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The “Evil Spectators?” American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Diana Kim
This article rethinks the relationship between opium and empire in twentieth-century Asia. A rich scholarship focuses on the success of anti-opium activists, whose moral crusades gave birth to today’s global drug control regimes. By contrast, I center attention on the lesser-known pro-opium forces, demonstrating how “bad” actors, recognized now as apologists for a dangerous drug, were once essential
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Migrating Concepts American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Julie M Weise, Christoph Rass
The Bracero Program (1942–64), a bilateral agreement to regulate labor migration between the United States and Mexico, oversaw more than four million contracts enabling Mexican men to work “temporarily” in the United States. Historians of the Mexico-US borderlands and of global migration have interpreted the program through hemispheric as well as broader imperial lenses. Yet this article shows that
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Political Biography and the Agency of Audience American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Paul Bjerk
Development as Rebellion, the massive biographical study of Julius K. Nyerere, written by three leading Tanzanian scholars and published in 2020 by the august Dar es Salaam imprint Mkuki na Nyota, illustrates how authors and audience are entangled in discursive practice. Jacques Derrida’s postmodern concept of iterability suggests that any message, let alone a nationalist biography, never exists in
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“As [Healthy] Women Should” American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Debra Blumenthal
Expanding the discussion highlighting the role of slavery in the production of medical knowledge beyond the much more extensively studied Atlantic world and the nineteenth-century US South, this article explores the exploitation of enslaved women’s bodies as clinical subjects in fifteenth-century Iberia. Menstrual disorders figured prominently among “hidden defects” cited in slave warranty suits filed
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Endemic Goiter and El Salvador’s Battle Against Cretinismo American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Heather Vrana
One concern for Salvadoran and other Latin American public health researchers across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was the purported link between goiter (bocio) and cretinism (cretinismo). Goiter is empirical medical condition that is inseparable from scenes of social and political inequality, neocolonialism, development, and war, however effectively the tools that measured it often obfuscated
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Seeing Black America in Iran American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Beeta Baghoolizadeh
From the 1960s onwards, many Iranians closely followed Black American protests during the Civil Rights and Black Power movements in the United States. This period proved pivotal for Iranian understandings of race, where intellectuals, revolutionaries, and those in media would use US-centric histories of enslavement, racism, and Black Americans to erase nineteenth-century histories of enslavement and
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Breaking the Bonds of Segregation American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Destin Jenkins
This article uncovers the financial knowledge and bond market campaigns of the paradigmatic non-violent revolution of the twentieth century—the civil rights movement. It builds on an interpretation made by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) during the early 1960s: segregation was a national problem because it was financed
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Eating on the Ground American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Sarah Abrevaya Stein
The picnic blanket is lumpy, the ants bite, and the food’s sandy, but you see so much more when you’re eating on the ground. The picnic and the portable camera came of age together in late Ottoman society, and “vernacular” picnic photographs are a ubiquitous feature of the Sephardic photo album. This essay converses with the children, women, men, and objects that appear in these images, considering
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CEPAL, the “International Monetary Fund of the Left”? American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Margarita Fajardo
The article examines the entangled histories of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America (CEPAL) during the post–World War II era. Born of the same global moment, within two decades of their foundation, these institutions had come to represent two opposing visions of world economic order. Yet their mutual antagonism was not a foregone conclusion
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How Averages Became Normal American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 John E Crowley
Averages became a distinctive form of information in early modern European culture, first in commercial arithmetic, then in natural philosophy, demography, political economy, and eventually in eclectic social analysis. Averaging, in the modern sense of calculating an arithmetic mean by adding up the individual values of cases in a set and then dividing that total by the number of cases, provided an
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“Improper and Almost Rebellious Conduct” American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Max Mishler
The 1833 Slavery Abolition Act provided for the gradual emancipation of eight hundred thousand human beings. It also confirmed the sovereignty of King-in-Parliament over all people residing in British dominions and resolved a long-standing dispute over whether enslaved people were private property or royal subjects entitled to legal safeguards. This debate first emerged in the late eighteenth century
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Becoming Elizabeth American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Megan Eaton Robb
In the late eighteenth century, a Mughal woman named Sharaf un-Nisa lived with and bore children by the first Company Supervisor of Purnea. She followed him to Britain, changed her name to Elizabeth, and converted to Christianity. Cohabitations between native women and British East India Company servants were common. While scholars have attempted to compensate for the notorious dearth of information
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Medicine and Health “in the Least Civilized Regions” American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2023-01-25 David Carey
In nations with large Indigenous populations like Guatemala and Ecuador, overlapping narratives of nationalism, public health, and race signal the complexity of modernizing health care. Various variables—race, gender, class, geography, the role of the state, divisions within the ruling class—impinged on people’s health care decisions. To analyze how racial thought and public health influenced each
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Compassion as an Agent of Historical Change American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2023-01-25 Katie Barclay
Compassion plays a significant role in many historiographies because of its capacity to explain human motivation and action. Within the history of judicial punishment in particular, compassion is a key agent of change—a feeling with explanatory power for historians. With its call to historicize feeling, the history of emotions troubles such accounts, undercutting the human universalism that compassion’s
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The Well That Wept Blood American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2023-01-25 Oscar de la Torre
This article uses the oral myth of a blood-weeping water well from a small city in the Amazon River to discuss the origins and the significance of haunted waterscapes for Black Amazonians. According to this myth, a well that still exists on the lands of an ancient sugar plantation weeps blood to mourn the slaves whose bodies were carelessly thrown there after a life of exploitation and abuse. The article
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Reading Private Photography American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2023-01-25 Ofer Ashkenazi
Private photography is one of the types of source material most readily available to historians of the past century. Yet scholars rarely exploit this vast reservoir of visual documents. This article proposes a path toward a more systematic reading of private photography in historical inquiry, which highlights the modes of expression established in the photographs and in the albums. Regardless of the
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Sad Historian American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2023-01-25 Carolyn Steedman
William Godwin’s history writing and Oliver Goldsmith’s poetry are used to explore the visual turn in history writing and the historian’s project of “rescuing” the poor and dispossessed of the past.
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Atlantis Restored American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2023-01-25 Carl Wennerlind
After success in the Thirty Years’ War, elites in Sweden realized that the nation had to establish a new economic base to support its newfound geopolitical prominence. Drawing on the Pan-European natural-knowledge-based political economy, Swedish reformers developed a version uniquely applicable to the nation’s challenges and opportunities. At the center of this new political economy was the use of
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The Geography of Nonviolence American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2023-01-25 Nico Slate
In the summer of 1954, the Highlander Folk School, a racially integrated institution located in the hills of Tennessee, hosted a series of workshops on the United Nations. Highlander’s UN workshops cultivated a grassroots globalism that aimed to connect the UN to local action on behalf of racial integration. Yet while the workshops helped raise awareness about the work of the UN, they failed to directly
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Decolonizing Renaissance Humanism American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Stuart Michael McManus
This article traces the origins of the Eurocentric vision of Renaissance humanism and shows that in fact the revival of letters in thirteenth-century Italy had a much wider impact than traditionally thought. This “decolonized” vision of Renaissance humanism is centered on three trends: imperial humanism (humanist ideas of empire, both within and beyond the metropole), Indo-humanism (syncretic humanisms
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Reading beneath the Skin American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Sebestian Kroupa
This article explores the early modern encounter between Spanish colonizers and the Visayans, tattooed Indigenous people of the Philippines. Skin has commonly featured as a marker of human difference in studies of colonial interactions. By tracing how Spanish responses to tattooing were negotiated locally using preexisting and newly emerging terminologies, I suggest that there was no fixed framework
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A Diaspora Moment American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Joseph Ben Prestel
While the West German Left had been a staunch supporter of Israel until 1967, ties between Palestinians and the country’s radical Left flourished after the Six-Day War. At the same time, a Palestine solidarity movement emerged in the Federal Republic. Since the late 1970s, these ties weakened again, and critical questions about Palestinian politics multiplied. How can historians explain these ebbs
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Seeing Madness in the Archives American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Ariel Mae Lambe
What does it mean for the historian to be silent about mental illness in her life and also to perceive silence about mental illness in the archives? This essay explores the significance of the historian seeing mental illness and ableism in the historical archive, in her family history, and in herself. It examines the significance of mad identity for the historian, her historical subjects, and the discipline
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Skull Walls American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Christopher Heaney
From 1820 through 1920, American anthropologists acquired more human remains of Andean origin than those of any other individual population worldwide. Samuel George Morton, the Smithsonian, Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, and the American Museum of Natural History all made “ancient Peruvians” core to their collections, racializing the Americas’ past and present by using “ancient
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Urdu Ethics Literature and the Diversity of Muslim Thought in Colonial India American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Farina Mir
This essay discusses Urdu-language akhlaq (ethics) texts produced and circulated in late-colonial India (1858–1947), situating them both within a classical genre of Islamic ethics and in the context of Indian vernacular print culture. It focuses on three akhlaq texts published between the 1870s and 1930s to consider contemporary Muslim ethical concerns and schema, arguing that the genre points to a
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Translating God on the Borders of Sovereignty American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Gili Kliger
Over the long nineteenth century, translations of Christian scripture into indigenous languages were produced at a far greater rate than at any time previously, a product of both the rise of the modern Protestant missionary movement and the acceleration of British imperial and Anglo settler colonial conquest. This article explores a dimension of the global evangelical translation project: the translation
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The Limits of Brotherhood American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2022-09-28 Andrew Preston
Historians now recognize the political significance the Protestant ecumenical movement of the early twentieth century. American ecumenists contributed to the architecture of international organization and were among the first to promote a global discourse of human rights, and ecumenical plans for world order were designed for the peaceful spread of national self-determination and to combat racial prejudice
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Hassan Malik. Bankers and Bolsheviks: International Finance and the Russian Revolution. American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Ironside K.
MalikHassan. Bankers and Bolsheviks: International Finance and the Russian Revolution. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018. Pp. xviii, 296. Cloth $35.00.
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Stuart Schrader. Badges without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing. American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Felker-Kantor M.
SchraderStuart. Badges without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2019. Pp. xi, 393. Paper $34.95.
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Index of Topics, Volume 126 American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2022-02-09
African American
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Documents and Bibliographies American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2022-02-09
Books listed were recently received in the AHR office. Works of these types cannot normally be reviewed by the AHR.
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Digital Resources American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2022-02-09
The Digital Resources section provides links to freely accessible online content, including archival collections of primary sources, interactive media, podcasts, visual and oral histories, and public history resources of all kinds. The sites identified here draw on the expertise of AHR staff, the Board of Editors, Indiana University History Librarian Scott Libson, and readers. Readers are encouraged
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Stephen A. Toth. Mettray: A History of France’s Most Venerated Carceral Institution. American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Ashley SA.
TothStephen A.. Mettray: A History of France’s Most Venerated Carceral Institution. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019. Pp. xii, 263. Cloth $47.95, e-book $31.99.
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Brian Ladd. The Streets of Europe: The Sights, Sounds, and Smells That Shaped Its Great Cities. American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Clark CE.
LaddBrian. The Streets of Europe: The Sights, Sounds, and Smells That Shaped Its Great Cities. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 303. Cloth $30.00, e-book $17.99.
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Margaret M. Scull. The Catholic Church and the Northern Ireland Troubles, 1968–1998. American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Todd J.
ScullMargaret M.. The Catholic Church and the Northern Ireland Troubles, 1968–1998. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. xii, 236. Cloth $85.00.
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Thomas A. Foster. Rethinking Rufus: Sexual Violations of Enslaved Men. American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Doddington D.
FosterThomas A.. Rethinking Rufus: Sexual Violations of Enslaved Men. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2019. Pp. xv, 174. Cloth $99.95, paper $22.95.
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Communications American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2022-02-09
A letter to the editor will be considered only if it relates to an article or review published in this journal; publication is solely at the editors’ discretion. The AHA disclaims responsibility for statements, of either fact or opinion, made by the writers. Letters should not exceed 1,000 words. They can be submitted by e-mail to ahr@indiana.edu, or by the postal service to Editor, American Historical
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In This Issue American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2022-02-09
The December 2021 issue of the American Historical Review takes readers from sensory histories of wildlife conservation to transnational Black agrarianism and to the journal’s first experiment in open peer review.
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Index to American Historical Review, Volume 126 American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2022-02-09
The titles of articles in the AHR are enclosed in quotation marks, and titles of books and films reviewed are printed in italics. Books of collected essays listed but not reviewed are designated by (E). The reviewer of a book or film is designated by (R), the author of a letter for the Communications section by (C).
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Robert Weis. For Christ and Country: Militant Catholic Youth in Post-revolutionary Mexico. American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 López-Menéndez M.
WeisRobert. For Christ and Country: Militant Catholic Youth in Post-revolutionary Mexico. (Cambridge Latin American Studies, no. 115.) New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xi, 200. Cloth $99.99.
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John Martin-Joy. Diagnosing from a Distance: Debates over Libel Law, Media, and Psychiatric Ethics from Barry Goldwater to Donald Trump. American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Pettit M.
Martin-JoyJohn. Diagnosing from a Distance: Debates over Libel Law, Media, and Psychiatric Ethics from Barry Goldwater to Donald Trump. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Cloth $69.99, paper $25.99.
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Nate Holdren. Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era. American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Huyssen D.
HoldrenNate. Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xvii, 292. Cloth $59.99.
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Uditi Sen. Citizen Refugee: Forging the Indian Nation after Partition. American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Kudaisya G.
SenUditi. Citizen Refugee: Forging the Indian Nation after Partition. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xvi, 285. Cloth $99.99, e-book $80.00.
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Michael P. Winship. Hot Protestants: A History of Puritanism in England and America. American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Hoberman M.
WinshipMichael P.. Hot Protestants: A History of Puritanism in England and America. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018. Pp. xiii, 351. Cloth $28.00.
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Jessica Meyer. An Equal Burden: The Men of the Royal Army Medical Corps in the First World War. American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Anderson J.
MeyerJessica. An Equal Burden: The Men of the Royal Army Medical Corps in the First World War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. ix, 220. Cloth $85.00.
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Peter C. Mancall. The Trials of Thomas Morton: An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for New England. American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Bailey RA.
MancallPeter C.. The Trials of Thomas Morton: An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for New England. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019. Pp. ix, 278. Cloth $30.00.
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Ben Mercer. Student Revolt in 1968: France, Italy and West Germany. American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Brown T.
MercerBen. Student Revolt in 1968: France, Italy and West Germany. (New Studies in European History.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. ix, 301. Cloth $99.99, e-book $80.00.
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Nadja Durbach. Many Mouths: The Politics of Food from the Workhouse to the Welfare State. American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Steedman C.
DurbachNadja. Many Mouths: The Politics of Food from the Workhouse to the Welfare State. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xii, 363. Cloth $44.99.
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Rosie Bsheer. Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia. American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Menoret P.
BsheerRosie. Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. Pp. 416. Paper $30.00.
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Collected Essays American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2022-02-09
These volumes, recently received in the AHR office, do not lend themselves readily to unified reviews; the contents are therefore listed.
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Alan Forrest. The Death of the French Atlantic: Trade, War, and Slavery in the Age of Revolution. American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Banks K.
ForrestAlan. The Death of the French Atlantic: Trade, War, and Slavery in the Age of Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xix, 320. Cloth $47.95.
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Velayutham Saravanan. Water and the Environmental History of Modern India. American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Sen S.
SaravananVelayutham. Water and the Environmental History of Modern India. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Pp. xviii, 243. Cloth $115.00, e-book $103.50.
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John L. Rury. Creating the Suburban School Advantage: Race, Localism, and Inequality in an American Metropolis. American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Duncan-Shippy EM.
RuryJohn L.. Creating the Suburban School Advantage: Race, Localism, and Inequality in an American Metropolis. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020. Pp. xiii, 255. Cloth $39.95, e-book $19.99.
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Lynn A. Struve. The Dreaming Mind and the End of the Ming World. American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Kafalas PA.
StruveLynn A.. The Dreaming Mind and the End of the Ming World. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2019. Pp. x, 319. Cloth $72.00.
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David Hardiman. The Nonviolent Struggle for Indian Freedom, 1905–19. American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Mukherjee M.
HardimanDavid. The Nonviolent Struggle for Indian Freedom, 1905–19. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xii, 280. Cloth $49.95.
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Joanna Newman. Nearly the New World: The British West Indies and the Flight from Nazism, 1933–1945. American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Grossmann A.
NewmanJoanna. Nearly the New World: The British West Indies and the Flight from Nazism, 1933–1945. New York: Berghahn Books, 2019. Pp. xii, 307. Cloth $150.00, paper $34.95.
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Magda Teter. Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth. American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Schainker ER.
TeterMagda. Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. Pp. xii, 539. Cloth $39.95.
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Sophie White. Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana. American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Ogborn M.
WhiteSophie. Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana. Williamsburg, VA: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture; Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. Pp. xviii, 286. Cloth $32.50, e-book $25.99.
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Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec. The Cry of Vertières: Liberation, Memory, and the Beginning of Haiti. American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Stieber C.
Le GlaunecJean-Pierre. The Cry of Vertières: Liberation, Memory, and the Beginning of Haiti. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020. Pp. xi, 216. Cloth $34.95 CAD.
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Ignacio Martínez. The Intimate Frontier: Friendship and Civil Society in Northern New Spain. American Historical Review (IF 1.807) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Brown T.
MartínezIgnacio. The Intimate Frontier: Friendship and Civil Society in Northern New Spain. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2019. Pp. ix, 228. Cloth $55.00, e-book $55.00.