academic book reviews

MEDIEVAL BOOKS

Constable, Giles, The Reformation of the Twelfth CenturyPDF | HTML

Mortimer, Richard, Angevin England, 1154–1258PDF | HTML

Southern, Richard, Western Society and the Church in the Middle AgesPDF | HTML

William Chester Jordan, The Great Famine: Northern Europe in the Early Fourteenth CenturyPDF | HTML

David Herlihy, The Black Death and the Transformation of the WestPDF | HTML

Rosemary Horrox, The Black DeathPDF | HTML

Ole Benedictow, The Black Death 1346–1353: The Complete HistoryPDF | HTML

Steven Justice, Writing and Rebellion: England in 1381PDF | HTML

 

MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES BOOKS

The Tragedy of Sohrab and Rostam, trans. Jerome W. Clinton – PDF | HTML

Edward W. Said, OrientalismPDF | HTML

Fred M. Donner, Narratives of Islamic Origins: The Beginnings of Islamic Historical WritingPDF | HTML

Schimmel, Annemarie, And Muhammed is his Messenger: the Veneration of the Prophet in Islamic PietyPDF | HTML

Spellberg, D.A, Politics, Gender and the Islamic Past: the Legacy of `A'isha bint Abi BakrPDF | HTML

Paula Sanders, Ritual, Politics and the City in Fatimid CairoPDF | HTML

Michael Chamberlain, Knowledge and Social Practice in Medieval Damascus, 1130–1350PDF | HTML

Cemal Kafadar, Between Two Worlds: the Construction of the Ottoman StatePDF | HTML

Fatima Mernissi, The Veil and the Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Women's Rights in IslamPDF | HTML

Barfield, Thomas, The Nomadic AlternativePDF | HTML

 

OTHER HISTORY BOOKS

Ginzburg, Carlo, The Cheese and the Worms: the Cosmos of a Sixteenth Century MillerPDF | HTML

Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making of the Modern World EconomyPDF | HTML

Joel Mokyr, The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic ProgressPDF | HTML

Roediger, David R., The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working ClassPDF | HTML

Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the World OrderPDF | HTML

 


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