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Reviewed for H-SAfrica by David Blanchon
Guyot, Sylvain. _Rivages zoulous: L'environnement au service du
politique en Afrique du Sud_. Paris: Karthala, 2006.
Illustrations. 250 pp. EUR 22.00, ISBN 978-2-84586-767-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24817

Reviewed for H-Albion by Robert M. Calhoon
Yirush, Craig. _Settlers, Liberty, and Empire: The Roots of Early
American Political Theory, 1675-1775_. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2011. ix + 277 pp. $90.00, ISBN 978-0-521-
19330-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33000

Reviewed for H-Law by Stephen Leonard
Pfeifer, Michael J.. _Roots of Rough Justice: Origins of American
Lynching, The_. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011. x +
143 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03613-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33117

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Marion Kant
Ingber, Judith Brin, ed.. Seeing Israeli and Jewish Dance.
Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology. Detroit:
Wayne State University Press, 2011. 504 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-
8143-3330-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33699

Reviewed for H-TGS by Stefan Geck
Monteath, Peter. _P.O.W.: Australian Prisoners of War in Hitler's
Reich_. Sydney: Macmillan, 2011. 523 pp. AUD 35.00, ISBN 978-1-
74261-008-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34148

Reviewed for H-1960s by Brian Purnell
Singler, Joan; Jean Durning; Bettylou Valentine; Maid Adams.
_Seattle in Black and White: The Congress of Racial Equality and
the Fight for Equal Opportunity_. Seattle: University of
Washington Press, 2011. xiii + 279 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-295-
99084-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34244

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Irven M. Resnick
Freidenreich, David M.. _Foreigners and Their Food: Constructing
Otherness in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Law_. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2011. xvii + 325 pp. $60.00,
ISBN 978-0-520-25321-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34706

Reviewed for H-Environment by Joel Orth
Courtwright, Julie. Prairie Fire: A Great Plains History.
Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2011. 264 pp. $29.95, ISBN
978-0-7006-1794-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34802

Reviewed for Jhistory by Kate Edenborg
Otis, Laura. _Networking: Communicating with Bodies and Machines
in the Nineteenth Century_. Ann Arbor: University Of Michigan
Press, 2011. 284 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-472-03490-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34837

Reviewed for H-Environment by Dan Bell
Mielnik, Tara Mitchell. _New Deal, New Landscape: The Civilian
Conservation Corps and South Carolina's State Parks_. Columbia:
University of South Carolina Press, 2011. Illustrations, Map. 224
pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-984-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34854

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Thomas R. Maddux
Lynch, Edward A.. _Cold War's Last Battlefield: Reagan, the
Soviets, and Central America, The_. Albany: State University of
New York Press, 2011. xix + 329 pp. $85.00, ISBN 978-1-4384-
3949-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35049

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Mario Del Pero
Drolet, Jean-François. _American Neoconservatism: The Politics
and Culture of a Reactionary Idealism_. New York: Columbia
University Press, 2011. x + 306 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-231-
70228-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35059

Reviewed for H-Canada by Christopher Greig
Ramsay, Christine. _Making It Like a Man: Canadian Masculinities
in Practice_. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2011.
Illustrations. xxx + 341 pp. $42.95, ISBN 978-1-55458-327-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35061

Reviewed for H-Environment by Samuel F. Brunk
Mathews, Andrew S.. _Instituting Nature: Authority, Expertise,
and Power in Mexican Forests_. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2011. xii +
304 pp. $54.00, ISBN 978-0-262-01652-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35078

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Tom Brooking
Chaudron, Gerald. _New Zealand in the League of Nations: The
Beginnings of an Independent Foreign Policy, 1919-1939_.
Jefferson: McFarland, 2012. vii + 270 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-
7864-6639-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35133

Reviewed for H-Environment by Christine Keiner
Haq, Gary; Paul, Alistair. Environmentalism since 1945.
Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2012. xvi + 124 pp. $105.00, ISBN
978-0-415-60181-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35205

Reviewed for H-War by Jamie Goodall
Colás, Alejandro; Mabee, Bryan, eds.. _Mercenaries, Pirates,
Bandits, and Empires: Private Violence in Historical Context_.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. x + 244 pp. $55.00,
ISBN 978-0-231-70208-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35538

Reviewed for H-Environment by Megan Raby
Enright, Kelly. _Maximum of Wilderness: The Jungle in the
American Imagination, The_. Charlottesville: University of
Virginia Press, 2012. 200 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8139-3228-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35629

Reviewed for H-War by Terry Shoptaugh
Crosswell, D. K. R.. _Beetle: The Life of General Walter Bedell
Smith_. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2010. xvii +
1070 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8131-2649-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35756

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Gina Petonito
Eisenberg, Ellen. _First to Cry Down Injustice?: Western Jews and
Japanese Removal During WWII, The_. Lanham: Lexington Books,
2008. xxi + 181 pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-7391-1381-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=29552

Reviewed for H-Disability by Pat Reynolds
Sandell, Richard; Dodd, Jocelyn; Garland-Thompson, Rosemarie,
eds.. _Re-Presenting Disability: Activism and Agency in the
Museum_. New York: Routledge, 2010. 304 pp. $125.00, ISBN 978-
0-415-49471-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=30962

Reviewed for H-Urban by Sheila Crane
Çelik, Zeynep; Clancy-Smith, Julia Ann; Terpak, Frances, eds..
Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City through Text and Image.
Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2009. 283 pp. $40.00,
ISBN 978-0-295-98868-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33784

Reviewed for H-Histsex by Chris Bobel
Donnan, Hastings; Magowan, Fiona, eds.. _Transgressive Sex:
Subversion and Control in Erotic Encounters_. New York: Berghahn
Books, 2009. vi + 280 pp. $75.00, ISBN 978-1-84545-539-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33939

Reviewed for H-War by Dale Herspring
Muth, Jörg. _Command Culture: Officer Education in the U.S. Army
and the German Armed Forces, 1901-1940, and the Consequences for
World War II_. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2011.
368 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-57441-303-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34233

Reviewed for H-War by Daniel Trifan
Groundwater, Anna. _Scottish Middle March, 1573-1625: Power,
Kinship, Allegiance, The_. London: Royal Historical Society,
2010. x + 236 pp. $95.00, ISBN 978-0-86193-307-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34371

Reviewed for H-Canada by Greg Donaghy
Litt, Paul. _Elusive Destiny: The Political Vocation of John
Napier Turner_. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press,
2011. 448 pp. $43.95, ISBN 978-0-7748-2264-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34618

Reviewed for H-War by Tal Tovy
Rickard, John Nelson. _Advance and Destroy: Patton as Commander
in the Bulge_. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2011.
Illustrations, maps. xxii + 490 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8131-3455-
0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35012

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Jeremy Friedman
Shen, Zhihua; Li, Danhui. _After Leaning to One Side: China and
Its Allies in the Cold War_. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson
Center Press, 2011. 360 pp. $60.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-7087-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35074

Reviewed for H-Canada by Jason McCollom
Jones, Esyllt W.; Friesen, Gerald, eds.. _Prairie Metropolis: New
Essays on Winnipeg Social History_. Winnipeg: University of
Manitoba Press, 2009. 264 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-88755-713-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35130

Reviewed for H-Asia by Nayanjot Lahiri
Meister, Michael W.. Temples of the Indus. Leiden: Brill,
2010. xv + 85 pp. Illustrations $132.00, ISBN 978-90-04-18617-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35195

Reviewed for H-Empire by Clara Altman
Julian Go. _Patterns of Empire: The British and American Empires,
1688 to the Present_. New York: Cambridge, 2011. 302 pp.
$28.99, ISBN 978-1-107-60078-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35292

Reviewed for H-Education by Mark Oromaner
Trow, Martin. _Twentieth-Century Higher Education: Elite to Mass
to Universal_. Edited by Michael Burrage. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2010. vi + 627 pp. $80.00, ISBN 978-0-
8018-9441-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35332

Reviewed for H-Asia by Usha Sanyal
Iqtidar, Humeira. _Secularizing Islamists?: Jama'at-e-Islami and
Jama'at-ud-Da'wa in Urban Pakistan_. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 2011. xiii + 216 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-226-
38468-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35537

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Michael Brenes
Bacevich, Andrew J., ed.. _Short American Century: A Postmortem,
The_. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012. 296 pp.
$25.95, ISBN 978-0-674-06445-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35566

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Justine Pas
Ben-Zvi, Hava Bromberg, ed.. _Portraits in Literature: The Jews
of Poland: An Anthology_. Portland: Vallentine Mitchell, 2011.
380 pp. $74.95, ISBN 978-0-85303-873-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35745

Reviewed for H-Law by Robin Henry
Dolan, Frances E.. _Marriage and Violence: The Early Modern
Legacy_. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.
235 pp. $47.50, ISBN 978-0-8122-4075-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23967

Reviewed for H-Atlantic by Douglas Chambers
Brown, Richmond F., ed.. _Coastal Encounters: The Transformation
of the Gulf South in the Eighteenth Century_. Lincoln: University
of Nebraska Press, 2007. Illustrations, maps, figures, tables.
xiii + 313 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8032-6267-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24910

Reviewed for H-SAfrica by Olivier Graefe
Blanchon, David. _L'espace hydraulique sud-africain: Le partage
des eaux_. Paris: Karthala, 2009. 294 pp. EUR 26.00, ISBN 978-
2-8111-0175-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=25757

Reviewed for H-Law by Norman Rosenberg
Gordon, Sarah Barringer. _Spirit of the Law: Religious Voices and
the Constitution in Modern America, The_. Cambridge: Belknap
Press of Harvard University Press, 2010. Illustrations. x + 316
pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-674-04654-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=30427

Reviewed for H-Atlantic by Kristen M. Burkholder
Kiple, Kenneth F.. _Moveable Feast: Ten Millennia of Food
Globalization, A_. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
384 pp. $27.00, ISBN 978-0-521-79353-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33770

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Valerie S. Thaler
Greene, Daniel. _Jewish Origins of Cultural Pluralism: The
Menorah Association and American Diversity, The_. Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 2011. xi + 261 pp. $70.00, ISBN 978-0-
253-35614-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33877

Reviewed for H-Atlantic by Robert Michael Morrissey
McMichael, Andrew. _Atlantic Loyalties: Americans in Spanish West
Florida, 1785-1810_. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008.
xii + 226 pp. $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-3004-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33894

Reviewed for H-SAWH by Crystal A. deGregory
Kelley, Blair L. M.. _Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts and
African American Citizenship in the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson_.
John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. 304 pp.
$59.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3354-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33932

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Margarete Myers Feinstein
Cohen, Gerald Daniel. _In War's Wake: Europe's Displaced Persons
in the Postwar Order_. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
248 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-19-539968-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34578

Reviewed for H-War by Charles Wexler
Symonds, Craig L.. Lincoln and His Admirals. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2008. 448 pp. $17.95, ISBN 978-0-19-975157-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34668

Reviewed for H-CivWar by A. James Fuller
Etcheson, Nicole. _Generation at War: The Civil War Era in a
Northern Community, A_. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas,
2011. xii + 371 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1797-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35453

Reviewed for H-War by Jim Gigantino
Horne, Gerald. _Negro Comrades of the Crown: African Americans
and the British Empire Fight the U.S. before Emancipation_. New
York: New York University Press, 2012. v + 361 pp. $39.00, ISBN
978-0-8147-7349-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35470

Reviewed for H-HistGeog by Stephanie Pincetl
Walker, Peter A.; Hurley, Patrick T.. _Planning Paradise:
Politics and Visioning of Land Use in Oregon_. Tuscon: University
of Arizona Press, 2011. xii + 287 pp. $26.00, ISBN 978-0-8165-
2883-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35706

Reviewed for H-HistGeog by Mark Sokolsky
Collins, Perry McDonough. _Siberian Journey: Down the Amur to the
Pacific, 1856-1857_. Edited by Charles Vevier. Madison:
University of Wisconsin Press, 2011. 380 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-
299-02674-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36102

Reviewed for H-Empire by Patrick M. Kirkwood
Stapleton, Timothy. _African Police and Soldiers in Colonial
Zimbabwe, 1923-80_. Rochester: University of Rochester Press,
2011. xii + 313 pp. $90.00, ISBN 978-1-58046-380-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36114

Reviewed for H-Empire by Chris Herbert
Mallon, Florencia E., ed.. _Decolonizing Native Histories:
Collaboration, Knowledge, and Language in the Americas_.
Narrating Native Histories Series. Durham: Duke University Press,
2012. vi + 262 pp. $89.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-5137-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36115

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