ARTICLE REVIEWS
Formerly known as article commentaries, these reviews are scholarly critiques of journal articles on foreign relations history, broadly defined. All reviews are commissioned by H-Diplo article review editors, who allow redistribution under the terms of our copyright policy. Article reviews undergo a careful review process and are produced in PDF format, which requires the free Adobe Reader (or another PDF reader).
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H-Diplo Article Reviews Style Sheet (September 2009 version) for reviewers.
Reviewer: Ross A. Kennedy
Article Author: Christopher McKnight Nichols
Journal Issue: Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 8.2 (April 2009)
Title: H-Diplo Article Review No. 248- "Rethinking Randolph Bourne’s Trans-National America: How World War I Created an Isolationist Antiwar Pluralism"
Publication Date: 19 November 2009
Reviewer: J.M. Opal
Article Author: Caitlin A. Fitz
Journal Issue: The Americas 65:1 (July 2008)
Title: H-Diplo Article Review No. 247- "A Stalwart Motor of Revolutions’: An American Merchant in Pernambuco, 1817-1825."
Date: 18 November 2009
Reviewer: Thomas J. Noer
Article Author: Ryan M. Irwin
Journal Issue: Diplomatic History 33:5 (November 2009)
Title: H-Diplo Article Review No. 246- "A Wind of Change? White Redoubt and the Postcolonial Moment, 1960-1963"
Publication Date: 27 October 2009
Article Review No. 248 | Published by H-Diplo on 19 November 2009
Christopher McKnight Nichols. "Rethinking Randolph Bourne’s Trans-National America: How World War I Created an Isolationist Antiwar Pluralism." Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 8.2 (April 2009), 217-57.
Reviewed for H-Diplo by Ross A. Kennedy, Illinois State University [PDF]
Article Review No. 247 | Published by H-Diplo on 18 November 2009
Caitlin A. Fitz. "'A Stalwart Motor of Revolutions': An American Merchant in Pernambuco, 1817-1825." The Americas 65:1 (July 2008): 35-62. DOI: 10.1353/tam.0.0018.
Reviewed for H-Diplo by J.M. Opal, McGill University [PDF]
Article Review No. 246 | Published by H-Diplo on 26 October 2009
Ryan M. Irwin."A Wind of Change? White Redoubt and the Postcolonial Moment, 1960-1963." Diplomatic History 33:5 (November 2009): 897-926. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7709.2009.00817.x.
Reviewed for H-Diplo by Thomas J. Noer, Carthage College [PDF]
Article Review No. 245 (Revision B) | Published by H-Diplo on 22 October 2009
Hua-yu Li. "Reactions of Chinese Citizens to the Death of Stalin, International Communist Party Reports." Journal of Cold War Studies 11:2 (Spring 2009): 70-88. DOI: 10.1162/jcws.2009.11.2.70.
Reviewed for H-Diplo by Hongshan Li, Kent State University [PDF]
Article Review No. 244 | Published by H-Diplo on 9 October 2009
Alison Fleig Frank. "The Petroleum War of 1910: Standard Oil, Austria, and the Limits of Multinational Corporation." American Historical Review 114:1 (February 2009): 16-41.
Reviewed for H-Diplo by Nicole M. Phelps, University of Vermont [PDF]
Article Review No. 243 | Published by H-Diplo on 7 October 2009
Lorenz M. Lüthi. "Beyond Betrayal: Beijing, Moscow, and the Paris Negotiations, 1971-1973." Journal of Cold War Studies 11:1 (Winter 2009): 57-107. DOI: 10.1162/jcws.2009.11.1.57.
Reviewed for H-Diplo by Li Wang and Zhao Xuegong, Nankai University [PDF]
Article Review No. 242 | Published by H-Diplo on 24 September 2009
Irving W. Levinson. "A New Paradigm for an Old Conflict: The Mexico-United States War." The Journal of Military History 73 (April 2009): 393-416. DOI: 10.1353/jmh.0.0256.
Reviewed for H-Diplo by Timothy J. Henderson, Auburn University Montgomery [PDF]
Article Review No. 241 | Published by H-Diplo on 16 September 2009
Evanthis Hatzivassiliou. "Images of the Adversary: NATO Assessments of the Soviet Union, 1953-1964." Journal of Cold War Studies 11:2 (Spring 2009): 89-116.
Reviewed for H-Diplo by Linda Risso, University of Reading [PDF]
Article Review No. 240 | Published by H-Diplo on 15 September 2009
Mao Lin. "China and the Escalation of the Vietnam War: The First Years of the Johnson Administration." Journal of Cold War Studies 11:2 (Spring, 2009): 35-69.
Reviewed for H-Diplo by James Carter, Drew University [PDF]
Article Review No. 239 | Published by H-Diplo on 8 September 2009
Andy DeRoche. "Dreams and Disappointments: Kenneth Kaunda and the United States, 1960-64." Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies 9:4 (October 2008), 369-394
Andy DeRoche. "Non-alignment on the Racial Frontier: Zambia and the USA, 1964-68." Cold War History 7:2 (May 2007), 227-250.
Reviewed for H-Diplo by Jim Meriwether, California State University, Channel Islands [PDF]
Pre-September 2009 H-Diplo Article Reviews are listed below by journal:
American Historical Review published by the American Historical Association
Business History Review published by Harvard Business School
- H-Diplo Article Review No. 237- Dustin Walcher on Marcelo Bucheli. “Negotiating under the Monroe Doctrine: Weetman Pearson and the Origins of U.S. Control of Colombian Oil.” Business History Review 82:3 (Autumn 2008): 529-553. [PDF] - published by H-Diplo on 1 July 2009
Cold War History produced by the LSE Cold War Studies Centre and published by Routledge
Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) Bulletin and Working Papers published by the Cold War International History Project
- H-Diplo Article Review No. 191 (published 2 September 2008)- Tom Nichols on Alexander Antonovich Liakhovsky, CWIHP Working Paper 51, "Inside the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan and the Seizure of Kabul, December 1979." [PDF]
Contemporary European History
- H-Diplo Article Review No. 201 (published 20 November 2008)- Erika Kuhlman on Giora Goodman, “‘Only the Best British Brides’: Regulating the Relationship between U.S. Servicemen and British Women in the Early Cold War.” Contemporary European History 17.4 (2008): 483-303. [PDF]
- H-Diplo Article Review No. 203 (published 1 December 2008)- David J. Dutton on Daniel Hucker. “Franco-British Relations and the Question of Conscription in Britain, 1938-1939”; Ben Clift and Jim Tomlinson. “Negotiating Credibility: Britain and the International Monetary Fund, 1956-1976, Contemporary European History, 17.4 (2008), 437-456, 545-566.
- Till Kössler. “Towards a New Understanding of the Child: Catholic Mobilisation and Modern Pedagogy in Spain, 1900-1936.” Contemporary European History 18:1 (2009): 1-24. DOI: 10.1017/S0960777308004803.
- Peter Anderson. “In the Interests of Justice? Grass-roots Prosecution and Collaboration in Francoist Military Trials, 1939-1945.” Contemporary European History 18:1 (2009): 25-44. DOI: 10.1017/S0960777308004815.
Review by David A. Messenger, University of Wyoming [PDF]
- Philip Whalen. “‘Insofar as the Ruby Wine Seduces Them’: Cultural Strategies for Selling Wine in Inter-war Burgundy.” Contemporary European History 18.1 (2009): 67-98. DOI: 10.1017/S0960777308004839.
Review by Kim Munholland, University of Minnesota Emeritus [PDF]
- Contemporary European History 17:3, Special Issue, “A Peaceful Europe? Negotiating Peace in the Twentieth Century,” (August 2008)
Articles reviewed:
Holger Nehring and Helge Pharo. “Introduction: A Peaceful Europe? Negotiating Peace in the Twentieth Century.” 277-299.
Frédéric Bozo. “The Failure of a Grand Design: Mitterrand's European Confederation, 1989–1991.” -412.
Jay Winter. “Imagining Peace in Twentieth-Century Europe.” 413-422.
Review by William R. Keylor, Boston University [PDF]
Diplomacy and Statecraft published by Routledge
- H-Diplo Article Review No. 192 (published 3 September 2008)- Irwin Wall on Benjamin Varat, "Point of Departure: A Reassessment of Charles de Gaulle and the Paris Summit of May 1960". Diplomacy and Statecraft 19.1 (March 2008): 96-124. DOI: 10.1080/09592290801913759. [PDF]
- H-Diplo Article Review No. 197 (published 10 October 2008)- Matt J. Schumann on Juergen Kleiner. "The Inertia of Diplomacy." Diplomacy and Statecraft 19:2 (June 2008): 321-349. [PDF]
Diplomatic History the journal of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR)
- Reviews for Volume 33 (2009)
- Reviews for Volume 32 (2008)
- Reviews for Volume 31 (2007)
- Reviews for Volume 30 (2006)
- Reviews for Volume 29 (2005)
- Reviews for Volume 28 (2004)
- Reviews for Volume 27 (2003)
- Reviews for Volume 26 (2002)
- Reviews for Volume 25 (2001)
- Reviews for Volume 24 (2000)
- Reviews for Volume 23 (1999)
- Reviews for Volume 22 (1998)
History Compass published by Blackwell Publishing
Intelligence and National Security published by Routledge
- Review by William R. Keylor [PDF] (published on 10 July 2008) of:
- Peter Jackson and Martin S. Alexander. "French Military Intelligence responds to the German Remilitarisation of the Rhineland, 1936 - Note concerning the consequences that follow, from a military point of view, from Germany's renunciation of the Locarno Treaty." Intelligence and National Security 22.4 (2007): 537-545. DOI: 10.1080/02684520701640506. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02684520701640506 .
- Peter Jackson. "French Military Intelligence responds to the German Remilitarisation of the Rhineland, 1936 - A look at French intelligence machinery in 1936." Intelligence and National Security 22.4 (2007): 546-562. DOI: 10.1080/02684520701640514. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02684520701640514 .
- Martin S. Alexander. "French Military Intelligence responds to the German Remilitarisation of the Rhineland, 1936 - The military consequences for France of the end of Locarno." Intelligence and National Security 22.4 (2007): 563-572. DOI: 10.1080/02684520701640548. http://dx.doi/org/10.1080/02684520701640548 .
Journal of Cold War Studies produced by the Harvard Project on Cold War Studies and published by The MIT Press
- Reviews for Volume 10 (2008)
- Reviews for Volume 9 (2007)
- Reviews for Volume 8 (2006)
- Reviews for Volume 7 (2005)
- Reviews for Volume 6 (2004)
- Reviews for Volume 5 (2003)
- Reviews for Volume 2 (2000)
- Reviews for Volume 1 (1999)
Journal of the Early Republic published for the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
- James E. Lewis Jr. on Caitlin A. Fitz. “‘Suspected on Both Sides’: Little Abraham, Iroquois Neutrality, and the American Revolution.” Journal of the Early Republic 27:3 (Fall 2008): 299-335. DOI: 10.1353/jer.0.0017.
Published by H-Diplo on 16 January 2009
Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era published by the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Journal of the Historical Society the journal of The Historical Society
Journal of Japanese Studies published by the Society for Japanese Studies and housed at the University of Washington
Journal of Military History published by the Society for Military History
Journal of South African Studies published by Routledge, a member of the Taylor & Francis Group
Journal of Vietnamese Studies published by the University of California Press
New England Journal of History
- Peter Mauch. "A Bolt from the Blue? New Evidence on the Japanese Navy and the Draft Understanding Between Japan and the United States, April 1941." Pacific Historical Review 78:1 (February 2009): 55-79. DOI: 10.1525/phr.2009.78.1.55.
Review by Michael A. Barnhart, SUNY-Stony Brook [PDF]
Review of International Studies published for the British International Studies Association by Cambridge University Press
Technology and Culture published by The Johns Hopkins University Press
- David K. Hecht. “The Atomic Hero: Robert Oppenheimer and the Making of Scientific Icons in the Early Cold War.” Technology and Culture 49:4 (October 2008): 943-966. DOI: 10.1353/tech.0.0180.
Twentieth Century British History published by Oxford Journals, Oxford University Press
Women's Studies published by Routledge
- Sabrina Fuchs-Abrams. "Women on War: Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, and Diana Trilling Debate the Vietnam War." Women’s Studies 37 (2008): 987-1007. DOI: 10.1080/00497870802414496.
Reviewed by David Kieran, The George Washington University [PDF]
Suggested citation form: [Review Author]. H-Diplo review of [article title]. [Review URL/URI]. Published by H-Diplo on [publication date].
Sample citation : Erik Esselstrom. H-Diplo review of Noriko Kawamura, “Emperor Hirohito and Japan’s Decision to Go to War with the United States: Reexamined,” Diplomatic History 31:1 (January 2007). http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/reviews/Esselstrom-Kawamura.pdf. Published by H-Diplo on 14 January 2007.
