In This Issue
From the Editor’s Desk
From the Editor’s Desk: All Apologies
History Unclassified
What Form Can History Take Today? New Voices in the AHR
Cities, Time, and the Backward Glance Taymiya R. Zaman
AHR Reflections: 1968
Introduction
The U.S. 1968: Third-Worldism, Feminisms, and Liberalism Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
Black Liberation and 1968 Donna Murch
Did China Have a 1968? Jeffrey Wasserstrom
The Fate of All of Us: African Counterrevolutions and the Ends of 1968 Jean Allman
The Slow Revolution: May 1968 in the Arab World Yoav Di-Capua
“You Can’t Always Get What You Want”: Mexico ’68 and the Winter of Revolutionary Discontent Deborah Cohen; Lessie Frazier
Beneath the Troubles, the Cobblestones: Recovering the “Buried” Memory of Northern Ireland’s 1968 Chris Reynolds
Germany’s 1968 and Its Enemies Quinn Slobodian
“Women’s 1968 Is Not Yet Over”: The Capture of Speech and the Gendering of 1968 in Europe Maud Anne Bracke
Tactics of Refusal: Idioms of Protest and Political Subjectivities in Italy’s “1968 Years” Nico Pizzolato
The Utopian Rationalism of the Prague Spring of 1968 Jiří Suk
1968 in Poland: The Rebellion on the Other Side of the Looking Glass Marcin Zaremba
Canada’s “1968” and Historical Sensibilities Bryan D. Palmer
AHR Forum: Vernacular Ways of Knowing
Introduction: Breaking the Law of the Preservation of Energy of Historians Camilla Townsend
Bereft, Selfish, and Hungry: Greater Luhyia Concepts of the Poor in Precolonial East Africa Rhiannon Stephens
Written into Submission: Reassessing Sovereignty through a Forgotten Eurasian Dynasty James Pickett
The Waves of Heterotopia: Toward a Vernacular Intellectual History of the Indian Ocean Nile Green
AHR Reappraisal
Crooked Lines of Relevance: Europe and the People without History, by Eric R. Wolf Pekka Hämäläinen
Documentary History Reviews
Documentary History Reviews: Introductory Note
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952–1954, Iran, 1951–1954 (retrospective volume). Editor: James C. Van Hook. Malcolm Byrne
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1977–1980. Volume XV: Central America, 1977–1980. Editor: Nathaniel L. Smith. Kirsten Weld
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1977–1980. Volume XVI: Southern Africa. Editor: Myra F. Burton. Nancy Mitchell
Featured Reviews
Paul Cronin, editor. A Time to Stir: Columbia ’68. Jeremy Varon
Jonathan Israel. The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775–1848. Janet Polasky
Corey Ross. Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire: Europe and the Transformation of the Tropical World. Edward D. Melillo
Reviews of Books
Methods/Theory
James Belich, John Darwin, Margret Frenz, and Chris Wickham, editors. The Prospect of Global History. Diego Olstein
Jeffrey Andrew Barash. Collective Memory and the Historical Past. Mark Rifkin
Martin Jay. Reason after Its Eclipse: On Late Critical Theory. Gerald Izenberg
Gavin Walker. The Sublime Perversion of Capital: Marxist Theory and the Politics of History in Modern Japan. Christopher L. Hill
Bill Kissane. Nations Torn Asunder: The Challenge of Civil War. Matthew Neufeld
Vicente L. Rafael. Motherless Tongues: The Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation. Michael C. Hawkins
Francis Chateauraynaud and Yves Cohen, editors. Histoires pragmatiques. Dinah Ribard
Comparative/World/Transnational
M. Cecilia Gaposchkin. Invisible Weapons: Liturgy and the Making of Crusade Ideology. Andrew Jotischky
Ernesto Bassi. An Aqueous Territory: Sailor Geographies and New Granada’s Transimperial Greater Caribbean World. Adrian Pearce
Armin Mattes. Citizens of a Common Intellectual Homeland: The Transatlantic Origins of American Democracy and Nationhood. Maurizio Valsania
Fahad Ahmad Bishara. A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780–1950. Pedro Machado
Sally McKee. The Exile’s Song: Edmond Dédé and the Unfinished Revolutions of the Atlantic World. Jon Sensbach
James Q. Whitman. Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law. S. Jonathan Wiesen
Judith A. Bennett and Angela Wanhalla, editors. Mothers’ Darlings of the South Pacific: The Children of Indigenous Women and U.S. Servicemen, World War II. Victoria L. Grieves
Randall M. Packard. A History of Global Health: Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples. Ian Read
Dagmar Herzog. Cold War Freud: Psychoanalysis in an Age of Catastrophes. Peter Mandler
Asia
Bérénice Guyot -Réchard. Shadow States: India, China and the Himalayas, 1910–1962. Tansen Sen
Ashley Eva Millar. A Singular Case: Debating China’s Political Economy in the European Enlightenment. Michael Keevak
Yulian Wu. Luxurious Networks: Salt Merchants, Status, and Statecraft in Eighteenth-Century China. Seunghyun Han
Maggie Clinton. Revolutionary Nativism: Fascism and Culture in China, 1925–1937. Charles D. Musgrove
Xiaoping Cong. Marriage, Law, and Gender in Revolutionary China, 1940–1960. Wang Zheng
Carter J. Eckert. Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea: The Roots of Militarism, 1866–1945. Bruce Cumings
Lisa Yoneyama. Cold War Ruins: Transpacific Critique of American Justice and Japanese War Crimes. Michael A. Barnhart
Sandra Wilson, Robert Cribb, Beatrice Trefalt, and Dean Aszkielowicz. Japanese War Criminals: The Politics of Justice after the Second World War. Lee K. Pennington
Michael Lucken. The Japanese and the War: Expectation, Perception, and the Shaping of Memory. Tom Havens
Thuy Linh Nguyen. Childbirth, Maternity, and Medical Pluralism in French Colonial Vietnam, 1880–1945. Margaret Cook Andersen
Heather Streets-Salter. World War One in Southeast Asia: Colonialism and Anticolonialism in an Era of Global Conflict. Mark W. McLeod
Canada and the United States
Erika Gasser. Vexed with Devils: Manhood and Witchcraft in Old and New England. Lisa Wilson
Eli Lederhendler. American Jewry: A New History. Lila Corwin Berman
Andrea L. Smalley. Wild by Nature: North American Animals Confront Colonization. Anya Zilberstein
Jennifer Van Horn. The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America. Rebecca Zurier
Kenneth E. Lewis. The Carolina Backcountry Venture: Tradition, Capital, and Circumstance in the Development of Camden and the Wateree Valley, 1740–1810. Emma Hart
Joyce D. Goodfriend. Who Should Rule at Home? Confronting the Elite in British New York City. Thomas J. Humphrey
Justin du Rivage. Revolution against Empire: Taxes, Politics, and the Origins of American Independence. Carla J. Mulford
William Harrison Taylor. Unity in Christ and Country: American Presbyterians in the Revolutionary Era, 1758–1801. James B. Bell
Eric Hinderaker. Boston’s Massacre. Jacqueline Barbara Carr
Mitch Kachun. First Martyr of Liberty: Crispus Attucks in American Memory. Beverly C. Tomek
Marie Jenkins Schwartz. Ties That Bound: Founding First Ladies and Slaves. Jennifer Oast
Tom Cutterham. Gentlemen Revolutionaries: Power and Justice in the New American Republic. Paul Douglas Newman
Maurizio Valsania. Jefferson’s Body: A Corporeal Biography. Janet Moore Lindman
Nicholas Guyatt. Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation. Sean P. Harvey
Richard D. Brown. Self-Evident Truths: Contesting Equal Rights from the Revolution to the Civil War. Robert G. Parkinson
J. P. Clark. Preparing for War: The Emergence of the Modern U.S. Army, 1815–1917. Graham Cross
Gregory Nobles. John James Audubon: The Nature of the American Woodsman. Christoph Irmscher
Christina Snyder. Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson. Tiya Miles
Robin C. Sager. Marital Cruelty in Antebellum America. Rachel Hope Cleves
Brent M. Rogers. Unpopular Sovereignty: Mormons and the Federal Management of Early Utah Territory. David Walker
Jonathan W. White. Midnight in America: Darkness, Sleep, and Dreams during the Civil War. Jane E. Schultz
Thomas F. Army Jr. Engineering Victory: How Technology Won the Civil War. Robert G. Angevine
David Silkenat. Driven from Home: North Carolina’s Civil War Refugee Crisis. Brooks D. Simpson
Lee A. Farrow. Seward’s Folly: A New Look at the Alaska Purchase. Galen Roger Perras
Krister Dylan Knapp. William James: Psychical Research and the Challenge of Modernity. Christopher G. White
Paula S. Fass. The End of American Childhood: A History of Parenting from Life on the Frontier to the Managed Child. Amy Laura Hall
Nancy Raquel Mirabal. Suspect Freedoms: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823–1957. Melanie Shell-Weiss
David E. Goldberg. The Retreats of Reconstruction: Race, Leisure, and the Politics of Segregation at the New Jersey Shore, 1865–1920. Amy G. Richter
Hidetaka Hirota. Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy. Robert S. Chang
Guenter B. Risse. Driven by Fear: Epidemics and Isolation in San Francisco’s House of Pestilence. Michelle T. Moran
Christian Olaf Christiansen. Progressive Business: An Intellectual History of the Role of Business in American Society. Robert Van Horn
Noam Maggor. Brahmin Capitalism: Frontiers of Wealth and Populism in America’s First Gilded Age. Dan Bouk
Mehrsa Baradaran. The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap. Robert E. Weems, Jr.
Sarah Haley. No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity. Michelle Nickerson
Annette Louise Bickford. Southern Mercy: Empire and American Civilization in Juvenile Reform, 1890–1944. Karin L. Zipf
Michael Kazin. War against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914–1918. Chad R. Fulwider
William G. Ross. World War I and the American Constitution. Robert E. Hannigan
Keona K. Ervin. Gateway to Equality: Black Women and the Struggle for Economic Justice in St. Louis. LaShawn Harris
James R. Barrett. History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out: Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Working-Class History. Robert Cassanello
Dennis A. Doyle. Psychiatry and Racial Liberalism in Harlem, 1936–1968; Gabriel N. Mendes. Under the Strain of Color: Harlem’s Lafargue Clinic and the Promise of an Antiracist Psychiatry. Martin Halliwell
Dayna L. Barnes. Architects of Occupation: American Experts and the Planning for Postwar Japan. Jessica Elkind
James C. Enns. Saving Germany: North American Protestants and Christian Mission to West Germany, 1945–1974. Mark Silk
Alison Isenberg. Designing San Francisco: Art, Land, and Urban Renewal in the City by the Bay. Ocean Howell
Anke Ortlepp. Jim Crow Terminals: The Desegregation of American Airports. William E. O’Brien
Howard Jones. My Lai: Vietnam, 1968, and the Descent into Darkness. Kevin M. Boylan
David L. Parsons. Dangerous Grounds: Antiwar Coffeehouses and Military Dissent in the Vietnam Era. Michael Stewart Foley
Jessica M. Frazier. Women’s Antiwar Diplomacy during the Vietnam War Era. Allison Varzally
Tom Adam Davies. Mainstreaming Black Power. Michael Woodsworth
Valerie Neal. Spaceflight in the Shuttle Era and Beyond: Redefining Humanity’s Purpose in Space. Steven J. Dick
María Cristina García. The Refugee Challenge in Post–Cold War America. S. Deborah Kang
Caribbean and Latin America
Bianca Premo. The Enlightenment on Trial: Ordinary Litigants and Colonialism in the Spanish Empire. Michelle A. McKinley
Brian R. Hamnett. The End of Iberian Rule on the American Continent, 1770–1830. Timothy E. Anna
Stefan Rinke. Latin America and the First World War. Phillip Dehne
Carla Gardina Pestana. The English Conquest of Jamaica: Oliver Cromwell’s Bid for Empire. L. H. Roper
Pablo F. Gómez. The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic. Jennifer L. Lambe
Daniel B. Rood. The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery: Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean. James Alexander Dun
Elizabeth S. Manley. The Paradox of Paternalism: Women and the Politics of Authoritarianism in the Dominican Republic. Eric Paul Roorda
Katherine Paugh. The Politics of Reproduction: Race, Medicine, and Fertility in the Age of Abolition; Sasha Turner. Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica. Juanita De Barros
Robert A. Karl. Forgotten Peace: Reform, Violence, and the Making of Contemporary Colombia. James D. Henderson
Herbert S. Klein and Francisco Vidal Luna. Brazil, 1964–1985: The Military Regimes of Latin America in the Cold War. Michael L. Conniff
Orlando Bentancor. The Matter of Empire: Metaphysics and Mining in Colonial Peru. Daniel Nemser
Kevin A. Young. Blood of the Earth: Resource Nationalism, Revolution, and Empire in Bolivia. Marc Becker
Stephen C. Cote. Oil and Nation: A History of Bolivia’s Petroleum Sector. William W. Culver
Antje Schnoor. Gehorchen und Gestalten: Jesuiten zwischen Demokratie und Diktatur in Chile, 1962–1983. Oliver Grasmück
Patrick Barr-Melej. Psychedelic Chile: Youth, Counterculture, and Politics on the Road to Socialism and Dictatorship. Heidi Tinsman
Vania Markarian. Uruguay, 1968: Student Activism from Global Counterculture to Molotov Cocktails. Anton Rosenthal
Europe: Ancient and Medieval
Emily A. Hemelrijk. Hidden Lives, Public Personae: Women and Civic Life in the Roman West. Julie Langford
John B. Freed. Frederick Barbarossa: The Prince and the Myth. John Eldevik
Levi Roach. Æthelred: The Unready. A. E. Redgate
David Bates. William the Conqueror. Craig M. Nakashian
Marcia Kupfer. Art and Optics in the Hereford Map: An English Mappa Mundi, c. 1300. Alfred Hiatt
Martin Heale. The Abbots and Priors of Late Medieval and Reformation England. Tim Cooper
Iain A. MacInnes. Scotland’s Second War of Independence, 1332–1357. Michael Prestwich
Benjamin R. Gampel. Anti-Jewish Riots in the Crown of Aragon and the Royal Response, 1391–1392. Paola Tartakoff
Joanna Carraway Vitiello. Public Justice and the Criminal Trial in Late Medieval Italy: Reggio Emilia in the Visconti Age. Thomas Kuehn
Europe: Early Modern and Modern
Joel Mokyr. A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy. Henry C. Clark
Maria Ågren, editor. Making a Living, Making a Difference: Gender and Work in Early Modern European Society. Deborah Simonton
Avner Offer and Gabriel Söderberg. The Nobel Factor: The Prize in Economics, Social Democracy, and the Market Turn. Harro Maas
Buchanan Sharp. Famine and Scarcity in Late Medieval and Early Modern England: The Regulation of Grain Marketing, 1256–1631. Paul Slack
Martin Ingram. Carnal Knowledge: Regulating Sex in England, 1470–1600. Cynthia B. Herrup
Peter Marshall. Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation. Stefania Tutino
Matthew Lockwood. The Conquest of Death: Violence and the Birth of the Modern English State. Tim Hitchcock
G. H. Cocks. Visions of Sodom: Religion, Homoerotic Desire, and the End of the World in England, c. 1550–1850. Anna Clark
Anne Stobart. Household Medicine in Seventeenth-Century England. Lynn Botelho
Adrian Green. Building for England: John Cosin’s Architecture in Renaissance Durham and Cambridge. Paul M. Hunneyball
John Walter. Covenanting Citizens: The Protestation Oath and Popular Political Culture in the English Revolution. Ian Gentles
Teresa M. Bejan. Mere Civility: Disagreement and the Limits of Toleration. John Coffey
Rob Iliffe. Priest of Nature: The Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton. William Gibson
David W. Gutzke and Michael John Law. The Roadhouse Comes to Britain: Drinking, Driving and Dancing, 1925–1955. Sandra Trudgen Dawson
Philippe Desan. Montaigne: A Life. Mack P. Holt
Carolyn Chappell Lougee. Facing the Revocation: Huguenot Families, Faith, and the King’s Will. David Garrioch
Christopher J. Tozzi. Nationalizing France’s Army: Foreign, Black, and Jewish Troops in the French Military, 1715–1831. Michael Rapport
Libby Murphy. The Art of Survival: France and the Great War Picaresque. Martha Hanna
Rebecca P. Scales. Radio and the Politics of Sound in Interwar France, 1921–1939. Sean Kennedy
Caroline Ford. Natural Interests: The Contest over Environment in Modern France. Kieko Matteson
Valerie Deacon. The Extreme Right in the French Resistance: Members of the Cagoule and Corvignolles in the Second World War. Daniel Lee
Minayo Nasiali. Native to the Republic: Empire, Social Citizenship, and Everyday Life in Marseille since 1945. Keith Mann
Jeremy Cohen. A Historian in Exile: Solomon ibn Verga, Shevet Yehudah, and the Jewish-Christian Encounter. Matthias B. Lehmann
Guya Accornero. The Revolution before the Revolution: Late Authoritarianism and Student Protest in Portugal. Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses
Francesco Paolo de Ceglia. Il segreto di san Gennaro: Storia naturale di un miracolo napoletano. David Gentilcore
Sergio Luzzatto. Primo Levi’s Resistance: Rebels and Collaborators in Occupied Italy. Berel Lang
Ronald S. Calinger. Leonhard Euler: Mathematical Genius in the Enlightenment. Douglas M. Jesseph
Robert C. Holub. Nietzsche’s Jewish Problem: Between Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism. Alan Levenson
Ernst Langthaler. Schlachtfelder: Alltägliches Wirtschaften in der nationalsozialistischen Agrargesellschaft, 1938–1945. Stefanie Fischer
Jeffrey Herf. Undeclared Wars with Israel: East Germany and the West German Far Left, 1967–1989. Pertti Ahonen
Kristina Spohr. The Global Chancellor: Helmut Schmidt and the Reshaping of the International Order. Wilfried Loth
John C. Swanson. Tangible Belonging: Negotiating Germanness in Twentieth-Century Hungary. Ian D. Armour
András Fejérdy. Pressed by a Double Loyalty: Hungarian Attendance at the Second Vatican Council, 1959–1965. Árpád von Klimó
James Lyon. Serbia and the Balkan Front, 1914: The Outbreak of the Great War. Graydon A. Tunstall
Nancy Shields Kollmann. The Russian Empire, 1450–1801. Janet Hartley
G. M. Hamburg. Russia’s Path toward Enlightenment: Faith, Politics, and Reason, 1500–1801. Andrei Zorin
Vera Kaplan. Historians and Historical Societies in the Public Life of Imperial Russia. Alexey Miller
Laura Engelstein. Russia in Flames: War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914–1921. Joshua Sanborn
Nigel A. Raab. All Shook Up: The Shifting Soviet Response to Catastrophes, 1917–1991. Andy Bruno
Golfo Alexopoulos. Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin’s Gulag. Dan Healey
Chris Miller. The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR. William Taubman
Middle East and Northern Africa
H. Erdem Çıpa. The Making of Selim: Succession, Legitimacy, and Memory in the Early Modern Ottoman World. Christine Isom-Verhaaren
John Chalcraft. Popular Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East. Jonathan B. Isacoff
Johan Mathew. Margins of the Market: Trafficking and Capitalism across the Arabian Sea. Ravi Arvind Palat
Will Hanley. Identifying with Nationality: Europeans, Ottomans, and Egyptians in Alexandria. Hoda Yousef
François Georgeon. Le mois le plus long: Ramadan à Istanbul de l’Empire ottoman à la Turquie contemporaine. Edhem Eldem
Hanan Hammad. Industrial Sexuality: Gender, Urbanization, and Social Transformation in Egypt. Hibba Abugideiri
Guy Laron. The Six-Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East. Craig Daigle
Sub-Saharan Africa
Vincent Hiribarren. A History of Borno: Trans-Saharan African Empire to Failing Nigerian State. Toyin Falola
Ruth Ginio. The French Army and Its African Soldiers: The Years of Decolonization. David Robinson
Kwame Essien. Brazilian-African Diaspora in Ghana: The Tabom, Slavery, Dissonance of Memory, Identity, and Locating Home. Darién J. Davis
Lynn Schler. Nation on Board: Becoming Nigerian at Sea. Chima J. Korieh
Richard J. Reid. A History of Modern Uganda. Ronald R. Atkinson
Giacomo Macola. The Gun in Central Africa: A History of Technology and Politics. Daniel R. Headrick
Collected EssaysCollected Essays
Documents and BibliographiesDocuments and Bibliographies
Other Books ReceivedOther Books Received
Digital Primary SourcesDigital Primary Sources
CommunicationsCommunications
IndexIndex to American Historical Review, June 2018
Index of TopicsIndex of Topics