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H-Net Reviews

The following reviews were posted to the H-Net web site between
25 Mar 2013 and 24 Jun 2013.

Reviewed for H-AfrArts by Heather Shirey
Capone, Stefania. _Searching for Africa in Brazil: Power and
Tradition in Candomblé_. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010.
xiv + 316 pp. $84.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-4625-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33075

Reviewed for H-Buddhism by Richard P. Hayes
Nance, Richard F.. _Speaking for Buddhas: Scriptural Commentary
in Indian Buddhism_. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.
312 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-231-15230-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34830

Reviewed for H-German by Amanda Hobson
Muchembled, Robert. _Orgasm and the West: A History of Pleasure
from the 16th Century to the Present_. Cambridge: Polity Press,
2008. x + 323 pp. $64.95, ISBN 978-0-7456-3875-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36813

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Kenneth Atkinson
Klawans, Jonathan. _Josephus and the Theologies of Ancient
Judaism_. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 400 pp.
$74.00, ISBN 978-0-19-992861-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37140

Reviewed for H-Albion by Alison Jeppesen
Knapp, Robert. Invisible Romans. Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 2011. 400 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-674-06199-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37416

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Larry Silver
Biemann, Asher D.. _Dreaming of Michelangelo: Jewish Variations
on a Modern Theme_. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012.
200 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-6881-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38058

Reviewed for H-War by Carole Butcher
Tong, Curtis Whitfield. _Child of War: A Memoir of World War II
Internment in the Philippines_. Honolulu: University of Hawai?i
Press, 2011. xiv + 252 pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-8248-3464-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38208

Reviewed for Jhistory by William Mari
Takacs, Stacy. _Terrorism TV: Popular Entertainment in Post-
9/11_. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2012. 333 pp.
$24.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1838-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38493

Reviewed for H-Empire by Denise Jenison
Kern, Karen M.. _Imperial Citizen: Marriage and Citizenship in
the Ottoman Frontier Provinces of Iraq_. Syracuse: Syracuse
University Press, 2011. xiv + 186 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8156-
3285-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38544

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Steven Kepnes
Hughes, Aaron W.; Wolfson, Elliot R., eds.. _New Directions in
Jewish Philosophy_. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010.
x + 362 pp. $75.00, ISBN 978-0-253-30031-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=29653

Reviewed for H-War by David Wildermuth
Jarausch, Konrad H.; Arnold, Klaus Jochen, eds.. _"Das stille
Sterben...": Feldpostbriefe von Konrad Jarausch aus Polen und
Russland, 1939-1942_. Paderborn: Ferdinand Scho?ningh, 2008. 387
pp. EUR 15.90, ISBN 978-3-506-76546-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33703

Reviewed for H-War by David G. Williams
Lech, Raymond B.. _Tortured into Fake Confession: The Dishonoring
of Korean War Prisoner Col. Frank H. Schwable, USMC_. Jefferson:
McFarland, 2011. xi + 192 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-7864-6548-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34232

Reviewed for H-CivWar by Timothy Jenness
Ramage, James A.; Watkins, Andrea S.. _Kentucky Rising:
Democracy, Slavery, and Culture from the Early Republic to the
Civil War_. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2011. 480
pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-3440-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35030

Reviewed for H-War by Cliff Bullock
Weintraub, Stanley. _Final Victory: FDR's Remarkable World War II
Presidential Campaign_. Philadelphia: Da Capo Press, 2012. 256
pp. $26.00, ISBN 978-0-306-82113-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35827

Reviewed for H-War by Thomas Meagher
Betts, Richard K.. _American Force: Dangers, Delusions, and
Dilemmas in National Security_. New York: Columbia University
Press, 2011. 384 pp. $29.50, ISBN 978-0-231-15122-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36382

Reviewed for H-Florida by Philip Smith
Rivers, Larry Eugene. _Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in
Nineteenth-Century Florida_. Urbana: University of Illinois
Press, 2012. Illustrations. 221 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-252-
03691-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36761

Reviewed for H-CivWar by Eric P. Totten
Danielson, Joseph W.. _War's Desolating Scourge: The Union's
Occupation of North Alabama_. Lawrence: University Press of
Kansas, 2012. xiii + 218 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1844-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36841

Reviewed for H-CivWar by Stuart McClung
Gillispie, James Massie. _Cape Fear Confederates: The 18th North
Carolina Regiment in the Civil War_. Jefferson: McFarland &
Company, Inc., Publishers, 2012. 240 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-
7864-4847-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36842

Reviewed for H-CivWar by Henry Goldman
McArthur, Scott. _Enemy Never Came: The Civil War in the Pacific
Northwest, The_. Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2012. 350 pp. $18.95,
ISBN 978-0-87004-512-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37326

Reviewed for H-CivWar by Matthew Hauck
Bryant, James K.. _36th Infantry United States Colored Troops in
the Civil War: A History and Roster, The_. Jefferson: McFarland &
Co., 2012. viii + 248 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-7864-6878-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37357

Reviewed for H-Empire by Matthew Lauzon
Brower, Benjamin Claude. _Desert Named Peace: The Violence of
France's Empire in the Algerian Sahara, 1844-1902, A_. New York:
Columbia University Press, 2011. 480 pp. $26.50, ISBN 978-0-231-
15493-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37513

Reviewed for H-War by Nathan Albright
Stempel, Jim. _Nature of War: Origins and Evolution of Violent
Conflict, The_. Jefferson: McFarland, 2012. v + 213 pp. $45.00,
ISBN 978-0-7864-6837-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37715

Reviewed for H-War by Terry Shoptaugh
Pash, Melinda L.. _In the Shadow of the Greatest Generation: The
Americans Who Fought the Korean War_. New York: New York
University Press, 2012. 349 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-6769-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37743

Reviewed for H-Disability by Wil Kaiser
De Boever, Arne; Murray, Alex; Roffe, Jon; Woodward, Ashley, eds..
Gilbert Simondon: Being and Technology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh
University Press, 2012. 216 pp. $105.00, ISBN 978-0-7486-4525-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37810

Reviewed for H-German by Peter C. Caldwell
Beilharz, Peter. Socialism and Modernity. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 2009. xix + 225 pp. $75.00, ISBN
978-0-8166-6085-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37938

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Zelda Kahan Newman
Lara Rabinovitch, Shiri Goren, Hannah S. Pressman, eds..
Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture.
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2013. 360 pp. $34.95,
ISBN 978-0-8143-3444-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37975

Reviewed for H-Memory by Roger Chapman
Miyamoto, Yuki. _Beyond the Mushroom Cloud: Commemoration,
Religion, and Responsibility after Hiroshima_. Bordering
Religions: Concepts, Conflicts, and Conversations Series. New
York: Fordham University Press, 2012. 160 pp. $75.00, ISBN 978-
0-8232-4050-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38017

Reviewed for H-Kentucky by John T. Becker
McSpirit, Stephanie; Faltraco, Lynne; Bailey, Conner, eds..
_Confronting Ecological Crisis in Appalachia and the South:
University and Community Partnerships_. Lexington: University
Press of Kentucky, 2012. xiii + 269 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-
3619-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38235

Reviewed for Jhistory by Tracy Lucht
Hegde, Radha S., ed.. _Circuits of Visibility: Gender and
Transnational Media Cultures_. Critical Cultural Communication
Series. New York: New York University Press, 2011. viii + 317 pp.
$79.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-3730-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38634

Reviewed for Jhistory by Kate Edenborg
Grueskin, Bill; Seave, Ava; Graves, Lucas, eds.. _Story So Far:
What We Know about the Business of Digital Journalism, The_.
Columbia Journalism Review Books Series. New York: Columbia
University Press, 2011. 139 pp. $15.00, ISBN 978-0-231-16027-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38649

Reviewed for H-Urban by G. Carole Woodall
Mills, Amy. _Streets of Memory: Landscape, Tolerance, and
National Identity in Istanbul_. Athens: University of Georgia
Press, 2010. 248 pp. $64.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-3573-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=31952

Reviewed for H-War by Richard Byers
Kilduff, Peter. _Herman Göring Fighter Ace: The World War I
Career of Germany's Most Infamous Airman_. London: Grub Street,
2010. 224 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-906502-66-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35757

Reviewed for H-German by Henry Krisch
Fulbrook, Mary. _Dissonant Lives: Generations and Violence
through the German Dictatorships_. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2011. 528 S. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-19-928720-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36599

Reviewed for H-DigiRhet by Eric Hall
Jeff Rice. _Digital Detroit: Rhetoric and Space in the Age of the
Network_. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2012.
264 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8093-3087-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36610

Reviewed for H-War by David Bath
Hedren, Paul L.. _Great Sioux War Orders of Battle: How the
United States Army Waged War on the Northern Plains, 1876-1877_.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012. 240 pp. $19.95, ISBN
978-0-8061-4322-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37013

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Israel Belfer
Gimbel, Steven. _Einstein's Jewish Science: Physics at the
Intersection of Politics and Religion_. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2012. viii + 245 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-1-4214-
0554-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37040

Reviewed for Jhistory by Sue Curry Jansen
Englund, Harri. _Human Rights and African Airwaves: Mediating
Equality on the Chichewa Radio_. Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, 2011. x + 294 pp. , ISBN 978-0-253-22347-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37074

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Shelley O. Baranowski
Probst, Christopher J.. _Demonizing the Jews: Luther and the
Protestant Church in Nazi Germany_. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 2012. xiv + 251 pp. $25.00, ISBN 978-0-253-
00100-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37145

Reviewed for H-Histsex by Jonathan Anuik
Trothen, Tracy J.. _Shattering the Illusion: Child Sexual Abuse
and Canadian Religious Institutions_. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier
University Press, 2012. xiii + 197 pp. $32.95, ISBN 978-1-55458-
356-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37432

Reviewed for H-War by Nathan D. Wells
Ray Jr, Fred Eugene. _Greek and Macedonian Land Battles of the
4th Century B.C.: A History and Analysis of 187 Engagements_.
Jefferson: McFarland, 2012. 244 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-7864-
6973-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37499

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Jennifer L. Koosed
Barbour, Jennifer. _Story of Israel in the Book of Qohelet:
Ecclesiastes as Cultural Memory, The_. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2012. xv + 225 pp. $135.00, ISBN 978-0-19-965782-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37519

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Kathryn Weathersby
Shen, Zhihua. _Mao, Stalin and the Korean War: Trilateral
Communist Relations in the 1950s_. Milton Park, Abingdon:
Routledge, 2012. xiii + 249 pp. $135.00, ISBN 978-0-415-51645-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37597

Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by James Adams
Garvey, Ellen Gruber. _Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks
from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance_. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2012. 320 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-19-992769-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37646

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Matthew P. Fitzpatrick
Guettel, Jens-Uwe. _German Expansionism, Imperial Liberalism and
the United States, 1776-1945_. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, . 276 pp. $90.00, ISBN 978-1-107-02469-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38209

Reviewed for H-Kentucky by John T. Becker
Hamilton, Mary. _Kentucky Folktales: Revealing Stories, Truths,
and Outright Lies_. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky,
2012. 219 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8131-3600-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38234

Reviewed for H-Kentucky by Matthew Schoenbachler
Stewart, Bruce E., ed.. _Blood in the Hills: A History of
Violence in Appalachia_. New Directions in Southern History
Series. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2011.
Illustrations. 422 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-3427-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38238

Reviewed for H-SAE by Daniella Nahmias
Yttergren, Leif; Hans Bolling; eds.. _1912 Stockholm Olympics:
Essays on the Competitions, the People, the City, The_.
Jefferson: McFarland, 2012. 292 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-7864-
7131-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38424

Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Karen McNeill
Corn, Wanda M.; Garfinkle, Charlene G.; Madsen, Annelise K..
_Women Building History: Public Art at the 1893 Columbian
Exposition_. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. xi
+ 265 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-520-24111-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33150

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Elissa Bemporad
Deutsch, Nathaniel. _Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the
Russian Pale of Settlement, The_. Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 2011. 374 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-674-04728-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34585

Reviewed for H-HRE by Brian J. Maxson
Mack, Peter. History of Renaissance Rhetoric 1380-1620, A.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. vii + 345 pp. $150.00,
ISBN 978-0-19-959728-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36564

Reviewed for H-German by William L. Patch
Brüning, Franziska. _Frankreich und Heinrich Brüning: Ein
deutscher Kanzler in der französischen Wahrnehmung_. Stuttgart:
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012. 462 pp. $102.00, ISBN 978-3-515-
10096-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36573

Reviewed for H-Memory by Richard Boffey
Hodgin, Nick; Pearce, Caroline, eds.. _GDR Remembered:
Representations of the East German State since 1989, The_.
Rochester: Camden House, 2011. 290 pp. $75.00, ISBN 978-1-57113-
434-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36576

Reviewed for H-War by Tal Tovy
Levine, Alan J.. _From Axis Victories to the Turn of the Tide:
World War II, 1939-1943_. Washington DC: Potomac Books, 2012.
360 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-1-59797-711-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36875

Reviewed for H-Antisemitism by Howard N. Lupovitch
Silverman, Lisa. _Becoming Austrians: Jews and Culture between
the World Wars_. Oxford University Press, 2012. xi + 334 pp.
$55.00, ISBN 978-0-19-979484-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37396

Reviewed for H-War by Nathan D. Wells
Garnham, Neal. _Militia in Eighteenth-Century Ireland: In Defence
of the Protestant Interest, The_. Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2012.
208 pp. $115.00, ISBN 978-1-84383-724-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37500

Reviewed for H-Environment by Daniel Macfarlane
Zimmerman, Joseph F.. _Interstate Water Compacts:
Intergovernmental Efforts to Manage America's Water Resources_.
Albany: State University of New York Press, 2012. xiii + 252 pp.
$80.00, ISBN 978-1-4384-4447-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37647

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Timothy S. Quinn
Freudenthal, Gideon. _No Religion without idolatry: Mendelssohn's
Jewish Enlightenment_. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame
Press, 2012. xi + 332 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-268-02890-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37648

Reviewed for H-War by Nathan Albright
Holt, Frank Lee. _Lost World of the Golden King: In Search of
Ancient Afghanistan_. Hellenistic Culture and Society Series.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. xxi + 343 pp.
$39.95, ISBN 978-0-520-27342-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37716

Reviewed for Jhistory by Carol Atkinson
Reineke, Sandra. _Beauvoir and Her Sisters: The Politics of
Women's Bodies in France_. Urbana: University of Illinois Press,
2011. xxii + 102 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03619-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37802

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Meredith Oyen
Nau, Henry R.; Ollapally, Deepa Mary, eds.. _Worldviews of
Aspiring Powers: Domestic Foreign Policy Debates in China, India,
Iran, Japan and Russia_. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
258 pp. $99.00, ISBN 978-0-19-993747-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37883

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Monica A. Rankin
Mills, Thomas C.. _Post-War Planning on the Periphery: Anglo-
American Economic Diplomacy in South America, 1939-1945_.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. x + 283 pp.
$105.00, ISBN 978-0-7486-4388-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37924

Reviewed for H-Environment by Bathsheba Demuth
Dathan, Wendy. _Reindeer Botanist: Alf Erling Porsild, 1901-1977,
The_. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2012. 600 pp.
$46.95, ISBN 978-1-55238-586-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38049

Reviewed for H-War by Andrew Hill
Pilzer, Joshua D.. _Hearts of Pine: Songs in the Lives of Three
Korean Survivors of the Japanese "Comfort Women"_. New York:
Oxford University Press, 2012. xv + 191 pp. $99.00, ISBN 978-0-
19-975956-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38317

Reviewed for H-War by Andrew Hill
Higuchi, Wakako. _Japanese Administration of Guam, 1941-1944: A
Study of Occupation and Integration Policies, with Japanese Oral
Histories, The_. Jefferson: McFarland, 2013. 336 pp. $49.95,
ISBN 978-0-7864-3978-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38466

Reviewed for Jhistory by Joe Watson
Potter, Simon James. _Broadcasting Empire: The BBC and the
British World, 1922-1970_. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
261 pp. $125.00, ISBN 978-0-19-956896-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38757

Reviewed for H-War by Brian Carso
Schaeper, Thomas J.. Edward Bancroft: Scientist, Author, Spy.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. 352 pp. $35.00, ISBN
978-0-300-11842-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35728

Reviewed for H-Nationalism by Ian Scott
Geiger, Jeffrey. _American Documentary Film: Projecting the
Nation_. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011. xi + 275
pp. $90.00, ISBN 978-0-7486-2147-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36050

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Mila Ganeva
Derwin, Susan. _Rage Is the Subtext: Readings in Holocaust
Literature and Film_. Columbus: Ohio State University Press,
2012. 144 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8142-1184-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36232

Reviewed for H-German by Henry Wend
Youngs, Richard, ed.. _European Union and Democracy Promotion: A
Critical Global Assessment, The_. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2010. 206 pp. $60.00, ISBN 978-0-8018-9732-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36278

Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Ryan Anderson
Bernstein, Robin. _Racial Innocence: Performing Childhood and
Race from Slavery to Civil Rights_. New York: New York University
Press, 2011. xi + 307 pp. $75.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-8707-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36999

Reviewed for H-Education by Mark Oromaner
Bradley, Stefan M.. _Harlem vs. Columbia University: Black
Student Power in the Late 1960s_. Urbana: University of Illinois
Press, 2009. Illustrations. ix + 249 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-252-
03452-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37066

Reviewed for H-Urban by Catherine Clark
Rearick, Charles. _Paris Dreams, Paris Memories: The City and Its
Mystique_. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011. 296 pp.
$60.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-7092-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37069

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Christopher Gennari
Heather, Peter. _Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the
Birth of Europe_. New York: Oxford University Press, USA, 2012.
752 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-19-989226-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37377

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Michael Marmur
Even-Chen, Alexander; Ephraim Meir. _Between Heschel and Buber: A
Comparative Study_. Emunot Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah Series.
Brighton: Academic Studies Press, 2011. 270 pp. $85.00, ISBN
978-1-936235-72-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37748

Reviewed for H-Diplo by David Gibbs
Phillips, David L.. _Liberating Kosovo: Coercive Diplomacy and
U.S. Intervention_. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2012. 256 pp. $27.00,
ISBN 978-0-262-01844-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37989

Reviewed for H-Judaic by David Patterson
Nirenberg, David. Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition. New
York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2013. 610 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-
393-05824-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37993

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Robert Farley
Nathan, Andrew J.; Scobell, Andrew. _China's Search for
Security_. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. xxiii +
406 pp. $32.95, ISBN 978-0-231-14050-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38059

Reviewed for H-Kentucky by Blair M. Smith
Raitz, Karl; O'Malley, Nancy. _Kentucky's Frontier Highway:
Historical Landscapes along the Maysville Road_. Lexington:
University Press of Kentucky, . ix + 411 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-
8131-3664-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38770

Reviewed for Jhistory by Noah Arceneaux
Johns, Adrian. _Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the Making
of the Information Age_. New York: W.W. Norton, 2012. 336 pp.
$16.95, ISBN 978-0-393-34180-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38803

Reviewed for H-Environment by Dan Lewis
Wilson, Robert M.. _Seeking Refuge: Birds and Landscapes of the
Pacific Flyway_. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010.
xvi + 245 pp. Illustrations $35.00, ISBN 978-0-295-99002-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=31806

Reviewed for H-Environment by Bill Sharpsteen
Hoornbeek, John A.. _Water Pollution Policies and the American
States: Runaway Bureaucracies or Congressional Control?_. Albany:
State University of New York Press, 2011. 320 pp. $85.00, ISBN
978-1-4384-3541-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33390

Reviewed for H-War by Zachery Fry
Kreiser, Lawrence A.. _Defeating Lee: A History of the Second
Corps, Army of the Potomac_. Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, 2011. 416 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-253-35616-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35535

Reviewed for H-CivWar by Timothy J. Orr
Flood, Charles Bracelen. _Grant's Final Victory: Ulysses S.
Grant's Heroic Last Year_. Cambridge: Da Capo Press, 2011. 320
pp. $27.50, ISBN 978-0-306-82028-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35990

Reviewed for H-German by Michael Berkowitz
Perle, Iehoshua. Ordinary Jews. Translated by Shirley Kumove.
Albany: Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press,
2011. xii + 344 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-4384-3550-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36372

Reviewed for H-HRE by Erica Bastress-Dukeheart
Ninness, Richard J.. _Between Opposition and Collaboration:
Nobles, Bishops, and the German Reformations in the Prince-
Bishopric of Bamberg, 1555-1619_. Leiden: Brill, 2011. xii + 224
pp. $136.00, ISBN 978-90-04-20154-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36486

Reviewed for H-Childhood by Alison Lefkovitz
Yenor, Scott. _Family Politics: The Idea of Marriage in Modern
Political Thought_. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2011. xiv +
362 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-60258-305-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36625

Reviewed for H-Histsex by Emily Epstein Landau
Schafer, Judith Kelleher. _Brothels, Depravity, and Abandoned
Women: Illegal Sex in Antebellum New Orleans_. Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State University Press, 2011. 248 pp. $19.95, ISBN
978-0-8071-3715-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36748

Reviewed for H-Urban by Michael Colvin
Foster, David William. _São Paulo: Perspectives on the City and
Cultural Production_. Gainesville: University Press of Florida,
2011. Illustrations. 176 pp. $69.95, ISBN 978-0-8130-3665-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36919

Reviewed for H-War by Douglas Peifer
Carroll, Francis M.. _Athenia Torpedoed: The U-boat Attack that
Ignited the Battle of the Atlantic_. Annapolis: Naval Institute
Press, 2012. 218 pp. + 24 pp. of plates $29.95, ISBN 978-1-
59114-148-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37697

Reviewed for H-Albion by Charles W. Prior
Capp, Bernard. _England's Culture Wars: Puritan Reformation and
Its Enemies in the Interregnum, 1649-1660_. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2012. xiii + 274 pp. $125.00, ISBN 978-0-19-
964178-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37755

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Trevor T. Thrall
Cairo, Michael F.. _Gulf: The Bush Presidencies and the Middle
East, The_. Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy and Peace Series.
Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2012. 232 pp. $35.00,
ISBN 978-0-8131-3672-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37839

Reviewed for H-War by Joan Manel Ramírez-Jávega
Jarrett, Jonathan. _Rulers and Ruled in Frontier Catalonia, 880-
1010: Pathways to Power_. London: Royal Historical Society, 2010.
208 pp. $90.00, ISBN 978-0-86193-309-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37846

Reviewed for H-War by Craig Morris
Kessner, Thomas. _Flight of the Century: Charles Lindbergh and
the Rise of American Aviation, The_. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2012. 336 pp. $17.95, ISBN 978-0-19-993117-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37857

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Herbert Basser
Dina Stein. _Textual Mirrors: Reflexivity, Midrash, and the
Rabbinic Self_. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,
2012. 216 pp. $79.95, ISBN 978-0-8122-4436-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37972

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Norman Sempijja
Adebajo, Adekeye; Whiteman, Kaye, eds.. _EU and Africa: From
Eurafrique to Afro-Europa, The_. New York: Columbia University
Press, 2012. xiv + 531 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-231-70396-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37979

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Gershon Greenberg
Patterson, David. Genocide in Jewish Thought. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2012. xi + 252 pp. $95.00, ISBN 978-
1-107-01104-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38001

Reviewed for H-SAfrica by Lindsey Maxwell
Elphick, Richard. _Equality of Believers: Protestant Missionaries
and the Racial Politics of South Africa, The_. Charlottesville:
University of Virginia Press, 2012. vii + 437 pp. $40.00, ISBN
978-0-8139-3273-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38044

Reviewed for H-Diplo by John Pat Willerton
Tsygankov, Andrei P.. _Russia and the West from Alexander to
Putin: Honor in International Relations_. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2012. xii + 317 pp. $99.00, ISBN 978-1-107-
02552-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38078

Reviewed for H-South by Caroline Peyton
Reed, John Shelton. _Dixie Bohemia: A French Quarter Circle in
the 1920s_. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2012.
Illustrations. viii + 334 pp. $38.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-4764-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38090

Reviewed for H-Albion by Tom Leng
Waddell, Brodie. _God, Duty and Community in English Economic
Life, 1660-1720_. Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and
Social History Series. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2012. xii + 273
pp. $99.00, ISBN 978-1-84383-779-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38233

Reviewed for H-World by Linda Walton
Maynes, Mary Jo; Waltner, Ann Beth, eds.. _Family: A World
History, The_. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. xi + 147
pp. $19.95, ISBN 978-0-19-533814-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38304

Reviewed for H-War by Michael Neiberg
Kochanski, Halik. _Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the
Second World War, The_. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, .
784 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-674-06814-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38400

Reviewed for Jhistory by Kimberley Mangun
Kiuchi, Yuya. _Struggles for Equal Voice: The History of African
American Media Democracy_. Albany: SUNY Press, 2012. xviii + 324
pp. $85.00, ISBN 978-1-4384-4479-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38866

Reviewed for H-Appalachia by Bruce Stewart
Thompson Jr., Charles D.. _Spirits of Just Men: Mountaineers,
Liquor Bosses, and Lawmen in the Moonshine Capital of the World_.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011. xxix + 269 pp.
$75.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03512-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33731

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Rainer Liedtke
Grenville, J. A. S.. _Jews and Germans of Hamburg: The
Destruction of a Civilization, 1790-1945, The_. New York:
Routledge, 2011. 384 pp. $160.00, ISBN 978-0-415-66585-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34646

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Anton Pelinka
Rabinovici, Doron. _Eichmann's Jews: The Jewish Administration of
Holocaust Vienna, 1938-1945_. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2011. x +
260 pp. $25.00, ISBN 978-0-7456-4682-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35122

Reviewed for H-German by Karl Toepfer
Manning, Susan; Ruprecht, Lucia, eds.. _New German Dance
Studies_. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012. 296 pp.
$80.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03676-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36587

Reviewed for H-NC by Wayne Urban
Holden, Charles J.. _New Southern University: Academic Freedom
and Liberalism at UNC, The_. Lexington: University Press of
Kentucky, 2012. 217 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-3438-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37675

Reviewed for H-Urban by Chris Pearson
Atkins, Peter, ed.. Animal Cities: Beastly Urban Histories.
Burlington: Ashgate, 2012. 270 pp. $124.95, ISBN 978-1-4094-
4655-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37962

Reviewed for H-Albion by Jason Myers
Roisin Higgins. _Transforming 1916: Meaning, Memory and the
Fiftieth Anniversary of the Easter Rising_. Cork: Cork University
Press, 2012. 288 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-1-85918-486-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38373

Reviewed for H-Memory by Chris Lloyd
Araujo, Ana Lucia, ed.. _Politics of Memory: Making Slavery
Visible in the Public Space_. New York: Routledge, 2012. viii +
296 pp. $125.00, ISBN 978-0-415-52692-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38785

Reviewed for H-Genocide by Robby Van Eetvelde
Lipkes, Jeff. _Rehearsals: The German Army in Belgium, August
1914_. Louvain: Leuven University Press, 2007. 832 pp. $55.95,
ISBN 978-90-5867-596-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=29936

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Amy-Jill Levine
Garber, Zev, ed.. _Jewish Jesus: Revelation, Reflection,
Reclamation, The_. Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies Series.
West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2011. 528 pp. $59.95,
ISBN 978-1-55753-579-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33060

Reviewed for H-War by Daniel Spector
Ellison, D. Hank. _Chemical Warfare during the Vietnam War: Riot
Control Agents in Combat_. London: Routledge, 2010. 216 pp.
$125.00, ISBN 978-0-415-87644-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34531

Reviewed for H-War by Timothy C. Hemmis
Simpson, Erik. _Mercenaries in British and American Literature,
1790-1830: Writing, Fighting, and Marrying for Money_. Edinburgh
Critical Studies in Transatlantic Literature Series. Edinburgh:
Edinburgh University Press, 2010. vii + 199 pp. $90.00, ISBN
978-0-7486-3644-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35666

Reviewed for H-War by Javan Frazier
Boskin, Joseph. _Corporal Boskin's Cold Cold War: A Comical
Journey_. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2011. 224 pp.
$24.95, ISBN 978-0-8156-0964-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35980

Reviewed for H-Albion by Scott Spurlock
Prior, Charles W. A.; Burgess, Glenn, eds.. _England's Wars of
Religion, Revisited_. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. 335 pp. $124.95,
ISBN 978-1-4094-1973-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36347

Reviewed for H-Asia by Anthony DeBlasi
Sen, Tansen; Mair, Victor H.. _Traditional China in Asian and
World History_. Key Issues in Asian Studies Series. Ann Arbor:
Association for Asian Studies, 2012. Illustrations. 113 pp.
$10.00, ISBN 978-0-924304-65-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36499

Reviewed for H-War by Scott A. Stewart
Kilduff, Peter. _Black Fokke Leader: Carl Degelow – The First
World War’s Last Airfighter Knight_. London: Grub Street, 2009.
192 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-906502-28-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36661

Reviewed for H-Albion by Abigail Swingen
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=36873

Reviewed for HABSBURG by Sacha Davis
Várdy, Steven Béla; Várdy, Agnes Huszár. _Hungarian Americans in
the Current of History_. Boulder: East European Monographs, 2010.
302 pp. $60.00, ISBN 978-0-88033-668-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36898

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Stephen Katz
Grumberg, Karen. _Place and Ideology in Contemporary Hebrew
Literature_. Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
Series. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2012. 287 pp.
$39.95, ISBN 978-0-8156-3259-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36955

Reviewed for H-War by Dave Burford
Jermann, Donald R.. _Civil War Battlefield Orders Gone Awry: The
Written Word and Its Consequences in 13 Engagements_. Jefferson:
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2012. vii + 208 pages.
$45.00, ISBN 978-0-7864-6949-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37033

Reviewed for H-Italy by Kate Staples
Denny-Brown, Andrea. _Fashioning Change: The Trope of Clothing in
High- and Late-Medieval England_. Interventions: New Studies in
Medieval Culture Series. Columbus: Ohio State University Press,
2012. 252 pp. $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8142-1190-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37076

Reviewed for H-German by Elaine Glovka Spencer
Lansing, Charles B.. _From Nazism to Communism: German
Schoolteachers under Two Dictatorships_. Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 2010. 307 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-674-05053-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37398

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Suzanne C. Nielsen
Johnson-Freese, Joan. Educating America's Military. Cass
Military Studies Series. New York: Routledge, 2013. 160 pp.
$155.00, ISBN 978-0-415-63535-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37632

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Annessa Babic
Ve?gsö, Roland. _Naked Communist: Cold War Modernism and the
Politics of Popular Culture, The_. New York: Fordham University
Press, . 245 pp. $85.00, ISBN 978-0-8232-4556-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38195

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Ioana Emy Matesan
Loue?r, Laurence. Shiism and Politics in the Middle East.
Translated by John King. New York: Columbia University Press,
2012. xii + 154 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-231-70328-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38196

Reviewed for Jhistory by Eugenia M. Palmegiano
Miller, Elizabeth Carolyn. _Slow Print: Literary Radicalism and
Late Victorian Print Culture_. Stanford: Stanford University
Press, 2013. 392 pp. $60.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-8408-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38316

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Dane Kennedy
Mamdani, Mahmood. _Define and Rule: Native as Political
Identity_. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012. 168 pp.
$29.95, ISBN 978-0-674-05052-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38337

Reviewed for H-1960s by Terry Wagner
Rubin, Rachel Lee. _Well Met: Renaissance Faires and the American
Counterculture_. New York: New York University Press, 2012. xiii
+ 346 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-7138-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38524

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Stefan Rohdewald
Brandon, Ray; Lower, Wendy, eds.. _Shoah in Ukraine: History,
Testimony, Memorialization, The_. Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, 2010. 392 pp. $25.95, ISBN 978-0-253-22268-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=32001

Reviewed for H-War by Martin Clemis
Li, Xiaobing. _Voices from the Vietnam War: Stories from
American, Asian, and Russian Veterans_. Lexington: University
Press of Kentucky, 2010. 296 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2592-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36397

Reviewed for H-Urban by Richard Hopkins
Brantz, Dorothee; Dümpelmann, Sonja, eds.. _Greening the City:
Urban Landscapes in the Twentieth Century_. Charlottesville:
University of Virginia Press, 2011. vi + 246 pp. $45.00, ISBN
978-0-8139-3114-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36488

Reviewed for H-SAE by Martijn de Koning
Taras, Raymond. Xenophobia and Islamophobia in Europe.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. 192 pp. $35.00,
ISBN 978-0-7486-5072-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36804

Reviewed for H-War by Al Berger
Seligmann, Matthew S.. _Royal Navy and the German Threat, 1901-
1914: Admiralty Plans to Protect British Trade in a War against
Germany, The_. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 186 pp.
$110.00, ISBN 978-0-19-957403-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37443

Reviewed for H-War by Tal Tovy
Daddis, Gregory A.. _No Sure Victory: Measuring U.S. Army
Effectiveness and Progress in the Vietnam War_. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2011. xiv + 334 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-19-
974687-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37534

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Andrea Friedman
Castledine, Jacqueline. _Cold War Progressives: Women's
Interracial Organizing for Peace and Freedom_. Women in American
History Series. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012. xii +
210 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03726-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38220

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Zvi J. Kaplan
Birnbaum, Pierre. _Tale of Ritual Murder in the Age of Louis XIV:
The Trial of Raphae?l Le?vy, 1669, A_. Trans. Arthur Goldhammer.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. 178 pp. $60.00, ISBN
978-0-8047-7404-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38250

Reviewed for H-Diplo by David S. Foglesong
Ilya V. Gaiduk. _Divided Together: The United States and the
Soviet Union in the United Nations_. Stanford: Stanford
University Press with Woodrow Wilson Center Press, May 2012. 288
pp. $60.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-8292-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38819

Reviewed for H-Empire by Brian Drohan
French, David. _Army, Empire, and Cold War: The British Army and
Military Policy, 1945-1971_. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2012. x + 335 pp. $150.00, ISBN 978-0-19-954823-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38973

Reviewed for H-Empire by Stephanie Hinnershitz-Hutchinson
Baldoz, Rick. _Third Asiatic Invasion: Empire and Migration in
Filipino America, 1898-1946, The_. New York: New York University
Press, 2011. viii + 301 pp. $79.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-9108-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38974

Reviewed for Jhistory by Susan Keith
Göttke, Florian. Toppled: A Book by Florian Göttke. Rotterdam:
Post Editions, 2010. Illustrations. 166 pp. $39.95, ISBN .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39012

Reviewed for H-Albion by Lesley Cormack
Long, Pamela O.. _Artisan/Practitioners and the Rise of the New
Sciences, 1400-1600_. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press,
2011. xii + 196 pp. $22.95, ISBN 978-0-87071-609-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34698

Reviewed for H-Judaic by David Gillota
Baron, Lawrence, ed.. _Modern Jewish Experience in World Cinema,
The_. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2011. xiii + 442 pp.
$100.00, ISBN 978-1-61168-208-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35075

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Sarah Hammerschlag
Ombrosi, Orietta. Twilight of Reason, The. Brighton: Academic
Studies Press, 2011. 234 pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-1-936235-75-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35234

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Dalia Wassner
Halevi-Wise, Yael, ed.. _Sephardism: Spanish Jewish History and
the Modern Literary Imagination_. Stanford Studies in Jewish
History and Culture Series. Stanford: Stanford University Press,
2012. 384 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-7746-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36150

Reviewed for H-German by Peter Fritzsche
Weszkalnys, Gisa. _Berlin, Alexanderplatz: Transforming Place in
a Unified Germany_. New York: Berghahn Books, 2010. xi + 214 pp.
$60.00, ISBN 978-1-84545-723-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36685

Reviewed for H-War by James N. Tallon
Bulmu?, Birsen. _Plague, Quarantines, and Geopolitics in the
Ottoman Empire_. Abingdon: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. 160
pp. $105.00, ISBN 978-0-7486-4659-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36727

Reviewed for H-War by Chris Thomas
Kuper, Simon. _Ajax, the Dutch, the War: Football in Europe
during the Second World War_. London: Orion, 2003. 244 pp.
$117.00, ISBN 978-0-7528-5149-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37109

Reviewed for H-War by Colin Gilmour
Bennett, M. Todd. _One World, Big Screen: Hollywood, the Allies,
and World War II_. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 2012. xiii + 362 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3574-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37948

Reviewed for H-Diplo by T. X. Hammes
Kinsey, Christopher; Patterson, Malcolm Hugh, eds.. _Contractors
and War: The Transformation of US Expeditionary Operations_.
Stanford: Stanford Security Studies, an imprint of Stanford
University Press, 2012. 352 pp. $100.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-6990-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38482

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Sonja Wentling
Troy, Gil. _Moynihan's Moment: America's Fight against Zionism as
Racism_. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Illustrations. x
+ 357 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-19-992030-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38556

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Christopher J. Dolan
Abrams, Elliott. _Tested by Zion: The Bush Administration and the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict_. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2012. 347 pp. $29.99, ISBN 978-1-107-03119-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38564

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Molly Tambor
Pojmann, Wendy A.. _Italian Women and International Cold War
Politics, 1944-1968_. Fordham University Press, 2013. viii + 234
pages. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8232-4560-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38630

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Kristie Macrakis
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=38735

Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Joshua Specht
Garcilazo, Jeffrey Marcos. _Traqueros: Mexican Railroad Workers
in the United States, 1870 to 1930_. Al Filo: Mexican American
Studies Series. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2012.
256 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-1-57441-464-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38756

Reviewed for H-Buddhism by Richard Nance
Arnold, Daniel Anderson. _Brains, Buddhas, and Believing: The
Problem of Intentionality in Classical Buddhist and Cognitive-
Scientific Philosophy of Mind_. New York: Columbia University
Press, 2012. xii + 311 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-231-14546-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39223

Reviewed for H-Law by David Stebenne
Sparrow, James T.. _Warfare State: World War II Americans and the
Age of Big Government_. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
344 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-19-979101-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34026

Reviewed for H-Law by Nancy L. Rhoden
Rasor, Paul; Bond, Richard E., eds.. _From Jamestown to
Jefferson: The Evolution of Religious Freedom in Virginia_.
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011. viii + 203
pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-8139-3108-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34027

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Thomas Pegelow Kaplan
Miron, Guy. _Waning of Emancipation: Jewish History, Memory, and
the Rise of Fascism in Germany, France, and Hungary, The_.
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2011. 308 pp. $49.95,
ISBN 978-0-8143-3470-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35157

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Shai Ginsburg
Abrams, Nathan. _New Jew in Film: Exploring Jewishness and
Judaism in Contemporary Cinema, The_. New Brunswick: Rutgers
University Press, 2012. x + 258 pp. $72.00, ISBN 978-0-8135-
5340-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35887

Reviewed for H-Law by John G. McCurdy
Federici, Michael P.. _Political Philosophy of Alexander
Hamilton, The_. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
viii + 291 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-1-4214-0539-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36644

Reviewed for H-Antisemitism by Jonathan Judaken
Goldstein, Phyllis. _Convenient Hatred: The History of
Antisemitism, A_. Brookline: Facing History and Ourselves, 2012.
Illustrations. 405 pp. $17.95, ISBN 978-0-9819543-8-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36814

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Lars Fischer
Wistrich, Robert S.. _From Ambivalence to Betrayal: The Left, the
Jews, and Israel_. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, for the
Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism
(SICSA), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2012. xvii + 625 pp.
$55.00, ISBN 978-0-8032-4076-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36819

Reviewed for H-Law by Paul Kens
Bernstein, David E.. _Rehabilitating Lochner: Defending
Individual Rights against Progressive Reform_. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2011. viii + 194 pages. $45.00,
ISBN 978-0-226-04353-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36949

Reviewed for H-War by Chris Thomas
Erickson, Hal. _Military Comedy Films: A Critical Survey and
Filmography of Hollywood Releases since 1918_. Jefferson:
McFarland, 2012. Illustrations. vii + 418 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-
0-7864-6290-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37108

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Jeremi Suri
Friedman, Max Paul. _Rethinking Anti-Americanism: The History of
an Exceptional Concept in American Foreign Relations_. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2012. 376 pp. $32.99, ISBN 978-0-
521-68342-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37406

Reviewed for H-War by William Logan
Mukerjee, Madhusree. _Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire
and the Ravaging of India During World War II_. New York: Basic
Books, 2010. 332 pp. $28.95, ISBN 978-0-465-00201-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37898

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Arjun Chowdhury
Kassner, Joshua James. _Rwanda and the Moral Obligation of
Humanitarian Intervention_. Studies in Global Justice and Human
Rights Series. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. 224 pp.
$105.00, ISBN 978-0-7486-4458-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38160

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Michael Woldemariam
Young, Crawford. _Postcolonial State in Africa: Fifty Years of
Independence, 1960-2010, The_. Africa and the Diaspora Series.
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012. xviii + 468 pp.
$31.95, ISBN 978-0-299-29144-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38408

Reviewed for H-SAE by Justin Izzo
Sanos, Sandrine. _Aesthetics of Hate: Far-Right Intellectuals,
Antisemitism, and Gender in 1930s France, The_. Stanford:
Stanford University Press, 2012. xi + 369 pages. $65.00, ISBN
978-0-8047-7457-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38444

Reviewed for H-War by William Young
Webb, Stephen Saunders. Marlborough's America. The Lewis
Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History. New
Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. Illustrations. xxii + 579 pp.
$45.00, ISBN 978-0-300-17859-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38589

Reviewed for H-1960s by Dionna Richardson
Daniel, Pete. _Dispossession: Discrimination against African
American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights_. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 2013. 336 pp. $34.95, ISBN
978-1-4696-0201-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38616

Reviewed for Jhistory by Andrew Salvati
Connery, Thomas B.. _Journalism and Realism: Rendering American
Life_. Medill School of Journalism Visions of the American Press
Series. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2011. xxi + 281
pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8101-2733-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39064

Reviewed for H-Nationalism by Sarah Mak
Rozman, Gilbert, ed.. _East Asian National Identities: Common
Roots and Chinese Exceptionalism_. Stanford: Stanford University
Press, 2012. 256 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-8117-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39173

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Péter Vámos
Machcewicz, Pawe?. Rebellious Satellite: Poland 1956.
Translated by Maya Latynski. Stanford: Stanford University Press,
2009. Illustrations. xx + 280 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-6205-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=26106

Reviewed for H-Law by Greta Austin
Shoemaker, Karl. _Sanctuary and Crime in the Middle Ages, 400-
1500_. New York: Fordham University Press, 2011. xiv + 269 pp.
$65.00, ISBN 978-0-8232-3268-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33219

Reviewed for H-War by Wayne Hanley
Flynn, Matthew J.; Griffin, Stephen E.. _Washington & Napoleon:
Leadership in the Age of Revolution_. Washington, DC: Potomac
Books, 2012. xvii + 253 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-59797-278-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35731

Reviewed for H-Buddhism by Anna Andreeva
Wakabayashi, Haruko. _Seven Tengu Scrolls: Evil and the Rhetoric
of Legitimacy in Medieval Japanese Buddhism, The_. Honolulu:
University of Hawai?i Press, 2012. Illustrations. 203 pp.
$50.00, ISBN 978-0-8248-3416-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36477

Reviewed for H-War by Colette Hyman
Renville, Mary Butler. _Thrilling Narrative of Indian Captivity:
Dispatches from the Dakota War, A_. Edited by Carrie R. Zeman and
Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola. Lincoln: University of Nebraska
Press, 2012. xxvii + 375 pages. $60.00, ISBN 978-0-8032-3530-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36600

Reviewed for H-German by Ulf Zimmermann
Sheffer, Edith. _Burned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made
the Iron Curtain_. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
357 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-19-973704-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36603

Reviewed for H-Memory by Piotr Kisiel
Kattago, Siobhan. _Memory and Representation in Contemporary
Europe_. Burlington: Ashgate, 2012. viii + 141 pp. $99.95, ISBN
978-1-4094-3637-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36613

Reviewed for H-Nationalism by Alexander Maxwell
Berger, Stefan; Lorenz, Chris; Melman, Billie, eds..
Popularizing National Pasts: 1800 to the Present. New York:
Routledge, 2011. 376 pp. $125.00, ISBN 978-0-415-89435-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36956

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Geoffrey Block
Stuart J. Hecht. _Transposing Broadway: Jews, Assimilation, and
the American Musical_. New York: Palgrave, 2012. 240 pp.
$90.00, ISBN 978-0-230-11327-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37002

Reviewed for H-War by Richard Maass
Le Billon, Philippe. _Wars of Plunder: Conflicts, Profits and the
Politics of Resources_. New York: Columbia University Press,
2012. xi + 363 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-231-70268-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37726

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Avery Plaw
Freilich, Charles D.. _Zion's Dilemmas: How Israel Makes National
Security Policy_. Cornell Studies in Security Affairs Series.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013. 336 pp. $49.95, ISBN
978-0-8014-5104-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37788

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Motti Inbari
Yohai Hakak. _Young Men in Israeli Haredi Yeshiva Education: The
Scholar's Enclave in Unrest_. Leiden: E J Brill, 2012. viii +
190 pp. $133.00, ISBN 978-90-04-23469-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37967

Reviewed for Jhistory by Mary Ann Weston
Bishara, Amahl A.. _Back Stories: U.S. News Production and
Palestinian Politics_. Stanford: Stanford University Press, .
344 pp. $85.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-8140-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38314

Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Boyd Cothran
Bold, Christine. _Frontier Club: Popular Westerns and Cultural
Power, 1880-1924, The_. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
320 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-19-973179-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38712

Reviewed for H-Albion by Tillman W. Nechtman
Carson, Penelope. _East India Company and Religion, 1698-1858,
The_. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2012. xi + 277 pp.
$115.00, ISBN 978-1-84383-732-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39092

Reviewed for H-Nationalism by Andrew Behrendt
Karolewski, Ireneusz Pawe?; Suszycki, Andrzej Marcin, eds..
Nation and Nationalism in Europe: An Introduction, The.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011. 223 pp. $100.00,
ISBN 978-0-7486-3806-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39259

Reviewed for H-Disability by Carolyn Ogburn
Nadesan, Majia Holmer. _Governing Childhood into the 21st
Century: Biopolitical Technologies of Childhood Management and
Education_. Critical Cultural Studies of Childhood Series. New
York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 245 pp. $89.00, ISBN 978-0-230-
61321-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39288

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Dani Kranz
Schapkow, Carsten. _Vorbild und Gegenbild: Das iberische Judentum
in der deutsch-ju?dischen Erinnerungskultur 1779-1939_. Ko?ln:
Bo?hlau, 2011. 448 pp. , ISBN 978-3-412-20766-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34386

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Aryeh Finkelstein
Berkowitz, Beth A.. _Defining Jewish Difference: From Antiquity
to the Present_. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
viii + 280 pp. $90.00, ISBN 978-1-107-01371-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36905

Reviewed for H-SAE by Eleanor Chiari
Arthurs, Joshua. _Excavating Modernity: The Roman Past in Fascist
Italy_. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2012. Illustrations.
232 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8014-4998-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37077

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Zev Garber
Palmisano, Joseph Redfield. _Beyond the Walls: Abraham Joshua
Heschel and Edith Stein on the Significance of Empathy for Jewish-
Christian Dialogue_. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
208 pp. $74.00, ISBN 978-0-19-992502-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37386

Reviewed for H-War by James Bradford
Hopkins, Benjamin D.; Marsden, Magnus. _Fragments of the Afghan
Frontier_. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011. x + 301
pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-231-70246-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37417

Reviewed for H-War by Jim Bonk
Meyer, Andrew Seth, trans.. _Dao of the Military: Liu An's Art of
War, The_. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. $19.50,
ISBN 978-0-231-15333-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37569

Reviewed for H-War by Gene Mueller
Ochs, Stephen J.. _Cause Greater Than Self: The Journey of
Captain Michael J. Daly, World War II Medal of Honor Recipient,
A_. Williams Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series.
College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2012. Illustrations,
maps, charts. xix + 271 pp. $42.50, ISBN 978-1-60344-783-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38094

Reviewed for H-Nationalism by Charlton Yingling
Eastman, Scott. _Preaching Spanish Nationalism across the
Hispanic Atlantic, 1759-1823_. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State
University Press, 2011. 264 pp. $42.50, ISBN 978-0-8071-3957-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38995

Reviewed for H-Nationalism by Chris Perkins
Surak, Kristin. _Making Tea, Making Japan: Cultural Nationalism
in Practice_. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013.
Illustrations. xv + 252 pp. $85.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-7866-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38996

Reviewed for Jhistory by Noah Arceneaux
McAnany, Emile G.. _Saving the World: A Brief History of
Communication for Devleopment and Social Change_. Urbana:
University of Illinois Press, 2012. x + 181 pp. $80.00, ISBN
978-0-252-03677-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39248

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