H-Net reviews posted to the web 15 Jun 2009 – 29 Jun 2009

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Hohls, Rüdiger

H-Net Reviews

The following reviews were posted to the H-Net web site between 15 Jun 2009 and 29 Jun 2009.

Reviewed for HABSBURG by Alison Rose
Gitelman, Zvi, ed.. _Emergence of Modern Jewish Politics: Bundism
and Zionism in Eastern Europe, The_. Pittsburgh: University of
Pittsburgh Press, 2003. vii + 275 pp. $44.95, ISBN 978-0-8229-
4188-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24889

Reviewed for H-Albion by Anthony Howe
Trentmann, Frank. _Free Trade Nation: Commerce, Consumption, and
Civil Society in Modern Britain_. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2008. 400 S. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-19-920920-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24867

Reviewed for H-Caribbean by Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw
Accilien, Cecile. _Rethinking Marriage in Francophone African and
Caribbean Literatures_. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2008. 202 pp.
$65.00, ISBN 978-0-7391-1657-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23620

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Inderjeet Parmar
Peleg, Ilan. _Legacy of George W. Bush's Foreign Policy: Moving
beyond Neoconservatism, The_. Boulder: Westview Press, 2009. xv
+ 202 pp. $24.00, ISBN 978-0-8133-4446-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24297

Reviewed for H-German by Adam Brown
Bailey, F. G.. _God-Botherers and Other True Believers: Gandhi,
Hitler, and the Religious Right_. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2008.
xi + 229 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-1-84545-512-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24747

Reviewed for H-German by Andrew Knapp
Mitchell, Allan. _Nazi Paris: The History of an Occupation, 1940-
1944_. New York: Berghahn Books, 2008. 230 pp. $75.00, ISBN
978-1-84545-451-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24766

Reviewed for H-German by Beth A. Griech-Polelle
Jantzen, Kyle. _Faith and Fatherland: Parish Politics in Hitler's
Germany_. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2008. vii + 247 pp.
$25.42, ISBN 978-0-8006-2358-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24524

Reviewed for H-German by Birgit Tautz
Guyer, Sara Emilie. Romanticism After Auschwitz. Stanford:
Stanford University Press, 2007. xiii + 364 pp. $55.00, ISBN
978-0-8047-5524-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24639

Reviewed for H-German by Claudia Pummer
Ostrowska, Dorota; Roberts, Graham, eds. _European Cinemas in the
Television Age_. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. xi
+ 192 pp. $100.00, ISBN 978-0-7486-2308-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23953

Reviewed for H-German by Clayton Whisnant
Colvin, Sarah; Davies, Peter, eds.. _Masculinity and German
Culture._. Edinburgh German Yearbook. Rochester: Camden House,
2008. 277 pp. $75.00, ISBN 978-1-57113-361-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24785

Reviewed for H-German by Jens-Uwe Guettel
Lohff, Brigitte; Conrads, Hinderk. _From Berlin to New York: Life
and Work of the Almost Forgotten German-Jewish Biochemist Carl
Neuberg (1877-1956)_. Translated by Anthony Mellor-Stapelberg.
Geschichte und Philosophie der Medizin: History and Philosophy of
Medicine. Stuttgart: Steiner, 2007. 294 pp. Illustrations , ISBN
978-3-515-09062-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23950

Reviewed for H-German by Jonathan Durrant
Ströhmer, Michael. _Von Hexen, Ratsherren und Juristen: Die
Rezeption der Peinlichen Halsgerichtsordnung Kaiser Karls V. in
den frühen Hexenprozessen der Hansestadt Lemgo 1583-1621_.
Paderborn: Bonifatius Buchverlag, 2003. 339 pp. EUR 35.80, ISBN
978-3-89710-225-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23743

Reviewed for H-German by Lynn Kutch
Mazón, Patricia M.; Steingröver, Reinhild, eds.. _Not So Plain as
Black and White: Afro-German Culture and History, 1890-2000_.
Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2005. xvii + 247 pp.
$75.00, ISBN 978-1-58046-183-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24836

Reviewed for H-German by Martin M. Kley
Stumberger, Rudolf. _Klassen-Bilder: Sozialdokumentarische
Fotografie 1900-1945_. Constance: Universitätsverlag Konstanz -
UVK, 2007. 288 pp. EUR 29.00, ISBN 978-3-89669-639-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24693

Reviewed for H-German by Matthew Stibbe
Kaiser, Tobias. _Karl Griewank (1900-1953): Ein deutscher
Historiker im "Zeitalter der Extreme"_. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner
Verlag, 2007. 528 pp. EUR 60.00, ISBN 978-3-515-08653-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24802

Reviewed for H-German by Mitchell M. Harris
Nancy, Jean-Luc. Noli Me Tangere: On the Raising of the Body.
Translated by Sarah Clift, Pascale-Anne Brault, and Michael Naas.
Perspectives in Continental Philosophy Series. New York: Fordham
University Press, 2008. ix + 118 pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-8232-
2889-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23946

Reviewed for H-German by Peter Fritzsche
Sand, George. Countess Von Rudolstadt., The. Translated by
Gretchen van Slyke. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press, 2008. xviii + 441 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8122-4073-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24783

Reviewed for H-German by Peter Matheson
Tavuzzi, Michael M.. _Renaissance Inquisitors: Dominican
Inquisitors and Inquisitorial Districts in Northern Italy, 1474-
1527_. Studies in the History of Christian Traditions. Leiden:
Brill, 2007. xiii + 286 pp. $148.00, ISBN 978-90-04-16094-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24834

Reviewed for H-German by Sebastian Heiduschke
Halle, Randall; Steingröver, Reinhild, eds.. _After the Avant-
Garde: Contemporary German and Austrian Experimental Film._.
Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual. Rochester: Camden
House, 2008. 371 pp. $80.00, ISBN 978-1-57113-365-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24745

Reviewed for H-German by Thomas Pegelow Kaplan
Hartman, Geoffrey H.. _Scholar's Tale: Intellectual Journey of a
Displaced Child of Europe, A_. New York: Fordham University
Press, 2007. x + 195 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8232-2832-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24786

Reviewed for H-German by Thomas Williams
Spotts, Frederic. _Shameful Peace: How French Artists and
Intellectuals Survived the Nazi Occupation, The_. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 2008. 283 pp. Illustrations. $35.00, ISBN 978-
0-300-13290-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24746

Reviewed for H-German by Undine S. Weber
Szeless, Margarethe. _Die Kulturzeitschrift "magnum":
Photographische Befunde der Moderne_. Marburg: Jonas Verlag für
Kunst und Literatur, 2007. 188 pp. EUR 25.00, ISBN 978-3-89445-
382-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24803

Reviewed for H-HistGeog by Daniel Whittall
Lake, Marilyn; Reynolds, Henry. _Drawing the Global Colour Line:
White Men's Countries and the International Challenge of Racial
Equality_. Critical Perspectives on Empire Series. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2008. Illustrations. x + 371 pp.
$90.00, ISBN 978-0-521-88118-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24838

Reviewed for H-HistGeog by Lutz Haefner
Badcock, Sarah. _Politics and the People in Revolutionary Russia:
A Provincial History_. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2007. 280 pp. $99.00, ISBN 978-0-521-87623-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24654

Reviewed for H-HRE by Jamel Ostwald
Showalter, Dennis; Astore, William J.. _Soldiers' Lives through
History: The Early Modern World_. Soldiers' Lives through History
Series. Portsmouth: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007. 320 pp.
$65.00, ISBN 978-0-313-33312-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24607

Reviewed for H-Human-Rights by Robert Tynes
Okafor, Obiora Chinedu. _African Human Rights System, Activist
Forces and International Institutions, The_. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2007. xiv + 336 pp. $110.00, ISBN 978-0-521-
86906-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24389

Reviewed for H-Ideas by Matthew McCullock
Eörsi, László. _Hungarian Revolution of 1956: Myths and
Realities, The_. Translated by Mario D. Fenyo. Boulder: East
European Monographs, 2006. Illustrations, maps. 200 pp. $40.00,
ISBN 978-0-88033-591-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24490

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Ira Robinson
Einbinder, Susan L.. _No Place of Rest: Jewish Literature,
Expulsion, and the Memory of Medieval France_. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. 267 pp. $55.00, ISBN
978-0-8122-4115-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23854

Reviewed for H-Law by Lynne Curry
Lombardo, Paul A.. _Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics,
the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell_. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2008. Photographs. xiv + 365 pp. $29.95, ISBN
978-0-8018-9010-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23964

Reviewed for H-SAWH by Christiane Warren
Sumler-Edmond, Janice. _Secret Trust of Aspasia Cruvellier
Mirault: The Life and Trials of a Free Woman of Color in
Antebellum Georgia, The_. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas
Press, 2008. xiii + 171 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-55728-880-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24367

Reviewed for H-SHEAR by Brian Luskey
Rockman, Seth. _Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in
Early Baltimore_. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,
2009. xii + 368 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-8018-9006-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24171

Reviewed for H-Urban by Craig Hendricks
Bauer, Brian S.. Ancient Cuzco: Heartland of the Inca. Austin:
University of Texas Press, 2004. 296 pp. Illustrations,
photographs, maps. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-292-70279-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24847

Reviewed for H-Water by David Zetland
Segerfeldt, Fredrik. _Water for Sale: How Business and the Market
Can Resolve the World's Water Crisis_. Washington DC: Cato
Institute, 2005. 160 pp. $12.95, ISBN 978-1-930865-76-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24474

Reviewed for H-Water by Philip Morgan
Chapelle, Frank. _Wellsprings: A Natural History of Bottled
Spring Waters_. Piscataway: Rutgers University Press, 2005. xvi
+ 279 pp. $25.95, ISBN 978-0-8135-3614-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24476

Reviewed for H-Women by Dawne Curry
Tripp, Aili Mari; Casimiro, Isabel; Kwesiga, Joy; Mungwa, Alice.
African Women's Movements: Changing Political Landscapes.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xvi + 263 pp.
$85.00, ISBN 978-0-521-87930-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23571

Reviewed for H-Women by Jane Nicholas
Keough, Willeen G.. _Slender Thread: Irish Women on the Southern
Avalon, 1750-1860, The_. New York: Columbia University Press,
2008. xiv + 542 pp. $60.00, ISBN 978-0-231-13202-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23653

Reviewed for H-Women by Katie Gray
Sha, Richard C.. _Perverse Romanticism: Aesthetics and Sexuality
in Britain, 1750-1832_. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 2009. xi + 359 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8018-9041-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23958

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