The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter by Deborah R. Coen Luciana Astiz on how seismology evolved from the combined observations of scientists and citizens 4 April
British Writers and MI5 Surveillance, 1930-1960 by James Smith Matthew Feldman on the connections between literary history and intelligence studies 4 April
Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic by Michael Axworthy Ervand Abrahamian ponders how Muslim clerics seized and retained control of modern-day Persia 4 April
American Lynching by Ashraf H. A. Rushdy Céleste Marie-Bernier admires an original approach to a shameful period in US history 28 March
Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World by Shereen El Feki Shahidha Bari considers an exploration of desire and denial amid Egypt’s shifting sands 28 March
The Scientific Sherlock Holmes: Cracking the Case with Science and Forensics by James O’Brien Stephen Wade on the accurate contemporary science behind the Holmesian investigations 21 March
Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith: New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina by Vincanne Adams Kevin Fox Gotham on the negative consequences of privatised disaster services and aid work 21 March
Characters Of Blood: Black Heroism In The Transatlantic Imagination by Céleste-Marie Bernier Catherine Clinton on a creative and contextual analysis of the visual art of enslaved blacks 21 March
The Undivided Past: History Beyond Our Differences by David Cannadine Jill Stephenson on a skilful critique of the scholarly preoccupation with difference 14 March
Stalin’s Curse: Battling for Communism in War and Cold War, by Robert Gellately Vladimir Tismaneanu discusses the revolutionary ambitions of the USSR’s great tyrant 7 March
The Pike: Gabriele d’Annunzio: Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett Richard Bosworth on a ‘celebrity’ role model for Mussolini’s Fascism 28 February
Antarctica: A Biography by David Day Chris Turney reviews a history of attempts by Antarctic explorers to conquer the southern continent 21 February
An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo by Richard Davenport-Hines Stephen Halliday finds no heroes, only villains and victims, in a sordid tale 21 February
Vinyl: A History of the Analogue Record by Richard Osborne The medium and the music it made possible inspire a groovy kind of love in Les Gofton 21 February
Bang! A History of Britain in the 1980s by Graham Stewart Maud Anne Bracke considers an analysis of a revolutionary decade fails to offer a new perspective 21 February
Hitler’s Philosophers, by Yvonne Sherratt An effort to blame German thinkers for Nazism revives a discredited tradition, says Richard J. Evans 21 February
On Glasgow and Edinburgh by Robert Crawford Willy Maley identifies an old-fashioned charm in the telling of a tale of two rival, divided cities 14 February
We Modern People by Anindita Banerjee Yvonne Howell on modernity and early Russian science fiction 14 February
Olivia Manning: A Woman At War by Deirdre David There is much to admire in this biography of the Fortunes of War author, finds Sandeep Parmar 7 February
Eating the Enlightenment by E.C Spary The evolution of dietary habits during the Enlightenment leaves Biancamaria Fontana hungry for more 7 February
Henri Poincaré: A Scientific Biography by Jeremy Gray Madeline Muntersbjorn reviews a guide to the oeuvres of a mathematical genius 7 February
Engineers of Victory by Paul Kennedy Graham Farmelo applauds a tribute to the technological experts who helped the Allies win the Second World War 7 February
Under the Volcano: Revolution in a Sicilian Town by Lucy Riall Richard Bosworth on the Risorgimento’s local legacy 31 January
Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe by Katy Price Vike Martina Plock on literary echoes of relativity’s shockwaves 31 January
The Visioneers by W. Patrick McCray Jon Turney on future-facing researchers Gerard O’Neill and Eric Drexler 31 January
Family Secrets: Living with Shame from the Victorians to the Present Day by Deborah Cohen June Purvis on an absorbing study of social change 31 January
Re-imagining the 'Dark Continent' in Fin de Siecle Literature Joanna Lewis hails a challenging ‘must-read’ for historians of late-Victorian imperialism 17 January
Soldiers, Spies, and Statesmen: Egypt's Road to Revolt Democracy suffers when the Islamists, the military and the secret police collude, writes Mariz Tadros 17 January
Territory of dreadful delight Joanna Lewis hails a challenging ‘must-read’ for historians of late-Victorian imperialism 17 January
Trent: What Happened at the Council by John W. O’Malley Alec Ryrie salutes a committed and critical look at a key event in the history of Catholicism By Alec Ryrie 17 January
The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die A.W. Purdue on the ramifications of the demise of Western civil society’s foundational structures 20 December
Seduced by Logic: Émilie Du Châtelet, Mary Somerville and the Newtonian Revolution Biancamaria Fontana admires the courage of two women who dared to enter scientific circles 20 December
Was Hitler Ill? A Final Diagnosis No excuses, says Yvonne Sherratt: the Fuhrer’s enormities cannot be blamed on insanity 13 December
Spitting Blood: The History of Tuberculosis, by Helen Bynum Richard J. Evans admires exhaustive coverage of an ancient killer that threatens a major comeback 13 December
There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra Willy Maley on a writer of commitment’s memoir of a postcolonial nation’s descent into conflict 29 November
Patriotism and Propaganda in First World War Britain: The National War Aims Committee and Civilian Morale 15 November
Bible Readers and Lay Writers in Early Modern England: Gender and Self-Definition in an Emergent Writing Culture 15 November
Sasha and Emma: The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman This tale of friends, lovers and fighters for political change has epic sweep, says Robin Feuer Miller 8 November
Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao's Great Famine It’s not too early to tell who is to blame for the unnecessary death of millions, says Kerry Brown 1 November
Contagion: How Commerce Has Spread Disease Alison Bashford applauds a magisterial study of scarily relevant bioeconomic history 1 November
The Invention of Heterosexual Culture The man-woman pairing displaced other well-established forms of bonding, finds Robert Mills 1 November
