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Book Reviews: Middle East and Africa

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‘Sisters in the Struggle’: Women of Indian Origin in South Africa’s Liberation Struggle 1900-1994, Volume 1: 1900–1940s
Kalpana Hiralal. New York: Routledge, 286 pp., $160.00, ISBN 978-1-032-43451-3. publication date: February 2023
Leslie Hadfield
Pages: 30-31
Published online: 28 May 2024
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Book Reviews: Europe and Russia

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Libraries and Books in Medieval England: The Role of Libraries in a Changing Book Economy
Sharpe, Richard, ed. James Willoughby, Oxford: Bodleian Library, 171 pp., $120.00, ISBN 978-1-85124-601-4. Publication Date: May 2023
Rose A. McCandless
Pages: 31-33
Published online: 28 May 2024
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Alle Thyng Hath Tyme: Time and Medieval Life
Adler, Gillian, and Paul, Strohm. London: Reaktion books, 248 pp., $22.50, ISBN 9781789146790. Publication Date: April 2023
Louisa Foroughi
Pages: 33-35
Published online: 28 May 2024
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Music in Golden-Age Florence, 1250–1750: From the Priorate of the Guilds to the End of the Medici Grand Duchy
Cummings Anthony M. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 456 pp., $60.00, ISBN 9780226822785, Publication Date: May 2023
Jane Daphne Hatter
Pages: 35-36
Published online: 28 May 2024
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Book Reviews: Global

Book Review
Journeys of Soviet Things: Cold War as Lived Experience in Cuba and India
Rajagopalan, Sudha. New York: Routledge, 233 pp., $160.00, ISBN 9780367686574. Publication Date March 2023
Dmitrii Blyshko
Pages: 36-38
Published online: 28 May 2024
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Human Extinction: A History of the Science and Ethics of Annihilation
Torres, Émile P, New York: Routledge, 542 pp., $170.00, ISBN 978-1-032-15906-5, publication date: July 2023
Timothy Sweet
Pages: 38-39
Published online: 28 May 2024
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The Oxford History of the Book
Raven, James, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 448 pp., £12.99, ISBN 9780192886897, publication date: April 2023
Grace Murray
Pages: 40-41
Published online: 28 May 2024
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Book Reviews: Middle East and Africa

Book Review
Peerless Among Princes: The Life and Times of Sultan Süleyman
Şahin, Kaya. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 384 pp., $29.95, ISBN 978-0-19-753163-1. publication date: February 2023
Timothy J. Fitzgerald
Pages: 41-42
Published online: 28 May 2024
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Book Reviews: US and Canada

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Transforming American Science: Universities, the Government, and the Cold War
Jonathan, Engel. New York: Routledge, 292 pp., $128.00, ISBN 978-1-032-42704-1, Publication Date: April 2023
Anna Doel
Pages: 43-45
Published online: 28 May 2024
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America’s First Vaccination: The Controversy of 1721–22
Barbara Heifferon. New York: Routledge, 273 pp., $150.00, ISBN 978-1-032-32012-0. publication date: February 2023
Ann Becker
Pages: 45-46
Published online: 28 May 2024
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We Shall Persist: Women and the Vote in the Atlantic Provinces
MacDonald, Heidi E, Vancouver, BC: UBC Press, 265 pp., CAD $22.95, ISBN 9780774863179. Publication Date: June 2023
Shannon M. Risk
Pages: 46-48
Published online: 28 May 2024
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Statesmen, Strategists & Diplomats: Canada’s Prime Ministers and the Making of Foreign Policy
Dutil, Patrice, ed. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, 390 pp., $49.95, ISBN 978-0-7748-6855-6. Publication Date: 2023
Galen Roger Perras
Pages: 48-49
Published online: 28 May 2024
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Unfriendly to Liberty: Loyalist Networks and the Coming of the American Revolution in New York City
Minty, Christopher F. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 299 pp., $59.95, ISBN 978-1-5017-6910-8. publication date: May 2023
Stan Carpenter
Pages: 49-51
Published online: 28 May 2024
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From Union Halls to the Suburbs: Americans for Democratic Action and the Transformation of Postwar Liberalism
Kamen, Scott. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 300 pp., $99.00, ISBN 9781625347626, publication date: December 2023
Manfred Berg
Pages: 51-52
Published online: 28 May 2024
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Popularizing the Past: Historians, Publishers, and Readers in Postwar America
Witham, Nick. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 240 pp., $25.00, ISBN 978-0-226-82699-8. publication date: July 2023
David Horowitz
Pages: 53-54
Published online: 28 May 2024
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All Play and No Work: American Work Ideals and the Comic Plays of the Federal Theater Project
Gagliardi, Paul, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 200 pp., $29.95, ISBN 978-1-4399-2216-3, publication date: December 2023
Kenneth Bindas
Pages: 54-56
Published online: 28 May 2024
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