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H-Net Reviews

The following reviews were posted to the H-Net web site between
04 Feb 2013 and 25 Mar 2013.

Reviewed for H-Environment by Aleks Pluskowski
Salisbury, Joyce E.. _Beast Within: Animals in the Middle Ages,
The_. New York: Routledge, 2010. 224 pp. $130.00, ISBN 978-0-
415-78094-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=32277

Reviewed for H-Judaic by James Diamond
Lobel, Diana. _Quest for God and the Good: World Philosophy as a
Living Experience, The_. New York: Columbia University Press,
2011. 312 pp. $82.50, ISBN 978-0-231-15314-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33908

Reviewed for H-German by Coreline Boot
Rudolph, Christopher. _National Security and Immigration: Policy
Development in the United States and Western Europe since 1945_.
Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2006. 288 pp. $58.00, ISBN
978-0-8047-5377-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34856

Reviewed for H-Borderlands by Julia Camacho
Shah, Nayan. _Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality and
the Law in the North American West_. American Crossroads Series.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. xiv + 347 pp.
$65.00, ISBN 978-0-520-27085-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35247

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Dana Evan Kaplan
Wertheimer, Jack. _New Jewish Leaders: Reshaping the American
Jewish Landscape, The_. Brandeis Series in American Jewish
History, Culture and Life. Waltham: Brandeis University Press,
2011. xvi + 352 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-61168-183-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35501

Reviewed for H-Italy by Marcella Milio
Rublack, Ulinka. _Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance
Europe_. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. xxi + 354 pp.
$55.00, ISBN 978-0-19-929874-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36551

Reviewed for H-Law by Jeffrey S. Adler
Livingston, James D.. _Arsenic and Clam Chowder: Murder in Gilded
Age New York_. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2010.
Illustrations. vi + 205 pp. $19.95, ISBN 978-1-4384-3179-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36662

Reviewed for H-War by Caroline D'Amours
Copp, Terry; Bechthold, Michael. _Canadian Battlefields in
Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany: A Visitor’s Guide, The_.
Waterloo: Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament
Studies, 2010. Illustrations, maps. 160 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-
926804-02-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36686

Reviewed for H-Histsex by Garrett Nichols
Rifkin, Mark. _When Did Indians Become Straight?: Kinship, the
History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty_. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2011. viii + 436 pp. $99.00, ISBN 978-0-19-
975545-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36812

Reviewed for H-SAE by Noelle Mole
Davis, Elizabeth Anne. _Bad Souls: Madness and Responsibility in
Modern Greece_. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012. x + 331 pp.
$94.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-5093-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36998

Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Hans Vought
Mitchell, Pablo. _West of Sex: Making Mexican America, 1900-
1930_. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. xi + 151
pages. $67.50, ISBN 978-0-226-53268-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37017

Reviewed for Jhistory by Andrew Hobbs
Gardner, Jared. _Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine
Culture, The_. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012. xi +
203 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03670-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37060

Reviewed for H-SAE by Elo-Hanna Seljamaa
Purs, Aldis. _Baltic Facades: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania since
1945_. Contemporary Worlds Series. London: Reaktion, 2012. Maps.
203 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-1-86189-896-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37078

Reviewed for H-War by Karl C. Randall
Atkinson, Kenneth. _Queen Salome: Jerusalem's Warrior Monarch of
the First Century B.C.E._. Jefferson: McFarland and Company,
2012. 296 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-7864-7002-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37106

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Stephen Kaufman
Jacob Berkovitz, Abraham; Halpern, Stuart W.; Goldstein, Alec,
eds.. _Lexical Studies in the Bible and Ancient Near Eastern
Inscriptions: The Collected Essays of Hayim Tawil_. New York:
Yeshiva University Press, 2012. $39.50, ISBN 978-1-60280-216-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37333

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Nikola Mirilovic
Lyons, Terrence; Mandaville, Peter G., eds.. _Politics from
Afar_. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. 256 pp.
$50.00, ISBN 978-0-231-70278-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37445

Reviewed for H-AfrArts by Amanda Gilvin
Cooksey, Susan, ed.. Africa Interweave: Textile Diasporas.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011. Illustrations.
160 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-9833085-0-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37548

Reviewed for H-SAE by Laurie McIntosh
Skirbekk, Gunnar. _Multiple Modernities: A Tale of Scandinavian
Experiences_. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2011. 221 pp.
$45.00, ISBN 978-962-996-487-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37908

Reviewed for H-German by Kyle Jantzen
Moses, John Anthony. _Reluctant Revolutionary: Dietrich
Bonhoeffer's Collision with Prusso-German History, The_. New
York: Berghahn Books, 2009. xxi + 298 pp. $90.00, ISBN 978-1-
84545-531-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33611

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Jonathan Brumberg Kraus
Green, Deborah A.. _Aroma of Righteousness: Scent and Seduction
in Rabbinic Life and Literature, The_. University Park:
Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011. xiv + 286 pp. $69.95,
ISBN 978-0-271-03767-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33910

Reviewed for H-Albion by James Hanley
Brown, Michael. _Performing Medicine: Medical Culture and
Identity in Provincial England, c. 1760-1850_. Manchester:
Manchester University Press, 2011. viii + 254 pp. $95.00, ISBN
978-0-7190-7797-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34723

Reviewed for H-War by Margaret Hutchison
Rabb, Theodore K.. _Artist and the Warrior: Military History
through the Eyes of the Masters, The_. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 2011. Illustrations. xviii + 228 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-
300-12637-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35397

Reviewed for H-Genocide by Shannon Carr
Breidenbach, Joana; Nyi?ri, Pa?l. _Seeing Culture Everywhere,
from Genocide to Consumer Habits_. Seattle: University of
Washington Press, 2009. xi + 416 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-295-
98950-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35867

Reviewed for H-Antisemitism by Daniel Rosenthal
Fulbrook, Mary. _Small Town Near Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and
the Holocaust, A_. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 464
pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-19-960330-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36467

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Diane Matza
Bejarano, Margalit; Aizenberg, Edna, eds.. _Contemporary
Sephardic Identity in the Americas: An Interdisciplinary
Approach_. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2012. 272 pp.
$39.95, ISBN 978-0-8156-3272-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37005

Reviewed for Jhistory by James Aucoin
Barnhisel, Greg; Turner, Catherine, eds.. _Pressing the Fight:
Print, Propaganda, and the Cold War_. Amherst: University of
Massachusetts Press, 2010. vi + 285 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-
55849-736-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37068

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Joe Merton
Muehlenbeck, Philip E.. _Race, Ethnicity, and the Cold War: A
Global Perspective_. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press,
2012. xvii + 324 pp. $65.95, ISBN 978-0-8265-1843-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37081

Reviewed for H-War by Tony Demchak
Swanson, Bruce; Morrison, Vance; McDowell, Don H.; Tomasko,
Norton. _Plain Sailorman in China: The Life and Times of Cdr. I.
V. Gillis, USN, 1875-1948, A_. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press,
2012. 272 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-61251-105-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37085

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Christopher Gennari
Bew, John. Castlereagh: A Life. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2012. 752 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-19-993159-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37376

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Daniel Meissner
Van Dyke, Paul A.. _Americans and Macao: Trade, Smuggling and
Diplomacy on the South China Coast_. Hong Kong: Hong Kong
University Press, 2012. 251 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-988-8083-92-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37408

Reviewed for H-Urban by Adam Wolkoff
Kerr, Daniel R.. _Derelict Paradise: Homelessness and Urban
Development in Cleveland, Ohio_. Amherst: University of
Massachusetts Press, 2011. xii + 295 pp. $26.95, ISBN 978-1-
55849-849-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37441

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Mona Fixdal
Caplan, Richard, ed.. Exit Strategies and State Building. New
York: Oxford University Press, 2012. xii + 337 pp. $99.00, ISBN
978-0-19-976011-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37599

Reviewed for HABSBURG by Andrew L. Thomas
Louthan, Howard; Cohen, Gary B.; Szabo, Franz A. J., eds..
_Diversity and Dissent: Negotiating Religious Difference in
Central Europe, 1500-1800_. New York: Berghahn Books, 2011. xii
+ 240 pp. $85.00, ISBN 978-0-85745-108-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37620

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Steven L. Jacobs
Goshen-Gottstein, Alon; Korn, Eugene, eds.. _Jewish Theology and
World Religions_. Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization,
2012. xiv + 344 pp. $64.50, ISBN 978-1-906764-09-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37776

Reviewed for H-Policy by Robert S. Smith
Anderson, Karen. _Little Rock: Race and Resistance at Central
High School_. Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America
Series. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. 344 pp.
$39.95, ISBN 978-0-691-09293-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38211

Reviewed for H-German by Adam Cathcart
Hirsch, Lily E.. _Jewish Orchestra in Nazi Germany: Musical
Politics and the Berlin Jewish Culture League, A_. Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press, 2010. viii + 258 pp. $70.00, ISBN
978-0-472-11710-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=32860

Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Peter Catapano
Brundage, W. Fitzhugh, ed.. _Beyond Blackface: African Americans
and the Creation of American Popular Culture, 1890-1930_. H.
Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series. Chapel Hill: University
of North Carolina Press, 2011. vii + 373 pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-
8078-3462-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35399

Reviewed for H-War by Greg Rogers
Drew, Bernard A.. _Henry Knox and the Revolutionary War Trail in
Western Massachusetts_. Jefferson: McFarland and Company, 2012.
ix + 338 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-7864-6276-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35767

Reviewed for H-SC by Lewie Reece
Hudson, Janet G.. _Entangled by White Supremacy: Reform in World
War I-era South Carolina_. Lexington: University Press of
Kentucky, 2009. x + 389 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-9293-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35820

Reviewed for H-War by Maartje Abbenhuis
Conway, Martin. _Sorrows of Belgium: Liberation and Political
Reconstruction, 1944-1947, The_. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2012. 512 pp. $150.00, ISBN 978-0-19-969434-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35864

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Brooke Sherrard
Carenen, Caitlin. _Fervent Embrace: Liberal Protestants,
Evangelicals, and Israel, The_. New York: New York University
Press, 2012. xvii + 265 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-4104-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36041

Reviewed for H-War by Robert Thompson
Veith, George J.. _Black April: The Fall of South Vietnam, 1973-
75_. New York: Encounter Books, 2011. 620 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-
1-59403-572-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36272

Reviewed for H-Urban by Alexia Yates
Taunton, Matthew. _Fictions of the City: Class, Culture and Mass
Housing in London and Paris_. Language, Discourse, Society
Series. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 240 pp. $85.00, ISBN
978-0-230-57976-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36422

Reviewed for H-Memory by Melissa King
Akc?am, Taner. _Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian
Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire, The_.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. xlii + 483 pp.
$39.50, ISBN 978-0-691-15333-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36577

Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Ian Tyrrell
Rosenberg, Emily. _A History of the World: A World Connecting,
1870–1945_. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press,
2012. 1168 S. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-674-04721-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37550

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Rachel Gordan
Oz, Amos; Oz-Salzberger, Fania. Jews and Words. New Haven:
Yale University Press, 2012. xiv + 232 pp. $25.00, ISBN 978-0-
300-15647-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37770

Reviewed for H-Empire by Patrick M. Kirkwood
Prochaska, F. K.. _Eminent Victorians on American Democracy: The
View from Albion_. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. vii +
169 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-19-964061-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37786

Reviewed for H-Empire by Jonathan Anuik
Nanni, Giordano. _Colonisation of Time: Ritual, Routine and
Resistance in the British Empire, The_. Studies in Imperialism
Series. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012. xviii +
254 pp. $105.00, ISBN 978-0-7190-8271-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38330

Reviewed for H-Empire by Joseph Frechette
Sarris, Peter. _Empires of Faith: The Fall of Rome to the Rise of
Islam, 500-700_. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. xi + 428
pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-19-926126-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38331

Reviewed for H-Luso-Africa by Todd Cleveland
Allina, Eric. _Slavery by Any Other Name: African Life under
Company Rule in Colonial Mozambique_. Charlottesville: University
of Virginia Press, 2012. xiii + 255 pp. $49.50, ISBN 978-0-8139-
3272-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38359

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Jason Dormady
Dwyer, John J.. _Agrarian Dispute: The Expropriation of American-
Owned Agricultural Property in Postrevolutionary Mexico_.
American Encounters/Global Interactions Series. Durham: Duke
University Press, 2008. 387 pp. $89.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-4295-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=31706

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Jesse Cromwell
de Vargas Machuca, Bernardo. _Indian Militia and Description of
the Indies, The_. Edited by Kris Lane. Translated by Timothy F.
Johnson. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. lxxiv + 293 pp.
$84.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-4297-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33277

Reviewed for H-Albion by Martin Farr
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=33562

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Yoel Kahn
Blank, Debra Reed, ed.. _Experience of Jewish Liturgy: Studies
Dedicated to Menahem Shmelzer, The_. The Brill Reference Library
of Judaism Series. Leiden: Brill, 2011. vi + 356 pp. $176.00,
ISBN 978-90-04-20135-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34941

Reviewed for H-Urban by Mayhill Fowler
Prokopovych, Markian. _Habsburg Lemberg: Architecture, Public
Space and Politics in the Galician Capital, 1772-1914_. West
Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2008. 357 S. $49.95, ISBN
978-1-55753-510-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35679

Reviewed for H-War by Brian Sandberg
Friedrich, Karin. _Brandenburg-Prussia, 1466-1806: The Rise of a
Composite State_. Studies in European History Series. Houndmills:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. xxiv + 157 pp. $26.00, ISBN 978-0-230-
53565-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35762

Reviewed for H-CivWar by Steven Ramold
Howell, Kenneth W., ed.. _Still the Arena of Civil War: Violence
and Turmoil in Reconstruction Texas, 1865-1874_. Denton:
University of North Texas Press, 2012. 480 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-
1-57441-449-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36170

Reviewed for HABSBURG by Isa Blumi
Reill, Dominique Kirchner. _Nationalists Who Feared the Nation:
Adriatic Multi-Nationalism in Habsburg Dalmatia, Trieste, and
Venice_. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2012. 335 pp.
$65.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-7849-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36865

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Barry Chiswick
Kobrin, Rebecca, ed.. _Chosen Capital: The Jewish Encounter with
American Capitalism_. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press,
2012. 288 pp. $26.95, ISBN 978-0-8135-5308-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36968

Reviewed for H-War by Joshua Camper
Polsky, Andrew J.. _Elusive Victories: The American Presidency at
War_. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Illustrations. vii
+ 445 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-19-986093-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37003

Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Robert W. Burg
Hoffer, Williamjames Hull. _Plessy v. Ferguson: Race and
Inequality in Jim Crow America_. Landmark Law Cases and American
Society Series. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2012. ix +
219 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1846-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37007

Reviewed for H-Asia by Robert Nichols
Samad, Yunas. _Pakistan-US Conundrum: Jihadists, the Military and
the People--The Struggle for Control, The_. New York: Columbia
University Press, 2011. xv + 336 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-231-
70282-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37035

Reviewed for H-1960s by Alex Elkins
Lehman, Katherine J.. _Those Girls: Single Women in Sixties and
Seventies Popular Culture_. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas,
2011. 280 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1808-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37968

Reviewed for H-Business by Natascha van der Zwan
Krippner, Greta R.. _Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political
Origins of the Rise of Finance_. Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 2012. xv + 222 pp. , ISBN 978-0-674-06619-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37978

Reviewed for H-Asia by Preeti Chopra
Spodek, Howard. _Ahmedabad: Shock City of Twentieth-Century
India_. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011. 352 pp.
$49.95, ISBN 978-0-253-35587-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38024

Reviewed for H-War by Tal Tovy
Hunt, Michael H.; Levine, Steve. _Arc of Empire: America's Wars
in Asia from the Philippines to Vietnam_. Chapel Hill: University
of North Carolina Press, 2012. 340 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-
3528-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38115

Reviewed for H-Disability by Caroline Nielsen
Hudson, Geoffrey L.. _British Military and Naval Medicine, 1600-
1830_. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007. 290 pp. $57.00, ISBN 978-90-
420-2272-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38320

Reviewed for H-HistGeog by Denis Shaw
Seegel, Steven. _Mapping Europe's Borderlands: Russian
Cartography in the Age of Empire_. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 2012. 384 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-226-74425-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38362

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Geoffrey Fox
Bailey Glasco, Sharon. _Constructing Mexico City: Colonial
Conflicts over Culture, Space, and Authority_. New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2010. xv + 203 pp. $85.00, ISBN 978-0-230-61957-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=31423

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Lorrin Thomas
Luis-Brown, David. _Waves of Decolonization: Discourses of Race
and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United
States_. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. ix + 340 pp.
$89.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-4365-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=31919

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Eva Frojmovic
Kessler, Herbert L.; Nirenberg, David, eds.. _Judaism and
Christian Art: Aesthetic Anxieties from the Catacombs to
Colonialism_. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,
2011. xii + 441 pp. $69.95, ISBN 978-0-8122-4285-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=32937

Reviewed for H-War by Kevin Vanzant
Eames, Steven C.. _Rustic Warriors: Warfare and the Provincial
Soldier on the New England Frontier, 1689-1748_. New York: New
York University Press, 2011. 320 pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-
2270-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35492

Reviewed for H-War by Jacques Hymans
Weart, Spencer R.. Rise of Nuclear Fear, The. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 2012. 384 pp. $21.95, ISBN 978-0-674-
05233-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35709

Reviewed for H-German by Michael Hawkins
Fischer, Klaus P.. Hitler and America. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. vi + 356 pp. $29.95,
ISBN 978-0-8122-4338-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36049

Reviewed for H-Environment by Harriet Ritvo
Clutton-Brock, Juliet. _Animals as Domesticates: A World View
through History_. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press,
2012. xi + 189 pp. $44.95, ISBN 978-1-61186-028-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36182

Reviewed for H-South by Andrew Shankman
Van Cleve, George. _Slaveholders' Union: Slavery, Politics, and
the Constitution in the Early American Republic, A_. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2011. 408 pp. $22.50, ISBN 978-0-
226-84670-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36191

Reviewed for H-War by Jeff Crean
Wampler, Robert A., ed.. _Trilateralism and Beyond: Great Power
Politics and the Korean Security Dilemma during and after the Cold
War_. Kent: Kent State University Press, 2011. 192 pp. $55.00,
ISBN 978-1-60635-104-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36456

Reviewed for H-SAWH by Carrie A. Pitzulo
McEuen, Melissa A.. _Making War, Making Women: Femininity and
Duty on the American Home Front, 1941-1945_. Athens: University
of Georgia Press, 2011. xiv + 270 pp. $69.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-
2904-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36615

Reviewed for H-Histsex by Erin Nourse
Cole, Jennifer. _Sex and Salvation: Imagining the Future in
Madagascar_. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. xvi +
229 pp. $80.00, ISBN 978-0-226-11330-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36846

Reviewed for H-Ethnic by Clare Daniel
Briggs, Laura. _Somebody's Children: The Politics of Transracial
and Transnational Adoption_. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012.
384 pp. $94.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-5147-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37021

Reviewed for H-Ethnic by Sharon Sekhon
Zesch, Scott. _Chinatown War: Chinese Los Angeles and the
Massacre of 1871, The_. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Illustrations. xii + 283 pp $29.95, ISBN 978-0-19-975876-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37048

Reviewed for H-Ethnic by Micah Salkind
White, Miles. _From Jim Crow to Jay-Z: Race, Rap, and the
Performance of Masculinity_. Urbana: University of Illinois
Press, 2011. 163 pp. $60.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03662-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37051

Reviewed for H-Environment by Don Stull
Kardashian, Kirk. _Milk Money: Cash, Cows, and the Death of the
American Dairy Farm_. Durham: University of New Hampshire Press,
2012. Illustrations. 278 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-1-61168-027-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37485

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Richard Ned Lebow
Gibson, David R.. _Talk at the Brink: Deliberation and Decision
during the Cuban Missile Crisis_. Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 2012. xiv + 218 pages. , ISBN 978-0-691-15131-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37740

Reviewed for H-Antisemitism by Ferenc Laczó
András Kovács. _Stranger at Hand: Antisemitic Prejudices in Post-
Communist Hungary, The_. Jewish Identities in a Changing World
Series. Leiden: Brill, 2011. 211 pp. $131.00, ISBN 978-90-04-
19194-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37749

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Jeffrey Gurock
Philip Fishman. _Sukkah Is Burning: Remembering Williamsburg's
Hasidic Transformation, A_. Minneapolis: Mill City Press, 2012.
186 pp. $13.00, ISBN 978-1-938223-31-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38091

Reviewed for H-German by Birgit Tautz
Gray, Richard T.. _Money Matters: Economics and the German
Cultural Imagination, 1770-1850_. Seattle: University of
Washington Press, 2008. 476 pp. $70.00, ISBN 978-0-295-98836-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33950

Reviewed for H-Disability by Susan Anderson
Goodey, C. F.. _History of Intelligence and Intellectual
Disability: The Shaping of Psychology in Early Europe, A_.
Burlington: Ashgate, 2011. 388 pp. $69.95, ISBN 978-1-4094-2021-
7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36161

Reviewed for H-War by Frederick Black
Bickham, Troy O.. _Weight of Vengeance: The United States, the
British Empire, and the War of 1812, The_. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2012. 352 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-19-539178-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36224

Reviewed for H-War by Al Berger
Schweber, S. S.. _Nuclear Forces: The Making of the Physicist
Hans Bethe_. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012. 608 pp.
$35.00, ISBN 978-0-674-06587-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36290

Reviewed for H-Atlantic by Natalie A. Zacek
Haggerty, Sheryllynne. _"Merely for Money"? Business Culture in
the British Atlantic, 1750-1815_. Eighteenth Century Worlds
Series. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2012. 288 pp.
$99.95, ISBN 978-1-84631-817-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36518

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Rachel Rubinstein
Franco, Dean J.. _Race, Rights, and Recognition: Jewish American
Literature Since 1969_. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2012.
xi + 239 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8014-5087-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36624

Reviewed for H-Disability by Emmeline Burdett
Beveridge, Allan. _Portrait of the Psychiatrist as a Young Man:
The Early Writing and Work of R. D. Laing, 1927-1960._. New York:
Oxford University Press, USA, 2011. 352 pp. $79.95, ISBN 978-0-
19-958357-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36703

Reviewed for H-War by Joshua Akers
Shaw, Tony; Youngblood, Denise J.. _Cinematic Cold War: The
American and Soviet Struggle for Hearts and Minds_. Lawrence:
University Press of Kansas, 2010. 301 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-
7006-1743-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36737

Reviewed for H-Disability by Henry C. Alphin Jr
Richardson, John G.; Powell, Justin J. W.. _Comparing Special
Education: Origins to Contemporary Paradoxes_. Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 2011. 360 pp. $60.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-6073-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36896

Reviewed for H-SAE by Nick Dines
Cassano, Franco. _Southern Thought and Other Essays on the
Mediterranean_. Translated by Norma Bouchard and Valerio Ferme.
New York: Fordham University Press, 2011. lv + 212 pp. $28.00,
ISBN 978-0-8232-3365-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36920

Reviewed for H-SAE by Julie Hartley
Hosek, Jennifer Ruth. _Sun, Sex, and Socialism: Cuba in the
German Imaginary_. German European Studies Series. Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 2012. xvi + 266 pp. $60.00, ISBN
978-1-4426-4138-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36938

Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Patrick M. Kirkwood
Bo?nker, Dirk. _Militarism in a Global Age: Naval Ambitions in
Germany and the United States Before World War I_. Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 2012. x + 421 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-
8014-5040-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37011

Reviewed for HABSBURG by Michael Gubser
Mohanty, J. N.. Edmund Husserl's Freiburg Years: 1916-1938.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. 512 pp. $85.00, ISBN
978-0-300-15221-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37110

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Shlomo Aronson
Shapira, Anita. Israel: A History. The Schusterman Series in
Israel Studies. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2012. 528 pp.
$35.00, ISBN 978-1-61168-352-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37141

Reviewed for H-SAWH by Emily Westkaemper
Engelhardt, Elizabeth Sanders Delwiche. _Mess of Greens: Southern
Gender and Southern Food, A_. Athens: University of Georgia
Press, 2011. xi + 265 pp. $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-3471-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37146

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Martin Lockshin
Grossman, Avraham. Rashi. Joel A. Linsider, trans. Oxford:
Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2012. 344 pp. $64.50,
ISBN 978-1-904113-89-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37358

Reviewed for H-War by Douglas Delaney
Stewart, Andrew. _Very British Experience: Coalition, Defence and
Strategy in the Second World War, A_. Eastbourne: Sussex Academic
Press, 2012. ix + 247 pp. Illustrations $74.95, ISBN 978-1-
84519-439-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37557

Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Tom Dorrance
Baker, Paula. _Curbing Campaign Cash: Henry Ford, Truman
Newberry, and the Politics of Progressive Reform_. Lawrence:
University Press of Kansas, 2012. 208 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-
7006-1863-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37605

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Laura Sjoberg
Detraz, Nicole. International Security and Gender. Cambridge,
UK: Polity, 2012. 224 pp. $64.95, ISBN 978-0-7456-5116-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37673

Reviewed for H-Kentucky by Becky L. Meadows
Olson, Ted, ed.. _Hills Remember: The Complete Short Stories of
James Still, The_. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2012.
406 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8131-3623-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38236

Reviewed for H-Albion by Martin Staum
Brown, Tony C.. _Primitive, the Aesthetic, and the Savage: An
Enlightenment Problematic, The_. Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press, 2012. xxi + 278 pp. $82.50, ISBN 978-0-8166-
7562-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38247

Reviewed for H-Buddhism by Juan Wu
Radich, Michael. _How Aja?tas?atru Was Reformed: The
Domestication of "Ajase" and Stories in Buddhist History_. Tokyo:
International Institute for Buddhist Studies, 2011. iii + 202 pp.
, ISBN 978-4-906267-65-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38350

Reviewed for H-Business by Shennette Garrett-Scott
Hill, Laura Warren; Rabig, Julia, eds.. _Business of Black Power:
Community Development, Capitalism, and Corporate Responsibility in
Postwar America, The_. Rochester: University of Rochester Press,
2012. 354 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-58046-440-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38386

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