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We are delighted to inform you that we will be attending the American Historical Association’s annual meeting<\/a> in New York, NY, on January 3rd<\/sup>\u20136th<\/sup>, 2020. Please stop by Booth #1007<\/strong> to browse our latest selection of books at discounted prices and pick up free journal samples. Scroll down for a preview of the new releases on display.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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A new interrogation of Steven Pinker’s argument on human violence<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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ON VIOLENCE IN HISTORY<\/a>
Edited by Philip Dwyer and Mark Stephen Micale<\/em>

Is global violence on the decline? Steven Pinker\u2019s highly-publicized argument that human violence across the world has been dramatically abating continues to influence discourse among academics and the general public alike. In this provocative volume, a cast of eminent historians interrogate Pinker\u2019s thesis by exposing the realities of violence throughout human history. In doing so, they reveal the history of human violence to be richer, more thought-provoking, and considerably more complicated than Pinker claims. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The extraordinary story of Jewish refugees who overcame persecution and sought safety in the Caribbean<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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NEARLY THE NEW WORLD<\/a>
The British West Indies and the Flight from Nazism, 1933\u20131945<\/strong>
Joanna Newman<\/em>

In the years leading up to the Second World War, increasingly desperate European Jews looked to far-flung destinations such as Barbados, Trinidad, and Jamaica in search of refuge from the horrors of Hitler\u2019s Europe. Nearly the New World<\/em> tells the extraordinary story of Jewish refugees who overcame persecution and sought safety in the West Indies from the 1930s through the end of the war. At the same time, it gives an unsparing account of the xenophobia and bureaucratic infighting that nearly prevented their rescue\u2014and that helped to seal the fate of countless other European Jews for whom escape was never an option. See Harriet Sherwood’s review, “Revealed: how the Caribbean became a haven for Jews fleeing Nazi tyranny,”<\/a> in The Guardian<\/em>.

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Celebrating the life and scholarship of Raul Hilberg, author of The Destruction of the European Jews<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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THE ANATOMY OF THE HOLOCAUST<\/a>
Selected Works from a Life of Scholarship<\/strong>
Raul Hilberg<\/em>
Edited by Walter H. Pehle and Ren\u00e9 Schlott<\/em>

\u201c[Hilberg was] undoubtedly the most important pioneer in the field of perpetrator research, all of whose topics and controversies he anticipated in their essence.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 H-Soz-Kult<\/strong>

Though best known as the author of the landmark 1961 work The Destruction of the European Jews<\/em>, the historian Raul Hilberg produced a variety of archival research, personal essays, and other works over a career that spanned half a century. The Anatomy of the Holocaust<\/em> collects some of Hilberg\u2019s most essential and groundbreaking writings\u2014many of them published in obscure journals or otherwise inaccessible to nonspecialists\u2014in a single volume. Supplemented with commentary and notes from Hilberg\u2019s longtime German editor and his biographer, it not only offers a multifaceted look at the man and the scholar, but also traces the evolution of Holocaust research from a marginal subdiscipline into a diverse and vital intellectual project.

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GERMAN RAILROADS, JEWISH SOULS<\/a>
The Reichsbahn, Bureaucracy, and the Final Solution<\/strong>
Christopher R. Browning, Peter Hayes and Raul Hilberg<\/em>
Published in Association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum<\/a><\/em> <\/a>

\u201cThis important book unites three prominent scholars tackling crucial questions about German railways and the Holocaust. Two essays from the late, renowned Raul Hilberg investigate their overlooked role in the extermination of the European Jews. They provide groundbreaking investigations into the German railway as the prototype of a bureaucracy and challenge its supposed banality. While Christopher Browning eloquently situates Hilberg\u2019s essays within the historical literature, Peter Hayes makes a detailed critique of the common but false belief that the deportation and annihilation of the Jews were more of a priority for the Nazis than the war effort. This question, arising from Hilberg\u2019s essays, demonstrates the continued significance of his work today.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Wolf Gruner<\/strong>, author, The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia: Czech Initiatives, German Policies, Jewish Responses<\/em>

Renowned Holocaust scholar Raul Hilberg considered the German railway system that delivered European Jews to ghettos and death camps in Eastern Europe to be not only an essential component of the \u201cmachinery of destruction\u201d but also emblematic of the amoral bureaucracy that helped to implement the Jewish genocide. German Railroads, Jewish Souls<\/em> centers around Hilberg\u2019s seminal essay of the same name, a landmark study of German railways in the Nazi era long unavailable in English. Supplemented with additional writings from Hilberg, primary source materials, and historical commentary from leading scholars Christopher Browning and Peter Hayes, this is a rich and accessible introduction to a topic in Holocaust history that remains understudied even today.

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Worlds of Memory<\/a><\/em> <\/a>Series<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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VELVET RETRO<\/a>
Postsocialist Nostalgia and the Politics of Heroism in Czech Popular Culture<\/strong>
Veronika Pehe

Scholars of state socialism have frequently invoked \u201cnostalgia\u201d to identify an uncritical longing for the utopian ambitions and lived experience of the former Eastern Bloc. However, this concept seems insufficient to describe memory cultures in the Czech Republic and other contexts in which a \u201cretro\u201d fascination with the past has proven compatible with a steadfast critique of the state socialist era. This innovative study locates a distinctively retro aesthetic in Czech literature, film, and other cultural forms, enriching our understanding of not only the nation\u2019s memory culture, but also the ways in which popular culture can structure collective memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Studies in Latin American and Spanish History<\/a><\/em> Series<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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TEACHING MODERNIZATION<\/a>
Spanish and Latin American Educational Reform in the Cold War<\/strong>
Edited by \u00d3scar J. Mart\u00edn Garc\u00eda and Lorenzo Delgado G\u00f3mez-Escalonilla<\/em>

In the 1960s and 1970s, the educational systems in Spain and Latin America underwent comprehensive and ambitious reforms that took place amid a “revolution of expectations” arising from decolonization, global student protests, and the antagonism between capitalist and communist models of development. Deploying new archival research and innovative perspectives, the contributions to this volume examine the influence of transnational forces during the cultural Cold War. They shed new light on the roles played by the United States, non-state actors, international organizations and theories of modernization and human capital in educational reform efforts in the developing Hispanic world.

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Vol. 17
HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS<\/a>
Agents of Risk and Change, 1800-2000<\/strong>
Edited by Ernst Homburg and Elisabeth Vaupel

Although poisonous substances have been a hazard for the whole of human history, it is only with the development and large-scale production of new chemical substances over the last two centuries that toxic, manmade pollutants have become such a varied and widespread danger. Covering a host of both notorious and little-known chemicals, the chapters in this collection investigate the emergence of specific toxic, pathogenic, carcinogenic, and ecologically harmful chemicals as well as the scientific, cultural and legislative responses they have prompted. Each study situates chemical hazards in a long-term and transnational framework and demonstrates the importance of considering both the natural and the social contexts in which their histories have unfolded.

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THE HOLOCAUST IN BOHEMIA AND MORAVIA<\/a>
Czech Initiatives, German Policies, Jewish Responses
Wolf Gruner<\/em>
Translated from the German by Alex Skinner<\/em>
Vol. 28, War and Genocide<\/em><\/a>

WINNER OF THE 2017 SYBIL HALPERN MILTON MEMORIAL BOOK PRIZE FROM THE GERMAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION<\/strong>
2017 YAD VASHEM INTERNATIONAL BOOK PRIZE FOR HOLOCAUST RESEARCH – FINALIST<\/strong>

\u201cWhoever is working on the National Socialist persecution of the Jews won\u2019t be able to ignore Wolf Gruner\u2019s work.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung<\/strong>

Prior to Hitler\u2019s occupation, nearly 120,000 Jews inhabited the areas that would become the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia; by 1945, all but a handful had either escaped or been deported and murdered by the Nazis. This pioneering study gives a definitive account of the Holocaust as it was carried out in the region, detailing the German and Czech policies, including previously overlooked measures such as small-town ghettoization and forced labor, that shaped Jewish life. Drawing on extensive new evidence, Wolf Gruner demonstrates how the persecution of the Jews as well as their reactions and resistance efforts were the result of complex actions by German authorities in Prague and Berlin as well as the Czech government and local authorities.

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NEW IN PAPERBACK!<\/em><\/strong>
THE WOMEN’S LIBERATION MOVEMENT<\/a>
Impacts and Outcomes<\/strong>
Edited by Kristina Schulz<\/em>
Vol. 22, Protest, Culture & Society<\/em><\/a>

For over half a century, the countless organizations and initiatives that comprise the Women\u2019s Liberation movement have helped to reshape many aspects of Western societies, from public institutions and cultural production to body politics and subsequent activist movements. This collection represents the first systematic investigation of WLM\u2019s cumulative impacts and achievements within the West. Here, specialists on movements in Europe systematically investigate outcomes in different countries in the light of a reflective social movement theory, comparing them both implicitly and explicitly to developments in other parts of the world.

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NEW IN PAPERBACK!<\/em><\/strong>
THE NUCLEAR CRISIS<\/a>
The Arms Race, Cold War Anxiety, and the German Peace Movement of the 1980s<\/strong>
Edited by Christoph Becker-Schaum, Philipp Gassert, Wilfried Mausbach, Martin Klimke, and Marianne Zepp<\/em>
Vol. 19, Protest, Culture & Society<\/em><\/a>

\u201cThis is an important volume on a key phase of the Cold War, one that will be of interest to scholars, but can also be assigned to undergraduate and graduate students. The various chapters build on each other beautifully, forming a coherent whole. Aside from a couple of rough spots, they are beautifully written, though they originally appeared in German. A list of abbreviations and annotated bibliographies at the end of each chapter make this volume highly reader-friendly.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 German History<\/strong>

In 1983, more than one million Germans joined together to protest NATO\u2019s deployment of nuclear missiles in Europe. International media overflowed with images of marches, rallies, and human chains as protesters blockaded depots and agitated for disarmament. Though they failed to halt the deployment, the episode was a decisive one for German society, revealing deep divisions in the nation\u2019s political culture while continuing to mobilize activists. This volume provides a comprehensive reference work on the \u201cEuromissiles\u201d crisis as experienced by its various protagonists, analyzing NATO\u2019s diplomatic and military maneuvering and tracing the political, cultural, and moral discourses that surrounded the missiles\u2019 deployment in East and West Germany.

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CONSTRUCTING INDUSTRIAL PASTS<\/a>
Heritage, Historical Culture and Identity in Regions Undergoing Structural Economic Transformation<\/strong>
Edited by Stefan Berger<\/em>
Vol. 38, Making Sense of History<\/em><\/a>

Since the 1960s, nations across the \u201cdeveloped world\u201d have been profoundly shaped by deindustrialization. In regions in which previously dominant industries faced crises or have disappeared altogether, industrial heritage offers a fascinating window into the phenomenon\u2019s cultural dimensions. As the contributions to this volume demonstrate, even as forms of industrial heritage provide anchors of identity for local populations, their meanings remain deeply contested, as both radical and conservative varieties of nostalgia intermingle with critical approaches and straightforward apologias for a past that was often full of pain, exploitation and struggle.

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A HUMAN GARDEN<\/a>
French Policy and the Transatlantic Legacies of Eugenic Experimentation<\/strong>
Paul-Andr\u00e9 Rosental<\/em>
Translated from the French by Carolyn Avery
Foreword by Theodore M. Porter<\/em>
Vol. 16, Berghahn Monographs in French Studies<\/em><\/a>

\u201cPaul-Andr\u00e9 Rosental has recovered each of the threads that led to this remarkable experiment \u2026 we discover piece by piece, within the history of Ungemach Gardens, the scientific and moral wellsprings of eugenics.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Le Monde<\/strong>

Well into the 1980s, Strasbourg, France, was the site of a curious and little-noted experiment: Ungemach, a garden city dating back to the high days of eugenic experimentation that offered luxury living to couples who were deemed biologically fit and committed to contractual childbearing targets. Supported by public authorities, Ungemach aimed to accelerate human evolution by increasing procreation among eugenically selected parents. In this fascinating history, Paul-Andr\u00e9 Rosental gives an account of Ungemach\u2019s origins and its perplexing longevity. He casts a troubling light on the influence that eugenics continues to exert\u2014even decades after being discredited as a pseudoscience\u2014in realms as diverse as developmental psychology, postwar policymaking, and liberal-democratic ideals of personal fulfillment.

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Berghahn Journals is delighted to offer free access to their core History journals until January 10, 2020! To access, use promo code AHA20. <\/strong>\ufeffView redemption instructions<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ASPASIA<\/a>
The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women’s and Gender History<\/strong>
Senior Editor:<\/strong> Sharon Kowalsky; Editor & Book Review Editor<\/strong>: Krassimira Daskalova<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE HISTORY OF CONCEPTS<\/a>
Editors: <\/strong>Jani Marjanen, Jan Ifversen, and Margrit Pernau
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HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS\/R\u00c9FLEXIONS HISTORIQUES<\/a>
Editor:<\/strong> Elizabeth C. Macknight; Co-Editor:<\/strong> W. Brian Newsome <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL MEDIA, MEMORY & SOCIETY<\/a>
Editor<\/strong>: Eckhardt Fuchs
Published on behalf of the <\/em>Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dear Colleague, We are delighted to inform you that we will be attending the American Historical Association’s annual meeting in New York, NY, on January 3rd\u20136th, 2020. Please stop by Booth #1007 to browse our latest selection of books at discounted prices and pick up free journal samples. Scroll down for a preview of the new releases on display.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,137,108],"tags":[1155,1154,587,1068,887,379,755,207,1167,283,437,110,365,1066,1063,121,1162,886,1069,1166,1158,1160,1157,1161,1156,1159,1168,466,1165,333],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14060"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14097,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14060\/revisions\/14097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}