2009-2010 History Faculty Book Reviews

2009-2010 History Faculty Book Reviews

Department of History

Research News Archive 2009 - 2010

Faculty Research

Book Reviews

Berkhofer, Robert. Review of The Serf, the Knight, and the Historian, by Dominique Barthélemy. Choice (November 2009).

Brandão, J.A. Review of Onontio le mediateur: La gestion des conflits amérindiens en Nouvelle-France, 1603-1717, by Maxime Gohier. Canadian Historical Review (Spring 2010).

Brandão, J.A. Review of Lines Drawn Upon the Water: First Nations and The Great Lakes Borders and Borderlands, edited by Karl S. Hele. Michigan Historical Review 35:2 (Fall 2009): 116-17.

Chiarappa, Michael J. Review of Hunting and Fishing in the New South: Black Labor and White Leisure after the Civil War, by Scott E. Giltner. Environmental History 15 (January 2010): 138-140.

Hadden, Sally. Review of Mrs. Dred Scott: A Life on Slavery's Frontier, by Lea VanderVelde. American Historical Review 114 (2009): 1451-1452.

Kachun, Mitch. Review of Abolitionists Remember: Antislavery Autobiographies and the Unfinished Work of Emancipation, by Julie Roy Jeffrey. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 133:3 (July 2009): 300-302.

Lyon-Jenness, Cheryl. Review of Fruits and Plains: The Horticultural Transformation of America, by Philip J. Pauly. Winterthur Portfolio 44:2-3 (Summer/Autumn 2010): 257-8.

Lyon-Jenness, Cheryl. Review of High Plains Horticulture: A History, by John F. Freeman. Agricultural History 84:2 (Spring 2010): 258-9.

Martini, Edwin. Review of Vietnam at War, by Mark Bradley. Journal of Vietnamese Studies 5:1 (Winter 2009): 218-221.

Palmitessa, James. "Příspěvek k dějinám myšlení pobělohorského exilu." Review of Eschatologie, Vědění a Politika, by Vladimír Urbánek. Austrian History Yearbook LXI (2010): 284.

Pyenson, L. Review of Beyond Borders: Fresh Perspectives in History of Science, edited by Josep Simon and Néstor Herran with Tayra Lanuza-Navarro, Pedro Ruiz-Castell and Ximo Guillem-Llobat. British Journal for the History of Science 42:153 (2009): 299-301.

Rubin, Eli. Review of Designing Modern Germany, by Jeremy Aynsley. German History, (Summer 2010).

Xiong, Victor. Review of Beacon Fire and Shooting Star: The Literary Culture of the Liang (502–557), by Xiaofei Tian. Chinese Historical Review 17:1 (2010), 110–113.

 

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