In This Issue
In This Issue

From the Editor’s Desk
From the Editor’s Desk: Historians and the Public

Articles

Immunity, Capital, and Power in Antebellum New Orleans
Kathryn Olivarius

Early Modern Social Networks: Antecedents, Opportunities, and Challenges
Kate Davison

The Walrus and the Bureaucrat: Energy, Ecology, and Making the State in the Russian and American Arctic, 1870–1950
Bathsheba Demuth

Catholics, Protestants, and the Violent Birth of European Religious Pluralism
Udi Greenberg

AHR Reappraisal

Worlds without End
The Aztecs under Spanish Rule: A History of the Indians of the Valley of Mexico, 1519–1810, by Charles Gibson
Camilla Townsend

History Unclassified
Peering down the Memory Hole: Censorship, Digitization, and the Fragility of Our Knowledge Base
Glenn D. Tiffert

The Death of Brazil’s National Museum
Ana Lucia Araujo

Review Roundtable

Review Roundtable: Introductory Note

Michael A. Gomez. African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa.
Ghislaine Lydon

Michael A. Gomez. African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa.
Ousmane Kane

Michael A. Gomez. African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa.
Shamil Jeppie

Michael A. Gomez. African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa.
Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias

Review Roundtable: Response by Michael A. Gomez
Michael A. Gomez

Featured Reviews

Silvio Pons and Stephen A. Smith, editors. The Cambridge History of Communism. Volume 1: World Revolution and Socialism in One Country, 1917–1941; Norman Naimark, Silvio Pons, and Sophie Quinn-Judge, editors. The Cambridge History of Communism. Volume 2: The Socialist Camp and World Power, 1941–1960s; Juliane Fürst, Silvio Pons, and Mark Selden, editors. The Cambridge History of Communism. Volume 3: Endgames? Late Communism in Global Perspective, 1968 to the Present.
Jeffrey Burds

Wang Zheng. Finding Women in the State: A Socialist Feminist Revolution in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1964.
Denise Y. Ho

Dagomar Degroot. The Frigid Golden Age: Climate Change, the Little Ice Age, and the Dutch Republic, 1560–1720.
Daniel R. Curtis

Erika Rappaport. A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World.
Cecilia Leong-Salobir

Lisa McGirr. The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State.
Ann-Marie Szymanski

Rita Chin. The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Europe: A History.
Christian Joppke

Reinhart Koselleck. Sediments of Time: On Possible Histories.
Niklas Olsen

Reviews of Books

METHODS/THEORY

Joan Wallach Scott. Sex and Secularism.
Jennifer Ngaire Heuer

Chad Alan Goldberg. Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought.
Steven E. Aschheim

Joseph A. Amato. Everyday Life: How the Ordinary Became Extraordinary.
Leora Auslander

Carole Fink. Writing 20th Century International History: Explorations and Examples.
Marco Mariano

COMPARATIVE/WORLD/TRANSNATIONAL

Jeroen Duindam. Dynasties: A Global History of Power, 1300–1800.
Colin Heywood

Sarah E. Owens. Nuns Navigating the Spanish Empire.
Jacqueline Holler

Joshua Schreier. The Merchants of Oran: A Jewish Port at the Dawn of Empire.
Yaron Tsur

Peter N. Stearns. Shame: A Brief History.
Jeremy C. Young

Alan Mayne. Slums: The History of a Global Injustice.
Marie Huchzermeyer

Johan Heinsen. Mutiny in the Danish Atlantic World: Convicts, Sailors and a Dissonant Empire.
Gert Oostindie

Lizzie Collingham. The Taste of Empire: How Britain’s Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World.
Jane McCabe

Sean Scalmer. On the Stump: Campaign Oratory and Democracy in the United States, Britain, and Australia.
Mark R. Cheathem

Jennifer Wellington. Exhibiting War: The Great War, Museums, and Memory in Britain, Canada, and Australia.
Gaynor Kavanagh

Shirli Gilbert. From Things Lost: Forgotten Letters and the Legacy of the Holocaust.
Gur Alroey

Rachel Pistol. Internment during the Second World War: A Comparative Study of Great Britain and the USA.
Clare Makepeace

Anton Weiss-Wendt. The Soviet Union and the Gutting of the UN Genocide Convention.
Amy E. Randall

Gemma Romain. Race, Sexuality and Identity in Britain and Jamaica: The Biography of Patrick Nelson, 1916–1963.
Wendy Webster

Jon Piccini. Transnational Protest, Australia and the 1960s: Global Radicals.
Toby Boraman

ASIA

Nicolas Tackett. The Origins of the Chinese Nation: Song China and the Forging of an East Asian World Order.
Nicola Di Cosmo

Rivi Handler-Spitz. Symptoms of an Unruly Age: Li Zhi and Cultures of Early Modernity.
Lucille Chia

Ying Zhang. Confucian Image Politics: Masculine Morality in Seventeenth-Century China.
Kenneth J. Hammond

Bradley Camp Davis. Imperial Bandits: Outlaws and Rebels in the China-Vietnam Borderlands.
Xing Hang

Liping Bu. Public Health and the Modernization of China, 1865–2015.
Robert Peckham

Shelly Chan. Diaspora’s Homeland: Modern China in the Age of Global Migration.
Meredith Oyen

Robert Kramm. Sanitized Sex: Regulating Prostitution, Venereal Disease, and Intimacy in Occupied Japan, 1945–1952.
Sabine Frühstück

Dafna Zur. Figuring Korean Futures: Children’s Literature in Modern Korea.
Margaret Mih Tillman

Gerard Sasges. Imperial Intoxication: Alcohol and the Making of Colonial Indochina.
Christina Firpo

Eugene Ford. Cold War Monks: Buddhism and America’s Secret Strategy in Southeast Asia. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2017. Pp. xi, 375. Cloth $40.00.
E. Bruce Reynolds

OCEANIA AND THE PACIFIC ISLANDS

Kealani Cook. Return to Kahiki: Native Hawaiians in Oceania.
Seth Archer

CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES

Jean-Marie Fecteau. The Pauper’s Freedom: Crime and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Quebec.
Michael Boudreau

Joan Sangster. One Hundred Years of Struggle: The History of Women and the Vote in Canada.
Lori Chambers

Jeffrey Sklansky. Sovereign of the Market: The Money Question in Early America.
Andrew M. Schocket

Yael Ben-zvi. Native Land Talk: Indigenous and Arrivant Rights Theories.
Lorenzo Veracini

Brett Hendrickson. The Healing Power of the Santuario de Chimayó: America’s Miraculous Church.
Luis D. León

Jeff W. Dennis. Patriots and Indians: Shaping Identity in Eighteenth-Century South Carolina.
Matthew Jennings

Douglas Hunter. The Place of Stone: Dighton Rock and the Erasure of America’s Indigenous Past.
Andrew Newman

Harry S. Stout. American Aristocrats: A Family, a Fortune, and the Making of American Capitalism.
Tom Cutterham

Steven Carl Smith. An Empire of Print: The New York Publishing Trade in the Early American Republic.
Howard B. Rock

Marc-William Palen. The “Conspiracy” of Free Trade: The Anglo-American Struggle over Empire and Economic Globalization, 1846–1896.
L. H. Roper

Urmi Engineer Willoughby. Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans.
Guenter B. Risse

Joy Schulz. Hawaiian by Birth: Missionary Children, Bicultural Identity, and U.S. Colonialism in the Pacific.
Jean Barman

Melanie A. Kiechle. Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America.
Russ Lopez

Kelley Fanto Deetz. Bound to the Fire: How Virginia’s Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine.
Katharina Vester

Richard Archer. Jim Crow North: The Struggle for Equal Rights in Antebellum New England.
Mark Elliott

Adam I. P. Smith. The Stormy Present: Conservatism and the Problem of Slavery in Northern Politics, 1846–1865.
James J. Gigantino, II

Alice Elizabeth Malavasic. The F Street Mess: How Southern Senators Rewrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Jeremy Neely

Berry Craig. Kentucky’s Rebel Press: Pro-Confederate Media and the Secession Crisis.
David B. Sachsman

Michael D. Robinson. A Union Indivisible: Secession and the Politics of Slavery in the Border South.
Anthony Gene Carey

Robert J. Cook. Civil War Memories: Contesting the Past in the United States since 1865.
Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz

Lynne Marie Getz. Abolitionists, Doctors, Ranchers, and Writers: A Family Journey through American History.
Sheila McManus

Mark A. Lause. The Great Cowboy Strike: Bullets, Ballots, and Class Conflicts in the American West.
Kathryn Morse

Robert S. McPherson. Both Sides of the Bullpen: Navajo Trade and Posts.
Kathy A. M’Closkey

Christi M. Smith. Reparation and Reconciliation: The Rise and Fall of Integrated Higher Education.
Crystal R. Sanders

Sarah H. Case. Leaders of Their Race: Educating Black and White Women in the New South.
Maxine D. Jones

Melissa Milewski. Litigating across the Color Line: Civil Cases between Black and White Southerners from the End of Slavery to Civil Rights; Kimberly M. Welch. Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South.
Austin Allen

Clayton McClure Brooks. The Uplift Generation: Cooperation across the Color Line in Early Twentieth-Century Virginia.
Heidi Ardizzone

Jeremy C. Young. The Age of Charisma: Leaders, Followers, and Emotions in American Society, 1870–1940.
Michael P. Young

Anne Mendelson. Chow Chop Suey: Food and the Chinese American Journey.
Angela Jill Cooley

S. Paul O’Hara. Inventing the Pinkertons; or, Spies, Sleuths, Mercenaries, and Thugs: Being a Story of the Nation’s Most Famous (and Infamous) Detective Agency.
Jocelyn Wills

Joan Marie Johnson. Funding Feminism: Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women’s Movement, 1870–1967; George Robb. Ladies of the Ticker: Women and Wall Street from the Gilded Age to the Great Depression.
Karen J. Blair

Joseph L. Locke. Making the Bible Belt: Texas Prohibitionists and the Politicization of Southern Religion.
Douglas Carl Abrams

J. Blake Perkins. Hillbilly Hellraisers: Federal Power and Populist Defiance in the Ozarks.
Michael Johnston Grant

Martin T. Olliff. Getting Out of the Mud: The Alabama Good Roads Movement and Highway Administration, 1898–1928.
Henry M. McKiven

Eric B. Easton. Defending the Masses: A Progressive Lawyer’s Battles for Free Speech.
David M. Rabban

Kimberly J. Lamay Licursi. Remembering World War I in America.
Robert Teigrob

Felix Harcourt. Ku Klux Kulture: America and the Klan in the 1920s.
Shawn Lay

Matthew J. Cressler. Authentically Black and Truly Catholic: The Rise of Black Catholicism in the Great Migration.
John T. McGreevy

Dennis G. Molinaro. An Exceptional Law: Section 98 and the Emergency State, 1919–1936.
R. Blake Brown

Trygve Throntveit. Power without Victory: Woodrow Wilson and the American Internationalist Experiment.
Jan Martin Lemnitzer

Nancy MacLean. Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America.
Bruce Laurie

David G. García. Strategies of Segregation: Race, Residence, and the Struggle for Educational Equality.
Gilbert G. Gonzalez

Gerald Horne. Facing the Rising Sun: African Americans, Japan, and the Rise of Afro-Asian Solidarity.
Bill V. Mullen

Gabriela González. Redeeming La Raza: Transborder Modernity, Race, Respectability, and Rights.
John Weber

Steven Rosales. Soldados Razos at War: Chicano Politics, Identity, and Masculinity in the U.S. Military from World War II to Vietnam.
Lea Ybarra

Catherine E. Rymph, Raising Government Children: A History of Foster Care and the American Welfare State.
Rachel Rains Winslow

Anthony Chaney. Runaway: Gregory Bateson, the Double Bind, and the Rise of Ecological Consciousness.
Darren Speece

Paul H. Mattingly. American Academic Cultures: A History of Higher Education.
Emily J. Levine

Richard Cándida Smith. Improvised Continent: Pan-Americanism and Cultural Exchange.
Laura Hernández-Ehrisman

Matthew R. Pembleton, Containing Addiction: The Federal Bureau of Narcotics and the Origins of America’s Global Drug War.
Kathleen J. Frydl

Cameron Logan. Historic Capital: Preservation, Race, and Real Estate in Washington, D.C.
Brian D. Goldstein

Karilyn Crockett. People before Highways: Boston Activists, Urban Planners, and a New Movement for City Making.
Steven Conn

Sarah Eppler Janda. Prairie Power: Student Activism, Counterculture, and Backlash in Oklahoma, 1962–1972.
Matthew Levin

Steven M. Gillon. Separate and Unequal: The Kerner Commission and the Unraveling of American Liberalism.
Jeffrey Bloodworth

Matthew K. Shannon. Losing Hearts and Minds: American-Iranian Relations and International Education during the Cold War.
Osamah F. Khalil

Phuong Tran Nguyen. Becoming Refugee American: The Politics of Rescue in Little Saigon.
Nhi T. Lieu

Bryant Simon. The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives.
LaGuana Gray

A. G. Hopkins. American Empire: A Global History.
Brandon Mills

CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICA

David Rex Galindo. To Sin No More: Franciscans and Conversion in the Hispanic World, 1683–1830.
Sean F. McEnroe

Nancy Farriss. Tongues of Fire: Language and Evangelization in Colonial Mexico.
Louise M. Burkhart

Jane M. Rausch. Santiago Pérez Triana (1858–1916): Colombian Man of Letters and Crusader for Hemispheric Unity.
Pamela S. Murray

Francisco Vidal Luna and Herbert S. Klein. An Economic and Demographic History of São Paulo, 1850–1950.
Steven C. Topik

EUROPE: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL

Robert Flierman. Saxon Identities, AD 150–900.
Frank Siegmund

Mark Hagger. Norman Rule in Normandy, 911–1144.
Kathleen Thompson

Tomáš Petráček. Power and Exploitation in the Czech Lands in the 10th–12th Centuries: A Central European Perspective.
Lisa Wolverton

Michael Staunton. The Historians of Angevin England.
Emily A. Winkler

Martin Aurell. The Lettered Knight: Knowledge and Aristocratic Behaviour in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries.
Richard W. Kaeuper

Unn Falkeid. The Avignon Papacy Contested: An Intellectual History from Dante to Catherine of Siena.
Elizabeth M. McCahill

Claire Taylor Jones. Ruling the Spirit: Women, Liturgy, and Dominican Reform in Late Medieval Germany.
Michael Vargas

Glenn D. Burger. Conduct Becoming: Good Wives and Husbands in the Later Middle Ages.
Mary C. Erler

Olivia Remie Constable. To Live Like a Moor: Christian Perceptions of Muslim Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain.
John Tolan

Kathryn L. Reyerson. Mother and Sons, Inc.: Martha de Cabanis in Medieval Montpellier.
Sharon Farmer

Naama Cohen-Hanegbi. Caring for the Living Soul: Emotions, Medicine and Penance in the Late Medieval Mediterranean.
Sara Ritchey

EUROPE: EARLY MODERN AND MODERN

Judith Pollmann. Memory in Early Modern Europe, 1500–1800.
Andrew Pettegree

Erin Lambert. Singing the Resurrection: Body, Community, and Belief in Reformation Europe.
Nikki Shepardson

Simon Grote. The Emergence of Modern Aesthetic Theory: Religion and Morality in Enlightenment Germany and Scotland.
Timothy M. Costelloe

Nathaniel Wolloch. Nature in the History of Economic Thought: How Natural Resources Became an Economic Concept.
Paul Lawrence Farber

Joel Whitebook. Freud: An Intellectual Biography.
Elizabeth Lunbeck

Adi Gordon. Toward Nationalism’s End: An Intellectual Biography of Hans Kohn.
Rebekah Klein-Pejšová

Timothy J. Shannon. Indian Captive, Indian King: Peter Williamson in America and Britain.
Edward E. Andrews

Daniel Ussishkin. Morale: A Modern British History.
Nicoletta F. Gullace

Vincent Trott. Publishers, Readers and the Great War: Literature and Memory since 1918.
Toby Thacker

Martin Thomas and Richard Toye. Arguing about Empire: Imperial Rhetoric in Britain and France, 1882–1956.
James Thompson

Clare Makepeace. Captives of War: British Prisoners of War in Europe in the Second World War.
Emma Newlands

Angus McLaren. Playboys and Mayfair Men: Crime, Class, Masculinity, and Fascism in 1930s London.
Dominic Janes

Jesse Spohnholz. The Convent of Wesel: The Event That Never Was and the Invention of Tradition.
Randolph C. Head

Paola Bertucci. Artisanal Enlightenment: Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old Regime France.
James E. McClellan, III

Edward James Kolla. Sovereignty, International Law, and the French Revolution.
Howard G. Brown

Sue Peabody. Madeleine’s Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets, and Lies in France’s Indian Ocean Colonies.
Nigel Worden

Julie Kalman. Orientalizing the Jew: Religion, Culture, and Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century France.
Richard I. Cohen

Gerben Zaagsma. Jewish Volunteers, the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War.
Xosé M. Núñez Seixas

Christopher S. Celenza. The Intellectual World of the Italian Renaissance: Language, Philosophy, and the Search for Meaning.
Kenneth Bartlett

Corey Tazzara. The Free Port of Livorno and the Transformation of the Mediterranean World, 1574–1790.
Rebecca Jean Emigh

Arthur Field. The Intellectual Struggle for Florence: Humanists and the Beginnings of the Medici Regime, 1420–1440.
Robert Black

Eleonora Canepari. La construction du pouvoir local: Élites municipales, liens sociaux et transactions économiques dans l’espace urbain; Rome, 1550–1650.
Renata Ago

Miles Pattenden. Electing the Pope in Early Modern Italy, 1450–1700.
Nelson H. Minnich

Axel Körner. America in Italy: The United States in the Political Thought and Imagination of the Risorgimento, 1763–1865.
Mark I. Choate

Jomarie Alano. A Life of Resistance: Ada Prospero Marchesini Gobetti (1902–1968); Brenda L. Gaydosh. Bernhard Lichtenberg: Roman Catholic Priest and Martyr of the Nazi Regime.
Robert Weldon Whalen

Sam A. Mustafa. Napoleon’s Paper Kingdom: The Life and Death of Westphalia, 1807–1813.
Wayne Hanley

Tim Grady. A Deadly Legacy: German Jews and the Great War; Tracey Hayes Norrell. For the Honor of Our Fatherland: German Jews on the Eastern Front during the Great War.
Ulrich Wyrwa

Kara L. Ritzheimer. “Trash,” Censorship, and National Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Germany; Guenter Lewy. Harmful and Undesirable: Book Censorship in Nazi Germany.
David Ciarlo

Michael Hau. Performance Anxiety: Sport and Work in Germany from the Empire to Nazism.
Andrew Denning

Katrin Paehler. The Third Reich’s Intelligence Services: The Career of Walter Schellenberg.
Kristie Macrakis

Zoë Waxman. Women in the Holocaust: A Feminist History.
Dalia Ofer

Miriam Gebhardt. Crimes Unspoken: The Rape of German Women at the End of the Second World War.
Jay Lockenour

David F. Crew. Bodies and Ruins: Imagining the Bombing of Germany, 1945 to the Present.
Stefan Goebel

David Weinstein and Avihu Zakai. Jewish Exiles and European Thought in the Shadow of the Third Reich: Baron, Popper, Strauss, Auerbach.
Adi Gordon

Thomas Großbölting. Losing Heaven: Religion in Germany since 1945.
Maria Mitchell

Richard J. Golsan and Sarah M. Misemer, editors. The Trial That Never Ends: Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem in Retrospect.
Jürgen Matthäus

Felicia Roşu. Elective Monarchy in Transylvania and Poland-Lithuania, 1569–1587.
Miles Pattenden

Daniel Kupfert Heller. Jabotinsky’s Children: Polish Jews and the Rise of Right-Wing Zionism.
Arie M. Dubnov

Melissa Feinberg. Curtain of Lies: The Battle over Truth in Stalinist Eastern Europe.
Katherine Verdery

Elidor Mëhilli. From Stalin to Mao: Albania and the Socialist World.
Igor Casu

Susan Smith-Peter. Imagining Russian Regions: Subnational Identity and Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century Russia.
John Randolph

Richard G. Robbins Jr. Overtaken by the Night: One Russian’s Journey through Peace, War, Revolution, & Terror.
Rex A. Wade

Seth Bernstein. Raised under Stalin: Young Communists and the Defense of Socialism.
Lisa A. Kirschenbaum
MIDDLE EAST AND NORTHERN AFRICA

Marie Grace Brown. Khartoum at Night: Fashion and Body Politics in Imperial Sudan.
Marilyn Booth

Yoram Meital. Revolutionary Justice: Special Courts and the Formation of Republican Egypt.
James Whidden

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

Keren Weitzberg. We Do Not Have Borders: Greater Somalia and the Predicaments of Belonging in Kenya.
Julie MacArthur

Jennifer Tappan. The Riddle of Malnutrition: The Long Arc of Biomedical and Public Health Interventions in Uganda.
Karen E. Flint

Eric T. Jennings. Perspectives on French Colonial Madagascar.
Violaine Tisseau

Kathleen Keller. Colonial Suspects: Suspicion, Imperial Rule, and Colonial Society in Interwar French West Africa.
Gregory Mann

Collected Essays
Collected Essays

Documents and Bibliographies
Documents and Bibliographies

Digital Resources
Digital Resources

Communications
Communications

Index
Index to American Historical Review, April 2019

Index of Topics
Index of Topics