Subject Guides: History (Non-United States): Finding Book Reviews

Books

H-Net book reviews
The major listserv for research in history; includes book reviews.
H-Net Reviews
Online; 1993 - present. This website lists all the reviews of books posted to the H-net group of history listservs. Click on either "1998 Book Reviews," "Search the H-Net Reviews", or "Browse the H-Net Reviews" on the left of the page.

JSTOR
JSTOR provides access to several collections of backfiles of scholarly publications covering the social sciences, humanities, and sciences. JSTOR includes the full runs of each journal, generally up to 1-7 years from the present.
America: History and Life
Type the title of the book in quotation marks in the title field. The title of the journal in which the review has been published appears in the full entry. Reviews of books in history sometimes appear two or more years after the publication of the book. Search the library catalog to see if we have journal and year needed to obtain the full text of the review.
Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science)
Choose Advanced Search option, type field operator = terms relating to your search. After results are displayed click on Advanced Search and click on display number of search results. Next, you can refine your search by selecting facets including Social Sciences and "Reviews" to find book reviews. Check library catalog by Journal Title search to see if we have the journal listed in the citation.
Project MUSE - Standard Collection
Project MUSE offers journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers and covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.