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We\u2019re delighted to wrap up the\u00a0year with\u00a0a selection of latest releases from our core subjects of Anthropology<\/a>, Cultural Studies<\/a>, Environmental Studies<\/a>, Film Studies<\/a>, Genocide Studies<\/a>, History<\/a>, and Media Studies <\/a>along with our New in Paperback titles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\"\"ECOLOGICAL MIGRANTS<\/a>
\nThe Relocation of China’s Ewenki Reindeer Herders
\nYuanyuan Xie
\nForeword by Ping Hao<\/p>\n

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Reindeer-herding Ewenki hunters have lived in the forests of China\u2019s Greater Khingan Range for over three hundred years. They have sustained their livelihoods by collecting plants and herbs, hunting animals and herding reindeer. This ethnography details changing Ewenki ways of life brought first by China\u2019s modernization and development policies and more recently by ecological policies that aim to preserve and restore the badly damaged ecologies of western China. Xie reflects on modernization and urbanization in China through this study of ecological migration policies and their effects on relocated Aoluguya Ewenki hunters.<\/p>\n

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\"\"RUSSIAN POSTMODERNISM<\/a>
\nNew Perspectives on Post-Soviet Culture
\nMikhail N. Epstein, Alexander A. Genis, and Slobodanka M. Vladiv-Glover
\nTranslated by Slobodanka M. Vladiv-Glover<\/p>\n

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Recent decades have been decisive for Russia not only politically but culturally as well. The end of the Cold War has enabled Russia to take part in the global rise and crystallization of postmodernism. This volume investigates the manifestations of this crucial trend in Russian fiction, poetry, art, and spirituality, demonstrating how Russian postmodernism is its own unique entity. It offers a point of departure and valuable guide to an area of contemporary literary-cultural studies insufficiently represented in English-language scholarship. This second edition includes additional essays on the topic and a new introduction examining the most recent developments.<\/p>\n

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\"\"CYCLING AND RECYCLING<\/a>
\nHistories of Sustainable Practices
\nEdited by Ruth Oldenziel and Helmuth Trischler<\/p>\n

Volume 7, Environment in History: International Perspectives<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Technology has long been an essential consideration in public discussions of the environment, with the focus overwhelmingly on creating new tools and techniques. In more recent years, however, activists, researchers, and policymakers have increasingly turned to mobilizing older technologies in their pursuit of sustainability. In fascinating case studies ranging from the Early Modern secondhand trade to utopian visions of human-powered vehicles, the contributions gathered here explore the historical fortunes of two such technologies\u2014bicycling and waste recycling\u2014tracing their development over time and providing valuable context for the policy successes and failures of today.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction: How Old Technologies Became Sustainable<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"CINEMA IN SERVICE OF THE STATE<\/a>
\nPerspectives on Film Culture in the GDR and Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960
\nEdited by Lars Karl and Pavel Skopal<\/p>\n

Volume 18, Film Europa<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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The national cinemas of Czechoslovakia and East Germany were two of the most vital sites of filmmaking in the Eastern Bloc, and over the course of two decades, they contributed to and were shaped by such significant developments as Sovietization, de-Stalinization, and the conservative retrenchment of the late 1950s. This volume comprehensively explores the postwar film cultures of both nations, using a \u201cstereoscopic\u201d approach that traces their similarities and divergences to form a richly contextualized portrait. Ranging from features to children\u2019s cinema to film festivals, the studies gathered here provide new insights into the ideological, political, and economic dimensions of Cold War cultural production.<\/p>\n

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\"\"MATTERS OF TESTIMONY<\/a>
\nInterpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitz
\nNicholas Chare and Dominic Williams<\/p>\n

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In 1944, members of the Sonderkommando\u2014the \u201cspecial squads,\u201d composed almost exclusively of Jewish prisoners, who ensured the smooth operation of the gas chambers and had firsthand knowledge of the extermination process\u2014buried on the grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau a series of remarkable eyewitness accounts of Nazi genocide. This careful and penetrating study examines anew these \u201cScrolls of Auschwitz,\u201d which were gradually recovered, in damaged and fragmentary form, in the years following the camp\u2019s liberation. It painstakingly reconstructs their historical context and textual content, revealing complex literary works that resist narrow moral judgment and engage difficult questions about the limits of testimony.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction: Matters of Testimony<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"THE SECOND GENERATION<\/a>
\n\u00c9migr\u00e9s from Nazi Germany as Historians
\nWith a Biobibliographic Guide
\nEdited by Andreas W. Daum, Hartmut Lehmann, and James J. Sheehan<\/p>\n

Volume 20, Studies in German History<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Of the thousands of children and young adults who fled Nazi Germany in the years before the Second World War, a remarkable number went on to become trained historians in their adopted homelands. By placing autobiographical testimonies alongside historical analysis and professional reflections, this richly varied collection comprises the first sustained effort to illuminate the role these men and women played in modern historiography. Focusing particularly on those who settled in North America, Great Britain, and Israel, it culminates in a comprehensive, meticulously researched biobibliographic guide that provides a systematic overview of the lives and works of this \u201csecond generation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction: Refugees from Nazi Germany as Historians: Origins and Migrations, Interests and Identities<\/a>
\n\"\"PROTEST IN HITLER’S \u201cNATIONAL COMMUNITY\u201d<\/a>
\nPopular Unrest and the Nazi Response
\nEdited by Nathan Stoltzfus and Birgit Maier-Katkin
\nAfterword by David Clay Large<\/p>\n

Volume 14, Protest, Culture & Society<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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That Hitler\u2019s Gestapo harshly suppressed any signs of opposition inside the Third Reich is a common misconception. This book presents studies of public dissent that prove this was not always the case. It examines circumstances under which \u201cracial\u201d Germans were motivated to protest, as well as the conditions determining the regime\u2019s response. Workers, women, and religious groups all convinced the Nazis to appease rather than repress \u201cracial\u201d Germans. Expressions of discontent actually increased during the war, and Hitler remained willing to compromise in governing the German Volk as long as he thought the Reich could salvage victory.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction: Nazi Responses to Popular Unrest among the Volk of the Reich<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"COMRADES OF COLOR<\/a>
\nEast Germany in the Cold War World
\nEdited by Quinn Slobodian<\/p>\n

Volume 15, Protest, Culture & Society<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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In keeping with the tenets of socialist internationalism, the political culture of the German Democratic Republic strongly emphasized solidarity with the non-white world: children sent telegrams to Angela Davis in prison, workers made contributions from their wages to relief efforts in Vietnam and Angola, and the deaths of Patrice Lumumba, Ho Chi Minh, and Martin Luther King, Jr. inspired public memorials. Despite their prominence, however, scholars have rarely examined such displays in detail. Through a series of illuminating historical investigations, this volume deploys archival research, ethnography, and a variety of other interdisciplinary tools to explore the rhetoric and reality of East German internationalism.<\/p>\n

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\"\"THE LONG AFTERMATH<\/a>
\nCultural Legacies of Europe at War, 1936-2016
\nEdited by Manuel Bragan\u00e7a and Peter Tame
\nForeword by Richard Overy
\nAfterword by Jay Winter<\/p>\n

Volume 17, Contemporary European History<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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In its totality, the \u201cLong Second World War\u201d\u2014extending from the beginning of the Spanish Civil War to the end of hostilities in 1945\u2014has exerted enormous influence over European culture. Bringing together leading historians, sociologists, and literary and film scholars, this broadly interdisciplinary volume investigates Europeans\u2019 individual and collective memories and the ways in which they have shaped the continent\u2019s cultural heritage. Focusing on the major combatant nations\u2014Spain, Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Poland, and Russia\u2014it offers thoroughly contextualized explorations of novels, memoirs, films, and a host of other cultural forms to illuminate European public memory.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction: The Long Aftermath of the Long Second World War<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"EMPIRE OF PICTURES<\/a>
\nGlobal Media and the 1960s Remaking of American Foreign Policy
\nS\u00f6nke Kunkel<\/p>\n

Volume 8, Explorations in Culture and International History<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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In Cold War historiography, the 1960s are often described as a decade of mounting diplomatic tensions and international social unrest. At the same time, they were a period of global media revolution: communication satellites compressed time and space, television spread around the world, and images circulated through print media in expanding ways. Examining how U.S. policymakers exploited these changes, this book offers groundbreaking international research which shows that U.S. power came to depend more and more not on military superiority or economic strength alone, but also on America\u2019s ability to create appealing pictures that assured recognition of its global leadership.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction: Why Empires Need Pictures<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"SLAVERY AND ANTISLAVERY IN SPAIN’S ATLANTIC EMPIRE
\nEdited by Josep M. Fradera and Christopher Schmidt-Nowara\u2020<\/p>\n

Volume 9, European Expansion & Global Interaction<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe essays in this volume make an important contribution to understanding the process through which European empires shifted, as Seymour Drescher\u2019s aptly titled contribution puts it, ‘from empires of slavery to empires of antislavery'(p. 291). They do so by centering on Spain and its Atlantic empire. This focus results in the volume\u2019s most significant contribution and resounding statement: that the Spanish empire, far from being \u2018a case apart in the study of slavery and abolition\u2019 (p. 1), played an important role in the histories of slavery and antislavery in the Atlantic world\u2026a wonderful book that could productively be assigned to an undergraduate audience.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Hispanic American Historical Review (HAHR)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"MEDIA AND REVOLT<\/a>
\nStrategies and Performances from the 1960s to the Present
\nEdited by Kathrin Fahlenbrach, Erling Sivertsen & Rolf Werenskjold<\/p>\n

Volume 11, Protest, Culture & Society<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201d…a timely, truly interdisciplinary, and much needed volume on the relationship between (mass) media, social movements and protests.<\/em>\u201d \u00b7 Peter N. Funke<\/strong>, University of South Florida<\/p>\n

Drawing on contributions from media scholars, historians, and sociologists, this volume explores the dynamic interplay between social movements, activists, and mass media from the 1960s to the present.<\/p>\n

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\"\"MUSSOLINI’S DREAM FACTORY<\/a>
\nFilm Stardom in Fascist Italy
\nStephen Gundle<\/p>\n

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\u201cGundle has written the book that will become a standard in the fields of historiography on Italian Fascism, Italian Fascist cinema and film scholarship on star culture. The mixture of intimate sources such as diaries, letters and photographs with exhaustive archival material breathes life into this period, allowing us new and necessary insight on this complicated era of cinematic and Italian history.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an outstanding book in every respect. It is beautifully written, clear, concise, no professional jargon, yet based on a confident grasp of all the relevant criticism as well as primary sources in a number of languages\u2026It is high time that a complete revision of our thinking on Italian cinema under fascism takes place, and this book represents a giant step in this direction.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Peter Bondanella<\/strong>, Emeritus, Indiana University<\/p>\n

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\"\"THE FRENCH RIGHT BETWEEN THE WARS<\/a>
\nPolitical and Intellectual Movements from Conservatism to Fascism
\nEdited by Samuel Kalman and Sean Kennedy<\/p>\n

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\u201cOrganized thematically into three sections and concluding with William Irvine’s astute historiographical commentary, this edited volume unhinges analyses of the French political and intellectual Right from long-standing debates over whether France was “immune” tof ascism, and how to categorize its Rightist leagues\u2026 Highly recommended.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Choice<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201c[These essays] make useful contributions. They all identify interesting problems, often fresh and original; display significant research; and are clearly written.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Robert O. Paxton<\/strong>, Columbia University<\/p>\n

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\"\"GENERAL DE GAULLE’S COLD WAR<\/a>
\nChallenging American Hegemony, 1963-68
\nGarret Joseph Martin<\/p>\n

Volume 13, Berghahn Monographs in French Studies<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2026a well-written, vibrant presentation of how world events\u00a0 interacted with and impacted\u00a0 de Gaulle’s\u00a0 grand design, creating\u00a0 a comprehensive understanding of the general\u00a0 in the Cold\u00a0 War.\u00a0 Highly recommended.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0Choice<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWhile there is a lot of information for readers to take in, the subject is inherently complex, spanning different aspects of French foreign policy and the politics of other countries and institutions. In spite of this complexity, Martin displays a good grasp of the material.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0H-France Review<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"PETER LORRE: FACE MAKER<\/a>
\nConstructing Stardom and Performance in Hollywood and Europe
\nSarah Thomas<\/p>\n

Volume 12, Film Europa<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2026in her important new study of Lorre\u2019s career\u2026[the author pursues] a rewarding approach that combines careful archival research with clever film analysis to illuminate Lorre\u2019s career from a new angle that not only impacts our understanding of this actor, but also presents an important new way to understand the complex exchanges between on-screen and off-screen performances more generally.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Senses of Cinema<\/strong><\/p>\n

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