2021 Book reviews
Imperial Peripheries in the Neo-Assyrian Period. Edited by Craig W. Tyson and Virginia R. Hermann. University Press of Colorado, 2019. ISBN: 9781607328223.
Reviewed by Alexander Johannes Edmonds, University of Tübingen
Edited by Julie Tanaka and Sarah Pesola
© 2021 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 22, Fall 2021 http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org.
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Lisbon: A Biography. Magda Pinheiro. Translated by Mario Pereira. Dartmouth, MA: Tagus Press, 2019. ISBN: 9781933227757.
Reviewed by Ernst Pijning, Minot State University
Edited by Julie Tanaka
© 2021 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 22, Fall 2021 http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org.
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Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea. David Fedman. University of Washington Press, 2020. ISBN: 9780295747453.
Reviewed by Steven Ivings, Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University
Edited by Birgit Schneider
© 2021 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 22, Fall 2021 http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org.
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Soldiers, Saints, and Shamans: Indigenous Communities and the Revolutionary State in Mexico’s Gran Nayar, 1910-1940. Nathanial Morris. University of Arizona Press, 2021. ISBN: 9780816541027.
Reviewed by Joshua Simon, Columbia University
Edited by Jeanne E. Grant and Sarah Pesola
© 2021 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 22, Fall 2021 http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org.
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The Crown and the Capitalists: The Ethnic Chinese and the Founding of the Thai Nation. Wasana Wongsurawat. University of Washington Press, 2019. ISBN: 9780295746241.
Reviewed by Fabrizio Martino, Chulalongkorn University-Bangkok
Edited by Birgit Schneider and Sarah Pesola
© 2021 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 22, Fall 2021 http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org.
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I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir. Esther Safran Foer. Random House, 2020. ISBN: 9780525575986.
Inge’s War: A German Woman’s Story of Family, Secrets, and Survival under Hitler. Svenja O’Donnell. Viking, 2020. ISBN: 9781984880215.
Review essay by Laura J. Hilton, Muskingum University
Edited by Jeanne E. Grant and Sarah Pesola
© 2021 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 22, Fall 2021 http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org.
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Gendered Power: Educated Women of the Meiji Empress’ Court. Mamiko C. Suzuki. University of Michigan Press, 2021. ISBN: 9780807174302.
Reviewed by Daniel Barish, Baylor University
Edited by Birgit Schneider
© 2021 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 22, Fall 2021 http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org.
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Chow Chop Suey: Food and the Chinese American Journey. Anne Mendelson. Columbia University Press, 2016. ISBN: 9780231541299.
Reviewed by Elizabeth Fuhan Mason, M.A. student, San Francisco State University
Edited by Julie Tanaka
© 2021 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 22, Fall 2021 http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org.
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Sweet Land of Liberty: America in the Mind of the French Left, 1848-1871. Tom Sancton. Louisiana State University Press, 2021. ISBN: 9780807174302.
Reviewed by Michael Clinton, Gwynedd Mercy University
Edited by Julie Tanaka
© 2021 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 22, Fall 2021 http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org.
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In a Sea of Empires: Networks and Crossings in the Revolutionary Caribbean. Jeppe Mulich. Cambridge University Press, 2020. ISBN: 9781108489720.
Reviewed by Christopher Marshall, University of Wisconsin-Stout
Edited by Jeanne E. Grant and Sarah Pesola
© 2021 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 22, Fall 2021 http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org.
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The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions. Jeffrey D. Sachs. Columbia University Press, 2020. ISBN: 9780231193740.
Reviewed by J. Justin Castro, Arkansas State University
Edited by Birgit Schneider
© 2021 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 22, Fall 2021 http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org.
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The Global Bourgeoisie: The Rise of the Middle Class in the Age of Empire. Christof Dejung, David Motadel, and Jürgen Osterhammel, eds. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. ISBN: 9780691195834.
Reviewed by Steven Ivings, Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University
Edited by Justin Quinn Olmstead and Sarah Pesola
© 2021 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 22, Fall 2021 http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org.
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Asian Place, Filipino Nation: A Global Intellectual History of the Philippine Revolution, 1887-1912. Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz. Columbia University Press, 2020. ISBN: 9780231192156.
Reviewed by Tristan Miguel Osteria, University of Santo Tomas
Edited by Birgit Schneider
© 2021 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 22, Fall 2021 http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org.
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Russia’s Entangled Embrace: The Tsarist Empire and the Armenians, 1801-1914. Stephen Badalyan Riegg. Cornell University Press, 2020. ISBN: 9781501750113.
Reviewed by Krista Sigler, University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College
Edited by Birgit Schneider
© 2021 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 22, Fall 2021 http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org.
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Teaching World History Thematically: Essential Questions and Document-Based Lessons to Connect Past and Present. Rosalie Metro. New York: Teachers College Press, 2020. ISBN 9780807764466.
Reviewed by Stephen Jackson, University of Sioux Falls
Edited by Birgit Schneider and Sarah Pesola
© 2021 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 21, Spring 2021 http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org.
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State Formation in the Liberal Era: Capitalisms and claims of Citizenship in Mexico and Peru. Edited by Ben Fallaw and David Nugent. University of Arizona Press, 2020. ISBN: 9780816540389.
Reviewed by Andrea K. Moerer, Saint Paul Academy and Metropolitan State University
Edited by Jeanne E. Grant and Sarah Pesola
© 2021 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 21, Spring 2021 http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org.
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A Slave Between Empires: A Transimperial History of North Africa. M’hamed Oualdi. Columbia University Press, 2020. ISBN: 9780231191869.
Reviewed by Jennifer M. Morris, Ph.D., Mount St. Joseph University, Cincinnati, Ohio
Edited by Jeanne E. Grant and Sarah Pesola
© 2021 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 21, Spring 2021 http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org.
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On the Sultan’s Service: Halid Ziya Usakligil’s Memoir of the Ottoman Palace, 1909-1912. Translated and Edited by Douglas Scott Brookes. University of Indiana Press, 2020. ISBN: 9780253045515.
Reviewed by James N. Tallon, Lewis University
Edited by Julie Tanaka and Sarah Pesola
© 2021 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 21, Spring 2021 http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org.
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People’s Wars in China, Malaya, and Vietnam. Mark Opper. University of Michigan Press, 2019. ISBN: 9780472131846.
Reviewed by David Fitzgerald, University College Cork, Ireland
Edited by Julie K. Tanaka and Sarah Pesola
© 2021 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 21, Spring 2021 http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org.
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In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Repatriates. Jana K. Lipman. University of California Press, 2019. ISBN: 9780226665788.
Reviewed by Peter Gatrell, University of Manchester
Edited by Birgit Schneider and Sarah Pesola
© 2021 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 21, Spring 2021 http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org.
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Partitioning Palestine: British Policymaking at the End of Empire. Penny Sinanoglou. University of Chicago Press, 2019. ISBN: 9780226665788.
Reviewed by Frank Zator, M.A., University of Chicago
Edited by Birgit Schneider
© 2021 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 21, Spring 2021 http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org.
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Seapower States: Maritime Culture, Continental Empires and the Conflict that Made the Modern World. Andrew Lambert. Yale University Press, 2020. ISBN: 9780300251487.
Reviewed by Francisco M. Ortiz Delgado, Ph.D., Autonomous Metropolitan University, Mexico
Edited by Justin Quinn Olmstead and Jeanne Grant
© 2021 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 21, Spring 2021 http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org.
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Opening the Gates to Asia: A Transpacific History of How America Repealed Asian Exclusion. Grace H. Hong. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2019. ISBN 9781469653365.
Reviewed by Lei Zhang, Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota
Edited by Jeanne Grant
© 2021 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 21, Spring 2021 http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org.
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Learning to Die in London, 1380-1540. Amy Appleford. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. ISBN 9780812246698.
Reviewed by Katherine Pierpont, Ph.D. candidate, University of Minnesota
Edited by Jeanne Grant and Justin Quinn Olmstead
© 2021 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 21, Spring 2021 http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org.
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Pure Invention: How Japan’s Pop Culture Conquered the World. Matt Alt. New York: Crown, 2020. ISBN: 9781984826695.
Reviewed by Rustin B. Gates, Bradley University
Edited by Jeanne Grant
© 2021 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 21, Spring 2021 http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org.
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Beneath the Backbone of the World: Blackfoot People and the North American Borderlands, 1720-1877. Ryan Hall. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. ISBN: 9781469655154.
Reviewed by Jacob Jurss, Adjunct Professor of History, Metropolitan State University and University of St. Thomas
Edited by Sarah Pesola and Jeanne Grant
© 2021 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 21, Spring 2021 http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org.
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Peace on our Terms: The Global Battle for Women’s Rights after the First World War. Mona L. Siegel. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. ISBN: 9780231195102.
Reviewed by Susan Smith, Maple Grove High School, Maple Grove, Minnesota
Edited by Birgit Schneider, Sarah Pesola, and Jeanne Grant
© 2021 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 21, Spring 2021 http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org.
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Tatar Empire: Kazan’s Muslims and the Making of Imperial Russia. Danielle Ross. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020. ISBN: 9780253045706.
Reviewed by Mark A. Soderstrom, Aurora University
Edited by Jeanne E. Grant
© 2021 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 21, Spring 2021 http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org.
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Out of Our Minds: What We Think and How We Came to Think It. Felipe Fernández-Armesto. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019. ISBN: 9780520331075.
Reviewed by David C. Fisher, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Edited by Birgit Schneider
© 2021 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 21, Spring 2021 http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org.
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Idolatry and the Construction of the Spanish Empire. Mina García Soormally. Colorado: University of Colorado Press, 2019. ISBN: 9781607328001.
Reviewed by Lydia A. Perez, Master’s student, University of Central Oklahoma
Edited by Birgit Schneider and Justin Quinn Olmstead
© 2021 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 21, Spring 2021 http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org.
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The Phantom Image: Seeing the Dead in Ancient Rome. Patrick R. Crowley. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. ISBN: 9780226648293.
Reviewed by Joseph M. Snyder, Assistant Professor, Southeast Missouri State University
Edited by Julie Tanaka
© 2021 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 21, Spring 2021 http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org.
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Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town. Barbara Demick. New York: Penguin Random House, 2020. ISBN: 9780812998764.
Reviewed by Annima Bahukhandi, Assistant Professor, Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi
Edited by Julie Tanaka
© 2021 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 21, Spring 2021 http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org.
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Atlantic Studies: Prospects and Challenges. William Boelhower. University of Louisiana Press, 2019. ISBN: 9780807171639.
Reviewed by Len von Morzé, University of Massachusetts Boston
Edited by Justin Quinn Olmstead
© 2021 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 21, Spring 2021 http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org.
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