2022 Book reviews
The Ever-Changing Past: Why All History is Revisionist History. James M. Banner, Jr. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021. ISBN-13: 9780300238457.
Reviewed by Jonathan Dresner, Pittsburg State University, Kansas
Edited by Birgit Schneider and intern J. A. Bjork
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Family, Slavery, and Love in the Early American Republic: The Essays of Jan Ellen Lewis. Barry Bienstock, Annette Gordon-Reed, and Peter Onuf, eds. University of North Carolina Press, 2021. ISBN-13: 9781469665634.
Reviewed by Melissa DeVelvis, Augusta University
Edited by Birgit Schneider
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Bengal Muslims and Colonial Education, 1854-1947: A Study of Curriculum, Educational Institutions, and Communal Politics. Nilanjana Paul. Routledge, 2022. ISBN-13: 9780367278281.
Reviewed by Humayun Kabir, Assistant Teaching Professor, Thompson Rivers University
Edited by Jeanne E. Grant and intern J. A. Bjork
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Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement. Tiffany N. Florvil. University of Illinois Press, 2020. ISBN-13: 9780252085413.
Reviewed by Onyx Camille Henry, German Studies doctoral candidate, University of Michigan
Edited by Jeanne E. Grant and intern J. A. Bjork
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The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist: Three Lives in an Age of Empire. Kate Fullagar. Yale University Press, 2020. ISBN-13: 980300243062.
Reviewed by Evan C. Rothera, University of Arkansas – Fort Smith
Edited by Jeanne E. Grant
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Eastbound through Siberia: Observations from the Great Northern Expedition. George Wilhelm Steller, translated and annotated by Margritt A. Engel and Karen E. Willmore. Indiana University Press, 2020. ISBN-13: 9780253047786.
Reviewed by Daniel Blumlo, Rock Valley College
Edited by Jeanne E. Grant and intern J. A. Bjork
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Hajj to the Heart: Sufi Journeys across the Indian Ocean. Scott Kugle. The University of North Carolina Press, 2021. ISBN-13: 9781469665313.
Reviewed by Muhamed Riyaz Chenganakkattil, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Edited by Jeanne E. Grant and intern J. A. Bjork
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Spiritual Subjects: Central Asian Pilgrims and the Ottoman Hajj at the End of Empire. Lale Can. Stanford University Press, 2020. ISBN-13: 9781503611160.
Reviewed by Tyler Lynn, Central Connecticut State University
Edited by Jeanne E. Grant and intern J. A. Bjork
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The Cold War from the Margins: A Small Socialist State on the Global Cultural Scene. Theodora K. Dragostiova. Cornell University Press, 2021. ISBN: 9781501755552.
Reviewed by Martin K. Dimitrov, Tulane University
Edited by Birgit Schneider and intern J. A. Bjork
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Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India. Andrew B. Liu. Yale University Press, 2020. ISBN-13: 9780300243734.
Reviewed by Steven Ivings, Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University
Edited by Birgit Schneider and intern J. A. Bjork
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Warsaw Ghetto Police: The Jewish Order Service During the Nazi Occupation. Katarzyna Person. Trans. Zygmunt Nowak-Solinski. Cornell University Press, 2021. ISBN-13: 9781501754074.
Reviewed by Benjamin Harris, Teacher and Chair, Social Studies Department, Bishop Kelly High School, Boise, Idaho
Edited by Jeanne E. Grant and intern J. A. Bjork
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An Open Secret: The History of Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion in Modern Bolivia. Natalie L. Kimball. Rutgers University Press, 2020. ISBN-13: 9780813590752.
Reviewed by Maxine Molyneux, Professor of Sociology, University College London, Institute of the Americas
Edited by Jeanne E. Grant and intern J. A. Bjork
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Hiding in Plain Sight: Women Warriors throughout Time and Space. Christian P. Potholm. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. ISBN-13: 978153816712.
Reviewed by W. Cole Younger, doctoral candidate, University of Arkansas-Fayetteville
Edited by Jeanne E. Grant and intern J. A. Bjork
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Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor. Juned Shaikh. University of Washington Press, 2021. ISBN-13: 9780295748504.
Reviewed by Komal Mohite, doctoral candidate, Department of History and Classical Studies, McGill University
Edited by Jeanne E. Grant and intern J. A. Bjork
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The 1945 Burma Campaign and the Transformation of the British Indian Army. Raymond A. Callahan and Daniel Marston. Kansas University Press, 2021. ISBN: 9780700630417.
A War of Empires: Japan, India, Burma & Britain, 1941-45. Robert Lyman. Oxford: Osprey, 2021. ISBN: 9781472847140.
Review essay by George Wilton, independent scholar, Member of British Commission for Military History, Managing Editor of British Journal for Military History
Edited by Birgit Schneider, and intern J. A. Bjork
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Colonial Transactions: Imaginaries, Bodies, and Histories in Gabon. Florence Bernault. Duke University Press, 2019. ISBN: 9781478001584.
Reviewed by Ruth Ginio, Ben Gurion University of Negev
Edited by Jeanne E. Grant and intern J. A. Bjork
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Coming Home to a Foreign Country: Xiamen and Returned Overseas Chinese, 1843-1938. Ong Soon Keong. Cornell University Press, 2021. ISBN: 9781501756184.
Reviewed by Chris White, The Ohio State University
Edited by Jeanne E. Grant and intern J. A. Bjork
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The Library: A Fragile History. Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen. Basic Books, 2021. ISBN: 9781541600775.
Reviewed by James A. Bjork, Undergraduate, Metropolitan State University
Edited by Jeanne E. Grant
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Mapping Water in Dominica: Enslavement and Environment under Colonialism. Mark W. Hauser. University of Washington Press, 2021. ISBN: 9780295748726.
Reviewed by Peder Anker, New York University
Edited by Jeanne E. Grant and intern J. A. Bjork
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Argentina in the Global Middle East. Lilly Pearl Balloffet. Stanford University Press, 2020. ISBN: 9781503610310.
Reviewed by Emilio A. Parrado, University of Pennsylvania
Edited by Jeanne E. Grant and intern J. A. Bjork
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The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South. Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh. University of North Carolina Press, 2021. ISBN-13: 9781469663593.
Reviewed by Jason R. Young, University of Michigan
Edited by Julie Tanaka and intern Charles Dahl
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Climate Change and the Art of Devotion: Geoaesthetics in the Land of Krishna, 1550–1850. Sugata Ray. University of Washington Press, 2019. ISBN-13: 9780295745374.
Reviewed by Ann Grodzins Gold, Syracuse University
Edited by Julie Tanaka and interns J. A. Bjork and Charles Dahl
© 2022 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 23, Spring 2022 http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org.
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Queen, Mother, and Stateswoman: Mariana of Austria and the Government of Spain. Silvia Z. Mitchell. The Pennsylvania State University Press: 2019. ISBN-13: 9780271083384.
Reviewed by Valentina Marguerite Kozák, University Complutense of Madrid, Spain
Edited by Julie Tanaka and interns J. A. Bjork and Charles Dahl
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Consuming Ivory: Mercantile Legacies of East Africa and New England. Alexandra Celia Kelly. University of Washington Press, 2021. ISBN: 9780295747881.
Reviewed by Angela Thompsell, SUNY Brockport
Edited by Julie Tanaka and intern J. A. Bjork
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Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule. Gordon Thomas and Greg Lewis. Dutton Caliber, 2019. ISBN: 9780451489067.
Reviewed by Katlyn MW Rozovics, doctoral student, History, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Edited by Julie Tanaka and intern J. A. Bjork
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Rotten Bodies: Class and Contagion in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Kevin Siena. Yale University Press, 2019. ISBN: 9780300233520.
Reviewed by Christopher M. Blakley, Occidental College
Edited by Justin Quinn Olmstead, and interns J. A. Bjork and Charles Dahl
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Russia and Central Asia: Conquest, Coexistence, Convergence. Shoshana Keller. Toronto University Press, 2019. ISBN: 9781487594343.
Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present. Adeeb Khalid. Princeton University Press, 2021. ISBN: 9780691161396.
Modern Central Asia: A Primary Source Reader. Yuriy Malikov. Lexington Books, 2020. ISBN: 9781793612175.
Review essay by Alexander Morrison, New College, Oxford.
Edited by Birgit Schneider, and intern J. A. Bjork
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Guns, Guerillas, and the Great Leader: North Korea and the Third World. Benjamin R. Young. Stanford University Press, 2021. ISBN: 9781503627635.
Reviewed by Daniel Connolly, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
Edited by Julie Tanaka
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Abolishing Boundaries: Global Utopias in the Formation of Modern Chinese Political Thought, 1880-1940. Peter Zarrow. SUNY Press, 2021. ISBN: 9781438482828.
Reviewed by Stephen C. Angle, Wesleyan University
Edited by Birgit Schneider
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Coffeeland: One Man’s Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug. Augustine Sedgewick. Penguin Press, 2020. ISBN: 9780143110743.
Reviewed by Pablo Palomino, Emory University
Edited by Julie Tanaka
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The Imperial Russian Army in Peace, War, and Revolution, 1856-1917. Roger R. Reese. University Press of Kansas, 2019. ISBN: 9780700628605.
Reviewed by Jacob W. Kipp, University of Kansas
Edited by Justin Quinn Olmstead
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The Last Good Neighbor: Mexico in the Global Sixties. Eric Zolov. Duke University Press, 2020. ISBN: 9781478006206.
Reviewed by Sarah Osten, University of Vermont
Edited by Julie Tanaka
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Global Development: A Cold War History. Sara Lorenzini. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. ISBN-13: 9780691180151.
Reviewed by Thomas C. Field Jr., Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Edited by Birgit Schneider
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Colonialism in Global Perspective. Kris Manjapra. Cambridge University Press, 2020. ISBN-13: 9781108441360.
Reviewed by Joseph Snyder, Southeast Missouri State University
Edited by Julie Tanaka
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Between Fitness and Death: Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean. Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy. University of Illinois Press, 2020. ISBN-13: 9780252085062.
Reviewed by Zach Sell, Drexel University (now Brown University)
Edited by Julie Tanaka
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