Book Reviews
The Independent Scholar (TIS)
The Independent Scholar, Volume 11 (Forthcoming, 2026)
Defining the Age: Daniel Bell, His Time and Ours
Paul Starr and Julian E. Zelizer, eds. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2022)
A Devilish Kind of Courage: Anarchists, Aliens and the Siege of Sidney Street
Andrew Whitehead (London: Reaktion Books Ltd., 2024)
Dressed for Freedom: The Fashionable Politics of American Feminism
Einav Rabinovitch-Fox (University of Illinois Press, 2021)
The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information
Craig Robertson (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021)
A German Jew’s Triumph: Fritz Oppenheimer and the Denazification of Germany
Cindy Schweich Handler, foreword by Harry H. Handler (McFarland & Co., 2025)
Guide de survie de l’enseignant-chercheur indépendant [How to Survive as an Independent Researcher]
Claire Doussard (Librinova, 2024)
Megaliths, Music, and the Mind: A Transdisciplinary Exploration of Archaeoacoustics
Linda Eneix (Jenny Stanford Publishing Pte. Ltd., 2024)
Music and Identity in Twenty-First-Century Monasticism
Amanda J. Haste (London & New York: Routledge, 2023)
Nakam: The Holocaust Survivors Who Sought Full-Scale Revenge
Dina Porat (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2023)
Neo-Nazi terrorism and Counter-Cultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s “Siege” (with author’s response)
Spencer Sunshine (London and New York: Routledge, 2024)
Obedience Pills: ADHD and the Medicalization of Childhood
Patrick Hahn (Samizdat Health Writer’s Co-operative Inc. 2022)
Professional Translators in Nineteenth-Century France
Susan Pickford (London & New York: Routledge, 2025)
Teaching Refugees and Displaced Students: What Every Educator Should Know
Thomas DeVere Wolsey and Ibrahim M. Kartouki, eds. Springer Texts in Education (Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2023)
Words to the Wives: The Yiddish Press, Immigrant Women, and Jewish-American Identity
Shelby Shapiro (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024)
Workers of All Colors Unite: Race and Origins of American Socialism (with author’s response)
Lorenzo Costaguta (University of Illinois Press, 2023)
Writing creatively for work or study: Easy techniques to engage your readers
Helen Kara (Manchester University Press (2025)
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)
Alan E. Johnson (Philosophia Publications, 2021)
Independent Scholars Meet the World
Christine Caccipuoti & Elizabeth Keohane-Burbridge (eds.) (Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2020)
A Boston Schooner in the Royal Navy, 1768-1722: Commerce and Conflict in Maritime British America
Phillip Reid (Woodbridge, UK: The Boydell Press, 2023)
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 Review:
Marcy J. Dinius (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
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)
The Duke’s Trees: Leonardo’s Unfinished Masterpiece in the Sala delle Asse
Patrizia Costa (Pittsburgh, PA.: PC 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)
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)
A Vote of One’s Own: “Madame Momentum” and the Women’s Network of 1868
Elizabeth Coons (Bloomington: iUniverse, 2019)
Managing Your Professional Identity Online: A Guide for Faculty, Staff, and Administrators
Kathryn E. Linder (Stylus Publishing, eBooks.com, 2018)
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)
Emily Wapnick (HarperCollins : HarperOne, 2017)
The Independent Scholar, Volume 7, 'Connections and Challenges' (August 2020)
Guns, Grit, and Glory: How the US and Mexico Came Together to Defeat the Last Empire in the Americas
Michael Hogan (Amissville, VA: Henselstone Verlag, 2019)
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)
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: Write a Questionnaire & Do Your Interviews
Helen Kara (London: Sage, 2019)
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)
Contemplative Wicca: Reflections on Contemplative Practice for Pagans
Teresa Chupp (Aeon Books, 2018)
Alan E. Johnson (Philosophia Publications, 2018)
The Independent Scholar, Volume 4, 'Gender & Society' (December 2018)
The Long Shadow of the Past: Contemporary Austrian Literature, Film and Culture
Katya Krylova (Rochester: Camden House, 2017)
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)
Jane Welsh Carlyle and her Victorian World: A Story of Love, Work, Friendship and Marriage
Kathy Chamberlain (London: Duckworth Overlook, 2017)
Stealing Fire: Memoir of Boyhood in the Shadow of Atomic Espionage
Boria Sax (Decalogue Books, 2014)
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)
Paranormal: A New Testament Scholar Looks at the Afterlife
Valerie Abrahamsen (Shires Press, 2015)
Marcus J. Freed (FreedThinker Books, 2013)
Surviving the Twenty-First Century: Essays by William Eaton
(Serving House Books, July 2015)
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)
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