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From:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic. By Benjamin Carter Hett. (New York, NY: Henry Holt, 2018. Pp. xix, 280. $30.00.) Benjamin Carter Hett opens this smart and...
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From:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedPunishing the Black Body: Marking Social and Racial Structures in Barbados and Jamaica. By Dawn P. Harris. (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2017. Pp. xi, 257. $59.95.) Dawn Harris's Punishing the Black Body...
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From:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe Battle for North Africa: El Alamein and the Turning Point for World War II. By Glyn Harper. (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2017. Pp. x, 279. $29.00.) It is questionable whether we need yet another...
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From:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedGhost Riders: When US and German Soldiers Fought Together to Save the World's Most Beautiful Horses in the Last Days of World War II. By Mark Felton. (New York, NY: Da Capo Press, 2018. Pp. 294. $27.00.) Ghost...
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From:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIndian Migration and Empire: A Colonial Genealogy of the Modern State. By Radhika Mongia. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. Pp. 240. $24.95.) Two main forms of out-migration occurred in colonial India between...
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From:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAcross Oceans of Law: The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire. By Renisa Mawani. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. Pp. 352. $27.95.) Renisa Mawani's Across Oceans of Law brings to surface...
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From:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbilene Christian University (Zeta-Beta) April 1, 2019: Sarah Dillinger, Patrick Reed Adelphi University (Zeta-Delta) May 2, 2019: Michel Rose Ciavattone, Daniel Curran, Maria Efkarpidis, Robert Fabio, David R....
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From:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedLooming Civil War: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Imagined the Future. By Jason Phillips. (New York: NY: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xi, 320. $34.95.) Jason Phillips's Looming Civil War looks at the way...
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From:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis addition to The Historian's "Notes from the Field" will cover my work over the next ten weeks to complete the eighth and final chapter of my book manuscript, Reconstructing Philadelphia: The Persistence of Racism...
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From:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedGrand Improvisation: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957. By Derek Leebaert. (New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018. Pp. 586. $35.00.) A good question for students looking back at the late...
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From:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedGold Mountain Turned to Dust: Essays on the Legal History of the Chinese in the Nineteenth-Century American West. Edited by John R. Wunder. (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2018. Pp. 248. $29.95.)...
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From:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedINTRODUCTION Few recent works have ruffled the feathers of intellectual historians in the way that Jonathan Israel's presentation of radical thought has in his four books, Radical Enlightenment, Enlightenment...
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From:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II. By Antony Beevor. (New York, NY: Viking, 2018. Pp. xvii, 459. $35.00.) In The Battle of Arnhem prize-winning author Antony Beevor emphasizes the...
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From:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe Crusader Armies: 1099-1187. By Steve Tibbie. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018. Pp. xvi, 402. $35.00.) This book is primarily a detailed look at twelfth-century warfare and the armies that engaged in...
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From:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedFugitive Slaves and Spaces of Freedom in North America. Edited by Damian Alan Pargas. (Tallahassee, FL: University of Florida Press, 2018. Pp. 315. $65.00.) Runaway slave advertisements are a staple of African...
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From:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedChurchill: Walking with Destiny. By Andrew Roberts. (New York, NY: Viking, 2018. Pp. xvi, 1046. $40.00.) Winston Churchill always had a strong sense of himself as a man of destiny. As a teenage schoolboy he had...
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From:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedSafely to Earth: The Men and Women Who Brought the Astronauts Home. By Jack Clemons. (Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 2018. Pp. 265. $24.95.) Retired engineer Jack Clemons' book, Safely to Earth,...
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From:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedUnredeemed Land: An Environmental History of Civil War and Emancipation in the Cotton South. By Erin Stewart Mauldin. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. 244. $35.00.) While there is a growing number of...
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From:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedOn 22 October 1782, a Westchester County sheriff entered the Crompond, New York, headquarters of General Rochambeau, the leader of the Expedition Particuliere, the French Expeditionary Force to North America. The...
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From:The Historian (Vol. 81, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedCrash Course: From the Good War to the Forever War. By H. Bruce Franklin. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2018. Pp. 317. $34.95.) H. Bruce Franklin's Crash Course is a fantastic examination of the...