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The following reviews were posted to the H-Net web site between
22 Oct 2012 and 29 Oct 2012.
Reviewed for H-Judaic by Steven J. Cahn
Clark, Caryl. _Haydn's Jews: Representation and Reception on the
Operatic Stage_. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
xviii + 244 pp. $99.00, ISBN 978-0-521-45547-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=26336
Reviewed for H-Disability by Wendy Gagen
Kluchin, Rebecca M.. _Fit to Be Tied: Sterilization and
Reproductive Rights in America, 1950-1980_. Critical Issues in
Health and Medicine Series. New Brunswick: Rutgers University
Press, 2009. 288 pp. $45.95, ISBN 978-0-8135-4527-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=31036
Reviewed for H-LatAm by Mark Bonta
Winker, Kevin, ed.. _Moments of Discovery: Natural History
Narratives from Mexico and Central America_. Gainesville:
University Press of Florida, 2010. xiii + 401 pp. $75.00, ISBN
978-0-8130-3417-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=31183
Reviewed for H-LatAm by Monica Diaz
Lifshey, Adam. _Specters of Conquest: Indigenous Absence in
Transatlantic Literatures_. New York: Fordham University Press,
2010. 192 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8232-3238-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=31526
Reviewed for H-LatAm by Susana Nuccetelli
Lo?pez, Rick Anthony. _Crafting Mexico: Intellectuals, Artisans,
and the State after the Revolution_. Durham: Duke University
Press, 2010. viii + 408 pp. $89.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-4694-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=31557
Reviewed for H-LatAm by Jose Augusto Drummond
McAllister, Lesley K.. _Making Law Matter: Environmental
Protection and Legal Institutions in Brazil_. Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 2008. xix + 264 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-
5823-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=31648
Reviewed for H-LatAm by Amelia Polónia
Bailey, Stanley R.. _Legacies of Race: Identities, Attitudes, and
Politics in Brazil_. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009.
304 pp. $70.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-6277-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=31724
Reviewed for H-LatAm by Robert Chao Romero
Yun, Lisa. _Coolie Speaks: Chinese Indentured Laborers and
African Slaves in Cuba, The_. Philadelphia: Temple University
Press, 2008. xxiii + 311 pp. $56.50, ISBN 978-1-59213-581-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=31732
Reviewed for H-LatAm by Felipe Cruz
Hagedorn, Dan. _Conquistadors of the Sky: A History of Aviation
in Latin America_. Washington DC: Smithsonian National Air and
Space Museum, 2008. Illustrations. xiv + 587 pp. $39.95, ISBN
978-0-8130-3249-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=31858
Reviewed for H-Histsex by Mary Shearman
Brooks, Siobhan. _Unequal Desires: Race and Erotic Capital in the
Stripping Industry_. Albany: State University of New York Press,
2010. ix + 125 pp. $60.00, ISBN 978-1-4384-3215-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=31880
Reviewed for H-LatAm by Caroline Dodds Pennock
DiCesare, Catherine R.. _Sweeping the Way: Divine Transformation
in the Aztec Festival of Ochpaniztli_. Mesoamerican Worlds: From
the Olmecs to the Danzantes Series. Boulder: University Press of
Colorado, 2009. Illustrations. 229 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-87081-
943-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=32056
Reviewed for H-Asia by Richard Davis
Seager, Richard Hughes. _World's Parliament of Religions: The
East/West Encounter, Chicago, 1893, The_. Religion in North
America Series. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. xli
+ 208 pp. $21.95, ISBN 978-0-253-22166-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=32292
Reviewed for H-LatAm by Graham Woodgate
Carey, Mark. _In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers: Climate Change
and Andean Society_. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
vii + 273 pp. $99.00, ISBN 978-0-19-539606-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=32303
Reviewed for H-LatAm by Carl E. Anderson
Keegan, William F.. _Taino Indian Myth and Practice: The Arrival
of the Stranger King_. Gainesville: University Press of Florida,
2007. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8130-3038-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=32945
Reviewed for H-LatAm by Ralph Lee Woodward
Dawson, Alexander. _Latin America since Independence: A History
with Primary Sources_. New York: Routledge, 2011. Illustrations.
xiv + 336 pp. $125.00, ISBN 978-0-415-99195-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33231
Reviewed for H-LatAm by Antonio Terrasa Lozano
Wey Gómez, Nicolás. _Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South
to the Indies, The_. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008. 616 pp.
$39.95, ISBN 978-0-262-23264-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33275
Reviewed for H-Asia by Nishat Zaidi
Detha, Vijaydan. _Chouboli and Other Stories_. Translated by
Christi A. Merrill and Kailash Kabir. New Delhi: Published by
Katha in collaboration with Fordham University Press, 2010.
Volume 2. 196 pp. $19.00, ISBN 978-0-8232-3404-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33309
Reviewed for H-LatAm by Arthur Schmidt
Gootenberg, Paul; Reygadas, Luis, eds.. _Indelible Inequalities
in Latin America: Insights from History, Politics, and Culture_.
Durham: Duke University Press, 2010. 248 pp. $79.95, ISBN 978-0-
8223-4719-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33399
Reviewed for H-LatAm by Nicholas Kiersey
Zanotti, Laura. _Governing Disorder: UN Peace Operations,
International Security, and Democratization in the Post-Cold War
Era_. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011.
xiv + 180 pp. $59.95, ISBN 978-0-271-03761-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33402
Reviewed for H-Urban by Craig Bailey
Casey, Christine, ed.. _Eighteenth-Century Dublin Townhouse:
Form, Function and Finance, The_. Dublin: Four Courts, 2010.
Illustrations. 336 pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-1-84682-187-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33829
Reviewed for H-Judaic by Alan Cooper
Levenson, Alan T.. _Making of the Modern Jewish Bible: How
Scholars in Germany, Israel, and America Transformed an Ancient
Text, The_. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2011. xiii + 247 pp.
$49.95, ISBN 978-1-4422-0516-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=33898
Reviewed for H-German by Dolores L. Augustine
Kott, Sandrine. _Histoire de la société allemande au xx. siècle:
III La RDA 1949-1989_. Paris: Editions La Decouverte, 2011.
126 pp. , ISBN 978-2-7071-6911-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34694
Reviewed for H-Asia by Ann Gold
D?here, Ra?macandra Cinta?man?a. _Rise of a Folk God: Vitthal of
Pandharpur_. Translated by Anne Feldhaus. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2011. 370 pp. $74.00, ISBN 978-0-19-977759-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34765
Reviewed for H-War by Micah Wright
Harmer, Tanya. _Allende's Chile and the Inter-American Cold War_.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. xvi + 375
pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3495-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=34948
Reviewed for H-Human-Rights by Andrew Janco
Payaslian, Simon. _Political Economy of Human Rights in Armenia:
Authoritarianism and Democracy in a Former Soviet Republic, The_.
London: I. B. Tauris, 2011. ix + 417 pp. $95.00, ISBN 978-1-
84885-811-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35601
Reviewed for H-Caribbean by Jefferson Dillman
McNeill, J. R.. _Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater
Caribbean, 1620-1914_. New Approaches to the Americas Series.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 371 pp. $90.00,
ISBN 978-0-521-45286-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35713
Reviewed for H-Urban by Peter S. Soppelsa
Strauss, Jonathan. _Human Remains: Medicine, Death, and Desire in
Nineteenth-Century Paris_. Forms of Living Series. New York:
Fordham University Press, 2012. xiv + 394 pp. $90.00, ISBN 978-
0-8232-3379-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35766
Reviewed for H-Judaic by Adi Gordon
Rozin, Orit. _Rise of the Individual in 1950s Israel: A Challenge
to Collectivism, The_. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2011.
xxi + 254 pp. $85.00, ISBN 978-1-58465-892-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35808
Reviewed for Jhistory by Erik Lakomaa
Ridout, Travis N.; Franz, Michael. _Persuasive Power of Campaign
Advertising, The_. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2011.
x + 186 pp. $68.50, ISBN 978-1-4399-0332-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=35968
Reviewed for H-SAfrica by Sean Jacobs
Lalu, Premesh; Noëleen Murray; eds.. _Becoming UWC: Reflections,
Pathways and Unmaking Apartheid's Legacy_. Bellville, South
Africa: Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western
Cape, 2012. Illustrations. 192 pp. No price listed, ISBN 978-1-
86808-727-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36152
Reviewed for H-South by Gina Marie Caison
Taylor, Melanie Benson. _Reconstructing the Native South:
American Indian Literature and the Lost Cause_. Athens:
University of Georgia Press, 2011. x + 253 pp. $59.95, ISBN 978-
0-8203-3884-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36192
Reviewed for H-TGS by Jan Logemann
Domhardt, Konstanze Sylva. _Heart of the City: Die Stadt in den
transatlantischen Debatten der CIAM 1933-1951, The_. Zürich: Gta
Verlag, 2012. 421 pp. , ISBN 978-3-85676-277-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36199
Reviewed for H-War by Bradley Cesario
Musteen, Jason R.. _Nelson's Refuge: Gibraltar in the Age of
Napoleon_. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2011. 251 pp.
$29.95, ISBN 978-1-59114-545-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36455
Reviewed for H-Asia by Madhu Sarin
Bera, Tilak Ranjan. _Ladakh: A Glimpse of the Roof of the World_.
Kolkata: Woodland Publishers, 2012. Illustrations. 253 pp.
$133.00, ISBN 978-81-906121-6-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36489
Reviewed for H-Diplo by Joanna Radin
Chorev, Nitsan. _World Health Organization between North and
South, The_. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2012. 288 pp.
$45.00, ISBN 978-0-8014-5065-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36681
Reviewed for H-Diplo by Avery Plaw
Graham, Thomas. _Unending Crisis: National Security Policy after
9/11_. Seattle: Institute of Global and Regional Security
Studies, Jackson School of International Studies in association
with University of Washington Press, 2012. 288 pp. $24.95, ISBN
978-0-295-99170-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36732
Reviewed for H-War by Adam Koeth
Dunkerly, Robert M.. _Redcoats on the Cape Fear: The
Revolutionary War in Southeastern North Carolina_. Revised
Edition. Jefferson: McFarland, 2012. Illustrations. viii + 207
pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-7864-6958-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36792
Reviewed for H-HistGeog by Annika A. Culver
Dan, Shao. _Remote Homeland, Recovered Borderland: Manchus,
Manchoukuo, and Manchuria, 1907-1985_. World of East Asia Series.
Honolulu: University of Hawai?i Press, 2011. xxi + 413 pp.
$55.00, ISBN 978-0-8248-3445-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=36939
Reviewed for H-Canada by David Tough
Helmes-Hayes, Rick. _Measuring the Mosaic: An Intellectual
Biography of John Porter_. Toronto: University of Toronto Press,
2010. Illustrations. xix + 588 pp. $90.00, ISBN 978-0-8020-9703-
3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37056
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Felix Saurbier
Reiter, Uli. _Lärmende Geschenke: Die drohenden Versprechen der
Korruption_. Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft, 2009. 512 S. ,
ISBN 978-3-938808-60-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37419
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Karin Orth
Benz, Angelika; Vulesica, Marija. _Bewachung und Ausführung:
Alltag der Täter in nationalsozialistischen Lagern_. Berlin:
Metropol Verlag, 2011. 208 S. , ISBN 978-3-86331-036-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37420
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Karin Orth
Benz, Angelika; Vulesica, Marija. _Bewachung und Ausführung:
Alltag der Täter in nationalsozialistischen Lagern_. Berlin:
Metropol Verlag, 2011. 208 S. , ISBN 978-3-86331-036-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37421
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Catherine Horel
Engemann, Iris. _Die Slowakisierung Bratislavas: Universität,
Theater und Kultusgemeinden 1918-1948_. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz
Verlag, 2012. 288 S. , ISBN 978-3-447-06640-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37422
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Volker Reinhardt
Dingel, Irene; Herman J. Selderhuis. _Calvin und Calvinismus:
Europäische Perspektiven_. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,
2011. XIII, 526 S. , ISBN 978-3-525-10106-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37425
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Miriam Yegane Arani
Kreutzmüller, Christoph; Werner, Julia. _Fixiert: Fotografische
Quellen zur Verfolgung und Ermordung der Juden in Europa. Eine
pädagogische Handreichung_. Berlin: Hentrich und Hentrich, 2012.
62 S. , ISBN 978-3-942271-60-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37433
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Miriam Yegane Arani
Kreutzmüller, Christoph; Werner, Julia. _Fixiert: Fotografische
Quellen zur Verfolgung und Ermordung der Juden in Europa. Eine
pädagogische Handreichung_. Berlin: Hentrich und Hentrich, 2012.
62 S. , ISBN 978-3-942271-60-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37434
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Matthias Willing
Brands, Gunnar; Maischberger, Martin. _Lebensbilder: Klassische
Archäologen und der Nationalsozialismus, Bd. 1_. Rehden: VML
Verlag Marie Leidorf, 2012. XII, 256 S. , ISBN 978-3-86757-382-
5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37435
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Bernd Schütte
Dunphy, Raymond Graeme. _Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle_.
Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2010. LXXXIV, 1748 S., 2 Bde.
, ISBN 978-90-04-18464-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37436
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Monika Dommann
Vahrenkamp, Richard. _Die logistische Revolution: Der Aufstieg
der Logistik in der Massenkonsumgesellschaft_. Frankfurt am Main:
Campus Verlag, 2011. 390 S. , ISBN 978-3-593-39215-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37437
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Michael Grünbart
Kolovou, Foteini. _Byzanzrezeption in Europa: Spurensuche über
das Mittelalter und die Renaissance bis in die Gegenwart_.
Berlin: de Gruyter, 2012. VI, 369 S. , ISBN 978-3-11-027206-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37438
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Andreas Erb
Losfeld, Antje; Christophe Losfeld. _Die Grand Tour des Fürsten
Franz von Anhalt-Dessau und des Prinzen Johann Georg durch Europa:
Aufgezeichnet im Reisejournal des Georg Heinrich von Berenhorst
1765 bis 1768: Bd. 1: Einleitung, deutsche Übersetzung,
Anmerkungen; Bd. 2: Französisches Ori_. Halle (Saale):
Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 2012. XXX, 354, 304 S. , ISBN 978-3-
89812-931-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37439
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Guido Braun
Duchhardt, Heinz. _Frieden im Europa der Vormoderne: Ausgewählte
Aufsätze 19792011. Herausgegeben und eingeleitet von Martin
Espenhorst_. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag, 2011. XIV,
209 S. , ISBN 978-3-506-77374-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37446
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Heiko Droste
Möbius, Sascha. _Das Gedächtnis der Reichsstadt: Unruhen und
Kriege in der lübeckischen Chronistik und Erinnerungskultur des
späten Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit_. Göttingen: V&R
unipress, 2011. 390 S. , ISBN 978-3-89971-898-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37447
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Nenad Stefanov
Freitag, Ulrike; Fuhrmann, Malte; Lafi, Nora; Riedler, Florian.
_The City in the Ottoman Empire: Migration and the Making of
Urban Modernity_. London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2011.
269 S. , ISBN 978-0-415-58363-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37448
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Michael Ploenus
Sheffer, Edith. _Burned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made
the Iron Curtain_. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. 357 S.
$29.95, ISBN 978-0-19-973704-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37449
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Walter Sperling
Khodarkovsky, Michael. _Bitter Choices: Loyalty and Betrayal in
the Russian Conquest of the North Caucasus_. Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 2011. 200 S. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8014-4972-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37456
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Gundula Bavendamm
Kreis, Reinhild. _Orte für Amerika: Deutsch-Amerikanische
Institute und Amerikahäuser in der Bundesrepublik seit den 1960er
Jahren_. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012. 424 S. $69.00,
ISBN 978-3-515-09694-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37457
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Markus Tauschek
Schmitt, Thomas M.. _Cultural Governance: Zur Kulturgeographie
des UNESCO-Welterberegimes_. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag,
2011. 452 S. , ISBN 978-3-515-09861-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37465
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Andreas Gipper
Jurt, Joseph. _Frankreichs engagierte Intellektuelle: Von Zola
bis Bourdieu_. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2012. 288 S. , ISBN
978-3-8353-1048-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37466
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Eva-Maria Stolberg
Bonhomme, Brian. _Russian Exploration, from Siberia to Space: A
History_. Jefferson: McFarland Publishers, 2012. 223 S. $55.00,
ISBN 978-0-7864-6687-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37474
Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Kerstin Stubenvoll
Schaper, Ulrike. _Koloniale Verhandlungen: Gerichtsbarkeit,
Verwaltung und Herrschaft in Kamerun 1884-1916_. Frankfurt am
Main: Campus Verlag, 2012. 446 S. , ISBN 978-3-593-39639-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=37475
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