H-Net reviews posted to the web 28 Oct 2013 - 25 Nov 2013
The following reviews were posted to the H-Net web site between
28 Oct 2013 and 28 Nov 2013.
Reviewed for H-AfrArts by George Preston
Bettelheim, Judith; Berlo, Janet Catherine. _Transcultural
Pilgrim: Three Decades of Work by José Bedia_. Los Angeles:
Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2011. Illustrations. 216 pp. $35.00, ISBN
978-0-9778344-7-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35151
Reviewed for H-NewMexico by Pen La Farge
Holtby, David V.. _Forty-Seventh Star: New Mexico's Struggle for
Statehood_. University of Oklahoma Press, 2012. xix + 362 pages.
$29.95, ISBN 978-0-8061-4282-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37431
Reviewed for H-Judaic by Daniel Soyer
Tobias Brinkmann. _Sundays at Sinai: A Jewish Congregation in
Chicago_. Historical Studies of Urban America Series. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2012. 384 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-
226-07454-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37965
Reviewed for H-Environment by Mark Hersey
Finch, Bill; Young, Beth Maynor; Johnson, Rhett; Hall, John C..
_Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's
Richest Forest_. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
2012. x + 176 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3575-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38023
Reviewed for H-AfrArts by Peter Probst
Caboara Luzzatto, Paola. _Susanne Wenger: Artista e
Sacerdotessa_. Florence: Firenze Atheneum, 2009. 181 pp.
$59.99, ISBN 978-88-7255-358-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38079
Reviewed for H-Memory by Laura Schlosberg
Stenius, Henrik; Mirja Österberg; Johan Östling; eds.. _Nordic
Narratives of the Second World War: National Historiographies
Revisited_. Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2011. 176 pp. $44.95,
ISBN 978-91-85509-49-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38260
Reviewed for H-War by Garrett W. Wright
Booraem, Hendrik. _Child of the Revolution: William Henry
Harrison and His World , 1773-1798, A_. Kent: Kent State
University Press, 2012. 192 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-1-60635-115-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38814
Reviewed for H-Law by Keith E. Whittington
Tarr, G. Alan. _Without Fear or Favor: Judicial Independence and
Judicial Accountability in the States_. Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 2012. 269 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-8047-6040-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38849
Reviewed for H-Shukyo by Emily Anderson
Kim, Hwansoo Ilmee. _Empire of the Dharma: Korean and Japanese
Buddhism, 18771912_. Harvard East Asian Monographs Series.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013. 415 pp. $39.95, ISBN
978-0-674-06575-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38991
Reviewed for H-War by Tony Demchak
Richard, Carl J.. _When the United States Invaded Russia: Woodrow
Wilson's Siberian Disaster_. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield,
2012. xiii + 195 pp. $38.00, ISBN 978-1-4422-1989-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39180
Reviewed for Jhistory by William Mari
Bradsher, Henry S.. _Dalai Lama's Secret and Other Reporting
Adventures: Stories from a Cold War Correspondent, The_. Baton
Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2013. 336 pp. $34.95,
ISBN 978-0-8071-5051-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39215
Reviewed for H-Diplo by Jim H. Meriwether
Plummer, Brenda Gayle. _In Search of Power: African Americans in
the Era of Decolonization, 1956-1974_. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2013. vii + 372 pp. $90.00, ISBN 978-1-107-
02299-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39363
Reviewed for H-War by Eman Vovsi
Smith, Anthony D.. _Nation Made Real: Art and National Identity
in Western Europe, 1600-1850., The_. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2013. 213 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-19-966297-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39595
Reviewed for H-AmIndian by Mikaëla M. Adams
Genetin-Pilawa, C. Joseph. _Crooked Paths to Allotment: The Fight
over Federal Indian Policy after the Civil War_. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 2012. xv + 228 pp. $39.95,
ISBN 978-0-8078-3576-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39619
Reviewed for H-Diplo by Mao Lin
Calkins, Laura M.. China and the First Vietnam War, 1947-54.
Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia Series. New York:
Routledge, 2013. 200 pp. $155.00, ISBN 978-0-415-63233-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39623
Reviewed for H-Diplo by Judy T. Wu
Gabaccia, Donna R.. _Foreign Relations: American Immigration in
Global Perspective_. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012.
288 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-691-13419-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39667
Reviewed for H-Diplo by Timothy A. Sayle
Harrington, Daniel F.. _Berlin on the Brink: The Blockade, the
Airlift, and the Early Cold War_. Lexington: University Press of
Kentucky, 2012. 414 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-3613-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39789
Reviewed for H-CivWar by Michael Smith
Rodrigue, John C.. Lincoln and Reconstruction. Carbondale:
Southern Illinois University Press, 2013. x + 163 pp. $19.95,
ISBN 978-0-8093-3253-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=40341
Reviewed for H-Canada by Larry Glassford
McMahon, Patricia I.. _Essence of Indecision: Diefenbaker's
Nuclear Policy, 1957-1963_. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University
Press, 2009. xviii + 246 pp. $95.00, ISBN 978-0-7735-3498-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36675
Reviewed for H-War by Tal Tovy
French, David. _British Way in Counter-Insurgency, 1945-1967,
The_. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. x + 283 pp.
$125.00, ISBN 978-0-19-958796-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37561
Reviewed for H-Environment by Thaisa Way
Wilson, Thomas D.. _Oglethorpe Plan: Enlightenment Design in
Savannah and Beyond, The_. Charlottesville: University of
Virginia Press, 2012. xi + 257 pages. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8139-
3290-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38009
Reviewed for H-Albion by John McCallum
Mears, Natalie; Ryrie, Alec, eds.. _Worship and the Parish Church
in Early Modern Britain_. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2013. vi +
250 pp. $124.95, ISBN 978-1-4094-2604-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38279
Reviewed for H-Mideast-Medieval by Steve Tamari
Antrim, Zayde. _Routes and Realms: The Power of Place in the
Early Islamic World_. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Maps. xviii + 212 pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-19-991387-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38440
Reviewed for H-War by Frederick Black
Hart, Justin. _Empire of Ideas: The Origins of Public Diplomacy
and the Transformation of U.S. Foreign Policy_. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2013. 296 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-19-977794-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38684
Reviewed for H-Judaic by Constantin Goschler
Ludi, Regula. Reparations for Nazi Victims in Postwar Europe.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 270 pp. $99.00,
ISBN 978-1-107-02397-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38917
Reviewed for H-War by Cameron Zinsou
Harding, Stephen. _Last Battle: When U.S. and German Soldiers
Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe, The_.
Boston: Da Capo Press, 2013. Illustrations. 223 pp. $25.99, ISBN
978-0-306-82208-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39014
Reviewed for H-Diplo by Morten Jerven
Coyne, Christopher J.. _Doing Bad by Doing Good: Why Humanitarian
Action Fails_. Stanford: Stanford University Press, . 272 pp.
$25.95, ISBN 978-0-8047-7228-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39338
Reviewed for Jhistory by Dina Fainberg
Leitch, Gillian I., ed.. _Doctor Who in Time and Space: Essays on
Themes, Characters, History and Fandom, 1963-2012_. Critical
Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy Series. Jefferson:
McFarland, 2013. 300 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-7864-6549-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39534
Reviewed for H-Environment by Joseph Cialdella
Rooney, Dan; Peterson, Carol. _Allegheny City: A History of
Pittsburgh's North Side_. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013.
264 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8229-4422-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39557
Reviewed for H-Histsex by Jamie Stoops
Hines, Claire; Kerr, Darren, eds.. _Hard to Swallow: Hard-Core
Pornography on Screen_. London: Wallflower Press, 2012. xi + 249
pp. $75.00, ISBN 978-0-231-16210-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39808
Reviewed for H-AfrArts by Frank Agbiyoa Ugiomoh
Castellote, Jess, ed.. _Contemporary Nigerian Art in Lagos
Private Collections: New Trees in an Old Forest_.
Gloucestershire: Bookcraft Limited, 2012. 302 pp. $80.00, ISBN
978-978-8135-78-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36394
Reviewed for H-War by Al Berger
Thomas, Evan. _Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle
to Save the World_. New York: Little, Brown, 2012. 496 pp.
$29.99, ISBN 978-0-316-09104-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37444
Reviewed for H-Judaic by Eric E. Tuten
Inbari, Motti. _Messianic Religious Zionism Confronts Israeli
Territorial Compromises_. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2012. 211 pp. $90.00, ISBN 978-1-107-00912-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38182
Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Carrie P. Adkins
Materson, Lisa G.. _For the Freedom of Her Race: Black Women and
Electoral Politics in Illinois, 1877-1932_. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 2013. 352 pp. $24.95, ISBN
978-1-4696-0089-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38511
Reviewed for H-War by Jean A. Stuntz
Diener, Alexander C.; Hagen, Joshua. _Borders: A Very Short
Introduction_. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 152 pp.
$11.95, ISBN 978-0-19-973150-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39133
Reviewed for H-War by Tony Demchak
Gilbert, James L.. _World War I and the Origins of U.S. Military
Intelligence_. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2012. Illustrations. x +
245 pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-8108-8459-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39181
Reviewed for H-Judaic by Michael Carasik
Zakovitch, Yair; Shin?an, Avigdor. _From Gods to God: How the
Bible Debunked, Suppressed, or Changed Ancient Myths and Legends_.
Translated by Valerie Zakovitch. Lincoln: University of Nebraska
Press, 2012. xi + 301 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-8276-0908-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39550
Reviewed for H-SAE by Andrew Brandel
Cheesman, Tom, ed.. _German Text Crimes: Writers Accused, from
the 1950s to the 2000s_. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2013. 242 pp.
$70.20, ISBN 978-90-420-3690-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39671
Reviewed for H-Diplo by Hans Schmitz
Donnelly, Jack. Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013. x + 320 pp. $69.95, ISBN
978-0-8014-5095-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39846
Reviewed for H-War by Mary Stockwell
Ferguson, Gillum. Illinois in the War of 1812. Urbana:
University of Illinois Press, 2012. xiii + 349 pp. $34.95, ISBN
978-0-252-03674-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35889
Reviewed for H-German by Todd Craver
Pollock, Friedrich; Adorno, Theodor W.. _Group Experiment and
Other Writings: The Frankfurt School on Public Opinion in Postwar
Germany_. Andrew J. Perrin and Jeffrey K. Olick, eds. and trans.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011. 268 pp. $49.95, ISBN
978-0-674-04846-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36934
Reviewed for H-Environment by Emily Brock
Halfacre, Angela C.. _Delicate Balance: Constructing a
Conservation Culture in the South Carolina Lowcountry, A_.
Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2012. 344 pp.
$29.95, ISBN 978-1-61117-071-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37486
Reviewed for H-Asia by David Buck
Leese, Daniel. _Mao Cult: Rhetoric and Ritual in China's Cultural
Revolution_. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xvii +
304 pp. $90.00, ISBN 978-0-521-19367-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37809
Reviewed for H-Asia by Usha Sanyal
Maclean, Derryl N.; Ahmed, Sikeena Karmali, eds..
Cosmopolitanisms in Muslim Contexts: Perspectives from the Past.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. 190 pp. $96.00,
ISBN 978-0-7486-4456-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37880
Reviewed for H-War by Galen Perras
Wilford, Timothy. _Canada's Road to the Pacific War:
Intelligence, Strategy, and the Far East Crisis_. Vancouver:
University of British Columbia Press, 2012. 312 pp. $37.95, ISBN
978-0-7748-2122-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37959
Reviewed for H-Borderlands by Andrae Marak
Andreas, Peter. _Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made
America_. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. xiii + 454
pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-19-974688-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38169
Reviewed for H-Ideas by Aleksandra Ubertowska
Hall, Katharina; Jones, Kathryn, eds.. _Constructions of
Conflict: Transmitting Memories of the Past in European
Historiography, Culture, and Media_. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2011.
viii + 274 pp. $56.95, ISBN 978-3-03911-923-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38329
Reviewed for H-War by Brad Gladman
Rein, Christopher M.. _North African Air Campaign: U.S. Army Air
Forces from El Alamein to Salerno, The_. Modern War Studies
Series. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2012. x + 290 pp.
$34.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1878-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38464
Reviewed for H-Asia by Usha Sanyal
Bano, Masooda. _Rational Believer: Choices and Decisions in the
Madrasas of Pakistan, The_. Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
2012. xii + 250 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8014-5044-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=38538
Reviewed for Jhistory by James Aucoin
Hustwit, William P.. _James J. Kilpatrick: Salesman for
Segregation_. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
2013. ix + 310 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-1-4696-0213-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39526
Reviewed for H-Judaic by Zeev Levin
Cooper, Alanna E.. _Bukharan Jews and the Dynamics of Global
Judaism_. Indiana Series in Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012. xxix + 305 pp.
$85.00, ISBN 978-0-253-00643-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39670
Reviewed for H-Diplo by Sonja Wentling
Gopin, Marc. _Bridges across an Impossible Divide: The Inner
Lives of Arab and Jewish Peacemakers_. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2013. 256 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-19-991698-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39820
Reviewed for H-Diplo by Mitchell Lerner
Armstrong, Charles K.. _Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the
World, 1950-1992_. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013. 328
pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8014-5082-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=39853
Reviewed for H-Asia by Susan Johnson-Roehr
Kavuri-Bauer, Santhi. _Monumental Matters: The Power,
Subjectivity, and Space of Indias Mughal Architecture_. Durham:
Duke University Press, 2011. x + 216 pp. $84.95, ISBN 978-0-
8223-4899-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=40275