The State of Not-for-Profit Publishing Today
Laura Brown and Roger C. Schonfeld offer a synthesis of the state of not-for-profit publishing:
With the disappearance of stand-alone book review sections in many newspapers and a drastic drop in the number of reviews in magazines, scholars have few timely ways to keep up with the latest books in the humanities and social sciences. H-Net's Book Channel is a state-of-the-art solution: A book discovery service that fills a crucial void.
--Steven Mintz, University of Texas at Austin
H-CivWar Author Interviews
Author Interview--Michael J. Turner (Stonewall Jackson, Beresford Hope, and the Meaning of the American Civil War in Britain) Part 2
Hello H-CivWar Readers:
Today we continue our conversation with Michael J. Turner about his new book Stonewall Jackson, Beresford Hope, and the Meaning of the American Civil War in Britain, published by Louisiana State University Press in October 2020.
Recent from Feeding the Elephant
The Elephant Roundup (January 2021)
An occasional newsletter from the editors of Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.
Here's where we share links to news stories, updates, and announcements of interest to Feeding the Elephant readers.
Libraries & Librarianship
From the Web
From the Web: The Multigraph Collective and Interacting with Print
In the latest Perspectives on History, editor Allison Miller tells the fascinating story of the Multigraph Collective, a group of 22 book historians and print scholars from Canada, the US, and the UK interested in the materiality and interactivity of reading who employed a radical form of electronic collaboration to produce the jointly composed and edited "multigraph,"
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Recent Reviews
Reviewer:
Jack Klempay
Klempay on Barak, 'Powering Empire: How Coal Made the Middle East and Sparked Global Carbonization'
On Barak. Powering Empire: How Coal Made the Middle East and Sparked Global Carbonization. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020. 344 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-520-31072-8.
Reviewed by Jack Klempay (Princeton University) Published on H-Environment (January, 2021) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)