Canadian Historical Association 9 The History Book Le livre d’histoire Three main reasons behind the decline in book reviewing can be inferred from the literature: 1) the specialization of research and diminishing importance of books as vectors of knowledge dissemination, 2) the appearance of new digital aggregators that reduce the need for syntheses, 3) as well as the diminishing symbolic capital. [...] Palmer Acceptable and Necessary Treasons: The Revolutionary Prophecies of Noel Ignatiev by Dylan Davis and Patrick King www.lltjournal.ca cclh@athabascau.ca Canadian Historical Association 11 The History Book Le livre d’histoire What makes a Good Book Review? I recently put this question to a handful of historians, in a totally Ineffable and elusive, the art of the book review is the art of turn-. [...] The same national trajectory, the same individual’s the motives of the publishers, as well as the professors, who built achievement, the same revolutionary turning point – each of its infrastructure in the first place. [...] If we take historical Leslie Howsam, FRSC is Emerita Distinguished University authorship seriously, as authorship, we’ll have to theorize the Professor (History) at the University of Windsor and a past-pres- centrality of revision – even repetition – the fact that the author ident of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, & is implicitly in a loose web of collaboration with predecesso. [...] But the Bibliography: centrality of revision is also connected to the agency of publish- ers, to the experience of readers, to the policies of educational Antoinette Burton and Isabel Hofmeyr, eds.
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