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Digital History: Past, Present, and Prospects

In This Issue

In This Issue
Pages: 1-2
Published online: 14 May 2020
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Notes from the field
Frederick M. Schweitzer
Pages: 3-6
Published online: 26 Feb 2020
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The finger of God is here! Past, present, and future of digital history
Michael J. Decker
Pages: 7-21
Published online: 13 Mar 2020
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The digital (within) archaeology. Analysis of a phenomenon
Davide Tanasi
Pages: 22-36
Published online: 26 Feb 2020
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Beyond lists: digital gazetteers and digital history
Ryan Horne
Pages: 37-50
Published online: 10 Mar 2020
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Mapping old Lagos: digital histories and maps about the past
Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi
Pages: 51-65
Published online: 14 May 2020
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Africa and the Middle East

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The World of the Crusades
by Christopher Tyerman, New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2019, xxv, 517 pp., $35.00 (hardback), ISBN: 10: 0300217390, ISBN: 13: 978-0300217391
Matt King
Pages: 66-67
Published online: 14 May 2020
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The Americas

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Pocahontas and the English Boys: Caught Between Cultures in Early Virginia / Relation of Virginia: A Boy’s Memoir of Life with Powhatans and Patawomecks
Christopher Clausen
Pages: 67-68
Published online: 14 May 2020
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William Penn: a life
by Andrew R. Murphy, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2019, xiv, 460 pp., $34.95 (hardback), ISBN: 9780190234249
Scott Sowerby
Pages: 68-69
Published online: 14 May 2020
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France and the American civil war: a diplomatic history
by Stève Sainlaude, translated by Jessica Edwards, Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press, 2019, xv, 285 pp., $45.00 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-4696-4994-8
Charles M. Hubbard
Pages: 69-70
Published online: 14 May 2020
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The War for the common soldier: how men thought, fought, and survived in Civil WarArmies
by Peter S. Carmichael, Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press, 2018, 392 pp., $34.95 2018, 408 pp., $34.95 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-4696-4309-0
Daniel W. Sunshine
Pages: 71-73
Published online: 14 May 2020
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Private confederacies: the emotional worlds of southern men as citizens and soldiers
by James J. Broomall, Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press, 2019, xiii, 226 pp., $29.95
Melissa Franson
Pages: 73-74
Published online: 14 May 2020
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Civil war places: seeing the conflict through the eyes of its leading historians
edited by Gary W. Gallagher and J. Matthew Gallman, Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press, 2019, 199 pp., $32.00 (hardback), ISBN-13: 978-1469649535
George C. Rable
Pages: 74-75
Published online: 14 May 2020
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Jim Crow Capital: women and black freedom struggles in Washington, D.C., 1920–1945
by Mary-Elizabeth B. Murphy, Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press, 2018, 280 pp., $29.95
Miya Carey
Pages: 75-76
Published online: 14 May 2020
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Here’s the pitch: the amazing, true, new, and improved story of baseball and advertising
by Roberta J. Newman, Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press, 2019. xvii, 319 pp., $34.95
David George Surdam
Pages: 76-77
Published online: 14 May 2020
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Barbed voices: oral history, resistance, and the World War II Japanese American social disaster
by Arthur A. Hansen, Louisville, CO, University Press of Colorado, 2018, xvi, 310 pp., $38.00 (hardback), ISBN: 10: 1607328119, ISBN: 13: 978-1607328117
Takeyuki Tsuda
Pages: 77-78
Published online: 14 May 2020
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American Sutra: a story of faith and freedom in the Second World War
by Duncan Ryūken Williams, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2019, 384 pp., $29.95 (hardback), ISBN: 9780674986534
Michael Masatsugu
Pages: 78-80
Published online: 14 May 2020
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From Asylum to prison: deinstitutionalization and the rise of mass incarceration after 1945
by Anne E. Parsons, Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press, 2018, 221 pp., $29.95 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-4696-4063-1
Fred E. Markowitz
Pages: 80-81
Published online: 14 May 2020
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The miracle lady: Kathryn Kuhlman and the transformation of Charismatic Christianity
by Amy Collier Artman, Grand Rapids, MI, William B. Eerdmans, 2019, xii, 242 pp., $28.00
Scott Billingsley
Pages: 81-82
Published online: 14 May 2020
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Bourbon justice: how whiskey law shaped America
by Brian F. Haara, Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press, 2018, xiii, 182 pp., $26.95 (cloth), ISBN: 9781640120853
Aaron D. Purcell
Pages: 82-83
Published online: 14 May 2020
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Travels with Foxfire: stories of people, passions, and practices from Southern Appalachia
by Phil Hudgins and Jessica Phillips, New York, NY, Anchor Books, 2018, xv, 314 pp., $19.95 (paperback), ISBN: 9780525436294
Jinny A. Turman
Pages: 83-85
Published online: 14 May 2020
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Creole Italian: Sicilian immigrants and the shaping of New Orleans food culture
by Justin A. Nystrom, Athens, GA, University of Georgia Press, 2018, x, 234 pp., $26.95 (paperback), ISBN: 978-0-8203-5355-5
Sara Roahen
Pages: 85-86
Published online: 14 May 2020
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Policing Los Angeles: race, resistance, and the rise of the LAPD
by Max Felker-Kantor, Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press, 2018, 382 pp., $34.95 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-4696-4683-1
Brian D. Behnken
Pages: 86-87
Published online: 14 May 2020
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Alan Brinkley: a life in history
edited by David Greenberg, Moshik Temkin, and Mason B. Williams, New York, NY, Columbia University Press, 2019, xvi, 216 pp., $34.95 (hardback) ISBN: 9780231187244
Justus D. Doenecke
Pages: 87-88
Published online: 14 May 2020
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Esteban: the African slave who explored America
by Dennis Herrick, Albuquerque, NM, University of New Mexico Press, 2018, 282 pp., $39.95 (hardback), ISBN: 978-0826359810
David Rex Galindo
Pages: 88-89
Published online: 14 May 2020
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Tongues of fire: language and evangelization in Colonial Mexico
by Nancy Farriss, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2018, xxi, 409 pp., $99.00 (cloth), ISBN: 9780190884109
Mark Christensen
Pages: 89-90
Published online: 14 May 2020
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The people of the river: nature and identity in black Amazonia, 1835-1945
by Oscar de la Torre, Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press, 2018, xiii, 225 pp., $34.95 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-4696-4324-3
Mariana L. R. Dantas
Pages: 90-91
Published online: 14 May 2020
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Asia and the Pacific

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From Indra’s net to internet: communication, technology, and the evolution of Buddhist ideas
by Daniel Veidlinger, Honolulu, HI, University of Hawai’i Press, 2018, x, 274 pp., $68.00 (hardback), ISBN-13: 978-0824873400
Brian Collins
Pages: 91-93
Published online: 14 May 2020
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Railroads and the transformation of China
by Elisabeth Köll, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2019, 416 pp., $39.95
Shellen Wu
Pages: 93-94
Published online: 14 May 2020
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Making China modern: from the great Qing to Xi Jinping
by Klaus Mühlhahn, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2019, xiii, 717, $39.95
Huaiyin Li
Pages: 94-95
Published online: 14 May 2020
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Fagen: an African American renegade in the Philippine-American war
by Michael Morey, Madison, WI, University of Wisconsin Press, 2019, xiii, 354 pp., $36.95
Robert Shaffer
Pages: 95-97
Published online: 14 May 2020
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Europe

Book Review
Thomas Cromwell: a revolutionary life
by Diarmaid MacCulloch, New York, NY, PenguinRandom House, 2018, xviii, 702 pp., $35.00
Karl Gunther
Pages: 97-98
Published online: 14 May 2020
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Peace at last: a portrait of Armistice day, 11 November 1918
by Guy Cuthbertson, New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2018, 293 pp., $27.50 (hardback), ISBN: 9780300233384
Christine E. Hallett
Pages: 98-100
Published online: 14 May 2020
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Lotharingia: a personal history of Europe’s lost country
by Simon Winder, New York, NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019, 504 pp., $30.00
Jeroen Dewulf
Pages: 100-101
Published online: 14 May 2020
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Prince of the press: how one collector built history’s most enduring and remarkable Jewish library
by Joshua Teplitsky, New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2019, xiv, 317 pp., $35.00 (hardback), ISBN: 9780300234909
Zuzanna Krzemien
Pages: 101-102
Published online: 14 May 2020
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Book Review
Deutschland und die Sowjetunion 1933–1941. Dokumente aus russischen und deutschen Archiven
Volume 2 (January 1935-April 1937) in two parts. edited by Sergei Slutsch and Carola Tischler, Oldenbourg, Germany, De Gruyter, 2019, 1781 pp., $260.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-3-11-054547-0
Kees Boterbloem
Pages: 102-103
Published online: 14 May 2020
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Admiral Gorshkov: the man who challenged the U.S. navy
by Norman Polmar, Thomas A. Brooks and George E. Fedoroff, Annapolis, MD, Naval Institute Press, 2019, 264 pp., $39.95 (hardback), ISBN: 978 1682 473306
Kees Boterbloem
Pages: 103-105
Published online: 14 May 2020
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General, Comparative, Historiographical

Book Review
Inside the Neolithic mind: consciousness, cosmos and the realm of the gods
New York, NY, Thames & Hudson, 2005 [first compact PB edition, 2018], 320 pp., $16.95 (paperback), ISBN: 9780500288276
Jonathan T. Thomas
Pages: 105-106
Published online: 14 May 2020
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The secret world: a history of intelligence
by Christopher Andrew, New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2018, xii, 948, $40.00 (hardback), ISBN: 978-0300238440
Mark Stout
Pages: 106-107
Published online: 14 May 2020
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Phi Alpha Theta Initiates

Phi Alpha Theta Initiates
Pages: 108-135
Published online: 14 May 2020
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