From the Editor’s Desk: Journal of the Plague Year

ARTICLES

The Four Black Deaths
Monica H. Green

The Justinianic Plague and Global Pandemics: The Making of the Plague Concept
Merle Eisenberg, Lee Mordechai

Writing Apartheid: Ethnographic Collaborators and the Politics of Knowledge Production in Twentieth-Century South Africa
Joel Cabrita

AHR CONVERSATION: BLACK INTERNATIONALISM

Monique Bedasse, Kim D. Butler, Carlos Fernandes, Dennis Laumann, Tejasvi Nagaraja

HISTORY UNCLASSIFIED

A Shared Toxic History
Heather F. Roller

AHR REVIEW ROUNDTABLE

The Iron Cage of Erasure: American Indian Sovereignty in Jill Lepore’s These Truths
Ned Blackhawk

Truths… Audacious and Flawed
Mary Beth Norton

Lepore’s America, “Our America”?
Matt Garcia

A Civics Primer for American History
Paul Ortiz

FEATURED REVIEWS

ERICA FUDGE. Quick Cattle and Dying Wishes: People and Their Animals in Early Modern England.
Ingrid H. Tague

KATIE JARVIS. Politics in the Marketplace: Work, Gender, and Citizenship in Revolutionary France.
Jonathan Dewald

MATTHEW FOX-AMATO. Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America.
Terrie Dopp Aamodt

CLAIRE E. EDINGTON. Beyond the Asylum: Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam.
Michael G. Vann

MARILYN LAKE. Progressive New World: How Settler Colonialism and Transpacific Exchange Shaped American Reform.
Ikuko Asaka

NICOLAS DELALANDE. La lutte et l’entraide: L’âge des solidarités ouvrières.
Maarten Van Ginderachter

ISSER WOLOCH. The Postwar Moment: Progressive Forces in Britain, France, and the United States after World War II.
Tyler Stovall

ROSINA LOZANO. An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States.
Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez

CRISTINA SALINAS. Managed Migrations: Growers, Farmworkers, and Border Enforcement in the Twentieth Century.
Alexandra Délano Alonso

MONICA KIM. The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History.
Patrick Chung

KEISHA N. BLAIN, CHRISTOPHER CAMERON, and ASHLEY D. FARMER, editors. New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition.
Stephanie Y. Evans

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

METHODS/THEORY

JONATHAN ZIMMERMAN and EMILY ROBERTSON. The Case for Contention: Teaching Controversial Issues in American Schools; SAM WINEBURG. Why Learn History (When It’s Already on Your Phone).
Patrick Iber

FIONA PAISLEY and PAMELA SCULLY. Writing Transnational History; ROLAND WENZLHUEMER. Doing Global History: An Introduction in 6 Concepts.
Bruce Robbins

TREVOR OWENS. The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation.
Glenn D. Tiffert

DOMINICK LACAPRA. Understanding Others: Peoples, Animals, Pasts.
Herman Paul

MAREN LORENZ. Menschenzucht: Frühe Ideen und Strategien, 1500–1870.
Sander Gliboff

ERIC OBERLE. Theodor Adorno and the Century of Negative Identity.
Thomas Wheatland

NAOMI BECK. Hayek and the Evolution of Capitalism.
Tim Rogan

COMPARATIVE/WORLD/TRANSNATIONAL

HUGH CAGLE. Assembling the Tropics: Science and Medicine in Portugal’s Empire, 1450–1700
Timothy J. Coates

GWYN CAMPBELL. Africa and the Indian Ocean World from Early Times to circa 1900.
Nathaniel Mathews

HEDWIG RICHTER. Moderne Wahlen: Eine Geschichte der Demokratie in Preußen und den USA im 19. Jahrhundert.
Boris Barth

ANDREW R. MURPHY. William Penn: A Life.
Evan Haefeli

MICHAEL WILLIAMS. Returning Home with Glory: Chinese Villagers around the Pacific, 1849 to 1949.
Shelly Chan

RAJA ADAL. Beauty in the Age of Empire: Japan, Egypt, and the Global History of Aesthetic Education.
Maki Fukuoka

DANIEL J. WALKOWITZ. The Remembered and Forgotten Jewish World: Jewish Heritage in Europe and the United States.
Michael Meng

SHACHAR PINSKER. A Rich Brew: How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture.
Glenn Dynner

RAFAEL MEDOFF. The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen W. Wise, and the Holocaust; GRAHAM B. COX. Seeking Justice for the Holocaust: Herbert C. Pell, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the Limits of International Law.
Monty Noam Penkower

THOMAS E. SMITH. Emancipation without Equality: Pan-African Activism and the Global Color Line.
Marilyn Lake

PATRICIA DE SANTANA PINHO. Mapping Diaspora: African American Roots Tourism in Brazil.
Darién J. Davis

JAN C. JANSEN and JÜRGEN OSTERHAMMEL. Decolonization: A Short History.
Jeffrey S. Ahlman

DAVID A. BATEMAN. Disenfranchising Democracy: Constructing the Electorate in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France.
Joshua A. Lynn

ALI ERKEN. America and the Making of Modern Turkey: Science, Culture and Political Alliances.
Begüm Adalet

KATE CLARKE LEMAY. Triumph of the Dead: American World War II Cemeteries, Monuments, and Diplomacy in France.
Kirrily Freeman

AUSTIN CARSON. Secret Wars: Covert Conflict in International Politics.
Bryan R. Gibson

ANTOINE BOUSQUET. The Eye of War: Military Perception from the Telescope to the Drone.
Jeremy R. Kinney

ASIA
ROEL STERCKX, MARTINA SIEBERT, and DAGMAR SCHÄFER, editors. Animals through Chinese History: Earliest Times to 1911.
Nigel Rothfels

MAX OIDTMANN. Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet.
Tenzin Jinba

JENNY HUANGFU DAY. Qing Travelers to the Far West: Diplomacy and the Information Order in Late Imperial China.
Li Chen

MAX M. WARD. Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan.
Frederick R. Dickinson

AMY BLISS MARSHALL. Magazines and the Making of Mass Culture in Japan.
Seth Jacobowitz

KENNETH B. PYLE. Japan in the American Century.
Nick Kapur

BEN KIERNAN. Việt Nam: A History from Earliest Times to the Present.
Geoffrey C. Stewart

HAYDON CHERRY. Down and Out in Saigon: Stories of the Poor in a Colonial City.
Thuy Linh Nguyen

LAURENCE MONNAIS. The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals: Medicines and Modernity in Vietnam.
Emmanuel Poisson

OLGA DROR. Making Two Vietnams: War and Youth Identities, 1965–1975.
Duy Lap Nguyen

ADAM CLULOW. Amboina, 1623: Fear and Conspiracy on the Edge of Empire.
Hans Hägerdal

HANS POLS. Nurturing Indonesia: Medicine and Decolonisation in the Dutch East Indies.
Laurence Monnais

JULIA STEPHENS. Governing Islam: Law, Empire, and Secularism in South Asia.
Markus Daechsel

SEBASTIAN R. PRANGE. Monsoon Islam: Trade and Faith on the Medieval Malabar Coast.
Ravi Arvind Palat

JOHN A. STEVENS. Keshab: Bengal’s Forgotten Prophet.
Soumen Mukherjee

GEORGE MORTON-JACK. Army of Empire: The Untold Story of the Indian Army in World War I.
Pradeep Barua

BENJAMIN ROBERT SIEGEL. Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India.
Sanjukta Sunderason

ROHIT DE. A People’s Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic.
Rachel Sturman

OCEANIA AND THE PACIFIC ISLANDS

SUMNER LA CROIX. Hawaiʻi: Eight Hundred Years of Political and Economic Change.
Daniel Lewis

NOELANI ARISTA. The Kingdom and the Republic: Sovereign Hawaiʻi and the Early United States.
Alvita Akiboh

GREGORY ROSENTHAL. Beyond Hawaiʻi: Native Labor in the Pacific World.
William J. Bauer, Jr.

WADE GRAHAM. Braided Waters: Environment and Society in Molokai, Hawaiʻi.
Patrick V. Kirch

CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES

MELISSA OTIS. Rural Indigenousness: A History of Iroquoian and Algonquian Peoples of the Adirondacks.
Karim M. Tiro

KAREN ROUTLEDGE. Do You See Ice? Inuit and Americans at Home and Away.
Janice Cavell

DANIEL S. DUPRE. Alabama’s Frontiers and the Rise of the Old South.
David Narrett

LISA BLEE and JEAN M. O’BRIEN. Monumental Mobility: The Memory Work of Massasoit.
Douglas Hunter

TRISTAN STUBBS. Masters of Violence: The Plantation Overseers of Eighteenth-Century Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia.
Edward E. Baptist

GEORGE WILLIAM VAN CLEVE. We Have Not a Government: The Articles of Confederation and the Road to the Constitution.
Clement Fatovic

MICHAEL J. FABER. An Anti-Federalist Constitution: The Development of Dissent in the Ratification Debates.
Melvin Yazawa

LINDSAY DICUIRCI. Colonial Revivals: The Nineteenth-Century Lives of Early American Books.
Steven Carl Smith

STEPHEN W. CAMPBELL. The Bank War and the Partisan Press: Newspapers, Financial Institutions, and the Post Office in Jacksonian America.
Eric Lomazoff

JOSHUA A. LYNN. Preserving the White Man’s Republic: Jacksonian Democracy, Race, and the Transformation of American Conservatism.
William K. Bolt

ERIC J. MORSER. The Fires of New England: A Story of Protest and Rebellion in Antebellum America.
Joshua R. Greenberg

ANDREW HEATH. In Union There Is Strength: Philadelphia in the Age of Urban Consolidation.
Howard Gillette, Jr.

KAY WRIGHT LEWIS. A Curse upon the Nation: Race, Freedom, and Extermination in America and the Atlantic World.
Patrick H. Breen

DAVID STEFAN DODDINGTON. Contesting Slave Masculinity in the American South.
Timothy R. Buckner

JEFFREY R. KERR-RITCHIE. Rebellious Passage: The Creole Revolt and America’s Coastal Slave Trade.
Gelien Matthews

S. CHARLES BOLTON. Fugitivism: Escaping Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1820–1860.
Damian Alan Pargas

JOHN L. BROOKE. “There Is a North”: Fugitive Slaves, Political Crisis, and Cultural Transformation in the Coming of the Civil War.
Christopher Childers

ROBERT E. MAY. Yuletide in Dixie: Slavery, Christmas, and Southern Memory.
Daniel Vivian

JOAN E. CASHIN. War Stuff: The Struggle for Human and Environmental Resources in the American Civil War; ERIN STEWART MAULDIN. Unredeemed Land: An Environmental History of Civil War and Emancipation in the Cotton South.
Sarah Anne Carter

CHRISTOPHER M. REIN. Alabamians in Blue: Freedmen, Unionists, and the Civil War in the Cotton State.
Douglas R. Egerton

WILLIAM S. KISER. Coast-to-Coast Empire: Manifest Destiny and the New Mexico Borderlands.
Kevin Adams

GARY CLAYTON ANDERSON. Massacre in Minnesota: The Dakota War of 1862, the Most Violent Ethnic Conflict in American History.
David Thomas Murphy

GREGORY P. DOWNS. The Second American Revolution: The Civil War–Era Struggle over Cuba and the Rebirth of the American Republic.
Teresa Prados-Torreira

KATHERINE FRANKE. Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition.
Andrew W. Kahrl

ADAM FAIRCLOUGH. The Revolution That Failed: Reconstruction in Natchitoches.
Mark Wahlgren Summers

DANIEL H. INOUYE. Distant Islands: The Japanese American Community in New York City, 1876–1930s.
Lon Kurashige

GORDON H. CHANG. Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad.
Ryan Dearinger

CHRISTOPHER HERBERT. Gold Rush Manliness: Race and Gender on the Pacific Slope.
Mark A. Eifler

R. SCOTT HUFFARD JR. Engines of Redemption: Railroads and the Reconstruction of Capitalism in the New South.
Zachary Callen

DAVID WALKER. Railroading Religion: Mormons, Tourists, and the Corporate Spirit of the West.
Todd M. Kerstetter

ANDREW OFFENBURGER. Frontiers in the Gilded Age: Adventure, Capitalism, and Dispossession from Southern Africa to the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, 1880–1917.
Patrick G. Williams

WILLIAM STURKEY. Hattiesburg: An American City in Black and White.
Rebecca Tuuri

EMILY REMUS. A Shoppers’ Paradise: How the Ladies of Chicago Claimed Power and Pleasure in the New Downtown.
Anne Meis Knupfer

ANN DURKIN KEATING. The World of Juliette Kinzie: Chicago before the Fire.
John N. Low

KRISTY MADDUX. Practicing Citizenship: Women’s Rhetoric at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair.
Sara Egge

NATHAN CARDON. A Dream of the Future: Race, Empire, and Modernity at the Atlanta and Nashville World’s Fairs.
William A. Link

KARA MURPHY SCHLICHTING. New York Recentered: Building the Metropolis from the Shore.
David Huyssen

KYLE E. CIANI. Choosing to Care: A Century of Childcare and Social Reform in San Diego, 1850–1950.
Thomas A. Krainz

M. HOUSTON, V. JOHNSON. Taking Flight: The Foundations of American Commercial Aviation, 1918–1938.
Daniel L. Rust

HELEN TANGIRES. Movable Markets: Food Wholesaling in the Twentieth-Century City.
Shane Hamilton

TRENT MACNAMARA. Birth Control and American Modernity: A History of Popular Ideas.
Simone M. Caron

SARAH A. SEO. Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom.
Cotten Seiler

SHENNETTE GARRETT-SCOTT. Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance before the New Deal.
Mehrsa Baradaran

BRIAN PURNELL, JEANNE THEOHARIS, and KOMOZI WOODARD, editors. The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Segregation and Struggle outside of the South.
Brett Gadsden

WILLIAM P. HUSTWIT. Integration Now: Alexander v. Holmes and the End of Jim Crow Education.
LeeAnn G. Reynolds

JELANI M. FAVORS. Shelter in a Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism.
Albert L. Samuels

ANDREW FEFFER. Bad Faith: Teachers, Liberalism, and the Origins of McCarthyism.
Robert Justin Goldstein

TIMOTHY ANDREWS SAYLE. Enduring Alliance: A History of NATO and the Postwar Global Order.
Mary Ann Heiss

GREG WHITESIDES. Science and American Foreign Relations since World War II.
Zuoyue Wang

KEN I. KERSCH. Conservatives and the Constitution: Imagining Constitutional Restoration in the Heyday of American Liberalism.
Herbert Hovenkamp

KATHLEEN M. SANDS. America’s Religious Wars: The Embattled Heart of Our Public Life.
Paul Harvey

KIRSTEN FERMAGLICH. A Rosenberg by Any Other Name: A History of Jewish Name Changing in America.
Lila Corwin Berman

KATHLEEN SPROWS CUMMINGS. A Saint of Our Own: How the Quest for a Holy Hero Helped Catholics Become American.
Maura Jane Farrelly

EMILY SUZANNE JOHNSON. This Is Our Message: Women’s Leadership in the New Christian Right.
Mary C. Brennan

EMILY L. THUMA. All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence.
Catherine O. Jacquet

MARC DOLLINGER. Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s.
Glen Anthony Harris

ARAM GOUDSOUZIAN. The Men and the Moment: The Election of 1968 and the Rise of Partisan Politics in America.
Philip A. Goduti, Jr.

JOHN BARANSKI. Housing the City by the Bay: Tenant Activism, Civil Rights, and Class Politics in San Francisco.
Ella Howard

JENNIFER THOMSON. The Wild and the Toxic: American Environmentalism and the Politics of Health.
Pete Daniel

MARK H. ROSE. Market Rules: Bankers, Presidents, and the Origins of the Great Recession.
Christian Olaf Christiansen

LUKE FERNANDEZ and SUSAN J. MATT. Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid: Changing Feelings about Technology, from the Telegraph to Twitter.
Susan Lanzoni

JEFF KOSSEFF. The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet.
Colin B. Burke

CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICA
GLORIA ELIZABETH CHACÓN. Indigenous Cosmolectics: Kab’awil and the Making of Maya and Zapotec Literatures.
David Tavárez

JESSE E. HOFFNUNG-GARSKOF. Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean, 1850–1902.
Laura Lomas

LOUIS A. PÉREZ JR. Rice in the Time of Sugar: The Political Economy of Food in Cuba.
Oscar Zanetti

A. RICARDO LÓPEZ-PEDREROS. Makers of Democracy: A Transnational History of the Middle Classes in Colombia.
Jeremy Rayner

JEAN E. JACKSON. Managing Multiculturalism: Indigeneity and the Struggle for Rights in Colombia.
Jan Hoffman French

EUROPE: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL

PAUL J. KOSMIN. Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire.
Andrew Erskine

DAVID M. PRITCHARD. Athenian Democracy at War.
Loren J. Samons, II

BARRY O’HALLORAN. The Political Economy of Classical Athens: A Naval Perspective.
Vincent Gabrielsen

F. S. NAIDEN. Soldier, Priest, and God: A Life of Alexander the Great.
Elizabeth D. Carney

RICHARD STONEMAN. The Greek Experience of India: From Alexander to the Indo-Greeks.
Christopher I. Beckwith

SUSAN TREGGIARI. Servilia and Her Family.
Marilyn B. Skinner

NATHANAEL J. ANDRADE. Zenobia: Shooting Star of Palmyra.
Jean-Baptiste Yon

DAVID RAFFERTY. Provincial Allocations in Rome, 123–52 BCE.
Gregory K. Golden

ANTHONY KALDELLIS. Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium.
David Alan Parnell

ROY FLECHNER. Saint Patrick Retold: The Legend and History of Ireland’s Patron Saint.
Terry Barry

THOMAS PICKLES. Kingship, Society, and the Church in Anglo-Saxon Yorkshire.
Karen Louise Jolly

ELIZABETH A. LAMBOURN. Abraham’s Luggage: A Social Life of Things in the Medieval Indian Ocean World.
Johan Mathew

JAY RUBENSTEIN. Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream: The Crusades, Apocalyptic Prophecy, and the End of History.
Susanna A. Throop

EUROPE: EARLY MODERN AND MODERN

LYDIA BARNETT. After the Flood: Imagining the Global Environment in Early Modern Europe.
Sara Miglietti

EUROPE: EARLY MODERN AND MODERN (CONTINUED)

MARKUS FRIEDRICH. The Birth of the Archive: A History of Knowledge.
Paula Findlen

DOMINIQUE KALIFA. Vice, Crime, and Poverty: How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld.
Andrew Israel Ross

HEINRICH HARTMANN. The Body Populace: Military Statistics and Demography in Europe before the First World War.
Dirk Bönker

DORIAN BELL. Globalizing Race: Antisemitism and Empire in French and European Culture.
Christian S. Davis

MARTIN CONWAY, PIETER LAGROU, and HENRY ROUSSO. Europe’s Postwar Periods—1989, 1945, 1918: Writing History Backwards.
Philipp Ther

DAGMAR HERZOG. Unlearning Eugenics: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Disability in Post-Nazi Europe.
Lutz D. H. Sauerteig

ELISABETH GALLAS. A Mortuary of Books: The Rescue of Jewish Culture after the Holocaust.
Margarete Myers Feinstein

JOSHUA TEPLITSKY. Prince of the Press: How One Collector Built History’s Most Enduring and Remarkable Jewish Library.
Daniel Jütte

PAUL HANEBRINK. A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism.
Jan T. Gross

SARAH WOBICK-SEGEV. Homes Away from Home: Jewish Belonging in Twentieth-Century Paris, Berlin, and St. Petersburg.
Kerry Wallach

JAN DE GRAAF. Socialism across the Iron Curtain: Socialist Parties in East and West and the Reconstruction of Europe after 1945.
Sandrine Kott

K. J. KESSELRING. Making Murder Public: Homicide in Early Modern England, 1480–1680.
Andrea McKenzie

J. PATRICK HORNBECK II. Remembering Wolsey: A History of Commemorations and Representations.
David Dean

AMY NELSON BURNETT. Debating the Sacraments: Print and Authority in the Early Reformation.
David M. Luebke

LIESBETH CORENS. Confessional Mobility and English Catholics in Counter-Reformation Europe.
Nicholas Terpstra

MICHAEL QUESTIER. Dynastic Politics and the British Reformations, 1558–1630.
Jane E. A. Dawson

GARY S. DE KREY. Following the Levellers, vol. 1: Political and Religious Radicals in the English Civil War and Revolution, 1645–1649; GARY S. DE KREY. Following the Levellers, vol. 2: English Political and Religious Radicals from the Commonwealth to the Glorious Revolution, 1649–1688.
Melinda S. Zook

DAVID R. COMO. Radical Parliamentarians and the English Civil War.
Mark Stoyle

PRIYAMVADA GOPAL. Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent.
Antoinette Burton

RICHARD J. OOSTERHOFF. Making Mathematical Culture: University and Print in the Circle of Lefèvre d’Étaples.
Renée Raphael

SUZANNAH LIPSCOMB. The Voices of Nîmes: Women, Sex, and Marriage in Reformation Languedoc.
Katherine Crawford

BRUNO BELHOSTE. Paris Savant: Capital of Science in the Age of Enlightenment.
David Garrioch

KAREN E. CARTER. Scandal in the Parish: Priests and Parishioners Behaving Badly in Eighteenth-Century France.
Thomas Brennan

JORDAN R. HAYWORTH. Revolutionary France’s War of Conquest in Rhineland: Conquering the Natural Frontier, 1792–1797.
Julia Osman

MARIA PIA DONATO. L’archivio del mondo: Quando Napoleone confiscò la storia.
Jeremy D. Popkin

ALISON CARROL. The Return of Alsace to France, 1918–1939.
Christopher Fischer

JOSEPH BOHLING. The Sober Revolution: Appellation Wine and the Transformation of France.
Jonathyne Briggs

ERIC MONNET. Controlling Credit: Central Banking and the Planned Economy in Postwar France, 1948–1973.
Frances M. B. Lynch

LISA GREENWALD. Daughters of 1968: Redefining French Feminism and the Women’s Liberation Movement.
Sandra Reineke

MARK CONNELLY and STEFAN GOEBEL. Ypres.
William Philpott

MAARTEN VAN GINDERACHTER. The Everyday Nationalism of Workers: A Social History of Modern Belgium. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2019. Pp. 285. Cloth $30.00.
Carl Strikwerda

SILVIA Z. MITCHELL. Queen, Mother, and Stateswoman: Mariana of Austria and the Government of Spain.
Luis Corteguera

RICHARD MACKENNEY. Venice as the Polity of Mercy: Guilds, Confraternities and the Social Order, c. 1250–c.1650.
Maartje van Gelder

SOPHUS A. REINERT. The Academy of Fisticuffs: Political Economy and Commercial Society in Enlightenment Italy.
Monika Poettinger

MICHAEL J. SAUTER. The Spatial Reformation: Euclid between Man, Cosmos, and God.
Eileen Reeves

JOHN HENDERSON. Florence under Siege: Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City.
Douglas Biow

GUIDO ALFANI and MATTEO DI TULLIO. The Lion’s Share: Inequality and the Rise of the Fiscal State in Preindustrial Europe.
James E. Shaw

LUCA CODIGNOLA. Blurred Nationalities across the North Atlantic: Traders, Priests, and Their Kin Travelling between North America and the Italian Peninsula, 1763–1846.
Enrico Dal Lago

ANNA GRILLINI. La guerra in testa: Esperienze e trauma di civli, profughi e soldati nel manicomio di Pergine Valusugana, 1909–1924.
Enzo Traverso

FRANCESCO FRIZZERA. Cittadini dimezzati: I profughi trentini in Austria-Ungheria e in Italia (1914–1919).
Vanda Wilcox

HANS MEDICK. Der Dreißigjährige Krieg: Zeugnisse vom Leben mit Gewalt.
Tryntje Helfferich

JÜRGEN SCHMIDT. Brüder, Bürger und Genossen: Die deutsche Arbeiterbewegung zwischen Klassenkampf und Bürgergesellschaft, 1830–1870.
Jonathan Sperber

HEIDI J. S. TWOREK. News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900–1945.
Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb

TYLER CARRINGTON. Love at Last Sight: Dating, Intimacy, and Risk in Turn-of-the-Century Berlin.
Barnet Hartston

MOLLY LOBERG. The Struggle for the Streets of Berlin: Politics, Consumption, and Urban Space, 1914–1945; PARKER DALY EVERETT. Urban Transformations: From Liberalism to Corporatism in Greater Berlin, 1871–1933.
Brian Ladd

GIDEON REUVENI. Consumer Culture and the Making of Modern Jewish Identity.
Darcy Buerkle

THOMAS BRODIE. German Catholicism at War, 1939–1945; JEFFREY T. ZALAR. Reading and Rebellion in Catholic Germany, 1770–1914; MICHAEL E. O’SULLIVAN. Disruptive Power: Catholic Women, Miracles, and Politics in Modern Germany, 1918–1965.
Benjamin Ziemann

JAY HOWARD GELLER. The Scholems: A Story of the German-Jewish Bourgeoisie from Emancipation to Destruction.
Steven E. Aschheim

MELISSA KRAVETZ. Women Doctors in Weimar and Nazi Germany: Maternalism, Eugenics, and Professional Identity.
Julia Roos

VOLKER R. BERGHAHN. Journalists between Hitler and Adenauer: From Inner Emigration to the Moral Reconstruction of West Germany.
Jürgen Wilke

WILLEKE SANDLER. Empire in the Heimat: Colonialism and Public Culture in the Third Reich.
S. Jonathan Wiesen

STEFAN ESSELBORN. Die Afrikaexperten: Das Internationale Afrikainstitut und die europäische Afrikanistik, 1926–1976.
Holger Stoecker

STEPHEN G. FRITZ. The First Soldier: Hitler as Military Leader.
Peter Lieb

ELIZABETH HARVEY, JOHANNES HÜRTER, MAIKEN UMBACH, and ANDREAS WIRSCHING, editors. Private Life and Privacy in Nazi Germany.
Lisa Pine

GAVRIEL D. ROSENFELD. The Fourth Reich: The Specter of Nazism from World War II to the Present.
Monica Black

ANNETTE WEINKE. Law, History, and Justice: Debating German State Crimes in the Long Twentieth Century.
Michael S. Bryant

ANNIKA ELISABET FRIEBERG. Peace at All Costs: Catholic Intellectuals, Journalists, and Media in Postwar Polish-German Reconciliation.
James Chappel

SARAH THOMSEN VIERRA. Turkish Germans in the Federal Republic of Germany: Immigration, Space, and Belonging, 1961–1990.
Mathias Beer

CAROLE FINK. West Germany and Israel: Foreign Relations, Domestic Politics, and the Cold War, 1965–1974.
David Clay Large

HOPE M. HARRISON. After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present.
Paul Stangl

MICHAEL JONAS. Scandinavia and the Great Powers in the First World War.
Rolf Hobson

MARCELA K. PERETT. Preachers, Partisans, and Rebellious Religion: Vernacular Writing and the Hussite Movement.
Jeanne E. Grant

PETRO ANDREAS NUNGOVITCH. Here All Is Poland: A Pantheonic History of Wawel, 1787–2010.
Daniel Unowsky

AGATA ZYSIAK, KAMIL ŚMIECHOWSKI, KAMIL PISKAŁA, WIKTOR MARZEC, KAJA KAŹMIERSKA, and JACEK BURSKI. From Cotton and Smoke: Łódź—Industrial City and Discourses of Asynchronous Modernity, 1897–1994.
Jan De Graaf

GABRIEL N. FINDER and ALEXANDER V. PRUSIN. Justice behind the Iron Curtain: Nazis on Trial in Communist Poland.
Barbara J. Falk

R. CHRIS DAVIS. Hungarian Religion, Romanian Blood: A Minority’s Struggle for National Belonging, 1920–1945.
Tudor Georgescu

MARIA BUCUR-DECKARD and MIHAELA MIROIU. Birth of Democratic Citizenship: Women and Power in Modern Romania.
Katherine Verdery

PINO ADRIANO and GIORGIO CINGOLANI. Nationalism and Terror: Ante Pavelić and Ustasha Terrorism from Fascism to the Cold War.
Rory Yeomans

JOVANA BABOVIĆ. Metropolitan Belgrade: Culture and Class in Interwar Yugoslavia.
Christian Axboe Nielsen

CHRISTOPHER A. MOLNAR. Memory, Politics, and Yugoslav Migrations to Postwar Germany.
John R. Lampe

MURIEL BLAIVE, editor. Perceptions of Society in Communist Europe: Regime Archives and Popular Opinion.
Kateřina Lišková

LARA DOUDS. Inside Lenin’s Government: Ideology, Power and Practice in the Early Soviet State.
Donald J. Raleigh

RACHEL APPLEBAUM. Empire of Friends: Soviet Power and Socialist Internationalism in Cold War Czechoslovakia.
Muriel Blaive

CYNTHIA A. RUDER. Building Stalinism: The Moscow Canal and the Creation of Soviet Space.
Steven A. Barnes

ELENA OSOKINA. Nebesnaya golubizna angel’skih odezhd: Sud’ba proizvedeniy drevnerusskoy zhivopisi, 1920–1930-e gody.
Catriona H. M. Kelly

VICKY DAVIS. Myth Making in the Soviet Union and Modern Russia: Remembering World War II in Brezhnev’s Hero City.
Nina Tumarkin

MIDDLE EAST AND NORTHERN AFRICA

JENNIFER L. DERR. The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt.
Liat Kozma

STACY D. FAHRENTHOLD. Between the Ottomans and the Entente: The First World War in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora, 1908–1925.
Andrew Arsan

SARA PURSLEY. Familiar Futures: Time, Selfhood, and Sovereignty in Iraq.
Johan Franzén

ARBELLA BET-SHLIMON. City of Black Gold: Oil, Ethnicity, and the Making of Modern Kirkuk.
Bruce Masters

FREDRIK MEITON. Electrical Palestine: Capital and Technology from Empire to Nation.
Laleh Khalili

TAREQ BACONI. Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance.
Jonathan B. Isacoff

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

CHRIS S. DUVALL. The African Roots of Marijuana.
Karen Flint

ALUSINE JALLOH. Muslim Fula Business Elites and Politics in Sierra Leone.
Ousman Murzik Kobo

DAVID MORTON. Age of Concrete: Housing and the Shape of Aspiration in the Capital of Mozambique.
Bjørn Enge Bertelsen

BRIAN WILLAN. Sol Plaatje: A Life of Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje, 1876–1932.
Meghan Healy-Clancy