JUDGMENT AT ISTANBUL

The Armenian Genocide Trials
Vahakn N. Dadrian and Taner Akçam

Turkey’s bid to join the European Union has lent new urgency to the issue of the Armenian Genocide as differing interpretations of the genocide are proving to be a major reason for the delay of the its accession. This book provides vital background information and is a prime source of legal evidence and authentic Turkish eyewitness testimony of the intent and the crime of genocide against the Armenians.This compilation is significantly enhanced by an extensive analysis of the historical background, political nature and legal implications of the criminal prosecution of the twentieth century’s first state-sponsored crime of genocide.

HISTORY IN THE PLURAL

An Introduction to the Work of Reinhart Koselleck
Niklas Olsen

“This is a very thorough and, at the same time, original take on Reinhard Koselleck’s work…As the major representative of German Begriffsgeschichte, he deserves to be better known in the English-speaking world, and this volume will go a long way to achieve this aim…It is an excellent contribution to historical theory and the history of historiography.”  ·  Stefan Berger, University of Manchester

COMPARATIVE AND TRANSNATIONAL HISTORY

Central European Approaches and New Perspectives
Edited by Heinz-Gerhard Haupt and Jürgen Kocka

Since the 1970s West German historiography has been one of the main arenas of international comparative history. It has produced important empirical studies particularly in social history as well as methodological and theoretical reflections on comparative history. This volume introduces the reader to some of the major methodological debates and to recent empirical research of German historians, who do comparative and transnational work.

A EUROPEAN MEMORY?

Contested Histories and Politics of Remembrance
Edited by Małgorzata Pakier and Bo Stråth

“As the most comprehensive scholarly venture to use the memory concept for a broad assessment of the dark legacies of Nazism, Communism, and World War II for a common European identity, the volume has no equal. It overwhelms the reader with a plethora of both new and well established information and reflection…The overall direction coincides with the current trend towards internationalization of national histories. It can be considered a strong contribution to this important and worthwhile trend.”  ·  Frank Trommler, University of Pennsylvania

Series: War and Genocide

THE 'FINAL SOLUTION' IN RIGA

Exploitation and Annihilation, 1941-1944
Andrej Angrick, Peter Klein

“[This] excellent study of the Riga ghetto, informed by Eastern European sources and available now in English translation, provides a precise and ghastly description of what [the liquidation] meant for the local Jews. With laudable thoroughness, they describe the organized shooting of Jews, the first form of industrial-scale mass murder.”  ·  The New York Review of Books