Crude Reality: Petroleum in World History. Brian C. Black. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2012. ISBN: 9780742556333 SmithEReviewsSpring2017themiddlegroundjournal.org Edited by Mariona Lloret (c) 2017 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 14, Spring, 2017. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access policy.

A Global History of War: From Assyria to the Twenty-First Century. Gérard Chaliand. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014. ISBN: 9780520283619 BonkAReviewsSpring2017themiddlegroundjournal.org Edited by Ashley Dressel (c) 2017 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 14, Spring, 2017. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access policy.  

Review of From Development to Dictatorship: Bolivia and the Alliance for Progress in the Kennedy Era by Thomas Field Jr GranthamFrReviewsSpring2017themiddlegroundjournal.org Edited by Mariona Lloret (c) 2017 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 14, Spring, 2017. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access policy.

Migration and New Media: Transnational Families and Polymedia. Mirca Madianou and Daniel Miller. Oxon, UK: Routledge, 2012. ISBN: 9780415679282 huntingtonmigreviewsspring2017themiddlegroundjournal Edited by Martin Pflug (c) 2017 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 14, Spring, 2017. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access policy.

Empires of Coal: Fueling China’s Entry into the Modern World Order, 1860-1920. Shellen Xiao Wu. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015. ISBN: 9780804792844 duanempreviewsspring2017themiddlegroundjournal-org (c) 2017 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 14, Spring, 2017. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access policy.

Call for Reviewers: The Middle Ground Journal: World History and Global Studies From: Hong-Ming Liang, The College of St. Scholastica, HLIANG@CSS.EDU The Middle Ground Journal, (http://themiddlegroundjournal.org) an open-access scholarly journal of world history and global studies, is seeking qualified reviewers. For the list of the books, see: https://middlegroundjournal.wordpress.com/book-review-department-the-middle-ground-journal/ These reviews are due on August 1,…

The Third Asiatic Invasion: Empire and Migration in Filipino America, 1898-1946. Rick Baldoz. New York: New York University Press, 2010. ISBN: 9780841791097 reevesthreviewsspring2017themiddlegroundjournal Edited by Ashley Dressel (c) 2017 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 14, Spring, 2017. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access policy.

Migration: A World History. Michael Fisher. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. ISBN: 9780199764334 lilliemigreviewsspring2017themiddlegroundjournal-org Edited by Karen Rosenflanz (c) 2017 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 14, Spring, 2017. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access policy.

Ottoman-Iranian Borderlands: Making a Boundary, 1843-1914. Sabri Ates. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. ISBN: 9781107033658 tallonottreviewsfall2016themiddlegroundjournal-org Edited by Martin Pflug (c) 2016 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 13, Fall, 2016. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access policy.

Violent Intermediaries: African Soldiers, Conquest, and Everyday Colonialism in German East Africa. Michelle Moyd. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2014. ISBN: 9780821420898 salvadoreafreviewsfall2016themiddlegroundjournal-org Edited by Karen Rosenflanz (c) 2016 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 13, Fall, 2016. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access policy.

Hacking the Academy: New Approaches to Scholarship and Teaching from Digital Humanities. Daniel J. Cohen & Tom Scheinfeldt, Eds. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015. ISBN: 9780472051984 ramoshackreviewsfall2016themiddlegroundjournal-org Edited by Karen Rosenflanz (c) 2016 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 13, Fall, 2016. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access policy.

Islam, Orientalism and Intellectual History: Modernity and the Politics of Exclusion since Ibn Khaldun. Mohammad Salama. London: I.B. Tauris, 2013. ISBN: 9781780764504 alahmedislamreviews-fall2016themiddlegroundjournal-org Edited by Karen Rosenflanz (c) 2016 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 13, Fall, 2016. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access policy.

Loci Sacri: Understanding Sacred Places. T.Coomans, H. De Dijn, J. De Maeyer, R. Heynickx, and B. Verschaffel (eds.) Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2012. ISBN: 9789058678423 richlocireviewsfall2016themiddlegroundjournal-org Edited by Ashley Dressel (c) 2016 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 13, Fall, 2016. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access policy.

A Short History of Film: Second Edition. Wheeler Winston Dixon and Gwendolyn Audrey Foster. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780813560557 zintakfilreviewsfall2016themiddlegroundjournal-org Edited by Martin Pflug (c) 2016 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 13, Fall, 2016. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access policy.

Imagic Moments: Indigenous North American Film. Lee Schweninger. London: The University of Georgia Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780820345154 deruiterimareviewsfall2016themiddlegroundjournal-org Reviewed by Brian de Ruiter, Brock University Edited by Karen Rosenflanz (c) 2016 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 13, Fall, 2016. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access policy.

Gender and the Negotiation of Daily Life in Mexico, 1750 – 1856. Sonya Lipsett-Rivera. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780803238336 rotheragenreviewsfall2016themiddlegroundjournal-org Edited by Martin Pflug (c) 2016 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 13, Fall, 2016. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access policy.

The Feedback Loop: Historians Talk about the Links between Research and Teaching. Antoinette M. Burton, et. al. eds. Washington, D.C: The American Historical Association, 2013. ISBN: 9780872292011 pavalkoloopreviewsfall2016themiddlegroundjournal-org Edited by Jill Gaeta (c) 2016 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 13, Fall, 2016. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access policy.

Inka Human Sacrifice and Mountain Worship: Strategies for Empire Unification. Thomas Besom. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780826353078 rellstabinkareviewsfall2016themiddlegroundjournal-org Edited by Jill Gaeta (c) 2016 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 13, Fall, 2016. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access policy.

Excavating Modernity: The Roman Past in Fascist Italy. Joshua Arthurs. New York: Cornell University Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780801449987 mooreexcareviewsfall2016themiddlegroundjournal-org Edited by Ashley Dressel (c) 2016 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 13, Fall, 2016. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access policy.

Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our Nations. Mishuana Goeman. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780816677900 cohenmarkreviewsfall2016themiddlegroundjournal-org Edited by Jill Gaeta (c) 2016 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 13, Fall, 2016. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access policy.

Chieftains into Ancestors: Imperial Expansion and Indigenous Society in Southwest China. David Faure and Ho Ts’ui-p’ing, editors. Vancouver and Toronto: University of British Columbia Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780774823692 brosechieftainsreviewsfall2016themiddlegroundjournal-org Edited by Ashley Dressel (c) 2016 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 13, Fall, 2016. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access policy.

The Cuban Revolution: Origins Course and Legacy, 3d ed. Marifeli Pérez-Stable. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780195367089 neufeldcubanreviewsfall2016themiddlegroundjournal-org Edited by Jill Gaeta (c) 2016 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 13, Fall, 2016. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access policy.

A History of Early Southeast Asia: Maritime Trade and Societal Development, 100-1500. Kenneth R. Hall. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2011. ISBN: 9780742567610 noldehisreviewsfall2016themiddlegroundjournal-org Edited by Ashley Dressel (c) 2016 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 13, Fall, 2016. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access policy.

The Ransom of the Soul: Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity. Peter Brown. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2015. ISBN: 9780674967588 This essay is a part of our series, Using Book Reviews as a Teaching Tool – University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, Department of History bealkeransomreviewsfall2016themiddlegroundjournal-org Edited by Ann Waltner (c) 2016 The…

Ends of Empire: Asian American Critique and the Cold War. Jodi Kim. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. ISBN: 9780816655922 BellEndReviewsSpring2016themiddlegroundjournal.org Edited by Karen Rosenflanz (c) 2016 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 12, Spring, 2016. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access policy.

Divided Rule: Sovereignty and Empire in French Tunisia, 1881-1938. Mary Dewhurst Lewis. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2014. ISBN: 9780520279155 This essay is a part of our series, Using Book Reviews as a Teaching Tool – University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, Department of History SiennaDivReviewsSpring2016themiddlegroundjournal.org Edited by Ann Waltner (c) 2016…

Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner: Boxing in the Shadow of the Global Color Line. Theresa Runstedtler. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780520280113 This essay is a part of our series, Using Book Reviews as a Teaching Tool – University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, Department of History KadowRebReviewsSpring2016themiddlegroundjournal.org Edited by Ann Waltner (c)…

Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War. Ari Kelman and Jonathan Fetter-Vorm. New York: Hill and Wang, 2015. ISBN: 9780809094745 This essay is a part of our series, Using Book Reviews as a Teaching Tool – University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, Department of History SpearsBatReviewsSpring2016themiddlegroundjournal.org Edited by Ann Waltner (c) 2016 The…

Revolutions Without Borders: The Call to Liberty in the Atlantic World. Janet Polasky. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015. ISBN: 9780300208948 This essay is a part of our series, Using Book Reviews as a Teaching Tool – University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, Department of History FreemanRevReviewsSpring2016themiddlegroundjournal.org Edited by Ann Waltner (c) 2016 The…

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon Press Books, 2014. ISBN: 9780807057834 This essay is a part of our series, Using Book Reviews as a Teaching Tool – University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, Department of History LittleAnReviewsSpring2016themiddlegroundjournal.org Edited by Ann Waltner (c) 2016 The Middle Ground Journal, Number…

Inventing Exoticism: Geography, Globalism, and Europe’s Early Modern World. Benjamin Schmidt. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. ISBN: 9780812246469 This essay is a part of our series, Using Book Reviews as a Teaching Tool – University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, Department of History DevlinInvReviewsSpring2016themiddlegroundjournal.org Edited by Ann Waltner (c) 2016 The Middle Ground Journal,…

Theatre and the State in Singapore: Orthodoxy and Resistance. Terence Chong. New York: Routledge, 2011. ISBN: 9780415584487 SevenichTheaReviewsSpring2016themiddlegroundjournal Edited by Jill Gaeta (c) 2016 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 12, Spring, 2016. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access policy.

Borrowed Light: Vico, Hegel, and the Colonies. Timothy Brennan. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014. ISBN: 9780804790543 This essay is a part of our series, Using Book Reviews as a Teaching Tool – University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, Department of History BethkeBorReviewsSpring2016themiddlegroundjournal.org Edited by Ann Waltner (c) 2016 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 12, Spring,…

Genocide Lives in Us: Women, Memory, and Silence in Rwanda. Jennie E. Burnet. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780299286446 CurryGenReviewsSpring2016themiddlegroundjournal.org Edited by Martin Pflug (c) 2016 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 12, Spring, 2016. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access policy.

Edible Histories, Cultural Politics: Towards a Canadian Food History. Ranca Iacovetta, Valerie J. Korinek, Mariene Epp, eds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. ISBN: 9781442644762 (bound) ISBN: 9781442612839 (pbk.) SchmidtEdibleReviewsSpring2016themiddlegroundjournal.org Edited by Martin Pflug (c) 2016 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 12, Spring, 2016. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access…

History and Popular Memory: The Power of Story in Moments of Crisis. Paul A. Cohen. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2014. ISBN: 9780231166362 This essay is a part of our series, Using Book Reviews as a Teaching Tool – University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, Department of History SteeleHistoryReviewsSpring2016themiddlegroundjournal.org Edited by Ann Waltner (c)…

Ambivalent Encounters: Childhood, Tourism, and Social Change in Banaras, India. Jenny Huberman. New Brunswick, NJ and London: Rutgers University Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780813554068 BabicAmbiReviewsSpring2016themiddlegroundjournal.org Edited by Karen Rosenflanz (c) 2016 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 12, Spring, 2016. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access policy.

Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World. Gary Wilder. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2015. ISBN: 9780822358503 This essay is a part of our series, Using Book Reviews as a Teaching Tool – University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, Department of History SedaFreedomReviews Spring2016themiddlegroundjournal.org Edited by Ann Waltner (c) 2016 The…

Cosmopolitan Africa: 1700–1875. Trevor R. Getz. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780199764709 UtietiangCosmoReviewsSpring2016themiddlegroundjournal.org Edited by Karen Rosenflanz (c) 2016 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 12, Spring, 2016. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access policy.

Teaching Africa: A Guide for the 21st-Century Classroom. Brandon D. Lundy and Solomon Negash. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780253008213 FlemingTeachingReviewsSpring2016themiddlegroundjournal.org Edited by Jill Gaeta (c) 2016 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 12, Spring, 2016. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access policy.

Colonial Africa, 1884–1994. Dennis Laumann. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780199796397 MooreColonialReviewsSpring2016themiddlegroundjournal.org Edited by Karen Rosenflanz (c) 2016 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 12, Spring, 2016. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access policy.

Industrial Eden: A Chinese Capitalist Vision. Brett Sheehan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN: 9780674967601 This essay is a part of our series, Using Book Reviews as a Teaching Tool – University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, Department of History BecklinIndustrialReviewsSpring2016themiddlegroundjournal.org Edited by Ann Waltner (c) 2016 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 12, Spring, 2016. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org…

Gourmets in the Land of Famine: The Culture and Politics of Rice in Modern Canton. Seung-Joon Lee. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780804772266 KumarGourmetReviewsSpring2016themiddlegroundjournal.org Edited by Jill Gaeta (c) 2016 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 12, Spring, 2016. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access policy.

Museums, Monuments, and National Parks: Towards a New Genealogy of Public History. Denise D. Meringolo. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2012. ISBN: 978558499409 HeidbrinkMuseumsReviewsSpring2016themiddlegroundjournal.org Edited by Martin Pflug (c) 2016 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 12, Spring, 2016. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access policy.

Island Queens and Mission Wives: How Gender and Empire Remade Hawai’i’s Pacific World. Jennifer Thigpen. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2014. ISBN: 9781469614298 SkilesIslandReviewsSpring2016themiddlegroundjournal.org Edited by Martin Pflug (c) 2016 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 12, Spring, 2016. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access policy.

Alien Nation: Chinese Migration in the Americas from the Coolie Era Through World War II. Elliot Young. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. ISBN: 978146912966 WendlandAlienReviewsSpring2016themiddlegroundjournal.org Edited by Ashley Dressel (c) 2016 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 12, Spring, 2016. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access policy.