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Visit Berghahn at The Society for French Historical Studies 2016 Meeting!

We are delighted to inform you that we will be attending SFHS 62nd Annual Conference in Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN, March 3-6, 2016. Please stop by Berghahn table to browse our latest selection of books at a special discount price & pick up free journals’ samples.

 

If you are unable to attend, we would like to provide you with a special discount offer. For the next 30 days, receive a 25% discount on all French History titles found on our website. At checkout, simply enter the discount code SFHS16. Visit our website­ to browse our newly published interactive online History 2016 catalog or use the new enhanced subject searching features­ for a complete listing of all published and forthcoming titles.

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Below is a preview of some of our newest releases on display.

 

FRANCE AFTER 2012
Edited by Gabriel Goodliffe and Riccardo Brizzi

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Between Anthropology and Economy: an Interview with Stephen Gudeman

Stephen Gudeman is a Series Editor for Berghahn’s Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy Series. Below, he answers our questions about his work.

 

 

Working with Chris Hann, you have started a new Series with Berghahn Books exploring the connection between economics and anthropology: Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy. Can you explain what we may learn covering this ground? How can anthropology help the study of economics, which is generally a quantitative discipline?

 

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Berghahn Books Shortlisted for the IPG Frankfurt Book Fair Academic & Professional Publisher of the Year Award

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We are thrilled to announce that Berghahn Books has been shortlisted for the Frankfurt Book Fair Academic & Professional Publisher of the Year Award from the Independent Publishers’ Guild. We are in excellent company alongside fellow nominees Bloomsbury Publishing, Policy Press, and SAGE Publishing.

 

In shortlisting Berghahn Books, a first-time entrant, the judges remarked:
Berghahn Books is nominated for these Awards for the first time, some two decades after it was founded. Judges admired the way the business has been nurtured through growth, and saw evidence of rigorous, high quality content and commercial success in 2015. It worked hard on digital publishing and social media too. “Berghahn has been going for a long time now but it is constantly coming up with new ideas.”

 

According to the IPG, this year’s awards attracted a record number of submissions “reflecting the vibrancy and diversity of independent publishing in the UK. Judges, who compiled the shortlists over two intensive days of discussion, commented that the standard of entries was higher than ever before, and competition was extremely strong in many of the categories.“

 

IPG chief executive Bridget Shine said: “Competition for the IPG Independent Publishing Awards gets tougher every year—but the strength of this year’s nominations was remarkable. We congratulate all the IPG members who entered the Awards and thank our judges for the care they have taken over these shortlists. Every company and individual on these lists should feel very proud.”

 

UPDATE:

The awards were announced on 3 March 2016, and we offer a hearty congratulations to Policy Press for winning IPG Academic & Professional Publisher of the Year 2016! We’re thrilled to be shortlisted even if not to win.

 

 

 

 

 

Hot Off the Press – New Journal Issues Published in January

 

Social Analysis

Volume 59, Issue 4

The aim of this special issue is to bring a critical discussion of affect into debate with the anthropology of the state as a way of working toward a more coherent, ethnographically grounded exploration of affect in political life.

 

 

Journeys – The International Journal of Travel & Travel Writing

Volume 16, Issue 2

This issue is composed of articles on a range of topics related to tourism and travel writing. It also includes a conference review and a book reviews section.

 

 

Regions & Cohesion 

Volume 5, Issue 3

This special issue is titled “Policy innovation, regional integration and sustainable democracy building: The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as challenges and vehicles.” This issue presents articles that discuss the added value of regions to sustainable development strategies. It discusses development processes and governance both within and between regions. In doing so, it examines how both regionalism and interregionalism affect sustainable development in broader political contexts.

 

 

Journal of Romance Studies – Interdisciplinary Research in French, Hispanic, Italian and Portuguese Cultures

Volume 15, Issue 2

This issue includes articles on a range of topics.

 

 

German Politics and Society 

Volume 33, Issue 4

This special issue looks at the rise of Green Politics in Germany.

 

 

European Comic Art 

Volume 8, Issue 2

The articles in this special issue focus on portrayals of the First World War in comics and cartoons.

 

 

 

Searching for Feelings: The Scrolls of Auschwitz and Son of Saul

Matters of Testimony: Interpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitzby Nicholas Chare & Dominic Williams

 

Nicholas Chare and Dominic Williams are the authors of Matters of Testimony: Interpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitz and recently published an article about the book on Slate’s blog, The Vault.
 
The Hungarian director László Nemes was moved by writings known as the Scrolls of Auschwitz to create the award-winning film Son of Saul. The Scrolls of Auschwitz comprise a variety of documents composed by members of the Sonderkommando, or Special Squad, a group of predominantly Jewish prisoners who were tasked with running the crematoria at Auschwitz-Birkenau. These writings were buried in the grounds of the crematoria in 1944. Between 1945 and 1980, eight caches of documents by five known authors were recovered. The writings have retrospectively become known as the Scrolls of Auschwitz, as this is how the historian Ber Mark’s book Megiles Oyshvits, which transcribes several of the manuscripts, was translated into English in 1985.

 

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NEW in Environment in History: International Perspectives Series

creating wildernessWe are pleased to announce New and Forthcoming titles in our Series, Environment in History: International Perspectives.

 

The relationship between human society and the natural world is being studied with increased urgency and interest. Investigating this relationship from historical, cultural, and political perspectives, the monographs and collected volumes in this series showcase high-quality research in environmental history and cognate disciplines in the social and natural sciences. The series strives to bridge both national and disciplinary divides, with a particular emphasis on European, transnational, and comparative research.

 

For the next 30 days, take advantage of a special 25% discount off all of our Print Environment in History: International Perspectives Series titles by entering the code EH16 in your shopping cart. 

 

Please note that all the titles listed below are also available as ebooks. More information is available here.

 

 

 

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World Religion Day 2016

World Religion Day is an interfaith observance initiated in 1950 by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States, celebrated worldwide on the third Sunday in January each year. Though initiated in the United States, World Religion Day has come to be celebrated internationally.

 

In keeping with this initiative we are offering a 25% discount on all Berghahn Religious Studies titles for the next 30 days. At checkout, simply enter the code WRD16.

 

A full selection of titles from Berghahn can be found on our website.

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JESUS RECLAIMED
Jewish Perspectives on the Nazarene
Walter Homolka
Translated by Ingrid Shafer
Foreword by Leonard Swidler

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