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Reviews in History
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H1 Reviews in History
H1 Covering books and digital resources across all fields of history
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H3 The Medieval Scriptorium – Making Books in the Middle Ages / Sara Charles
H3 Immaculate Forms: Uncovering the History of Women’s Bodies / Helen King
H3 Empire of Commerce: The Closing of the Mississippi and the Opening of Atlantic Trade / Susan Gaunt Stearns
H3 Black Female Intellectuals in Nineteenth Century America: Born to Bloom Unseen? / Rebecca J. Fraser
H3 The Story of Work: A New History of Humankind / Jan Lucassen
H3 Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain / Alison Stone
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H4 September, 2018
H4 February, 2021
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H4 February, 2025
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