Please send books for review to:
Alex Beasley
Department of American Studies
The University of Texas at Austin
2505 University Ave B7100
Burdine Hall 437
Austin, TX 78712
United States
Email: beasley@austin.utexas.edu
A note to reviewers
Enterprise & Society undertakes to review all significant books germance to its fields of interest and seeks to present your assessments in a timely fashion. To do this we need your help in following our guidelines and making your review as ready for the printers as possible.
Deadline
The due date for your review is 90 days. Although we expect our reviewers will plan their work so as not to run past the deadlines set in their invitation letters, from time to time we realize that this will not be feasible. If a deadline nears and your review is not ready, please contact us by email at beasley@austin.utexas.edu to request an extension. One 30-day extension will be approved; after that point, we reserve the right to request that you return the book, so that another colleague can be commissioned to provide a review.
Length
The word count for your review is 800 words. If you send in a review that is longer than requested, it will be necessary for us either to shorten it in-house or return it to you for compression. If you believe that more space than allotted is necessary for an appropriate review, contact us to request this; please do not just write an over-the-limit text and send it in.
Focus
We anticipate that reviews will briefly summarize the volume's contents, then will move beyond that to assess the work's contribution in light of collateral studies, evaluate its sources and methods, and/or discuss its implications for future research. Reviewers should avoid the ad hominem attack mode or suggesting that a different book ought to have been written. Likewise, we prefer that reviews shun listing typographical errors and other minor missteps, unless these are so frequent as to indicate very weak editing (in which case a summary statement to this effect usually will serve).
Style
Kindly insert the header at the top of the page following this model:
Charles Dickens. An Affair to Remember: Russo-Turkish Border Relations, 1882–1923. Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press, 2001. xxi + 273 pp. ISBN 0-234-3456-0, $45.00 (cloth); 0-234-3457-2, $22.95 (paper).
In the review, include the first name of any person (including the author) mentioned the first time the name is used. When referring to organizations, treaties, statutes, etc., use the full name in the initial reference, adding in parentheses initials or acronyms if there will be later references. Should you mention other books in your review, please give the author's full name, a short title (omit what's after the common colon) and publication year [e.g., Thomas Misa, A Nation of Steel, 1995].
Please do not use footnotes. Quotations from the work at hand should be very limited; but when used, please provide the page number in parentheses [e.g., (147)]. On other questions of style, we will follow The Chicago Manual of Style. Reviews will be published as written, other than minor copyediting for punctuation or typographical errors. Reviews are returned to authors only if substantial reworking is required.
Submission
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