38318

Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Brian M. Ingrassia
Townsend, Robert B.. _History's Babel: Scholarship,
Professionalization, and the Historical Enterprise in the United
States, 1880-1940_. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013.
xiii + 258 pp. $90.00, ISBN 978-0-226-92392-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38453

Reviewed for H-War by Corbin Williamson
Gordon, John. _Fighting for MacArthur: The Navy and Marine Corps'
Desperate Defense of the Philippines_. Annapolis: Naval Institute
Press, 2011. 416 pp. $32.95, ISBN 978-1-61251-057-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39003

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Kevin Y. Kim
Wu, Judy Tzu-Chun. _Radicals on the Road: Internationalism,
Orientalism, and Feminism during the Vietnam Era_. The United
States in the World Series. Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
2013. 352 pp. $26.95, ISBN 978-0-8014-7890-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39224

Reviewed for H-War by Michael Bonura
Joas, Hans; Knöbl, Wolfgang. _War in Social Thought: Hobbes to
the Present_. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. 338
pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-691-15084-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39262

Reviewed for Jhistory by Edward Timke
Orgad, Shani. Media Representation and the Global Imagination.
Cambridge: Polity, 2012. xiii + 230 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-7456-
4380-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39540

Reviewed for H-CivWar by L. Bao Bui
Jones, J. Keith. _Boys of Diamond Hill: The Lives and Civil War
Letters of the Boyd Family of Abbeville County, South Carolina_.
Jefferson: Mcfarland, 2011. 192 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-7864-
6333-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39587

Reviewed for H-Mediterranean by Mona Harb
Verdeil, Éric. _Beyrouth et ses urbanistes: une ville en plans,
1946-1975_. Beirut: Institut français du Proche-Orient, 2010.
397 pp. EUR 30.00, ISBN 978-2-35159-162-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39680

Reviewed for H-Luso-Africa by Gerhard Seibert
Nascimento, Augusto. Histórias da Ilha do Príncipe. Oeiras:
Município de Oeiras, 2010. Illustrations. 408 pp. 35 EUR, ISBN
978-989-608-114-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39831

Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Mark Stanley
Cassanello, Robert. _To Render Invisible: Jim Crow and Public
Life in New South Jacksonville_. Gainesville: University Press of
Florida, 2013. 192 pp. $74.95, ISBN 978-0-8130-4419-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=40191

Reviewed for H-Empire by Steven Patterson
Parsons, Timothy. _Rule of Empires: Those Who Built Them, Those
Who Endured Them, and Why They Always Fall, The_. New York:
Oxford University Press, 2012. 496 pp. $19.95, ISBN 978-0-19-
993115-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=40246

Reviewed for H-Disability by William Southwell-Wright
Murphy, Eileen M., ed.. _Deviant Burial in the Archaeological
Record_. Oxford: Oxbrow Books, 2008. xviii + 244 pp. $60.00,
ISBN 978-1-84217-338-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36164

Reviewed for H-German by John Nelzén
Humphries, Mark Osborne; Maker, John, eds.. _Germany's Western
Front: Translations from the German Official History of the Great
War, 1915_. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009.
462 pp. $85.00, ISBN 978-1-55458-051-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36984

Reviewed for H-Urban by Markian Prokopovych
Steinberg, Mark D.. Petersburg Fin de Siecle. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 2011. xi + 399 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-300-
16504-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37054

Reviewed for H-War by Victoria Hallinan
Isaac, Joel; Bell, Duncan, eds.. _Uncertain Empire: American
History and the Idea of the Cold War_. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2012. x + 302 pp. $99.00, ISBN 978-0-19-
982612-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37414

Reviewed for H-AfrArts by Pamela Allara
Wells, Kate; MacDowell, Marsha; Dewhurst, C. Kurt; Dewhurst,
Marit. Siyazama: Art, AIDS and Education in South Africa.
Scottsville: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2012.
Illustrations. 170 pp. $38.50, ISBN 978-1-86914-222-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38278

Reviewed for H-Disability by Hannah Tweed
Smith, Angela M.. _Hideous Progeny: Disability, Eugenics, and
Classic Horror Cinema_. New York: Columbia University Press,
2011. xii + 336 pp. $87.50, ISBN 978-0-231-15716-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38628

Reviewed for H-War by Craig Smith
Craig, Gordon Alexander. _Knowledge and Power: Essays on
Politics, Culture, and War_. Edited by Bruce A. Thompson, Carolyn
Halladay, and Donald Abenheim. Palo Alto: Society for the
Promotion of Science and Scholarship, 2013. 330 pp. $27.50, ISBN
978-0-930664-30-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38646

Reviewed for H-CivWar by Evan Rothera
Lubet, Steven. _John Brown's Spy: The Adventurous Life and Tragic
Confession of John E. Cook_. New Haven: Yale University Press,
2012. x + 325 pp. $28.00, ISBN 978-0-300-18049-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39083

Reviewed for H-War by Carole Butcher
Reynolds, William R.. _Andrew Pickens: South Carolina Patriot in
the Revolutionary War_. Jefferson: McFarland & Co., 2012. x +
396 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-7864-6694-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39157

Reviewed for H-Urban by Rory Yeomans
Greble, Emily. _Sarajevo, 1941-1945: Muslims, Christians, and
Jews in Hitler's Europe_. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011.
304 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8014-4921-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39276

Reviewed for H-1960s by Jeremy Varon
Slonecker, Blake. _New Dawn for the New Left: Liberation News
Service, Montague Farm, and the Long Sixties, A_. New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. xiii + 267 pp. $85.00, ISBN 978-1-137-
28082-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39374

Reviewed for H-SAfrica by Pauline Guinard
Murray, Martin J.. _City of Extremes: The Spatial Politics of
Johannesburg_. Politics, History, and Culture Series. Durham:
Duke University Press, 2011. xxix + 470 pp. $99.95, ISBN 978-0-
8223-4747-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39504

Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Katie Turner
Curcio, Vincent. Henry Ford. Lives and Legacies Series.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xiii + 306 pp. $24.95,
ISBN 978-0-19-531692-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39607

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Oliver Leaman
Fraenkel, Carlos. _Philosophical Religions from Plato to Spinoza:
Reason, Religion, and Autonomy_. Cambridge University Press,
2013. 351 pp. $99.00, ISBN 978-0-521-19457-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39787

Reviewed for H-German by Brian Puaca
Moorhouse, Roger. Berlin at War. New York: Basic Books, 2010.
464 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-465-00533-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39907

Reviewed for H-Environment by Todd Carney
Donnelly, Robert C.. _Dark Rose: Organized Crime and Corruption
in Portland_. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011.
xiii + 202 pp. $22.50, ISBN 978-0-295-99111-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33765

Reviewed for Jhistory by Jennifer E. Moore
Arceneaux, Noah; Kavoori, Anandam, eds.. _Mobile Media Reader,
The_. New York: Peter Lang, 2012. vi + 198 pp. $139.95, ISBN
978-1-4331-1301-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37061

Reviewed for H-Environment by Tyler Priest
Harrison, Jill Ann. _Buoyancy on the Bayou: Shrimpers Face the
Rising Tide of Globalization_. Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
2013. Illustrations. 208 pp. $69.95, ISBN 978-0-8014-5074-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38012

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Ellen Haskell
Jonathan Dauber. _Knowledge of God and the Development of Early
Kabbalah_. Supplements to the Journal of Jewish Thought and
Philosophy Series. Leiden: Brill, 2012. 275 pp. $156.00, ISBN
978-90-04-23426-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38092

Reviewed for H-German by Henry Wend
Berger, Stefan; LaPorte, Norman. _Friendly Enemies: Britain and
the GDR, 1949-1990_. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2010. 364 pp.
$95.00, ISBN 978-1-84545-697-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38136

Reviewed for H-War by Adam Koeth
Morillo, Stephen; Pavkovic, Michael F.. _What is Military
History?_. Cambridge: Polity, 2013. vi + 165 pp. $18.95, ISBN
978-0-7456-5979-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38465

Reviewed for H-War by Mack Easter III
Caro, Joseph J.. _On Assignment: The Great War - Edward N.
Jackson Photojournalist_. n.p.: CreateSpace Independent
Publishing Platform, 2012. Illustrations. 238 pp. $26.55, ISBN
978-1-4775-4829-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38734

Reviewed for H-Law by Megan McKee
Norgren, Jill. _Rebels at the Bar: The Fascinating, Forgotten
Stories of America's First Women Lawyers_. New York: New York
University Press, . 286 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8147-5862-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38896

Reviewed for H-Environment by Kyle Bridge
Mickelson, Joan. _Joseph W. Young, Jr., and the City Beautiful: A
Biography of the Founder of Hollywood, Florida_. Jefferson:
McFarland and Company, 2012. 219 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-7864-
9247-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38935

Reviewed for H-Law by Michael Les Benedict
Finkelman, Paul; Alexander, Roberta Sue, eds.. _Justice and Legal
Change on the Shores of Lake Erie: A History of the U.S. District
Court for the Northern District of Ohio_. Athens: Ohio University
Press, 2012. xii + 374 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8214-2000-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39016

Reviewed for H-War by Donald MacCuish
Cook, Martin L.. _Issues in Military Ethics: To Support and
Defend the Constitution_. Albany: State University of New York
Press, 2013. xv + 264 pp. $80.00, ISBN 978-1-4384-4691-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39081

Reviewed for H-Pentecostalism by Jonathan R. Baer
Brown, Candy Gunther. Testing Prayer: Science and Healing.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012. x + 372 pp. $29.95,
ISBN 978-0-674-06467-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39189

Reviewed for H-AmIndian by Matthew H. Jennings
Ethridge, Robbie. _From Chicaza to Chickasaw: The European
Invasion and the Transformation of the Mississippian World, 1540-
1715_. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
xii + 344 pp. $37.50, ISBN 978-0-8078-3435-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39606

Reviewed for H-HistGeog by Robert Headland
Martin, Stephen. History of Antarctica, A. Kenthurst:
Rosenberg Publishing, 2013. Illustrations. 280 pp. $49.95, ISBN
978-1-921719-57-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39821

Reviewed for H-Law by Aaron Hagler
Arjomand, Saïd Amir; Brown, Nathan J., eds.. _Rule of Law, Islam,
and Constitutional Politics in Egypt and Iran, The_. Pangaea II:
Global/Local Studies Series. Albany: State University of New York
Press, 2013. xi + 326 pp. $90.00, ISBN 978-1-4384-4597-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39960

Reviewed for H-Spain by Wayne Bowen
Bel, Germa. _Infrastructure and the Political Economy of Nation
Building in Spain, 1720-2010_. Portland: Sussex Academic Press,
2012. xx + 172 pp. $69.95, ISBN 978-1-84519-507-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=40254

Reviewed for H-Southern-Lit by Nathan Tipton
Brown, Carolyn J.. Daring Life: A Biography of Eudora Welty, A.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2012. x + 124 pp.
$20.00, ISBN 978-1-61703-295-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=40312

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