Book Reviews

Keith Michael Baker’s Jean-Paul Marat: Prophet of Terror is a 27-chapter comprehensive biography of one of the men identified with the French Revolution’s most violent period. While mostly known today as the author...

In American Crusade: Christianity, Warfare, and National Identity, 1860-1920, Taylor University's Associate Professor of History Benjamin J. Wetzel explores the way Christian religious...

Amir Alexander begins Liberty’s Grid by considering the view of the San Fernando Valley from Castle Peak, a hill near his home. Although the Valley is peculiar in many respects...

In The Heretic of Cacheu, Toby Green uses one extraordinary life to illuminate a broader historical landscape shaped by commerce, belief, gender, and cultural...

John Haywood, who received a PhD in early medieval European history, is a veteran of creating historical atlases, and his latest book does not disappoint. The Making of the Middle Ages focuses on the...

The Maya Myths: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes and Ancestors by Mallory E. Matsumoto is the eighth instalment of Thames and Hudson’s mythology guides series and has succeeded in packing a huge quantity...

Born in the year 894, Aethelstan was the third in a remarkable line of great warrior kings from Wessex. His grandfather, Alfred the Great, halted the Viking advance into southern England...

In 1066 and All That (1930), a parody book of English history, Cnut is described as a "bad king," who "became a good king." While this is a simplistic overview, it captures the essence of the portrait Ryan Lavelle paints...

With Tamta’s World: The Life and Encounters of a Medieval Noblewoman from the Middle East to Mongolia, Anthony Eastmond, currently the AG Leventis Professor of Byzantine...

The Colony and the Company by Malick W. Ghachem is an articulately written and intellectually ambitious work that offers a compelling historical lens through which readers can examine the early...