From the Editor’s Desk Mark Philip Bradley
Presidential Address. Historians and Their Publics, Then and Now Jacqueline Jones
Articles
Wartime Dollars and the Crowning of China’s Hog Bristle King: The Dubious Legacies of American Aid, 1938–1949 Judd Kinzley
Blood and Bone, Tears and Oil: Climate Change, Whaling, and Conflict in the Seventeenth-Century Arctic Dagomar Degroot
“That City Af loat”: Maritime Dimensions of Ireland’s Great Famine Migration Cian T McMahon
Empire on the Edge: Desert, Nomads, and the Making of an Ottoman Provincial Border Samuel Dolbee
“Do You Call Yourself a White Man?”: Nationalism, Criminalization of Interracial Sex, and the Policing of White Male (Hetero)sexuality in South Africa during Apartheid Susanne M Klausen
Slavery and Interethnic Sexual Violence: A Multiple Perpetrator Rape in Seventeenth-Century Livorno Tamar Herzig
Fiduciary Colonialism: Annuities and Native Dispossession in the Early United States Emilie Connolly
AHR History Lab
Inside the History Lab Mark Philip Bradley
Smell, History, and Heritage William Tullett ; Inger Leemans; Hsuan Hsu; Stephanie Weismann; Cecilia Bembibre
Rethinking Nationalism Cemil Aydin ; Grace Ballor; Sebastian Conrad; Frederick Cooper; Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz
History Unclassified
The Book as Archive Alex Hidalgo
Christine Jorgensen in Cuba: On Dormant Leads and Archival Dead Ends Jennifer Lambe
A Note from the AHR Associate Editor: Reviewing History Fei-Hsien Wang
Authors in Conversation
Making Sense of Mind-Boggling Violence Christopher E Goscha
Beyond Fanon? Shawn F McHale
Podcasts
The Still-Emerging World of History Podcasting Daniel J Story
A Post-Truth Postmortem: Jill Lepore’s The Last Archive Jordan E Taylor
Aural Sex: Gillian Frank and Lauren Gutterman’s Sexing History Lisa Z Sigel
Sextuple Jeopardy: American Public Media’s In the Dark Chris Myers Asch
Extremism’s Mainstream Appeal: Slate’s Slow Burn: David Duke David Cunningham
To Live and Die in Hip-Hop: Slate’s Slow Burn: Biggie and Tupac Julian Maxwell Hayter
Features
Transing Husbands, Transing Histories Clare Sears
The Promises and Perils of Black Capitalism Shennette Garrett-Scott
Slavery, Settlers, and the Anglo-American Nexus Dane Kennedy
Latin America’s Intellectual Independence Timo Schaefer
A Storied History Robert A Schneider
Looking for Virtue in the Italian Renaissance Guido Ruggiero
The “Business Plan” of Hunter-Gatherers James C Scott
The History of Nation-States as the History of Human Rights? Lora Wildenthal
How Memory of Empire Drove the Postwar Resurrection of Empire Priya Satia
Afro-Germans and the Remaking of Twentieth-Century German History Kira Thurman
Taking Quantitative Social Science History Out of the Silo Ian Milligan
Reviews
Methods/Theory
Mark M. Smith. A Sensory History Manifesto. Andrew J Rotter
Joan Wallach Scott. On the Judgement of History. Robert Nichols
Comparative/World/Transnational
Dara Orenstein. Out of Stock: The Warehouse in the History of Capitalism. Desmond Fitz-Gibbon
David A. Guba Jr. Taming Cannabis: Drugs and Empire in Nineteenth-Century France; Benjamin Breen. The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade. Ellen J. Amster
Niklas Frykman. The Bloody Flag: Mutiny in the Age of Atlantic Revolution. Tyson Reeder
Ben Marsh. Unravelled Dreams: Silk and the Atlantic World, 1500–1840. George J. Sheridan
Kate Fullagar. The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist: Three Lives in an Age of Empire. Zara Anishanslin
Timothy Matovina. Theologies of Guadalupe: From the Era of Conquest to Pope Francis. Brian R Larkin
Ezequiel Mercau. The Falklands War: An Imperial History Stephanie Barczewski
Kirsten A. Greer. Red Coats and Wild Birds: How Military Ornithologists and Migrant Birds Shaped Empire Rebecca J H Woods
Maurice Crandall. These People Have Always Been a Republic: Indigenous Electorates in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1598–1912 Raphael Brewster Folsom
Eric Rutkow. The Longest Line on the Map: The United States, the Pan-American Highway, and the Quest to Link the Americas. Alan McPherson
Amanda Brickell Bellows. American Slavery and Russian Serfdom in the Post-Emancipation Imagination. Steven Hoch
John Gripentrog. Prelude to Pearl Harbor: Ideology and Culture in US-Japan Relations, 1919–1941. Sidney Pash
Asia
Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang. The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan. Melissa J. Brown
Eric Schluessel. Land of Strangers: The Civilizing Project in Qing Central Asia. Yuanchong Wang
David Robinson. Ming China and Its Allies: Imperial Rule in Eurasia. Jinping Wang
Denise Y. Ho. Curating the Revolution: Politics on Display in Mao’s China; Jie Li. Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era Timothy Cheek
Kelly A. Hammond. China’s Muslims and Japan’s Empire: Centering Islam in World War II. David Motadel
Courtney A. Short. Uniquely Okinawan: Determining Identity during the US Wartime Occupation. Harold J. Goldberg
Wilson Chacko Jacob. For God or Empire: Sayyid Fadl and the Indian Ocean World. Jyoti Gulati Balachandran
Anand A. Yang. Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia. Julia Stephens
Aditya Sarkar. Trouble at the Mill: Factory Law and the Emergence of the Labour Question in Late Nineteenth-Century Bombay. Sheetal Chhabria
Canada and the United States
Brian Gettler. Colonialism’s Currency: Money, State, and First Nations in Canada, 1820–1950. Allan Greer
Christopher M. Parsons. A Not-So-New World: Empire and Environment in French Colonial North America. Joseph Gagné
Daniel T. Rodgers. As a City on a Hill: The Story of America’s Most Famous Lay Sermon; Abram C. Van Engen. City on a Hill: A History of American Exceptionalism. Benjamin E. Park
Mark Boonshoft. Aristocratic Education and the Making of the American Republic. Sarah L. Hyde
William E. Nelson. E Pluribus Unum: How the Common Law Helped Unify and Liberate Colonial America, 1607–1776. Max M. Edling
STROTHER E. ROBERTS. Colonial Ecology, Atlantic Economy: Transforming Nature in Early New England. Christopher L. Pastore
Kelly A. Ryan. Everyday Crimes: Social Violence and Civil Rights in Early America. Jared Ross Hardesty
Erik R. Seeman. Speaking with the Dead in Early America. Shelby M. Balik
Rachel B. Herrmann. No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution. Jon Parmenter
William G. Thomas III. A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War. David N. Gellman
Mary V. Thompson. “The Only Unavoidable Subject of Regret”: George Washington, Slavery, and the Enslaved Community at Mount Vernon. Matthew R. Costello. The Property of the Nation: George Washington’s Tomb, Mount Vernon, and the Memory of the First President. Marie Jenkins Schwartz
Eleonora Rohland. Changes in the Air: Hurricanes in New Orleans from 1718 to the Present. Lawrence N. Powell
Erica Rhodes Hayden. Troublesome Women: Gender, Crime, and Punishment in Antebellum Pennsylvania. Kathleen A. Cairns
Kristopher Maulden. The Federalist Frontier: Settler Politics in the Old Northwest, 1783–1840. William H. Bergmann
David Schley. Steam City: Railroads, Urban Space, and Corporate Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century Baltimore.: Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. x, 318. Cloth $55.00. Noam Maggor
Keneshia N. Grant. The Great Migration and the Democratic Party: Black Voters and the Realignment of American Politics in the 20th Century. Jennifer Delton
Wade Davies. Native Hoops: The Rise of American Indian Basketball, 1895–1970. Janice Margaret Forsyth
Elizabeth A. Herbin-Triant. Threatening Property: Race, Class, and Campaigns to Legislate Jim Crow Neighborhoods Beryl Satter
Allan W. Austin and Patrick L. Hamilton. All New, All Different? A History of Race and the American Superhero. Julian C. Chambliss
Yoosun Park. Facilitating Injustice: The Complicity of Social Workers in the Forced Removal and Incarceration of Japanese Americans, 1941–1946. Masumi Izumi
Carl Suddler. Presumed Criminal: Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York. William S. Bush
Martin V. Melosi. Fresh Kills: A History of Consuming and Discarding in New York City. Matthew Gandy
Patricia Silver. Sunbelt Diaspora: Race, Class, and Latino Politics in Puerto Rican Orlando. Amílcar Antonio Barreto
Ismael García-Colón. Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire: Puerto Rican Workers on U.S. Farms. Robert McGreevey
Bruce J. Dierenfield and David A. Gerber. Disability Rights and Religious Liberty in Education: The Story behind Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School District. Tobin Miller Shearer
Caribbean and Latin America
Henry B. Lovejoy. Prieto: Yorùbá Kingship in Colonial Cuba. Solimar Otero
Jennifer Scheper Hughes. The Church of the Dead: The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas. John Charles
Paulo Drinot. The Sexual Question: A History of Prostitution in Peru, 1850s–1950s. Brenda Elsey
Keila Grinberg. A Black Jurist in a Slave Society: Antonio Pereira Rebouças and the Trials of Brazilian Citizenship. Judy Bieber
Ben Nobbs-Thiessen. Landscape of Migration: Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia’s Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present. Erick D. Langer
Erin Woodruff Stone. Captives of Conquest: Slavery in the Early Modern Spanish Caribbean. Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva
Caree A. Banton. More Auspicious Shores: Barbadian Migration to Liberia, Blackness, and the Making of an African Republic. Padraic X. Scanlan
Europe: Ancient and Medieval
Fred K. Drogula. Cato the Younger: Life and Death at the End of the Roman Republic. Anthony A Barrett
Katelynn Robinson. The Sense of Smell in the Middle Ages: A Source of Certainty. Beth Kreitzer
Jamie Kreiner. Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West. Karl Steel
David Carpenter. Henry III: The Rise to Power and Personal Rule, 1207–1258. Hugh M. Thomas
Europe: Early Modern and Modern
Paul Betts. Ruin and Renewal: Civilizing Europe After World War II. Udi Greenberg
Margaret Schabas and Carl Wennerlind. A Philosopher’s Economist: Hume and the Rise of Capitalism. John Robertson
Michael Ledger Lomas. Queen Victoria: This Thorny Crown. Arianne Chernock
William J. Bulman. The Rise of Majority Rule in Early Modern Britain and Its Empire. Jack P. Greene
Sascha Auerbach. Armed with Sword and Scales: Law, Culture, and Local Courtrooms in London, 1860–1913. Ginger Frost
George Stevenson. The Women’s Liberation Movement and the Politics of Class in Britain. Gillian Sutherland
Geraint Thomas. Popular Conservatism and the Culture of National Government in Inter-War Britain. Kit Kowol
Peter Sloman. Transfer State: The Idea of a Guaranteed Income and the Politics of Redistribution in Modern Britain. Guy Ortolano
Katie Hindmarch-Watson. Serving a Wired World. London’s Telecommunications Workers and the Making of an Information Capital. David Vincent
Óscar Alfredo Ruiz Fernández. England and Spain in the Early Modern Era: Royal Love, Diplomacy, Trade and Naval Relations, 1604–25. Céline Dauverd
Matthew Kerry.Unite, Proletarian Brothers! Radicalism and Revolution in the Spanish Second Republic. George Esenwein
Emma Claussen. Politics and ‘Politiques’ in Sixteenth-Century France: A Conceptual History. Hilary J. Bernstein
Patricia Gaborik. Mussolini’s Theatre: Fascist Experiments in Art and Politics. Christian Goeschel
Jeremy Best. Heavenly Fatherland: German Missionary Culture and Globalization in the Age of Empire. Matthew P. Fitzpatrick
Ian Ona Johnson. Faustian Bargain: The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War. Stephen G. Fritz
Frances Nethercott. Writing History in Late Imperial Russia: Scholarship and the Literary Canon. Andy Byford
Middle East and Northern Africa
Pascal Menoret. Graveyard of Clerics: Everyday Activism in Saudi Arabia. Asher Orkaby
Todd Reisz. Showpiece City: How Architecture Made Dubai. Pamela Karimi
Chelsi Mueller. The Origins of the Arab-Iranian Conflict: Nationalism and Sovereignty in the Gulf between the World Wars. Lior B. Sternfeld
Ali Mirsepassi. Iran’s Quiet Revolution: The Downfall of the Pahlavi State. Peyman Jafari
Pouya Alimagham. Contesting the Iranian Revolution: The Green Uprisings. Matthew K. Shannon
Liora Hendelman-Baavur. Creating the Modern Iranian Woman: Popular Culture between Two Revolutions. Kristin Soraya Batmanghelichi
Ilana Feldman. Life Lived in Relief: Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics. Laura Robson
Seth Anziska. Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo. Michael R. Fischbach
Fadi A. Bardawil. Revolution and Disenchantment: Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipation. Kevin M. Jones
Marina Rustow. The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue. Lev Weitz
Betul Ipsirli Argit. Life after the Harem: Female Palace Slaves, Patronage, and the Imperial Ottoman Court. Madeline C. Zilfi
Sub-Saharan Africa
William Beinart and Saul Dubow. The Scientific Imagination in South Africa: 1700 to the Present. Casper Andersen
Franziska Rueedi. The Vaal Uprising of 1984 & the Struggle for Freedom in South Africa. Tshepo Moloi
Nathaniel K. Powell. France’s Wars in Chad: Military Intervention and Decolonization in Africa. Lori Leonard
Marissa Moorman. Powerful Frequencies: Radio, State Power, and the Cold War in Angola, 1931–2002. Kathryn M. de Luna