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01 Oct 2012 and 05 Nov 2012.

Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Anna Dempsey
Dennis, James M.. _Robert Koehler's The Strike: The Improbable
Story of an Iconic 1886 Painting of Labor Protest_. Madison:
University of Wisconsin Press, 2011. xiv + 235 pp. + 8 pp. of
plates $24.95, ISBN 978-0-299-25134-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33135

Reviewed for H-Florida by Julio Capo, Jr.
Foglesong, Richard E.. _Immigrant Prince: Mel Martinez and the
American Dream_. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011.
xxiv + 269 pp. $32.00, ISBN 978-0-8130-3579-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33871

Reviewed for H-German by Eric Carlsson
Strom, Jonathan; Lehmann, Hartmut; Melton, James Van Horn, eds..
Pietism in Germany and North America, 1680-1820. Farnham:
Ashgate, 2009. x + 289 pp. $114.95, ISBN 978-0-7546-6401-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33972

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Archie Wright
Orlov, Andrei A.. _Dark Mirrors: Azazel and Satanael in Early
Jewish Demonology_. Albany: State University of New York Press,
2011. xv + 201 pp. $75.00, ISBN 978-1-4384-3951-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35007

Reviewed for H-Genocide by David Williams
MacQueen, Norrie. _Humanitarian Intervention and the United
Nations_. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011. xv + 240
pp. $32.50, ISBN 978-0-7486-3697-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35244

Reviewed for H-South by Tim Buckner
McAllister, Marvin. _Whiting Up: Whiteface Minstrels and Stage
Europeans in African American Performance_. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 2011. 336 pp. $39.95, ISBN
978-0-8078-3508-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35945

Reviewed for H-War by Jeremy Maxwell
Short, Gregory V.. _Ground Pounder: A Marine's Journey through
South Vietnam, 1968-1969_. North Texas Military Biography and
Memoir Series. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2012. 368
pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-57441-452-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36257

Reviewed for H-War by Tal Tovy
Mahnken, Thomas G.. _Technology and the American Way of War since
1945_. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. 256 pp.
$26.50, ISBN 978-0-231-12337-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36299

Reviewed for H-Education by Natalie E. Latteri
Crook, J. Mordaunt. _Brasenose: The Biography of an Oxford
College_. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. xvi + 555 pp.
$165.00, ISBN 978-0-19-954486-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36320

Reviewed for H-War by James Fielder
Snyder, Craig A., ed.. _Contemporary Security and Strategy:
Second Edition_. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. xviii +
285 pp. $102.00, ISBN 978-0-230-52095-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36369

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Matthew Lagrone
Cohen, Michael R.. _Birth of Conservative Judaism: Solomon
Schechter's Disciples and the Creation of an American Religious
Movement, The_. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. ix +
210 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-231-15635-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36425

Reviewed for Jhistory by Kenneth Sexton
Klekowski, Edward J.; Klekowski, Libby. _Eyewitnesses to the
Great War: American Writers, Reporters, Volunteers and Soldiers in
France, 1914-1918_. Jefferson: McFarland & Co., Publishers, 2012.
261 pp. $38.00, ISBN 978-0-7864-6348-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36474

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Alex Goodall
Luff, Jennifer. _Commonsense Anticommunism: Labor and Civil
Liberties between the World Wars_. Chapel Hill: University of
North Carolina Press, 2012. xii + 288 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-
8078-3541-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36674

Reviewed for Jhistory by Noah Arceneaux
Ramsburg, Jim. _Network Radio Ratings, 1932-1953: A History of
Prime Time Programs through the Ratings of Nielsen, Crossley and
Hooper_. Jefferson: Mcfarland, 2011. 378 pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-
0-7864-4558-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37029

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Robert E. May
Henshaw, John C.. Recollections of the War With Mexico. Edited
by Gary Kurutz. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. xii
+ 253 pp. $44.95, ISBN 978-0-8262-1799-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=31529

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Richard J. Salvucci
Draper, Nicholas. _Price of Emancipation: Slave-Ownership,
Compensation and British Society at the End of Slavery, The_.
Cambridge Studies in Economic History Series. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2010. Illustrations. xiii + 401 pp. $95.00,
ISBN 978-0-521-11525-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=31959

Reviewed for H-1960s by William Adams
Bynum, Cornelius L.. _A. Philip Randolph and the Struggle for
Civil Rights_. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010. xix +
244 pp. $75.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03575-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=32969

Reviewed for H-German by Aeleah Soine
Ha?hner-Rombach, Sylvelyn, ed.. _Alltag in der Krankenpflege:
Geschichte und Gegenwart / Everyday Nursing Life: Past and
Present_. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2009. 307 pp. $72.00, ISBN
978-3-515-09332-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33169

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Andy Angel
Loader, William. _Pseudepigrapha on Sexuality: Attitudes towards
Sexuality in Apocalypses, Testaments, Legends, Wisdom, and Related
Literature, The_. Grand Rapids: W. B. Eerdmans, 2011. vii + 571
pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-8028-6666-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33250

Reviewed for H-War by Aaron Linderman
Mckenna, Joseph. _Guerrilla Warfare in the Irish War of
Independence, 1919-1921_. Jefferson: Mcfarland, 2010. 300 pp.
$65.00, ISBN 978-0-7864-5947-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35392

Reviewed for H-Buddhism by Heather Blair
Glassman, Hank. _Face of Jizo: Image and Cult in Medieval
Japanese Buddhism, The_. Honolulu: University of Hawai?i Press,
2012. 272 pp. $52.00, ISBN 978-0-8248-3443-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35707

Reviewed for H-Empire by Shane Nagle
Leeson, D. M.. _Black and Tans: British Police and Auxiliaries in
the Irish War of Independence, The_. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2011. xvi + 294 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-19-959899-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35891

Reviewed for H-SAfrica by Alex Wafer
Zuern, Elke. _Politics of Necessity: Community Organizing and
Democracy in South Africa, The_. Madison: University of Wisconsin
Press, 2011. 264 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-299-25014-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36033

Reviewed for H-War by Aaron Sullivan
Stirk, Peter M. R.. Politics of Military Occupation, The.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. 272 pp. $37.50,
ISBN 978-0-7486-4484-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36127

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Steven Frankel
Melamed, Abraham. _Wisdom's Little Sister: Studies in Medieval
and Renaissance Jewish Political Thought_. Brighton: Academic
Studies Press, 2011. 350 pp. $109.00, ISBN 978-1-936235-32-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36264

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Fabian W. Hilfrich
Nichols, Christopher McKnight. _Promise and Peril: America at the
Dawn of a Global Age_. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011.
464 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-674-04984-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36284

Reviewed for HABSBURG by Roy A. Austensen
Hewitson, Mark. _Nationalism in Germany, 1848-1866: Revolutionary
Nation_. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. xiii + 462 pp.
$90.00, ISBN 978-1-4039-1329-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36306

Reviewed for Jhistory by Eugenia M. Palmegiano
Heyd, Uriel. _Reading Newspapers: Press and Public in Eighteenth-
Century Britain and America_. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2012.
Illustrations. xii + 302 pp. $102.00, ISBN 978-0-7294-1042-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36378

Reviewed for H-War by Corbin Williamson
Stoddard, Brooke C.. _World in the Balance: The Perilous Months
of June-October 1940_. Washington DC: Potomac Books, 2010. 244
pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-59797-516-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36381

Reviewed for Jhistory by Carole O'Reilly
Beers, Laura. _Your Britain: Media and the Making of the Labour
Party_. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010.
Illustrations. x + 272 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-674-05002-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36392

Reviewed for H-SAWH by Stephanie Stegman
Lewis, Catherine M.; Lewis, J. Richard, eds.. _Women and Slavery
in America: A Documentary History_. Fayetteville: University of
Arkansas Press, 2011. Illustrations. 330 pp. $59.95, ISBN 978-1-
55728-957-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36604

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Fabio Rojas
Hall, Simon. Rethinking the American Anti-War Movement.
American Social and Political Movements of the Twentieth Century
Series. New York: Routledge, 2012. 208 pp. $130.00, ISBN 978-0-
415-80083-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36758

Reviewed for H-HRE by Adam Shear
Katz, Dana E.. Jew in the Art of the Italian Renaissance, The.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. xi + 228
pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8122-4085-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37022

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Adam Shear
Price, David H.. _Johannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy
Jewish Books_. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. ix + 355
pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-19-539421-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=32060

Reviewed for HABSBURG by Graeme Murdock
Koller, Markus. _Eine Gesellschaft im Wandel: Die osmanische
Herrschaft in Ungarn im 17. Jahrhundert (1606-1683)_. Stuttgart:
Steiner, 2010. 226 pp. $58.00, ISBN 978-3-515-09663-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34499

Reviewed for H-German by Erik Jensen
Court, Jürgen. _Deutsche Sportwissenschaft in der Weimarer
Republik und im Nationalsozialismus: Vol. 1: Die Vorgeschichte
1900-1918_. Münster: LIT Verlag, 2008. 320 pp. EUR 24.90, ISBN
978-3-8258-1379-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34846

Reviewed for H-Disability by Gareth Millward
Haslam, Molly C. _Constructive Theology of Intellectual
Disability: Human Being as Mutuality and Response, A_. New York:
Fordham University Press, 2011. 144 pp. $24.00, ISBN 978-0-8232-
3941-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35016

Reviewed for H-War by Robert Kodosky
Dudziak, Mary L.. _War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its
Consequences_. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 232 pp.
$24.95, ISBN 978-0-19-977523-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35739

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Don Carlson
Henze, Matthias, ed.. _Companion to Biblical Interpretation in
Early Judaism, A_. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishing Company,
2012. 584 pp. $29.99, ISBN 978-0-8028-0388-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35857

Reviewed for H-Genocide by Dan McMillan
Fritz, Stephen G.. _Ostkrieg: Hitler's War of Extermination in
the East_. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2011.
Illustrations. xxiv + 640 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8131-3416-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35868

Reviewed for H-HRE by Stuart Carroll
Zmora, Hillay. Feud in Early Modern Germany, The. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2011. xiv + 211 pp. $99.00, ISBN
978-0-521-11251-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35932

Reviewed for H-War by Javan Frazier
Liebmann, George W.. _Diplomacy between the Wars: Five Diplomats
and the Shaping of the Modern World_. London: I. B. Tauris, 2008.
xvi + 269 pp. $89.00, ISBN 978-1-84511-637-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35979

Reviewed for H-CivWar by Gerald Prokopowicz
Johnson, David. _Decided on the Battlefield: Grant, Sherman,
Lincoln and the Election of 1864_. Amherst: Prometheus Books,
2012. 319 pp. + 8 pp. of plates $27.00, ISBN 978-1-61614-509-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36070

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Amos Bitzan
Reitter, Paul. On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. 176 pp. $26.95,
ISBN 978-0-691-11922-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36149

Reviewed for H-Albion by Aileen Fyfe
Tomory, Leslie. _Progressive Enlightenment: The Origins of the
Gaslight Industry, 1780-1820_. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2012. x +
348 pp. $28.00, ISBN 978-0-262-01675-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36181

Reviewed for H-CivWar by Beverly Tomek
Finkelman, Paul; Kennon, Donald R.. _In the Shadow of Freedom:
The Politics of Slavery in the National Capital_. Athens: Ohio
University Press, 2011. viii + 248 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8214-
1934-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36217

Reviewed for Jhistory by Norma Fay Green
Parry, Roger. _Ascent of Media: From Gilgamesh to Google via
Gutenberg, The_. London: Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2011. ix +
406 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-85788-570-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36389

Reviewed for H-Histsex by Laura Ramsay
Mounsey, Chris. _Being the Body of Christ: Towards a Twenty-
First-Century Homosexual Theology for the Anglican Church_.
London: Equinox Publishing, 2011. 240 pp. $99.95, ISBN 978-1-
84553-951-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36763

Reviewed for HABSBURG by Paul Kubricht
Lukes, Igor. _On the Edge of the Cold War: American Diplomats and
Spies in Postwar Prague_. New York: Oxford University Press,
2012. 296 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-19-516679-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36801

Reviewed for H-Florida by Robert Austin
Ashley, Keith; White, Nancy Marie, eds.. _Late Prehistoric
Florida: Archaeology at the Edge of the Mississippian World_.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2012. xii + 398 pp.
$74.95, ISBN 978-0-8130-4014-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36854

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Steven J. Cahn
Clark, Caryl. _Haydn's Jews: Representation and Reception on the
Operatic Stage_. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
xviii + 244 pp. $99.00, ISBN 978-0-521-45547-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=26336

Reviewed for H-Disability by Wendy Gagen
Kluchin, Rebecca M.. _Fit to Be Tied: Sterilization and
Reproductive Rights in America, 1950-1980_. Critical Issues in
Health and Medicine Series. New Brunswick: Rutgers University
Press, 2009. 288 pp. $45.95, ISBN 978-0-8135-4527-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=31036

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Mark Bonta
Winker, Kevin, ed.. _Moments of Discovery: Natural History
Narratives from Mexico and Central America_. Gainesville:
University Press of Florida, 2010. xiii + 401 pp. $75.00, ISBN
978-0-8130-3417-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=31183

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Monica Diaz
Lifshey, Adam. _Specters of Conquest: Indigenous Absence in
Transatlantic Literatures_. New York: Fordham University Press,
2010. 192 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8232-3238-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=31526

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Susana Nuccetelli
Lo?pez, Rick Anthony. _Crafting Mexico: Intellectuals, Artisans,
and the State after the Revolution_. Durham: Duke University
Press, 2010. viii + 408 pp. $89.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-4694-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=31557

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Jose Augusto Drummond
McAllister, Lesley K.. _Making Law Matter: Environmental
Protection and Legal Institutions in Brazil_. Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 2008. xix + 264 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-
5823-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=31648

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Amelia Polónia
Bailey, Stanley R.. _Legacies of Race: Identities, Attitudes, and
Politics in Brazil_. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009.
304 pp. $70.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-6277-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=31724

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Robert Chao Romero
Yun, Lisa. _Coolie Speaks: Chinese Indentured Laborers and
African Slaves in Cuba, The_. Philadelphia: Temple University
Press, 2008. xxiii + 311 pp. $56.50, ISBN 978-1-59213-581-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=31732

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Felipe Cruz
Hagedorn, Dan. _Conquistadors of the Sky: A History of Aviation
in Latin America_. Washington DC: Smithsonian National Air and
Space Museum, 2008. Illustrations. xiv + 587 pp. $39.95, ISBN
978-0-8130-3249-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=31858

Reviewed for H-Histsex by Mary Shearman
Brooks, Siobhan. _Unequal Desires: Race and Erotic Capital in the
Stripping Industry_. Albany: State University of New York Press,
2010. ix + 125 pp. $60.00, ISBN 978-1-4384-3215-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=31880

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Caroline Dodds Pennock
DiCesare, Catherine R.. _Sweeping the Way: Divine Transformation
in the Aztec Festival of Ochpaniztli_. Mesoamerican Worlds: From
the Olmecs to the Danzantes Series. Boulder: University Press of
Colorado, 2009. Illustrations. 229 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-87081-
943-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=32056

Reviewed for H-Asia by Richard Davis
Seager, Richard Hughes. _World's Parliament of Religions: The
East/West Encounter, Chicago, 1893, The_. Religion in North
America Series. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. xli
+ 208 pp. $21.95, ISBN 978-0-253-22166-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=32292

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Graham Woodgate
Carey, Mark. _In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers: Climate Change
and Andean Society_. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
vii + 273 pp. $99.00, ISBN 978-0-19-539606-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=32303

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Carl E. Anderson
Keegan, William F.. _Taino Indian Myth and Practice: The Arrival
of the Stranger King_. Gainesville: University Press of Florida,
2007. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8130-3038-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=32945

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Ralph Lee Woodward
Dawson, Alexander. _Latin America since Independence: A History
with Primary Sources_. New York: Routledge, 2011. Illustrations.
xiv + 336 pp. $125.00, ISBN 978-0-415-99195-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33231

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Antonio Terrasa Lozano
Wey Gómez, Nicolás. _Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South
to the Indies, The_. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008. 616 pp.
$39.95, ISBN 978-0-262-23264-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33275

Reviewed for H-Asia by Nishat Zaidi
Detha, Vijaydan. Chouboli and Other Stories. Translated by
Christi A. Merrill and Kailash Kabir. New Delhi: Published by
Katha in collaboration with Fordham University Press, 2010.
Volume 2. 196 pp. $19.00, ISBN 978-0-8232-3404-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33309

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Arthur Schmidt
Gootenberg, Paul; Reygadas, Luis, eds.. _Indelible Inequalities
in Latin America: Insights from History, Politics, and Culture_.
Durham: Duke University Press, 2010. 248 pp. $79.95, ISBN 978-0-
8223-4719-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33399

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Nicholas Kiersey
Zanotti, Laura. _Governing Disorder: UN Peace Operations,
International Security, and Democratization in the Post-Cold War
Era_. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011.
xiv + 180 pp. $59.95, ISBN 978-0-271-03761-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33402

Reviewed for H-Urban by Craig Bailey
Casey, Christine, ed.. _Eighteenth-Century Dublin Townhouse:
Form, Function and Finance, The_. Dublin: Four Courts, 2010.
Illustrations. 336 pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-1-84682-187-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33829

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Alan Cooper
Levenson, Alan T.. _Making of the Modern Jewish Bible: How
Scholars in Germany, Israel, and America Transformed an Ancient
Text, The_. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2011. xiii + 247 pp.
$49.95, ISBN 978-1-4422-0516-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33898

Reviewed for H-German by Dolores L. Augustine
Kott, Sandrine. _Histoire de la société allemande au xx. siècle:
III La RDA 1949-1989_. Paris: Editions La Decouverte, 2011.
126 pp. , ISBN 978-2-7071-6911-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34694

Reviewed for H-Asia by Ann Gold
D?here, Ra?macandra Cinta?man?a. _Rise of a Folk God: Vitthal of
Pandharpur_. Translated by Anne Feldhaus. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2011. 370 pp. $74.00, ISBN 978-0-19-977759-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34765

Reviewed for H-War by Micah Wright
Harmer, Tanya. Allende's Chile and the Inter-American Cold War.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. xvi + 375
pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3495-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34948

Reviewed for H-Human-Rights by Andrew Janco
Payaslian, Simon. _Political Economy of Human Rights in Armenia:
Authoritarianism and Democracy in a Former Soviet Republic, The_.
London: I. B. Tauris, 2011. ix + 417 pp. $95.00, ISBN 978-1-
84885-811-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35601

Reviewed for H-Caribbean by Jefferson Dillman
McNeill, J. R.. _Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater
Caribbean, 1620-1914_. New Approaches to the Americas Series.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 371 pp. $90.00,
ISBN 978-0-521-45286-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35713

Reviewed for H-Urban by Peter S. Soppelsa
Strauss, Jonathan. _Human Remains: Medicine, Death, and Desire in
Nineteenth-Century Paris_. Forms of Living Series. New York:
Fordham University Press, 2012. xiv + 394 pp. $90.00, ISBN 978-
0-8232-3379-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35766

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Adi Gordon
Rozin, Orit. _Rise of the Individual in 1950s Israel: A Challenge
to Collectivism, The_. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2011.
xxi + 254 pp. $85.00, ISBN 978-1-58465-892-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35808

Reviewed for Jhistory by Erik Lakomaa
Ridout, Travis N.; Franz, Michael. _Persuasive Power of Campaign
Advertising, The_. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2011.
x + 186 pp. $68.50, ISBN 978-1-4399-0332-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35968

Reviewed for H-SAfrica by Sean Jacobs
Lalu, Premesh; Noëleen Murray; eds.. _Becoming UWC: Reflections,
Pathways and Unmaking Apartheid's Legacy_. Bellville, South
Africa: Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western
Cape, 2012. Illustrations. 192 pp. No price listed, ISBN 978-1-
86808-727-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36152

Reviewed for H-South by Gina Marie Caison
Taylor, Melanie Benson. _Reconstructing the Native South:
American Indian Literature and the Lost Cause_. Athens:
University of Georgia Press, 2011. x + 253 pp. $59.95, ISBN 978-
0-8203-3884-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36192

Reviewed for H-TGS by Jan Logemann
Domhardt, Konstanze Sylva. _Heart of the City: Die Stadt in den
transatlantischen Debatten der CIAM 1933-1951, The_. Zürich: Gta
Verlag, 2012. 421 pp. , ISBN 978-3-85676-277-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36199

Reviewed for H-War by Bradley Cesario
Musteen, Jason R.. _Nelson's Refuge: Gibraltar in the Age of
Napoleon_. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2011. 251 pp.
$29.95, ISBN 978-1-59114-545-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36455

Reviewed for H-Asia by Madhu Sarin
Bera, Tilak Ranjan. Ladakh: A Glimpse of the Roof of the World.
Kolkata: Woodland Publishers, 2012. Illustrations. 253 pp.
$133.00, ISBN 978-81-906121-6-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36489

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Joanna Radin
Chorev, Nitsan. _World Health Organization between North and
South, The_. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2012. 288 pp.
$45.00, ISBN 978-0-8014-5065-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36681

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Avery Plaw
Graham, Thomas. _Unending Crisis: National Security Policy after
9/11_. Seattle: Institute of Global and Regional Security
Studies, Jackson School of International Studies in association
with University of Washington Press, 2012. 288 pp. $24.95, ISBN
978-0-295-99170-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36732

Reviewed for H-War by Adam Koeth
Dunkerly, Robert M.. _Redcoats on the Cape Fear: The
Revolutionary War in Southeastern North Carolina_. Revised
Edition. Jefferson: McFarland, 2012. Illustrations. viii + 207
pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-7864-6958-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36792

Reviewed for H-HistGeog by Annika A. Culver
Dan, Shao. _Remote Homeland, Recovered Borderland: Manchus,
Manchoukuo, and Manchuria, 1907-1985_. World of East Asia Series.
Honolulu: University of Hawai?i Press, 2011. xxi + 413 pp.
$55.00, ISBN 978-0-8248-3445-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36939

Reviewed for H-Canada by David Tough
Helmes-Hayes, Rick. _Measuring the Mosaic: An Intellectual
Biography of John Porter_. Toronto: University of Toronto Press,
2010. Illustrations. xix + 588 pp. $90.00, ISBN 978-0-8020-9703-
3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37056

Reviewed for H-LatAm by J. Brian Freeman
Navarro, Aaron W.. _Political Intelligence and the Creation of
Modern Mexico, 1938-1954_. University Park: Pennsylvania State
University Press, 2010. xiv + 301 pp. $64.95, ISBN 978-0-271-
03705-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=31615

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Matthew Crawford
Delbourgo, James; Dew, Nicholas, eds.. _Science and Empire in the
Atlantic World_. New York: Routledge, 2008. xiv + 365 pp.
$95.00, ISBN 978-0-415-96126-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=31629

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Arthur Schmidt
Razo, Armando. _Social Foundations of Limited Dictatorship:
Networks and Private Protection during Mexico's Early
Industrialization_. Social Science History Series. Stanford:
Stanford University Press, 2008. xv + 246 pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-
0-8047-5661-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=31665

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Andrew Fisher
Gudmundson, Lowell; Wolfe, Justin, eds.. _Blacks and Blackness in
Central America: Between Race and Place_. Durham: Duke University
Press, 2010. 400 pp. $89.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-4787-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=31707

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Thomas Rogers
Smith, Neil. _Uneven Development: Nature, Capital, and the
Production of Space._. Third edition, with a new afterword.
Foreword by David Harvey. Athens: University of Georgia Press,
2008. xvii + 323 pp. $22.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-3099-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=31937

Reviewed for H-LatAm by William Suarez-Potts
Buchenau, Jürgen. Mexican Mosaic: A Brief History of Mexico.
Global History Series. Wheeling: Harlan Davidson, 2008.
Illustrations. 164 pp. $16.95, ISBN 978-0-88295-263-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=32053

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Stanley Mirvis
Kagan, Richard L.; Morgan, Philip D., eds.. _Atlantic Diasporas:
Jews, Conversos, and Crypto-Jews in the Age of Mercantilism, 1500-
1800_. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. xvii +
307 pp. $60.00, ISBN 978-0-8018-9034-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=32057

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Katherine Arner
Weaver, Karol K.. _Medical Revolutionaries: The Enslaved Healers
of Eighteenth-Century Saint Domingue_. Urbana: University of
Illinois Press, 2006. xii + 163 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-252-
03085-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=32062

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Marc Becker
Moses, A. Dirk, ed.. _Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest,
Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History_. War and
Genocide Series. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2008. 480 pp. $95.00,
ISBN 978-1-84545-452-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=32089

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Jessica M. Parr
Rahier, Jean; Hintzen, Percy C.; Smith, Felipe, eds.. _Global
Circuits of Blackness: Interrogating the African Diaspora_.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010. xxvi + 261 pp.
$80.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03562-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=32103

Reviewed for H-Canada by Whitney Wood
Strong-Boag, Veronica. _Fostering Nation? Canada Confronts Its
History of Childhood Disadvantage_. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier
University Press, 2011. x + 302 pp. $85.00, ISBN 978-1-55458-
254-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33326

Reviewed for H-Albion by Heather Parker
Brown, Keith M.. _Noble Power in Scotland from the Reformation to
the Revolution_. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. ix
+ 334 pp. $120.00, ISBN 978-0-7486-1298-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33907

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Timothy S. Quinn
Rashkover, Randi. _Freedom and Law: A Jewish-Christian
Apologetics_. New York: Fordham University Press, 2011. 288 pp.
$85.00, ISBN 978-0-8232-3452-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34173

Reviewed for H-Albion by Terrance Lewis
McKibbin, Ross. Parties and People: England, 1914-1951.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. viii + 207 pp. $37.95,
ISBN 978-0-19-958469-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35085

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Steven Bowman
Peter Schafer, Michael Meerson, Yaacov Deutsch, eds.. _Toledot
Yeshu ("The Life Story of Jesus") Revisited_. Tuebingen: Mohr
Siebeck, 2011. 316 pp. EUR 99.00, ISBN 978-3-16-150948-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35451

Reviewed for H-War by James Carter
Silbey, David J.. _Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China,
The_. New York: Hill and Wang, 2012. 304 pp. $26.95, ISBN 978-
0-8090-9477-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35704

Reviewed for H-War by Tal Tovy
Lewis, Adrian R.. _American Culture of War: A History of U.S.
Military Force from World War II to Operation Iraqi Freedom, The_.
Second Edition. New York: Routledge, 2012. xx + 566 pp. $130.00,
ISBN 978-0-415-89020-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36071

Reviewed for H-War by Jason McHale
Domagalski, John J.. _Lost at Guadalcanal: The Final Battles of
the Astoria and Chicago as Described by Survivors and in Official
Reports_. Jefferson: McFarland, 2010. viii + 224 pp. $38.00,
ISBN 978-0-7864-5897-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36355

Reviewed for Jhistory by Jim Leonhirth
Blevins, Brooks. _Ghost of the Ozarks: Murder and Memory in the
Upland South_. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012.
Illustrations. xxii + 261 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-252-03695-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36385

Reviewed for Jhistory by Andrew Salvati
Fang, Irving. Alphabet to Internet: Media in Our Lives. Second
Edition. St. Paul: Rada Press, 2012. 318 pp. $48.00, ISBN 978-1-
933011-01-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36414

Reviewed for H-AfrArts by William Hart
Imperato, Gavin H.; Imperato, Pascal James. _Bundu: Sowei
Headpieces of the Sande Society of West Africa, the Imperato
Family Collection_. Bayside: Kilima House Publishers, 2012.
Illustrations. 178 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-1-936658-10-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36454

Reviewed for Jhistory by Jeanette McVicker
Barbato, Carole A.; Davis, Laura L., eds.. _Democratic Narrative,
History, and Memory_. Kent: Kent State University Press, 2012.
xi + 257 pp. $29.00, ISBN 978-1-60635-119-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36481

Reviewed for H-HRE by Lance Lubelski
Soergel, Philip M.. _Miracles and the Protestant Imagination: The
Evangelical Wonder Book in Reformation Germany_. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2012. Illustrations. 256 pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-
0-19-984466-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36565

Reviewed for H-Empire by Jennifer Marshall
Frank, Caroline. _Objectifying China, Imagining America: Chinese
Commodities in Early America_. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 2011. xiii + 257 pp. $75.00, ISBN 978-0-226-26027-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36583

Reviewed for H-Ideas by G. Matthew Adkins
Birn, Raymond. _Royal Censorship of Books in Eighteenth-Century
France_. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. xii + 195
pp. $60.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-6359-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36802

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