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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