Book reviews are handy things - they can be a great way to keep up with current scholarship and historiographical debates. There are many now available online, but finding what you want can be difficult, so this page lists relevant sources of both scholarly and 'popular' reviews, as well as some reviews (mainly of recent books but also some 'classics'). This is followed by a listing of similar sources for reviews of websites - a small list at present, but without doubt this is an expanding area
Book Reviews | Website Reviews
Sources for reviews
H-Reviews at H-Net, archive of reviews published by H-Net's wide range of discussion lists
Reviews in History Institute of Historical Research (UK)
EH.Net Book Reviews economic history
Eighteenth-century Book Reviews (American Society for Eighteenth-century Studies)
Scientific and Medical Network
Renaissance Forum (electronic journal)
Early Modern Literary Studies (electronic journal)
New York Times Books (free to use, but registration required)
Books in Depth (newspaper and magazine reviews)
ASECS Book Reviews Online (American Society for Eighteenth-century Studies)
Some reviews
Old and New World | Economic Developments | Politics, Religion, War | Cultural Histories | National Histories | Women, Gender, Sexuality | Families, Marriage, Life-cycle | Crime, Law, Punishment | Science and Medicine | Poverty |
P E H Hair, Africa Encountered: European Contacts and Evidence 1450-1700 (IHR)
Richard L. Kagan and Geoffrey Parker (eds), Spain, Europe and the Atlantic World: Essays in Honour of John H. Elliott (H-LatAm)
Andrew L. Knaut, The Pueblo Revolt of 1680: Conquest and Resistance in Seventeenth-Century New Mexico (H-LatAm)
Rebecca Horn, Postconquest Coyoacán: Nahua-Spanish Relations in Central Mexico, 1519-1650 (H-LatAm)
Susan Kellogg, Law and the Transformation of Aztec Culture, 1500-1700 (H-LatAm)
Frederick E. Hoxie, Ronald Hoffman, and Peter J. Albert (eds), Native Americans and the Early Republic (H-Shear)
Anthony F.C. Wallace, Jefferson and the Indians: The Tragic Fate of the First Americans (H-Law)
Anthony F.C. Wallace, Jefferson and the Indians: The Tragic Fate of the First Americans (H-Shear)
Robert A. Williams, Jr, Linking Arms Together: American Indian Treaty Visions of Law and Peace, 1600-1800 (H-Shear)
Colin G. Calloway, New Worlds For All: Indians, Europeans and the Remaking of Early America (H-Ethnic)
Richard H. Grove, Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860 (H-Africa)
Fernand Braudel, Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century (EH.Net)
Philip Hoffman, Growth in a Traditional Society: The French Countryside, 1450-1815 (IHR)
Jane Whittle, The Development of Agrarian Capitalism: Land and Labour in Norfolk 1440-1580 (H-Albion)
Mark Overton, Agricultural Revolution in England: The Transformation of the Agrarian Economy 1500-1850 (IHR)
Keith Wrightson, Earthly Necessities: Economic Lives in Early Modern Britain (EH.Net)
Keith Wrightson, Earthly Necessities: Economic Lives in Early Modern Britain (IHR)
Thorkild Kjaergaard, The Danish Revolution, 1500-1800: An Ecohistorical Interpretation (H-Rural)
Om Prakash, European Commercial Enterprise in Pre-Colonial India (EH.Net)
Kenneth Pomeranz, The
Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern
World Economy (H-World)
Paul Kliber Monod, The Power of Kings: Monarchy and Religion in Europe, 1589-1715 (IHR)
Robert I Frost, The Northern Wars: War, State and Society in Northeastern Europe, 1558-1721 (IHR)
James Scott Wheeler, The Making of a World Power, War and the Military Revolution in Seventeenth-Century England (IHR)
Jeroen Lamers, Japonius Tyrannus: The Japanese Warlord Oda Nobunaga Reconsidered (H-Japan)
Geoffrey Parker, The Grand Strategy of Philip II (IHR)
Bruce Lenman, Britain's Colonial Wars, 1688-1783 (H-Albion)
Fred Anderson, Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 (H-Law)
John Coffey, Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England 1558-1689 (H-Albion)
John Coffey, Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England 1558-1689 (IHR)
Hiram Morgan (ed), Political Ideology in Ireland, 1541-1641 (IHR)
S.J. Connolly (ed), Political Ideas in Eighteenth-Century Ireland (H-Albion)
Barry Reay, Popular Cultures in England 1550-1750 (IHR)
Craig Muldrew, The Economy of Obligation: The Culture of Credit and Social Relations in Early Modern England (EH.Net)
Maxine Berg and Helen Clifford (eds), Consumers and Luxury: Consumer Culture in Europe 1650-1850 (IHR)
Barbara M Benedict, Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry (Guardian)
Barbara M Benedict, Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry (H-Albion)
Susan Karant-Nunn, The Reformation of Ritual: An Interpretation of Early Modern Germany (H-German)
Susan B. Hanley, Everyday Things in Premodern Japan: The Hidden Legacy of Material Culture (EH.Net)
Li Tana, Nguyen Cochinchina: Southern Vietnam in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century (H-Asia)
Jonathan I. Israel, The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477-1806 (IHR)
Frederic J. Baumgartner, France in the Sixteenth Century (H-France)
Yves-Marie Bercé, The Birth of Absolutism: A History of France, 1598-1661 (H-France)
Emmanuelle Le Roy Ladurie, The Ancien Regime: A History of France, 1610-1774 (IHR)
J C D Clark, English Society 1660-1832: Religion, Ideology and Politics during the Ancien Regime (and Paul Langford, Englishness Identified: Manners and Character 1650-1850) (H-Albion)
J C D Clark, English Society 1660-1832: Religion, Ideology and Politics during the Ancien Regime (IHR Reviews in History)
David Dickson, New Foundations: Ireland 1660-1800 (H-Albion)
Olwen Hufton, The
Prospect Before Her: A History of Women in Western Europe.
Volume One 1500-1800 (IHR)
Susan D. Amussen and Adele Seeff (eds), Attending to Early Modern Women (Renaissance Forum)
Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus (eds), Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representation and Responsibilities (H-Women)
Robert B. Shoemaker, Gender in English Society 1650-1850: The Emergence of Separate Spheres? (H-Women)
Robert B. Shoemaker, Gender in English Society 1650-1850: The Emergence of Separate Spheres? (H-Women)
Kate Aughterson (ed), Renaissance Women: Constructions of Femininity in England (EMLS)
Sara Mendelson and Patricia Crawford, Women in Early Modern England 1550-1720 and Patricia Crawford and Laura Gowing (eds), Women's Worlds in Seventeenth-Century England: A Sourcebook (H-Albion)
Susan Frye and Karen Robertson (eds), Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens: Women's Alliances in Early Modern England (H-Women)
Cynthia A. Kierner, Beyond the Household: Women's Place in the Early South, 1700-1835 (H-Shear)
Theda Perdue, Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835 (H-Shear)
Larry D. Eldridge (ed), Women and Freedom in Early America (H-Women)
Bruce Burgett, Sentimental Bodies: Sex, Gender and Citizenship in the Early Republic (H-Shear)
Steve J. Stern, The Secret History of Gender: Women, Men and Power in Late Colonial Mexico (H-LatAm)
Philip Carter, Men and the Emergence of Polite Society, Britain 1660-1800 (H-Albion)
Philip Carter, Men and the Emergence of Polite Society, Britain 1660-1800 (IHR)
Michèle Cohen, Fashioning Masculinity: National identity and language in the eighteenth century (IHR)
Elizabeth Foyster, Manhood in Early Modern England: Honour, Sex and Marriage and Tim Hitchcock and Michele Cohen (eds), English Masculinities 1660-1800 (H-Albion)
James Farr, Authority and Sexuality in Early Modern Burgundy (H-France)
Randolph Trumbach, Sex and the Gender Revolution: Volume One: Heterosexuality and the Third Gender in Enlightenment London (IHR)
Gregory M. Pflugfelder, Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse 1600-1950 (H-Japan)
Families, Marriage, Life-cycle
Catherina Lis and Hugo Soly, Disordered Lives: Eighteenth-Century Families and their Unruly Relatives (IHR)
Diana O'Hara, Courtship and Constraint: Rethinking the Making of Marriage in Tudor England (H-Albion)
David Cressy, Birth, Marriage and Death: Ritual, Religion and the Life-cycle in Tudor and Stuart England (Renaissance Forum)
Norma Basch, Framing American Divorce: From the Revolutionary Generation to the Victorians (H-Shear)
Ralph Houlbrooke, Death, Religion and the Family in England 1480-1750 (IHR)
Richard Boyer, Lives of the Bigamists: Marriage, Family and Community in Colonial Mexico (H-LatAm)
Sandra Cavallo and Lyndan Warner (eds), Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (H-Women)
Sandra Cavallo and Lyndan Warner (eds), Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (IHR)
Lynn Botelho and Pat Thane (eds), Women and Ageing in British Society Since 1500 (H-Albion)
Malcolm Gaskill, Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England (H-Albion)
Peter King, Crime, Justice and Discretion in England 1740-1820 (IHR)
Jenny Kermode and Garthine Walker (eds), Women, Crime and the Courts in Early Modern England (H-Women)
Ulinka Rublack, The Crimes of Women in Early Modern Germany (IHR)
Cynthia Herrup, A House in Gross Disorder: Sex, Law, and the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven (H-Law)
Cynthia Herrup, A House in Gross Disorder: Sex, Law, and the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven (H-Albion)
Paul Baine, The House of Forgery in Eighteenth-century Britain (H-Albion)
Tony Henderson, Disorderly Women in Eighteenth-Century London: Prostitution and Control in the Metropolis, 1730-1830 (H-Women)
Brian Levack, The Witch Hunt in Early Modern Europe (H-Albion)
Robin Briggs, Witches and Neighbours (IHR)
Richard J. Evans, Rituals of Retribution: Capital Punishment in Germany 1600-1987 (H-Germany)
Tim Stretton, Women Waging Law in Elizabethan England (H-Law)
Deborah Rosen, Courts and Commerce: Gender, Law, and the Market Economy in Colonial New York (H-Law)
Margaret J.Osler, Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy (SciMedNet)
Margaret Pelling, The Common Lot: Sickness, Medical Occupations and the Urban Poor in Early Modern Europe (H-Sci-Med-Tech)
A Cunningham and Ole Grell (eds), Religio Medici: Medicine and religion in seventeenth century England (IHR)
Sources for reviews
Journal for Multimedia History
Journal of the Association for History and Computing
Evaluating Websites (Public History Resource Center) detailed guidelines for evaluating history websites (focus on 'public history', but their usefulness is certainly not confined to that category)
EMLS: Reviews of Electronic Resources
Some reviews
Colonial American History (Public History Resource Center)
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson (H-Shear)
Brown Women Writers' Project and Perdita Project (EMLS)
DoHistory: Martha Ballard (Journal for Multimedia History)
Early Modern Resources www.earlymodernweb.org.uk
This page last updated 13 May 2005 by Sharon Howard
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