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Berghahn Books will be attending American Historical Association 2016 Meeting!

Berghahn-2016-HistoryWe are delighted to inform you that we will be attending the 2016 AHA Annual Meeting in Atlanta, January 7th-10th, 2016. Please stop by Booth #1409 to browse our latest selection of books & 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 History titles found on our website. At checkout, simply enter the discount code AHA16. 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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Bastille Day

July 14th is a celebration of French National Day or commonly known to the English speaking countries as Bastille Day. The day commemorates the beginning of the French Revolution with the storming of the Bastille on the 14th July 1789 and symbolizes the end of absolute monarchy and the birth of sovereign Nation. It is also a day of la Fête de la Fédération, a joyous celebration in 1790 that honored the new French Republic and commemorated the one year anniversary of the storming of the Bastille.

 

Berghahn is delighted to suggest a selection of French Studies titles, along with some Berghahn Journals articles to browse through:

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THE BOURGEOIS REVOLUTION IN FRANCE (1789-1815)
Henry Heller

Volume 5: Berghahn Monographs in French Studies Series

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Hot Off the Presses – New Journal Releases for July

Anthropology of the Middle East
Volume 8, Issue 2
This issue was an open-theme issue but, amazingly, all the articles are concerned in one way or other with ethnicity.

Focaal
Voume 2014, Issue 69
This special issue is titled Seeds—Grown, Governed, and Contested.

Introducing: FocaalBlog
The blog aims to accelerate and intensify anthropological conversations beyond what a regular academic journal can do, and to make them more widely, globally, and swiftly available.

Historical Reflections
Volume 40, Issue 2
This special issue is titled Religion(s) and the Enlightenment.

Nature and Culture
Volume 9, Issue 2
This special issue is comprised of articles presented at the first conference of the Energy & Society network, held with the support of the European Sociological Association at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, in March 2012.

Theoria
Volume 61, Issue 139
This issue covers a range of topics.

Transfers
Volume 4, Issue 2
This issue sheds new light on transitions in forms of personal transportation. All of the articles in this issue are concerned in some way with the dynamics of social change and urban form as shapers of mobility.

Hot Off the Presses – New Journal Releases for March

German Politics and Society
Volume 32, Issue 1
This special issue is titled West Germany’s Cold War Radio: The Crucible of the Transatlantic Century.

Girlhood Studies
Volume 7, Issue 1
This special issue is titled Cultural Studies and the Re-description of Girls in Crisis.

French Politics, Culture & Society
Volume 32, Issue 1
The special issue is titled Representations, History, and Wartime France.

Historical Reflections
Volume 40, Issue 1
The special issue is titled War, Occupation, and Empire in France and Germany.

International Journal of Social Quality
Volume 3, Issue 2
This issue assembles contributions to inquire into the future of the “social” from an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing on sociology, political science, and law.

Learning and Teaching
Volume 6, Issue 3
This special issue is titled The Ethnography of the University, and it is dedicated to William F. Kelleher (1950-2013), inspiring teacher, brilliant thinker, activist scholar and co-founder of the Ethnography of the University initiative.

Projections
Volume 8, Issue 1
This issue ranges across avant-garde cinema, tear-jerking melodramas, the nature of historical trauma, and narratives that assume playful, game-like formats and that may be found in title sequences and trailers.

Regions & Cohesion
Volume 4, Issue 1
This issue opens with an article that furthers our critical analysis of regional social policy. This article is followed by two more that examine North American border politics as well as a Leadership Forum section and a Review Essay.

Social Analysis
Volume 58, Issue 1
The special issue is titled War Magic and Warrior Religion: Sorcery, Cognition, and Embodiment.

Transfers
Volume 4, Issue 1
The articles in this issue examine a variety of topics.

 

Hot Off the Presses – New Journal Releases for October

Girlhood Studies
Volume 6, Issue 2
This special issue of Girlhood Studies, titled Nordic Girls’ Studies: Current Themes and Theoretical Approaches, is the first GHS issue to be devoted to the study of girls living in a specific region.

Theoria
Volume 60, Issue 136
This special issue emerges from a concern with academic practice around researching and theorising race, racialism and racism; particularly within the current theoretical climate in which race is, in the majority, accepted as a social construct.

Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
Volume 22, Issue 2
This special issue is entitled Being Muslims in the Balkans: Ethnographies of Identity, Politics and Vernacular Islam in Southeast Europe. 

Learning and Teaching
Volume 6, Issue 1
This issue features a selection of articles covering South and North America and concludes with responses to ‘The Academic Rat Race’, which was published in LATISS 5.2.

Journal of Romance Studies
Volume 13, Issue 2
This issue features articles covering a range of topics from short fiction of Portuguese-language writers to Ahmadou Kourouma and Gustave Courbet to a close reading of La Raulito/Little Raoul and, finally, major themes in Jacques Hassoun’s Alexandries. This issue also includes a review article and notes on contributors.

Historical Reflections
Volume 39, Issue 3
This special issue comprises articles exploring issues of nostalgia in modern France. The topics addressed are wide-ranging, from immigration to revolution and more.

Hot Off the Presses – New Journal Releases for April/May

Historical Reflections
Volume 39, Number 1, Spring 2013
Featuring writing on the ideas of Claude Langlois, specifically his work concentrated on women, religion, and the French Revolution.

Transfers
Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2013
Special section on Media and Mobility, featuring articles on interactions between physical movement and communicational media.

Projections
Volume 7, Number 1, Spring 2013
Focusing on the topic of violence in movies, a subject of continuing controversy and discussion, with articles on television and film.

Critical Survey
Volume 25, Number 1, Spring 2013
With articles dedicated to the life of Shakespeare, from a variety of angles ranging from biofiction to what we would recognize as more traditional biography.

Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
Volume 5, Number 1, Spring 2013
Special issue on Postcolonial Memory Politics in Educational Media, with articles focusing primarily on Europe.

 

Happy Bastille Day- A Brief History of the Holiday and French Revolution Resources from Berghahn

Most national days celebrate about what you would expect a national day to celebrate. Some, like the national days of the United States, Albania, and Haiti mark the signing of a declaration of independence from a colonial power. Other countries, like much of Africa, choose to remember the day the colonial power actually left. Countries like Germany and Italy celebrate unification. Others are a little quirkier, like Austria which celebrates its declaration of neutrality and Luxembourg which honors the Grand Duke’s birthday. A handful of countries such as the United Kingdom and Denmark have no national holiday. But few countries can top France for the sheer coolness of their national day which commemorates the day an angry mob stormed a prison. Continue reading “Happy Bastille Day- A Brief History of the Holiday and French Revolution Resources from Berghahn” →