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H-Net Reviews

The following reviews were posted to the H-Net web site between
24 Dec 2012 and 04 Feb 2013.

Reviewed for H-War by Eric Haas
Otte, T. G.. _Foreign Office Mind: The Making of British Foreign
Policy, 1865-1914, The_. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2011. Illustrations. xiii + 437 pp. $99.00, ISBN 978-1-107-
00650-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36277

Reviewed for H-War by Tal Tovy
Nguyen, Lien-Hang T.. _Hanoi's War: An International History of
the War for Peace in Vietnam_. The New Cold War History Series.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. 464 pp.
$34.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3551-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36601

Reviewed for H-Judaic by John C. Reeves
Portier-Young, Anathea. _Apocalypse against Empire: Theologies of
Resistance in Early Judaism_. Grand Rapids: W. B. Eerdmans Pub.
Co., 2011. xxiii + 462 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-8028-6598-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=32941

Reviewed for H-Levant by Setrag Manoukian
Afary, Janet. Sexual Politics in Modern Iran. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2009. xviii + 423 pp. $99.00, ISBN
978-0-521-89846-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33412

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Henrietta Mondry
Grinberg, Marat. _"I am to be read not from left to right, but in
Jewish: from right to left": The Poetics of Boris Slutsky_.
Borderlines: Russian and East European Jewish Studies Series.
Brighton: Academic Studies Press, 2011. 482 pp. $65.00, ISBN
978-1-934843-73-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33926

Reviewed for H-SAfrica by Jon Soske
Couper, Scott. Albert Luthuli: Bound by Faith. Scottsville,
South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2010.
Illustrations. xi + 291 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-1-86914-192-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34065

Reviewed for H-CivWar by Michael Crane
Lehman, Christopher P.. _Slavery in the Upper Mississippi Valley,
1787-1865: A History of Human Bondage in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota
and Wisconsin_. Jefferson: McFarland, 2011. 228 pp. $45.00,
ISBN 978-0-7864-5872-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35647

Reviewed for H-CivWar by Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie
Gannon, Barbara A.. _Won Cause: Black and White Comradeship in
the Grand Army of the Republic, The_. Chapel Hill: University of
North Carolina Press, 2011. 288 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-
3452-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35991

Reviewed for H-CivWar by Court Carney
Astor, Aaron. _Rebels on the Border: Civil War, Emancipation, and
the Reconstruction of Kentucky and Missouri_. Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State University Press, 2012. 360 pp. $47.50, ISBN
978-0-8071-4298-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36014

Reviewed for H-War by Holger Löwendorf
Alford, Kenneth D.. _Hermann Göring and the Nazi Art Collection:
The Looting of Europe's Art Treasures and Their Dispersal after
World War II_. Jefferson: McFarland, 2012. 269 pp. $45.00, ISBN
978-0-7864-6815-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36107

Reviewed for H-Canada by Sylvie Jasen
Melnyk, George; Austin-Smith, Brenda, eds.. _Gendered Screen:
Canadian Women Filmmakers, The_. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier
University Press, 2010. ix + 270 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-55458-
179-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36292

Reviewed for Jhistory by Gwyneth Mellinger
Agee, Gary Bruce. _Cry for Justice: Daniel Rudd and His Life in
Black Catholicism, Journalism, and Activism, 1854-1933, A_.
Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2011. 256 pp.
$39.95, ISBN 978-1-55728-975-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36401

Reviewed for Jhistory by Bob Miller
Nessen, Ron. _Making the News, Taking the News: From NBC to the
Ford White House_. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2011.
Illustrations. ix + 243 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-8195-7156-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36411

Reviewed for H-Albion by Meghan Roberts
Gill, Natasha. _Educational Philosophy in the French
Enlightenment_. Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate, 2010. vi +
306 pp. $124.95, ISBN 978-0-7546-6289-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36503

Reviewed for H-War by Zack Ball
Eshelman, Ralph E.; Kummerow, Burton K.. _In Full Glory
Reflected: Discovering the War of 1812 in the Chesapeake_.
Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society Press, 2012.
Illustrations. 256 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-9842135-4-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36719

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Dean Phillip Bell
Fram, Edward, ed.. _Window on Their World: The Court Diaries of
Rabbi Hayyim Gundersheim Frankfurt Am Main, 1773-1794, A_.
Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 2012. 660 pp. $65.00,
ISBN 978-0-87820-253-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36823

Reviewed for H-Environment by Steven M. Fountain
Heffernan, Trova. _Where the Salmon Run: The Life and Legacy of
Billy Frank Jr._. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012.
ix + 322 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-295-99178-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36883

Reviewed for H-Pietism by Scott Rohrer
Ferguson, Leland. _God's Fields: Landscape, Religion, and Race in
Moravian Wachovia_. Gainesville: University Press of Florida,
2011. xx + 276 pp. $74.95, ISBN 978-0-8130-3748-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37032

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Colleen Woods
Muehlenbeck, Philip E., ed.. _Religion and the Cold War: A Global
Perspective_. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2012. xxii
+ 314 pp. $65.95, ISBN 978-0-8265-1852-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37037

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Sumit Ganguly
Puri, Luv. _Across the Line of Control: Inside Pakistan-
Administered Kashmir_. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012.
ix + 136 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-231-70306-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37039

Reviewed for H-Environment by Drew A. Swanson
Morris, Christopher. _Big Muddy: An Environmental History of the
Mississippi and Its Peoples from Hernando de Soto to Hurricane
Katrina, The_. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. xii +
300 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-19-531691-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37487

Reviewed for H-Urban by Lela Felter-Kerley
Neve, Monica. _Sold! Advertising and the Bourgeois Female
Consumer in Munich, 1900-1914_. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag,
2010. 224 pp. $90.00, ISBN 978-3-515-09343-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33869

Reviewed for H-Disability by Janet Miron
Noll, Richard. _American Madness: The Rise and Fall of Dementia
Praecox_. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011. 395 pp.
$45.00, ISBN 978-0-674-04739-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35255

Reviewed for H-War by Adam R. Seipp
Field, Geoffrey G.. _Blood, Sweat, and Toil: Remaking the British
Working Class, 1939-1945_. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
496 pp. $125.00, ISBN 978-0-19-960411-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35727

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Joshua Garroway
Novenson, Matthew V.. _Christ among the Messiahs: Christ Language
in Paul and Messiah Language in Ancient Judaism_. New York:
Oxford University Press, 2012. 256 pp. $74.00, ISBN 978-0-19-
984457-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36151

Reviewed for H-South by Charles F. Irons
Carney, Charity R.. _Ministers and Masters: Methodism, Manhood,
and Honor in the Old South_. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State
University Press, 2011. 216 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3886-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36189

Reviewed for H-Asia by Richard V. Simmons
Gu, Sharron. Cultural History of the Chinese Language, A.
Jefferson: McFarland & Co., 2012. v + 264 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-
0-7864-6649-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36404

Reviewed for H-Asia by Matt Matsuda
Bera, Tilak Ranjan. _Journey through Nicobars: A History of
Nicobar Islands Pre and Post Tsunami, A_. Salt Lake City:
Woodland Publisers, 2011. , ISBN 978-81-906121-4-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36406

Reviewed for H-War by R. Thomas Bobal
Tucker, Nancy Bernkopf. _China Threat: Memories, Myths, and
Realities in the 1950s, The_. New York: Columbia University
Press, 2012. xiii + 295 pp. $39.50, ISBN 978-0-231-15924-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36482

Reviewed for H-Histsex by Jim MacPherson
McGaughey, Jane G. V.. _Ulster's Men: Protestant Unionist
Masculinities and Militarization in the North of Ireland, 1912-
1923_. Montréal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012. xvi +
256 pp. $95.00, ISBN 978-0-7735-3972-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36740

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Jordan Rosenblum
Simon-Shoshan, Moshe. _Stories of the Law: Narrative Discourse
and the Construction of Authority in the Mishnah_. New York:
Oxford University Press, 2012. xv + 287 pp. $74.00, ISBN 978-0-
19-977373-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36825

Reviewed for H-Japan by Beate Loeffler
Brumann, Christoph; Schulz, Evelyn, eds.. _Urban Spaces in Japan:
Cultural and Social Perspectives_. London: Routledge, 2012. xiv
+ 226 pp. , ISBN 978-0-415-69545-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36960

Reviewed for H-SAfrica by Fred Morton
Landau, Paul S.. _Popular Politics in the History of South
Africa, 1400-1948_. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
xvi + 300 pp. $90.00, ISBN 978-0-521-19603-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37138

Reviewed for H-Disability by Christiane N. Fabbri
Haycock, David Boyd; Archer, Sally, eds.. _Health and Medicine at
Sea, 1700-1900_. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2009. xiv + 229 pp.
$95.00, ISBN 978-1-84383-522-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37836

Reviewed for H-SAE by Ayse Akalin
Hojdestrand, Tova. _Needed by Nobody: Homelessness and Humanness
in Post-Socialist Russia_. Culture and Society after Socialism
Series. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009. ix + 231 pp.
$59.95, ISBN 978-0-8014-4701-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=26416

Reviewed for H-German by Bradley L. Herling
Biderman, Shlomo. _Crossing Horizons: World, Self, and Language
in Indian and Western Thought_. Translated by Ornan Rotem. New
York: Columbia University Press, 2008. x + 356 pp. Notes,
bibliographical notes. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-231-14024-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=32783

Reviewed for H-Urban by Molly J. Loberg
Bingham, John. Weimar Cities. New York: Routledge, 2007. 192
pp. $95.00, ISBN 978-0-415-95744-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33938

Reviewed for H-Urban by Carlos Nunes Silva
Potter, Matthew. _Municipal Revolution in Ireland: Local
Government in Cities and Towns since 1800, The_. Dublin: Irish
Academic Press, 2010. 320 pp. $74.95, ISBN 978-0-7165-3082-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34015

Reviewed for H-War by Charles Pellegrin
Herzog, Jonathan P.. _Spiritual-Industrial Complex: America's
Religious Battle against Communism in the Early Cold War, The_.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. 288 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-
0-19-539346-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34513

Reviewed for H-Albion by Antoine Capet
Simmonds, Alan G. V.. Britain and World War One. London:
Routledge, 2012. 336 pp. $115.00, ISBN 978-0-415-45538-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35101

Reviewed for H-Atlantic by Cathy Matson
Zacek, Natalie A.. _Settler Society in the English Leeward
Islands, 1670-1776_. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
304 pp. $90.00, ISBN 978-0-521-19044-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35450

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Norman Roth
Ray, Jonathan. Jew in Medieval Iberia, The. Boston: Academic
Studies Press, 2012. xxiv + 441 pp. $70.00, ISBN 978-1-936235-
35-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36090

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Maureen Jackson
Brink-Danan, Marcy. _Jewish Life in Twenty-First-Century Turkey:
The Other Side of Tolerance_. Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, 2012. xviii + 218 pp. $70.00, ISBN 978-0-253-35690-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36206

Reviewed for H-Urban by Evan Roberts
Carriker, Robert. _Urban Farming in the West: A New Deal
Experiment in Subsistence Homesteads_. Tucson: University of
Arizona Press, 2010. Illustrations. xii + 238 pp. $50.00, ISBN
978-0-8165-2820-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36271

Reviewed for Jhistory by Larry Lorenz
Daly, Christopher B.. _Covering America: A Narrative History of a
Nation's Journalism_. Amherst: University Of Massachusetts Press,
2012. 576 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-1-55849-911-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36396

Reviewed for HABSBURG by Robin Okey
Lendvai, Paul. Hungary: Between Democracy and Authoritarianism.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. 288 pp. $35.00, ISBN
978-0-231-70322-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36799

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Tamara Myers
Brookfield, Tarah. _Cold War Comforts: Canadian Women, Child
Safety, and Global Insecurity_. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier
University Press, 2012. xiii + 290 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-55458-
623-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36997

Reviewed for H-Southern-Lit by Jordan J. Dominy
Watson, Jay. _Reading for the Body: The Recalcitrant Materiality
of Southern Fiction, 1893-1985_. Athens: University of Georgia
Press, 2012. x + 412 pp. $69.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-4336-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37001

Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Edward S. Slavishak
Blair, Amy L.. _Reading Up: Middle-Class Readers and the Culture
of Success in the Early Twentieth-Century United States_.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2012. ix + 250 pp.
$28.95, ISBN 978-1-4399-0668-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37028

Reviewed for H-War by Sarah Douglas
Ross, James. _John de Vere, Thirteenth Earl of Oxford: "The
Foremost Man of the Kingdom"_. Rochester: Boydell Press, 2011.
266 pp. $99.00, ISBN 978-1-84383-614-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37119

Reviewed for H-Environment by Adam Mandelman
McCool, Daniel. _River Republic: The Fall and Rise of America's
Rivers_. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. xvi + 388
pp. , ISBN 978-0-231-16130-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37125

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Sara Fieldston
Balcom, Karen Andrea. _Traffic in Babies: Cross-Border Adoption
and Baby-Selling between the United States and Canada, 1930-1972,
The_. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011. xii + 356 pp.
Illustrations $75.00, ISBN 978-0-8020-9918-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37127

Reviewed for H-Memory by Guy Lancaster
Anastasio, Thomas J.; Ehrenberger, Kristen Ann; Watson, Patrick;
Zhang, Wenyi. _Individual and Collective Memory Consolidation:
Analogous Processes on Different Levels_. Cambridge: MIT Press,
2012. ix + 333 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-262-01704-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37473

Reviewed for H-Empire by Paul Landau
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=37512

Reviewed for H-Empire by Carolyne Ryan
Soares, Mariza de Carvalho. _People of Faith: Slavery and African
Catholics in Eighteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro_. Durham: Duke
University Press, 2011. Illustrations. xiii + 321 pp. $84.95,
ISBN 978-0-8223-5023-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37516

Reviewed for H-Empire by Edward Cavanagh
Landau, Paul S.. _Popular Politics in the History of South
Africa, 1400-1948_. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
xvi + 300 pp. $90.00, ISBN 978-0-521-19603-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37549

Reviewed for H-Pentecostalism by Dianna Bell
Englund, Harri, ed.. Christianity and Public Culture in Africa.
Athens: Ohio University Press, 2011. ix + 238 pp. $49.95, ISBN
978-0-8214-1945-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37847

Reviewed for Jhistory by Noah Arceneaux
Verma, Neil. _Theater of the Mind: Imagination, Aesthetics, and
American Radio Drama_. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
2012. 296 pp. $85.00, ISBN 978-0-226-85350-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37848

Reviewed for H-Pentecostalism by Karen Lauterbach
Soothill, Jane E.. _Gender, Social Change and Spiritual Power:
Charismatic Christianity in Ghana (Studies of Religion in Africa)
(Studies of Religion in Africa)_. Leiden: Brill, 2007. x + 261
pp. $124.00, ISBN 978-90-04-15789-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24577

Reviewed for H-Environment by Susan Hall
Kerns, Virginia. _Journeys West: Jane and Julian Steward and
Their Guides_. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010.
xxviii + 414 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8032-2508-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=30961

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Randy L. Friedman
Fagenblat, Michael. _Covenant of Creatures: Levinas's Philosophy
of Judaism, A_. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010.
xxviii + 281 pp. $70.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-6869-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=31108

Reviewed for H-Environment by Robert D. Lifset
Bull, Peter, dir.. _Dirty Business: "Clean Coal" and the Battle
for Our Energy Future_. Produced by Center for Investigative
Reporting. Oley: Bullfrog Films, 2011. 90 mins. $295.00, ISBN
978-1-59458-903-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33857

Reviewed for H-German by Garth Montgomery
Taaks, Christian. _Federführung für die Nation ohne Vorbehalt?:
Deutsche Medien in China während der Zeit des
Nationalsozialismus_. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2009.
664 pp. $132.00, ISBN 978-3-515-08739-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34492

Reviewed for H-Law by Scott Hancock
Newman, Richard S.; Mueller, James, eds.. _Antislavery and
Abolition in Philadelphia: Emancipation and the Long Struggle for
Racial Justice in the City of Brotherly Love_. Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State University Press, 2011. 264 pp. $39.95, ISBN
978-0-8071-3991-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34934

Reviewed for H-HRE by Hans J. Hummer
Costambeys, Marios; Innes, Matthew; MacLean, Simon. _Carolingian
World, The_. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xix +
505 pp. $99.00, ISBN 978-0-521-56366-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35111

Reviewed for H-War by Mark Montesclaros
Jenkins, Tricia. _CIA in Hollywood: How the Agency Shapes Film
and Television, The_. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011.
167 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-292-72861-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35635

Reviewed for H-Borderlands by Dominique Brégent-Heald
Hoerder, Dirk; Faires, Nora, eds.. _Migrants and Migration in
Modern North America: Cross-Border Lives, Labor Markets, and
Politics_. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011. Maps. 456 pp.
$89.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-5034-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35799

Reviewed for H-Italy by Neil De Marchi
Guerzoni, Guido. _Apollo & Vulcan: The Art Markets in Italy,
1400-1700_. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2011.
384 pp. $54.95, ISBN 978-1-61186-006-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35860

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Rachel Simon
Borovaya, Olga. _Modern Ladino Culture: Press, Belles Lettres,
and Theater in the Late Ottoman Empire_. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 2012. x + 284 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-253-
35672-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35944

Reviewed for H-Disability by Allison Carey
Pelka, Fred. _What We Have Done: An Oral History of the
Disability Rights Movement_. Amherst: University of Massachusetts
Press, 2012. 592 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-55849-919-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36163

Reviewed for H-California by John P. Lloyd
Matthews, Glenna. _Golden State in the Civil War: Thomas Starr
King, the Republican Party, and the Birth of Modern California,
The_. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xii + 272 pp.
$95.00, ISBN 978-0-521-19400-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36368

Reviewed for H-South by Charity R. Carney
Flowers, Elizabeth Hill. _Into the Pulpit: Southern Baptist Women
and Power since World War II_. Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, 2012. xii + 263 pp. $47.50, ISBN 978-0-8078-
3534-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36412

Reviewed for H-HRE by Brian N. Becker
Rubenstein, Jay. _Armies of Heaven: The First Crusade and the
Quest for Apocalypse_. New York: Basic Books, 2011. 424 pp.
$29.99, ISBN 978-0-465-01929-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36460

Reviewed for H-Memory by Rebecca Jinks
Wilson, Kristi M.; Crowder-Taraborrelli, Toma?s F., eds.. _Film
and Genocide_. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012. x +
266 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-299-28564-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36578

Reviewed for H-Albion by Tim Stretton
Hubbard, Eleanor. _City Women: Money, Sex, and the Social Order
in Early Modern London_. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
297 pp. $125.00, ISBN 978-0-19-960934-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36811

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Benjamin Coates
Knarr, James C.. _Uruguay and the United States, 1903-1929:
Diplomacy in the Progressive Era_. Kent: Kent State University
Press, 2012. 224 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-1-60635-128-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37097

Reviewed for H-AfrArts by John Pemberton III
Ogbechie, Sylvester Okwunodu. _Making History: African Collectors
and the Canon of African Art: The Femi Akinsanya African Art
Collection_. Milan: 5 Continents Editions, 2011. 278 pp.
$70.00, ISBN 978-88-7439-571-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37113

Reviewed for H-War by Adam Koeth
Sullivan, Robert. _My American Revolution: Crossing the Delaware
and I-78_. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. 272 pp.
$26.00, ISBN 978-0-374-21745-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37378

Reviewed for H-1960s by Derek Catsam
Williams, Yohuru; Yazerow, Jama, eds.. _In Search of the Black
Panther Party: New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement_.
Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. x + 390 pp. $84.95, ISBN
978-0-8223-3837-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37963

Reviewed for H-HistGeog by Kenneth Olwig
della Dora, Veronica. _Imagining Mount Athos: Visions of a Holy
Place from Homer to World War II_. Charlottesville: University Of
Virginia Press, 2011. 328 pp. $49.50, ISBN 978-0-8139-3085-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38036

Reviewed for H-Borderlands by George T. Diaz
Levario, Miguel Antonio. _Militarizing the Border: When Mexicans
Became the Enemy_. College Station: Texas A&M University Press,
2012. xiv + 195 pp. $38.95, ISBN 978-1-60344-758-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38061

Reviewed for HABSBURG by Alan Sked
Cole, Laurence; Hämmerle, Christa; Scheutz, Martin, eds.. _Glanz-
Gewalt-Gehorsam: Militär und Gesellschaft in der
Habsburgermonarchie (1800 bis 1918)_. Essen: Klartext Verlag,
2011. Illustrations. 433 pp. $26.49, ISBN 978-3-8375-0409-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33409

Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Janet M. Davis
Pearson, Susan J.. _Rights of the Defenseless: Protecting Animals
and Children in Gilded Age America, The_. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 2011. 280 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-226-65201-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33662

Reviewed for H-Atlantic by Mark Quintanilla
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=35121

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Itay Zutra
Caplan, Marc. _How Strange the Change: Language, Temporality, and
Narrative Form in Peripheral Modernisms_. Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 2011. xiv + 342 pp. $60.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-
7476-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35155

Reviewed for H-Genocide by Atje Gercama
Semelin, Jacques; Andrieu, Claire; Gensburger, Sarah, eds..
Resisting Genocide: The Multiple Forms of Rescue. New York:
Columbia University Press, 2011. 550 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-231-
70172-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35198

Reviewed for H-SC by Peter N. Moore
Hart, Emma. _Building Charleston: Town and Society in the
Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World_. Charlottesville:
University of Virginia Press, 2010. xii + 274 pp. $45.00, ISBN
978-0-8139-2867-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35355

Reviewed for H-War by Timothy Cooke
Mills, Jane, ed.. Cromwell's Legacy. Manchester: Manchester
University Press, 2012. x + 306 pp. $100.00, ISBN 978-0-7190-
8089-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36366

Reviewed for H-Albion by Laura Kounine
Darr, Orna Alyagon. Marks of an Absolute Witch. Farnham:
Ashgate, 2011. viii + 326 pp. $124.95, ISBN 978-0-7546-6987-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36542

Reviewed for H-Environment by Dan Tamir
Davis, Diana K.; Burke, Edmund, eds.. _Environmental Imaginaries
of the Middle East and North Africa_. Athens: Ohio University
Press, 2011. xiv + 286 pp. $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8214-1974-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36554

Reviewed for H-War by Hal Friedman
Heefner, Gretchen. _Missile Next Door: The Minuteman in the
American Heartland, The_. Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
2012. 320 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-674-05911-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36923

Reviewed for H-Kentucky by Andrea S. Watkins
Michael A. Lofaro. Daniel Boone: An American Life. Lexington:
University Press of Kentucky, 2012. 248 pp. $19.95, ISBN 978-0-
8131-3462-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36971

Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Silas Chamberlin
Olson, Kevin G. W.. _Frontier Manhattan: Yankee Settlement to
Kansas Town, 1854-1894_. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas,
2012. x + 273 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1832-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37008

Reviewed for Jhistory by Christina Smith
Davies, Robert B.. _Baldwin of the "Times": Hanson W. Baldwin, a
Military Journalist's Life, 1903-1991_. Annapolis: Naval
Institute Press, 2011. x + 399 pp. $32.95, ISBN 978-1-61251-048-
4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37062

Reviewed for H-Italy by Céline Dauverd
Dursteler, Eric. _Renegade Women: Gender, Identity, and
Boundaries in the Early Modern Mediterranean_. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2011. xiv + 222 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-
1-4214-0071-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37071

Reviewed for H-War by Tal Tovy
Hoffenaar, Jan; Krüger, Dieter, eds.. _Blueprints for Battle:
Planning for War in Central Europe, 1948-1968_. Engish
translation edited by David T. Zabecki. Foreign Military Studies
Series. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2012. xxxvii +
261 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-3651-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37123

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Barak Mendelsohn
Wellman, James K.; Lombardi, Clark Benner, eds.. _Religion and
Human Security: A Global Perspective_. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2012. x + 332 pp. $99.00, ISBN 978-0-19-
982773-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37128

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Hartley Lachter
Morlok, Elke. Rabbi Joseph Gikatilla's Hermeneutics. Tübingen:
Mohr Siebeck, 2011. xiii + 360 pp. $95.00, ISBN 978-3-16-150203-
3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37769

Reviewed for H-Empire by Elizabeth Stice
Stanard, Matthew G.. _Selling the Congo: A History of European
Pro-Empire Propaganda and the Making of Belgian Imperialism_.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2011. 387 pp. $65.00,
ISBN 978-0-8032-3777-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38106

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