Book Review Guidelines
We invite the submission of book reviews for publication. Please consult the guidelines and list below to see books available for review. We also welcome your suggestions for books published within the last two years and will request any book that you are interested in reviewing from the publisher if we do not have it. Book review submissions are due by January 15 for publication in the Spring and by July 15 for publication in the Fall issue. They should be submitted as an electronic MS Word file emailed to Erin Redihan, Book Reviews Editor, at erin.redihan@salve.edu.
Prior to submission, please ensure that your manuscript adheres to the NEJH Style Guide.
Additional Book Review Guidelines
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Each review should be 1,000 – 3,000 words
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Include your name, position, and institution affiliation (if applicable) for your by-line.
e.g., Jane Doe is an assistant professor of History at Bowdoin College.
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Review Heading: Author. Title. Place: Publisher, Year. Pages. Publisher's Price (Binding).
e.g., Michael Perlman. Emancipation and Reconstruction: 1862-1879. Arlington Heights, IL: Harlan Davidson, 1987. 150 pp. $24.95 (paperback).
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You are welcome to submit up to two reviews per issue.
For Publishers: We welcome publishers to send books that they would like reviewed. Please note that we only accept physical copies of books and that we cannot guarantee that all books received will be reviewed. Review copies can be mailed to:
Erin Redihan
Salve Regina University
100 Ochre Point Ave.
Newport, RI 02840
Regretfully, we cannot accept self-published books for review.
Book Review Request Form
List of Books for Review
Author | Title | Publisher | Year |
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Bane, Scott | A Union Like Ours: The Love Story of F. O. Matthiessen and Russell Cheney | Bright Leaf | 2022 |
Beatty, Jacqueline | In Dependence: Women and the Patriarchal State in Revolutionary America | NYU Press | 2023 |
Boittin, Jennifer | Undesirable: Passionate Mobility and Women's Defiance of French Colonial Policing, 1919–1952 | UChicago Press | 2022 |
Carvalho, Joseph | Out of the Darkness: History of Corrections Reform at the Hampden County, MA Sheriff's Department, 1661-2022 | 2022 | |
Clements, Jonathan | A Short History of Beijing | UChicago Press | 2022 |
Cody, Eric P. | Rescuing Ellisville Marsh: The Long Fight to Restore Lost Connections | UMass Press | 2023 |
Dillon, Niamh | Homeward Bound: Return Migration from Ireland and India at the End of the British Empire | NYU Press | 2023 |
Greer, Brenna Wynn | Represented: The Black Imagemakers Who Reimagined African American Citizenship | UPenn Press | 2020 |
Hendershot, Heather | When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and The Polarizing of America | UChicago Press | 2022 |
Hendrickson, Burleigh | Decolonizing 1968: Transnational Student Activism in Tunis, Paris, and Dakar | Cornell U Press | 2022 |