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Reply-to: <hbooks@mail.h-net.msu.edu> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:00:01 -0400 Subject: H-Net reviews posted to the web 06 Apr 2009 - 13 Apr 2009 The following reviews were posted to the H-Net web site between 06 Apr 2009 and 13 Apr 2009. Reviewed for H-German by Brian G.H. Ditcham Lorenz, Maren. _Das Rad der Gewalt: Militär und Zivilbevölkerung in Norddeutschland nach dem Dreißigjährigen Krieg (1650-1700)_. Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, 2007. 484 pp. , ISBN 978-3-412-11606-4. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=15653 Reviewed for H-CivWar by Carl Moneyhon Reynolds, Donald E.. _Texas Terror: The Slave Insurrection Panic of 1860 and the Secession of the Lower South_. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. Plates. xii + 237 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8071-3283-8. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23533 Reviewed for H-Russia by Michael C. Hickey Pirani, Simon. _Russian Revolution in Retreat, 1920-24: Soviet Workers and the New Communist Elite, The_. London: Routledge, 2008. xiv + 289 pp. $160.00, ISBN 978-0-415-43703-5. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23572 Reviewed for H-Minerva by Heather M. Stur Alvah, Donna. _Unofficial Ambassadors: American Military Families Overseas and the Cold War, 1946-1965_. New York: New York University Press, 2007 .. xi + 291 pp. $42.00, ISBN 978-0-8147- 0501-8. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23643 Reviewed for H-Diplo by Bernd Schaefer Von Dannenberg, Julia. _Foundations of Ostpolitik: The Making of the Moscow Treaty between West Germany and the USSR, The_. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. xvi + 301 pp. $110.00, ISBN 978-0-19-922819-5. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23693 Reviewed for H-German by Alexander Peter d'Erizans Huber, Sonya. _Opa Nobody_. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xvi + 358 pp. Illustrations , ISBN 978-0-8032-1080- 6. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23769 Reviewed for H-German by Asaph Ben-Tov Maissen, Thomas; Walther, Gerrit, eds.. _Funktionen des Humanismus: Studien zum Nutzen des Neuen in der humanistischen Kultur_. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2006. 414 pp. , ISBN 978- 3-8353-0025-5. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23774 Reviewed for H-German by Robert Knight Klambauer, Karl. _Österreichische Gedenkkultur zu Widerstand und Krieg: Denkmäler und Gedächtnisorte in Wien 1945 bis 1986_. Der Nationalsozialismus und seine Folgen. Innsbruck: StudienVerlag, 2006. 333 pp. , ISBN 978-3-7065-4076-6. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23781 Reviewed for H-German by Kyle Jantzen Lanckoronska, Karolina. _Michelangelo in RavensbrB Cck: One Woman's War against the Nazis_. Translated by Noel Clark. Cambridge: Da Capo Press, Incorporated, 2007. 368 pp. , ISBN 978-0-306-81537- 9. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23782 Reviewed for H-German by Warren Rosenblum Schauz, Désirée; Freitag, Sabine, eds.. _Verbrecher im Visier der Experten: Kriminalpolitik zwischen Wissenschaft und Praxis im 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert_. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2007. 334 pp. , ISBN 978-3-515-09055-1. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23784 Reviewed for H-German by J. Laurence Hare Stoy, Manfred. _Das Österreichische Institut für Geschichtsforschung 1929-1945_. Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, Ergänzungsbände. Munich: Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2007. 423 pp. EUR 49.80, ISBN 978-3-7029- 0551-4. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23828 Reviewed for H-German by Edward N. Snyder Enzensberger, Hans Magnus. _Hammerstein oder der Eigensinn: Eine deutsche Geschichte_. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Taschenbuch Verlag, 2008. 376 pp. , ISBN 978-3-518-41960-1. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23839 Reviewed for H-German by Daniel Fraenkel Fackenheim, Emil L.. _Epitaph for German Judaism: From Halle to Jerusalem, An_. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2007. xxxiv + 327 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-299-17590-0. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23941 Reviewed for H-German by Sonja Mekel Panwitz, Sebastian. _Die Gesellschaft der Freunde 1792-1935: Berliner Juden zwischen Aufklärung und Hochfinanz_. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag - Weidmannsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 2007. 335 pp. , ISBN 978-3-487-13346-1. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=23952 Reviewed for H-German by Jennifer L. Welsh Swanson, Robert N.. _Promissory Notes on the Treasury of Merits: Indulgences in Late Medieval Europe_. Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition Series. Leiden: Brill, 2006. xii + 360 p. , ISBN 978-90-04-15287-8. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24015 Reviewed for H-Asia by Maya Chadda Rudolph, Lloyd I.; Rudolph, Susanne Hoeber. _Explaining Indian Democracy: A Fifty Year Perspective, 1956-2006, vol. 1, The Realm of Ideas Inquiry and Theory_. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. 336 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-19-569364-5. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24092 Reviewed for H-German by Ruth Starkman Wiese, Christian. _Life and Thought of Hans Jonas: Jewish Dimensions, The_. Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2007. xxvii + 260 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-1-58465-638-8. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24119 Reviewed for H-War by Yannick Cormier 0 Scheck, Raffael. _Hitler's African Victims: The German Army Massacres of Black French Soldiers in 1940_. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xii + 202 pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-521- 85799-4. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24173 Reviewed for H-Law by Amanda I. Seligman Jones, Patrick D.. _Selma of the North: Civil Rights Insurgency in Milwaukee, The_. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009. Plates. 318 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-674-03135-7. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24221 Reviewed for H-Albion by Adam Kitzes Gowland, Angus. _Worlds of Renaissance Melancholy: Robert Burton in Context, The_. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xii + 338 pp. $99.00, ISBN 978-0-521-86768-9. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24244 Reviewed for H-CivWar by Anne Peterson Lee, Anthony W.; Young, Elizabeth. _On Alexander Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War_. Defining Moments in American Photography Series. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. 119 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-0-520-25151-9. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24340 Reviewed for H-German by James M. Brophy Planert, Ute. _Der Mythos vom Befreiungskrieg: Frankreichs Kriege und der deutsche Süden: Alltag Wahrnehmnung Deutung 1792- 1841_. Krieg in der Geschichte. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh 20Verlag, 2007. 738 pp. EUR 68.00, ISBN 978-3-506-75662-6. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24357 Reviewed for Jhistory by Patricia Baldwin Caron, James Edward. _Mark Twain: Unsanctified Newspaper Reporter_. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. xiv + 448 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8262-1802-5. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24388 Reviewed for H-CivWar by Brian S. Wills Gallagher, Gary W.. _Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War_. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. 288 pp. $28.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3206-6. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24405 Reviewed for H-Africa by Nancy Jacobs Nugent, Paul. _Africa since Independence: A Comparative History_. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. xix + 620 pp. $99.95, ISBN 978-0-333-68272-2. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24407 Reviewed for H-Minerva by Heather M. Stur Jensen, Kimberly. _Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War_. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xvii + 244 pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03237-0. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24422 Reviewed for H-HistGeog by Donal O'Sullivan Werner, Hans. _Imagined Homes: Soviet German Immigrants in Two Cities_. Studies in Immigration and Culture Series. Winnipeg: University=2 0of Manitoba Press, 2007. 297 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0- 88755-701-9. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24448 Reviewed for H-Urban by Kate Rousmaniere Lyons, John F.. _Teachers and Reform: Chicago Public Education, 1929-1970_. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2008. 312 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03272-1. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24506 Reviewed for H-Canada by Claudia Kotte Melnyk, George, ed.. _Young, the Restless, and the Dead: Interviews with Canadian Filmmakers, The_. Volume 1. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008. Illustrations. 150 pp. $18.95, ISBN 978-1-55458-036-1. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24515 Reviewed for H-Environment by Matthew Evenden Dunwell, Frances F.. _Hudson: America's River, The_. Columbia University Press, 2008. 320 p. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-231-13641-9. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24545 Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Nikolai Wehrs Geppert, Dominik; Hacke, Jens. _Streit um den Staat: Intellektuelle Debatten in der Bundesrepublik 1960-1980_. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008. 292 S. , ISBN 978-3- 525-36758-2. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24610 Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Claudia Weber Getty, J. Arch; Naumov, Oleg V.. _Yezhov: The Rise of Stalin's "Iron Fist"_. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. 320 S. 20$35.00, ISBN 978-0-300-09205-9. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24611 Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Monika Mattes Caruso, Clelia; Pleinen, Jenny; Raphael, Lutz. _Postwar Mediterranean Migration to Western Europe: La migration méditerranéenne en Europe occidentale après 1945. Legal and Political Frameworks, Sociability and Memory Cultures. Droit et politique, sociabilité et mémoires_. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang/Frankfurt, 2008. 261 S. $65.95, ISBN 978-3-631-58323-4. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24612 Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Marc Buggeln Des Pres, Terrence. _Der Überlebende - Anatomie der Todeslager: Mit einem Nachwort von Arno Gruen. Aus dem Englischen von Monika Schiffer_. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 2008. 248 S. , ISBN 978-3- 608-94420-4. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24613 Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Hanna Steinmetz Schug, Alexander. _Palast der Republik: Politischer Diskurs und private Erinnerung_. Berlin: BWV Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag, 2007. 395 S. , ISBN 978-3-8305-1373-5. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24619 Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Michael Pesek Michels, Eckard. _"Der Held von Deutsch-Ostafrika": Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck: Ein preußischer Kolonialoffizier_. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag, 2008. 435 S. , ISBN 978-3-506-76370- 9. http://www.h- net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24620 Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Robert Gramsch Houben, Hubert. _Kaiser Friedrich II. (1194-1250): Herrscher, Mensch, Mythos_. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Verlag, 2007. 262 S., 28 Abb. , ISBN 978-3-17-018683-5. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24621 Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Max Bloch Welzbacher, Christian. _Edwin Redslob: Biographie eines unverbesserlichen Idealisten_. Berlin: Matthes & Seitz Verlag, 2009. 544 S. , ISBN 978-3-88221-734-6. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24625 Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Alexandra Oberländer Kaganovsky, Lilya. _How the Soviet Man Was Unmade: Cultural Fantasy and Male Subjectivity Under Stalin_. Pittsburgh PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008. 226 S. $60.00, ISBN 978-0- 8229-4321-1. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24626 Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Martin C. Wald Doering, Michael. _Das sperrige Erbe: Die Revolutionen von 1848/49 im Spiegel deutscher Schulgeschichtsbücher (1890-1945)_. Münster: Waxmann Verlag, 2008. 562 S. , ISBN 978-3-8309-2074-8. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24627 Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Ewald Grothe Gosewinkel, Dieter; Masing, Johannes; Würschinger, Andreas. _Die Verfassungen in Europa 1789-1949: Wissenschaftliche Textedition unter Einschluß sämtlicher Änderungen und Ergänzungen sowie mit Dokumenten aus der englischen und amerikanischen Verfassungsgeschichte_. München: C.H. Beck Verlag, 2006. XXVI, 2116 S. , ISBN 978-3-406-55169-7. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24630 Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Adam Hudek Kope?ek, Michal. _Past in the Making: Recent History Revisions and Historical Revisionism in Central Europe after 1989_. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2008. 264 S. $41.95, ISBN 978-963-9776-02-9. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24631 Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Stefan Zahlmann Arnold, Klaus; Behmer, Markus; Semrad, Bernd. _Kommunikationsgeschichte: Positionen und Werkzeuge. Ein diskursives Hand- und Lehrbuch_. Münster: LIT Verlag, 2008. 458 S. , ISBN 978-3-8258-1309-3. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=24632
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