In This Issue
From the Editor’s Desk
From the Editor’s Desk: The Perils of Peer Review
Review Essays
The Geopolitics of Mobility: Immigration Policy and American Global Power in the Long Twentieth Century Paul A. Kramer
Historicizing North Korea: State Socialism, Population Mobility, and Cold War Historiography Andre Schmid
Articles
Staging an Empire: An Ottoman Circumcision Ceremony as Cultural Performance Kaya Şahin
Charity and the End of Empire: British Non-Governmental Organizations, Africa, and International Development in the 1960s Matthew Hilton
AHR Reappraisal
Thinking the Nation: Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, by Benedict Anderson Max Bergholz
Film Reviews
Gregg Mitman and Sarita Siegel, dirs. The Land beneath Our Feet. Ibrahim Sundiata
Licínio Azevedo, dir. The Train of Salt and Sugar [Comboio de Sal e Açucar]. Eric Allina
Vincent Moloi, dir. Skulls of My People. Heike Becker
Daryne Joshua, dir. Call Me Thief [Noem My Skollie]. Sean Jacobs
Featured Reviews
Holger Hoock. Scars of Independence: America’s Violent Birth. Virginia DeJohn Anderson
Louis S. Warren. God’s Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America. David W. Grua
Yuri Slezkine. The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution. David L. Hoffmann
William Rankin. After the Map: Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century. Joseph Masco
Reviews of Books
Methods/Theory
Ross Wilson. The Language of the Past. Marek Tamm
Martin Meisel. Chaos Imagined: Literature, Art, Science. Keith Tribe
Henry Rousso. The Latest Catastrophe: History, the Present, the Contemporary. Aviezer Tucker
Enzo Traverso. Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory. Warren Breckman
Steven G. Marks. The Information Nexus: Global Capitalism from the Renaissance to the Present. Jan de Vries
Comparative/World/Transnational
Mark Sedgwick. Western Sufism: From the Abbasids to the New Age. Alexander Knysh
Rachael Ball. Treating the Public: Charitable Theater and Civic Health in the Early Modern Atlantic World. Clinton D. Young
Pierre Force. Wealth and Disaster: Atlantic Migrations from a Pyrenean Town in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Bernard Moitt
Julie L. Holcomb. Moral Commerce: Quakers and the Transatlantic Boycott of the Slave Labor Economy. Kathleen M. Brown
Sara Yael Hirschhorn. City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement. Marc Dollinger
Asia
Anindita Ghosh. Claiming the City: Protest, Crime, and Scandals in Colonial Calcutta, c. 1860–1920. David A. Johnson
Mrinalini Rajagopalan. Building Histories: The Archival and Affective Lives of Five Monuments in Modern Delhi. Prashant Kidambi
Robert J. Antony. Unruly People: Crime, Community, and State in Late Imperial South China. Dian Murray
Seunghyun Han. After the Prosperous Age: State and Elites in Early Nineteenth-Century Suzhou. R. Bin Wong
Johanna S. Ransmeier. Sold People: Traffickers and Family Life in North China. Michelle T. King
Kristin Stapleton. Fact in Fiction: 1920s China and Ba Jin’s Family.
Diana Lary Tamara Loos. Bones around My Neck: The Life and Exile of a Prince Provocateur. Tomas Larsson
Tuong Vu. Vietnam’s Communist Revolution: The Power and Limits of Ideology. David Hunt
James R. Rush. Hamka’s Great Story: A Master Writer’s Vision of Islam for Modern Indonesia. Greg Fealy
Jennifer L. Gaynor. Intertidal History in Island Southeast Asia: Submerged Genealogy and the Legacy of Coastal Capture. Timothy P. Barnard
Yoshikune Igarashi. Homecomings: The Belated Return of Japan’s Lost Soldiers. James Orr
Canada and the United States
Adam Montgomery. The Invisible Injured: Psychological Trauma in the Canadian Military from the First World War to Afghanistan. Tim Cook
Gilles Havard. Histoire des coureurs de bois: Amérique du Nord, 1600–1840. Tangi Villerbu
Alexander B. Haskell. For God, King, and People: Forging Commonwealth Bonds in Renaissance Virginia. Owen Stanwood
Jessica Yirush Stern. The Lives in Objects: Native Americans, British Colonists, and Cultures of Labor and Exchange in the Southeast. William L. Ramsey
S. Max Edelson. The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America before Independence. Christopher P. Magra
Rashauna Johnson. Slavery’s Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans during the Age of Revolutions. Jennifer M. Spear
Jane Kamensky. A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley. Catherine Armstrong
Virginia DeJohn Anderson. The Martyr and the Traitor: Nathan Hale, Moses Dunbar, and the American Revolution. Ken Miller
Michael J. Klarman. The Framers’ Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution. Padraig Riley
Kelly Lytle Hernández. City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771–1965. Jeffrey S. Adler
Joanna Cohen. Luxurious Citizens: The Politics of Consumption in Nineteenth-Century America. Jennifer Van Horn
Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman, editors. Slavery’s Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development. Sean Adams
Calvin Schermerhorn. The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815–1860. Brian Schoen
Amalia D. Kessler. Inventing American Exceptionalism: The Origins of American Adversarial Legal Culture, 1800–1877. Joshua Barkan
Lincoln A. Mullen. The Chance of Salvation: A History of Conversion in America. E. Brooks Holifield
Max Perry Mueller. Race and the Making of the Mormon People. Cardell K. Jacobson
Shirley Ann Wilson Moore. Sweet Freedom’s Plains: African Americans on the Overland Trails, 1841–1869. James N. Leiker
Carl Lawrence Paulus. The Slaveholding Crisis: Fear of Insurrection and the Coming of the Civil War. Gerald Horne
D. H. Dilbeck. A More Civil War: How the Union Waged a Just War. Howard J. Fuller
Williamson Murray and Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh. A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil War. Bradley S. Keefer
Lorien Foote. The Yankee Plague: Escaped Union Prisoners and the Collapse of the Confederacy. Jeffery S. Prushankin
Sharon Romeo. Gender and the Jubilee: Black Freedom and the Reconstruction of Citizenship in Civil War Missouri. Kenneth Aslakson
Michael A. Ross. The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era. Glenn McNair
Matthew Christopher Hulbert. The Ghosts of Guerrilla Memory: How Civil War Bushwhackers Became Gunslingers in the American West. Heather Fryer
Talitha L. LeFlouria. Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South. A. Cheree Carlson
Lisa Vox. Existential Threats: American Apocalyptic Beliefs in the Technological Era. Angela M. Lahr
Dorceta E. Taylor. The Rise of the American Conservation Movement: Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection; Benjamin Heber Johnson. Escaping the Dark, Gray City: Fear and Hope in Progressive-Era Conservation. David Havlick
Jeffrey S. Gurock. The Jews of Harlem: The Rise, Decline, and Revival of a Jewish Community. Ellen Eisenberg
William Thomas Okie. The Georgia Peach: Culture, Agriculture, and Environment in the American South. George B. Ellenberg
Ethan Michaeli. The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America: From the Age of the Pullman Porters to the Age of Obama. James Ralph
Michael S. Neiberg. The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern America. Allan W. Austin
Stephen R. Porter. Benevolent Empire: U.S. Power, Humanitarianism, and the World’s Dispossessed. Martha F. Davis
Alice Echols. Shortfall: Family Secrets, Financial Collapse, and a Hidden History of American Banking. Wyatt Wells
Claudrena N. Harold. New Negro Politics in the Jim Crow South. Charles L. Lumpkins
Laura Weinrib. The Taming of Free Speech: America’s Civil Liberties Compromise. Rebecca E. Zietlow
Josh Lauer. Creditworthy: A History of Consumer Surveillance and Financial Identity in America. Sarah E. Igo
Joan Malczewski. Building a New Educational State: Foundations, Schools, and the American South. Ann Short Chirhart
Edith Sparks. Boss Lady: How Three Women Entrepreneurs Built Successful Big Businesses in the Mid-Twentieth Century. Emily Westkaemper
Andrew M. Busch. City in a Garden: Environmental Transformations and Racial Justice in Twentieth-Century Austin, Texas. Jeffrey C. Sanders
Tobin Miller Shearer. Two Weeks Every Summer: Fresh Air Children and the Problem of Race in America. Ben Keppel
Clifton Hood. In Pursuit of Privilege: A History of New York City’s Upper Class and the Making of a Metropolis. Joseph Varga
Brian Tochterman. The Dying City: Postwar New York and the Ideology of Fear; Jamin Creed Rowan. The Sociable City: An American Intellectual Tradition. Robert Beauregard
Jennifer Helgren. American Girls and Global Responsibility: A New Relation to the World during the Early Cold War. Jessica M. Frazier
Carter Dalton Lyon. Sanctuaries of Segregation: The Story of the Jackson Church Visit Campaign. Mark Newman
Kerry Pimblott. Faith in Black Power: Religion, Race, and Resistance in Cairo, Illinois. David P. Cline
Richard Moss. Creating the New Right Ethnic in 1970s America: The Intersection of Anger and Nostalgia. John J. Bukowczyk
Claire D. Clark. The Recovery Revolution: The Battle over Addiction Treatment in the United States. Timothy A. Hickman
Timothy J. Minchin. Labor under Fire: A History of the AFL-CIO since 1979. Andrew E. Kersten
Caribbean and Latin AmericaDalia Antonia Muller. Cuban Émigrés and Independence in the Nineteenth-Century Gulf World. Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof
Joaquín M. Chávez. Poets and Prophets of Resistance: Intellectuals and the Origins of El Salvador’s Civil War. Molly Todd
Europe: Ancient and Medieval
Paul A. Rahe. The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta: The Persian Challenge; Paul A. Rahe. The Spartan Regime: Its Character, Origins, and Grand Strategy. Eric W. Robinson
Thomas E. Strunk. History after Liberty: Tacitus on Tyrants, Sycophants, and Republicans. Dean Hammer
Youval Rotman. Insanity and Sanctity in Byzantium: The Ambiguity of Religious Experience. Philip Rousseau
John Howe. Before the Gregorian Reform: The Latin Church at the Turn of the First Millennium. Michael Frassetto
Rebecca Rist. Popes and Jews, 1095–1291. Piero Capelli
Suzanne LaVere. Out of the Cloister: Scholastic Exegesis of the Song of Songs, 1100–1250. Alex J. Novikoff
Susan R. Kramer. Sin, Interiority, and Selfhood in the Twelfth-Century West. Rob Meens
Bruce M. S. Campbell. The Great Transition: Climate, Disease and Society in the Late-Medieval World. John Aberth
David Stephenson. Medieval Powys: Kingdom, Principality and Lordships, 1132–1293. Kathryn Hurlock
Matthew Strickland. Henry the Young King, 1155–1183. Ralph V. Turner
Europe: Early Modern and Modern
Jared Poley. The Devil’s Riches: A Modern History of Greed. Woodruff D. Smith
Viktoria von Hoffmann. From Gluttony to Enlightenment: The World of Taste in Early Modern Europe. Jennifer J. Davis
Nicole Reinhardt. Voices of Conscience: Royal Confessors and Political Counsel in Seventeenth-Century Spain and France. Jotham Parsons
Cornel Zwierlein. Imperial Unknowns: The French and British in the Mediterranean, 1650–1750. Nabil Matar
Matthew L. Jones. Reckoning with Matter: Calculating Machines, Innovation, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to Babbage. Doron Swade
Jerrold Seigel. Between Cultures: Europe and Its Others in Five Exemplary Lives. John Warne Monroe
Gareth Dale. Karl Polanyi: A Life on the Left. Gabriel Söderberg
Alastair Bellany and Thomas Cogswell. The Murder of King James I. Bernard Capp
Christopher Ferguson. An Artisan Intellectual: James Carter and the Rise of Modern Britain, 1792–1853. Joanna Innes
Erik L. Peterson. The Life Organic: The Theoretical Biology Club and the Roots of Epigenetics. Nick Hopwood
Michiel van Groesen. Amsterdam’s Atlantic: Print Culture and the Making of Dutch Brazil. Harold J. Cook
Vincent J. Pitts. Embezzlement and High Treason in Louis XIV’s France: The Trial of Nicolas Fouquet; Paul Sonnino. The Search for the Man in the Iron Mask: A Historical Detective Story. Elizabeth Hyde
Anton M. Matytsin. The Specter of Skepticism in the Age of Enlightenment. José R. Maia Neto
Meghan K. Roberts. Sentimental Savants: Philosophical Families in Enlightenment France. David G. Troyansky
Ethan B. Katz. The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France. Patricia M. E. Lorcin
Andrea Mammone. Transnational Neofascism in France and Italy. Pablo del Hierro
Brendan Dooley. Angelica’s Book and the World of Reading in Late Renaissance Italy. Joyce de Vries
Gregory Hanlon. Italy 1636: Cemetery of Armies. Guy Rowlands
Simon Lewis Sullam. Giuseppe Mazzini and the Origins of Fascism. Derek Beales
Martin Mulsow. Enlightenment Underground: Radical Germany, 1680–1720. Benjamin Redekop
Jan Rüger. Heligoland: Britain, Germany, and the Struggle for the North Sea. Lawrence Sondhaus
Ralph M. Leck. Vita Sexualis: Karl Ulrichs and the Origins of Sexual Science. Britta McEwen
John S. Lowry. Big Swords, Jesuits, and Bondelswarts: Wilhelmine Imperialism, Overseas Resistance, and German Political Catholicism, 1897–1906. David Lindenfeld
David Clay Large. The Grand Spas of Central Europe: A History of Intrigue, Politics, Art, and Healing. Caitlin E. Murdock
Raz Segal. Genocide in the Carpathians: War, Social Breakdown, and Mass Violence, 1914–1945. Emil Kerenji
Martha Lampland. The Value of Labor: The Science of Commodification in Hungary, 1920–1956. Małgorzata Mazurek
Sarah Badcock. A Prison without Walls? Eastern Siberian Exile in the Last Years of Tsarism. Ben Eklof
Kathleen E. Smith. Moscow 1956: The Silenced Spring. Joshua Rubenstein
Middle East and Northern Africa
Matthew Pierce. Twelve Infallible Men: The Imams and the Making of Shiʿism. Sarah Bowen Savant
Abdurrahman Atçıl. Scholars and Sultans in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire. Cihan Yüksel Muslu
Jens Hanssen and Max Weiss, editors. Arabic Thought beyond the Liberal Age: Towards an Intellectual History of the Nahda. Eugene Rogan
Odile Moreau and Stuart Schaar, editors. Subversives and Mavericks in the Muslim Mediterranean: A Subaltern History. Amal Ghazal
Toufoul Abou-Hodeib. A Taste for Home: The Modern Middle Class in Ottoman Beirut. Melanie S. Tanielian
Ali Mirsepassi. Transnationalism in Iranian Political Thought: The Life and Times of Ahmad Fardid. Afshin Matin-Asgari
Sub-Saharan Africa
Nancy J. Jacobs. Birders of Africa: History of a Network. James C. McCann
Olufemi Vaughan. Religion and the Making of Nigeria. Barbara M. Cooper
Collected Essays
John H. Arnold, Matthew Hilton, and Jan Rüger, editors. History after Hobsbawm: Writing the Past for the Twenty-First Century.
Lauren Benton, Adam Clulow, and Bain Attwood, editors. Protection and Empire: A Global History.
Gareth Austin, editor. Economic Development and Environmental History in the Anthropocene: Perspectives on Asia and Africa.
Sterling Evans, editor. Farming across Borders: A Transnational History of the North American West.
Constance Bantman and Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva, editors. The Foreign Political Press in Nineteenth-Century London: Politics from a Distance.
Julia Moses, editor. Marriage, Law and Modernity: Global Histories.
A. K. Sandoval-Strausz and Nancy H. Kwak, editors. Making Cities Global: The Transnational Turn in Urban History.
Michael Laffan, editor. Belonging across the Bay of Bengal: Religious Rites, Colonial Migrations, National Rights.
Andrew K. Frank and A. Glenn Crothers, editors. Borderland Narratives: Negotiation and Accommodation in North America’s Contested Spaces, 1500–1850.
Amanda Porterfield, John Corrigan, and Darren E. Grem, editors. The Business Turn in American Religious History.
Cindy Ermus, editor. Environmental Disaster in the Gulf South: Two Centuries of Catastrophe, Risk, and Resilience.
David W. Blight and Jim Downs, editors. Beyond Freedom: Disrupting the History of Emancipation.
David Prior, editor. Reconstruction in a Globalizing World.
Wendy Jean Katz, editor. The Trans-Mississippi and International Expositions of 1898–1899: Art, Anthropology, and Popular Culture at the Fin de Siècle.
Brian D. Behnken, Gregory D. Smithers, and Simon Wendt, editors. Black Intellectual Thought in Modern America: A Historical Perspective.
Jeffrey L. Littlejohn, Reginald K. Ellis, and Peter B. Levy, editors. The Seedtime, the Work, and the Harvest: New Perspectives on the Black Freedom Struggle in America.
Joe Street and Henry Knight Lozano, editors. The Shadow of Selma.
Caribbean and Latin America
David Tavárez, editor. Words and Worlds Turned Around: Indigenous Christianities in Colonial Latin America.
Karen Melvin and Sylvia Sellers-García, editors. Imagining Histories of Colonial Latin America: Synoptic Methods and Practices.
Matthew S. Gordon and Kathryn A. Hain, editors. Concubines and Courtesans: Women and Slavery in Islamic History.
Rebecca Shumway and Trevor R. Getz, editors. Slavery and Its Legacy in Ghana and the Diaspora.
Documents and BibliographiesDocuments and Bibliographies
Other Books ReceivedOther Books Received
Digital Primary SourcesDigital Primary Sources
CommunicationsCommunications
IndexIndex to American Historical Review, April 2018
Index of TopicsIndex of Topics