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im Anschluss präsentieren wir Ihnen eine Liste der aktuellen historisch relevanten Rezensionen, die in anderen Foren des H-Net veröffentlicht wurden. Die vollständigen Texte finden Sie unter den angegebenen Links.
The following reviews were posted to the H-Net web site between
05 Nov 2012 and 17 Dec 2012.
Reviewed for H-Judaic by Ariel Feldestein
Aronson, Shlomo. David Ben-Gurion and the Jewish Renaissance.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xxii + 454 pp.
$35.00, ISBN 978-0-521-19748-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33129
Reviewed for H-Asia by Amrita Shodhan
Yagnik, Indulal. Autobiography of Indulal Yagnik, The.
Translated by Devavrat N. Pathak, Howard Spodek, and John R. Wood.
New Delhi: Manohar, 2011. Illustrations. 3 volume set. Volume 1:
583 pp.; Volume 2: 574 pp.; Volume 3: 665 pp. $229.50, ISBN 978-
81-7304-897-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33927
Reviewed for H-Asia by Afsar Mohammad
Ricci, Ronit. _Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the
Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia_. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2011. 336 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-
226-71088-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34595
Reviewed for H-Asia by Monika Horstmann
Busch, Allison. _Poetry of Kings: The Classical Hindi Literature
of Mughal India_. South Asia Research Series. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2011. 368 pp. $74.00, ISBN 978-0-19-976592-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34842
Reviewed for H-Judaic by Marc Caplan
Schachter, Allison. _Diasporic Modernisms: Hebrew and Yiddish
Literature in the Twentieth Century_. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2011. x + 198 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-19-981263-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35158
Reviewed for HABSBURG by Gabor Vermes
Cartledge, Bryan. Will to Survive: A History of Hungary, The.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. 600 pp. $35.00, ISBN
978-0-231-70224-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35342
Reviewed for H-War by Dana Cushing
Jones, Robert W.. _Bloodied Banners: Martial Display on the
Medieval Battlefield_. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2010.
Illustrations. x + 205 pp. $90.00, ISBN 978-1-84383-561-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35711
Reviewed for H-War by Godfrey N. Uzoigwe
Matthies, Volker. Siege of Magdala, The. Princeton: Markus
Wiener Publishers, 2012. xxiv + 209 pp. $170.50, ISBN 978-1-
55876-551-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35763
Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Lora Knight
Bristow, Nancy K.. _American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the
1918 Influenza Epidemic_. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
304 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-19-981134-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36040
Reviewed for H-SAfrica by Mary G. Rolinson
Vinson, Robert Trent. _Americans Are Coming! Dreams of African
American Liberation in Segregationist South Africa, The_. Athens:
Ohio University Press, 2012. xv + 235 pp. $32.95, ISBN 978-0-
8214-1986-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36148
Reviewed for H-War by Ruth P. White
Jewett, Clayton E., ed.. _Battlefield and Beyond: Essays on the
American Civil War, The_. Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of
the American Civil War Series. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State
University Press, 2012. viii + 341 pp. $47.50, ISBN 978-0-8071-
4355-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36370
Reviewed for H-Memory by Chris Lloyd
Blanco, Mari?a del Pilar. _Ghost-Watching American Modernity:
Haunting, Landscape, and the Hemispheric Imagination_. New York:
Fordham University Press, 2012. ix + 225 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-
8232-4214-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36591
Reviewed for H-California by Michael Duchemin
Chung, Sue Fawn. _In Pursuit of Gold: Chinese American Miners and
Merchants in the American West_. Urbana: University of Illinois
Press, 2011. xxxii + 258 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03628-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36594
Reviewed for H-Judaic by Harold Brodsky
Breger, Marshall J.; Reiter, Yitzhak; Hammer, Leonard, eds..
Sacred Space in Israel and Palestine: Religion and Politics.
Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics Series. London:
Routledge, 2012. xi + 340 pp. $155.00, ISBN 978-0-415-78315-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36671
Reviewed for H-Asia by Prakash Kumar
Mukherjee, Mithi. _India in the Shadows of Empire: A Legal and
Political History, 1774-1950_. New Delhi: Oxford University
Press, 2010. xxxviii + 278 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-19-806250-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36726
Reviewed for H-German by Alexander Peter d'Erizans
Cooke, Paul; Silberman, Marc, eds.. _Screening War: Perspectives
on German Suffering_. Rochester: Camden House, 2010. 310 pp.
$85.00, ISBN 978-1-57113-437-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36830
Reviewed for H-Empire by T.E. Rihll
Andreau, Jean; Descat, Raymond. Slave in Greece and Rome, The.
Translated by Marion Leopold. Madison: University of Wisconsin
Press, 2011. 198 pp. $26.95, ISBN 978-0-299-28374-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37086
Reviewed for H-HistGeog by Angharad Saunders
Hamnett, Brian R.. _Historical Novel in Nineteenth-Century
Europe: Representations of Reality in History and Fiction, The_.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. ix + 332 pp. $110.00,
ISBN 978-0-19-969504-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37149
Reviewed for H-Asia by Dilip Simeon
Quack, Johannes. _Disenchanting India: Organized Rationalism and
Criticism of Religion in India_. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2012. xvii + 362 pp. $99.00, ISBN 978-0-19-981260-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34722
Reviewed for H-War by Claire Barnes
Ross, Wilson. _Landscapes of the Western Front: Materiality
during the Great War_. London: Routledge, 2011. 244 pp.
$125.00, ISBN 978-0-415-80805-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35502
Reviewed for H-German by Annemarie Sammartino
Colomb, Claire. _Staging the New Berlin: Place Marketing and the
Politics of Urban Reinvention Post-1989_. New York: Routledge,
2011. 320 pp. $53.95, ISBN 978-0-415-59403-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35632
Reviewed for H-War by Olga Dror
Nguye??n, Co?ng Lua??n. _Nationalist in the Viet Nam Wars:
Memoirs of a Victim Turned Soldier_. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 2012. xv + 598 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-253-
35687-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35726
Reviewed for H-SAfrica by Martin J. Murray
Shapiro, Ian; Tebeau, Kahreen, eds.. _After Apartheid:
Reinventing South Africa?_. Charlottesville: University of
Virginia Press, 2011. vi + 376 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-8139-3097-
8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35875
Reviewed for H-Diplo by Dael Norwood
Johnson, Kendall, ed.. _Narratives of Free Trade: The Commercial
Cultures of Early US-China Relations_. Hong Kong: Hong Kong
University Press, 2012. xi + 234 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-988-8083-
53-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36109
Reviewed for H-Travel by Angela Schwarz
Paquet, Laura Byrne. Wanderlust: A Social History of Travel.
Fredericton: Goose Lane Editions, 2007. 310 pp. CDN 19.95, ISBN
978-0-86492-445-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36137
Reviewed for HABSBURG by Gaelle Fisher
Cohen, Gerard Daniel. _In Wars Wake: Europes Displaced Persons
in the Postwar Order_. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
viii + 237 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-19-539968-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36734
Reviewed for H-Judaic by Michael Carasik
Segal, Alan F.. _Sinning in the Hebrew Bible: How The Worst
Stories Speak for Its Truth_. New York: Columbia University
Press, 2012. 286 pp. $89.50, ISBN 978-0-231-15926-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36828
Reviewed for HABSBURG by Megan Brandow-Faller
Johnson, Julie M.. _Memory Factory: The Forgotten Women Artists
of Vienna 1900, The_. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press,
2012. 368 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-1-55753-613-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36900
Reviewed for H-Judaic by Yael Munk
Feldestein, Ariel L.. _Cinema and Zionism: The Development of a
Nation through Film_. Translated by Merav Pagis. London:
Vallentine Mitchell, 2012. Illustrations. 200 pp. $79.95, ISBN
978-0-85303-895-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36903
Reviewed for H-War by Kevin Braam
Allison, William Thomas. _My Lai: An American Atrocity in the
Vietnam War_. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
184 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-1-4214-0644-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36909
Reviewed for H-Histsex by Jerry Thomas
Sides, Josh. _Erotic City: Sexual Revolutions and the Making of
Modern San Francisco_. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
292 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-19-537781-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37105
Reviewed for H-SAE by Aaron Thornburg
Nelson, Bruce. _Irish Nationalists and the Making of the Irish
Race_. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. 348 pp.
$45.00, ISBN 978-0-691-15312-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37369
Reviewed for H-Judaic by Richard J. Hidary
Lehman, Marjorie Suzan. _En Yaaqov: Jacob Ibn Habib's Search for
Faith in the Talmudic Corpus, The_. Detroit: Wayne State
University Press, 2012. xi + 319 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8143-
3480-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35159
Reviewed for H-Genocide by Chris Davey
Prunier, Ge?rard. _Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan
Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe_. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2009. xxxviii + 529 pp. $29.95, ISBN
978-0-19-537420-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35290
Reviewed for H-Borderlands by Selfa Chew-Smithart
Geiger, Andrea. _Subverting Exclusion: Transpacific Encounters
with Race, Caste, and Borders, 1885-1928_. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 2011. xiv + 286 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-300-
16963-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35695
Reviewed for Jhistory by William Mari
Anderson, Steve F.. _Technologies of History: Visual Media and
the Eccentricity of the Past_. Hanover: Dartmouth College Press,
2011. 200 pp. $85.00, ISBN 978-1-58465-901-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36024
Reviewed for H-Judaic by Todd Herzog
Ashkenazi, Ofer. Weimar Film and Modern Jewish Identity. New
York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. xvi + 234 pp. $85.00, ISBN 978-
0-230-34136-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36138
Reviewed for H-War by Kenneth J. Heineman
Keating, Ann Durkin. _Rising Up from Indian Country: The Battle
of Fort Dearborn and the Birth of Chicago_. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 2012. 320 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-226-42896-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36294
Reviewed for H-Diplo by Ian Brown
Holliday, Ian. _Burma Redux: Global Justice and the Quest for
Political Reform in Myanmar_. New York: Columbia University
Press, 2011. 304 pp. $89.50, ISBN 978-0-231-16126-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36413
Reviewed for H-War by Ian Johnson
Dorondo, David R.. _Riders of the Apocalypse: German Cavalry and
Modern Warfare, 1870-1945_. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press,
2012. 352 pp. $36.95, ISBN 978-1-61251-086-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36434
Reviewed for H-Diplo by Colin Green
Vogt, Roland, ed.. _Europe and China: Strategic Partners or
Rivals?_. Global Connections Series. Hong Kong: Hong Kong
University Press, 2012. 276 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-988-8083-88-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36590
Reviewed for H-German by Paul Steege
Webber, Andrew. _Berlin in the Twentieth Century: A Cultural
Topography_. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. viii +
322 pp. $90.00, ISBN 978-0-521-89572-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36931
Reviewed for H-Diplo by Annessa Babic
Belkin, Aaron. _Bring Me Men: Military Masculinity and the Benign
Façade of American Empire, 1898-2001_. New York: Columbia
University Press, 2012. Illustrations. 244 pp. $25.00, ISBN 978-
0-231-70284-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36948
Reviewed for H-Diplo by Michael Brenes
Scha?fer, Axel R.. _Piety and Public Funding: Evangelicals and
the State in Modern America_. Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press, 2012. 311 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8122-4411-
3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36982
Reviewed for H-War by Arthur W. Hutchins
Hamilton-Hart, Natasha. _Hard Interests, Soft Illusions:
Southeast Asia and American Power_. Ithaca: Cornell University
Press, 2012. x + 243 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8014-5054-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36985
Reviewed for H-Diplo by Michael H. Fisher
Hevia, James. _Imperial Security State: British Colonial
Knowledge and Empire-Building in Asia, The_. Critical
Perspectives on Empire Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2012. 312 pp. $99.00, ISBN 978-0-521-89608-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37356
Reviewed for H-Empire by Carolyne Ryan
Colby, Jason M.. _Business of Empire: United Fruit, Race, and
U.S. Expansion in Central America, The_. Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 2011. xi + 274 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8014-
4915-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37515
Reviewed for H-German by Geoffrey J. Giles
Goeschel, Christian. Suicide in Nazi Germany. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2009. vii + 247 pp. Bibliography, index.
$45.00, ISBN 978-0-19-953256-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=32700
Reviewed for H-Asia by S. Akbar Zaidi
Kalia, Ravi, ed.. _Pakistan: From the Rhetoric of Democracy to
the Rise of Militancy_. New Delhi: Routledge, 2010. 264 pp.
$95.00, ISBN 978-0-415-67040-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33148
Reviewed for H-Urban by Keona K. Ervin
Reed, Christopher Robert. _Rise of Chicago's Black Metropolis,
1920-1929, The_. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011.
viii + 271 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03623-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33876
Reviewed for H-Judaic by Jennifer Noonan
Rahel Halabe. Hinneh: Biblical Hebrew the Practical Way.
Jerusalem: Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2011. 3 vols. $75.00,
ISBN 978-965-493-606-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35174
Reviewed for H-War by Joseph Frechette
Lendon, J. E.. Song of Wrath: The Peloponnesian War Begins.
New York: Basic Books, 2010. 576 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-465-
01506-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35487
Reviewed for H-Judaic by Matthew Kraus
Rosen-Zvi, Ishay. _Demonic Desires: "Yetzer Hara" and the Problem
of Evil in Late Antiquity_. Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press, 2011. 256 pp. $69.95, ISBN 978-0-8122-4339-
0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35550
Reviewed for H-Environment by Cody E. Ferguson
Newfont, Kathryn. _Blue Ridge Commons: Environmental Activism and
Forest History in Western North Carolina_. Athens: University of
Georgia Press, 2012. xix + 369 pp. $69.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-4124-
8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36203
Reviewed for H-South by Jeff Frederick
Tullos, Allen. _Alabama Getaway: The Political Imaginary and the
Heart of Dixie_. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011. xii
+ 364 pp. $69.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-3048-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36286
Reviewed for Jhistory by Duncan Koerber
Comor, Edward, ed.. _Media, Structures, and Power: The Robert E.
Babe Collection_. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011.
xxii + 436 pp. $85.00, ISBN 978-0-8020-9860-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36402
Reviewed for H-Asia by Ashutosh Potdar
Hansen, Kathryn. _Stages of Life: Indian Theatre
Autobiographies_. London: Anthem Press, 2011. 392 pp. $99.00,
ISBN 978-81-7824-311-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36415
Reviewed for H-War by Scott A. Stewart
Barkley, John Lewis. _Scarlet Fields: The Combat Memoir of a
World War I Medal of Honor Hero_. Edited by Steven Trout.
Lawrence: University Press of Kansas in association with the
National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial, 2012. vi + 268
pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1842-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36660
Reviewed for H-War by Tony Demchak
Bidlack, Richard; Lomagin, Nikita. _Leningrad Blockade, 1941-
1944: A New Documentary History from the Soviet Archives, The_.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. xxix + 486 pp. $75.00,
ISBN 978-0-300-11029-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36694
Reviewed for H-Histsex by Douglas M. Charles
Loftin, Craig M.. _Masked Voices: Gay Men and Lesbians in Cold
War America_. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2012.
xiii + 310 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-4384-4014-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36739
Reviewed for H-Judaic by Ofer Nur
Shanes, Joshua. _Diaspora Nationalism and Jewish Identity in
Habsburg Galicia_. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
336 pp. $99.00, ISBN 978-1-107-01424-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36922
Reviewed for H-Pentecostalism by Kathleen Hladky
Stephens, Randall J.; Giberson, Karl W.. _Anointed: Evangelical
Truth in a Secular Age, The_. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard
University Press, 2011. 384 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-674-04818-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37510
Reviewed for H-Judaic by Khayke Beruriah Wiegand
Dorot, Ruth. _Art of Time, The Art of Place: Isaac Bashevis
Singer and Marc Chagall - A Dialogue, The_. Translated by Micaela
Ziv. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2011. vii + 138 pp.
Illustrations. $59.95, ISBN 978-1-84519-409-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33872
Reviewed for H-War by Jack Wells
Erskine, Andrew. Roman Imperialism. Edinburgh: Edinburgh
University Press, 2010. xxiv + 208 pp. $115.00, ISBN 978-0-7486-
1962-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34382
Reviewed for H-SAfrica by Jean-Luc Piermay
Bekker, S. B.; Therborn, Göran, eds.. _Power and Powerlessness:
Capital Cities in Africa_. Cape Town: HSRC Press, 2012. 220 pp.
, ISBN 978-0-7969-2350-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35920
Reviewed for H-Judaic by Michael Cook
Stahl, Neta, ed.. _Jesus among the Jews: Representation and
Thought_. Routledge Jewish Studies Series. New York: Routledge,
2012. 248 pp. $135.00, ISBN 978-0-415-78258-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35962
Reviewed for Jhistory by Kate Edenborg
Shaver, Lisa J.. _Beyond the Pulpit: Women's Rhetorical Roles in
the Antebellum Religious Press_. Pittsburgh: University of
Pittsburgh Press, 2012. 184 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8229-6169-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36047
Reviewed for H-Albion by Cristian Berco
Dabhoiwala, Faramerz. _Origins of Sex: A History of the First
Sexual Revolution, The_. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
xi + 483 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-19-989241-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36233
Reviewed for H-War by William Waddell
Hazareesingh, Sudhir. _In the Shadow of the General: Modern
France and the Myth of De Gaulle_. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2012. 256 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-19-530888-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36448
Reviewed for H-Memory by Boyd Cothran
Francaviglia, Richard V.. _Go East, Young Man: Imagining the
American West as the Orient_. Logan: Utah State University Press,
2011. 310 pp. $36.95, ISBN 978-0-87421-809-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36589
Reviewed for H-SAWH by Kristen Brill
Nathans, Sydney. To Free a Family: The Journey of Mary Walker.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011. 360 pp. $29.95, ISBN
978-0-674-06212-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36614
Reviewed for H-German by Jacob Baum
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=36704
Reviewed for H-War by Tal Tovy
Waite, James. _End of the First Indochina War: A Global History,
The_. New York: Routledge, 2012. 310 pp. $125.00, ISBN 978-0-
415-88684-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36874
Reviewed for H-Africa by Judith A. Byfield
Semley, Lorelle D.. _Mother Is Gold, Father Is Glass: Gender and
Colonialism in a Yoruba Town_. Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, 2011. xvi + 235 pp. $70.00, ISBN 978-0-253-35545-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36891
Reviewed for H-Diplo by Zachary Fredman
Wang, Zheng. _Never Forget National Humiliation: Historical
Memory in Chinese Politics and Foreign Relations_. New York:
Columbia University Press, 2012. xiii + 293 pp. $32.50, ISBN
978-0-231-14890-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36967
Reviewed for H-Diplo by Julia Azari
Holsti, Ole R.. American Public Opinion on the Iraq War. Ann
Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2011. xii + 226 pp. $90.00,
ISBN 978-0-472-11704-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36981
Reviewed for H-Albion by Jeannine Kraft
Janet T. Marquardt. _Francoise Henry in Co. Mayo: The Inishkea
Journals_. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2012. 172 pp. $29.95,
ISBN 978-1-84682-374-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37030
Reviewed for H-Albion by Catherine M. Burns
Gary D. Rhodes. _Emerald Illusions: The Irish in Early American
Cinema_. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2012. 432 pp. $79.95,
ISBN 978-0-7165-3143-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37059
Reviewed for H-Diplo by Joan Johnson-Freese
Mahnken, Thomas G., ed.. _Competitive Strategies for the 21st
Century: Theory, History, and Practice_. Palo Alto: Stanford
University Press, 2012. 344 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8047-8242-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37095
Reviewed for H-Memory by David A. Messenger
Borneman, John. Political Crime and the Memory of Loss.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011. xiii + 243 pp.
$27.95, ISBN 978-0-253-22351-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37385
Reviewed for HABSBURG by Thomas Ort
Paces, Cynthia. _Prague Panoramas: National Memory and Sacred
Space in the Twentieth Century_. Pittsburgh: University of
Pittsburgh Press, 2009. xv + 309 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-8229-
6035-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33363
Reviewed for H-German by Roderick Stackelberg
Bergmann, Werner; Sieg, Ulrich, eds.. _Antisemitische
Geschichtsbilder_. Essen: Klartext Verlag, 2009. 264 pp. EUR
24.95, ISBN 978-3-8375-0114-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34149
Reviewed for H-War by Zachary Smith
Bibbings, Lois S.. _Telling Tales about Men: Conceptions of
Conscientious Objectors to Military Service during the First World
War_. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009. x + 259 pp.
$79.95, ISBN 978-0-7190-6922-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35436
Reviewed for H-Judaic by Jessica Marglin
Simonsohn, Uriel I.. _Common Justice: The Legal Allegiances of
Christians and Jews under Early Islam, A_. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. viii + 306 pp. $79.95,
ISBN 978-0-8122-4349-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35541
Reviewed for H-War by Timothy C. Hemmis
Ward, Harry M.. _For Virginia and for Independence: Twenty-Eight
Revolutionary War Soldiers from the Old Dominion_. Jefferson:
McFarland, 2011. vi + 219 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-7864-6130-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35665
Reviewed for H-War by Javan Frazier
Gurman, Hannah. _Dissent Papers: The Voices of Diplomats in the
Cold War and Beyond, The_. New York: Columbia University Press,
2012. ix + 280 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-231-15872-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35978
Reviewed for Jhistory by Kimberley Mangun
Petersen, Jennifer. _Murder, the Media, and the Politics of
Public Feelings: Remembering Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr._.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011. viii + 210 pp.
$70.00, ISBN 978-0-253-35659-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36388
Reviewed for H-Albion by Howard Needler
Tunstall, Kate E.. _Blindness and Enlightenment: An Essay: With a
new translation of Diderot's "Letter on the Blind" and La Mothe Le
Vayer's "Of a Man Born Blind"_. New York: Continuum, 2011. xi +
238 pp. $100.00, ISBN 978-1-4411-5803-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36470
Reviewed for H-Histsex by Carolyn Osiek
Dunning, Benjamin H.. _Specters of Paul: Sexual Difference in
Early Christian Thought_. Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press, 2011. 272 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8122-4307-
9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36750
Reviewed for H-Judaic by Angela Roskop Erisman
Baden, Joel S.. _Composition of the Pentateuch: Renewing the
Documentary Hypothesis, The_. New Haven: Yale University Press,
2012. x + 378 pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-300-15263-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36901
Reviewed for H-Diplo by Anne Harrington
Knopf, Jeffrey W., ed.. _Security Assurances and Nuclear
Nonproliferation_. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012.
320 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-7827-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36958
Reviewed for H-Kentucky by Joshua J. Jeffers
Hammon, Neal O., ed.. _My Father, Daniel Boone: The Draper
Interviews with Nathan Boone_. Lexington: University Press of
Kentucky, 2012. xi + 180 pp. $17.95, ISBN 978-0-8131-3465-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36972
Reviewed for H-Diplo by Renata Keller
Castro, Soraya; Pruessen, Ronald W., eds.. _Fifty Years of
Revolution: Perspectives on Cuba, the United States, and the
World_. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2012. 400 pp.
$44.95, ISBN 978-0-8130-4023-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37080
Reviewed for H-SAE by Kai Heidemann
Oslund, Karen. _Iceland Imagined: Nature, Culture, and
Storytelling in the North Atlantic_. Seattle: University of
Washington Press, 2011. xvi + 260 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-295-
99083-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37621
Reviewed for Jhistory by Daniel Platt
Hendershot, Heather. _What's Fair on the Air? Cold War Right-Wing
Broadcasting and the Public Interest_. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 2011. 272 pp. $27.50, ISBN 978-0-226-32678-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37672
Reviewed for H-NC by Steven Nash
Beckel, Deborah. _Radical Reform: Interracial Politics in Post-
Emancipation North Carolina_. Charlottesville: University of
Virginia Press, 2011. x + 298 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8139-3002-
2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37674