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The following reviews were posted to the H-Net web site between 15 Dec 2008 and 29 Dec 2008.
Reviewed for H-AfrArts by Heather Shirey
Nutall, Sarah, ed.. _Beautiful/Ugly: African and Diaspora
Aesthetics_. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. 416 pp.
$27.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-3918-2.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-AfrArts by Herbert Cole
Stepan, Peter. Spirits Speak: A Celebration of African Masks.
New York: Prestel Publishing, 2005. 185 pp. $60.00, ISBN 978-3-
7913-3228-4.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-AfrArts by Joseph Nevadomsky
Wolcott, Harry F.. Ethnography: A Way of Seeing. Lanham:
Altamira Press, 2008. xiii + 338 pp. $75.00, ISBN 978-0-7591-
1168-4.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-Albion by Dallas Denery
Stanbury, Sarah. _Visual Object of Desire in Late Medieval
England., The_. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,
2007. 320 pp. Photographs, map $65.00, ISBN 978-0-8122-4038-2.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-Albion by Monica Ledesma
Fleming, N. C.; O'Day, Alan. _Longman Handbook of Modern Irish
History since 1800_. New York: Longman, 2005. 824 pp. $40.40,
ISBN 978-0-582-08102-4.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-AmIndian by Kristina Ackley
Thrush, Coll-Peter. _Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-
Over Place_. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007. x
+ 326 pp. Maps, illustrations $28.95, ISBN 978-0-295-98700-2.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-AmIndian by Melissane Schrems
Mandell, Daniel R.. _Tribe, Race, History: Native Americans in
Southern New England, 1780-1880_. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2008. xx + 321 pp. Maps, tables, illustrations
$55.00, ISBN 978-0-8018-8694-2.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-Atlantic by Carla Gerona
Weber, David J.. _Bárbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the
Age of Enlightenment_. New Haven and London: Yale University
Press, 2005. xviii + 466 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-300-10501-8.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-Atlantic by Madge Dresser
Richardson, David; Tibbles, Anthony; Schwarz, Suzanne; eds.
Liverpool and Transatlantic Slavery. Liverpool: Liverpool
University Press, 2007. xii + 315 pp. $75.00, ISBN 978-1-84631-
066-9.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-Canada by James D. Cameron
Iacovetta, Franca. Gatekeepers. Toronto: Between the Lines,
2006. xiii + 370 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-1-897071-11-3.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-Caribbean by Barbara Bush
Mathurin Mair, Lucille. _Historical Study of Women in Jamaica,
1655-1844, A_. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press,
2006. 496 pp. $60.00, ISBN 978-976-640-166-5.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-Childhood by Scott MacEachern
Argenti, Nicolas. _Intestines of the State: Youth, Violence, and
Belated Histories in the Cameroon Grassfields, The_. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2007. xviii + 362 pp. $70.00, ISBN
978-0-226-02611-4.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-CivWar by Chris Samito
Wylie, Paul R.. Irish General: Thomas Francis Meagher, The.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xi + 404 pp. $29.95,
ISBN 978-0-8061-3847-3.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-CivWar by Frances Clarke
Janney, Caroline E.. _Burying the Dead But Not the Past: Ladies'
Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause_. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xiii + 290 pp. $35.00,
ISBN 978-0-8078-3176-2.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-CivWar by Lewie Reece
McClintock, Russell. _Lincoln and the Decision for War: The
Northern Response to Secession_. Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, 2008. 400 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3188-5.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-German by Kimberly Redding
Kittel, Manfred. _Vertreibung der Vertriebenen? Der historische
deutsche Osten in der Erinnerungskultur der Bundesrepublik (1961-
1982)_. Munich: Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2007. 220 pp.
EUR 39.80, ISBN 978-3-486-58087-7.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-German by Siegfried Mews
Calico, Joy Haslam. Brecht at the Opera. Berkeley: University
of California Press, 2008. 304 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-520-25482-4.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-HRE by Peter Marshall
Reinis, Austra. _Reforming the Art of Dying: The Ars Moriendi in
the German Reformation (1519-1528)_. Ashgate, 2006. 324 p.
$99.95, ISBN 978-0-7546-5439-1.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-Human-Rights by Daniel J. Whelan
Nickel, James W.. Making Sense of Human Rights. Second
edition, revised. Malden: Blackwell, 2007. 267 pp. $79.95, ISBN
978-1-4051-4534-3.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-Human-Rights by John Mathiason
Foster, Michelle. _International Refugee Law and Socio-Economic
Rights: Refuge from Deprivation_. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2007. xlvii + 387 pp. $118.00, ISBN 978-0-521-87017-7.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-Human-Rights by Nevin Aiken
Drumbl, Mark A.. Atrocity, Punishment, and International Law.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xv + 298 pp.
$29.95, ISBN 978-0-521-69138-3.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-Human-Rights by Vanessa Walker
Hilbink, Lisa. _Judges beyond Politics in Democracy and
Dictatorship: Lessons from Chile_. New York: Cambridge University
Press, 2007. xvi + 299 pp. $84.00, ISBN 978-0-521-87664-3.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-Italy by Richard Drake
Gunnarson, Carina. _Cultural Warfare and Trust: Fighting the
Mafia in Palermo (Perspectives on Democratic Practice)_.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008. xv + 246 pp.
$84.95, ISBN 978-0-7190-7672-5.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-Judaic by Mark Washofsky
Fishbane, Simcha. _Boldness of an Halakhist: An Analysis of the
Writings of Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Halevi Epstein's, The_. Boston:
Academic Studies Press, 2008. xxi + 184 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-1-
934843-03-1.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-Judaic by Sean Martin
Nathans, Benjamin; Safran, Gabriella, ed. _Culture Front:
Representing Jews in Eastern Europe_. Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press, 2007. viii + 323 pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-
8122-4055-9.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-Law by Luz Maria Hernandez-Saenz
Owensby, Brian Philip. _Empire of Law and Indian Justice in
Colonial Mexico_. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008. x
+ 379 pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-5863-5.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-Nationalism by James Leibold
Tsu, Jing. _Failure, Nationalism, and Literature: The Making of
Modern Chinese Identity, 1895-1937_. Standford: Stanford
University Press, 2005. 344 pp. Illustrations $58.00, ISBN 978-
0-8047-5176-6.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-SAfrica by Jane Carruthers
Limb, Peter, ed. _Orb and Sceptre: Studies on British Imperialism
and Its Legacies, in Honour of Norman Etherington_. Clayton:
Monash University ePress, 2008. xv + 269 pp. , ISBN 978-0-
9803616-6-7.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-SAfrica by Jane Carruthers
Tropp, Jacob A.. _Natures of Colonial Change: Environmental
Relations in the Making of the Transkei_. New African History
Series. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006. 304 pp. $24.95,
ISBN 978-0-8214-1699-0.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-Urban by Jamie Benidickson
Melosi, Martin V.. _Sanitary City: Environmental Services in
Urban America from Colonial Times to the Present, The_.
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008. 400 pp.
$27.95, ISBN 978-0-8229-5983-0.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-Urban by Will Cooley
Slavishak, Edward Steven. _Bodies of Work: Civic Display and
Labor in Industrial Pittsburgh_. Durham: Duke University Press,
2008. x + 354 pp. Illustrations $89.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-4206-9.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-War by Colm McKeogh
Slim, Hugo. _Killing Civilians: Method, Madness, and Morality in
War_. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. viii + 319 pp.
$29.95, ISBN 978-0-231-70036-8.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-War by Evelyn Zegenhagen
Cornelißen, Christoph; Klinkhammer, Lutz; Schwentker, Wolfgang,
ed. _Erinnerungskulturen: Deutschland, Italien und Japan seit
1945_. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 2003.
368 pp. EUR 12.90, ISBN 978-3-596-15219-3.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-War by Ian McCulloch
Barrett, Michele. _Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the
First World War._. London and New York: Verso Books, 2008. 224
pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-1-84467-230-1.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-War by John Moremon
Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi. End of the Pacific War: Reappraisals, The.
Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2007. xvi + 331 pp.
$60.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-5427-9.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-War by Keith Grint
Yellin, Keith. _Battle Exhortation: The Rhetoric of Combat
Leadership_. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008.
x + 191 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-735-1.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-War by Patrick Jennings
Culpepper, Marilyn Mayer. _Never Will We Forget: Oral Histories
of World War II_. Westport: Praeger, 2008. xi + 318 pp. $44.95,
ISBN 978-0-313-34478-7.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-War by Ryan Holte
Sanders, Paul. _British Channel Islands under German Occupation,
1940-45, The_. Jersey Heritage Trust. Jersey: Societe Jersiaise,
2005. xxviii + 284 pp. $41.25, ISBN 978-0-9538858-3-1.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-War by Steve Casey
Wolfe, Wojtek Mackiewicz. _Winning the War of Words: Selling the
War on Terror from Afghanistan to Iraq_. New York: Praeger, 2008.
xiv + 137 pp. $75.00, ISBN 978-0-313-34967-6.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-War by Timothy May
Hillenbrand, Carole. _Turkish Myth and Muslim Symbol: The Battle
of Manzikert_. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. x
+ 288 pp. $120.00, ISBN 978-0-7486-2572-7.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-Water by Abraham Hoffman
Annin, Peter. Great Lakes Water Wars, The. Washington DC:
Island Press, 2006. xv + 303 pp. $25.95, ISBN 978-1-55963-087-0.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-Water by Dolly Jørgensen
Black, Maggie; Fawcett, Ben. _Last Taboo: Opening the Door on the
Global Sanitation Crisis, The_. London: Earthscan, 2008. 272 pp.
$136.50, ISBN 978-1-84407-543-0.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-Water by Eliza L. Martin
Pearce, Fred. _When the Rivers Run Dry: Water--The Defining
Crisis of the Twenty-First Century_. Boston: Beacon Press, 2006.
xi + 324 pp. $26.95, ISBN 978-0-8070-8572-1.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for Jhistory by Dean Jobb
Rosner, Cecil. _Behind the Headlines: A History of Investigative
Journalism in Canada_. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2008.
xvi + 266 pp. , ISBN 978-0-19-542733-2.
www.h-net.msu.edu
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