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The editors of The Historian ask that authors of book reviews
please follow these guidelines. Bibliographical information for the book under
review should be single-spaced
using the appropriate form of citation (see below) and placed at the top of the
first page. Be sure to include the price of the book. Please use the following
sample forms for title citation: The Lands of St. Peter: The Papal State in the Middle Ages
and the Early Renaissance. By The Cambridge History of Islam. Volume I, The
Central Islamic Lands; Volume II, The Further Revolutionary Struggle, 1947-1958. [Volume I of the
Selected Works of Fidel Castro]. Edited, - Because of the steadily increasing costs of publication, reviews that exceed the assigned length will be edited to the designated length. If reviews cannot easily be edited to length, they will be returned to the author. Please help us to maintain the designated lengths. Reviews are edited to bring them into conformity with house style, a summary of which is available on our Webpage at http://go.owu.edu/~brhistor/housestyle.html. - The review should be typed, double-spaced, and ready for the printer, with your name on the bottom flush right and institutional affiliation underscored on the bottom flush left of the last page of the review. - Quotations should be double checked for accuracy and page numbers given in
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