Book Reviews

Civil Wars: A History in Ideas

David Armitage. Alfred A. Knopf, 2017. 349 pages. $27.95.

Polyphonic Minds: Music of the Hemispheres

Peter Pesic. MIT Press, 2017. 330 pages. $38.00.

David Hammons: Bliz-aard Ball Sale

Elena Filipovic. An Afterall Book. Distributed by MIT Press, 2017. 157 pages. $19.95.

My Father’s Wake: How the Irish Teach us to Live, Love, and Die

Kevin Toolis. Da Capo Press, 2018. 275 pages.

The Streets of Paris: A Guide to the City of Light following in the Footsteps of Famous Parisians Throughout History

Susan Cahill. St. Martin’s/Griffin, 2017. 297 pages.

Land! The Case for an Agrarian Economy

John Crowe Ransom, edited by Jason Peters, introduction by Jay T. Collier. University of Notre Dame Press, 2017. $25.00.

Our Latest Longest War: Losing Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan

Edited by Aaron B. O’Connell. University of Chicago Press, 2017. 378 pages. $30.00.

Roger Martin du Gard and Maumort: The Nobel Laureate and His Unfinished Creation

Benjamin Franklin Martin. Northern Illinois University Press, 2017. 233 pages. $39.00.

The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters

Sean B. Carroll. Princeton University Press, 2016. 263 pages. $24.95.

Revolution and the Historical Novel

John McWilliams. Lexington Books, 2018. 299 pages. $120.00.

The Reinvention of Magna Carta 1216-1616

Sir John Baker. Cambridge University Press, 2017. 570 pages. $155.00.

Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris: The Story of a Friendship, a Novel, and a Terrible Year

Peter Brooks. Basic Books, 2017. 241 pages. $32.00.