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American Historical Association 2025
We are excited to be hosted by our friends at Ingram during AHA Annual Meeting in New York City, January 3-6. If you are attending in-person, please stop by booth #503 to browse Berghahn's latest selection and pick up FREE journal samples.
If you are unable to attend or do not find what you were looking for, we are happy to offer a 35% discount on all History titles through January 27th, 2025. Use discount code AHA25 on print and eBooks ordered through our website. In addition, we are offering FREE ACCESS to a selection of core history journals; scroll down for details.
If you are interested in learning more about Berghahn's publishing program or have a project to discuss, please contact Stephanie Ireland, at stephanie.ireland@berghahnbooks.com.
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Featured Titles
The Trial of a Nazi Doctor
Franz Lucas as Defendant, Opportunist, and Deceiver
Wisely, A.
Too Jewish or Not Jewish Enough
Ritual Objects and Avant-Garde Art at the Jewish Museum of New York
Abt, J.
Social History of German Jews
A Short Introduction
Rürup, M.
Shaping Tomorrow's World
A Twentieth-Century History of West German, Cold War, and Global Futures Studies
Seefried, E.
Red America
Greek Communists in the United States, 1920-1950
Karpozilos, K.
Rag Fair
A Different Migration History of London’s East End, 1780-1850
Münch, O.
Quotas
The “Jewish Question” and Higher Education in Central Europe, 1880-1945
Miller, M. L. & Szapor, J. (eds)
Poland under German Occupation, 1939-1945
New Perspectives
Huener, J. & Löw, A. (eds)
Operation Barbarossa and its Aftermath
New Approaches to a Complex Campaign
Rossoliński-Liebe, G. (ed)
Kharkov/Kharkiv
A Borderland Capital
Kravchenko, V.
Istanbul at the Threshold of Nation State
Allied Occupation, National Resistance, and Political Conflict, 1918-1923
Ülker, E.
Intimate Histories
African Americans and Germany since 1933
Klopprogge, N.
The Global Pontificate of Pius XII
War and Genocide, Reconstruction and Change, 1939-1958
Unger-Alvi, S. & Valbousquet, N. (eds)
German Migrant Historians in North America
Transatlantic Careers and Scholarship after 1945
Hagemann, K. & Jaraush, K. H. (eds)
Gender History of German Jews
A Short Introduction
Schüler-Springorum, S.
Fascist Europe
From Italian Supremacy to Subservience to the Reich (1932-1943)
Fioravanzo, M.
The Death in their Eyes
What Perpetrator Images Perpetrate
Sánchez-Biosca, V.
Courage and Compassion
A Jewish Boyhood in German-Occupied Greece
Molho, T.
A More Democratic Community
The Place of Democracy in the HIstory of European Integration
Lorenzini, S. & Tulli, U. (eds)
Title Spotlight
Poland under German Occupation, 1939-1945
New Perspectives
Edited by Jonathan Huener and Andrea Löw
As a unique and innovative addition to the scholarship on Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and modern Polish history, this volume provides fresh analysis on the Nazi occupation of Poland. Through new questions and engaging untapped sources the leading historians who have contributed to this volume provide original scholarship to steer debates and expand the historiography surrounding Nazi racial and occupation policies, Polish and Jewish responses to them, persecution, police terror, resistance, and complicity.
Award Winner: Selected as one of the Choice Outstanding Academic Titles 2024.
In Paperback
Traumatic Pasts in Asia
History, Psychiatry, and Trauma from the 1930s to the Present
Micale, M. S. & Pols, H. (eds)
Times of History, Times of Nature
Temporalization and the Limits of Modern Knowledge
Ekstrom, A. & Bergwik, S. (eds)
The Persistence of Race
Continuity and Change in Germany from the Wilhelmine Empire to National Socialism
Day, L. & Haag, O. (eds)
Peace at All Costs
Catholic Intellectuals, Journalists, and Media in Postwar Polish–German Reconciliation
Frieberg, A. E.
Nordic War Stories
World War II as History, Fiction, Media, and Memory
Stecher-Hansen, M. (ed)
John F. Kennedy’s Hidden Diary, Europe 1937
The Travel Journals of JFK and Kirk LeMoyne Billings
Kennedy, J. F., LeMoyne Billings, K., & Lubrich, O.
Israel-Palestine
Lands and Peoples
Bartov, O. (ed)
Four-Color Communism
Comic Books and Contested Power in the German Democratic Republic
Eedy, S.
Don't Need No Thought Control
Western Culture in East Germany and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Horten, G.
The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky
Into Germany at the End of World War II
Lerg, C. A. (ed.)
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Featured Series
Berghahn History Journals
Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
Open Access in 2023!
Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
Aspasia:
The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women's and Gender History
Contributions to the History of Concepts
Use promo code: AHA25 to access our 4 core history journals until Feb 1, 2025
*Aspasia volumes 13 through 18 are Open Access.
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