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Editor's Subject: H-Net reviews posted to the web 16 Mar 2009 - 23 Mar 2009
Author's Subject: H-Net reviews posted to the web 16 Mar 2009 - 23 Mar 2009
Date Written: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 07:00:01 -0400
Date Posted: Tue, 23 Mar 2009 15:28:42 -0400
The following reviews were posted to the H-Net web site between
16 Mar 2009 and 23 Mar 2009.

Reviewed for H-German by Ian Armour
    Cole, Laurence; Unowsky, Daniel L., eds.  _Limits of Loyalty:
    Imperial Symbolism, Popular Allegiances, and State Patriotism in
    the Late Habsburg Monarchy, The_.  Austrian and Habsburg Studies.
    New York: Berghahn Books, 2007.  viii + 246 pp.  , ISBN 978-1-
    84545-202-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=15655

Reviewed for H-German by Daniel T. Bullard
    Berman, Nina.  _Impossible Missions?: German Economic, Military
    and Humanitarian Efforts in Africa_.  Lincoln: University of
    Nebraska Press, 2004.  271 pp.  , ISBN 978-0-8032-1334-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=15672

Reviewed for H-Travel by Aditi Chandra
    Henderson, Carol E.; Weisgrau, Maxine, eds..  _Raj Rhapsodies:
    Tourism Heritage and the Seduction of History_.  Aldershot:
    Ashgate, 2007.  xlvi + 236 pp.  $99.95, ISBN 978-0-7546-7067-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=15697

Reviewed for H-Albion by Bruce P. Lenman
    Macinnes, Allan I..  _Union and Empire: The Making of the United
    Kingdom in 1707_.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
    xv + 382 pp.  $80.00, ISBN 978-0-521-85079-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23000

Reviewed for H-AfrArts by Lisa Aronson
    Bay, Edna G..  _Asen, Ancestors, and Vodun: Tracing Change in
    African Art_.  Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2008.  xiv
    + 186 pp.  $40.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03255-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23030

Reviewed for H-Genocide by John Gesick
    Yarbrough, Fay A..  _Race and the Cherokee Nation: Sovereignty in
    the Nineteenth Century_.  Philadephia: University of Pennsylvania
    Press, 2008.  x + 184 pp.  , ISBN 978-0-8122-4056-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23044

Reviewed for H-German by Matthew D. Thrond
    Fudge, John D..  _Commerce and Print in the Early Reformation_.
    The Northern World: North Europe and the Baltic c. 400-1700 AD:
    Peoples, Economies, and Cultures. Leiden: Brill, 2007.  ix + 289
    pp.  , ISBN 978-90-04-15662-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23084

Reviewed for H-Pentecostalism by John W. Forje
    Akoko, Robert Mbe.  _"Ask and You Shall Be Given": Pentecostalism
    and the Economic Crisis in Cameroon_.  African Studies Collection
    Series. Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2007.  239 pp.  EUR 15,
    ISBN 978-90-5448-007-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23129

Reviewed for H-Ideas by Andrea Orzoff
    Wingfield, Nancy M.; Bucur, Maria, eds..  _Gender and War in
    Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe_.  Bloomington: Indiana
    University Press, 2006.  x + 251 pp.  $24.95, ISBN 978-0-253-
    21844-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23419

Reviewed for H-German by Ralph R. Menning
    Schwanitz, Wolfgang G., ed..  _Deutschland und der Mittlere
    Osten_.  Comparativ: Leipziger Beiträge zur Universalgeschichte
    und vergleichender Gesellschaftsforschung. Leipzig: Leipziger
    Universitätsverlag, 2004.  186 pp.  , ISBN 978-3-937209-48-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23715

Reviewed for H-German by Dieter K. Buse
    Williams, John A..  _Turning to Nature in Germany: Hiking, Nudism,
    and Conservation, 1900-1940_.  Stanford: Stanford University
    Press, 2007.  x + 354 pp.  , ISBN 978-0-8047-0015-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23785

Reviewed for H-German by Jay Lockenour
    Wiggenhorn, Harald.  _Verliererjustiz:  Die Leipziger
    Kriegsverbrecherprozesse nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg_.  Studien Zur
    Geschichte des Völkerrechts. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag, 2005.  xv
    + 548 pp.  , ISBN 978-3-8329-1538-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23821

Reviewed for H-German by Erik Jensen
    Erenberg, Lewis.  _Greatest Fight of Our Generation: Louis vs.
    Schmeling., The_.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.  xii +
    274 pp.  , ISBN 978-0-19-531999-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23827

Reviewed for H-Law by Gordon Bakken
    Holt, Michael F..  _By One Vote: The Disputed Presidential
    Election of 1876_.  Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008.
    xiv + 300 pp.  $34.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1608-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23850

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Leena Petersen
    Reitter, Paul.  _Anti-Journalist: Karl Kraus and Jewish Self-
    Fashioning in Fin-de-siècle Europe, The_.  Chicago: University of
    Chicago Press, 2008.  xii + 254 pp.  $35.00, ISBN 978-0-226-70970-
    3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23855

Reviewed for Jhistory by Jeanette McVicker
    DiMaggio, Anthony R..  _Mass Media, Mass Propaganda: Examining
    American News in the_.  Lanham: Lexington Books, 2008.  viii + 329
    pp.  $85.00, ISBN 978-0-7391-1902-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23988

Reviewed for H-War by Judith Keene
    Bowen, Wayne H.; Alvarez, José E..  _Military History of Modern
    Spain: From the Napoleonic Era to the International War on Terror,
    A_.  Westport: Praeger, 2007.  viii + 222 pp.  , ISBN 978-0-275-
    99357-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24033

Reviewed for H-German by Sarah E. Wobick
    Torberg, Friedrich.  _Tante Jolesch: or, The Decline of the West
    in Anecdotes_.  Translated by Maria Poglitsch Bauer. Afterword by
    Sonat Birnecker Hart. Riverside: Ariadne Press, 2008.  240 pp.  ,
    ISBN 978-1-57241-149-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24054

Reviewed for H-German by Jeffrey R. Smith
    Dowling, Timothy C..  _Brusilov Offensive, The_.  Bloomington:
    Indiana University Press, 2008.  xxv + 208 pp. Illustrations
    $24.95, ISBN 978-0-253-35130-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24057

Reviewed for H-German by Andrew Reeves
    Clemens, Raymond; Graham, Timothy.  _Introduction to Manuscript
    Studies_.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007.  xvi + 301 pp.
    $85.00, ISBN 978-0-8014-3863-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24063

Reviewed for H-Japan by John E. Van Sant
    Spector, Ronald H..  _In the Ruins of Empire: The Japanese
    Surrender and the Battle for Postwar Asia_.  New York: Random
    House Trade Paperbacks, 2008.  Plates. xiii + 358 pp.  $16.00,
    ISBN 978-0-8129-6732-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24087

Reviewed for H-Southern-Lit by Mark Graybill
    Desmond, John F..  _Walker Percy's Search for Community_.  Athens:
    University of Georgia Press, 2004.  271 pp.  $39.95, ISBN 978-0-
    8203-2588-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24229

Reviewed for H-SAWH by Marise Bachand
    Long, Carolyn Morrow.  _New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend
    and Reality of Marie Laveau, A_.  Gainesville: University Press of
    Florida, 2007.  xxxvii + 294 pp.  $26.00, ISBN 978-0-8130-3214-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24274

Reviewed for H-Africa by Kalala Ngalamulume
    Wright, Donald R..  _World and a Very Small Place in Africa: A
    History of Globalizaion in Niumi, The Gambia, The_.  Second
    Edition. Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 2004.  368 pp.  $29.95, ISBN 978-0-
    7656-1008-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24284

Reviewed for H-Canada by Brandon Dimmel
    Cook, Tim.  _Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting the Great War, 1917-
    1918_.  Volume 2. Toronto: Viking Canada, 2008.  viii + 727 pp.
    $40.00, ISBN 978-0-670-06735-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24290

Reviewed for H-CivWar by Robert Thompson
    Holzer, Harold; Gabbard, Sara Vaughn, eds..  _Lincoln and Freedom:
    Slavery, Emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment_.  Carbondale:
    Southern Illinois University Press, 2007.  280 pp.  $34.95, ISBN
    978-0-8093-2764-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24317

Reviewed for H-CivWar by Margaret Storey
    Durham, David I..  _Southern Moderate in Radical Times: Henry
    Washington Hilliard, 1808-1892, A_.  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State
    University Press, 2008.  xv + 241 pp.  $40.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-
    3328-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24341

Reviewed for H-CivWar by Kevin Corbin
    Bender, Robert Patrick.  _Like Grass before the Scythe: The Life
    and Death of Sgt. William Remmel, 121st New York Infantry_.
    Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007.  xiv + 177 pp.
    $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8173-1552-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24342

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Andrea Bendlage
    Prosperi, Adriano.  _Die Gabe der Seele:  Geschichte eines
    Kindsmords_.  Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Taschenbuch Verlag,
    2007.  517 S.  , ISBN 978-3-518-58478-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24412

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Edna Herlinger
    Hegner, Victoria.  _Gelebte Selbstbilder:  Gemeinden russisch-
    jüdischer Migranten in Chicago und Berlin_.  Frankfurt am Main:
    Campus Verlag, 2008.  247 S.  , ISBN 978-3-593-38590-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24413

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Christian Geulen
    Lipphardt, Veronika.  _Biologie der Juden:  Jüdische
    Wissenschaftler über »Rasse« und Vererbung 1900-1935_.  Göttingen:
    Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008.  360 S.  , ISBN 978-3-525-36100-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24414

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Tim Schanetzky
    Tilly, Richard.  _Willy H. Schlieker:  Aufstieg und Fall eines
    Unternehmers (1914-1980)_.  Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2008.  204 S.
    , ISBN 978-3-05-004477-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24415

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Ines Keske
    Raffler, Marlies.  _Museum - Spiegel der Nation?:  Zugänge zur
    Historischen Museologie am Beispiel der Genese von Landes- und
    Nationalmuseen in der Habsburgermonarchie_.  Wien: Böhlau
    Verlag/Wien, 2007.  386 S.  , ISBN 978-3-205-77731-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24425

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Sven Schultze
    Augustine, Dolores.  _Red Prometheus:  Engineering and
    Dictatorship in East Germany, 1945-1990_.  Cambridge: The MIT
    Press, 2007.  XXX, 381 S.  , ISBN 978-0-262-01236-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24426

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Klara Hübner
    Jörg, Christian.  _Teure, Hunger, Großes Sterben:  Hungersnöte und
    Versorgungskrisen in den Städten des Reiches während des 15.
    Jahrhunderts_.  Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann Verlag, 2008.  XII,
    464 S.  , ISBN 978-3-7772-0800-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24427

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Martin Dinges
    Schenk, Dietmar.  _Kleine Theorie des Archivs_.  Stuttgart: Franz
    Steiner Verlag, 2007.  112 S.  $31.00, ISBN 978-3-515-09143-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24428

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Hajo Frölich
    Schulte, Barbara.  _"Zur Rettung des Landes":  Bildung und Beruf
    im China der Republikzeit_.  Frankfurt am Main u.a.: Campus
    Verlag, 2008.  302 S.  , ISBN 978-3-593-38613-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24431

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Christof Dejung
    Clark, Gregory.  _A Farewell to Alms:  A Brief Economic History of
    the World_.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.  432 pp.
    $29.95, ISBN 978-0-691-12135-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24432

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Karin Stukenbrock
    Hüntelmann, Axel C..  _Hygiene im Namen des Staates:  Das
    Reichsgesundheitsamt 1876-1933_.  Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag,
    2008.  488 S.  , ISBN 978-3-8353-0343-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24433

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Tobias Scheufele
    Harms, Erik.  _Der kommunikative Stil der Grünen im historischen
    Wandel:  Eine Überblicksdarstellung am Beispiel dreier
    Bundestagswahlprogramme_.  Frankfurt am Main: Peter
    Lang/Frankfurt, 2008.  149 S.  $49.95, ISBN 978-3-631-57648-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24434

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Izabela Drozdowska
    Pletzing, Christian.  _Vorposten des Reichs?:  Ostpreußen 1933-
    1945_.  München: Martin Meidenbauer Verlag, 2006.  294 S.  , ISBN
    978-3-89975-561-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24444

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Katja Naumann
    Manela, Erez.  _The Wilsonian Moment:  Self-Determination and the
    International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism_.  New York:
    Oxford University Press, 2007.  352 S.  , ISBN 978-0-19-517615-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24445

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Katrin Boeckh
    Keisinger, Florian.  _Unzivilisierte Kriege im zivilisierten
    Europa?:  Die Balkankriege und die öffentliche Meinung in
    Deutschland, England und Irland 1876-1913_.  Paderborn: Ferdinand
    Schöningh Verlag, 2008.  201 S.  , ISBN 978-3-506-76689-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24446

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Bernd Hüttner
    Leuenberger, Marco; Seglias, Loretta.  _Versorgt und vergessen:
    Ehemalige Verdingkinder erzählen_.  Zürich: Rotpunktverlag, 2008.
    320 S.  , ISBN 978-3-85869-382-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24447

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Albrecht Weisker
    Winiwarter, Verena; Knoll, Martin.  _Umweltgeschichte:  Eine
    Einführung_.  Stuttgart: UTB, 2007.  368 S.  , ISBN 978-3-8252-
    2521-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24459

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