Links to Recent H-Net Reviews

he following reviews were posted to the H-Net web site between 14 Sep 2015 and 21 Sep 2015.

Reviewed for H-War by Adam Rock Stagg, J. C. A..  _War of 1812: Conflict for a Continent, The_. Cambridge Essential Histories Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.  216 pp.  $24.99, ISBN 978-0-521-72686-3. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36774

Reviewed for H-CivWar by Shannon Smith Ash, Stephen V..  _Massacre in Memphis: The Race Riot That Shook the Nation One Year after the Civil War, A_.  New York: Hill and Wang, 2013.  286 pp.  $27.00, ISBN 978-0-8090-6797-8. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=41973

Reviewed for H-Albion by David Clemis Hailwood, Mark.  _Alehouses and Good Fellowship in Early Modern England_.  Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History Series. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2014.  266 pp.  $99.00, ISBN 978-1-84383-942-2. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=42779

Reviewed for H-Italy by Brian Sandberg Hanlon, Gregory.  _Hero of Italy: Odoardo Farnese, Duke of Parma, His Soldiers and His Subjects in the Thirty Years’ War, The_. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.  xiii + 241 pp.  $99.00, ISBN 978-0-19-968724-4. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=42966

Reviewed for H-War by Ellen Tillman Carlisle, J. M..  _Cowboy and the Canal: How Theodore Roosevelt Cheated Colombia, Stole Panama, and Bamboozled America, The_. Tucson: Integral Publishers, 2014.  338 pp.  $27.95, ISBN 978-0- 9896827-9-4. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=43169

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Abraham Peck Goda, Norman J. W.; Stewart, Barbara McDonald; Hochberg, Severin; Breitman, Richard, eds..  _To the Gates of Jerusalem: The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald, 1945-1947_.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014.  320 pp.  $30.00, ISBN 978-0-253-01509-9. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=43202

Reviewed for H-Histsex by Michiko Suzuki Burns, Susan L.; Brooks, Barbara J., eds..  _Gender and Law in the Japanese Imperium_.  Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2014. 301 pp.  $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8248-3715-0. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=43318

Reviewed for H-SAE by Elza Ibroscheva Ghodsee, Kristen Rogheh.  _Left Side of History: World War II and the Unfulfilled Promise of Communism in Eastern Europe, The_. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015.  256 pp.  $84.95, ISBN 978-0- 8223-5823-7. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=43469

Reviewed for H-Citizenship by Taveeshi Singh Misri, Deepti.  _Beyond Partition: Gender, Violence, and Representation in Postcolonial India_.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2014.  224 pp.  $28.00, ISBN 978-0-252-08039-5. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=43621

Reviewed for H-War by Arad Gigi Flemming, Gregory N..  _At the Point of a Cutlass: The Pirate Capture, Bold Escape, and Lonely Exile of Philip Ashton_. Lebanon: Foredge, 2014.  256 pp.  $29.95, ISBN 978-1-61168-515-2. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=43645

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Sonja Wentling Hirschfeld, Yair P..  _Track-Two Diplomacy toward an Israeli- Palestinian Solution, 1978-2014_.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, .  xvi + 452 pp.  $45.99, ISBN 978-1-4214-1414- 0. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=43956

Reviewed for H-Catholic by Michael LaRosa Schwaller, John Frederick.  _History of the Catholic Church in Latin America: From Conquest to Revolution and Beyond, The_.  New York: New York University Press, 2011.  ix + 319 pp.  $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-4003-3. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=44160

Reviewed for H-Law by Thomas W. Bahde Green, William D..  _Degrees of Freedom: The Origins of Civil Rights in Minnesota, 1865-1912_.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015.  384 pp.  $32.95, ISBN 978-0-8166-9346-7. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=44542

Reviewed for H-Levant by James Grehan Winter, Stefan.  _Shiites of Lebanon under Ottoman Rule, 1516- 1788, The_.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.  xii + 204 pp.  $95.00, ISBN 978-0-521-76584-8. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=44674

Reviewed for H-Asia by Stewart Gordon Amitai, Reuven; Biran, Michal, eds..  _Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change: The Mongols and Their Eurasian Predecessors_. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2014.  ix + 345 pp. $54.00, ISBN 978-0-8248-3978-9. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=44679

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Günter J. Bischof Barney, Timothy.  _Mapping the Cold War: Cartography and the Framing of America’s International Power_.  Chapel Hill: University Of North Carolina Press, 2015.  Maps. 338 pp.  $29.95, ISBN 978-1-4696-1854-8. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=44891

Reviewed for H-Buddhism by Richard McBride Jorgensen, John.  _Handbook of Korean Zen Practice: A Mirror on the Sŏn School of Buddhism (Sŏn’ga kwigam), A_.  Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2015.  328 pp.  $49.00, ISBN 978-0- 8248-4097-6. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=44986

Reviewed for H-Luso-Africa by David Brookshaw Ondjaki.  _Granma Nineteen and the Soviet’s Secret_.  Translated by Stephen Henighan. Biblioasis International Translation Series. Windsor: Biblioasis, 2014.  192 pp.  $15.95, ISBN 978-1-927428-65- 8. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=44999

Reviewed for H-Italy by Anita Pinzi Burns, Jennifer.  _Migrant Imaginaries: Figures in Italian Migration Literature_.  Italian Modernities Series. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2013.  220 pp.  $56.95, ISBN 978-3-0343-0986-8. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=45009

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Kirsten Bönker Gatejel, Luminita.  _Warten, hoffen und endlich fahren:  Auto und Sozialismus in der Sowjetunion, in Rumänien und der DDR 1956–1989/91_.  Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag, 2014.  305 S. , ISBN 978-3-593-50188-8. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=45118

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Arnost Stanzel Huff, Tobias.  _Natur und Industrie im Sozialismus:  Eine Umweltgeschichte der DDR_.  Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015.  470 S., 9 Abb., 4 Kart., 1 Tab.  , ISBN 978-3-647-31717-5. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=45119

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Laura Elias Cvetkovski, Roland; Hofmeister, Alexis.  _An Empire of Others: Creating Ethnographic Knowledge in Imperial Russia and the USSR_. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2014.  407 S.  , ISBN . http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=45125

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Karl Mayer Meier, Robert.  _Wertheim 1628:  Eine Stadt in Krieg und Hexenverfolgung_.  Dettelbach: J. H. Röll Verlag, 2015.  119 S. , ISBN 978-3-89754-464-2. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=45126

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Raiko Hannemann Voigt, Sebastian; Sünker, Heinz.  _Arbeiterbewegung – Nation – Globalisierung:  Bestandsaufnahmen einer alten Debatte_. Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft, 2014.  231 S.  , ISBN 978-3- 942393-71-3. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=45144

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Anna Pelka Krzoska, Markus.  _Ein Land unterwegs:  Kulturgeschichte Polens seit 1945_.  Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag, 2015. 436 S.  , ISBN 978-3-506-78085-0. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=45145

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Tobias Straumann Eggenkämper, Barbara; Modert, Gerd; Pretzlik, Stefan.  _Die Allianz:  Geschichte des Unternehmens 1890–2015_.  München: C.H. Beck Verlag, 2015.  432 S., 150 Abb.  , ISBN 978-3-406-66896- 8. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=45146

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Courtney Fullilove Harwood, Jonathan.  _Europe’s Green Revolution and Others Since: The Rise and Fall of Peasant-Friendly Plant Breeding_.  London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2011.  270 S.  $160.00, ISBN 978-0-415-59868-2. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=45147

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Umut Uzuner Erickson, Edward J..  _Ottomans and Armenians:  A Study in Counterinsurgency_.  Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.  XIII, 299 S.  $100.00, ISBN 978-1-137-36220-9. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=45148

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Stefan Offermann Stoff, Heiko.  _Gift in der Nahrung:  Zur Genese der Verbraucherpolitik Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts_.  Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2015.  248 S.  $79.00, ISBN 978-3-515-10988-8. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=45162

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Corinna Wobbe Schleiff, Hartmut; Konecny, Peter.  _Staat, Bergbau und Bergakademie:  Montanexperten im 18. und frühen 19. Jahrhundert_. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2013.  382 S.  $96.00, ISBN 978- 3-515-10364-0. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=45163

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Tanja Petrović Todorova, Maria; Dimou, Augusta; Troebst, Stefan.  _Remembering Communism:  Private and Public Recollections of Lived Experience in Southeast Europe_.  Budapest: Central European University Press, 2014.  625 S.  , ISBN 978-963-386-032-8. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=45164

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Jutta Wimmler Lachenicht, Susanne.  _Europeans Engaging the Atlantic:  Knowledge and Trade, 1500-1800_.  Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag, 2014. 185 S.  $49.00, ISBN 978-3-593-50170-3. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=45174