2024 Book reviews

Art of the Grimoire: An Illustrated History of Magic Books and Spells. Owen Davies. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023. Hardcover ISBN: 9780300272017.

Reviewed by W. Cole Younger, PhD candidate, Department of History, University of Arkansas-Fayetteville

Edited by James A. Bjork

© 2024 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 27, Spring 2024 http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org.

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An Object of Seduction: Chinese Silk in the Early Modern Transpacific Trade, 1500-1700. Xiaolin Duan. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022. Hardcover ISBN: 9781793614902.

Reviewed by Michael C. Brose, Indiana University Bloomington

Edited by Birgit Schneider and James A. Bjork

© 2024 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 27, Spring 2024 http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org.

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Hungary Between Two Empires, 1526-1711. Géza Pálffy. Indiana University Press, 2021. Paperback ISBN: 9780253054654.

Reviewed by Kim Richardson, University of South Carolina, Lancaster

Edited by Jeanne E. Grant

© 2024 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 27, Spring 2024 http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org.

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Food in World History. Third Edition. Jeffrey M. Pilcher. New York: Routledge, 2023. Paperback ISBN: 9781032351490.

Reviewed by Cody Patton, Montana State University-Billings

Edited by Birgit Schneider

© 2024 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 27, Spring 2024 http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org.

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Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad. Ed. Timothy D. Walker. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2021. Paperback ISBN: 9781625345929. Hardcover ISBN: 9781625345936.

Reviewed by Ingo Heidbrink, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia

Edited by Jeanne E. Grant

© 2024 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 27, Spring 2024 http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org.

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Years of Glory: Nelly Benatar and the Pursuit of Justice in Wartime North Africa. Susan Gilson Miller. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021. ISBN: 9781503628458.

Reviewed by Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah, University of Groningen

Edited by Dan Blumlo and J. A. Bjork

© 2024 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 27, Spring 2024 http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org.

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