History: Reviews of New Books
@histbooks-reviews
Publishes reviews of books on historical topics that covers all geographic areas and time periods, from ancient times to the present.
📚️ The Visionary Art of Franco-Belgian Comics, 1930s to 1960s ✏️ Editors: Hugo Frey, Ahmed Maaheen ✏️ Reviewer: Julia di Liberti Read here ➡️ doi.org/10.1080/0361... @routledgehistory.bsky.social @pstjmack.bsky.social @leuvenup.bsky.social #bookreview #history
📚️ Women Will Vote: Winning Suffrage in New York State Read here ➡️ doi.org/10.1080/0361... ✏️ Authors: Susan Goodier and Karen Pastorello ✏️ Reviewer: Kelly E. Rogers #bookreview #womenhis #history #suffrage @cornellupress.bsky.social
📚️ In Search of Technological Excellence: Education and Engineering in Postwar Britain ✏️ Author: John Heywood ✏️ Reviewer: Neal R. McCrillis Read here ➡️ doi.org/10.1080/0361... #bookreview #bizhis #history #econhis @oxunipress.bsky.social
📚️ The Entrepreneur in the History of Political Economy: The Hunting for Heffalumps in the Early Economic Analysis ✏️ Author: Jose M. Menudo ✏️ Reviewer: Zoi Pittaki Read here ➡️ doi.org/10.1080/0361... #bookreview #bizhis #history #econhis @routledgehistory.bsky.social @thewha.bsky.social
📚️ The Strongest Link: An Oral History of Wartime Rape Survivors in Kosovo doi.org/10.1080/0361... ✏️ Authors: Anna Di Lellio, Garentina Kraja ✏️ Reviewer: Catherine Baker @oxunipress.bsky.social @oah.org @thewha.bsky.social #bookreview
📚️ Power and Powerlessness in Union Ireland: Life in a Palliative State ✏️ Author: Ciaran O’Neill ✏️ Reviewer: Douglas Kanter @royalhistsoc.org @historians.org @bairishstudies.bsky.social #HRNB #Colonialism #Empire #PowerTheory #Historiography
📚️Family and Disability Activism: Beyond Allies and Obstacles doi.org/10.1080/0361... ✏️ Editors: Pamela Block, Allison C. Carey, Richard K. Scotch ✏️ Reviewer: David Carey Jr. #HRNB #DisabilityRights #PolicyStudies
📚️ The Texas Civil Rights Project: How We Built a Social Justice Movement The story of the civil rights movement in Texas ✏️ Author: Jim Harrington ✏️ Reviewer: Moises Acuna-Gurrola @utexaspress.bsky.social #bookreviews #history #CivilRights #SocialMovements #LegalHistory #UnitedStates
📚️ Refugee Voices in Modern Global History: Reckoning with Refugeedom. ✏️ Authors: Peter Gatrell, Katarzyna Nowak, Lauren Banko, and Anindita Ghoshal ✏️ Reviewer: Stacy Fahrenthold Read the review here ➡️ doi.org/10.1080/0361... #HRNB #GlobalHistory @oxunipress.bsky.social
📚️ The Computer: A Brief History of the Machine That Changed the World Authors: Eric G. Swedin and David L. Ferro ✏️ Reviewer: James Cortada✏️ Read the review here ➡️ doi.org/10.1080/0361... #bookreviews
To all #CHA2026 attendees! Please consider History: Reviews of New Books (Routledge) www.tandfonline.com/journals/vhi... for your newly published books or to become a #bookreviewer ! We review in Spanish and English. Wish you have a wonderful conference!!
To all #LASA2026 attendees! Please consider History: Reviews of New Books (Routledge) www.tandfonline.com/journals/vhi... for your newly published books or to become a #bookreviewer ! We review in Spanish and English. Wish you have a wonderful conference -> lasaweb.org/es/lasa2026/
To all #ACH2026 attendees! Please consider History: Reviews of New Books (Routledge) www.tandfonline.com/journals/vhi... for your newly published books or to become a #bookreviewer ! Wish you have a wonderful conference -> associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org/conference-p...
The Cherokee railroad project never came to fruition, but it speaks to the larger argument in 📚️ The Iron Horse in Indian Country: Native Americans and Railroads in the West, by Alessandra La Rocca Link. Read the review here: ➡️ doi.org/10.1080/0361... #HRNB #newbooks @oxunipress.bsky.social
A Review of Southern Methodist Women and Social Justice: Interracial Activism in the Long Twentieth Century edited by Janet Allured and M. Kathryn Armistead University of Florida Press is now availble. doi.org/10.1080/0361... 🙏 by Elizabeth Georgian @floridapress.bsky.social #USsouth #newbooks
New #bookreview of Anthony Pagden's Beyond States: Power, Peoples, and Global Order doi.org/10.1080/0361... 🙏 Benjamin Banta @politybooks.bsky.social #newbooks #history
Forgotten Landscapes: How Native Americans Created Pre-Columbian North America and What We Can Learn from it by #botanist and emeritus professor of biological sciences Stanley A. Rice now reviewed on www.tandfonline.com/journals/vhi... Read doi.org/10.1080/0361... #historybooks #bookreviews
In Faith and Fear @oxunipress.bsky.social Gregory A. Daddis seeks to transform how we understand modern American history ... His goal in this latest project, he explains in the preface, is to write a “big idea” book. Review by Matthew Avery Sutton 👉 doi.org/10.1080/0361... #bookreviews
We, the History: Reviews of New Books would love to connect w #OAH2026 @oah.org and welcome book suggestions and #bookreviewers for www.tandfonline.com/journals/vhi... #asianstudies #asianhistory #bookreviews 📚️
🆕 #bookreview of American Freethought: the History of a Social Movement 1794-1948 by David Hoffman, by Paul Murphy 🙏 doi.org/10.1080/0361... hopkinspress.bsky.social #Americanfreethought #historybook
Our 🙏 to Dr Boyd Murphree for his review of doi.org/10.1080/0361... @sun-sentinel.com @floridapress.bsky.social ... examining how Florida’s geography and demographics shaped the state’s role in a global war. ... Read more #militaryhistory #historybooks #bookreviews
Reviewer Howard Fuller in doi.org/10.1080/0361... 👉 "As Buxton chronicles, it was only the Sphinx that made it into Confederate hands, and not via the French ..." #bookreviews #historybooks @acls1919.bsky.social @militarytimes.bsky.social @mhafhs.bsky.social @britjnlmilhist.bsky.social
We, the History: Reviews of New Books would love to connect w #AAS2026 @asianstudies.org and welcome book suggestions and #bookreviewers for www.tandfonline.com/journals/vhi... @routledgebooks.bsky.social #asianhistory #bookreviews 📚️
"In Seeds of Victory, historian James Ellman examines a series of American battles to ask why the United States repeatedly suffered defeats at the outset of wars..." Reviewed by Christopher DeRosa 🙏 doi.org/10.1080/0361... #historybooks #bookreviews #militaryhistory @mhafhs.bsky.social
East of Empire by Erin M. B. O’Halloran re-centers the interwar period by tracing connections between Egypt and India beyond formal empire. Reviewed by Kyle Anderson doi.org/10.1080/0361... #BookReview #GlobalHistory #ImperialHistory #InterwarPeriod @stanfordpress.bsky.social
Black Panther Woman by Mary Phillips offers a careful, grounded account of Ericka Huggins’s political work and spiritual life within and beyond the Black Panther Party. Reviewed by Jakobi Williams doi.org/10.1080/0361... #BookReview #BlackHistory @nyupress.bsky.social
Check #bookreview by Mar Rubio-Varas on Economic History of the European Energy Industry: Lighting up Western Europe, 19th to 21st centuries, edited by Alberte Martínez-López, Jesús Mirás-Araujo, and Nuria Rodríguez-Martín. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0361... @routledgehistory.bsky.social
🔍 📖 #bookreview doi.org/10.1080/0361... Brian Spivey on Cheng Li’s Contested Environmentalisms. A history of trees, politics and environmental change in modern China. @tandfresearch.bsky.social @stanfordpress.bsky.social #bizhis #EnvironmentalHistory #China
New Book Review of Italy’s Christian Democracy: The Catholic Encounter with Political Modernity, by Forlenza, Rosario, and Bjørn Thomassen. Oxford University Press, 2024 Steve Soper doi.org/10.1080/0361... @oxunipress.bsky.social
New Volume Out ‼️ on History: Reviews of New Books www.tandfonline.com/toc/vhis20/c... @routledgehistory.bsky.social #bookreviews #skystorians #bookreviews #historybookreviews #history #newbooks