Özsu, Umut. Completing Humanity: The International Law of Decolonization, 1960-82. : Cambridge University Press, 2024. 328 pp. $131.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781108427692. Reviewed by Vipin Anantha Krishna (University of Pittsburgh) Published on H-History-and-Theory (October, 2026) Commissioned by Andrew J. Kettler (University of South Carolina)

Knapp, Sandra; Scott, Katie. Flower Day: A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Floral Lives. : University of Chicago Press, 2025. Illustrations. 183 pp. $18.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780226834528. Reviewed by Tamara Caulkins (Central Washington University) Published on H-Environment (October, 2026) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Watson, Keri W.; Hiles, Timothy W., eds.. The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability. : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022. 464 pp. $66.99 (paper), ISBN 9781032225944. Reviewed by Jonathan F. Walz (The Columbus Museum) Published on H-Disability (October, 2026) Commissioned by Tulika Singh (University of Alberta)

Sandwell, Rachel. National Liberation and the Political Life of Exile: Sex, Gender, and Nation in the Struggle Against Apartheid. : Ohio University Press, 2025. 248 pp. $36.95 (paper), ISBN 9780821426661. Reviewed by Rachel E. Johnson (Durham University) Published on H-Diplo (October, 2026) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Mendoza, Mary E.; Voyles, Traci Brynne; Limerick, Patty, eds.. Not Just Green, Not Just White: Race, Justice, and Environmental History. : University of Nebraska Press, 2025. xxiv + 508 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 9781496241733. Reviewed by Ramya Swayamprakash (Grand Valley State University) Published on H-Environment (October, 2026) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Bainbridge, David. Geology: An Illustrated History. : Princeton University Press, 2026. 256 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780691269832. Reviewed by Samantha Wagner (New York University) Published on H-Environment (October, 2026) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University) Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=62897

Murillo, Lina-Maria. Fighting for Control: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the US-Mexico Borderlands. : University of North Carolina Press, 2025. 325 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 9781469682594. Reviewed by Sarah Walsh (The University of Melbourne) Published on H-LatAm (September, 2026) Commissioned by Elizabeth Gansen (Grand Valley State University)

Quarshie, Nana Osei. African Pharmakon: The Asylum as Shrine from Slavery to the Return. : University of Chicago Press, 2025. 308 pp. $30.00 (paper), ISBN 9780226839189. Reviewed by Ifeoma Ifunanya Aneke (University of Florida) Published on H-Africa (September, 2026) Commissioned by Caitlin Barker (Boston College)

Sayilgan, Salih. Following the Prophet: The Life and Spiritual Legacy of Muhammad. : Fortress Press, 2025. 233 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 9798889833918. Reviewed by Halil Avci (Georgetown University) Published on H-Interfaith (September, 2026) Commissioned by Thea Gomelauri (Oxford Interfaith Forum) Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=63301

Morin, Karen M.. Cattle Trails and Animal Lives: The Founding of an American Carceral Archipelago. : University of Georgia Press, 2025. 204 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 9780820374468. Reviewed by Madelyn Powers (Oklahoma State University) Published on H-Environment (September, 2026) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Stawkowski, Magdalena E.. Atomic Collective: Radioactive Life in Kazakhstan. : University of Toronto Press, 2025. Illustrations, map. 220 pp. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781487560294.$29.95 (paper), ISBN 9781487560300. Reviewed by Oto Gulbani (University of Michigan) Published on H-War (September, 2026) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Independent Scholar)

Norek, Olivier. The Winter Warriors: A Novel. : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2026. 342 pp. $28.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780802167651. Reviewed by RoseE Hadden (North Dakota State University) Published on H-War (September, 2026) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Independent Scholar) Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=63165

Kuper, Peter. Insectopolis: A Natural History. : W. W. Norton & Company, 2025. 256 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781324035718. Reviewed by Ruizhi Choo (University of Hawaii) Published on H-Environment (September, 2026) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University) Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=62892

Corning, Peter A.; Kauffman, Stuart A.; Noble, Denis; Shapiro, James Alan; Vane-Wright, Richard Irwin; Pross, Addy, eds.. Evolution "On Purpose": Teleonomy in Living Systems. : MIT Press, 2023. Illustrations. 379 pp. $75.00 (paper), ISBN 9780262546409. Reviewed by Niall Roe (University of Cambridge) Published on H-Sci-Med-Tech (September, 2026) Commissioned by Penelope K. Hardy (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)

Graham, Zackary A.. Crayfish, Crawfish, Crawdad: The Biology and Conservation of North America's Favorite Crustaceans. : University of North Carolina Press, 2026. 248 pp. $28.00 (paper), ISBN 9781469685731. Reviewed by Eleanor J. Goetz (Yale Uninversity) Published on H-Oceans (September, 2026) Commissioned by Penelope K. Hardy (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)

Munoz Arbelaez, Santiago. The New Kingdom of Granada: The Making and Unmaking of Spain's Atlantic Empire. : Duke University Press, 2025. 315 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 9781478031840.$104.95 (cloth), ISBN 9781478028611. Reviewed by George Clay (American University in Bulgaria) Published on H-Early-America (September, 2026) Commissioned by Camden R. Elliott (Auburn University)

Rom, Avital H.. Disability and Impairment in Early China: Other Bodies. : Routledge, 2025. 306 pp. $187.19 (cloth), ISBN 9781032255194. Reviewed by Lana Ko (Notre Dame London) Published on H-Disability (September, 2026) Commissioned by Tulika Singh (University of Alberta) Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=62668

Boys, Mary C.. Blessing of a New Dawn: Reorienting Christianity’s Relation to Judaism. : Orbis Books (USA), 2025. 280 pp. $29.00 (paper), ISBN 9781626986213. Reviewed by Ruth Langer (Boston College) Published on H-Interfaith (September, 2026) Commissioned by Thea Gomelauri (Oxford Interfaith Forum) Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=63296

Rhee, Pollyanna. Natural Attachments: The Domestication of American Environmentalism, 1920–1970. : University of Chicago Press, 2025. 224 pp. $32.00 (paper), ISBN 9780226840635. Reviewed by Dario Fazzi (Leiden University) Published on H-Environment (September, 2026) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Mills, James. The Origins of Surface-to-Air Guided Missile Technology: German Flak Rockets and the Onset of the Cold War. : Casemate, 2022. 240 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 9781636242774. Reviewed by Richard Byers (University of North Georgia) Published on H-German (September, 2026) Commissioned by Anna Batzeli () Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=63492

Quigley, Paul. The Man Behind the Cane: Preston Brooks, Political Violence, and the Road to the Civil War. : Oxford University Press, 2026. 256 pp. $34.99 (cloth), ISBN 9780197667262. Reviewed by Brian C. Neumann (University of Virginia) Published on H-CivWar (September, 2026) Commissioned by Patrick J. Doyle (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Ludwig, Bernadette. Unwelcome Shores: Black Refugees in America. : Rutgers University Press, 2026. 222 pp. $39.95 (paper), ISBN 9781978843073. Reviewed by Susan E. Hume (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville) Published on H-Diplo (September, 2026) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Hobson Faure, Laura. Who Will Rescue Us?: The Story of the Jewish Children Who Fled to France and America During the Holocaust. : Yale University Press, 2025. 403 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780300269963. Reviewed by Susan G. Solomon (University of Toronto) Published on H-Judaic (September, 2026) Commissioned by Vadim Putzu (Missouri State University)

Conz, Christopher R.. Environment, Knowledge, and Injustice in Lesotho: The Poverty of Progress. : Boydell & Brewer, 2024. 266 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781847013309. Reviewed by Kristin Brig-Ortiz (Washington University in St. Louis) Published on H-Environment (September, 2026) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Mentanko, Joshua. The Power to Harm and Heal: Intercultural Medicine in Modern Mexico. : University of North Carolina Press, 2026. Illustrations. 256 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781469692425.$37.50 (paper), ISBN 9781469692432. Reviewed by Stephen Lewis (California State University, Chico) Published on H-Sci-Med-Tech (September, 2026) Commissioned by Penelope K. Hardy (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)

Jennings, Rebecca. Lesbian Intimacies and Family Life: Desire, Domesticity and Kinship in Britain and Australia. : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. viii + 284 pp. $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781350358874.$35.95 (pdf), ISBN 9781350358881.$35.95 (ebook), ISBN 9781350358898.$39.95 (paper), ISBN 9781350358904. Reviewed by Lesley A. Hall (Institute of Historical Research) Published on H-Albion (September, 2026) Commissioned by Tamala Malerk (Independent Scholar)

Damluji, Mona. Pipeline Cinema: The Cultural Infrastructure of Oil Extraction in Iran and Iraq. : University of California Press, 2026. 194 pp. $34.95 (paper), ISBN 9780520424302. Reviewed by Eray Çayli (University of Hamburg) Published on H-Environment (September, 2026) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Bainbridge, David. Geology: An Illustrated History. : Princeton University Press, 2026. 256 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780691269832. Reviewed by Cameron Daddis (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Published on H-Sci-Med-Tech (September, 2026) Commissioned by Penelope K. Hardy (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse) Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=62955

Wagner, Eric. Seabirds as Sentinels: Auklets, Puffins, Shearwaters, and the View from Destruction Island. : University of Washington Press, 2026. 240 pp. $32.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780295754611. Reviewed by Jack Bouchard (Rutgers University - New Brunswick) Published on H-Oceans (September, 2026) Commissioned by Penelope K. Hardy (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)

Surani Fernando, Tamara. Shallow Blue Empire: A History of Pearl Diving in the Indian Ocean, 1850-1930. : Harvard University Press, 2026. 336 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780674294141. Reviewed by Somak Mukherjee (Manchester University) Published on H-Asia (September, 2026) Commissioned by Proshanto Dhar () Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=63003

Krone, Adrienne. Free-Range Religion: Alternative Food Movements and Religious Life in the United States. : University of North Carolina Press, 2025. xiv + 193 pp. $27.95 (paper), ISBN 9781469690322. Reviewed by Jack Carey (University of Alabama) Published on H-Environment (September, 2026) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Persson, Gudrun. Russian Military Thought: The Evolution of Strategy Since the Crimean War. : Georgetown University Press, 2025. xi + 206 pp. $32.95 (paper), ISBN 9781647126384. Reviewed by Matthew Schwonek (ACSC) Published on H-War (September, 2026) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Independent Scholar) Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=62563

Banno, Junji. Empire and Constitution in Modern Japan: Why Could War with China Not Be Prevented?. : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. x + 182 pp. $36.85 (e-book), ISBN 9781350136229.$135.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781350136212. Reviewed by John M. Jennings (US Air Force Academy) Published on H-War (September, 2026) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Independent Scholar)

Gee, Sophie. Making Waste: Leftovers and the Eighteenth-Century Imagination. : Princeton University Press, 2026. 208 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 9780691284507. Reviewed by Ian Parker Heath (Enrichment Through Archaeology) Published on H-Environment (September, 2026) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Willis, Jon. The Pale Blue Data Point: An Earth-Based Perspective on the Search for Alien Life. : University of Chicago Press, 2025. 253 pp. $26.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780226822402. Reviewed by Lois Rosson (NASA History Office) Published on H-Environment (September, 2026) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Llinares, Dario; Fox, Neil; Berry, Richard, eds.. Podcasting: New Aural Cultures and Digital Media. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Illustrations. 329 pp. $29.99 (e-book), ISBN 9783319900568.$37.99 (paper), ISBN 9783319900551. Reviewed by Clare Robinson (University of Galway) Published on H-Podcast (September, 2026) Commissioned by Robert Cassanello (he/him/his) (University of Central Florida)

Santos-Rolón, Carmelo. A Liberation Theology of the Brain: Neuroscience, Theology, and Decolonizing Emotions. : Fortress Press, 2025. xvi + 339 pp. $45.00 (paper), ISBN 9781506496504. Reviewed by Krysia Waldock (Swansea University) Published on H-Sci-Med-Tech (September, 2026) Commissioned by Penelope K. Hardy (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)

Nardizzi, Vin. Marvellous Vegetables in the English Renaissance. : University of Toronto Press, 2025. 446 pp. $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781487500702. Reviewed by Nathan Cornish (Southampton University, Exeter University, Kew Gardens) Published on H-Environment (September, 2026) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

DeBont, Raf; Bateman, Vanessa; Quick, Tom, eds.. Globalizing Wildlife. : University of North Carolina Press, 2026. Illustrations, maps. 336 pp. $39.95 (paper), ISBN 9781469694757. Reviewed by Martin Kalb (Texas A&M University) Published on H-Environment (September, 2026) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Blanton, John N.. The Household War: Property, Personhood, and the Domestication of Anglo-American Slavery, 1547–1729. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025. 389 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781512828306. Reviewed by John Harpham (University of Oklahoma) Published on H-Early-America (September, 2026) Commissioned by Patrick Luck (Florida Polytechnic University)

Farrell, Brian P.. Misfire: British Empire Special Forces and Defeat in Malaya in World War II. : University Press of Kansas, 2025. 322 pp. $54.99 (cloth), ISBN 9780700639953. Reviewed by Nicholas Sambaluk (Air University) Published on H-War (September, 2026) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Independent Scholar) Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=62545

Imy, Kate. Losing Hearts and Minds: Race, War, and Empire in Singapore and Malaya 1915-1960. : Stanford University Press, 2024. xiii + 326 pp. $130.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781503634626.$32.00 (paper), ISBN 9781503639850. Reviewed by Nicholas Sambaluk (Air University) Published on H-War (September, 2026) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Independent Scholar)

Vos, Asha De. Whale: The Illustrated Biography. : Princeton University Press, 2025. 224 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780691273211. Reviewed by Grant Mongin (University of Oregon) Published on H-Oceans (September, 2026) Commissioned by Penelope K. Hardy (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse) Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=63036

Massanari, Adrienne L.. Gaming Democracy: How Silicon Valley Leveled Up the Far Right. : MIT Press, 2024. xii + 226 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 9780262549417. Reviewed by Kelly Jones (University of California, San Diego) Published on H-Sci-Med-Tech (September, 2026) Commissioned by Penelope K. Hardy (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)

Abel, Daniel C.; Maycock, Sophie A.. Shark: The Illustrated Biography. : Princeton University Press, 2025. Illustrations. 224 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780691261676. Reviewed by Janet M. Davis (University of Texas at Austin) Published on H-Environment (September, 2026) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Dubilet, Alex; Lloyd, Vincent W., eds.. Political Theology Reimagined. : Duke University Press, 2025. 377 pp. $31.95 (paper), ISBN 9781478032205. Reviewed by Enrico Beltramini (Notre Dame de Namur University) Published on H-History-and-Theory (September, 2026) Commissioned by Andrew J. Kettler (University of South Carolina)

Eschelbacher, Andrew; DeWitt, Lloyd, eds.. Farm to Table: Art, Food, and Identity in the Age of Impressionism. : Yale University Press, 2024. Illustrations. 213 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780300273816. Reviewed by Peter McPhee (University of Melbourne) Published on H-Environment (September, 2026) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Humphreys, Margaret. Searching for Dr. Harris: The Life and Times of a Remarkable African American Physician. : University of North Carolina Press, 2024. 304 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 9781469680064. Reviewed by Jonathan S. Jones (James Madison University) Published on H-CivWar (September, 2026) Commissioned by Lindsay Rae Smith Privette (Anderson University)

Odinga, Sobukwe. Treachery and Diplomacy: The Shadow Politics of US–Africa Relations. : Columbia University Press, 2026. 312 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 9780231202695. Reviewed by Lawrence Cline (Independent Scholar) Published on H-Diplo (September, 2026) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)