Maryanne A. Rhett, Representations of Islam in United States Comics, 1880–1922 (London: Bloomsbury, 2020, $135.00 cloth, $40.95 paper). Pp. 137. ISBN 978 1 3500 7324 1, 978 1 3501 9627 8.

There is little written on comics, and this topic, within comic studies or historical work more generally, so Rhett's book is a welcome intervention on both counts. Rhett's work takes the reader into a particularly knotty period for the discussion of immigration and its representation in American popular culture. My main concern remains the length of the book and its narrow focus, albeit on a key period for histories of immigration and US relations with Islam and Islamic countries

Kristin Hoganson, Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish–American and Philippine–American Wars (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998)

Paul A. Kramer, The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006).

Louis A. Perez Jr., “Incurring a Debt of Gratitude: 1898 and the Moral Sources of United States Hegemony in Cuba,” American Historical Review, 104, 2 (1999), 356-98

Mae M. Ngai, “The Architecture of Race in American Immigration Law: A Reexamination of the Immigration Act of 1924,” Journal of American History, 86, 1 (1999), 67-92.

Fiona Venn, “The Wartime ‘Special Relationship’? From Oil War to Anglo-American Oil Agreement, 1939-1945,” Journal of Transatlantic Studies, 10, 2 (2012), 119-33.

Michael Omi and Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 3rd edn (Abingdon: Routledge, 2015).