Research Guides: HIST 312-05 Memory and Material Culture in Eastern Europe (Spring 2023): Finding Reviews

Finding Book Reviews Using the Catalog

To find book reviews, search the title of the book in the main library catalog.
When the results come up, select "Reviews" under "material type" on the left.
Type in key works like you would for any other search
- "East Germany" AND automobiles

Use the catalog to find Book Reviews

NOTE: The catalog will include book reviews in JSTOR, ProjectMuse, and other e-journal databases. Searching here saves you time because it searches them all at the same time!

Book Reviews written by Historians

Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
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Covers all aspects of world history (excluding the US and Canada) since 1450. Includes journal articles, books, reviews, conference proceedings, dissertations, etc. published after 1954. About 250 History journals in this database are not findable in EBSCO's Academic Search database, making this the go-to database for finding world history articles.

To find a book review written specifically by a historian, use America: History & Life.

Search the title of the book.
do NOT "exclude book reviews"
NOTE: sometimes the book review will not have the name of the book in the title.
- Example: Jan Elle Lewis reviews Soul By Soul in review essay called "Slavery on the Market," so be sure to read the review abstract.

Other Review Sources

Book Review Index Plus This link opens in a new window
An index to book reviews from approximately 600 scholarly and popular English-language journals with links to more than 630,000 full-text reviews. Coverage begins with 1965.

If you can't find book reviews in PRIMO or A:HL, try Book Review Index.

I suggest trying Prim & AHL first.