From the Editor’s Desk: Pulling Up the Bridge

AHR ROUNDTABLE

CHRONOLOGICAL AGE: A USEFUL CATEGORY OF HISTORICAL ANALYSIS

Introduction

Corinne T. Field, Nicholas L. Syrett

Old Age in European Cultures: A Significant Presence from Antiquity to the Present
Pat Thane

Meticulous Imprecision: Calculating Age in Colonial Spanish American Law
Bianca Premo

Power, Knowledge, and the Epistemic Contract on Age: The Case of Colonial India
Ishita Pande

A Feminist Methodology of Age-Grading and History in Africa
Corrie Decker

A Man at Twenty, Aged at Twenty-Five: The Conscription Exam Age in Japan
Sayaka Chatani

Age and the Construction of Gendered and Raced Citizenship in the United States
Corinne T. Field, Nicholas L. Syrett

The Moral Hierarchies of Age Standards: The UN Debates a Common Minimum Marriage Age, 1951–1962
Ashwini Tambe

ARTICLE

The Global Politics of Anti-Racism: A View from the Canal Zone
Rebecca Herman

HISTORY UNCLASSIFIED

Historians and Ethics: Finding Anne Moody
Françoise N. Hamlin

Looking for the North American Invasion in Mexico City
Thomas G. Connors, Raúl Isaí Muñoz

AHR EXCHANGE

HISTORIANS AND NATIVE AMERICAN AND INDIGENOUS STUDIES

Living with the Past: Thoughts on Community Collaboration and Difficult History in Native American and Indigenous Studies
David J. Silverman

Continuing the Intervention: Past, Present, and Future Pathways for Native Studies and Early American History
Christine M. DeLucia

Contexts for Critique: Revisiting Representations of Violence in Our Beloved Kin
Alyssa Mt. Pleasant

Cold Business and the Hot Take
Philip J. Deloria

What Does Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) Do?
Jean M. O’Brien

Historians and Native American and Indigenous Studies: A Reply
David J. Silverman

AHR REVIEW ROUNDTABLE

Solidarity in the Galilee
Orit Bashkin

Agency and Trauma in the Palestinian Struggle to Remain
Maha Nassar

Surviving the Nakba: On Palestinians’ Political Possibilities and Limitations in 1948
Leena Dallasheh

After the Catastrophe: A Reading of Manna’s Nakba and Survival
Ahmad H. Saʾdi

DIGITAL HISTORY REVIEWS

THE SLAVE SOCIETIES DIGITAL ARCHIVE. https://www.slavesocieties.org/
Elena A. Schneider

MARRONNAGE IN SAINT-DOMINGUE (HAÏTI) http://www.marronnage.info/en/
David Geggus

RUNAWAY SLAVES IN BRITAIN: BONDAGE, FREEDOM AND RACE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. https://www.runaways.gla.ac.uk/
Catherine Molineux

FREEDOM ON THE MOVE: A DATABASE OF FUGITIVES FROM AMERICAN SLAVERY. https://freedomonthemove.org/
Gregory P. Downs

THE GEORGETOWN SLAVERY ARCHIVE. http://slaveryarchive.georgetown.edu/
Hilary Green

FEATURED REVIEWS

W. FITZHUGH BRUNDAGE. Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition.
Caleb Smith

HEATHER D. CURTIS. Holy Humanitarians: American Evangelicals and Global Aid.
William Kostlevy

SAIDIYA HARTMAN. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval.
Jennifer C. Nash

JACQUELYN DOWD HALL. Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America.
Jane Dailey

THOMAS MILAN KONDA. Conspiracies of Conspiracies: How Delusions Have Overrun America.
RUSSELL MUIRHEAD and NANCY L. ROSENBLUM. A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy.
JOSEPH E. USCINSKI, editor. Conspiracy Theories and the People Who Believe Them.
Scott P. Marler

MAARTEN PRAK. Citizens without Nations: Urban Citizenship in Europe and the World, c. 1000–1789.
Christopher R. Friedrichs

KRISTEN GHODSEE. Second World, Second Sex: Socialist Women’s Activism and Global Solidarity during the Cold War.
Chiara Bonfiglioli

DÓRA VARGHA. Polio across the Iron Curtain: Hungary’s Cold War with an Epidemic.
Monika Baar

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

METHODS/THEORY

IVAN JABLONKA. History Is a Contemporary Literature: Manifesto for the Social Sciences. Translated by NATHAN J. BRACHER.
Alison Landsberg

JOHN BEW. Realpolitik: A History.
Anthony D’Agostino

COMPARATIVE/WORLD/TRANSNATIONAL

BEVERLY LEMIRE. Global Trade and the Transformation of Consumer Cultures: The Material World Remade, c. 1500–1820.
William G. Clarence-Smith

WILL SMILEY. From Slaves to Prisoners of War: The Ottoman Empire, Russia, and International Law.
Lucien Frary

AHMAD S. DALLAL. Islam without Europe: Traditions of Reform in Eighteenth-Century Islamic Thought.
Dina Le Gall

SCOTT S. REESE. Imperial Muslims: Islam, Community and Authority in the Indian Ocean, 1839–1937.
Barbara Metcalf

JAMES CROSSLAND. War, Law and Humanity: The Campaign to Control Warfare, 1853–1914.
Maartje Abbenhuis

WILSON J. WARREN. Meat Makes People Powerful: A Global History of the Modern Era.
Harvey Levenstein

CARL BENEDIKT FREY. The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation.
Kenneth Lipartito

CAREN KAPLAN. Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above.
Jeremy Black

DEREK W. VAILLANT. Across the Waves: How the United States and France Shaped the International Age of Radio.
J. Justin Castro

AMANDA CIAFONE. Counter-Cola: A Multinational History of the Global Corporation.
Nico Pizzolato

PETER COLE. Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Ian M. Macqueen

ASIA

JOHN W. CHAFFEE. The Muslim Merchants of Premodern China: The History of a Maritime Asian Trade Diaspora, 750–1400.
David G. Atwill

NIANSHEN SONG. Making Borders in Modern East Asia: The Tumen River Demarcation, 1881–1919.
Jodi L. Weinstein

PHILIP THAI. China’s War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842–1965.
Julia C. Strauss

ROBERT BICKERS. Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination.
Kirk W. Larsen

JENNIFER ALTEHENGER. Legal Lessons: Popularizing Laws in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1989.
Chang-tai Hung

E. ELENA SONGSTER. Panda Nation: The Construction and Conservation of China’s Modern Icon.
Micah Muscolino

TIRTHANKAR ROY. A Business History of India: Enterprise and the Emergence of Capitalism from 1700.
Ghulam A. Nadri

PIPPA VIRDEE. From the Ashes of 1947: Reimagining Punjab.
Sarah Ansari

SARAH CAMERON. The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan.
ROBERT KINDLER. Stalin’s Nomads: Power and Famine in Kazakhstan. Translated by CYNTHIA KLOHR.
Niccolò Pianciola

OCEANIA AND THE PACIFIC ISLANDS

ANN CURTHOYS and JESSIE MITCHELL. Taking Liberty: Indigenous Rights and Settler Self-Government in Colonial Australia, 1830–1890.
Alison Holland

SAM HUTCHINSON. Settlers, War, and Empire in the Press: Unsettling News in Australia and Britain, 1863–1902.
Mark Hampton

CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES

PAMELA S. NADELL. America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today.
Shuly Rubin Schwartz

BRIAN P. OWENSBY and RICHARD J. ROSS, editors. Justice in a New World: Negotiating Legal Intelligibility in British, Iberian, and Indigenous America.
Christopher Tomlins

THOMAS M. WICKMAN. Snowshoe Country: An Environmental and Cultural History of Winter in the Early American Northeast.
Andrea L. Smalley

ANDREW URBAN. Brokering Servitude: Migration and the Politics of Domestic Labor during the Long Nineteenth Century.
Wendy Rouse

WILL B. MACKINTOSH. Selling the Sights: The Invention of the Tourist in American Culture.
J. Philip Gruen

JAMES SCHWOCH. Wired into Nature: The Telegraph and the North American Frontier.
James W. Cortada

RYAN A. QUINTANA. Making a Slave State: Political Development in Early South Carolina.
Gavin Wright

JUSTIN T. CLARK. City of Second Sight: Nineteenth-Century Boston and the Making of American Visual Culture.
Michael Holleran

CASSANDRA L. YACOVAZZI. Escaped Nuns: True Womanhood and the Campaign against Convents in Antebellum America.
Daniel A. Cohen

MICHAEL A. SCHOEPPNER. Moral Contagion: Black Atlantic Sailors, Citizenship, and Diplomacy in Antebellum America.
Paul A. Gilje

STÈVE SAINLAUDE. France and the American Civil War: A Diplomatic History. Translated by JESSICA EDWARDS. Foreword by DON H. DOYLE.
Joseph A. Fry

AMY MURRELL TAYLOR. Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps.
Abigail Cooper

JAMES J. BROOMALL. Private Confederacies: The Emotional Worlds of Southern Men as Citizens and Soldiers.
Michael E. Woods

BARBARA L. BELLOWS. Two Charlestonians at War: The Civil War Odysseys of a Lowcountry Aristocrat and a Black Abolitionist.
Bernard E. Powers, Jr.

BENJAMIN L. MILLER. In God’s Presence: Chaplains, Missionaries, and Religious Space during the American Civil War.
Mark S. Schantz

KENDRA TAIRA FIELD. Growing Up with the Country: Family, Race, and Nation after the Civil War.
Charles Postel

DAVID A. BATEMAN, IRA KATZNELSON, and JOHN S. LAPINSKI. Southern Nation: Congress and White Supremacy after Reconstruction.
Natalie J. Ring

KATHARINE BJORK. Prairie Imperialists: The Indian Country Origins of American Empire.
David Silbey

KRISTIN L. HOGANSON. The Heartland: An American History.
J. L. Anderson

LISANDRO PÉREZ. Sugar, Cigars, and Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York.
Dalia Antonia Muller

LISA LINDQUIST DORR. A Thousand Thirsty Beaches: Smuggling Alcohol from Cuba to the South during Prohibition.
Bruce E. Stewart

SAM ERMAN. Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and Empire.
Robert C. McGreevey

JOSHUA SPECHT. Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America.
Wilson J. Warren

NAN ENSTAD. Cigarettes, Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism.
Howard Cox

ALAN I. MARCUS. Malignant Growth: Creating the Modern Cancer Research Establishment, 1875–1915.
Gerald Markowitz

JOEL R. BIUS. Smoke ’Em If You Got ’Em: The Rise and Fall of the Military Cigarette Ration.
Gregory Wood

KARA DIXON VUIC. The Girls Next Door: Bringing the Home Front to the Front Lines.
Heather Marie Stur

JESSICA BLATT. Race and the Making of American Political Science.
Robert Adcock

RONNY REGEV. Working in Hollywood: How the Studio System Turned Creativity into Labor.
Catherine L. Fisk

ROBERT L. ZANGRANDO and RONALD L. LEWIS. Walter F. White: The NAACP’s Ambassador for Racial Justice.
Charles C. Bolton

MARK NEWMAN. Desegregating Dixie: The Catholic Church in the South and Desegregation, 1945–1992.
John Hayes

WALTER NUGENT. Color Coded: Party Politics in the American West, 1950–2016.
Patrick Andelic

DANIEL J. CLARK. Disruption in Detroit: Autoworkers and the Elusive Postwar Boom.
Ryan S. Pettengill

MEREDITH ODA. The Gateway to the Pacific: Japanese Americans and the Remaking of San Francisco.
Mari Yoshihara

CARL LINDSKOOG. Detain and Punish: Haitian Refugees and the Rise of the World’s Largest Immigration Detention System.
Maria Cristina Garcia

D’WESTON HAYWOOD. Let Us Make Men: The Twentieth-Century Black Press and a Manly Vision for Racial Advancement.
Gerald Horne

JOHN R. THELIN. Going to College in the Sixties. Foreword by MICHAEL A. OLIVAS.
Peter Wallenstein

TED OWNBY. Hurtin’ Words: Debating Family Problems in the Twentieth-Century South.
Kristin Celello

ERIN M. KEMPKER. Big Sister: Feminism, Conservatism, and Conspiracy in the Heartland.
Babette Faehmel

JESSICA WILKERSON. To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice.
Catherine Fosl

RICHARD DRAKE. Charles Austin Beard: The Return of the Master Historian of American Imperialism.
Robert B. Townsend

KENNETH B. MOSS. Marque and Reprisal: The Spheres of Public and Private Warfare.
David Head

CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICA

MATTHEW D. O’HARA. The History of the Future in Colonial Mexico.
David Rex Galindo

ZEB TORTORICI. Sins against Nature: Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain.
Linda A. Curcio-Nagy

PABLO MIGUEL SIERRA SILVA. Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico: Puebla de los Ángeles, 1531–1706.
R. Douglas Cope

JONATHAN TRUITT. Sustaining the Divine in Mexico Tenochtitlan: Nahuas and Catholicism, 1523–1700.
Steven E. Turley

JOHN TUTINO. Mexico City, 1808: Power, Sovereignty, and Silver in an Age of War and Revolution.
Erika Pani

ROBERT CURLEY. Citizens and Believers: Religion and Politics in Revolutionary Jalisco, 1900–1930.
Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens

COLBY RISTOW. A Revolution Unfinished: The Chegomista Rebellion and the Limits of Revolutionary Democracy in Juchitán, Oaxaca.
Amelia M. Kiddle

JORGE L. GIOVANNETTI-TORRES. Black British Migrants in Cuba: Race, Labor, and Empire in the Twentieth-Century Caribbean, 1898–1948.
Melina Pappademos

JOHN LINDSAY-POLAND. Plan Colombia: U.S. Ally Atrocities and Community Activism.
Kyle Longley

OSCAR DE LA TORRE. The People of the River: Nature and Identity in Black Amazonia, 1835–1945.
Yuko Miki

SARAH SARZYNSKI. Revolution in the Terra do Sol: The Cold War in Brazil.
Frank D. McCann

SHAWN WILLIAM MILLER. The Street Is Ours: Community, the Car, and the Nature of Public Space in Rio de Janeiro.
Antoine Acker

CAMERON D. JONES. In Service of Two Masters: The Missionaries of Ocopa, Indigenous Resistance, and Spanish Governance in Bourbon Peru.
Jonathan Truitt

ALISON J. BRUEY. Bread, Justice, and Liberty: Grassroots Activism and Human Rights in Pinochet’s Chile.
Julio Pinto

EUROPE: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL

ALEX IMRIE. The Antonine Constitution: An Edict for the Caracallan Empire.
John Weisweiler

INGRID REMBOLD. Conquest and Christianization: Saxony and the Carolingian World, 772–888.
Jennifer R. Davis

MEREDITH L. D. RIEDEL. Leo VI and the Transformation of Byzantine Christian Identity: Writings of an Unexpected Emperor.
Stamatina McGrath

MARCUS BULL. Eyewitness and Crusade Narrative: Perception and Narration in Accounts of the Second, Third and Fourth Crusades.
Michael Staunton

GUY PERRY. The Briennes: The Rise and Fall of a Champenois Dynasty in the Age of the Crusades, c. 950–1356.
William Chester Jordan

SUSAN L. EINBINDER. After the Black Death: Plague and Commemoration among Iberian Jews.
Maya Soifer Irish

CONSTANCE HOFFMAN BERMAN. The White Nuns: Cistercian Abbeys for Women in Medieval France.
Harriett R. Webster

JOHN S. LEE. The Medieval Clothier.
Lluís To Figueras

ROBIN CHAPMAN STACEY. Law and the Imagination in Medieval Wales.
Joshua Byron Smith

EUROPE: EARLY MODERN AND MODERN

ROBERT LAUNAY. Savages, Romans, and Despots: Thinking about Others from Montaigne to Herder.
David Allen Harvey

LEONARD V. SMITH. Sovereignty at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.
Isabel V. Hull

DEAN VULETIC. Postwar Europe and the Eurovision Song Contest.
Kira Thurman

NICOLA CLARK. Gender, Family, and Politics: The Howard Women, 1485–1558.
Amanda E. Herbert

ELAINE LEONG. Recipes and Everyday Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and the Household in Early Modern England.
Anne Stobart

NAOMI PULLIN. Female Friends and the Making of Transatlantic Quakerism, 1650–1750.
A. Glenn Crothers

D. BRUCE HINDMARSH. The Spirit of Early Evangelicalism: True Religion in a Modern World.
Candy Gunther Brown

SARAH KINKEL. Disciplining the Empire: Politics, Governance, and the Rise of the British Navy.
Bob Harris

EVE COLPUS. Female Philanthropy in the Interwar World: Between Self and Other.
Peter Grant

DANIEL TRAVERS. The Second World War and the ‘Other British Isles’: Memory and Heritage in the Isle of Man, Orkney and the Channel Islands.
Sam Edwards

JIM TOMLINSON. Managing the Economy, Managing the People: Narratives of Economic Life in Britain from Beveridge to Brexit.
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite

FLORENCE SUTCLIFFE-BRAITHWAITE. Class, Politics, and the Decline of Deference in England, 1968–2000.
Laura Beers

MACK P. HOLT. The Politics of Wine in Early Modern France: Religion and Popular Culture in Burgundy, 1477–1630.
Jeremy Hayhoe

MONICA MARTINAT. 773 vies: Itinéraires de convertis au XVIIesiècle.
Philip Benedict

ODED RABINOVITCH. The Perraults: A Family of Letters in Early Modern France.
Jay Caplan

J. B. SHANK. Before Voltaire: The French Origins of “Newtonian” Mechanics, 1680–1715.
G. Matthew Adkins

MARK CURRAN. The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe I: Selling Enlightenment.
SIMON BURROWS. The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe II: Enlightenment Bestsellers.
James Smith Allen

CHRISTINE HAYNES. Our Friends the Enemies: The Occupation of France after Napoleon.
Christy Pichichero

KAREN OFFEN. Debating the Woman Question in the French Third Republic, 1870–1920.
Margaret H. Darrow

TIMOTHY VERHOEVEN. Sexual Crime, Religion and Masculinity in Fin-de-Siècle France: The Flamidien Affair.
Christopher E. Forth

MEGAN KOREMAN. The Escape Line: How the Ordinary Heroes of Dutch-Paris Resisted the Nazi Occupation of Western Europe.
Georgi Verbeeck

HERRICK CHAPMAN. France’s Long Reconstruction: In Search of the Modern Republic.
Sung Eun Choi

YVES-MARIE PÉRÉON. Moralizing the Market: How Gaullist France Embraced the US Model of Securities Regulation.
Stephen W. Sawyer

JOHN W. O’MALLEY. Vatican I: The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church.
Vincent Petit

SHIRA KLEIN. Italy’s Jews from Emancipation to Fascism.
Nina Valbousquet

SIMON LEVIS SULLAM. The Italian Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews of Italy. Translated by OONA SMYTH and CLAUDIA PATANE. Foreword by DAVID I. KERTZER.
Stanislao G. Pugliese

TAMÁS VONYÓ. The Economic Consequences of the War: West Germany’s Growth Miracle after 1945.
Barry Eichengreen

PAUL STANGL. Risen from Ruins: The Cultural Politics of Rebuilding East Berlin.
Anna Saunders

ANDREAS SCHÖNLE and ANDREI ZORIN. On the Periphery of Europe, 1762–1825: The Self-Invention of the Russian Elite.
G. M. Hamburg

ROBERT SERVICE. The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution.
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

ANNIE GÉRIN. Devastation and Laughter: Satire, Power, and Culture in the Early Soviet State, 1920s–1930s.
Stephen M. Norris

AARON HALE-DORRELL. Corn Crusade: Khrushchev’s Farming Revolution in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union.
Jenny Leigh Smith

ZUZANNA BOGUMIŁ. Gulag Memories: The Rediscovery and Commemoration of Russia’s Repressive Past. Translated by PHILIP PALMER.
Nanci Adler

MIDDLE EAST AND NORTHERN AFRICA

ZAYDE ANTRIM. Mapping the Middle East.
Hyunhee Park

CHRISTIAN C. SAHNER. Christian Martyrs under Islam: Religious Violence and the Making of the Muslim World.
Phil Booth

MURIAM HALEH DAVIS and THOMAS SERRES, editors. North Africa and the Making of Europe: Governance, Institutions and Culture.
Michael M. Laskier

DAVID GAUNT, NAURES ATTO, and SONER O. BARTHOMA, editors. Let Them Not Return: Sayfo—the Genocide against the Assyrian, Syriac and Chaldean Christians in the Ottoman Empire.
Bedross Der Matossian

YAEL ZERUBAVEL. Desert in the Promised Land.
Liora R. Halperin

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

LINDA CHISHOLM. Between Worlds: German Missionaries and the Transition from Mission to Bantu Education in South Africa.
S. E. Duff

BRIDGET KENNY. Retail Worker Politics, Race and Consumption in South Africa: Shelved in the Service Economy.
Iris Berger

ANNE HEFFERNAN. Limpopo’s Legacy: Student Politics & Democracy in South Africa.
Leslie Anne Hadfield