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From:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMass Media, Consumerism and National Identity in Postwar Japan. By Martyn David Smith. (London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. Pp. 165. $74.10.) Martyn David Smith investigates the role played by Japan's expanding...
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From:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe Calculus of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War. By Aaron Sheehan-Dean. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. 454. $35.00.) From its wonderfully apropos title to its cautionary final...
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From:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedUnfabling the East: The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia. By Jurgen Osterhammel. (Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2018. Pp. xiii, 676. $35.00.) It is important to note that Unfabling the...
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From:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe Foundation of the CIA: Harry Truman, the Missouri Gang, and the Origins of the Cold War. By Richard E. Schroeder. (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2017. Pp. 188. $24.95.) Richard E. Schroeder is an...
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From:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe American Military: A Concise History. By Joseph T. Glatthaar. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. x, 142. $18.95.) Noted historian Joseph T. Glatthaar succeeds admirably in this concise history of...
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From:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAmbition, Pragmatism, and Party: A Political Biography of Gerald R. Ford. By Scott Kaufman. (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2017. Pp. xv, 448. $34.95.) Ambition, Pragmatism, and Party opens at the moment...
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From:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedTwo Charlestonians at War: The Civil War Odysseys of a Lowcountry Aristocrat and a Black Abolitionist. By Barbara L. Bellows. (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2018. Pp. xi, 330. $38.00.) This dual...
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From:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedVictorian Jamaica. Edited by Tim Barringer and Wayne Modest. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. Pp. 744. $34.95.) In the same summer that enslaved Jamaicans gained full freedom, Queen Victoria celebrated her...
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From:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedImperial Germany and War, 1871-1918. By Daniel J. Hughes and Richard L. DiNardo. (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2018. Pp. xiii, 681. $39.95.) Daniel J. Hughes and Richard L. DiNardo here identify the...
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From:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbilene Christian University (Zeta-Beta) February 6, 2019: Jenna Leigh Bonner, Charles Monroe Albright College (Kappa-Beta) January 2, 2019: Marina Nye, Anita R. Oskowiak, Maria M. Yost Allegheny College...
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From:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe Colonial Politics of Global Health: France and the United Nations in Postwar Africa. By Jessica Lynne Pearson. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. x, 260. $49.95.) As world leaders turn away from...
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From:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe Merchant's Tale: Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan. By Simon Partner. (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2018. Pp. xxii, 291. $60.00.) In the longue duree, history proceeds without the individual,...
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From:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAccounting for Slavery: Masters and Management. By Caitlin Rosenthal. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. xiv, 295. $35.00.) Around 1854 Thomas Affleck, a planter in Mississippi, started publishing...
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From:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War. By Benn Steil. (New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 2018. Pp. xii, 608. $35.00.) In American national memory, the Marshall Plan occupies almost cult-like status. It symbolizes...
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From:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe Secret History of RDX: The Super-Explosive that Helped Win World War II. By Colin F. Baxter. (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2018. Pp. 214. $45.00.) Colin F. Baxter has explored an under-appreciated...
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From:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedEmpire in Retreat: The Past, Present, and Future of the United States. By Victor Bulmer-Thomas. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018. Pp. xx, 459. $32.50.) Is the American empire in decline? Until relatively...
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From:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedNapoleon. A Life. By Adam Zamoyski. (New York, NY: Basic Books, 2018. Pp. 784. $40.00.) Biographies of Napoleon abound. Indeed, a further spate in the unending flow was prompted by the recent bicentenary, which also...
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From:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedTito and His Comrades. By Joze Pirjevec. (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2018. Pp. xvi, 535. $44.95.) In 2011 two biographies of Tito were published, my Tito: A Biography in the I.B. Tauris series...
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From:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe Trials of Nina McCall: Sex, Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plan to Imprison "Promiscuous" Women. By Scott Wasserman Stem. (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2018. Pp. ix, 356. $28.95.) Scott Stern's...
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From:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSpeaking of Profit: Bao Shichen and Reform in Nineteenth-Century China. By William T. Rowe. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2018. Pp. 230. $39.95.) After a failed diplomatic mission to China in 1793,...