Browsing HIS Faculty Publications by Title
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Book review: Epidemics, empire, and environments: cholera in Madras and Quebec City, 1818-1910
(Oxford University Press, 2017-04-19)Michael Zeheter examines the experiences of two British colonial cities (Madras and Quebec) to epidemic disease threats, largely centered on the dread nineteenth-century disease of cholera. Zeheter seeks to compare and ... -
Book review: German Pop Music: A Companion
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018-05)As editor Uwe Schütte observes, German pop music facilitates rich opportunities to "reflect on questions of German national identity and the definition of Germanness" (4). Accordingly, over the course of ten chapters and ... -
Book Review: Grant's final victory: Ulysses S. Grant's heroic last year
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)The author focuses on General Grant's valiant effort while facing impending death to complete his Personal Memoirs and replenish the fortunes of his family. He and his wife, Julia, had not foreseen such an end. Grant left ... -
Book review: Historical Atlas of Northeast Asia 1590-2010: Korea, Manchuria, Mongolia, Eastern Siberia
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2015-07)This work fills a gaping hole in our knowledge of Russian history as well as all of Northeast Asian history. It is the collaborative work of Robert Cribb and Li Narangoa, director of the Mongolia Studies Centre, both of ... -
Book review: How sex became a civil liberty
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc., 2016)The US Supreme Court regularly reviews cases dealing with sexual liberty, privacy, and freedom of speech. Where our understanding of sexuality and sexual privacy as a civil liberty originated and how it evolved is the ... -
Book review: Indigenous prosperity and American conquest: Indian women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690-1792
(UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2019-04-01)Scholars have long chronicled and analyzed the contest for the Ohio Valley and the dispossession of its Native peoples. Susan Sleeper-Smith is the first to provide an in-depth examination of Indian women and how directly ... -
Book review: John Ledyard's Journey through Russia and Siberia. 1787-1788
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2012-10)Review of the book: Collins, Perry McDonough. Siberian Journey: Down the Amur to the Pacific, 1856–1857. Edited by Charles Vevier. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011. xii + 370 pp. $29.95 (paper). ISBN ... -
Book review: Main street Oklahoma: stories of twentieth-century America
(Southern Historical Association, 2015-02)Oklahoma historian Angie Debo once observed that all the forces of United States history have come to bear in the development of the Sooner State. This collection of essays provides a series of snapshots reflecting both ... -
Book review: Metropolitan preoccupations: the spatial politics of squatting in Berlin
(Oxford University Press, 2017-03-01)While reading Alexander Vasudevan’s monograph on squatting in Berlin, the Rigaer Straße in Berlin-Friedrichshain has again exploded into violence. First occupied during the second wave of squatting in 1990, Rigaer 94 has ... -
Book review: National parks and the woman's voice: A history - Kaufman,PW
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Book review: Pop History, vol 1, Concept and Methods
(Oxford University Press, 2016-09)This two-volume methodological and empirical study of the contours of popular music opens with a simple question: ‘Does pop history need theory?’ (Braucht Popgeschichte Theorie?, vol. 1, p. 7). Such a question implies that ... -
Book review: Pop History, vol 2, Contemporary Historical Case Studies 1958-1988
(Oxford University Press, 2016-09)This two-volume methodological and empirical study of the contours of popular music opens with a simple question: ‘Does pop history need theory?’ (Braucht Popgeschichte Theorie?, vol. 1, p. 7). Such a question implies that ... -
Book review: Public values, private lands: Farmland preservation policy, 1933-1985 - Lehman,T
(Environmental History, 1996-07-01)Review of the book: Public Values, Private Lands:Farmland Preservation Policy,1933-1985. By Tim Lehman. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. xii + 239 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $39.95, paper ... -
Book review: Religious bodies politic: rituals of sovereignty in Buryat Buddhism
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014-07)In the twenty-first century, Buddhism is one of the older established-by-law religions of the Russian Republic. In the eighteenth century, Yellow Hat, Mahayana Buddhism was brought by Mongol Lamas from Tibet through ... -
Book Review: Russia's Cold War: From the October Revolution to the Fall of the Wall – By Jonathan Haslam
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Book review: Russia's own orient: the politics of identity and oriental studies in the late imperial and early Soviet periods
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013-09)Having previously written extensively on the creation of early twentieth-century Russian identity, Vera Tolz has tackled an important issue in her recent research: the development of regional identity in late Imperial ... -
Book review: Siberia: a history of the people
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2015-04)This volume joins a growing literature on the history of ethnography in Russia and the Soviet Union. The collection includes essays by scholars from German, Russian, American, Swiss, British,and Austrian institutions. ... -
Book review: Siberian Journey: Down the Amur to the Pacific, 1856-1857
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2012-10)Review of the book: Watrous, Stephen D., ed. John Ledyard’s Journey through Russia and Siberia. 1787– 1788. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011. xiv + 293 pp. $29.95 (paper). ISBN 978-0-299-04224-0. -
Book review: The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
(Oxford University Press, 2018-06-01)Mehrsa Baradaran has produced an important, sobering assessment of historic and contemporary African American banks. Although The Color of Money focuses on black financial institutions, the book’s scope is much larger than ... -
Book review: The Divided Dominion: Social Conflict and Indian Hatred in Early Virginia
(University of Illinois Press, 2016)In The Divided Dominion, Ethan A. Schmidt seeks to illustrate a common thread in the first century of English colonization in Virginia, namely the popular appeal and impact of violence toward Indians. The brutal race war ...