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From: H-Net Reviews <hbooks@mail.h-net.msu.edu>
List Editor: Howard Smead <howard@HOWARDSMEAD.COM>
Editor's Subject: H-Net reviews posted to the web 28 Sep 2009 - 05 Oct 2009
Author's Subject: H-Net reviews posted to the web 28 Sep 2009 - 05 Oct 2009
Date Written: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:00:01 -0400
Date Posted: Tue, 05 Oct 2009 20:17:56 -0400
The following reviews were posted to the H-Net web site between
28 Sep 2009 and 05 Oct 2009.

Reviewed for H-AfrArts by Mark D. DeLancey
    Holl, Augustin F. C..  _Saharan Rock Art: Archaeology of Tassilian
    Pastoralist Iconography_.  Lanham: Altamira Press, 2004.
    Illustrations. 240 pp.  $33.95, ISBN 978-0-7591-0605-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=22968

Reviewed for H-Urban by Friederike von Schwerin-High
    Itoda, Soichiro.  _Berlin and Tokyo: Theater and Capital City
    (Berurin to Tokyo - Gekijo to Toshi; Berlin und Tokyo: Theater und
    Hauptstadt)_.  München: Iudicium-Verlag, 2008.  Illustrations.
    305 pp.  EUR 58, ISBN 978-3-89129-654-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23515

Reviewed for H-Law by Jonathan Lurie
    Heberer, Patricia; Matthäus, Jürgen, eds..  _Atrocities on Trial:
    Historical Perspectives on the Politics of Prosecuting War
    Crimes_.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008.  xxx +
    327 pp.  $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8032-1084-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24133

Reviewed for H-HistGeog by Sally Hermansen
    Monmonier, Mark S..  _Coast Lines: How Mapmakers Frame the World
    and Chart Environmental Change_.  Chicago: University of Chicago
    Press, 2008.  xiii + 228 pp.  $25.00, ISBN 978-0-226-53403-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24243

Reviewed for H-AfrArts by John Nunley
    Green, Garth L.; Scher, Philip W., eds..  _Trinidad Carnival: The
    Cultural Politics of a Transnational Festival_.  Bloomington:
    Indiana University Press, 2007.  240 pp.  $21.95, ISBN 978-0-253-
    21883-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24246

Reviewed for H-Urban by David Spear
    Roux, Simone.  _Paris in the Middle Ages_.  Translated by Jo Ann
    McNamara. Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of
    Pennsylvania Press, 2009.  Map, table. xvi + 249 pp.  $29.95, ISBN
    978-0-8122-4159-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24832

Reviewed for H-Water by Margaret A. Bickers
    Erie, Steven P..  _Beyond Chinatown: The Metropolitan Water
    District, Growth, and the Environment in Southern California_.
    Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006.  384 p.  $22.95, ISBN
    978-0-8047-5140-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24892

Reviewed for H-Italy by Sarah McLean-Plunkett
    Poggi, Christine.  _Inventing Futurism: The Art and Politics of
    Artificial Optimism_.  Princeton: Princeton University Press,
    2009.  Illustrations. xv + 374 pp.  $45.00, ISBN 978-0-691-13370-
    6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=25108

Reviewed for H-German by Holger Löwendorf
    Dyson, Tom.  _Politics of German Defence and Security: Policy
    Leadership and Military Reform in the Post-Cold War Era, The_.
    Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2007.  xii + 215 pp.  $70.00, ISBN 978-1-
    84545-392-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=25207

Reviewed for H-German by Emre Sencer
    Aksakal, Mustafa.  _Ottoman Road to War in 1914: The Ottoman
    Empire and the First World War, The_.  Cambridge: Cambridge
    University Press, 2008.  xv + 216 pp.  $99.00, ISBN 978-0-521-
    88060-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=25208

Reviewed for H-German by Jay Howard Geller
    Mose?s, Ste?phane.  _Angel of History: Rosenzweig, Benjamin,
    Scholem, The_.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009.  193
    pp.  $65.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-4116-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=25219

Reviewed for H-German by April A. Eisman
    Saehrendt, Christian.  _Kunst als Botschafter einer kunstlichen
    Nation: Studien zur Rolle der bildenden Kunst in der Auswartigen
    Kulturpolitik der DDR_.  Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2009.  197 pp.
    EUR 55.00, ISBN 978-3-515-09227-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=25245

Reviewed for H-German by Jost Dülffer
    Fink, Carole; Schaefer, Bernd, eds..  _Ostpolitik, 1969-1974:
    European and Global Responses_.  Washington, DC: German Historical
    Institute, 2009.  xxiv + 289 pp.  $85.00, ISBN 978-0-521-89970-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=25274

Reviewed for H-German by Brian K. Feltman
    Stibbe, Matthew.  _British Civilian Internees in Germany. The
    Ruhleben Camp, 1914-1918_.  Manchester: Manchester University
    Press, 2008.  210 pp.  $84.95, ISBN 978-0-7190-7084-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=25302

Reviewed for H-Albion by A. Martin Wainwright
    Pati, Biswamoy, ed..  _1857 Rebellion, The_.  Debates in Indian
    History and Society Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
    425 pp.  $49.95, ISBN 978-0-19-569076-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=25418

Reviewed for H-German by Jeanne E. Grant
    Šmahel, František.  _Die Prager Universität im Mittelalter:
    Gesammelte Aufsätzehe (Charles University in the Middle Ages:
    Selected Studies)_.  Education and Society in the Middle Ages and
    Renaissance. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2007.  xii + 636
    pp.  $218.00, ISBN 978-90-04-15488-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=25504

Reviewed for H-German by Garth Montgomery
    Rutz, Rainer.  _Signal:  Eine deutsche Auslandsillustrierte als
    Propagandainstrument im Zweiten Weltkrieg_.  Essen: Klartext
    Verlag, 2007.  446 pp.  EUR 34.00, ISBN 978-3-89861-720-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=25508

Reviewed for H-CivWar by Robert Thompson
    Rhea, Gordon C..  _In the Footsteps of Grant and Lee: The
    Wilderness through Cold Harbor_.  Photgraphs by Chris Heisey.
    Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007.  viii + 134
    pp.  $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8071-3269-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=25554

Reviewed for H-CivWar by John M. Sacher
    Escott, Paul D., ed..  _North Carolinians in the Era of the Civil
    War and Reconstruction_.  Chapel Hill: University of North
    Carolina Press, 2008.  320 pp.  $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3222-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=25555

Reviewed for H-Law by Christopher Schmidt
    Litwack, Leon F..  _How Free Is Free? The Long Death of Jim Crow_.
    Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009.  187 pp.  $18.95, ISBN
    978-0-674-03152-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=25586

Reviewed for H-German by Adam R. Seipp
    Cepl-Kaufmann, Gertrude; Krumeich, Gerd; Sommers, Ulla, eds..
    _Krieg und Utopie: Kunst, Literatur und Politik im Rheinland nach
    dem Ersten Weltkrieg_.  Essen: Klartext Verlag, 2006.  406 pp.
    EUR 24.90, ISBN 978-3-89861-619-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=25606

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