History Net: Where History Comes Alive - World & US History Online » Book Reviews http://www.historynet.com From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:27:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Book Review) http://www.historynet.com/the-history-of-tom-jones-a-foundling-book-review.htm?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-history-of-tom-jones-a-foundling-book-review http://www.historynet.com/the-history-of-tom-jones-a-foundling-book-review.htm#comments Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:17:51 +0000 HistoryNet Staff Reviewed by Allyson Patton
By Henry Fielding
Available in many editions, both soft and hardcover

"To invent good stories, and to tell them well, are possibly very rare talents," observed Henry Fielding in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling…

]]> http://www.historynet.com/the-history-of-tom-jones-a-foundling-book-review.htm/feed 0 The King's Reformation: Henry VIII and the Remaking of the English Church (Book Review) http://www.historynet.com/the-kings-reformation-henry-viii-and-the-remaking-of-the-english-church-book-review.htm?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-kings-reformation-henry-viii-and-the-remaking-of-the-english-church-book-review http://www.historynet.com/the-kings-reformation-henry-viii-and-the-remaking-of-the-english-church-book-review.htm#comments Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:17:51 +0000 HistoryNet Staff Reviewed by Bruce Heydt
By G.W. Bernard
Yale University Press, New Haven

The Protestant Reformation that swept across Western Europe in the 1500s was less than monolithic in nature. Reformers in Germany, France, Switzerland and elsewhere, while adhering to many …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/the-kings-reformation-henry-viii-and-the-remaking-of-the-english-church-book-review.htm/feed 1 The Colonel and Little Missie: Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, and the Beginnings of Superstardom in America (Book Review) http://www.historynet.com/the-colonel-and-little-missie-buffalo-bill-annie-oakley-and-the-beginnings-of-superstardom-in-america-book-review.htm?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-colonel-and-little-missie-buffalo-bill-annie-oakley-and-the-beginnings-of-superstardom-in-america-book-review http://www.historynet.com/the-colonel-and-little-missie-buffalo-bill-annie-oakley-and-the-beginnings-of-superstardom-in-america-book-review.htm#comments Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:17:49 +0000 HistoryNet Staff Reviewed by Alexander Cook
By Larry McMurtry
Simon & Schuster, New York, 2005

In the 1880s and 1890s, William "Buffalo Bill" Cody and Annie Oakley, who specialized in Western entertainment, achieved international fame and, according to Larry McMurtry, became the …

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By Chris Enss
TwoDot, imprint of Globe Pequot Press, Guilford, Conn., 2005

Personal ads for companionship or whatever have a rich tradition in America. During the last third of the 19th century, for instance, the San …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/hearts-west-true-stories-of-mail-order-brides-on-the-frontier-book-review.htm/feed 4 White Justice in Arizona: Apache Murder Trials in the Nineteenth Century (Book Review) http://www.historynet.com/white-justice-in-arizona-apache-murder-trials-in-the-nineteenth-century-book-review.htm?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=white-justice-in-arizona-apache-murder-trials-in-the-nineteenth-century-book-review http://www.historynet.com/white-justice-in-arizona-apache-murder-trials-in-the-nineteenth-century-book-review.htm#comments Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:17:49 +0000 HistoryNet Staff Reviewed by Luc Nettleton
By Clare V. McKanna Jr.
Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock, 2005

Indians in the 19th century often could not live by "white men's law," but they could die by it. The author, who teaches American Indian …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/white-justice-in-arizona-apache-murder-trials-in-the-nineteenth-century-book-review.htm/feed 0 Forts of the American Frontier 1820-91: Central and Northern Plains (Book Review) http://www.historynet.com/forts-of-the-american-frontier-1820-91-central-and-northern-plains-book-review.htm?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=forts-of-the-american-frontier-1820-91-central-and-northern-plains-book-review http://www.historynet.com/forts-of-the-american-frontier-1820-91-central-and-northern-plains-book-review.htm#comments Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:17:49 +0000 HistoryNet Staff Reviewed by Alexander Cook
By Ron Field, Illustrated by Adam Hook
Osprey Publishing, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2005

Let's make one thing perfectly clear: Although most old Westerns of the Indian vs. cavalry variety show soldiers in stockade forts defending themselves …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/forts-of-the-american-frontier-1820-91-central-and-northern-plains-book-review.htm/feed 0 The Rise of the Silver Queen: Georgetown, Colorado, 1859-1896 (Book Review) http://www.historynet.com/the-rise-of-the-silver-queen-georgetown-colorado-1859-1896-book-review.htm?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-rise-of-the-silver-queen-georgetown-colorado-1859-1896-book-review http://www.historynet.com/the-rise-of-the-silver-queen-georgetown-colorado-1859-1896-book-review.htm#comments Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:17:49 +0000 HistoryNet Staff Reviewed by B.B. Swan
By Liston E. Leyendecker, Christine A. Bradley and Duane A. Smith
University Press of Colorado, Boulder, 2005

The Griffith brothers arrived in what would become Georgetown, Colorado (yes, one of them was named George), in the …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/the-rise-of-the-silver-queen-georgetown-colorado-1859-1896-book-review.htm/feed 0 Nimrod: Courts, Claims, and Killing on the Oregon Frontier (Book Review) http://www.historynet.com/nimrod-courts-claims-and-killing-on-the-oregon-frontier-book-review.htm?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nimrod-courts-claims-and-killing-on-the-oregon-frontier-book-review http://www.historynet.com/nimrod-courts-claims-and-killing-on-the-oregon-frontier-book-review.htm#comments Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:17:49 +0000 HistoryNet Staff Reviewed by Luc Nettleton
By Ronald B. Lansing
Washington State University Press, Pullman, 2005

Mention Oregon country and the Willamette Valley and most folks will think of courageous, persevering emigrant families completing the long overland journey to get to a …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/nimrod-courts-claims-and-killing-on-the-oregon-frontier-book-review.htm/feed 0 Buffalo Bill's America: William Cody and the Wild West Show (Book Review) http://www.historynet.com/buffalo-bills-america-william-cody-and-the-wild-west-show-book-review.htm?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=buffalo-bills-america-william-cody-and-the-wild-west-show-book-review http://www.historynet.com/buffalo-bills-america-william-cody-and-the-wild-west-show-book-review.htm#comments Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:17:49 +0000 HistoryNet Staff Reviewed by Alexander Cook
By Louis S. Warren
Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2005

Buffalo Bill will never be over the hill. As long as people fondly gaze back at the hills and plains of the 19th-century American West and …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/buffalo-bills-america-william-cody-and-the-wild-west-show-book-review.htm/feed 0 Gunsmoke and Saddle Leather: Firearms in the Nineteenth-Century American West (Book Review) http://www.historynet.com/gunsmoke-and-saddle-leather-firearms-in-the-nineteenth-century-american-west-book-review.htm?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gunsmoke-and-saddle-leather-firearms-in-the-nineteenth-century-american-west-book-review http://www.historynet.com/gunsmoke-and-saddle-leather-firearms-in-the-nineteenth-century-american-west-book-review.htm#comments Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:17:49 +0000 HistoryNet Staff Reviewed by Johnny D. Boggs
By Charles G. Worman
University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 2005

Charles G. Worman is probably best known for the two-volume series Firearms of the American West 1803-1894, which he co-authored with Louis A. …

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