eHistory Book Reviews

(May Book Review): The Eve of Destruction: How 1965 Transformed America

Wed, 01 May 2013 12:00:00 GMT

by James T. Patterson (New York: Basic Books, 2012) - Review by Sarah Brady Siff

(April Book Review): Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:00:00 GMT

by Lien-Hang T. Nguyen Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012 - Review by Robert Denning

(March Book Review): The Blood of Free Men: The Liberation of Paris, 1944

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:00:00 GMT

by Michael Neiberg (New York: Basic Books, 2012) - Review by Corbin Williamson

(February Book Review): Ajax, The Dutch, The War: the Strange Tale of Soccer During Europe's Darkest Hour

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 12:00:00 GMT

by Simon Kuper (New York: Nation Books, 2012) - Review by Sanja Kadrić

(January Book Review): Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 12:00:00 GMT

by John G. Turner (Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012) - Review by Emily Arendt

(December Book Review): State of War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1945-2011

Sat, 01 Dec 2012 12:00:00 GMT

by Paul A. C. Koistinen (Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 2012) - Review by Steven Conn

(November Book Review): Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 12:00:00 GMT

by Brown, Peter (Princeton University Press, 2012) - Review by Frank McGough

(October Book Review): Krupp: A History of the Legendary German Firm

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:00:00 GMT

by Harold James (Princeton University Press, 2012) - Review by Ian Johnson

(September Book Review): Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750

Sat, 01 Sep 2012 12:00:00 GMT

by Odd Arne Westad (New York: Basic Books, 2012) - Review by Lara Di-Luo

(July Book Review): Motherland in Danger: Soviet Propaganda during World War II

Sun, 01 Jul 2012 12:00:00 GMT

by Karel C. Berkhoff (Harvard University Press, 2012) - Review by Angela Brintlinger

(June Book Review): The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:00:00 GMT

by Taner Akçam (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012) - Review by Charles Carter

(May Book Review): All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals

Tue, 01 May 2012 12:00:00 GMT

by David Scheffer (NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012) - Review by Joseph Arena

(April Book Review): The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 12:00:00 GMT

by Raymond Jonas (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press, 2011) - Review by Robert Clemm

(March Book Review): Patrick Henry: First Among Patriots

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:00:00 GMT

by Thomas S. Kidd (New York: Basic Books, 2011) - Review by Hunter Price

(February Book Review): Philanthropy in America: A History

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:00:00 GMT

by Olivier Zunz (Princeton University Press, 2012) - Review by Steven Conn

(January Book Review): Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT

by Ezra F. Vogel (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011) - Review by John Knight

(December Book Review): Chivalry in Medieval England

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:00:00 GMT

by Nigel Saul (Harvard University Press, 416 pp, 2011, ISBN 978-0-674-06368-6) - Review by Sarah Douglas

(November Book Review): With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:00:00 GMT

by David Stevenson (Cambridge, M.A.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011) - Review by Frank Blazich

(October Book Review): Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style

Sat, 01 Oct 2011 12:00:00 GMT

by Kathy Peiss (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011) - Review by Jamie LeAnne Hager

(September Book Review): Ataturk: An Intellectual Biography

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 12:00:00 GMT

by M. Sukru Hanioglu (Princeton. Princeton University Press. 2011) - Review by Ayse Baltacioglu

(August Book Review): Measure of the Earth: The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our World

Mon, 01 Aug 2011 12:00:00 GMT

by Larrie D. Ferreiro (New York: Basic Books, 2011) - Review by Robert Clemm

(July Book Review): The End of the West: The Once and Future Europe

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:00:00 GMT

by David Marquand (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011) - Review by Ryan McMillin

(June Book Review): Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 12:00:00 GMT

by Molly Greene (Princeton University Press 2010) - Review by Benzion Chinn

(May Book Review): Pay For Play: A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform

Sun, 01 May 2011 12:00:00 GMT

by Ronald A. Smith (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011. xii + 344 pp.) - Review by Marc Horger

(April Book Review): A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 12:00:00 GMT

by Stephanie Coontz (New York: Basic Books, 2011) - Review by Nicole Jackson

(March Book Review): The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:00:00 GMT

by Steven Bryan (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010) - Review by Joseph Arena

(February Book Review): Song of Wrath: The Peloponnesian War Begins

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 12:00:00 GMT

by J.E. Lendon (Basic Books, New York, 2010) - Review by Jamie LeAnne Hager

(January Book Review): A Wicked Company: The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 12:00:00 GMT

by Philipp Blom (New York: Basic Books, 2010) - Review by Delano Lopez

(December Book Review): Sexual Injustice: Supreme Court Decisions from Griswold to Roe

Wed, 01 Dec 2010 12:00:00 GMT

by Marc Stein (University of North Carolina Press) - Review by Jeffrey Vernon

(November Book Review): A Short History of Celebrity

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 12:00:00 GMT

by Fred Inglis (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2010) - Review by Mark Soderstrom

(October Book Review): Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre

Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:00:00 GMT

by Heather Cox Richardson (New York: Basic Books, 2010) - Review by Glenn McCaskey

(September Book Review): The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000-3500 BC

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:00:00 GMT

by David W. Anthony and Jennifer Y. Chi (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. pp. 254) - Review by Dallas DeForest

(August Book Review): Guantanamo, USA: The Untold History of America's Cuban Outpost

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 12:00:00 GMT

by Stephen Irving Max Schwab (University Press of Kansas, 2009) - Review by Jeffrey Vernon

(July Book Review): The Rise and Fall of Modern Conservatism

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:00:00 GMT

by David Farber (Princeton University Press, 2010) - Review by Steven Conn

(June Book Review): Conspirator: Lenin in Exile

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:00:00 GMT

by Helen Rappaport (New York, NY: Basic Books, 2010) - Review by John Knight

(May Book Review): A History of Iran: Empire of the Mind

Sat, 01 May 2010 12:00:00 GMT

by Michael Axworthy (New York. Basic Books. 2008) - Review by Ayse Baltacioglu

(April Book Review): A Swindler's Progress: Nobles and Convicts in the Age of Liberty

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:00:00 GMT

by Kirsten McKenzie (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2010) - Review by Mark Soderstrom

(March Book Review): The Anatomy Murders

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:00:00 GMT

by Lisa Rosner (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009) - Review by Ryan McMillin

(February Book Review): Trotsky: A Biography

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:00:00 GMT

by Robert Service (Cambridge, MA, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009) - Review by John Knight

(January Book Review): Civilizations of Ancient Iraq

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:00:00 GMT

by Benjamin R. Foster and Karen Polinger Foster (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. pp. xii, 297) - Review by Dallas DeForest

(December Book Review): Where Have All the Soldiers Gone: The Transformation of Modern Europe

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:00:00 GMT

by Jeff Sheehan (Illustrated. 284 pp. Houghton Mifflin Company) - Review by Benzion Chinn

(November Book Review): 428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT

by Giusto Traina (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. pp. xix, 203. Trans. by Allan Cameron) - Review by Dallas DeForest

(October Book Review): Famine: A Short History

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:00:00 GMT

by Cormac O Grada (Princeton University Press, 2009) - Review by Robert Denning

(September Book Review): A Tale of Two Monasteries: Westminster and Saint-Denis is the Thirteenth Century

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:00:00 GMT

by William Chester Jordan (Princeton University Press, 2009) - Review by James Bennett

(August Book Review): Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 12:00:00 GMT

by Christopher I. Beckwith (Princeton University Press 2009) - Review by Rapp Crook

(July Book Review): A Cruel Wind: Pandemic Flu in America, 1918-1920

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:00:00 GMT

by Dorothy A. Pettit and Janice Bailie (Timberlane Books, 2008) - Review by Anne Sealey

(June Book Review): The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:00:00 GMT

by Margot Mifflin (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009) - Review by Linda Long-Van Brocklyn

(May Book Review): Caesar: A Life in Western Culture

Fri, 01 May 2009 12:00:00 GMT

by Maria Wyke (Chicago 2008) - Review by Gregory Pellam

(April Book Review): The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:00:00 GMT

by Susannah Heschel (Princeton University Press, 2008) - Review by Benzion Chinn

(March Book Review): The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's Destruction

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 12:00:00 GMT

by Max Page (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008) - Review by Linda Long-Van Brocklyn

(February Book Review): Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City: The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 12:00:00 GMT

by Wendell E. Pritchett (University of Chicago Press, 2008) - Review by Danielle Olden

(January Book Review): A Revolution in Taste: The Rise of French Cuisine, 1650-1800

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 12:00:00 GMT

by Susan Pinkard (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2009) - Review by Sarah Kernan

(December Book Review): Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:00:00 GMT

by Thomas J. Sugrue (New York: Random House, 2008) - Review by Jennifer Huff

(November Book Review): Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:00:00 GMT

by Richard Stoneman (New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2008) - Review by Dallas DeForest

(October Book Review): 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:00:00 GMT

by Benny Morris (Yale University Press, 2008) - Review by Paul Chamberlin

(September Book Review): The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the Communist World

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:00:00 GMT

by Lorenz M Luthi (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008) - Review by Ryan Irwin

(July Book Review): After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade Since 1807

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMT

by Marika Sherwood (I.B. Tauris, 2007) - Review by Stephen Shapiro

(June Book Review): The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Ages of Columbus

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:00:00 GMT

by David Abulafia (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008) - Review by John Hunt

(May Book Review): School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program

Thu, 01 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT

by Susan Levine (Princeton University Press, 2008) - Review by Jennifer Huff

(April Book Review): Byzantium

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:00:00 GMT

by Judith Herrin (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2008) - Review by Morgan Myers

(March Book Review): 'What Hath God Wrought?': The Transformation of America, 1815-1848.

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:00:00 GMT

by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford University Press, 2007) - Review by Steven Conn

(February Book Review): American Jewish Loss after the Holocaust

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:00:00 GMT

by Laura Levitt (New York: New York University Press, 2007) - Review by Laura Herron

(January Book Review): In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, The Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 12:00:00 GMT

by Michael Lienesch (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2007) - Review by Brian Kennedy

(December Book Review): A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (The New Cold War History)

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 12:00:00 GMT

by Vladislav Zubok (2007, University of North Carolina Press) - Review by Ursula Gurney

(November Book Review): Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?: Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers, and Empire

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:00:00 GMT

by Clare Pettitt (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2007) - Review by Robert Clemm

(October Book Review): Children at Play: An American History

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:00:00 GMT

by Howard Chudacoff (New York: New York University Press, 2007) - Review by Christine LaHue

(September Book Review): Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 12:00:00 GMT

by Eric D. Weitz (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2007) - Review by Faith Anne Scott

(August Book Review): The Jamestown Project

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:00:00 GMT

by Karen Ordahl Kupperman (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007) - Review by Larry Skillin

(July Book Review): Ho Chi Minh: A Biography

Sun, 01 Jul 2007 12:00:00 GMT

by Pierre Brocheux (translation by Claire Duiker) (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007) - Review by Ryan Irwin

(June Book Review): The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:00:00 GMT

by Aaron Sachs (Viking Books, 2006) - Review by Steven Conn

(May Book Review): The Sack of Panama: Captain Morgan and The Battle for the Caribbean

Tue, 01 May 2007 12:00:00 GMT

by Peter Earle (St. Martin's Press '07, $25.95, 292 pages, ISBN #0-312-36142-4; index, source notes, bibliography, unillustrated) - Review by Patrick Crawford

(April Book Review): Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect

Sun, 01 Apr 2007 12:00:00 GMT

by Charles Thorpe (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006) - Review by Robyn Rodriguez

(March Book Review): A Day in a Medieval City

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:00:00 GMT

by Chiara Frugoni (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007) - Review by Valerie Emanoil

(February Book Review): Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 12:00:00 GMT

by Roxanne L. Euben (Princeton University Press, Princeton 2006) - Review by Mary Sitzenstatter

(December Book Review): Islamic Imperialism: A History

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 12:00:00 GMT

by Efraim Karsh (New Haven, Yale University Press, 2006) - Review by Leif Torkelsen

(November Book Review): Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

Wed, 01 Nov 2006 12:00:00 GMT

by Nathaniel Philbrick (New York, Viking Press 2006) - Review by David Dzurec

(October Book Review): Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle that Made England

Sun, 01 Oct 2006 12:00:00 GMT

by Juliet Barker Little, Brown and Company (New York, 2006) - Review by Faith Anne Scott

(September Book Review): When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America

Fri, 01 Sep 2006 12:00:00 GMT

by Ira Katznelson (W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 2005), preface, appendix, index, 238 pp. - Review by Ryan Irwin

(August Book Review): The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain

Tue, 01 Aug 2006 12:00:00 GMT

by Nicholas B. Dirks (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006) - Review by Linda Long-Van Brocklyn

(July Book Review): Strangers Nowhere in the World: The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe

Sat, 01 Jul 2006 12:00:00 GMT

by Margaret Jacobs (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006) - Review by Sarah Wegener

(June Book Review): American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century

Thu, 01 Jun 2006 12:00:00 GMT

by Kevin Phillips New York: Viking, 2006 - Review by Ryan Irwin

(May Book Review): Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger

Mon, 01 May 2006 12:00:00 GMT

by Bruce Kuklick (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006) - Review by Gregory Kupsky

(March Book Review): Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade

Wed, 01 Mar 2006 12:00:00 GMT

by Donald Critchlow (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005) - Review by Mary Sitzenstatter

(February Book Review): Spirits of Defiance: National Prohibition and Jazz Age Literature

Wed, 01 Feb 2006 12:00:00 GMT

by Kathleen Drowne (Columbus: Ohio State University, 2005) - Review by Jason Powell

(January Book Review): The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the Murder of Jose Robles

Sun, 01 Jan 2006 12:00:00 GMT

by Stephen Koch (New York: Counterpoint, 2005) - Review by Jason Powell

(December Book Review): Shakespeare For All Time

Thu, 01 Dec 2005 12:00:00 GMT

by Stanley Wells (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003) - Review by Rachael Ball

(April Book Review): Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War

Fri, 01 Apr 2005 12:00:00 GMT

by Harry S. Stout (New York: Viking, 2006) - Review by Alison Efford