2019 Book reviews

Fighting Over Fidel: The New York Intellectuals and the Cuban Revolution. Rafael Rojas. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. ISBN: 9780691169514

Reviewed by Adrian Chavana, University of Minnesota

Edited by Ann Waltner

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Out of the Woods: Essays in Environmental History. Char Miller and Hal Rothman, eds. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997. ISBN:0822956314

Reviewed by Christian Ruth, University at Albany SUNY

Edited by Ashley Dressel

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The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Environmental Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-first Century. Third Edition. Robert B. Marks. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2015. ISBN: 9781442212404

Reviewed by Ezekiel Stear, Pasadena City College

Edited by Ashley Dressel

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Japan and the Shackles of the Past. R. Taggart Murphy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. ISBN: 9780190619589

Reviewed by Jonathan Dresner, Pittsburg State University, Kansas

Edited by Birgit Schneider

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Agents of Terror: Ordinary Men and Extraordinary Violence in Stalin’s Secret Police. Vatlin, Alexander. Translated by Seth Bernstein. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2016. ISBN: 9780299310806

Reviewed by Shalon van Tine, Ohio University

Edited by Jeanne E. Grant

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The Cuban Connection: Drug Trafficking, Smuggling, and Gambling in Cuba from the 1920s to the Revolution. Eduardo Sáenz Rovner. Translated by Russ Davidson. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. ISBN: 9781469632100

Reviewed by Michael Kadow, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities

Edited by Jeanne E. Grant

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Korea’s Occupied Cinema, 1893–1948: The Untold History of the Film Industry. Brian Yecies and Ae-Gyung Shim. New York: Routledge, 2011 (Routledge Advances in Film Studies). ISBN: 9780415740487.

Reviewed by Young Sun Park, University of Southern California

Edited by Martin Pflug

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The Global Transformation of Time: 1870–1950. Vanessa Ogle. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. ISBN: 0674286146

Reviewed by Thomas J. Anderson, Merrimack College

Edited by Karen Rosenflanz

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The News of Empire: Telegraphy, Journalism, and the Politics of Reporting in Colonial India c. 1830-1900. Amelia Bonea. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2016. ISBN: 9780199467129.

Reviewed by Andrew Schumacher Bethke, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities

Edited by Karen Rosenflanz

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Genocide: A World History. Norman M. Naimark. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. ISBN: 9780199765263.

Reviewed by Christoph Schiessl, Pierre Laclede Honors College, University of Missouri – St. Louis

Edited by Ashley Dressel

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The World and All the Things upon It: Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration. David A. Chang. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016. ISBN: 9780816699421.

Reviewed by Lawrence H. Kessler, Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine

Edited by Birgit Schneider

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Global Environmental History: An Introductory Reader. J.R. McNeill, and Alan Roe, eds. London/ New York: Routledge, 2013. ISBN: 978041552053.

Reviewed by Martin Kalb, Bridgewater College

Edited by Birgit Schneider

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