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Networks and Opportunities: A Digital History of Ireland’s Great Famine Refugees in New York Tyler Anbinder; Cormac Ó Gráda; Simone A. Wegge
AHR Conversation: Museums, History, and the Public in a Global Age
AHR Conversation: Museums, History, and the Public in a Global Age Ana Lucia Araujo; Alice L. Conklin; Steven Conn ; Denise Y. Ho; Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett ...
AHR Reflections: One Hundred Years of Mandates
Introduction: The League of Nations Mandates and the Temporality of Deferral Alex Lichtenstein; Michelle Moyd
An International Regime in an Age of Empire Susan Pedersen
The Matter of Time Sherene Seikaly
The French Mandate in Lebanon Carol Hakim
The Ottoman Empire: The Mandate That Never Was Yiğit Akın
Islands for an Anxious Empire: Japan’s Pacific Island Mandate Tze M. Loo
Betwixt and Between Colony and Nation-State: Liminality, Decolonization, and the South West Africa Mandate Molly McCullers
“Sons of the Soil”: Cause Lawyers, the Togo-Cameroun Mandates, and the Origins of Decolonization Meredith Terretta; Benjamin N. Lawrance
The British Cameroons Mandate Regime: The Roots of the Twenty-First-Century Political Crisis in Cameroon George N. Njung
A League to Preserve Empires: Understanding the Mandates System and Avenues for Further Scholarly Inquiry Sean Andrew Wempe
History Unclassified
In Living Color: Early “Impressions” of Slavery and the Limits of Living History Drew Swanson
Steps in the Tumen River Nianshen Song
AHR Reappraisal
“The Myth Is Dead! Give Us Our History!” Reassessing Black Labor in African History The Moon Is Dead! Give Us Our Money! The Cultural Origins of an African Work Ethic, Natal, South Africa, 1843–1900, by Keletso E. Atkins T.J. Tallie
AHR Roundtable: Reanimating the Great War on the Screen: Peter Jackson’s They Shall Not Grow Old
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Colors of the Past: Archive, Art, and Amnesia in a Digital Age Santanu Das
Who Gets to Be in the War Story? Absences and Silences in They Shall Not Grow Old Susan R. Grayzel
Sound and Silence in Peter Jackson’s They Shall Not Grow Old Jessica Meyer
Age and Youth, Sound and Vision Catherine Robson
Museum Reviews
Queer Miami: A History of LGBTQ Communities (March–September 2019). HistoryMiami Museum, Miami, Fla. Dan Royles
Museu da Imigração do Estado de São P aulo, São Paulo, Brazil. Nelly de Freitas
Museu do Aljube Resistência e Liberdade, Lisbon, Portugal. Daniel B. Domingues da Silva
Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium. Sarah Van Beurden
The Namibian Independence Memorial Museum, Windhoek, Namibia. Christian A. Williams; Tichaona Mazarire
Musée des civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France. Daniel J. Sherman
Museet for Søfart, Elsinore, Denmark. Anders Ravn Sørensen
Featured Reviews
Jinping Wang. In the Wake of the Mongols: The Making of a New Social Order in North China, 1200–1600. Jonathan Karam Skaff
Christophe Picard. Sea of the Caliphs: The Mediterranean in the Medieval Islamic World. Karen Pinto
Brian A. Catlos. Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain. Nina Caputo
Hannah Weiss Muller. Subjects and Sovereign: Bonds of Belonging in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire. John Eglin
Katharine Gerbner. Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World. Aaron Spencer Fogleman
Joanne B. Freeman. The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to the Civil War. Amy S. Greenberg
James David Nichols. The Limits of Liberty: Mobility and the Making of the Eastern U.S.-Mexico Border; Julian Lim. Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands; Ana Raquel Minian. Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration. Neil Foley
Ethan J. Kytle and Blain Roberts. Denmark Vesey’s Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy. Ana Lucia Araujo
Joshua B. Freeman. Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World. Kenneth Pomeranz
Nelson Mandela. The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela. Rita Barnard
Reviews of Books
Methods/Theory
Clare Hemmings. Considering Emma Goldman: Feminist Political Ambivalence and the Imaginative Archive. Martha Ackelsberg
Kadji Amin. Disturbing Attachments: Genet, Modern Pederasty, and Queer History. Helmut Puff
Tim Rogan. The Moral Economists: R. H. Tawney, Karl Polanyi, E. P. Thompson, and the Critique of Capitalism. Gareth Dale
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger and Staffan Müller -Wille. The Gene: From Genetics to Postgenomics. Diane B. Paul
Comparative/World/Transnational
Frank Trentmann. Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First. Jeremy Prestholdt
Nir Arielli. From Byron to bin Laden: A History of Foreign War Volunteers. Beatrice Heuser
Maria Bucur. The Century of Women: How Women Have Transformed the World since 1900. Katherine Turk
Lilian Calles Barger. The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology. Anna Peterson
Joel Cabrita. The People’s Zion: Southern Africa, the United States, and a Transatlantic Faith-Healing Movement. Paul S. Landau
Josep M. Fradera. The Imperial Nation: Citizens and Subjects in the British, French, Spanish, and American Empires. Elizabeth Mancke
Maureen A. Flanagan. Constructing the Patriarchal City: Gender and the Built Environments of London, Dublin, Toronto, and Chicago, 1870s into the 1940s. Emily Remus
Rebecca J. H. Woods. The Herds Shot Round the World: Native Breeds and the British Empire, 1800–1900. Nancy J. Jacobs
Elizabeth Zanoni. Migrant Marketplaces: Food and Italians in North and South America. Marcelo J. Borges
Joseph Ben Prestel. Emotional Cities: Debates on Urban Change in Berlin and Cairo, 1860–1910. Zeynep Çelik
Amanda Kay McVety. The Rinderpest Campaigns: A Virus, Its Vaccines, and Global Development in the Twentieth Century. John Landers
Asia
Anne F. Broadbridge. Women and the Making of the Mongol Empire. Jinping Wang
Kenneth M. Swope. On the Trail of the Yellow Tiger: War, Trauma, and Social Dislocation in Southwest China during the Ming-Qing Transition. Robert J. Antony
Gregg A. Brazinsky. Winning the Third World: Sino-American Rivalry during the Cold War. Charlotte Brooks
Kerim Yasar. Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868–1945. Morris Low
Richard B. Meixsel. Frustrated Ambition: General Vicente Lim and the Philippine Military Experience, 1910–1944. Kenton Clymer
Canada and the United States
Christopher Kobrak and Joe Martin. From Wall Street to Bay Street: The Origins and Evolution of American and Canadian Finance. Angela Redish
Shirley Tillotson. Give and Take: The Citizen-Taxpayer and the Rise of Canadian Democracy; David Tough. The Terrific Engine: Income Taxation and the Modernization of the Canadian Political Imaginary. Andrew Parnaby
Philip Dray. The Fair Chase: The Epic Story of Hunting in America. Karen R. Jones
John M. Murrin. Rethinking America: From Empire to Republic. Kevin R. C. Gutzman
Hasia R. Diner. How America Met the Jews. Dianne Ashton
Melani McAlister. The Kingdom of God Has No Borders: A Global History of American Evangelicals. Ian Tyrrell
Patrick W. Carey. Confession: Catholics, Repentance, and Forgiveness in America. James M. O’Toole
David Andrew Nichols. Peoples of the Inland Sea: Native Americans and Newcomers in the Great Lakes Region, 1600–1870. James Joseph Buss
Susan Sleeper-Smith. Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest: Indian Women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690–1792. Rebecca Kugel
Daniel H. Usner. American Indians in Early New Orleans: From Calumet to Raquette. Nathalie Dessens
Jenny Hale Pulsipher. Swindler Sachem: The American Indian Who Sold His Birthright, Dropped Out of Harvard, and Conned the King of England. Timothy J. Shannon
David Bernstein. How the West Was Drawn: Mapping, Indians, and the Construction of the Trans-Mississippi West. Cameron B. Strang
Mark van de Logt. Monsters of Contact: Historical Trauma in Caddoan Oral Traditions. Christine M. DeLucia
Christopher Arris Oakley. New South Indians: Tribal Economics and the Eastern Band of Cherokee in the Twentieth Century. Brian Hosmer
J. M. Opal. Avenging the People: Andrew Jackson, the Rule of Law, and the American Nation. Gary Clayton Anderson
Howard Pashman. Building a Revolutionary State: The Legal Transformation of New York, 1776–1783. Ellen Holmes Pearson
Thomas S. Kidd. Benjamin Franklin: The Religious Life of a Founding Father. Andrew R. Murphy
Peter S. Onuf. Jefferson and the Virginians: Democracy, Constitutions, and Empire. Hannah Spahn
Sean Wilentz. No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding. William M. Wiecek
Tommy Craig Brown. Deep in the Piney Woods: Southeastern Alabama from Statehood to the Civil War, 1800–1865. Daniel S. Dupre
Loren Schweninger. Appealing for Liberty: Freedom Suits in the South. Ted Maris-Wolf
Martha S. Jones. Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America. Mark A. Graber
Anne Twitty. Before Dred Scott: Slavery and Legal Culture in the American Confluence, 1787–1857. Lea VanderVelde
Adam L. Tate. Catholics’ Lost Cause: South Carolina Catholics and the American South, 1820–1861. W. Jason Wallace
Lawrence T. McDonnell. Performing Disunion: The Coming of the Civil War in Charleston, South Carolina. Michael D. Thompson
Aaron Sheehan-Dean. The Calculus of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War. Harry S. Stout
Lawrence E. Cline. Rebels on the Niagara: The Fenian Invasion of Canada, 1866; Ryan W. Keating. Shades of Green: Irish Regiments, American Soldiers, and Local Communities in the Civil War Era. Mary C. Kelly
John R. Wunder. Gold Mountain Turned to Dust: Essays on the Legal History of the Chinese in the Nineteenth-Century American West. David C. Atkinson
Amy Werbel. Lust on Trial: Censorship and the Rise of American Obscenity in the Age of Anthony Comstock. Judith Giesberg
Karida L. Brown. Gone Home: Race and Roots through Appalachia. Richard J. Callahan, Jr.
Shannon Withycombe. Lost: Miscarriage in Nineteenth-Century America. Marie Jenkins Schwartz
Janet Golden. Babies Made Us Modern: How Infants Brought America into the Twentieth Century. Jessica Martucci
Robert C. McGreevey. Borderline Citizens: The United States, Puerto Rico, and the Politics of Colonial Migration. Bartholomew H. Sparrow
Keisha N. Blain. Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom. Barbara Ransby
J. E. Smyth. Nobody’s Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood. Karen Ward Mahar
Daniel Bessner. Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual. Brian E. Crim
Beth B. Cohen. Child Survivors of the Holocaust: The Youngest Remnant and the American Experience. Jennifer Craig-Norton
Meghan Warner Mettler. How to Reach Japan by Subway: America’s Fascination with Japanese Culture, 1945–1965. Andrew C. McKevitt
Mischa Honeck. Our Frontier Is the World: The Boy Scouts in the Age of American Ascendancy. David I. Macleod
Edward Slavishak. Proving Ground: Expertise and Appalachian Landscapes. Laura J. Martin
David Schuyler. Embattled River: The Hudson and Modern American Environmentalism. Richard Newman
Jason M. Colby. Orca: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean’s Greatest Predator. Jen Corrinne Brown
John H. Flores. The Mexican Revolution in Chicago: Immigration Politics from the Early Twentieth Century to the Cold War. Michael Innis-Jiménez
Mervyn Edwin Roberts III. The Psychological War for Vietnam, 1960–1968. David Kieran
Peter B. Levy. The Great Uprising: Race Riots in Urban America during the 1960s. Kevin Mumford
Emily K. Hobson. Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left. Daniel Hurewitz
Gavin Benke. Risk and Ruin: Enron and the Culture of American Capitalism. Louis Hyman
Caribbean and Latin America
Hilda Sabato. Republics of the New World: The Revolutionary Political Experiment in Nineteenth-Century Latin America. Michael T. Ducey
Martin Austin Nesvig. Promiscuous Power: An Unorthodox History of New Spain. Camilla Townsend
Nicole von Germeten. Profit and Passion: Transactional Sex in Colonial Mexico. Nora E. Jaffary
Mark W. Lentz. Murder in Mérida, 1792: Violence, Factions and the Law. Karen D. Caplan
Paul Ramírez. Enlightened Immunity: Mexico’s Experiments with Disease Prevention in the Age of Reason. David Sowell
Mílada Bazant. Laura Méndez de Cuenca: Mexican Feminist, 1853–1928. Silvia Marina Arrom
Eileen Ford. Childhood and Modernity in Cold War Mexico City. Daniela Spenser
Lorraine Bayard de Volo. Women and the Cuban Insurrection: How Gender Shaped Castro’s Victory. A. Lynn Bolles
John M. Monteiro. Blacks of the Land: Indian Slavery, Settler Society, and the Portuguese Colonial Enterprise in South America. Heather F. Roller
Mark Rice. Making Machu Picchu: The Politics of Tourism in Twentieth-Century Peru. Evan Ward
Thomas L. Whigham. The Road to Armageddon: Paraguay versus the Triple Alliance, 1866–70. William F. Sater
Europe: ancient and Medieval
Maya Maskarinec. City of Saints: Rebuilding Rome in the Early Middle Ages. ; Jason Moralee. Rome’s Holy Mountain: The Capitoline Hill in Late Antiquity. Andrea Augenti
Lucy K. Pick. Her Father’s Daughter: Gender, Power, and Religion in Early the Spanish Kingdoms. Jinty Nelson
Sven Meeder. The Irish Scholarly Presence at St. Gall: Networks of Knowledge in the Early Middle Ages. John J. Contreni
Sparky Booker. Cultural Exchange and Identity in Late Medieval Ireland: The English and Irish of the Four Obedient Shires. Michael Potterton
Steven Vanderputten. Dark Age Nunneries: The Ambiguous Identity of Female Monasticism, 800–1050. Alison I. Beach
Alison More. Fictive Orders and Feminine Religious Identities, 1200–1600. Sally Mayall Brasher
Fiona J. Griffiths. Nuns’ Priests’ Tales: Men and Salvation in Medieval Women’s Monastic Life. Erin Jordan
William H. Campbell. The Landscape of Pastoral Care in Thirteenth-Century England. Beth Allison Barr
Catherine Sanok. New Legends of England: Forms of Community in Late Medieval Saints’ Lives. Kathleen Ashley
C. Philipp E. Nothaft. Scandalous Error: Calendar Reform and Calendrical Astronomy in Medieval Europe. Anne Lawrence-Mathers
Europe: Early Modern and Modern
Marc Fumaroli. The Republic of Letters. Daniel Gordon
Alexander Bevilacqua. The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment. Humberto Garcia
Michael E. Hobart. The Great Rift: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Religion-Science Divide. Amir Alexander
Steffen Ducheyne, editor. Reassessing the Radical Enlightenment. John Christian Laursen
Aviva Rothman. The Pursuit of Harmony: Kepler on Cosmos, Confession, and Community. Michael J. Sauter
Christopher Kissane. Food, Religion and Communities in Early Modern Europe. Bradford A. Bouley
Christina Morina. Die Erfindung de Marxismus: Wie ein Idee die Welt eroberte. Kasper Braskén
Daniel Ziblatt. Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy. Frieder Günther
Paul Readman. Storied Ground: Landscape and the Shaping of English National Identity. Rosemary Mitchell
David Churchill. Crime Control and Everyday Life in the Victorian City: The Police and the Public. Joanne Klein
Patricia Fara. A Lab of One’s Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War. Claire Brock
Robert Saunders. Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum and Seventies Britain. Matthew Worley
Matthew Worley. No Future: Punk, Politics and British Youth Culture, 1976–1984. David Fowler
Anne C. Vila. Suffering Scholars: Pathologies of the Intellectual in Enlightenment France. Ann Jefferson
James Chappel. Catholic Modern: The Challenge of Totalitarianism and the Remaking of the Church. Jay P. Corrin
Robert Darnton. A Literary Tour de France: The World of Books on the Eve of the French Revolution. Martyn Lyons
Sun-Young Park. Ideals of the Body: Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in Postrevolutionary Paris. Holly Grout
Thomas Kselman. Conscience and Conversion: Religious Liberty in Post-Revolutionary France. Julie Kalman
Mary Lynn Stewart. Gender, Generation, and Journalism in France, 1910–1940. Libby Murphy
Venus Bivar. Organic Resistance: The Struggle over Industrial Farming in Postwar France. Stephen L. Harp
Erin Maglaque. Venice’s Intimate Empire: Family Life and Scholarship in the Renaissance Mediterranean. Elizabeth Horodowich
Mary Ann Smart. Waiting for Verdi: Italian Opera and Political Opinion, 1815–1848. Carl Ipsen