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a Critical Book Review
A critical book review offers both a description and an evaluation
of a book. A history book review locates the book in a historiographical
context - the arguments and interpretations of a given topic.
In your book review, you need to answer the following questions
historiographical issues does the book address?
other books have been written on the same topic? How have they
interpreted the subject?
is the book’s thesis or point of view?
evident is used to support the thesis? How accurate is the evidence?
Has relevant or conflicting evidence been omitted?
valid is the book’s argument?
has the book accomplished?