Print Version
Mail this contributionInformation about this contribution
| Veranstalter: | H-Net Reviews |
The following reviews were posted to the H-Net web site between 06 Apr 2009 and 20 Apr 2009.
Reviewed for H-Africa by Nancy Jacobs
Nugent, Paul. Africa since Independence: A Comparative History.
Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. xix + 620 pp. $99.95, ISBN
978-0-333-68272-2.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-Albion by Adam Kitzes
Gowland, Angus. _Worlds of Renaissance Melancholy: Robert Burton
in Context, The_. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
xii + 338 pp. $99.00, ISBN 978-0-521-86768-9.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-Albion by Amos Tubb
Randall, David. _Credibility in Elizabethan and Early Stuart
Military News_. Political and Popular Culture in the Early Modern
Period Series. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2008. xi + 235 pp.
$99.00, ISBN 978-1-85196-956-2.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-Asia by Maya Chadda
Rudolph, Lloyd I.; Rudolph, Susanne Hoeber. _Explaining Indian
Democracy: A Fifty Year Perspective, 1956-2006, vol. 1, The Realm
of Ideas Inquiry and Theory_. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2008. 336 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-19-569364-5.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-Canada by Claudia Kotte
Melnyk, George, ed.. _Young, the Restless, and the Dead:
Interviews with Canadian Filmmakers, The_. Volume 1. Waterloo:
Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008. Illustrations. 150 pp.
$18.95, ISBN 978-1-55458-036-1.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-CivWar by Anne Peterson
Lee, Anthony W.; Young, Elizabeth. _On Alexander Gardner's
Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War_. Defining Moments in
American Photography Series. Berkeley: University of California
Press, 2007. 119 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-520-25151-9.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-CivWar by Brian S. Wills
Gallagher, Gary W.. _Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How
Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War_.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. 288 pp.
$28.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3206-6.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-CivWar by Carl Moneyhon
Reynolds, Donald E.. _Texas Terror: The Slave Insurrection Panic
of 1860 and the Secession of the Lower South_. Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State University Press, 2007. Plates. xii + 237 pp.
$45.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3283-8.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-Diplo by Bernd Schaefer
Von Dannenberg, Julia. _Foundations of Ostpolitik: The Making of
the Moscow Treaty between West Germany and the USSR, The_.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. xvi + 301 pp. $110.00,
ISBN 978-0-19-922819-5.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-Diplo by Don H. Doyle
Widmer, Edward L.. Ark of the Liberties: America and the World.
New York: Hill and Wang, 2008. 384 pp. $25.00, ISBN 978-0-8090-
2735-4.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-Diplo by Jeffrey W. Knopf
Tal, David. _American Nuclear Disarmament Dilemma, 1945-1963,
The_. Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution Series.
Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2008. xv + 328 pp. $34.95,
ISBN 978-0-8156-3166-8.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-Diplo by Linda S. Frey
Mosslang, Markus; Riotte, Torstan, eds.. _Diplomats' World: The
Cultural History of Diplomacy, 1815-1914, The_. Studies of the
German Historical Institute London Series. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2008. 480 pp. $140.00, ISBN 978-0-19-954867-5.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-Environment by Matthew Evenden
Dunwell, Frances F.. Hudson: America's River, The. Columbia
University Press, 2008. 320 p. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-231-13641-9.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-German by Alexander Peter d'Erizans
Huber, Sonya. Opa Nobody. Lincoln: University of Nebraska
Press, 2008. xvi + 358 pp. Illustrations , ISBN 978-0-8032-1080-6.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-German by Anna Marta Holian
Confino, Alon. _Germany as a Culture of Remembrance: Promises and
Limits of Writing History_. Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, 2006. 336 pp. , ISBN 978-0-8078-5722-9.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-German by Asaph Ben-Tov
Maissen, Thomas; Walther, Gerrit, eds.. _Funktionen des
Humanismus: Studien zum Nutzen des Neuen in der humanistischen
Kultur_. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2006. 414 pp. , ISBN 978-
3-8353-0025-5.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-German by Beth A. Griech-Polelle
O'Shea, Paul. _Cross Too Heavy: Eugenio Pacelli--Politics and the
Jews of Europe, 1917-1943, A_. Kenthurst: Rosenberg Publishing,
2008. 240 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-1-877058-71-4.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-German by Brian G.H. Ditcham
Kroll, Stefan. _Soldaten im 18. Jahrhundert zwischen
Friedensalltag und Kriegserfahrung: Lebenswelten und Kultur in
der kursächsischen Armee 1728-1796_. Krieg in der Geschichte.
Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag, 2006. 654 pp. , ISBN 978-
3-506-72922-4.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-German by Brian G.H. Ditcham
Lorenz, Maren. _Das Rad der Gewalt: Militär und Zivilbevölkerung
in Norddeutschland nach dem Dreißigjährigen Krieg (1650-1700)_.
Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, 2007. 484 pp. , ISBN 978-3-412-11606-4.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-German by Christina Schwenkel
Kuhn, Annette; Emiko, Kirstin McAllister, eds.. _Locating Memory:
Photographic Arts_. New York: Berghahn Books, 2006. xiv + 285
pp. , ISBN 978-1-84545-227-8.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-German by Christof N. Morrissey
Pavlowitch, Stevan K.. _Hitler's New Disorder: The Second World
War in Yugoslavia_. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.
xix + 333 pp. Illustrations , ISBN 978-0-231-70050-4.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-German by Daniel Fraenkel
Fackenheim, Emil L.. _Epitaph for German Judaism: From Halle to
Jerusalem, An_. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2007.
xxxiv + 327 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-299-17590-0.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-German by Edward N. Snyder
Enzensberger, Hans Magnus. _Hammerstein oder der Eigensinn: Eine
deutsche Geschichte_. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Taschenbuch
Verlag, 2008. 376 pp. , ISBN 978-3-518-41960-1.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-German by J. Laurence Hare
Stoy, Manfred. _Das Österreichische Institut für
Geschichtsforschung 1929-1945_. Österreichische
Geschichtsforschung, Ergänzungsbände. Munich: Oldenbourg
Wissenschaftsverlag, 2007. 423 pp. EUR 49.80, ISBN 978-3-7029-
0551-4.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-German by James M. Brophy
Planert, Ute. _Der Mythos vom Befreiungskrieg: Frankreichs Kriege
und der deutsche Süden: Alltag ? Wahrnehmnung ? Deutung 1792-
1841_. Krieg in der Geschichte. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh
Verlag, 2007. 738 pp. EUR 68.00, ISBN 978-3-506-75662-6.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-German by Jeff Rutherford
Brandon, Ray; Lower, Wendy; eds.. _Shoah in Ukraine: History,
Testimony, Memorialization, The_. Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, 2008. ix + 378 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-253-35084-8.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-German by Jeff Rutherford
Müller, Rolf-Dieter. _der Seite der Wehrmacht: Hitlers
ausländische Helfer beim "Kreuzzug gegen den Bolschewismus" 1941-
1945, An_. Berlin: Christoph Links Verlag, 2007. 280 pp. , ISBN
978-3-86153-448-8.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-German by Jennifer L. Welsh
Swanson, Robert N.. _Promissory Notes on the Treasury of Merits:
Indulgences in Late Medieval Europe_. Brill's Companions to the
Christian Tradition Series. Leiden: Brill, 2006. xii + 360 p. ,
ISBN 978-90-04-15287-8.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-German by Kyle Jantzen
Lanckoronska, Karolina. _Michelangelo in Ravensbrück: One Woman's
War against the Nazis_. Translated by Noel Clark. Cambridge: Da
Capo Press, Incorporated, 2007. 368 pp. , ISBN 978-0-306-81537-9.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-German by Martin Kagel
Rosseaux, Ulrich. _Freiräume: Unterhaltung, Vergnügen und
Erholung in Dresden (1694-1830)_. Norm und Struktur: Studien zum
sozialen Wandel in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit. Cologne: Böhlau
Verlag, 2007. 432 pp. EUR 44.90, ISBN 978-3-412-00506-1.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-German by Massimo Faggioli
Noel, Gerard. Pius XII: The Hound of Hitler. London:
Continuum, 2008. 220 pp. $26.95, ISBN 978-1-84706-355-7.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-German by Robert Bledsoe
Kerry, Paul E., ed.. _Friedrich Schiller: Playwright, Poet,
Philosopher, Historian_. British and Irish Studies in German
Language and Literature. Bern: Peter Lang, 2007. 353 pp. $79.95,
ISBN 978-3-03910-307-2.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-German by Robert Knight
Klambauer, Karl. _Österreichische Gedenkkultur zu Widerstand und
Krieg: Denkmäler und Gedächtnisorte in Wien 1945 bis 1986_. Der
Nationalsozialismus und seine Folgen. Innsbruck: StudienVerlag,
2006. 333 pp. , ISBN 978-3-7065-4076-6.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-German by Ruth Starkman
Wiese, Christian. _Life and Thought of Hans Jonas: Jewish
Dimensions, The_. Tauber Institute Series for the Study of
European Jewry. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2007. xxvii
+ 260 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-1-58465-638-8.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-German by Ryan Plumley
Hughes, Fiona. Kant's Aesthetic Epistemology: Form and World.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. viii + 324 pp. ,
ISBN 978-0-7486-2122-4.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-German by Sonja Mekel
Panwitz, Sebastian. _Die Gesellschaft der Freunde 1792-1935:
Berliner Juden zwischen Aufklärung und Hochfinanz_. Hildesheim:
Georg Olms Verlag - Weidmannsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 2007.
335 pp. , ISBN 978-3-487-13346-1.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-German by Stephan Lehnstaedt
Rieger, Berndt. _Creator of Nazi Death Camps: The Life of Odilo
Globocnik_. Edgware: Vallentine Mitchell, 2007. xi + 244 pp.
$69.50, ISBN 978-0-85303-532-9.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-German by Warren Rosenblum
Schauz, Désirée; Freitag, Sabine, eds.. _Verbrecher im Visier der
Experten: Kriminalpolitik zwischen Wissenschaft und Praxis im 19.
und frühen 20. Jahrhundert_. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag,
2007. 334 pp. , ISBN 978-3-515-09055-1.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-HistGeog by Donal O'Sullivan
Werner, Hans. _Imagined Homes: Soviet German Immigrants in Two
Cities_. Studies in Immigration and Culture Series. Winnipeg:
University of Manitoba Press, 2007. 297 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-
88755-701-9.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-Human-Rights by Karen Costa
Schiff, Benjamin N.. Building the International Criminal Court.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xiii + 304 pp.
$85.00, ISBN 978-0-521-87312-3.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-Ideas by Anna Yeatman
Lazier, Benjamin. _God Interrupted: Heresy and the European
Imagination between the World Wars_. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2008. xiv + 254 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-691-
13670-7.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-Italy by Mary S. Gibson
Stewart-Steinberg, Suzanne. _Pinocchio Effect: On Making
Italians, 1860-1920, The_. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
2007. xv + 431 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-226-77448-0.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-Judaic by Michael A. Meyer
Hecht, Louise. _Ein jüdischer Aufklärer in Böhmen: Der Pädagoge
und Reformer Peter Beer (1758-1838)_. Cologne: Böhlau Verlag,
2008. 403 pp. EUR 49.90, ISBN 978-3-412-14706-8.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-Law by Amanda I. Seligman
Jones, Patrick D.. _Selma of the North: Civil Rights Insurgency
in Milwaukee, The_. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009.
Plates. 318 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-674-03135-7.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-Law by Jeffrey S. Adler
Baatz, Simon. _For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the
Murder that Shocked Chicago_. New York: HarperCollins, 2008.
xiii + 541 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-06-078100-2.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-Law by Linda Spagnola
Bilder, Mary Sarah. _Transatlantic Constitution: Colonial Legal
Culture and the Empire, The_. Harvard University Press, 2008.
308 pp. $22.95, ISBN 978-0-674-02719-0.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-Minerva by Heather M. Stur
Alvah, Donna. _Unofficial Ambassadors: American Military Families
Overseas and the Cold War, 1946-1965_. New York: New York
University Press, 2007. xi + 291 pp. $42.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-
0501-8.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-Minerva by Heather M. Stur
Jensen, Kimberly. _Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the
First World War_. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008.
xvii + 244 pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03237-0.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-Russia by Krista Sigler
Reid, Susan Emily; Blakesley, Rosalind P., eds. _Russian Art and
the West: A Century of Dialogue in Painting, Architecture, and the
Decorative Arts_. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press,
2007. viii + 246 pp. $42.00, ISBN 978-0-87580-360-9.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-Russia by Michael C. Hickey
Pirani, Simon. _Russian Revolution in Retreat, 1920-24: Soviet
Workers and the New Communist Elite, The_. London: Routledge,
2008. xiv + 289 pp. $160.00, ISBN 978-0-415-43703-5.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-Southern-Industry by Phillip Stone
Morland, John Kenneth. Millways of Kent. Southern Classics
Series. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008.
Plates. xxxix + 330 pp. $16.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-726-9.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-Urban by Kate Rousmaniere
Lyons, John F.. _Teachers and Reform: Chicago Public Education,
1929-1970_. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2008. 312
pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03272-1.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-US-Japan by Brian J. McVeigh
Lee, Yong Wook. _Japanese Challenge to the American Neoliberal
World Order: Identity, Meaning, and Foreign Policy, The_.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008. xvii + 284 pp.
$60.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-5812-3.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-War by Richard Bruce Winders
Stout, Jay A.. _Slaughter at Goliad: The Mexican Massacre of 400
Texas Volunteers_. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2008. xv
+ 242 pp. Illustrations $29.95, ISBN 978-1-59114-843-2.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-War by Robert Dienesch
United States.Army. _Instructions to American Servicemen in
France during World War II_. Introduction by Rick Atkinson.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. 84 pp. $12.00, ISBN
978-0-226-84172-4.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for H-War by Yannick Cormier
Scheck, Raffael. _Hitler's African Victims: The German Army
Massacres of Black French Soldiers in 1940_. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2006. xii + 202 pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-521-
85799-4.
www.h-net.msu.edu
Reviewed for Jhistory by Patricia Baldwin
Caron, James Edward. _Mark Twain: Unsanctified Newspaper
Reporter_. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. xiv
+ 448 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8262-1802-5.
www.h-net.msu.edu
--------------
Diese Rezensionen und die weiterer Anbieter werden von Clio-online regelmäßig in "Historische Rezensionen Online" (HRO) eingebunden. HRO ist eine auf geschichtswissenschaftliche Rezensionen fokussierte Suchmaschine, die aktuell mehr als 54.000 Rezensionen berücksichtigt: www.clio-online.de
| URL: | H-Net Reviews |
Copyright (c) 2012 by H-Net and Clio-online, all rights reserved. This work may be copied and redistributed for non-commercial, educational use if proper credit is given to the author and to the list. For other permission, please contact H-SOZ-U-KULT