Book Reviews
The Independent Scholar (TIS)

The Independent Scholar, Volume 11 (Forthcoming, 2025)

Pre-prints of book reviews:

Dressed for Freedom: The Fashionable Politics of American Feminism

Einav Rabinovitch-Fox (Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2021)

Teaching Refugees and Displaced Students: What Every Educator Should Know

Thomas DeVere Wolsey and Ibrahim Kartouki (eds.) (Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2023)

Music and Identity in Twenty-First-Century Monasticism

Amanda J. Haste (London & New York: Routledge, 2023)

The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information

Craig Robertson (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021)

Defining the Age: Daniel Bell, His Time and Ours

Paul Starr and Julian E. Zelizer (eds.) (New York: Columbia University Press, 2022)

 Nakam: The Holocaust Survivors Who Sought Full-Scale Revenge

Dina Porat (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2023)

The Independent Scholar, Volume 10 (December 2023)

American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial  Light 1750-1865.

Jeremy Zallen (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019)

With Freedom in Our Ears: Histories of Jewish Anarchism

Anna Elena Torres & Kenyon Zimmer (eds.) (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2023)

Free Will and Human Life

Alan E. Johnson (Philosophia Publications, 2021)

Independent Scholars Meet the World

Christine Caccipuoti & Elizabeth Keohane-Burbridge (eds.) (Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2020)

Avian Illustrations: A Cultural History of Birds

Boria Sax (London: Reaktion Books Ltd., 2021)

Madness and genetic determinism: Is mental illness in our genes?

Patrick D. Hahn (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2019)

The Independent Scholar, Volume 9 (December 2022)

Double Reviews:

The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century

P. Gabrielle Foreman, Jim Casey and Sarah Lynn Patterson, eds. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021)

Memorializing the Middle Classes in Medieval and Renaissance Europe

Anne C. Leader, ed. (Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University, 2018)

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 March 2020

Beyond Truman: Robert H. Ferrell and Crafting the Past

Douglas A. Dixon (London: Lexington Books, 2020)

A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order

Judith Flanders (New York: Basic Books, 2020)

Everything Worthy of Observation: The 1826 New York State Travel Journal of Alexander Stewart Scott

Paul G. Schneider Jr., ed. (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2019)

The Independent Scholar, Volume 8 (December 2021)

Contagionism Catches On: Medical Ideology in Britain, 1730-1800

Margaret DeLacy (London & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)

Disinformation in Mass Media: Gluck, Piccinni and the Journal de Paris

Beverly Jerold (London & New York: Routledge, 2021)

Women and Men in the Qur’an

Asma Lamrabet (translated by Muneera Salem-Murdock) (Washington, DC, USA: Palgrave, 2018)

Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks

Wendy Laura Belcher (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing and Publishing, 2019)

Black Metal, Trauma, Subjectivity and Sound: Screaming the Abyss

Jasmine Hazel Shadrack  (UK, N. America, Asia: Emerald Publishing, 2020)

The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, 1600-1800

Phillip Reid (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2020)

The Independent Scholar, Volume 7, 'Connections and Challenges' (August 2020)

Music and Death: Interdisciplinary Readings and Perspectives

Ed. Marie Josephine Bennett and David Gracon (UK, N. America, Asia: Emerald Publishing, 2019)

Publishing From Your Doctoral Research: Create and Use a Publication Strategy

Janet Salmons and Helen Kara (Oxford & New York: Routledge, 2019)

Music for Women (Survivors of Violence): A Feminist Music Therapy Interactive eBook

Ed. Sandra L. Curtis (Dallas, TX: Barcelona Publishers, 2019)

Lizard & Dinomania

Boria Sax (London: Reaktion Books, 2017 & 2018)

Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote

Ellen Carol DuBois (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2020)

Sunbelt Diaspora: Race, Class and Latino Politics in Puerto Rican Orlando

Patricia Silver (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2020)

The Independent Scholar, Volume 6, 'Meeting Challenges' (February 2020)

Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions: Faith and Culture across History

Ed. Susan De-Gaia (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, E-book 2018; Hardcover 2019) 2 vols.

Little Quick Fix Series: Use Your Interview Data

Helen Kara (London: Sage, 2019)

Women and the Society of Biblical Literature

Ed. Nicole L. Tilford (Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 2019)

Interpreters vs Machines: Can Interpreters Survive in an AI-Dominated World?

Jonathan Downie (Oxford; New York: Routledge, 2019)

The Independent Scholar, Volume 5 (August 2019)

Research Ethics in the Real World: Euro-Western and Indigenous Perspectives

Helen Kara (Bristol: Policy Press/ University of Bristol, 2018)

Untangling a Red, White, and Black Heritage: A Personal History of the Allotment Era

Darnella Davis (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2018)

Twenty Years with the Jewish Labor Bund: A Memoir of Interwar Poland

Bernard Goldstein (West Lafayette, IND: Purdue University Press, 2016)

Power Under Her Foot: Women Enthusiasts of American Muscle Cars

Chris Lezotte (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2018)

The Independent Scholar, Volume 4, 'Gender & Society' (December 2018)

African Women: Early History to the 21st Century

Kathleen Sheldon (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2017)

Katherine Joseph: Photographing an Era of Social Significance

Suzanne Hertzberg (Washington, D.C.: Bergamont Press, 2016)

The Independent Scholar, Volume 3, 'Identity & Transition' (June 2017)

The Book of Pears: The Definitive History and Guide to Over 500 Varieties

Joan Morgan, with paintings by Elisabeth Dowle (Ebury Press, October 2015)

Conservative Counterrevolution: Challenging Liberalism in 1950s Milwaukee

Tula Connell (University of Illinois Press, April 2016)

The First American Founder: Roger Williams and Freedom of Conscience

Alan E. Johnson (Philosophia Publications, 2015)

Animals in the Third Reich, 2nd edition,

Boria Sax (Providence, R.I., Yogh & THORN/The Poet’s Press, 2000, 2013)

The Independent Scholar, Volume 2 (September 2016) - (Download PDF)

Paranormal: A New Testament Scholar Looks at the Afterlife

Valerie Abrahamsen (Shires Press, 2015)

The Kosher Sutras

Marcus J. Freed (FreedThinker Books, 2013)

For the Union and the Catholic Church: Four Converts in the Civil War

Max Longley (NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2015)

The Independent Scholar, Volume 1, 'Traditions and Transitions' (December 2015)

Constructing Identity in an Age of Globalization

eds., James E. Block and Amanda J. Haste (Paris: Ex Modio, 2015)

Dance, Consumerism, and Spirituality

C.S. Walter (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)

The Kabbalah Sutras: 49 Steps to Enlightenment

Marcus Freed (Los Angeles, CA: FreedThinker Books, 2015)

The American Dream in Vietname

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Nhi T. Lieu (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011)