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Article
Perversion by Penumbras: Wolfenden, Griswold, and the Transatlantic Trajectory of Sexual Privacy David Minto
AHR Roundtable: Rethinking Anti-Semitism
Introduction Jonathan Judaken
Toward a History of the Term “Anti-Semitism” David Feldman
Strange Bedfellows? Anti-Semitism, Zionism, and the Fate of “the Jews” Scott Ury
“Islamic Anti-Semitism” in Historical Discourse Daniel J. Schroeter
An Imperial Entanglement: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and Colonialism Ethan B. Katz
Gender and the Politics of Anti-Semitism Stefanie Schüler-Springorum
Literature and the Study of Anti-Semitism Maurice Samuels
Postcolonialism and the Study of Anti-Semitism Bryan Cheyette
AHR Reappraisal
Homoeroticism in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Acts, Identities, Cultures Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century , by John Boswell Mathew Kuefler
Museum Reviews
Museum Reviews: Introductory Note
POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. Janine Holc
Liliesleaf. Dawne Y. Curry
The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass I ncarceration; The National Memorial for Peace and Justice. Jason Morgan Ward
Two Mississippi Museums: Museum of Mississippi History; Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. Glenn T. Eskew
Featured Reviews
Yair Mintzker. The Many Deaths of Jew Süss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew. Alexandra Przyrembel
Kristoff Kerl. Männlichkeit und moderner Antisemitismus: Eine Genealogie des Leo Frank-Case, 1860er–1920er Jahre. Klaus P. Fischer
Götz Aly. Europa gegen die Juden, 1880–1945. Peter Pulzer
Kerry Wallach. Passing Illusions: Jewish Visibility in Weimar Germany. Shulamit Volkov
Reviews of Books
Methods/Theory
Mark Rifkin. Beyond Settler Time: Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination. Keith Thor Carlson
Steven Lubar. Inside the Lost Museum: Curating, Past and Present. William S. Walker
Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft. Thinking in Public: Strauss, Levinas, Arendt. Ned Curthoys
Eglė Rindzevičiūte. The Power of Systems: How Policy Sciences Opened Up the Cold War World. Gerald Easter
Ruth A. Miller. Flourishing Thought: Democracy in an Age of Data Hoards. Christopher J. Phillips
Comparative/World/Transnational
Cathal J. Nolan. The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost. John A. Lynn
Lorelle Semley. To Be Free and French: Citizenship in France’s Atlantic Empire. Elizabeth Heath
Philipp Reick. “Labor Is Not a Commodity!”: The Movement to Shorten the Workday in Late Nineteenth-Century Berlin and New York. Christina A. Ziegler-McPherson
Ann Taylor Allen. The Transatlantic Kindergarten: Education and Women’s Movements in Germany and the United States. Tim Hacsi
Jacob S. Eder. Holocaust Angst: The Federal Republic of Germany and American Holocaust Memory since the 1970s. Harold Marcuse
Cemİl Aydin. The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History. Mona Hassan
Jane McCabe. Race, Tea and Colonial Resettlement: Imperial Families, Interrupted. Deana Heath
Simon James Bytheway and Mark Metzler. Central Banks and Gold: How Tokyo, London, and New York Shaped the Modern World. Kent Deng
Pedro Iacobelli. Postwar Emigration to South America from Japan and the Ryukyu Islands. John Lie
Robyn Autry. Desegregating the Past: The Public Life of Memory in the United States and South Africa. Sarah Nuttall
Adrian Howkins. Frozen Empires: An Environmental History of the Antarctic Peninsula. J. Donald Hughes
Asia
Clare Anderson, Madhumita Mazumdar, and Vishvajit Pandya. New Histories of the Andaman Islands: Landscape, Place and Identity in the Bay of Bengal, 1790–2012. Aparna Vaidik
Peter Jackson. The Mongols and the Islamic World: From Conquest to Conversion. Christopher P. Atwood
Yasuhiro Makimura. Yokohama and the Silk Trade: How Eastern Japan Became the Primary Economic Region of Japan, 1843–1893. Kerry Smith
Simon Partner. The Merchant’s Tale: Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan. Penelope Francks
Hiromu Nagahara. Tokyo Boogie-Woogie: Japan’s Pop Era and Its Discontents. Elise K. Tipton
Geoffrey C. Stewart. Vietnam’s Lost Revolution: Ngô Đình Diệm’s Failure to Build an Independent Nation, 1950–1963. Olga Dror
Canada and the United States
Jeffers Lennox. Homelands and Empires: Indigenous Spaces, Imperial Fictions, and Competition for Territory in Northeastern North America, 1690–1763. Ken Coates
E. A. Heaman. Tax, Order, and Good Government: A New Political History of Canada, 1867–1917. Allan Smith
Michael Gauvreau. The Hand of God: Claude Ryan and the Fate of Canadian Liberalism, 1925–1971. J. I. Little
Matthew Babcock. Apache Adaptation to Hispanic Rule. William S. Kiser
Douglas L. Winiarski. Darkness Falls on the Land of Light: Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England. Philip Mulder
Mary Sarah Bilder. Madison’s Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention; Jack N. Rakove. A Politician Thinking: The Creative Mind of James Madison. Daniel J. Hulsebosch
Dawn Peterson. Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion. Julie L. Reed
Lisa Pace Vetter. The Political Thought of America’s Founding Feminists. Carol Faulkner
Keri Leigh Merritt. Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South. Mark T. Banker
John M. Belohlavek. Patriots, Prostitutes, and Spies: Women and the Mexican-American War. Laura Tuennerman
William S. Kiser. Borderlands of Slavery: The Struggle over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest. Anthony Mora
Sarah F. Rose. No Right to Be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1840s–1930s. Jesse F. Ballenger
Sydney Nathans. A Mind to Stay: White Plantation, Black Homeland. Carole Emberton
Brian Roberts. Blackface Nation: Race, Reform, and Identity in American Popular Music, 1812–1925. Cheryl C. Boots
Nicholas Gebhardt. Vaudeville Melodies: Popular Musicians and Mass Entertainment in American Culture, 1870–1929. David Krasner
John L. Neufeld. Selling Power: Economics, Policy, and Electric Utilities before 1940. Matthew L. Downs
Lane Demas. Game of Privilege: An African American History of Golf. Neil Lanctot
Stephanie Hinnershitz. A Different Shade of Justice: Asian American Civil Rights in the South. Emma J. Teng
Wendy L. Rouse. Her Own Hero: The Origins of the Women’s Self-Defense Movement. Kimberly K. Little
Johanna Neuman. Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites Who Fought for Women’s Right to Vote; Susan Goodier and Karen Pastorello. Women Will Vote: Winning Suffrage in New York State. Kristi Andersen
Michael E. Neagle. America’s Forgotten Colony: Cuba’s Isle of Pines. Philip Howard
Martin J. Sklar. Creating the American Century: The Ideas and Legacies of America’s Twentieth-Century Foreign Policy Founders. Walter L. Hixson
LaDale C. Winling. Building the Ivory Tower: Universities and Metropolitan Development in the Twentieth Century. John R. Thelin
John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle. Supplanting America’s Railroads: The Early Auto Age, 1900–1940. Carlos A. Schwantes
Lynn Dumenil. The Second Line of Defense: American Women and World War I; Elizabeth Cobbs. The Hello Girls: America’s First Women Soldiers. Mark Hendrickson
Joshua E. Kastenberg. To Raise and Discipline an Army: Major General Enoch Crowder, the Judge Advocate General’s Office, and the Realignment of Civil and Military Relations in World War I. Dirk Bönker
Julia L. Mickenberg. American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the Soviet Dream. Erica J. Ryan
LeeAnn G. Reynolds. Maintaining Segregation: Children and Racial Instruction in the South, 1920–1955. Stephen Grant Meyer
Melissa L. Cooper. Making Gullah: A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination. Tunde Adeleke
Aelwen D. Wetherby. Private Aid, Political Activism: American Medical Relief to Spain and China, 1936–1949. Anne-Emanuelle Birn
Rachel Rains Winslow. The Best Possible Immigrants: International Adoption and the American Family. Sara Fieldston
Kevin M. Kruse. One Nation under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America. Axel R. Schäfer
Mark A. Lempke. My Brother’s Keeper: George McGovern and Progressive Christianity. Darren Dochuk
Joel Dinerstein. The Origins of Cool in Postwar America. Charles F. McGovern
David Goldfield. The Gifted Generation: When Government Was Good. Jennifer Delton
Pamela Grundy. Color and Character: West Charlotte High and the American Struggle over Educational Equality. Sarah C. Thuesen
Jesse H. Rhodes. Ballot Blocked: The Political Erosion of the Voting Rights Act. Julian Maxwell Hayter
Karissa Haugeberg. Women against Abortion: Inside the Largest Moral Reform Movement of the Twentieth Century. Rebecca Kluchin
Gregory A. Daddis. Withdrawal: Reassessing America’s Final Years in Vietnam. Andrew Rotter
Lane Windham. Knocking on Labor’s Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide. Michael K. Honey
Andrew C. McKevitt. Consuming Japan: Popular Culture and the Globalizing of 1980s America. Dawn P. Spring
Caribbean and Latin America
Dennis Gilbert. The Oligarchy and the Old Regime in Latin America, 1880–1970. Nils Jacobsen
Lisa Sousa. The Woman Who Turned into a Jaguar, and Other Narratives of Native Women in Archives of Colonial Mexico. Maria Raquel Casas
Mark Z. Christensen. The Teabo Manuscript: Maya Christian Copybooks, Chilam Balams, and Native Text Production in Yucatan. Amber Brian
Myron Echenberg. Humboldt’s Mexico: In the Footsteps of the Illustrious German Scientific Traveller. Iris H. W. Engstrand
Bradley Folsom. Arredondo: Last Spanish Ruler of Texas and Northeastern New Spain. Raphael Brewster Folsom
Rajeshwari Dutt. Maya Caciques in Early National Yucatán. David Tavárez
Verónica Castillo-Muñoz. The Other California: Land, Identity, and Politics on the Mexican Borderlands. Josiah Heyman
Stephen B. Neufeld. The Blood Contingent: The Military and the Making of Modern Mexico, 1876–1911. Will Fowler
Jason Oliver Chang. Chino: Anti-Chinese Racism in Mexico, 1880–1940. Sue Fawn Chung
Daniel D. Arreola. Postcards from the Sonora Border: Visualizing Place through a Popular Lens, 1900s–1950s. Eric V. Meeks
Kathryn E. O’Rourke. Modern Architecture in Mexico City: History, Representation, and the Shaping of a Capital. Helen Delpar
Lisa Pinley Covert. San Miguel de Allende: Mexicans, Foreigners, and the Making of a World Heritage Site. Kathryn E. O’Rourke
Adrian Fraser. The 1935 Riots in St Vincent: From Riots to Adult Suffrage. Jorge L. Chinea
Marshall C. Eakin. Becoming Brazilians: Race and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Brazil. Mieko Nishida
John R. Bawden. The Pinochet Generation: The Chilean Military in the Twentieth Century. Michael Monteón
Europe: Ancient And Medieval
Walter Duvall Penrose Jr. Postcolonial Amazons: Female Masculinity and Courage in Ancient Greek and Sanskrit Literature. David D. Leitao
Pierre Briant. Alexandre: Exégèse des lieux communs. Edward M. Anson
Boris Chrubasik. Kings and Usurpers in the Seleukid Empire: The Men Who Would Be King. Jeffrey D. Lerner
Noel Lenski. Constantine and the Cities: Imperial Authority and Civic Politics. Elizabeth DePalma Digeser
Nancy Mandeville Caciola. Afterlives: The Return of the Dead in the Middle Ages. Kenneth Rooney
Johannes Fried. Charlemagne. Roger Collins
Zachary Chitwood. Byzantine Legal Culture and the Roman Legal Tradition, 867–1056. Thomas Ernst van Bochove
Julia Barrow. The Clergy in the Medieval World: Secular Clerics, Their Families and Careers in North-Western Europe, c. 800–c. 1200. Maureen C. Miller
Timothy Bolton. Cnut the Great. Charles Insley
Nicholas Morton. Encountering Islam on the First Crusade. Thomas Asbridge
Catherine M. Mooney. Clare of Assisi and the Thirteenth-Century Church: Religious Women, Rules, and Resistance. Anne E. Lester
Sharon Farmer. The Silk Industries of Medieval Paris: Artisanal Migration, Technical Innovation, and Gendered Experience. Martha Howell
Hollie L. S. Morgan. Beds and Chambers in Late Medieval England: Readings, Representations and Realities. Derek G. Neal
Europe: Early Modern and Modern
Jutta Gisela Sperling. Roman Charity: Queer Lactations in Early Modern Visual Culture. Katherine Crawford
Philipp Ther. Europe since 1989: A History. C. Edmund Clingan
Aidan Beatty. Masculinity and Power in Irish Nationalism, 1884–1938. Elaine Sisson
Susan D. Amussen and David E. Underdown. Gender, Culture and Politics in England, 1560–1640: Turning the World Upside Down. Diane Purkiss
Peter Lake. How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage: Power and Succession in the History Plays; András Kiséry. Hamlet’s Moment: Drama and Political Knowledge in Early Modern England. Marisa R. Cull
L. H. Roper. Advancing Empire: English Interests and Overseas Expansion, 1613–1688. Susan D. Amussen
Marco Barducci. Hugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution, 1613–1718: Transnational Reception in English Political Thought. Martine van Ittersum
Eric H. Ash. The Draining of the Fens: Projectors, Popular Politics, and State Building in Early Modern England. R. W. Hoyle
James Delbourgo. Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum. Anita Guerrini
Janet Sorensen. Strange Vernaculars: How Eighteenth-Century Slang, Cant, Provincial Languages, and Nautical Jargon Became English. Paul A. Gilje
John McAleer. Britain’s Maritime Empire: Southern Africa, the Southern Atlantic and the Indian Ocean, 1763–1820. Kerry Ward
Bart Schultz. The Happiness Philosophers: The Lives and Works of the Great Utilitarians. H. S. Jones
Joseph Stubenrauch. The Evangelical Age of Ingenuity in Industrial Britain. Philip Lockley
Lauren Benton and Lisa Ford. Rage for Order: The British Empire and the Origins of International Law, 1800–1850. Elizabeth Kolsky
Claire Brock. British Women Surgeons and Their Patients, 1860–1918. Marjorie Levine-Clark
James G. Mansell. The Age of Noise in Britain: Hearing Modernity. John Hartley
Chris Moores. Civil Liberties and Human Rights in Twentieth-Century Britain. Loveday Hodson
Luís Trindade. Narratives in Motion: Journalism and Modernist Events in 1920s Portugal. Nuno Pinheiro
Mi Gyung Kim. The Imagined Empire: Balloon Enlightenments in Revolutionary Europe. Kenneth Margerison
Peter McPhee. Liberty or Death: The French Revolution. Jack R. Censer
Biancamaria Fontana. Germaine de Staël: A Political Portrait. Lesley H. Walker
Maurice Samuels. The Right to Difference: French Universalism and the Jews. Stefanie Schüler-Springorum
Bruno Cabanes. August 1914: France, the Great War, and a Month That Changed the World Forever. John H. Morrow, Jr.
Scott Soo. The Routes to Exile: France and the Spanish Civil War Refugees, 1939–2009. Ángel Alcalde
Francesco Benigno. La mala setta: Alle origini di mafia e camorra, 1859–1878. Mary Gibson
Carl Ipsen. Fumo: Italy’s Love Affair with the Cigarette. Emanuela Scarpellini
Rosario Forlenza and Bjørn Thomassen. Italian Modernities: Competing Narratives of Nationhood. Joshua Arthurs
Anna Maria Forssberg. The Story of War: Church and Propaganda in France and Sweden, 1610–1710. Erik Ringmar
David L. Weaver-Zercher. Martyrs Mirror: A Social History. Royden Loewen
Gisli Palsson. The Man Who Stole Himself: The Slave Odyssey of Hans Jonathan. Jenny Shaw
Kelly Joan Whitmer. The Halle Orphanage as Scientific Community: Observation, Eclecticism, and Pietism in the Early Enlightenment. Chad Wellmon
Martin A. Ruehl. The Italian Renaissance in the German Historical Imagination, 1860–1930. Tuska Benes
Sebastian Heer. Parlamentsmanagement: Herausbildungs- und Funktionsmuster parlamentarischer Steuerungsstrukturen in Deutschland vom Reichstag bis zum Bundestag. Bodie A. Ashton
Mark Jones. Founding Weimar: Violence and the German Revolution of 1918–1919. Richard Bessel
Emmanuel Droit. Vorwärts zum neuen Menschen? Die sozialistische Erziehung in der DDR (1949–1989). Charles B. Lansing
Alison Rose. Antisemitism, Gender Bias, and the “Hervay Affair” of 1904: Bigotry in the Austrian Alps. Sally Debra Charnow
Louis Rose. Psychology, Art, and Antifascism: Ernst Kris, E. H. Gombrich, and the Politics of Caricature. Andreas Agocs
Tania Munz. The Dancing Bees: Karl von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language. Sander Gliboff
Scott Spector. Violent Sensations: Sex, Crime, and Utopia in Vienna and Berlin, 1860–1914. Clayton J. Whisnant
Dina Gusejnova. European Elites and Ideas of Empire, 1917–1957. Matthew P. Fitzpatrick
Timothy E. Pytell. Viktor Frankl’s Search for Meaning: An Emblematic 20th-Century Life. Eric J. Engstrom
Tatjana Lichtenstein. Zionists in Interwar Czechoslovakia: Minority Nationalism and the Politics of Belonging. Zohar Maor
Sándor Horváth. Stalinism Reloaded: Everyday Life in Stalin-City, Hungary. Nigel Swain
Tudor Georgescu. The Eugenic Fortress: The Transylvanian Saxon Experiment in Interwar Romania. Vladimir Solonari
Devin E. Naar. Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece. Michelle U. Campos
Adam Teller. Money, Power, and Influence in Eighteenth-Century Lithuania: The Jews on the Radziwiłł Estates. Ellie R. Schainker
Jan Hennings. Russia and Courtly Europe: Ritual and the Culture of Diplomacy, 1648–1725. Alexander Kamenskii
Kelly O’Neill. Claiming Crimea: A History of Catherine the Great’s Southern Empire. Matthew P. Romaniello
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa. Crime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution: Mob Justice and Police in Petrograd. Sharon A. Kowalsky
Mark Edele. Stalin’s Defectors: How Red Army Soldiers Became Hitler’s Collaborators, 1941–1945. Roger R. Reese
Middle East and Northern Africa
Yousef Casewit. The Mystics of al-Andalus: Ibn Barrajān and Islamic Thought in the Twelfth Century. Ali Humayun Akhtar
Andrew D. Buck. The Principality of Antioch and Its Frontiers in the Twelfth Century. Yvonne Friedman
Stefan Winter. A History of the ʿAlawis: From Medieval Aleppo to the Turkish Republic. Malek Abisaab
Jessica M. Marglin. Across Legal Lines: Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco. Sahar Bazzaz
James McDougall. A History of Algeria. Abdelmajid Hannoum
Adam Mestyan. Arab Patriotism: The Ideology and Culture of Power in Late Ottoman Egypt. Wilson Chacko Jacob
Zeinab Abul-Magd. Militarizing the Nation: The Army, Business, and Revolution in Egypt. Kevan Harris
Asher Orkaby. Beyond the Arab Cold War: The International History of the Yemen Civil War, 1962–68. W. Taylor Fain
Sub-Saharan Africa
Jarvis L. Hargrove. The Political Economy of the Interior Gold Coast: The Asante and the Era of Legitimate Trading, 1807–1875. Gareth Austin
Godriver Wanga-Odhiambo. The Political Economy of Sugar Production in Colonial Kenya: The Asian Initiative in Central Nyanza. Dave Eaton
Charles Laurie. The Land Reform Deception: Political Opportunism in Zimbabwe’s Land Seizure Era. Timothy Scarnecchia
Collected EssaysCollected Essays
Documents and BibliographiesDocuments and Bibliographies
Other Books ReceivedOther Books Received
Digital Primary SourcesDigital Primary Sources
CommunicationsCommunications
IndexIndex to American Historical Review, October 2018
Index of TopicsIndex of Topics