Department of History

Book reviews

 

Welcome! This page of the journal is designed to offer post-graduates a space to review recently published books by academics working in their field. We welcome reviews from post-graduate and early post-doctoral students working in on contemporary history at any institution, from any country.


Issue 12, 2008

Keith Jeffery, Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson: A Political Soldier, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)
Review by Catherine Boylan

K. S. Inglis, Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australial Landscape, 3rd Ed., (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2008)
Review by Namita Chakrabarty

Frances Guerin and Roger Hallas (eds.), The Image and the Witness: Trauma, Memory and Visual Culture, (London: Wallflower Press, 2007)
Review by Ronan McKinney

 

Issue 11, 2007

Tevi Troy, Intellectuals and the American Presidency: Philosophers, Jesters, or Technicians?, (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002)
Review by Brian Douglas

Richard Whatmore and Brian Young, (eds.), Palgrave Advances in Intellectual History, (Basingstoke, UK, and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)
Review by Brian Douglas

John McIlroy, Kevin Morgan and Alan Campbell (eds.), Party People, Communist Lives: Explorations in Biography, (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 2001)
Review by Elke Side-Weesjes

Judith Flanders, Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain, (London: Harper Press, 2006)
Review by Jordon Douglas

 

Issue 10, 2006

Ernst Piper, Alfred Rosenberg. Hitlers Chefideologe, (Munich: Karl Blessing Verlag, 2005)
Review by Alex J. Kay

Isabel V. Hull, Absolute Destruction. Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany, (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004)
Review by Gilli Vardi

Iwan Morgan & Philip Davies (eds.), Right On? Political Change and Continuity in George W. Bush's America, (London: Institute for the Study of the Americas, 2006)
Review by Roger Johnson

 

Guidelines: We welcome submissions in all areas of contemporary history. Please adhere to the following guidelines

Length: reviews of single authored books should be between 750 and 1500 words in length. We also welcome review articles which deal with a number of recent works on a particular topic or theme. These may be up to 5,000 words in length.

Format: reviews should be in word format and preferably in the font Times New Roman 12 pt. Endnotes should be used and referencing should follow the format shown above. Please include full bibliographical details of the work(s) that you review and/or cite including, place and year of publication and ISBN. Please provide your own biographical details, institutional affiliation etc with your submission.

Contact:
Please note that the reviews themselves will be subject to a rigorous internal refereeing process and the decision of the editorial board as to whether or not to proceed with publication shall be final. Reviews should be sent to the editors at sussexhistoryjournal@googlemail.com.