In This Issue
In This Issue

From the Editor’s Desk
From the Editor’s Desk: Making It Up

Article

“Life Is Movement, Movement Is Life!” Mobility Politics and the Circulatory State in Nazi Germany
Andrew Denning

AHR Conversation: Each Generation Writes Its Own History of Generations

AHR Conversation: Each Generation Writes Its Own History of Generations
Abosede George; Clive Glaser; Margaret D. Jacobs; Chitra Joshi ; Emily Marker ...

AHR Reappraisal

Living the Examined Life in the Antebellum North, and in the Post–World War II United States
The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Women’s Rights and Abolition, by Gerda Lerner
Jacqueline Jones

Review Essays

The Power of Queer History
Regina Kunzel

It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
Michael J. Watts

Graphic History Reviews

Graphic History Reviews: Introductory Note

Getting Serious about Comic Histories
Trevor R. Getz

John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell. March.
Eric Arnesen

Ari Kelman and Jonathan Fetter-Vorm. Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War.
Joshua Brown

Michael G. Vann and Liz Clarke. The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam.
Thuy Linh Nguyen

Spain Rodriguez. Che: A Graphic Biography; Inverna Lockpez and Dean Haspiel. Cuba: My Revolution.
Louis A. Pérez, Jr.

Joe Sacco. Footnotes in Gaza.
Mary N. Layoun

Featured Reviews

Gary Fields. Enclosure: Palestinian Landscapes in a Historical Mirror; Gershon Shafir. A Half Century of Occupation: Israel, Palestine, and the World’s Most Intractable Conflict; Salim Tamari. The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine; Ilan Pappe. The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories; Norman G. Finkelstein. Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom; Michael Sfard. The Wall and the Gate: Israel, Palestine, and the Legal Battle for Human Rights.
Ilana Feldman

Alice Rio. Slavery after Rome, 500–1100.
Youval Rotman

Federico Finchelstein. From Fascism to Populism in History.
Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo

Quinn Slobodian. Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism.
Jennifer Burns

David A. Hollinger. Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America.
Andrew Preston

Jonathan C. Brown. Cuba’s Revolutionary World.
Nicola Miller

Peter Guardino. The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War.
Jocelyn Olcott

John Tutino. The Mexican Heartland: How Communities Shaped Capitalism, a Nation, and World History, 1500–2000.
Jeremy Adelman

Kyle Harper. The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire.
Peter Sarris

Ilya Berkovich. Motivation in War: The Experience of Common Soldiers in Old-Regime Europe; Christy Pichichero. The Military Enlightenment: War and Culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to Napoleon; Thomas Dodman. What Nostalgia Was: War, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly Emotion.
Brian Sandberg

Reviews of Books

Methods/Theory

Ethan Kleinberg. Haunting History: For a Deconstructive Approach to the Past.
Penelope J. Corfield

Terry Pinkard. Does History Make Sense? Hegel on the Historical Shapes of Justice.
Lydia Moland

Stefan Müller-Doohm. Habermas: A Biography.
Thomas Wheatland

Philippe Carrard. History as a Kind of Writing: Textual Strategies in Contemporary French Historiography.
David Carroll

Jutta Schickore. About Method: Experimenters, Snake Venom, and the History of Writing Scientifically.
Pietro Corsi

Rebecca Jinks. Representing Genocide: The Holocaust as Paradigm?
Rebecca Clifford

Amitava Chowdhury and Donald Harman Akenson, editors. Between Dispersion and Belonging: Global Approaches to Diaspora in Practice.
Khachig Tölölyan

Ann Laura Stoler. Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times.
Aviva Chomsky

Comparative/World/Transnational

Antonio Feros. Speaking of Spain: The Evolution of Race and Nation in the Hispanic World.
Natalia Sobrevilla Perea

Tatiana Seijas and Jake Frederick. Spanish Dollars and Sister Republics: The Money That Made Mexico and the United States.
Margarita Suárez

Tore C. Olsson. Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the US and Mexican Countryside.
Catherine Nolan-Ferrell

Steven Sabol. “The Touch of Civilization”: Comparing American and Russian Internal Colonization.
Steven L. Danver

Shane Nagle. Histories of Nationalism in Ireland and Germany: A Comparative Study from 1800 to 1932.
Joep Leerssen

Asia

Mark McNicholas. Forgery and Impersonation in Imperial China: Popular Deceptions and the High Qing State.
Cynthia Brokaw

William T. Rowe. Speaking of Profit: Bao Shichen and Reform in Nineteenth-Century China.
Melissa Macauley

Mao Haijian. The Qing Empire and the Opium War: The Collapse of the Heavenly Dynasty.
Stephen R. Platt

Yijiang Zhong. The Origin of Modern Shinto in Japan: The Vanquished Gods of Izumo.
Anna Andreeva

Lynn Hollen Lees. Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects: British Malaya, 1786–1941.
Albert Lau

Kwangmin Kim. Borderland Capitalism: Turkestan Produce, Qing Silver, and the Birth of an Eastern Market.
Devin DeWeese

Adeeb Khalid. Making Uzbekistan: Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR.
Marco Buttino

Canada and the United States

Mark G. McGowan. The Imperial Irish: Canada’s Irish Catholics Fight the Great War, 1914–1918.
Terence J. Fay

Claire Elizabeth Campbell. Nature, Place, and Story: Rethinking Historic Sites in Canada.
Alan Gordon

Abigail Williams. The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home.
James Raven

Theodore Catton. Rainy Lake House: Twilight of Empire on the Northern Frontier.
Susan Sleeper-Smith

Rosalyn R. LaPier. Invisible Reality: Storytellers, Storytakers, and the Supernatural World of the Blackfeet.
Christopher Vecsey

Katherine Ellinghaus. Blood Will Tell: Native Americans and Assimilation Policy.
Jill Doerfler

Paul Frymer. Building an American Empire: The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion.
William H. Bergmann

Britt Rusert. Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture.
Gregory D. Smithers

Paul D. Naish. Slavery and Silence: Latin America and the U.S. Slave Debate.
Amy S. Greenberg

Graham A. Peck. Making an Antislavery Nation: Lincoln, Douglas, and the Battle over Freedom.
Michael D. Robinson

Ryan Dearinger. The Filth of Progress: Immigrants, Americans, and the Building of the Canals and Railroads in the West.
Brian P. Luskey

Shari Rabin. Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America.
Jenna Weissman Joselit

Richard White. The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865–1896.
Tyler Anbinder

Paul E. Herron. Framing the Solid South: The State Constitutional Conventions of Secession, Reconstruction, and Redemption, 1860–1902.
Cynthia Nicoletti

Donald G. Mathews. At the Altar of Lynching: Burning Sam Hose in the American South; Nicholas Villanueva Jr. The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands.
Howard Smead

Jon Scott Logel. Designing Gotham: West Point Engineers and the Rise of Modern New York, 1817–1898.
Andrew Saint

William Davenport Mercer. Diminishing the Bill of Rights: Barron v. Baltimore and the Foundations of American Liberty.
Mark Tushnet

Kali Nicole Gross. Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America.
Carrie N. Baker

Torrie Hester. Deportation: The Origins of U.S. Policy.
Lucy E. Salyer

Eli Cook. The Pricing of Progress: Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life.
Tamara Plakins Thornton

Paul Schor. Counting Americans: How the US Census Classified the Nation.
Matthew G. Hannah

Britt Haas. Fighting Authoritarianism: American Youth Activism in the 1930s.
Gael Graham

Karen L. Cox. Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South.
Jennifer Rae Greeson

Robert Hunt Ferguson. Remaking the Rural South: Interracialism, Christian Socialism, and Cooperative Farming in Jim Crow Mississippi.
Paul Harvey

Sarah Ruth Hammond. God’s Businessmen: Entrepreneurial Evangelicals in Depression and War.
Markku Ruotsila

Katherine J. Parkin. Women at the Wheel: A Century of Buying, Driving, and Fixing Cars.
Pamela Walker Laird

Anne Fleming. City of Debtors: A Century of Fringe Finance.
Mehrsa Baradaran

Terence Young. Heading Out: A History of American Camping.
Aaron Shapiro

William I. Hitchcock. The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s.
David L. Stebenne

Daniel Horowitz. Happier? The History of a Cultural Movement That Aspired to Transform America.
Stephanie Muravchik

Jeremy Milloy. Blood, Sweat, and Fear: Violence at Work in the North American Auto Industry, 1960–80.
Randi Storch

Joshua Clark Davis. From Head Shops to Whole Foods: The Rise and Fall of Activist Entrepreneurs.
Susan V. Spellman

Laura J. Miller. Building Nature’s Market: The Business and Politics of Natural Foods.
Anne Meis Knupfer

Emily E. LB. Twarog. Politics of the Pantry: Housewives, Food, and Consumer Protest in Twentieth-Century America.
Bryan McDonald

Emily Dufton. Grass Roots: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana in America.
Joshua Clark Davis

Jimmy Patiño. Raza Sí, Migra No: Chicano Movement Struggles for Immigrant Rights in San Diego.
Steven Rosales

Max Krochmal. Blue Texas: The Making of a Multiracial Coalition in the Civil Rights Era.
Marc Simon Rodriguez

Maurice J. Hobson. The Legend of the Black Mecca: Politics and Class in the Making of Modern Atlanta.
Beryl Satter

Karlyn Forner. Why the Vote Wasn’t Enough for Selma.
Robert W. Widell, Jr.

David Goldberg. Black Firefighters and the FDNY: The Struggle for Jobs, Justice, and Equity in New York City.
Philip F. Rubio

Fred Carroll. Race News: Black Journalists and the Fight for Racial Justice in the Twentieth Century.
Sid Bedingfield

Sid Bedingfield. Newspaper Wars: Civil Rights and White Resistance in South Carolina, 1935–1965.
Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff

Kenneth M. Hamilton. Booker T. Washington in American Memory.
Scot A. French

Rachel Kranson. Ambivalent Embrace: Jewish Upward Mobility in Postwar America.
Jeffrey S. Gurock

J. Mark Souther. Believing in Cleveland: Managing Decline in “The Best Location in the Nation.”
Benjamin Looker

Scott Kaufman. Ambition, Pragmatism, and Party: A Political Biography of Gerald R. Ford.
Edward Berkowitz

Caribbean and Latin America

Matthew Casey. Empire’s Guestworkers: Haitian Migrants in Cuba during the Age of US Occupation.
Gillian McGillivray

Chantalle F. Verna. Haiti and the Uses of America: Post-U.S. Occupation Promises.
Ellen D. Tillman

Bradley Benton. The Lords of Tetzcoco: The Transformation of Indigenous Rule in Postconquest Central Mexico.
William F. Connell

Karen R. Roybal. Archives of Dispossession: Recovering the Testimonios of Mexican American Herederas, 1848–1960.
Sal Acosta

Pablo Piccato. A History of Infamy: Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico.
Chris Frazer

Sandra C. Mendiola García. Street Democracy: Vendors, Violence, and Public Space in Late Twentieth-Century Mexico.
Diane E. Davis

Kathryn A. Sloan. Death in the City: Suicide and the Social Imaginary in Modern Mexico.
Edward Wright-Rios

Fredy González. Paisanos Chinos: Transpacific Politics among Chinese Immigrants in Mexico.
Jerry Garcia

Mikael D. Wolfe. Watering the Revolution: An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in Mexico.
Antonio Escobar Ohmstede

Mieko Nishida. Diaspora and Identity: Japanese Brazilians in Brazil and Japan.
Jeffrey Lesser

Eve E. Buckley. Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil.
Seth W. Garfield

Ernesto Semán. Ambassadors of the Working Class: Argentina’s International Labor Activists and Cold War Democracy in the Americas.
Fernando Teixeira da Silva

Europe: Ancient and Medieval

Matthew Simonton. Classical Greek Oligarchy: A Political History.
Greg Anderson

Paulin Ismard. Democracy’s Slaves: A Political History of Ancient Greece.
Nicholas F. Jones

Daniel J. Gargola. The Shape of the Roman Order: The Republic and Its Spaces.
James Tan

Jón Viðar Sigurðsson. Viking Friendship: The Social Bond in Iceland and Norway, c. 900–1300.
Sverre Bagge

Graham A. Loud and Martial Staub, editors. The Making of Medieval History.
Matthew Gabriele

Shayne Aaron Legassie. The Medieval Invention of Travel.
Sharon Kinoshita

Elisheva Baumgarten, Ruth Mazo Karras, and Katelyn Mesler, editors. Entangled Histories: Knowledge, Authority, and Jewish Culture in the Thirteenth Century.
Deeana Copeland Klepper

Elizabeth Carson Pastan and Stephen D. White. The Bayeux Tapestry and Its Contexts: A Reassessment.
George Garnett

Roisin Cossar. Clerical Households in Late Medieval Italy.
Thomas V. Cohen

Thomas Kuehn. Family and Gender in Renaissance Italy, 1300–1600.
Philip Gavitt

Hannelore Zug Tucci. Prigionia di guerra nel Medioevo: Un’altura in mezzo pianura; l’Italia dell’“incivilmento.”
Peter Sposato

Kathryn Blair Moore. The Architecture of the Christian Holy Land: Reception from Late Antiquity through the Renaissance.
Michele Bacci

Mary Dzon. The Quest for the Christ Child in the Later Middle Ages.
Kevin Madigan

Europe: Early Modern and Modern

Wayne P. Te Brake. Religious War and Religious Peace in Early Modern Europe.
Peter G. Wallace

Edward Bever and Randall Styers, editors. Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization.
Jason Philip Coy

Krishan Kumar. Visions of Empire: How Five Imperial Regimes Changed the World.
David B. Abernethy

Steven Press. Rogue Empires: Contracts and Conmen in Europe’s Scramble for Africa.
Adam Hochschild

Volker Prott. The Politics of Self-Determination: Remaking Territories and National Identities in Europe, 1917–1923.
John Paul Newman

Emily Jones. Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism, 1830–1914: An Intellectual History.
Michael Griffin

Robert J. Richards and Michael Ruse. Debating Darwin.
Nicolaas Rupke

Andreas Rose. Between Empire and Continent: British Foreign Policy before the First World War.
Andrew Stewart

Christopher Hilliard. The Littlehampton Libels: A Miscarriage of Justice and a Mystery about Words in 1920s England.
Adrian Bingham

Tarak Barkawi. Soldiers of Empire: Indian and British Armies in World War II.
Daniel Patrick Marston

Daniel Brückenhaus. Policing Transnational Protest: Liberal Imperialism and the Surveillance of Anticolonialists in Europe, 1905–1945.
Susan Pedersen

Michel Winock. Flaubert.
Geoffrey Wall

Tristan Vigliano. Parler aux musulmans: Quatre intellectuels face à l’Islam à l’ordee de la Renaissance.
Eric R. Dursteler

Alan Charles Kors. Epicureans and Atheists in France, 1650–1729; Alan Charles Kors. Naturalism and Unbelief in France, 1650–1729.
Jeffrey D. Burson

Patricia Mainardi. Another World: Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Print Culture.
Christine Haynes

Gavin Murray-Miller. The Cult of the Modern: Trans-Mediterranean France and the Construction of French Modernity.
Ian Coller

Susan A. Ashley. “Misfits” in Fin-de-Siècle France and Italy: Anatomies of Difference.
Harry Oosterhuis

Aaron Freundschuh. The Courtesan and the Gigolo: The Murders in the Rue Montaigne and the Dark Side of Empire in Nineteenth-Century Paris.
Caroline Campbell

Ludivine Broch. Ordinary Workers, Vichy and the Holocaust: French Railwaymen and the Second World War.
Miranda Pollard

Elizabeth Vihlen McGregor. Jazz and Postwar French Identity: Improvising the Nation; Rashida K. Braggs. Jazz Diasporas: Race, Music, and Migration in Post–World War II Paris.
Brett A. Berliner

Andrew S. Tompkins. Better Active than Radioactive! Anti-Nuclear Protest in 1970s France and West Germany.
Frank Biess

Antonio Urquízar-Herrera. Admiration and Awe: Morisco Buildings and Identity Negotiations in Early Modern Spanish Historiography.
Paul Niell

John T. Wing. Roots of Empire: Forests and State Power in Early Modern Spain, c.1500–1750.
Antonio Barrera

Jodi Campbell. At the First Table: Food and Social Identity in Early Modern Spain.
Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Mark Lawrence. The Spanish Civil Wars: A Comparative History of the First Carlist War and the Conflict of the 1930s.
George Esenwein

Stanley G. Payne. Alcalá Zamora and the Failure of the Spanish Republic, 1931–1936.
Julius Ruiz

Paul F. Grendler. The Jesuits and Italian Universities, 1548–1773.
David A. Lines

Massimo Firpo and Fabrizio Biferali. Immagini ed eresie nell’Italia del Cinquecento.
Evelyn Lincoln

Lucia Dacome. Malleable Anatomies: Models, Makers, and Material Culture in Eighteenth-Century Italy.
Domenico Bertoloni Meli

Paul Garfinkel. Criminal Law in Liberal and Fascist Italy.
David A. Messenger

Ian Campbell. The Addis Ababa Massacre: Italy’s National Shame.
Teshale Tibebu

Emanuele Sica. Mussolini’s Army in the French Riviera: Italy’s Occupation of France.
Michael R. Ebner

Piotr H. Kosicki, editor. Vatican II behind the Iron Curtain.
András Fejérdy

Dario Gaggio. The Shaping of Tuscany: Landscape and Society between Tradition and Modernity.
Paul Baxa

Philip Steiner. Die Landstände in Steiermark, Kärnten und Krain und die Josephinischen Reformen: Bedrohungskommunikation angesichts konkurrierender Ordnungsvorstellungen (1789–1792).
Franz A. J. Szabo

Ismar Schorsch. Leopold Zunz: Creativity in Adversity.
Daniel B. Schwartz

Zachary Purvis. Theology and the University in Nineteenth-Century Germany.
Stan M. Landry

Mischa Suter. Rechtstrieb: Schulden und Vollstreckung im liberalen Kapitalismus, 1800–1900.
Kenneth F. Ledford

Elizabeth S. Goodstein. Georg Simmel and the Disciplinary Imaginary.
Joshua Derman

Bernhard Gissibl. The Nature of German Imperialism: Conservation and the Politics of Wildlife in Colonial East Africa.
Gary Bruce

Stefan Vogt. Subalterne Positionierungen: Der deutsche Zionismus im Feld des Nationalismus in Deutschland, 1890–1933.
Christian S. Davis

Sasha Disko. The Devil’s Wheels: Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic.
Guillaume de Syon

Robert E. Lerner. Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life.
Martin Woessner

Peter E. Gordon. Adorno and Existence.
Richard Wolin

Nicholas Stargardt. The German War: A Nation under Arms, 1939–1945; Citizens and Soldiers.
Thomas Kühne

Peter Fritzsche. An Iron Wind: Europe under Hitler.
Doris L. Bergen

Stefan Ihrig. Justifying Genocide: Germany and the Armenians from Bismarck to Hitler.
Jürgen Zimmerer

Stefan Kühl. Ordinary Organizations: Why Normal Men Carried Out the Holocaust.
Eric A. Johnson

Frederick L. McKitrick. From Craftsmen to Capitalists: German Artisans from the Third Reich to the Federal Republic, 1939–1953.
Rüdiger Graf

Heiko Haumann. Die Akte Zilli Reichmann: Zur Geschichte der Sinti im 20. Jahrhundert.
Ari Joskowicz

Jeffrey K. Olick. The Sins of the Fathers: Germany, Memory, Method.
Kim Christian Priemel

Wilfried Loth. Die Rettung der Welt: Entspannungspolitik im Kalten Krieg, 1950–1991.
Holger Nehring

Young-Sun Hong. Cold War Germany, the Third World, and the Global Humanitarian Regime.
Noel D. Cary

Tiago Saraiva. Fascist Pigs: Technoscientific Organisms and the History of Fascism.
Richard H. Beyler

David D. Roberts. Fascist Interactions: Proposals for a New Approach to Fascism and Its Era, 1919–1945.
Reto Hofmann

Sakis Gekas. Xenocracy: State, Class and Colonialism in the Ionian Islands, 1815–1864.
Pınar Şenışık

Bálint Varga. The Monumental Nation: Magyar Nationalism and Symbolic Politics in Fin-de-siècle Hungary.
Alice Freifeld

Kiril Feferman. The Holocaust in the Crimea and the North Caucasus.
Raz Segal

John Bushnell. Russian Peasant Women Who Refused to Marry: Spasovite Old Believers in the 18th–19th Centuries.
Tracy Dennison

Anna Shternshis. When Sonia Met Boris: An Oral History of Jewish Life under Stalin.
Leonid Smilovitsky

Sergei I. Zhuk. Nikolai Bolkhovitinov and American Studies in the USSR: People’s Diplomacy in the Cold War.
Roger D. Markwick

Middle East and Northern Africa

Matt Waters. Ctesias’ Persica and Its Near Eastern Context.
Amélie Kuhrt

Timothy C. Winegard. The First World Oil War.
Michael A. Reynolds

Assaf Likhovski. Tax Law and Social Norms in Mandatory Palestine and Israel.
Yuval Ben-Bassat

Omnia El Shakry. The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt.
James L. Gelvin

Sub-Saharan Africa

Daniel B. Domingues da Silva. The Atlantic Slave Trade from West Central Africa, 1780–1867.
Stephen D. Behrendt

Collected Essays
Collected Essays

Documents and Bibliographies
Documents and Bibliographies

Other Books Received
Other Books Received

Digital Primary Sources
Digital Primary Sources

Communications
Communications

Index
Index to American Historical Review, Volume 123

Index of Topics
Index of Topics, Volume 123