2018 Book reviews
The Sino-Soviet Alliance: An International History. Austin Jersild. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2014. ISBN: 9781469629834.
Reviewed by Lydia LaFavor, Ph.D. student, Auburn University
Edited by Sarah R. Hamilton
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India China: Rethinking Borders and Security. L. H. M. Ling, Adriana Erthal Abdenur, Payal Banerjee, Nimmi Kurian, Mahendra P. Lama, and Li Bo. Configurations: Critical Studies of World Politics, ed. Patrick Thaddeus Jackson. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016. ISBN: 9780472130061.
Reviewed by Budd Jones, Ph.D. student, Auburn University
Edited by Sarah R. Hamilton
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The Dutch Moment: War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World. Wim Klooster. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016. ISBN: 9780801450457.
Reviewed by Neil Humphrey, MA Student, Auburn University
Edited by Sarah R. Hamilton
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Shaping The New World: African Slavery in the Americas, 1500-1888. Eric Nellis. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. ISBN: 9781442605558.
Reviewed by Andrew Harrison Baker, Ph.D. Student, Auburn University
Edited by Sarah R. Hamilton
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Captives: How Stolen People Changed the World. Catherine M. Cameron. Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press, 2016. ISBN: 0803293992.
Reviewed by Michael J. Megelsh, Ph.D. Student, Auburn University
Edited by Sarah R. Hamilton
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Sustaining Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century: Strategies from Latin America. Katherine Hite and Mark Ungar, eds. Washington, D.C. : Baltimore: Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. ISBN: 978142141012.
Reviewed by Victoria Skelton, Ph.D. student, Auburn University
Edited by Sarah R. Hamilton
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Chinese Mexicans: Transpacific Migration and the Search for a Homeland, 1910-1960. Julia Maria Schiavone Camacho. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780807835401.
Reviewed by Craig A. Lockard, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
Edited by Ashley Dressel
© 2018 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 16, Spring 2018 http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org.
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A New History of Britain Since 1688: Four Nations and an Empire. Susan Kingsley Kent. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. ISBN: 9780199846504.
Reviewed by Justin Quinn Olmstead, University of Central Oklahoma
Edited by Birgit Schneider
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Hikikomori: Adolescence without End. Saito Tamaki. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780816654598.
Reviewed by Daniel Fandino
Edited by Mariona Lloret
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Democracy: A World History. Temma Kaplan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. ISBN: 9780195338089.
Reviewed by Mitchell Smith, Ohio University
Edited by Jill Gaeta
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Mex-ciné: Mexican Filmmaking, Production, and Consumption in the Twenty-first Century. Frederick Luis Aldama. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780472051939.
Reviewed by Sarah Foss, Indiana University
Edited by Jill Gaeta
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Changing Women, Changing Nation: Female Agency, Nationhood, and Identity in Trans-Salvadoran Narratives. Yajaira Padilla. Albany: SUNY Press, 2012. ISBN: 9781438442778.
Reviewed by Carolina Rocha, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Edited by Karen Rosenflanz
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Regulating Prostitution in China: Gender and Local Statebuilding, 1900–1937. Elizabeth J. Remick. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2014. ISBN: 9780804788366.
Reviewed by Jie Gao, Murray State University
Edited by Jeanne E. Grant
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The Ottoman Scramble for Africa: Empire and Diplomacy in the Sahara and the Hijaz. Mostafa Minawi. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016. ISBN: 9780804799270.
Reviewed by Daniel Cone, Ph.D. student, Auburn University
Edited by Sarah R. Hamilton
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