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Forthcoming June 2023
Planting Seeds of Knowledge

Agriculture and Education in Rural Societies in the Twentieth Century

Hartmann, H. & Tischler, J. (eds)

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, agricultural practices and rural livelihoods were challenged by changes such as commercialization, intensified global trade, and rapid urbanization. Planting Seeds of Knowledge studies the relationship between these agricultural changes and knowledge-making through a transnational lens.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Environmental Studies (General)
Forthcoming June 2023
White Eagle, Black Eagle

Ethnic Relations in the German-Polish Borderlands

Parkin, R.

Studying the German-Polish ethnic relations, this book analyses the people and region through their respective borderlands, migration, official cooperation and unofficial suspicions across the border.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology History: 20th Century to Present
Forthcoming June 2023
Music and Postwar Transitions in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Fléchet, A., Guerpin, M., Gumplowicz, P. & Kelly, B. (eds)

Music and Postwar Transitions takes a groundbreaking and much anticipated dive into the concept of postwar transitions and how these affect and are affected by the world of music. Leading scholars in the field explore new approaches to create a novel understanding of music and postwar periods.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century Media Studies
Published May 2023
Coproducing Europe

An Ethnography of Film Markets, Creativity and Identity

Sideri, E.

By focusing on regional film markets in Thessasloniki, Sarajevo, and Tbilisi, Coproduction Europe uses comparative ethnography to look beyond the economic nature of film coproductions to explore their role in Europeanisation, memories of the Cold War, and preconstructed political agendas.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present

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Published May 2023
Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe

The Social Life of Asia Minor Refugees in Piraeus

Hirschon, R.

Since its first publication in 1989, this classic study has remained in demand. The third edition of Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe includes updated material with a new Preface, Epilogue, and map of the study area.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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Published May 2023
Chicanery

Senior Academic Appointments in Antipodean Anthropology, 1920–1960

Gray, G., Munro, D. & Winter, C.

Academic appointments can bring forth unexpected and unforeseen contests and tensions, cause humiliation and embarrassment for unsuccessful applicants and reveal unexpected allies and enemies. Chicanery deals with how the founding Chairs at Sydney, the Australian National University, Auckland and Western Australia dealt with this process.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History: 20th Century to Present Theory and Methodology

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Published April 2023
Citizens into Dishonored Felons

Felony Disenfranchisement, Honor, and Rehabilitation in Germany, 1806-1933

de Groot, T.

Throughout the long nineteenth century felony disenfranchisement affected the moral fabric of German society and coincided with a history of honor in German legal thought. Citizens into Dishonored Felons uses uncommonly extensive archival materials to address the emotional and symbolic impact of punishment as both an enforcement of societal hierarchies and a platform for reform.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
Published April 2023
The Burden of German History

A Transatlantic Life

Jarausch, K. H.

The Burden of Germany History is Konrad H Jarausch’s much anticipated transatlantic autobiography set against the development and transformation of German studies over the past half-century. Using his life story, Jarausch’s concurrent life in the US and Germany brings us a self-critical historiography of a twentieth-century Germany that was wrestling with the responsibility for war and genocide.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History History: World War II

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Published April 2023
The Rich and the Poor in Modern Europe, 1890-2020

A Historian’s Response to Recent Debates among Economists

Kaelble, H.

While it is easy to accept that modern capitalism is the perpetrator of sociality inequality’s growth today, The Rich and the Poor reconsiders the constructs and facts that led to dramatic rises and crashes in the twentieth century European economic history.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published March 2023
The History of Thyssen

Family, Industry and Culture in the 20th Century

Schulz, G. & Szöllösi-Janze, M.

The History of Thyssenprovides a summary of a research project funded by the Thyssen Foundations. It is both an explanation of how the project was conceptualized and executed and a detailed case study of a family and business during the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century

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Published February 2023
The Right to Memory

History, Media, Law, and Ethics

Tirosh, N. & Reading, A. (eds)

The Right to Memory looks beyond everyday memory and commemoration practices, focusing instead on how memory relates to human rights and socio-legal constructs in order to legitimize and protect groups and individuals.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies Media Studies

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Published February 2023
Red America

Greek Communists in the United States, 1920-1950

Karpozilos, K.

Socialism, Communism, and Anarchism were integral components of 19th and 20th century immigrant life. Red America explores the relationship between the immigrant experience in the United States and political radicalism, especially as it relates to the lesser explored Greek American experience in the 20th century.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published January 2023
The Marseille Mosaic

A Mediterranean City at the Crossroads of Cultures

Ingram, M. & Kleppinger, K. (eds)

Moving across disciplines, The Marseille Mosaic integrates a diverse range of sources and methods to reveal France’s second city in the national imagination as a critical site for postcolonial memory and urban transformation as they crucially interact with debates in contemporary French society.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present Sociology Urban Studies

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Published January 2023
Reparative Citizenship for Sephardi Descendants

Returning to the Jewish Past in Spain and Portugal

Kandiyoti, D. & Benmayor, R. (eds)

In 2015, both Portugal and Spain passed laws enabling descendants of Sephardi Jews to obtain citizenship, an historic offer of reconciliation. Drawing from scholarly and first-person essays, Reparative Citizenship for Sephardi Descendants analyzes the memory and afterlives of those who were wronged, and how reconciliatory rights impact the lives of those affected.

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present

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Published January 2023
The Guardians of Concepts

Political Languages of Conservatism in Britain and West Germany, 1945-1980

Steber, M.

Since 1945, German and British intellectuals and politicians have struggled to define the term “conservative” throughout its complicated history. The Guardians of Concepts rigorously uncovers the changes in the idea of conservatism and its national and transnational political language history.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published December 2022
End Game

The 1989 Revolution in East Germany

Kowalczuk, I.-S.

Focusing on major shifts in East Germany leading to the fall of the Berlin Wall, End Game accounts for everyday life from the autumn of 1989 to the first free elections in March of 1990. With an understanding of the events of 1989 as a citizens’ movement as a whole, the volume contextualizes the societal reactions to a nation’s large scale political changes.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published December 2022
The Servants of Empire

Sponsored German Women’s Colonization in Southwest Africa, 1896-1945

ODonnell, K. M.

In the late 1890s through the 1940s, Germany enacted race-based population policies in Southwest Africa which instrumentalized German women as colonists. The Servants of Empire engages the history of these colonial operatives, mostly comprised of poor, white women, as they became an unsettling force in colonial settlements and contributed to the rise of the German embrace of genocide, National Socialism, and apartheid.

Subjects: Colonial History History: 20th Century to Present

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Published November 2022
Different from the Others

German and Dutch Discourses of Queer Femininity and Female Desire, 1918–1940

Sturgess, C.

Presenting for the first time a comparative and socio-cultural history of queer femininities in Germany and the Netherlands for an English-speaking audience, Different from the Others highlights this submerged history and engages queer authors and activists from the Netherlands to challenge and redress conceptualizations of queer femininity in the interwar period.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History: World War I History: 20th Century to Present

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Published November 2022
Invested Narratives

German Responses to Economic Crisis

Twark, J. (ed)

Narratives of how nations survive, restructure or even fail during economic crisis not only inform future responses to crisis but also strengthen national theoretical, empirical, and analytical financial discourse. Invested Narratives brings together an interdisciplinary set of scholars to address the history of German responses to crisis over the past 200 years.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century

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Published November 2022
The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky

Into Germany at the End of World War II

Lerg, C. A. (ed.)

The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky reproduces and critically examines Melvin J. Lasky’s diary, which expounds intense and insightful notes on German realities following the aftermath of World War Two and the ideological conflicts between the East and West.

Subjects: History: World War II History: 20th Century to Present Literary Studies

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Published October 2022
Thinking Europe

A History of the European Idea since 1800

Andrén, M.

This title assesses the idea of Europe through its intellectual history. Exploring the concept of integration and the relationship between this and arguments for division and borders it reveals their interplay in the composition of the contemporary European identity.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century
Published October 2022
Beyond 'Hellenes' and 'Barbarians'

Asymmetrical Concepts in European Discourse

Postoutenko, K. (ed)

Surveying a variety of significant asymmetrical conceptualizations, Beyond 'Hellenes' and 'Barbarians' extends our current breadth of understanding of how ascriptive terms such as ‘civilization’ vs. ‘barbarity,’ or ‘order’ vs. ‘chaos’ functioned and continue to function in political, scientific, and fictional discourses.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century History: Medieval/Early Modern

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Published October 2022
Football Nation

The Playing Fields of German Culture, History, and Society

Dawson, R., Heinsohn, B., Knabe, O., & McDougall, A. (eds)

Germany’s football culture has a historically rich background full of transnational entanglements, German identity formation, and fan cultures. Football Nation constructs new insights surrounding the multifaceted landscapes of German historical and contemporary football debates as it investigates football’s role in discourses on culture, history, and politics.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

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Published October 2022
Brewing Socialism

Coffee, East Germans, and Twentieth-Century Globalization

Kloiber, A.

Taking an uncommonly focused lens against the deep and active role coffee had in connecting East Germans to a global market, Brewing Socialism uncovers the significance of East German efforts to democratize coffee and how that focus on material cultural informed the everyday life of the Social Unity Party’s conceptualization of a modern social utopia.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

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Published October 2022
German–Jewish Studies

Next Generations

Wallach, K. & Elyada. A. (eds)

Applying current and evolving interdisciplinary scholarship to bring an original and comprehensive assessment of why German-Jewish studies as a field is vital to further our understanding of antisemitism, racism, and coloniality, German-Jewish Studies: Next Generations grounds the field’s necessity to the future of scholarship in the twenty-first century.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Jewish Studies

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Published September 2022
Humboldt Revisited

The Impact of the German University on American Higher Education

Brandser, G. C.

Humboldt Revisited offers a fresh perspective on the contemporary discourse surrounding reform of European universities. Drawing from a rich selection of historical sources, this volume challenges the conventional historical narratives on the Humboldt University, providing new insight into the American reception of the German ideas.

Subjects: Educational Studies History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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Published September 2022
The Chernobyl Effect

Antinuclear Protests and the Molding of Polish Democracy, 1986–1990

Szulecki, K., Waluszko, J., & Borewicz, T.

Empirically rich, The Chernobyl Effect shows how the Chernobyl catastrophe sparked a new kind of protest against the communist authorities of Poland. Drawing on samizdat, archival sources, and open-ended interviews with participants the authors show how a qualitatively new phenomenon was created on the opposition scene and challenge the dominant narrative of the Cold War’s end.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published September 2022
Borders in East and West

Transnational and Comparative Perspectives

Berger, S. & Hashimoto, N. (eds)

The different ways of understanding borders, through culture, politics, or even religion, is transforming and requires multi-disciplinary approaches the complexity of interactions and tensions that may arise. Borders in East and West focuses on the relationships between Europe and East Asia through comparative case studies to challenge discourses and build new perspectives.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century Colonial History

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Published September 2022
Pacific Automobilism

Adventure, Status and the Carnival of Mobility, 1970–2015

Mom, G.

In this expansive volume, historian Gijs Mom explores how contemporary mobility has been impacted by social, political, and economic forces on a global scale, as in light of local mobility cultures, the car as an ‘adventure machine’ seems to lose cultural influence in favor of the car’s status character.

Subjects: Transport Studies History: 20th Century to Present Mobility Studies

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Published August 2022
Towards a Collaborative Memory

German Memory Work in a Transnational Context

Jones, S.

For the first time, this volume creates a sustained study that positions together transnational memory and relational sociology to consider the memory of the GDR. Towards a Collaborative Memory advances the field of transnational memory studies and develops new theoretical approaches that re-evaluate our understanding of actor-driven European memory.

Subjects: Memory Studies Colonial History History: 20th Century to Present

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Published August 2022
Dynamics of Emigration

Émigré Scholars and the Production of Historical Knowledge in the 20th Century

Berger, S. & Müller, P. (eds)

In the dictatorships of the twentieth century, historians have frequently been exiled from both fascist and communist regimes. This book discusses the experience of exile and asks why some of them were successful in establishing themselves in their new host countries while others failed.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Refugee and Migration Studies

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Published August 2022
200 Years of Peace

New Perspectives on Modern Swedish Foreign Policy

Biltekin, N., Müller, L., & Petersson, M. (eds)

In the wake of Sweden’s anniversary of 200 years of peace in 2014, this volume brings for the first time a targeted approach to the concept of claimed Swedish exceptionality. Taking on the nation’s policies of neutrality, 200 Years of Peace centers discussion around what it means for a nation to endure a uniquely long period of time without any pronounced conflict.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies

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Published July 2022
Rethinking Social Movements after '68

Selves and Solidarities in West Germany and Beyond

Davis, B., Brühöfener, F., & Milder, S. (eds)

With a focus on West Germany and Europe, Social Movements after ’68 bridges the 1970s and 1980s as a vital period of European political development and social change. Looking past the known ruptures and changes in the history of European social movements, this volume brings together interconnected social movements including environmental, women’s and gay rights movements.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

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Published July 2022
Oswald Spengler and the Politics of Decline

Lewis, B.

Re-evaluating the evolution Oswald Spengler’s political activities and his work, Oswald Spengler and the Politics of Decline explains the outcome of Spengler’s meta-historical considerations on world history and the practical demands of Realpolitik. This volume takes a novel approach to one of the most important thinkers of the Weimar Republic and his contributions to the complex discourse of German national renewal.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published June 2022
Spanish Laughter

Humor and Its Sense in Modern Spain

Calvo Maturana, A. (ed)

Exploring various forms of humor in Modern Spain since their entry into the eighteenth-century public sphere, Spanish Laughter takes on the comforting, transgressive, conservative, rebellious, and other dynamic forms of humor as they have changed and contributed to the building of Spain’s cultural framework and historiographical panorama.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies

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Published June 2022
What Remains

Responses to the Legacy of Christa Wolf

Fetz, G. A. & Herminghouse, P. (eds)

In response to the legacy of Christa Wolf, What Remains addresses arguably the most important German writer in the period of since World War II until her death in 2011. Scholars across the U.S. and Europe address both the importance of her role in contributing to the cultural life of East Germany and the controversies surrounding her life and works in the aftermath of the collapse of East Germany and the process of German unification.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Literary Studies

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Published May 2022
Continental Transfers

Cultural and Political Exchange among Spain, Italy and Argentina, 1914-1945

Fuentes Codera, M. & Dogliani, P. (eds)

The cultural and political connections between Spain, Italy and Argentina developed complex transnational transfers over the course of two World Wars. Bringing together scholars from all three nations, Continental Transfers configures a multidirectional approach to the nations’ reciprocal exchange using new theoretical ground to understand the development links to the construction of national and supranational identities, such as Latinism and Hispanism.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: World War I History: World War II

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Published May 2022
Hotbeds of Licentiousness

The British Glamour Film and the Permissive Society

Halligan, B.

By focusing on a series of colorful filmmakers whose work, while omnipresent during the 1970s, now remains critically ignored, Hotbeds of Licentiousness explores pornography as a lens through which to view radical changes in British society.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

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Published May 2022
The Walls of Santiago

Social Revolution and Political Aesthetics in Contemporary Chile

Gordon-Zolov, T. & Zolov, E.

The response in Chile to Santiago’s metro’s fare hike in October of 2019 has grown into a strong and multi-faceted resistance movement. Through incisive and topical analysis, the authors offer a beautiful catalog of photographs of the murals, graffiti, and other forms of political art, reflecting on these aesthetic traditions and their relationship to the broader context of global protest movements and the long shadow cast by memories of the Pinochet regime.

Subjects: Media Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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Published April 2022
Environing Empire

Nature, Infrastructure and the Making of German Southwest Africa

Kalb, M.

Between the infamous Benguela Current and the Namib Desert, nature significantly effected the progression of German imperialism and the creation of German Southwest Africa. Environing Empire reveals the environmental infrastructures that defined not only the culture of German colonial entanglements, but the fantasy that drove Lebensraum during the Second Reich.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Environmental Studies (General)
Published April 2022
Anglo-American Relations and the Transmission of Ideas

A Shared Political Tradition?

Dobson, A. & Marsh, S. (eds)

With a central objective to interrogate the notion of a shared Anglo-American political tradition, Anglo-American Relations and the Transmission of Ideas opens up new debate on the nature of the ‘first principles’ that were to frame the development of Anglo-American ideas embedded in our everyday institutions and organizations.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

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Published April 2022
Minority Discourses in Germany since 1990

Gezen, E., Layne, P., & Skolnik, J. (eds)

Minorities and Minority Discourse in Germany since 1990 opens the question of why ethnic minorities in Germany are often discussed in isolation. Whereas most studies examine Black Germans, Jews in Germany, or Turkish Germans on their own terms vis-à-vis the majority German society, this volume takes on unique and comparative perspectives on an increasingly complex German society.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Refugee and Migration Studies

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Published March 2022
The World beyond the West

Perspectives from Eastern Europe

Kałczewiak, M. & Kozłowska, M. (eds)

Exploring the evolution of Eastern European discourses in Asia, Africa and Latin America in nineteenth and twentieth century, this volume locates the mechanisms and strategies that diverse Eastern European social actors adopted when discussing the non-European world. The Eastern European perspective is not only an important addition to the study of orientalism and post coloniality, but the transnational links in-between Eastern Europe show the region’s importance to a global history.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century Colonial History

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Published March 2022
Nationalism and Internationalism Intertwined

A European History of Concepts Beyond the Nation State

Ihalainen, P. & Holmila, A. (eds)

Understanding the dynamics between nationalisms and internationalisms allows evaluating ongoing processes and intervening in current debates. Nationalism and Internationalism Intertwined, uses a multidisciplinary approach to a long term and macro-level history of international projects since the eighteenth century to assess how spaces of politics have been debated and redefined in different European political cultures.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century

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Published March 2022
The Aesthetics of Rule and Resistance

Analyzing Political Street Art in Latin America

Bogerts, L.

Through illuminating case studies of street art in Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Caracas, and Mexico City, The Aesthetics of Rule and Resistance explores the visual strategies of persuasion and meaning-making employed by both rulers and resisters to foster self-legitimization, identification, and mobilization.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Urban Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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Published February 2022
Moving Frames

Photographs in German Cinema

Collenberg-González, C. & Sheehan, M. P. (eds)

Through an intermedial approach combining studies on cinema and photography, Moving Frames addresses precise historical moments uniquely in a German context. Across films both in and outside the canon, this volume tackles those specific historical moments experienced in media forms to gauge the cultural, political, and transnational trends in humanity’s desire for agency and how that agency is represented.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present

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Published January 2022
France, Germany, and Nuclear Deterrence

Quarrels and Convergences during the Cold War and Beyond

Badalassi, N. & Gloriant, F. (eds)

France, Germany, and the Nuclear Deterrence employs a multi-archival approach to the legacy of World War II and the bipolar division of Europe. The volume longitudinally covers the post-war, Cold War and post-Cold War eras and leads into the present day to focus on the history of Franco-German strategic and nuclear relations within an evolving Euro-Atlantic security architecture.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published December 2021
Germany and the Confessional Divide

Religious Tensions and Political Culture, 1871-1989

Ruff, M. E. & Großbölting, T. (eds)

Germany confessional identities developed against cultural, religious, and political tensions in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Unpacking the conflicted religious history, this collection focuses on defining traumatic events, tracing their origins across division between Catholics and Protestants, hinderance of German unification, and transforming religious identities, allegiances, and practices

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present

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Published December 2021
Repressed, Remitted, Rejected

German Reparations Debts to Poland and Greece

Roth, K. H. & Rübner, H.

Greece and Poland have recently reignited debates on minimally settled reparations demands resulting from suffering under the terror of Nazi occupation during the Second World War. Using an international law perspective, this expansive volume reconstructs the German occupation of Poland and Greece and confronts German aversions to reparations debt.

Subjects: History: World War II History: 20th Century to Present

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Published November 2021
The Paradoxical Republic

Austria 1945–2020

Rathkolb, O.

Written by one of the nation’s leading historians, this account of postwar Austria explores the tensions that have defined it for over seven decades. This newly revised edition also addresses the major developments since 2005, including a resurgent far right, economic instability, and the potential fracturing of the European Union.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published November 2021
Defeating Impunity

Attempts at International Justice in Europe since 1914

Rovetta, O. & Lagrou, P. (eds)

Over the course of the long and violent twentieth century, only a minority of the perpetrators of international crimes ever stood trial. In analyzing and documenting the challenge addressing that status of international justice and its realization, this collection uses an international perspective to take the reader through both little known and prominent trials.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History

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Published October 2021
Heritage under Socialism

Preservation in Eastern and Central Europe, 1945–1991

Gantner, E. B., Geering, C., & Vickers, P. (ed)

Heritage under Socialism enriches the conceptual, methodological and empirical scope of heritage studies. Its transnational approach highlights the socialist world’s diverse interpretations of heritage and its trajectories in post-socialist preservation practices, thus providing new perspectives on the way heritage has been shaped in the recent past.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Heritage Studies Memory Studies

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Published October 2021
Transcending the Nostalgic

Landscapes of Postindustrial Europe beyond Representation

Jaramillo, G. S. & Tomann, J. (eds)

This collection explores the affective and “more-than-representational” dimensions of post-industrial landscapes, analyzing narratives, practices, social formations, and other phenomena. Focusing on case studies from across Europe, it examines both the objective and the subjective aspects of societies that produce fewer things and employ fewer workers.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Heritage Studies

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Published October 2021
Guido Goldman

Transatlantic Bridge Builder

Klingst, M.

Guido Goldman was one of the most distinguished protagonists of the reintegration of Germany into the international community after the defeat of Nazism in 1945. This biography looks at his remarkable life from his establishment of the German Marshall Fund to establishing the Center for European Studies at Harvard University.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies

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Published September 2021
Israel-Palestine

Lands and Peoples

Bartov, O. (ed)

The conflict between Israel and Palestine has raised a plethora of unanswered questions, generated seemingly unreconcilable narratives, and profoundly transformed the land’s physical and political geography. This volume seeks to provide a deeper understanding of the links between the region that is now known as Israel and Palestine and its peoples—both those that live there as well as those who relate to it as a mental, mythical, or religious landscape.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present

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Published September 2021
The Greek Military Dictatorship

Revisiting a Troubled Past, 1967–1974

Anastasakis, O. & Lagos, K. (eds)

From 1967 to 1974, the military junta ruling Greece attempted a dramatic reshaping of the nation, implementing ideas and policies that, for better or for worse, left an indelible mark on both domestic affairs and international relations. Bringing together leading scholars from a range of disciplines, The Greek Military Dictatorship provides a fresh and nuanced reassessment of this era.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published September 2021
Traumatic Pasts in Asia

History, Psychiatry, and Trauma from the 1930s to the Present

Micale, M. S. & Pols, H. (eds)

Traumatic Pasts in Asia extends Euro-American paradigms of traumatic experience to new sites of world-historical suffering and, in the process, explores how these new terrains of investigation inform and enrich earlier understandings.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies Medical Anthropology

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Published August 2021
International Organizations Revisited

Agency and Pathology in a Multipolar World

Dijkzeul, D. & Salomons, D. (eds)

Thoroughly revised and based on current management research, this follow-up to Rethinking International Organizations provides a wealth of both empirical and theoretical insights to the management of the United Nations and international NGOs, along with practical recommendations for how these organizations can function more effectively.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published August 2021
Iron Landscapes

National Space and the Railways in Interwar Czechoslovakia

Jeschke, F.

Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the newly formed country of Czechoslovakia built an ambitious national rail network out of what remained of the obsolete Habsburg system. Drawing on evidence ranging from government documents to newsreels to train timetables, Iron Landscapes gives a nuanced account of how planners and authorities knitted together the young nation-state and articulated a Czechoslovak cosmopolitanism.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Transport Studies

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Published August 2021
Territory, State and Nation

The Geopolitics of Rudolf Kjellén

Björk, R. & Lundén, T. (eds)

Rudolf Kjellén, regularly referred to as “the father of geopolitics”, developed in the first decade of the twentieth century an analytical model for calculating the capabilities of great-power states and promoting their interests in the international arena. Territory, State and Nation explores his century-long international scholarly impact, his analytical model, and his analyses of contemporary history.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published August 2021
The Russian Cold

Histories of Ice, Frost, and Snow

Herzberg, J., Renner, A., & Schierle, I. (eds)

Cold has long been a fixture of Russian identity both within and beyond the nation, even as the ongoing effects of climate change complicate its meaning and cultural salience. The Russian Cold assembles fascinating new contributions from a variety of scholarly traditions, offering new perspectives on how to understand this mainstay of Russian culture and history.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Environmental Studies (General)

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Published June 2021
The Age of Capitalism and Bureaucracy

Perspectives on the Political Sociology of Max Weber

Mommsen, W. J.

In this new edition of Wolfgang Mommsen’s illuminating study, Max Weber is presented in terms of the major questions that preoccupied him as one of the towering social scientists of his time, with insights that are persistently relevant as we deal with the structures and dynamics of modern industrial societies.

Subjects: Sociology History: 20th Century to Present

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Published June 2021
German Rule, African Subjects

State Aspirations and the Reality of Power in Colonial Namibia

Zimmerer, J.

This classic study, now available for the first time in English, explains how German colonial ambitions foundered in present-day Namibia. As it shows, the highly rationalized planning of Wilhelmine authorities could not accommodate the practical, lived realities of both colonizer and colonized.

Subjects: Colonial History History: 20th Century to Present

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Published May 2021
Echoes of Surrealism

Challenging Socialist Realism in East German Literature, 1945–1990

Berendse, G.-J.

Echoes of Surrealism surveys areas of surrealist art throughout the entire lifespan of the GDR and explores analyses of the interaction and reciprocal influences of various art forms. Focusing on individual authors, visual artists, film directors and musicians who have taken a surrealist perspective in their work, this study reveals how the surrealist perspective offered an alternative to the rigid government cultural policies by questioning and confronting the status quo.

Subjects: Literary Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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Published May 2021
When They Came for Me

The Hidden Diary of an Apartheid Prisoner

Schlapobersky, J. R.

Whilst a student in South Africa, John Schlapobersky was arrested for opposing apartheid and tortured, detained and deported. In this volume, apartheid and its resistance come to life in personal stories that make this a vital historical document - one of its time and one for our own.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published May 2021
Legal Entanglements

Law, Rights and the Battle for Legitimacy in Divided Germany, 1945-1989

Gehrig, S.

Drawing on wide-ranging archival research and recently declassified documents, Legal Entanglements follows the politicians, intellectuals, and other historical actors on both sides of the Berlin Wall who helped their nation to navigate volatile and uncertain legal circumstances.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published April 2021
East German Film and the Holocaust

Ward, E.

By combining close analyses of five films made between 1947 and 1988 with extensive archival research, this book unravels the complex status of films dealing with Jewish persecution produced in a country that consistently privileged narratives of political persecution above racial victimhood.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present

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Published April 2021
Bestsellers of the Third Reich

Readers, Writers and the Politics of Literature

Adam, C.

Christian Adam examines how books came into being under the Nazis, how they became bestsellers—sometimes against the will of the rulers—and which books were actually read. He writes the history of the bestsellers in the darkest epoch of the German past, thus opening a new perspective on the mentality of the Germans between 1933 and 1945.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Literary Studies

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Published April 2021
The Herero Genocide

War, Emotion, and Extreme Violence in Colonial Namibia

Häussler, M.

Drawing on previously inaccessible and overlooked archival sources, The Herero Genocide undertakes a groundbreaking investigation into the war between colonizer and colonized in what was formerly German South West Africa and is today the nation of Namibia. The result is an indispensable account of a genocide that has been neglected for too long.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History

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Published March 2021
At the Edge of the Wall

Public and Private Spheres in Divided Berlin

Hochmuth, H.

The neighboring boroughs of Friedrichschain and Kreuzberg shared a history and identity until their fortunes diverged dramatically following the construction of the Berlin Wall, which placed them within opposing political systems. This revealing account of the two towns during and after the Cold War takes a microhistorical approach to illuminate the broader historical trajectories of East and West Berlin.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Urban Studies

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Published March 2021
Peripheries at the Centre

Borderland Schooling in Interwar Europe

Venken, M.

Peripheries at the Centre reveals how Prussia, and later the German Empire, used educational policy to promote national identity along its geographical margins. It shows how policymakers sought to cultivate ideal German students who, it was hoped, would help to usher in a new, peaceful era in European history while reinforcing their status as German citizens.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Educational Studies

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Published February 2021
Political Graffiti in Critical Times

The Aesthetics of Street Politics

Campos, R., Pavoni, A., & Zaimakis, Y. (eds)

With a particular eye to the demographic, ecological, and economic crises of today, this volume provides a wide-ranging exploration of urban space and visual protest during periods of social and political upheaval. Assembling case studies that cover topics such as gentrification in Cyprus and the convulsions of post-independence East Timor, it reveals the ways in which street artists challenge existing social orders and reimagine urban landscapes.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Urban Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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Published February 2021
Nordic War Stories

World War II as History, Fiction, Media, and Memory

Stecher-Hansen, M. (ed)

Nordic War Stories explores the commonalities and divergences among the five Nordic countries, examining formal and informal national historiographies alongside representations of the second world war in canonical literary works, memoirs, and films. Together, they comprise a valuable companion that challenges the myth of Scandinavian homogeneity while demonstrating the powerful influence that the war continues to exert on national self-conceptions.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies

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Published February 2021
Four-Color Communism

Comic Books and Contested Power in the German Democratic Republic

Eedy, S.

As with all other forms of popular culture, comics in East Germany were tightly controlled by the state. Comics were employed as extensions of the regime’s educational system, delivering state ideology to develop the socialist personality among youth. The East German children who avidly read these comics, however, found their own meanings and projected their own desires in them.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies

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Published January 2021
Risk on the Table

Food Production, Health, and the Environment

Creager, A. N. H. & Gaudilière, J.-P. (eds)

From the proliferation of synthetic additives to the threat posed by antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the chapters in Risk on the Table zero in on key historical cases in North America and Europe that illuminate the history of food safety, highlighting the powerful tension that exists between policymakers’ decisions and cultural notions of “pure” food.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present Food & Nutrition

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Published January 2021
After Auschwitz

The Difficult Legacies of the GDR

Heitzer, E., Jander, M., Kahane, A., & Poutrus, P. G. (eds)

This provocative collection reflects on the heretofore ignored or repressed aspects of German mainstream society—including right-wing extremism, anti-Semitism and racism—to call for an ambitious renewal of historical research and political education to place East Germany in its proper historical context.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published January 2021
In the Shadow of the Great War

Physical Violence in East-Central Europe, 1917–1923

Böhler, J., Konrád, O., Kučera, R. (eds)

Whether victorious or not, Central European states faced fundamental challenges after the First World War as they struggled to contain ongoing violence and forge peaceful societies. This collection explores the various forms of violence these nations confronted during this period, which effectively transformed the region into a laboratory for state-building.

Subjects: History: World War I History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies

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Recognizing the Past in the Present

New Studies on Medicine before, during, and after the Holocaust

Hildebrandt, S., Offer, M., & Grodin, M. A. (eds)

This interdisciplinary collection assembles a chain of documentation on the critical role of medicine in realizing the policies of Hitler’s regime. It traces the historical legacies of National Socialist medicine from their roots in the racial theories of the 1920s, through their manifestation in the Nazi period, and on to legacies and continuities from the postwar years to the present.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History Jewish Studies

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Published December 2020
The Politics of Personal Information

Surveillance, Privacy, and Power in West Germany

Frohman, L.

This book gives a definitive account of the politics of personal information in West Germany during the 1970s and 1980s, highlighting the growing role of personal information as a tool for social governance.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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The Meanings of a Disaster

Chernobyl and Its Afterlives in Britain and France

Kalmbach, K.

Focusing on the cases of Great Britain and France, this innovative study explores the discourses and narratives that arose in the wake of the incident among both state and nonstate actors. It gives a thorough account of the strategies that shaped Western European responses to the disaster as well as nuclear policy up to the present day.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Environmental Studies (General) Media Studies

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Published November 2020
Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema

Hales, B. & Weinstein, V. (eds)

The film industry in the Weimar Republic was a major site for German-Jewish experience that provided a sphere for Jewish "outsiders" to shape mainstream culture. The essays in Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema offer new historical, theoretical, and methodological approaches to the significant involvement of Jewish people in Weimar cinema.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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Published November 2020
Writing the Great War

The Historiography of World War I from 1918 to the Present

Cornelissen, C. & Weinrich, A. (eds)

The history of the First World War has been continually written and rewritten, producing a rich historiography shaped by the social and cultural circumstances of its creation. Writing the Great War provides a groundbreaking survey of this vast body of work, assembling contributions on a variety of national and regional historiographies from some of the most prominent scholars in the field.

Subjects: History: World War I History: 20th Century to Present

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Published November 2020
Sounds German

Popular Music in Postwar Germany at the Crossroads of the National and Transnational

Fulk, K. A. (ed)

Sounds German surveys the sociopolitical impact of music on German national identity, gender and sexuality, and transnational cultural production and consumption, expanding on the ways in which sounds, technologies, media practices, and exchanges of popular music provide a unique glimpse into the cultural dynamics of postwar Germany.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies

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Published September 2020
Reconciliation Road

Willy Brandt, Ostpolitik and the Quest for European Peace

Schoenborn, B.

Based on extensive research in Brandt’s personal archives, additional studies in international archives, and interviews with contemporary witnesses, this book traces Brandt’s nearly lifelong efforts towards the full reintegration of a united Germany into the community of European countries.

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies

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Published August 2020
Globalizing Automobilism

Exuberance and the Emergence of Layered Mobility, 1900–1980

Mom, G.

Why has “car society” proven so durable, even in the face of mounting environmental and economic crises? In this follow-up to his magisterial Atlantic Automobilism, Gijs Mom traces the global spread of the automobile in the postwar era and investigates why adopting more sustainable forms of mobility has proven so difficult.

Subjects: Transport Studies History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Mobility Studies

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Published July 2020
Working in Greece and Turkey

A Comparative Labour History from Empires to Nation-States, 1840–1940

Papastefanaki, L. & Kabadayı, M. E. (eds)

The studies in Working in Greece and Turkey provide an overdue exploration of labour history on both sides of the Aegean, before as well as after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Deploying the approaches of global labour history as a framework, this volume presents transnational, transcontinental, and diachronic comparisons that illuminate the shared history of Greece and Turkey.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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Published July 2020
Modern Lusts

Ernest Borneman: Jazz Critic, Filmmaker, Sexologist

Siegfried, D.

Detlef Siegfried’s long-awaited English translation chronicles Ernest Borneman’s journey from his days as a young Jewish Communist in Berlin to his ventures in England and Canada, and ultimately, to his endeavors as the most prominent sexologist spearheading the sexual revolution in West Germany and Austria in the twentieth century.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Film and Television Studies Media Studies

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Published June 2020
Resisting Persecution

Jews and Their Petitions during the Holocaust

Pegelow Kaplan, T. & Gruner, W. (eds)

This volume offers the first extensive analysis of entreaties from persecuted Jews in the Nazi era, demonstrating their largely unappreciated value as a historical source and as an attempt to reclaim agency in increasingly desperate political circumstances.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Jewish Studies Genocide History

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Published June 2020
Don't Need No Thought Control

Western Culture in East Germany and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Horten, G.

Don't Need No Thought Control explores the dynamic interplay between popular demands, intensifying economic crises, and cultural policy decisions during the Erich Honecker era in a comprehensive and comparative analysis.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies Cultural Studies (General) Film and Television Studies

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Published May 2020
Bureaucracy, Work and Violence

The Reich Ministry of Labour in Nazi Germany, 1933–1945

Nützenadel, A. (ed)

In Bureaucracy, Work and Violence, the Reich Ministry of Labor is for the first time systematically illuminated as the bureaucratic arm responsible for the implementation of the National Socialist work doctrine. Historians reveal through pioneering research that the classical administrative apparatuses were far more involved in the Nazi regime and its crimes than has long been suspected.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History

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Published April 2020
A Dramatic Reinvention

German Television and Moral Renewal after National Socialism, 1956–1970

Anderson, S.

A Dramatic Revinvention sheds new light on how Germans rebuilt their moral and intellectual world after the Nazi catastrophe. The book argues that television emerged as one of the most important mediums for presenting, discussing, and working through the question of how to re-moralize Germany.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Film and Television Studies Media Studies

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Published April 2020
Resettlers and Survivors

Bukovina and the Politics of Belonging in West Germany and Israel, 1945–1989

Fisher, G.

Resettlers and Survivors focuses on two groups of Bukovinians—ethnic Germans and German-speaking Jews—who navigated dramatically changed political and social circumstances in 1945. This study gives a nuanced account of how they dealt with the difficult legacies of World War II, while exploring Bukovina’s significance for them as both a geographical location and a “place of memory.”

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Jewish Studies Refugee and Migration Studies Memory Studies

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Published April 2020
Revisiting Austria

Tourism, Space, and National Identity, 1945 to the Present

Graml, G.

Revisiting Austria draws on a rich selection of films, marketing materials, literature, and first-person accounts to explore the ways in which tourism has shaped both international and domestic perceptions of Austrian identity even as it has failed to confront the nation’s often violent and troubled history.

Subjects: Travel and Tourism History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies

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Published March 2020
Not Even Past

How the United States Ends Wars

Fitzgerald, D., Ryan, D., & Thompson, J. M. (eds)

This volume brings together international experts on American history and foreign affairs to assess the cumulative impact of the United States’ efforts to end wars. It offers essential perspectives on both the Cold War and post-9/11 eras and demonstrates just how high the stakes are as the US confronts the possibility of war without end.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies History: 20th Century to Present History (General)

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Published March 2020
Postwar Soldiers

Historical Controversies and West German Democratization, 1945–1955

Echternkamp, J.

In Postwar Soldiers, Jörg Echternkamp analyzes three themes in the early history of West Germany: interpretations of the war during its conclusion and the occupation period; military veteran communities’ self-perceptions; and the public rehabilitation of the image of the German soldier.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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Published February 2020
Comrades in Arms

Military Masculinities in East German Culture

Smith, T.

Without question, the East German National People’s Army sought to exemplify traditional masculine ideals of stoicism, sacrifice, and physical courage. Yet depictions of the military in East German film and literature were far more nuanced and ambivalent. Comrades in Arms shows how cultural works have portrayed violence, vulnerability, military theatricality, and a range of masculinities.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality History: 20th Century to Present

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Published February 2020
Velvet Retro

Postsocialist Nostalgia and the Politics of Heroism in Czech Popular Culture

Pehe, V.

This innovative study develops the concept of “retro” to describe the nuanced and ironic depiction of the past as seen in Czech popular culture. It locates a distinctively retro aesthetic in Czech literature, film, and other cultural forms, enriching our understanding of not only the nation’s memory culture, but also the ways in which popular culture can structure collective memory.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present Film and Television Studies Memory Studies

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Published February 2020
Colonial Seeds in African Soil

A Critical History of Forest Conservation in Sierra Leone

Munro, P.

Drawing upon the fields of environmental history and political ecology, Colonial Seeds in African Soil unravels the complex forest conservation history of Sierra Leone during the 20th century. It grounds a broader trans-national history of Empire Forestry with a case study focused on Sierra Leone, examining how colonial ideas shaped forest conservation in West Africa.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Colonial History History: 20th Century to Present

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Published February 2020
Beyond Posthumanism

The German Humanist Tradition and the Future of the Humanities

Mathäs, A.

Against the background of debates about a revival of humanist values, this volume seeks to recast the question of the viability of the humanities by analyzing their long-disputed premises in German literature and philosophy. It emphasizes the importance of the humanities’ original mission of establishing a universal ethics by contextualizing disciplinary knowledge and making human experiences, bodily sensations, and emotions comprehensible through literary imagination.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Educational Studies

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Published December 2019
Teaching Modernization

Spanish and Latin American Educational Reform in the Cold War

Martín García, Ó. J. & Gómez-Escalonilla, L. D. (eds)

Amid the Cold War and global student protests, transnational forces significantly shaped the modernization of educational systems in Spain and Latin America during the 1960s and 1970s. Each study sheds new light on the transnational circulation of modernization discourses, practices, and ideology within the sphere of education.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Educational Studies

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Published December 2019
A Human Garden

French Policy and the Transatlantic Legacies of Eugenic Experimentation

Rosental, P.-A.

A Human Garden explains the longevity of the Ungemach Gardens, an experimental eugenic city that survived on the outskirts of Strasbourg from the 1920s to the 1980s. He reveals the inheritance of eugenics, examining ways in which eugenics have come to influence social, health, and educational policymaking in the post-war era.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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Published November 2019
Fame Amid the Ruins

Italian Film Stardom in the Age of Neorealism

Gundle, S.

Italian cinema gave rise to some of the best-known films of the postwar years, and its stars were beloved by both the public and producers. This book explores the many conflicts over stars and stardom that arose during Italian cinema’s postwar rebirth, shedding new light on the close relationship forged between cinema and society.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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Published October 2019
Germany On Their Minds

German Jewish Refugees in the United States and Their Relationships with Germany, 1938–1988

Schenderlein, A. C.

Throughout the 1930s and early 1940s, the United States granted asylum to approximately ninety thousand German Jews fleeing the horrors of the Third Reich. Author Anne C. Schenderlein gives a fascinating account of these entangled histories on both sides of the Atlantic and demonstrates the remarkable extent to which German Jewish refugees helped shape the course of West German democratization.

Subjects: Jewish Studies Refugee and Migration Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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Published October 2019
Cinema of Collaboration

DEFA Coproductions and International Exchange in Cold War Europe

Ivanova, M.

Almost from their very inception, European cinemas frequently undertook collaborative ventures in an attempt to cultivate a transnational “Film-Europe.” And despite the significant obstacles that the East/West divide presented to achieving that ideal, in the postwar era it was DEFA, the state cinema of the newly created East Germany, that emerged as one of the primary sites where these practices persisted.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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Published September 2019
Constructing Industrial Pasts

Heritage, Historical Culture and Identity in Regions Undergoing Structural Economic Transformation

Berger, S. (ed)

The contributions in this volume demonstrate that 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 as well as straightforward apologias for a past that was often full of pain, exploitation and struggle.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Heritage Studies

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Published September 2019
Entangled Entertainers

Jews and Popular Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna

Hödl, K.

Viennese popular culture at the turn of the twentieth century was shaped jointly by Jews and non-Jews alike, though their relationship was not immune to bouts of anti-Semitism. The case studies in this book provide new findings in understanding what it meant to be Jewish among artists, performers and impresarios at the turn of the twentieth century.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

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Published September 2019
A Sad Fiasco

Colonial Concentration Camps in Southern Africa, 1900–1908

Kreienbaum, J.

Comparative studies on concentration camps have tended to neglect the African colonial experience at the turn of the twentieth century. A Sad Fiasco delves deeper into the daily lives led in the colonial concentration camps in southern Africa and the motives behind the mass extinction of thousands of internees.

Subjects: Genocide History Colonial History History: 20th Century to Present

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Published August 2019
Perestroika and the Party

National and Transnational Perspectives on European Communist Parties in the Era of Soviet Reform

Di Palma, F. (ed)

While studies of the impact of Gorbachev-era reforms have overwhelmingly focused on the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc nations, this ambitious collection assesses their historical trajectories on both sides of the Iron Curtain. It moves beyond domestic politics and narrowly defined foreign relations to examine the reforms’ collective impact.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published August 2019
Hazardous Chemicals

Agents of Risk and Change, 1800-2000

Homburg, E. & Vaupel, E. (eds)

Covering a host of both notorious and little-known substances, 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 over the past two hundred years.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present

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Published July 2019
Ambiguous Transitions

Gender, the State, and Everyday Life in Socialist and Postsocialist Romania

Massino, J.

Ambiguous Transitions provides an accessible, intimate exploration of gender and citizenship in socialist Romania. Author Jill M. Massino connects women’s everyday lives to larger political, economic, and social processes, challenging conventional understandings of life in socialist Romania as uniformly oppressive.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Published July 2019
Twilight of the Merkel Era

Power and Politics in Germany after the 2017 Bundestag Election

Langenbacher, E. (ed)

Elections always have consequences, but the 2017 Bundestag election in Germany proved particularly consequential. With political upheaval across the globe—notably in Britain and the USA—it was vital to European and global order that Germany remain stable.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published July 2019
France and the German Question, 1945–1990

Bozo, F. & Wenkel, C. (eds)

This book revisits France’s attitude towards the German question as it existed and evolved during the post-World War Two and the Cold War eras in order to shed light on previously neglected aspect of the history of the Cold War, of Germany, and of Europe in the second half of the twentieth century.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published July 2019
Planning for the Planet

Environmental Expertise and the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, 1960–1980

Schleper, S.

In the 1960s and 1970s, rapidly growing environmental awareness and concern not only led to widespread calls for new policies, but also created unprecedented demand for ecological expertise by the likes of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. This book explores how conservation experts confronted new challenges tied to rival scientific approaches, Cold War politics, decolonization, and more.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present

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Published July 2019
Peace at All Costs

Catholic Intellectuals, Journalists, and Media in Postwar Polish–German Reconciliation

Frieberg, A. E.

Peace at All Costs reconsiders postwar Polish-German relations as an interdisciplinary case study of reconciliation and follows an influential network of non-state peace activists, major players in print and audiovisual media, as they attempted to establish dialogue in the 1950s and 1960s.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies Media Studies

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Published June 2019
The Configuration of the Spanish Public Sphere

From the Enlightenment to the Indignados

Jiménez Torres, D. & Villamediana González, L. (eds)

This volume brings together leading scholars in Spanish and Latin American studies to explore the concept of the Spanish “public sphere” and its relation to society and political power over time. It offers a long-term, panoramic view—spanning from the Enlightenment to current developments in the EU—on one of the most urgent issues for contemporary European societies.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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Published June 2019
German Division as Shared Experience

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Postwar Everyday

Carter, E., Palmowski, J., & Schreiter, K. (eds)

German Division as Shared Experience shows the extent to which the story of East and West Germany was one of mutual entanglement after 1945. By subsuming political considerations into the historical domain of the social and cultural, each of the innovative studies presented here analyzes moments of connection at the level of lived experience across the East-West divide.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

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Published May 2019
One Sound, Two Worlds

The Blues in a Divided Germany, 1945-1990

Rauhut, M.

Through extensive archival research and conversations with renowned publicists, musicians and insiders, author Michael Rauhut examines more than fifty texts to give an in-depth overview of the historical development of blues music in East and West Germany during the postwar period.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Performance Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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Published May 2019
Gustav Stresemann

The Crossover Artist

Pohl, K. H.

Gustav Stresemann has become a steadfast icon and key figure in understanding contemporary German and European history. Renowned historian Karl Heinrich Pohl draws on new archival material and extensive research to supplement our previous knowledge of Stresmann’s life and work.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present History (General)

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Published May 2019
José Antonio Primo de Rivera

The Reality and Myth of a Spanish Fascist Leader

Thomàs, J. M.

A leading figure in the Spanish Civil War, José Antonio Primo de Rivera was elevated to martyr status following his death and the victory of the Falangists. In this long-awaited translation, Joan Maria Thomàs cuts through the mythos surrounding Primo de Rivera’s life to give a measured, exhaustively researched study of his personality, beliefs, and political activity.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published April 2019
Concentrationary Art

Jean Cayrol, the Lazarean and the Everyday in Post-war Film, Literature, Music and the Visual Arts

Pollock, G. & Silverman, M. (eds)

The seminal work of Jean Cayrol has experienced a revival in the French-speaking world since his death in 2005. Concentrationary Art represents the first translation into English of Cayrol’s two essays on concentrationary art, as well as the first book-length study of his theory.

Subjects: Literary Studies Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies

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Published April 2019
Luso-Tropicalism and Its Discontents

The Making and Unmaking of Racial Exceptionalism

Anderson, W., Roque, R., & Ventura Santos, R. (eds)

The Portuguese-speaking Global South, especially Brazil, often envisions itself as exceptional in its racial conceptions and politics. Luso-Tropicalism and Its Discontents reassesses Gilberto Freyre’s influential claims that Portuguese colonialism produced what came to be called “racial democracy,” and explores racialization beyond the common trope of “race-mixing.”

Subjects: Colonial History History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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Published April 2019
Planning Labour

Time and the Foundations of Industrial Socialism in Romania

Cucu, A.-S.

Planning Labour explores the early socialist industrialization and the implementation of central economic planning in Romania between 1945 and 1955. Centered on the city of Cluj, an ethnically mixed city in the northwestern part of Romania, this volume examines the deeply contradictory process required for achieving socialist accumulation.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published April 2019
Gendering Post-1945 German History

Entanglements

Hagemann, K., & Harsch, D., & Brühöfner, F. (eds)

Gendering Post-1945 German History: Entanglements offers new and critical insight into the state of the research on post-war German history from a gender perspective. Using the concept of “entanglement,” this volume investigates the ways in which East and West German gender relations were socially and politically intertwined.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

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Published March 2019
Beyond the Border

Young Minorities in the Danish-German Borderlands, 1955-1971

Wung-Sung, T. H.

Beyond the Border reconstructs the experiences of minority youths living in the Danish-German borderlands from the 1950s to the 1970s. Drawing on a remarkable variety of archival and oral sources, author Tobias Haimin Wung-Sung provides a rich and fine-grained analysis that encompasses political issues from the NATO alliance and European integration to everyday life and popular culture.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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Published March 2019
Negotiating the Secular and the Religious in the German Empire

Transnational Approaches

Habermas, R. (ed)

Negotiating the Secular and the Religious in the German Empire sheds light on the multitude of worldviews, belief systems, and rituals that defined the borders between the secular and the religious in the German imperial era.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

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Published March 2019
Rampart Nations

Bulwark Myths of East European Multiconfessional Societies in the Age of Nationalism

Berezhnaya, L. & Hein-Kircher, H. (eds)

Rampart Nations delves deeper into the bulwark (antemurale) myth and uncovers the stories that have helped to spread it within Eastern Europe. Through perspectives that range from Eastern European art history to theology, with a concentration on the nexus of political, social, and religious history, this volume explores historical narratives that have shaped contemporary Eastern European national identities.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

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Published March 2019
The Indoctrination of the Wehrmacht

Nazi Ideology and the War Crimes of the German Military

Sait, B.

Far from the image of an apolitical, “clean” Wehrmacht that persists in popular memory, German soldiers regularly cooperated with organizations like the SS in the abuse and murder of countless individuals. This in-depth study reveals that military indoctrination was but one piece of the larger effort at the socialization of young men during the Nazi era.

Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present

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Screening Art

Modernist Aesthetics and the Socialist Imaginary in East German Cinema

Allan, S.

Screening Art represents the first full-length study of films about art and artists produced by the state-owned Eastern German film studio DEFA. It investigates the essential role that these “art films” played in the development of new paradigms of socialist art in post-war Europe.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

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Published January 2019
The Changing Meanings of the Welfare State

Histories of a Key Concept in the Nordic Countries

Edling, N. (ed)

The Nordic concept of “the welfare state” is a well-worn analytical idea that has yet to receive much exploration beyond its postwar emergence. This volume chronicles “the welfare state” from its historical origins to its interpretations, values, and challenges over time in Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Iceland.

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

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Published December 2018
Humanitarianism and Media

1900 to the Present

Paulmann, J. (ed)

Humanitarianism & Media brings together scholars from a variety of backgrounds to offer an unprecedented exploration of the history behind humanitarian efforts and the media, spanning from the late nineteenth century to the present day.

Subjects: Media Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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Published December 2018
Germany and the Middle East

From Kaiser Wilhelm II to Angela Merkel

Steininger, R.

For more than a hundred years, persistent conflict in the Middle East has led global superpowers like Germany to become involved. Germany and the Middle East encounters in detail how the nation came to accept its historical responsibility towards newer states in the Middle East, and how major developments of the twentieth century shaped its approach to the region.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Law, History, and Justice

Debating German State Crimes in the Long Twentieth Century

Weinke, A.

Law, History, and Justice investigates the changing nature of international humanitarian law and explores the entanglements between historical experience, historiography, and law and (moral) politics by focusing on the effects of international law violations during the First World War, the National Socialist mass crimes, the Holocaust, as well as the systematic wrongdoings of the GDR.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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Published November 2018
Probing the Limits of Categorization

The Bystander in Holocaust History

Morina, C. & Thijs, K. (eds)

This volume discusses a number of case studies addressing the history of bystanding during and after the Nazi era. Combining historiographical, conceptual and empirical contributions, Probing the Limits of Categorization explores the roles and experiences of individuals caught up in the dynamics of state-sponsored genocidal violence.

Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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Published November 2018
Embers of Empire

Continuity and Rupture in the Habsburg Successor States after 1918

Miller, P. & Morelon, C. (eds)

The end of World War I and the collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy radically reshaped the political structures and national identity of East-Central Europe. Embers of Empire focuses on this complex and disruptive transition and sheds new light on the efficacity of imperial institutions, as well as the sources for instability in the newly formed nations.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published November 2018
Beyond Inclusion and Exclusion

Jewish Experiences of the First World War in Central Europe

Crouthamel, J., Geheran, M., Grady, T., & Köhne, J. B. (eds)

Beyond Inclusion and Exclusion recaptures the multifariousness of Central European Jewish life through the experiences of both soldiers and civilians during World War I. This collection explores rare sources and employs novel interdisciplinary methods to illuminate four interconnected themes: minorities and the meaning of military service, Jewish-Gentile relations, the cultural legacy of the war, and memory politics.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War I History: 20th Century to Present

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Published November 2018
From Weimar to Hitler

Studies in the Dissolution of the Weimar Republic and the Establishment of the Third Reich, 1932-1934

Beck, H. & Jones, L. E. (eds)

From Weimar to Hitler examines the crisis of Weimar democracy, the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship, and the Nazi consolidation of power, drawing from multiple perspectives to discover whether the transition from Weimar to Hitler was historically predetermined or the product of human miscalculation and intent.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published November 2018
Explorations and Entanglements

Germans in Pacific Worlds from the Early Modern Period to World War I

Berghoff, H., Biess, F., & Strasser, U. (eds)

Explorations and Entanglements reconstructs the German elements in the overlapping cultural circuits and complex oceanic transits of the “Pacific Worlds.” It concentrates on the pre-1914 period and encompasses scientific, cultural, religious and commercial exchanges. It opens a gate to a fascinating and hitherto much neglected arena of transnational encounters.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Colonial History

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Published November 2018
The CSCE and the End of the Cold War

Diplomacy, Societies and Human Rights, 1972-1990

Badalassi, N. & Snyder, S. B. (eds)

Since its inception over forty years ago, the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe has been met with political and historical controversies. While it’s known today as a significant contributor to the end of the Cold War, The CSCE and the End of the Cold War revisits some of the most fascinating questions in Cold War historiography.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies

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Ice and Snow in the Cold War

Histories of Extreme Climatic Environments

Herzberg, J., Kehrt, C., & Torma, F. (eds)

This fascinating volume demonstrates that regions such as Alaska, the polar landscapes, and the cold areas of the Soviet periphery were of no small importance during the Cold War. Through histories of these extremely cold environments, this volume makes a novel intervention in Cold War historiography, one whose global and transnational approach undermines the simple opposition of “East” and “West.”

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Environmental Studies (General)

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Published October 2018
The Art of Resistance

Cultural Protest against the Austrian Far Right in the Early Twenty-First Century

Fiddler, A.

The 1999 Austrian election results produced an uprising against a turn to the political right. The Art of Resistance examines artworks created in responses to the Freedom Party of Austria and analyses the styles and strategies deployed by a large range of artists who clashed against increased normalization of far-right thinking.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

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Published October 2018
Polish Cinema

A History

Haltof, M.

This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Marek Haltof’s seminal survey takes stock of dramatic shifts in Polish society and to provide an essential account of the nation’s cinema from the nineteenth century to today. It covers such renowned figures as Kieślowski and Wajda along with vastly expanded coverage of documentaries, animation, and television.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present

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Published October 2018
The Politics of Authenticity

Countercultures and Radical Movements across the Iron Curtain, 1968-1989

Häberlen, J. C., Keck-Szajbel, M., & Mahoney, K. (eds)

The Politics of Authentic Subjectivity explores how the politics of authenticity manifested itself among Italian leftists, East German lesbian activists, and punks on both sides of the Iron Curtain. This volume shows not only how authenticity came to define a variety of social contexts, but also how it helped to lay the groundwork for the neoliberalism of a subsequent era.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology History: 20th Century to Present

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Published October 2018
The Decisionist Imagination

Sovereignty, Social Science and Democracy in the 20th Century

Bessner, D. & Guilhot, N. (eds)

The Decisionist Imagination explores the relationship between the key concept of “decisionism,” as it emerged from 1920s political theory, and the postwar development of formal decision theory when sovereign decision-making became an object of scientific inquiry in a new cultural, institutional, and international landscape.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published September 2018
Screened Encounters

The Leipzig Documentary Film Festival, 1955-1990

Moine, C.

Established in 1955, the Leipzig Film Festival’s location in the GDR deeply implicated it in the cultural and political competition between East and West Germany. Screened Encounters offers a comprehensive study of the festival’s history, as well as its influence on international relations during the Cold War.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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Published September 2018
Gulag Memories

The Rediscovery and Commemoration of Russia's Repressive Past

Bogumił, Z.

Gulag Memories explores the impact of the Gulag on collective memory as it applies to the language of commemoration in Russia, focusing on four regions particularly affected by the Gulag: Solovetsky Islands, the Komi Republic, the Perm region, and Kolyma.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies

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Published September 2018
A History Shared and Divided

East and West Germany since the 1970s

Bösch, F. (ed)

Divided History uniquely explores how East and West Germany responded to the new challenges and crises of the 1970s, and reunification. Topics range from political, labor, and business issues to migration and environmental issues, showing how the two German states remained inextricably connected in the 1970s and 1980s.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published August 2018
Nation Branding in Modern History

Viktorin, C., Gienow-Hecht, J. C. E., Estner, A., & Will, M. K. (eds)

Branding in Modern History draws from a variety of international case studies, ranging from Austria and Switzerland to Chile, the US, China, Spain, Suriname, and Poland to investigate the nexus between cultural marketing, self-representation and political power by looking at current nation branding campaigns as well as its historical predecessors.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Political and Economic Anthropology Media Studies

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Published June 2018
Democracy in Modern Europe

A Conceptual History

Kurunmäki, J., Nevers, J., & te Velde, H. (eds)

As one of the most influential ideas in modern European history, democracy has reshaped not only the landscape of government, but also fundamental social and political thought on a global level. Democracy in Modern Europe covers the history of democracy in modern Europe.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present

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Published June 2018
History and Belonging

Representations of the Past in Contemporary European Politics

Berger, S. & Tekin, C. (eds)

One of the EU’s primary strategies in European unification has been to construct a common representation of European history, yet the question remains: is there an uncontested history of Europe? History and Belonging addresses this question along with many others related to the EU’s post-national identity policies.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published June 2018
Frontiers of Civil Society

Government and Hegemony in Serbia

Mikuš, M.

Frontiers of Civil Society is a historical anthropological analysis of the roles of ‘civil society’ in Serbia’s postsocialist and postauthoritarian transformation, focusing mainly on a set of interventions through which various civil society forces supported neoliberalization and transnational integration as part of a hegemonic project of social transformation after the rule of Slobodan Milošević.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology History: 20th Century to Present

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Published May 2018
Memorializing the GDR

Monuments and Memory after 1989

Saunders, A.

Since unification, eastern Germany has witnessed a rapidly changing memorial landscape. Memorializing the GDR provides the first in-depth study of this key topic, investigating the individuals and groups involved in the creation or destruction of memorials while addressing the subject’s complex aesthetic, political, and historical dimensions.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Urban Studies Heritage Studies

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Published May 2018
Taking on Technocracy

Nuclear Power in Germany, 1945 to the Present

Augustine, D. L.

Taking on Technocracy addresses changing attitudes towards nuclear energy in the age of global warming. The German decision to abandon nuclear power is placed in a historical context, including popularization of science, new social movements, media, policing, gender, and the history of emotions.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Environmental Studies (General)

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Published April 2018
Basic and Applied Research

The Language of Science Policy in the Twentieth Century

Kaldewey, D. & Schauz, D. (eds)

Basic and Applied Research traces the conceptual history of the distinction between basic and applied research to its origins in nineteenth-century Europe, explores its role in different ideological contexts after World War II, and ultimately provides valuable insights into present-day EU research policy.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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Published April 2018
The Virago Story

Assessing the Impact of a Feminist Publishing Phenomenon

Riley, C.

The Virago Story provides a comprehensive history of classic feminist publisher Virago, along with an up-to-date analysis of the four waves of feminism, new strands of feminist analysis and praxis, and publishing trends.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present

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Published April 2018
Oil and Sovereignty

Petro-Knowledge and Energy Policy in the United States and Western Europe in the 1970s

Graf, R.

Oil and Sovereignty explores the national and international strategies formulated to deal with the first oil crises in 1973-1974, as steadily increasing prices and reduced production raised the specter of an uncertain future for many.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published February 2018
A Living Past

Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America

Soluri, J., Leal, C., & Pádua, J. A. (eds)

Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is no longer in its infancy. Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past gives a transnational and thematically diverse survey of historical developments since the nineteenth century.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present

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Published January 2018
The Witness as Object

Video Testimony in Memorial Museums

Jong, S. de

Today more than ever before, the historical witness is now a “museum object” in the form of video interviews. With a focus on Holocaust museums, this study scrutinizes this new global phenomenon of the “musealisation” of testimony, exploring the processes, prerequisites, and consequences of video testimonies as exhibits.

Subjects: Museum Studies History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies Memory Studies

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Published January 2018
Communist Parties Revisited

Sociocultural Approaches to Party Rule in the Soviet Bloc, 1956-1991

Bergien, R. & Gieseke, J. (eds)

Drawing from perspectives from within the everyday life of basic organizations and the practices of the party apparatuses, Communist Parties Revisited sheds light on the inner workings the Eastern Bloc, and the effects of state socialist policy on a micro historical level.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Parallel Lives Revisited

Mediterranean Guest Workers and their Families at Work and in the Neighbourhood, 1960-1980

Bock, J. De

In 2001, the term ‘parallel lives’ was coined in the UK to describe the relationship between immigrants and white Britons. Yet segregation among postwar immigrants was not new. Parallel Lives Revisited explores the lives of immigrants from six Mediterranean countries in the Belgian city of Ghent, concentrating on their experiences at the workplace and neighbourhood.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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Published January 2018
The Wars of Yesterday

The Balkan Wars and the Emergence of Modern Military Conflict, 1912-13

Boeckh, K. & Rutar, S. (eds)

Together comprising one of the first modern conflicts of the twentieth century, the Balkan Wars (1912–13) served as precursors of the bloody wars to follow. This volume offers a fascinating exploration of the wars’ history, with a central focus on the experiences of both combatants and civilians.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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The Ethics of Seeing

Photography and Twentieth-Century German History

Evans, J., Betts P., & Hoffmann, S.-L. (eds)

The Ethics of Seeing brings together an international group of scholars to explore the complex relationship between the visual and the historic in German history. These revealing case studies illustrate photography’s multilayered role as a new form of representation, a means to subjective experience, and a fresh mode of narrating the past.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies

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Published December 2017
Rethinking Holocaust Justice

Essays across Disciplines

Goda, N. J. W. (ed)

In the past two decades, the subject of post-Holocaust justice has experienced a surge of interest among historians and legal scholars. Rethinking Holocaust Justice offers a multifaceted approach to post-Holocaust justice, bringing together leading scholars from a variety of disciplines to explore the complexity of these issues.

Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present Jewish Studies

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Published November 2017
Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin

Bauer, K. & Hosek, J. R. (eds)

Transformed by the Wall's opening in 1989 and the concomitant shift in global relations of power, Berlin continues to shape historical and contemporary images of Germanness. This interdisciplinary anthology explores Berlin's unique cultural topographies in literature, film, architecture, urban planning, and city marketing.

Subjects: Urban Studies Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present

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Published November 2017
Subjects, Citizens, and Others

Administering Ethnic Heterogeneity in the British and Habsburg Empires, 1867-1918

Gammerl, B.

Exploring racism, migration, and citizenship, Subjects, Citizens and Others offers a pioneering analysis of how the British and the Austro-Hungarian Empire governed their ethnically diverse populations. Author Benno Gammerl rejects common assumptions about ethnic exclusivity in Eastern and Western Europe, analyzing the legal and political conditions that help to foster ethnic heterogeneity.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Colonial History History: 20th Century to Present

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Published October 2017
The Persistence of Race

Continuity and Change in Germany from the Wilhelmine Empire to National Socialism

Day, L. & Haag, O. (eds)

In histories of the Third Reich, race is a ubiquitous topic, but German society produced a much more complex variety of racial representations over the first part of the twentieth century. This volume explores the hateful depictions of the Nazi era alongside Wilhelmine images of indigenous peoples, revealing race as on object of fascination for Germans across several eras.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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From Eastern Bloc to European Union

Comparative Processes of Transformation since 1990

Heydemann, G. & Vodička, K. (eds)

This volume assembles detailed, empirically grounded studies of eleven former Soviet states and current EU members. Each chapter analyzes the political, economic, and social transformation processes that have taken place in a given nation, identifying structural similarities and assessing outcomes compared to one another as well as the rest of Europe.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published October 2017
Global Exchanges

Scholarships and Transnational Circulations in the Modern World

Tournès, L. & Scott-Smith, G. (eds)

Exchanges between different cultures and institutions of learning have taken place for centuries, yet formal exchange programs did not exist until the 20th century. The essays in Global Exchanges examine the most important scholarship programs, exploring the essential contributions of organized exchange.

Subjects: Mobility Studies History: 20th Century to Present Educational Studies

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Published October 2017
Modern Germany in Transatlantic Perspective

Meng, M. & Seipp, A. R. (eds)

Modern Germany in Transatlantic Perspective celebrates the extraordinary life and scholarly career of Konrad H. Jarausch, whose monumental work as a teacher, mentor, and builder of scholarly institutions, helped to inspire conversations about everything from the rise of Nazism to the history of the two Germanys.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: World War II

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Published October 2017
Eastern Europe Unmapped

Beyond Borders and Peripheries

Kacandes, I. & Komska, Y. (eds)

Arguably more than any other world regions, the area known as Eastern Europe has been defined by its location on the map. Rather than expound on borders and neighbors, Eastern Europe Unmapped raises questions about the meaning and relevance of the area’s non-contiguous, frequently global or extraterritorial, entanglements.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

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Published October 2017
Silenced Communities

Legacies of Militarization and Militarism in a Rural Guatemalan Town

Esparza, M.

Silenced Communities offers an ethnographic account of the failed demilitarization of the rural militia in the town of Santo Tomás Chichicastenango following the Guatemalan Civil War. Author Marcia Esparza explores how legacies of grassroots militarization affect indigenous communities exploited by the internal colonialism prevalent in Latin American societies.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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Published September 2017
Making Nordic Historiography

Connections, Tensions and Methodology, 1850-1970

Haapala, P., Jalava, M., & Larsson, S. (eds)

Is there a “Nordic history”? If so, what are its origins, its scope, and its defining features? In this definitive volume, scholars from all five Nordic nations tackle a notoriously problematic historical concept. Each contribution takes a deliberately transnational approach while grounding itself in careful research, yielding rich, nuanced perspectives on shifting and contested historical terrain.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present

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Published September 2017
Compensation in Practice

The Foundation 'Remembrance, Responsibility and Future' and the Legacy of Forced Labour during the Third Reich

Goschler, C. (ed)

The German Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” is one of the largest transitional justice initiatives in history. This volume provides an unparalleled look at its creation, operations, and future prospects, bringing together the work of historians who were granted unrestricted access to its records, and offering nuanced, clear-eyed analysis of its successes and missteps.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: World War II

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Published September 2017
Laborers and Enslaved Workers

Experiences in Common in the Making of Rio de Janeiro's Working Class, 1850-1920

Badaró Mattos, M.

In the nineteenth century, Rio de Janeiro was not only home to the largest population of enslaved laborers in the Americas, but it was also the site of an incipient working-class consciousness across seemingly distinct social categories. This volume analyzes the diverse labor arrangements and associative life of Rio’s working class, from which emerged the strategies that workers free and unfree pursued against oppression.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published September 2017
Contesting Deregulation

Debates, Practices and Developments in the West since the 1970s

Andresen, K. and Müller, S. (eds)

Across thirteen case studies, this volume investigates the 1970s/80s “deregulatory moment” from a variety of historical perspectives, including transnational, comparative, pan-European, and national approaches. Collectively, they challenge an interpretive framework that treats individual decades in isolation and ignores broader trends that extend to the end of the Second World War.

Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology History: 20th Century to Present

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Published August 2017
The Nanking Atrocity, 1937-1938

Complicating the Picture

Wakabayashi, B. T. (ed)

First published in 2007, The Nanking Atrocity remains an essential resource for understanding the massacre. This second edition includes an extensive new introduction reflecting on the historiographical developments of the last decade, making this even more relevant as we approach the 80th anniversary of the Nanking massacre.

Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present

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Published July 2017
Ruptures in the Everyday

Views of Modern Germany from the Ground

Bergerson, A. S. & Schmieding, L.

Throughout the twentieth century, Germans underwent constant disruptions in their lives, and many struggled to integrate their experiences into coherent narratives. Ruptures in the Everyday brings together twenty-six interdisciplinary researchers in an innovative, collectively authored work of scholarship that investigates Alltag—everyday life—through such fragmentary experiences.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published July 2017
The Women's Liberation Movement

Impacts and Outcomes

Schulz, K. (ed)

This collection represents the first systematic reflection on the impact and outcomes of the women’s liberation movement in different areas and topics of Western societies. It systematically investigates movement outcomes in one country in the light of a reflective social movement theory and compares them to developments in other countries.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History: 20th Century to Present

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Published July 2017
Managing Ambiguity

How Clientelism, Citizenship, and Power Shape Personhood in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Brković, Č.

Why do people turn to personal connections to get things done? Challenging widespread views of favors as means of survival in transitioning contexts, this volume demonstrates that these contemporary globalized forms of flexible governance are not contradictory to one another, but often mutually constitutive.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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Published June 2017
Poland Daily

Economy, Work, Consumption and Social Class in Polish Cinema

Mazierska, E.

Polish cinema has inescapably been shaped by the nation’s succession of different economic and ideological regimes over the last century. This volume is the first to analyze the entirety of the nation’s film history—from independence in 1918 to today—through the lenses of political economy and social class.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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Published June 2017
Space and Spatiality in Modern German-Jewish History

Lässig, S. & Rürup, M. (eds)

This wide-ranging volume revisits both literal and metaphorical spaces in modern German history, working from an expansive concept of “the spatial” to examine the ways in which Jewishness has been attributed to them, and what the implications have been in different eras and social contexts.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century

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Published May 2017
Fascism without Borders

Transnational Connections and Cooperation between Movements and Regimes in Europe from 1918 to 1945

Bauerkämper, A. & Rossolińki-Liebe, G. (eds)

Despite its reputation for ultra-nationalism, Fascism understood itself as a transnational political movement. Through a series of fascinating case studies, this expansive collection examines fascism’s transational dimension, from the movements inspired by the early example of Fascist Italy to the international antifascist organizations that emerged in subsequent years.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published May 2017
Hairy Hippies and Bloody Butchers

The Greenpeace Anti-Whaling Campaign in Norway

Riese, J.

This book provides an inside look at Greenpeace’s decades-long campaign against the Norwegian whaling industry. Combining historical narrative with sophisticated systems-theory analysis, it examines the organization’s failure to end Norwegian whaling, providing valuable lessons for other protest movements.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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Published May 2017
Let Them Not Return

Sayfo – The Genocide Against the Assyrian, Syriac, and Chaldean Christians in the Ottoman Empire

Gaunt, D., Atto, N., & Barthoma, S. O. (eds)

While the Armenian genocide is today widely recognized, the broader context of Ottoman violence against minority groups—including the indigenous, largely Christian Assyrians—are less well known. This volume is the first scholarly edited collection focused on the Assyrian genocide, or “sayfo.”

Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present

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Published May 2017
Sisters in Arms

Militant Feminisms in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1968

Karcher, K.

Drawing on a wealth of new source material, Sisters in Arms gives a bracing account of how radical feminism was enacted by key German leftist organizations, such as the infamous Red Army Faction and June 2 Movement. These groups often diverged ideologically and tactically, but all demonstrated the potency of militant feminism within postwar protest movements.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

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Published May 2017
Between Empire and Continent

British Foreign Policy before the First World War

Rose, A.

Historians have commonly interpreted Britain’s attempts to break through older alliances of European states before World War I as a reaction to aggressive German foreign policy. This groundbreaking political history demonstrates that British strategy instead arose from the complex interplay of national, continental and imperial considerations.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: World War I

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Published April 2017
Driving Modernity

Technology, Experts, Politics, and Fascist Motorways, 1922-1943

Moraglio, M.

Driving Modernity recounts the history of the first Italian motorway, which—alongside railways and aviation—Italian authorities hoped would spread an ideology of technological nationalism. It explains how Italy ultimately failed to realize its mammoth infrastructural vision, addressing the political and social conditions that made a coherent plan of development impossible.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Mobility Studies Transport Studies

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Published April 2017
The Greek Exodus from Egypt

Diaspora Politics and Emigration, 1937-1962

Dalachanis, A.

This painstakingly researched book explains how Egypt’s once-robust Greek population dwindled to virtually nothing, beginning with the abolition of foreigners’ privileges in 1937 and culminating in the nationalist revolution of 1952. It reconstructs the delicate sociopolitical circumstances that Greeks had to navigate during this period, tracing the complex causes of demographic decline.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Refugee and Migration Studies

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Published February 2017
Genocide in the Ottoman Empire

Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks, 1913-1923

Shirinian, G. N. (ed)

From 1913 to 1923, the Ottoman Empire deported or killed staggering numbers of non-Turkish, non-Muslim citizens in an attempt to preserve “Turkey for the Turks,” setting a modern precedent for how a regime can commit genocide while largely escaping accountability. This definitive volume is the first to comprehensively examine the genocides of the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks in comparative fashion.

Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present

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Published February 2017
Metaphors of Spain

Representations of Spanish National Identity in the Twentieth Century

Moreno-Luzón, J. & Núñez Seixas, X. M. (eds)

Despite the undeniably political character of the history of Spanish nationalism, a cultural approach can also provide essential insights into the subject. Metaphors of Spain brings together leading historians to examine Spanish nationalism through its diverse and complementary cultural artifacts, from “formal” representations such as the flag to music, bullfighting, and other more diffuse examples.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published February 2017
Reluctant Skeptic

Siegfried Kracauer and the Crises of Weimar Culture

Craver, H. T.

Best remembered for investigations of film and other media, journalist and critic Siegfried Kracauer offered a seismographic reading of the Weimar-era confrontation between religion and secular modernity. This discerning study analyzes and contextualizes Kracauer’s early output, showing how he identified the quasi-theological roots of the era’s cultural ferment.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies

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International Organizations and Environmental Protection

Conservation and Globalization in the Twentieth Century

Kaiser, W. & Meyer, J.-H. (eds)

Environmental issues transcend national boundaries, and thus they have been a particular focus for international organizations for over a century. This volume is the first to comprehensively explore the environmental activities of regional bodies, professional communities, the United Nations, NGOs, and other international organizations during the twentieth century.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present

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Published December 2016
A Fragmented Landscape

Abortion Governance and Protest Logics in Europe

De Zordo, S., Mishtal, J., & Anton. J. (eds)

Since 1945, European states’ social policy landscapes have proven remarkably varied, especially when it comes to contentious issues such as abortion, which is governed by a wide range of policy regimes. This volume provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary survey of the struggles over abortion rights in Europe from the immediate postwar era to the present era.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology History: 20th Century to Present

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Different Germans, Many Germanies

New Transatlantic Perspectives

Jarausch, K. H., Wenzel, H., & Goihl, K. (eds)

For Anglo-American observers in particular, the legacies of two world wars still powerfully define twentieth-century German history. This volume collects insightful studies from leading scholars that suggest new ways for understanding Germany from a transatlantic perspective, arguing above all for a more nuanced, self-reflective, and holistic German Studies.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published November 2016
The Making of the Greek Genocide

Contested Memories of the Ottoman Greek Catastrophe

Sjöberg, E.

After World War I, over one million Ottoman Greeks were expelled from Turkey, resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths. This study analyzes the fight for international recognition of the Greek genocide narrative, showing how its memory developed as a cultural trauma with both nationalist and cosmopolitan dimensions.

Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present

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Ambassadors of Realpolitik

Sweden, the CSCE and the Cold War

Makko, A.

This groundbreaking study looks at the tension between realism and idealism in Swedish diplomacy during the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe and 1975 Helsinki Accords. It offers a compelling counternarrative of this period, showing that Sweden strategically ignored human rights violations in Eastern Europe in its pursuit of national interests.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Narratives in the Making

Writing the East German Past in the Democratic Present

Gallinat, A.

This ethnography studies two very different institutions in one eastern German state taking divergent approaches to the past. While government organizations reliably depict the GDR as a dictatorship, one major regional newspaper focuses on the experiences and concerns of its readers—“memory work” that inevitably shapes citizenship and democracy.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Anthropology (General) Memory Studies

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Incarceration and Regime Change

European Prisons during and after the Second World War

De Vito, C. G., Futselaar, R., & Grevers, H. (eds)

During the “long” Second World War, military mobilization, social disorder, and political changes swelled the ranks of the imprisoned and broadened the carceral reach of the state. This volume brings together theoretically sophisticated, empirically rich studies of key transitional moments that transformed European prisons during and after the war.

Subjects: History: World War II History: 20th Century to Present

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Published October 2016
The Nuclear Crisis

The Arms Race, Cold War Anxiety, and the German Peace Movement of the 1980s

Becker-Schaum, C., Gassert, P., Mausbach, W., Klimke, M., and Zepp, M. (eds)

In 1983, more than one million Germans joined to protest NATO’s deployment of nuclear missiles in Europe. This volume survey of the “Euromissiles” crisis as experienced by its various protagonists in Germany, including NATO’s strategic maneuvering and the contours of the German protest movement.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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Published October 2016
Losing Heaven

Religion in Germany since 1945

Großbölting, T.

The religious landscape of modern Germany is one that would scarcely be recognizable to earlier generations. This groundbreaking survey of German postwar religious life depicts a profoundly changed society that has almost entirely shed its Christian character despite a booming market for syncretistic, individualistic forms of “popular religion.”

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Anthropology of Religion

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Published September 2016
From Craftsmen to Capitalists

German Artisans from the Third Reich to the Federal Republic, 1939-1953

McKitrick, F. L.

As Hitler consolidated power, German artisans emerged as an important Nazi constituency, drawn by the party’s rejection of both capitalism and Bolshevism. Yet, after 1945, they became one of the pillars of postwar stability. This volume gives the first account of this astonishing transformation, exploring how tradesmen helped to realize German democratization and recovery.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

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In the Name of the Great Work

Stalin's Plan for the Transformation of Nature and its Impact in Eastern Europe

Olšáková, D. (ed)

Following Stalin’s lead, the newly communist states of Eastern Europe pursued a total “transformation of nature” in the 1940s and 1950s intended to improve agricultural outputs. This richly detailed volume follows the history of such projects in Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, exploring their varied, but largely disastrous, consequences.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Environmental Studies (General)

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Re-Imagining DEFA

East German Cinema in its National and Transnational Contexts

Allan, S. & Heiduschke, S. (eds)

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, interest in East German cinema has exploded, inspiring innumerable festivals, books, and exhibits. In this stimulating collection, leading international experts assess this vibrant landscape and plot an ambitious course for future research that considers other cinematic traditions, genre works, and DEFA’s post-unification “afterlife.”

Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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Published August 2016
Wartime Captivity in the 20th Century

Archives, Stories, Memories

Pathé, A.-M. & Théofilakis, F. (eds)

In recent years, wartime captivity has taken on new urgency as a historical topic. This wide-ranging volume brings together an international selection of scholars to trace the contours of this evolving research agenda, offering fascinating new perspectives on historical moments ranging from the Great War to Guantanamo Bay.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published August 2016
The Devil's Wheels

Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic

Disko, S.

During the unprecedented modernization of Germany’s Weimar Republic, motorcycle culture instantiated the new link between consumption and identity. Motorcycles became symbols of masculinity and freedom that exposed the problems and allures of mass-consumption and modern values. The Devil’s Wheels analyzes motorcycle culture, and reassesses mechanized life in Weimar Germany.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality Transport Studies

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French Foreign Policy since 1945

An Introduction

Bozo, F.

This compact and engaging history recounts France’s efforts to reconcile its proud history and global ambitions with a realistic appraisal of its capabilities following World War II. It provides insightful analysis of decolonization, the Cold War, and European unification, always attentive to the challenges posed by an increasingly multipolar, interconnected world.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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National Policy, Global Memory

The Commemoration of the “Righteous” from Jerusalem to Paris, 1942-2007

Gensburger, S.

Starting in the late 1990s, European governments began developing national incarnations of the “Righteous among Nations,” the most prominent of which was the “Righteous of France,” honoring those who protected Jews during the Vichy regime. This book uses this instance of appropriation to illuminate debates over memory and nationhood.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History Memory Studies

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Published June 2016
Rethinking Antifascism

History, Memory and Politics, 1922 to the Present

García, H., Yusta, M., Tabet, X., & Climaco, C. (eds)

Rethinking Antifascism surveys recent research on the anti-fascist movement between 1922 and 1945. It first challenges the revisionist view of anti-fascism as a tool of Stalinism, then discusses the post-War memories and political uses of anti-fascism. These essays historicize anti-fascism as a transnational movement that shaped contemporary democracies.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies

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Narratives in Motion

Journalism and Modernist Events in 1920s Portugal

Trindade, L.

A fascinating study of newspapers in 1920s Portugal, Narratives in Motion explores how the new “modernist reportage” embodied the spirit of its era while mediating some of its most spectacular episodes. In the process, it shows how that journalism epitomized a distinctively modern entanglement of narrative and event.

Subjects: Media Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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Published June 2016
Sweden after Nazism

Politics and Culture in the Wake of the Second World War

Östling, J.

World War II—and particularly the specter of Nazism—changed Swedish society profoundly. This definitive study follows Swedish culture from its affinity for Germany to a framing of Nazism as a discredited, distinctively German phenomenon rooted in militarism and Romanticism.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
Published June 2016
Designing Worlds

National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization

Fallan, K. & Lees-Maffei, G. (eds)

In design history, globalization is deeply intertwined with a long-held bias towards Western, industrialized nations. By reassessing the role of regional and national design histories and challenging the claim that nation states are obsolete in identity construction, Designing Worlds reflects on new national narratives from around the world.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies

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Published May 2016
Fascist Interactions

Proposals for a New Approach to Fascism and Its Era, 1919-1945

Roberts, D. D.

Increasingly, scholars of fascism have called for a new agenda with research beyond Italy and Germany, less preoccupation with classification, and sustained attention to the relationships among different fascist formations. Starting from a critical assessment of these imperatives, this volume charts a path that deemphasizes rigid distinctions while still deploying reasonably rigorous criteria of differentiation.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Coming of Age

Constructing and Controlling Youth in Munich, 1942-1973

Kalb, M.

In the years following World War II, Munich society became obsessed with the hypothetical threat that youths posed to postwar stability. This fascinating study shows that constructs like the rowdy young male and the sexually deviant girl served as proxies for the anxieties of adult society, while allowing authorities to expand social control.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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Published May 2016
Tropics of Vienna

Colonial Utopias of the Habsburg Empire

Bach, U. E.

Though not a conventional colonial power, the Austrian Empire had a metropole-periphery structure that shaped its cultural and intellectual life. This book illuminates colonial utopian writing in the work of Roth, Herzl, and others, revealing a shared longing for alternative social and spatial configurations.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present

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Published April 2016
Whose Memory? Which Future?

Remembering Ethnic Cleansing and Lost Cultural Diversity in Eastern, Central and Southeastern Europe

Törnquist-Plewa, B. (ed)

Scholars have devoted considerable energy to understanding ethnic cleansing in Europe, yet much less attention has been given to how these incidents persist in collective memory today. This volume brings together case studies exploring how modern inhabitants “remember” instances of ethnic cleansing, and how they understand the heritage of groups that vanished in their wake.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History Memory Studies

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The Revolution before the Revolution

Late Authoritarianism and Student Protest in Portugal

Accornero, G.

Portugal’s 1974 “Carnation Revolution” was in many ways the culmination of a much longer history of resistance originating in universities and other sectors of society. Combining careful research with insights from social movement theory, this book traces these convulsions in Portuguese society over the course of the “long 1960s.”

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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Published March 2016
Protest Cultures

A Companion

Fahlenbrach, K., Klimke, M., & Scharloth, J. (eds)

Protest is a ubiquitous and richly varied cultural domain whose symbolic content is regularly deployed by media and advertisers, among others. Yet within social movement scholarship, culture has been comparatively neglected. This definitive research companion dramatically expands the analytical perspective on subject by covering a remarkable array of protest cultures.

Subjects: Sociology History: 20th Century to Present

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Published March 2016
Social Movement Studies in Europe

The State of the Art

Fillieule, O. & Accornero, G. (eds)

This landmark volume is the first to comprehensively examine the field of social movement studies in a specifically European context. Combining comparative studies of significant issues and movements with focused national studies, this is a bold and uncommonly unified survey that will be essential for scholars and students of European social movements.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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Published March 2016
Disrupted Landscapes

State, Peasants and the Politics of Land in Postsocialist Romania

Dorondel, S.

The fall of the Soviet Union led not only to new regimes of ownership and development but to dramatic changes in the landscape itself. This study focuses on the emblematic case of postsocialist Romania, in which the transition from collectivization to privatization profoundly reshaped the nation’s forests, farmlands, and rivers.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present

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Published March 2016
The Decolonial Mandela

Peace, Justice and the Politics of Life

Ndlovu-Gatsheni, S.

This concise, forcefully argued volume lays out a groundbreaking interpretation of the “Mandela phenomenon.” Contrary to a neoliberal social model that privileges adversarial criminal justice and a rationalistic approach to warmaking, Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni elevates transformative political justice and a pluriversal vision of society as key features of Nelson Mandela’s legacy.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published February 2016
Desires for Reality

Radicalism and Revolution in Western European Film

Halligan, B.

This is a fresh and groundbreaking account of the innovations and provocations of the “cinema of 1968,” and its social and aesthetic contexts. Benjamin Halligan offers a genuinely fresh analysis of films reflecting the cultural upheaval of youth in revolt—cinema that did not merely entertain, but was made the barricades.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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Published January 2016
Trust Us

Reproducing the Nation and the Scandinavian Nationalist Populist Parties

Hellström, A.

In order to affect domestic politics, Scandinavian populist parties must cross the threshold to the national parliament while earning the nation’s trust. While the Progress Party in Norway and the Danish People’s Party have, the Sweden Democrats has not. The fissures in public opinion lead to a polarized public debate that raises the question of national identity, of what we are.

Subjects: Sociology History: 20th Century to Present

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Published January 2016
Lobbying Hitler

Industrial Associations between Democracy and Dictatorship

Bera, M.

From 1933-45, Nazi Germany undertook massive industrial integration, submitting an entire economic sector to direct state oversight. This innovative study explores how German professionals navigated this complex landscape through the divergent careers of business managers in two of the era’s most important trade organizations.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Sacrifice and Rebirth

The Legacy of the Last Habsburg War

Cornwall, M. & Newman, J. P. (eds)

When Austria-Hungary broke up at the end of the First World War, six “successor states” tried to make sense of the last Habsburg war while preparing for life in a new Europe. This book is the first of its kind to analyze how the Great War was interpreted, commemorated, or forgotten across all the ex-Habsburg territories.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published January 2016
Shadowlands

Memory and History in Post-Soviet Estonia

Wulf, M.

The Baltic state of Estonia has been profoundly shaped by the conflicts and shifting political fortunes of the last century. This innovative study traces the interaction of historical memory and national identity in a sweeping analysis that foregrounds the country’s intellectuals, who until recently could not openly grapple with their nation’s complex, difficult past.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies

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Published December 2015
Protest in Hitler's “National Community”

Popular Unrest and the Nazi Response

Stoltzfus, N. & Maier-Katkin, B. (eds)

That Hitler’s Gestapo harshly suppressed any signs of opposition inside the Third Reich is a common misperception. This book presents studies of public dissent that examine circumstances under which “racial” Germans were motivated to protest, as well as the conditions determining the regime’s response.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published December 2015
Empire of Pictures

Global Media and the 1960s Remaking of American Foreign Policy

Kunkel, S.

The 1960s 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. This book examines how U.S. policymakers exploited these changes.

Subjects: Media Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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Published October 2015
Viktor Frankl's Search for Meaning

An Emblematic 20th-Century Life

Pytell, T.

Viktor Frankl was a psychiatrist and philosopher who survived the Holocaust and went on to found the third school of Viennese psychotherapy. By critically examining the details of his intellectual life, including some previously unknown biographical details, we can begin to see the fascinating ambiguities and contradictions in Frankl’s thought.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published September 2015
The Merkel Republic

An Appraisal

Langenbacher, E. (ed)

Bringing together German politics experts from both sides of the Atlantic, this volume addresses the campaign, results, and consequences of the 2013 Bundestag election. Chapters delve into a diverse array of themes, including immigrant-origin and women candidates, the fate of the small parties, and the prospects for the SPD, as well as more general structural trends like the Europeanization and cosmopolitanization of German politics.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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Final Sale in Berlin

The Destruction of Jewish Commercial Activity, 1930-1945

Kreutzmüller, C.

Reconstructing the fate of more than 8,000 companies, this book offers the first comprehensive analysis of Jewish economic activity and its destruction in Nazi Berlin

Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present

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Published July 2015
The Rhythm of Eternity

The German Youth Movement and the Experience of the Past, 1900-1933

Adriaansen, R.-J.

The Weimar era in Germany is often characterized as a time of significant change. Such periods of rupture transform the way people envision the past, present, and future. This book traces the conceptions of time and history during the German youth movement of the early 20th century.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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Published May 2015
Militant Around the Clock?

Left-Wing Youth Politics, Leisure, and Sexuality in Post-Dictatorship Greece, 1974-1981

Papadogiannis, N.

During the 1970s left-wing youth militancy in Greece intensified, especially after the collapse of the military dictatorship in 1974. This book is the first study of the impact of that political activism on the leisure pursuits and sexual behavior of Greek youth.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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Published May 2015
The Respectable Career of Fritz K.

The Making and Remaking of a Provincial Nazi Leader

Berghoff, H. & Rauh, C.

Entrepreneur and Nazi functionary Fritz Kiehn lived through almost 100 years of German history, from the Bismarck era to the late Bonn Republic. Kiehn's biography provides a key to understanding the political upheavals of the 20th century, especially the workings of the corrupt Nazi system as well as the "coming to terms" with National Socialism in the Federal Republic.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published May 2015
Marking Evil

Holocaust Memory in the Global Age

Goldberg, A. & Hazan, H. (eds)

Talking about the Holocaust has provided an international language for ethics, victimization, political claims, and constructions of collective identity. This volume addresses manifestations of Holocaust-engendered global discourse by critically examining their function and inherent dilemmas, and the ways in which Holocaust related matters still instigate public debate and academic deliberation.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History Memory Studies

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Published May 2015
Fault Lines

Earthquakes and Urbanism in Modern Italy

Parrinello, G.

Although earthquakes can have disastrous effects on human lives and environments, they can also significantly influence urban development. This book follows the history of two Italian seismic disasters — the 1908 Messina earthquake and the 1968 earthquake in the Belice Valley, Sicily — exploring plans preceding the destruction and the urbanism that emerged from the ruins.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present

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Published April 2015
Music and International History in the Twentieth Century

Gienow-Hecht, J. C. E. (ed)

Bringing together scholars from the fields of musicology and international history, this book investigates the significance of music to foreign relations, and how it affected the interaction of nations since the late 19th century.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies Performance Studies

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Published September 2014
Sounds of Modern History

Auditory Cultures in 19th- and 20th-Century Europe

Morat, D. (ed)

Since the late 19th century, there has been a paradigmatic shift in auditory cultures and practices in European societies. This change was brought about by modern phenomena such as urbanization, industrialization and mechanization, the rise of modern sciences, and of course the emergence of new sound recording and transmission media. This book contributes to our understanding of modern European history through the lens of sound by examining diverse subjects such as performed and recorded music, auditory technologies like the telephone and stethoscope, and the ambient noise of the city.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies

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Published July 2014
The German Right in the Weimar Republic

Studies in the History of German Conservatism, Nationalism, and Antisemitism

Jones, L. E. (ed)

“The individual chapters range in quality from good to excellent....[and offer] a judicious mix of work from prominent academics and younger scholars. The weighing up of continuities and discontinuities between the Right and Nazism is well considered and offers refreshingly new insights into the history of inter-war Germany.” · Conan Fischer, University of St. Andrews

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published July 2014
Nationalism and the Cinema in France

Political Mythologies and Film Events, 1945-1995

Frey, H.

What are the nuances, insider codes, and hidden history of the alignment between cinema and nationalism? Hugo Frey suggests that the concepts of the ‘political myth’ and ‘the film event’ are the essential theoretical reference points for unlocking film history. Nationalism and the Cinema in France offers new arguments regarding those connections in the French case.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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Published May 2014
Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany

Wetzell, R. F. (ed)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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Published April 2014
On the Path to Genocide

Armenia and Rwanda Reexamined

Mayersen, D.

“This is an excellent book. The combination of theory and context works well…The prose is sharp and the author has set up the problem in a logical way that is easy to follow. It also benefits from an interdisciplinary approach. Her grasp of detail is superior to many theorists…It reads very fluently, the author is clearly a gifted prose writer. The thread of argument runs through the book in a compelling way…The conclusion is full of intriguing ties to other case studies and the author summarizes her argument well.” · Cathie Carmichael, University of East Anglia

Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present

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Published February 2014
Media and Revolt

Strategies and Performances from the 1960s to the Present

Fahlenbrach, K., Sivertsen, E. & Werenskjold, R. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies

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Published January 2014
The French Right Between the Wars

Political and Intellectual Movements from Conservatism to Fascism

Kalman, S. & Kennedy, S. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published January 2014
The History of the Stasi

East Germany's Secret Police, 1945-1990

Gieseke, J.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published November 2013
Alienating Labour

Workers on the Road from Socialism to Capitalism in East Germany and Hungary

Bartha, E.

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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Published November 2013
Children of the Dictatorship

Student Resistance, Cultural Politics and the 'Long 1960s' in Greece

Kornetis, K.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

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Published October 2013
Between Yesterday and Tomorrow

German Visions of Europe, 1926-1950

Bailey, C.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published September 2013
Fragmented Fatherland

Immigration and Cold War Conflict in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945-1980

Clarkson, A.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Refugee and Migration Studies

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Published September 2013
General de Gaulle's Cold War

Challenging American Hegemony, 1963-68

Martin, G. J.

“While 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. The book is the product of archival research in England, France, and the United States, as well as engagement with published collections and the relevant secondary literature on the topic. Martin has thus covered most of his bases.” · H-France Review

“[The book] is extremely well researched, well written, and Martin accomplishes his stated objective: namely, to provide a more balanced account of de Gaulle that goes beyond views of him as either a visionary, or an irresponsible and anti-American nationalist…Martin’s analysis makes a unique contribution in that it examines the linkages between the General's economic, political and security policy in order to understand how the three came together to shape his overall policy toward the US.” · Erin Mahan, Chief Historian, Office of the Secretary of Defense

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published September 2013
The Legacies of a Hawaiian Generation

From Territorial Subject to American Citizen

Schachter, J.

“Schachter has produced a powerful and moving account of Native Hawaiian elders who have now passed physically but continue to live on in spirit in the prose that she has assembled from the writings gifted to her. This work represents the best that anthropology has to offer Indigenous peoples seeking to remain Native in a decidedly anti-Native world—a document that gives voice to the truths they know and which connects generations in a lineage of discourse.” · Ty Tengan, University of Hawaii

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History: 20th Century to Present

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Published September 2013
Becoming East German

Socialist Structures and Sensibilities after Hitler

Fulbrook, M. & Port, A. I. (eds)

“This is an excellent edited collection. It provides a range of methodological approaches and is right up to date: it introduces a number of new academics onto the scene while also providing some old favourites. The volume significantly adds to our understanding of East Germany and its population. It provides a reassessment of antifascism and memory... Port’s introduction and Fulbrook’s chapter on memory are masterful.” · Mark Fenemore, Manchester Metropolitan University

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published August 2013
The Mind of the Nation

Völkerpsychologie in Germany, 1851-1955

Klautke, E.

“This is a very careful and meticulous study of the history of a forgotten science, namely Völkerpsychologie, a scholarly attempt to study the psychological structure of nations. We can now understand not just its complex origins reaching back to the German intellectual history of the early 19th century, but also the intellectual intricacies in the works of its main protagonists.” · Uffa Jensen, Max Planck Institute for Human Development

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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Published July 2013
United Germany

Debating Processes and Prospects

Jarausch, K. H. (ed)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published May 2013
Postwall German Cinema

History, Film History and Cinephilia

Frey, M.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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Published March 2013
The Law in Nazi Germany

Ideology, Opportunism, and the Perversion of Justice

Steinweis, A. E. & Rachlin, R. D. (eds)

Subjects: History: World War II History: 20th Century to Present

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Published March 2013
Socialist Escapes

Breaking Away from Ideology and Everyday Routine in Eastern Europe, 1945-1989

Giustino, C. M., Plum, C. J., & Vari, A. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

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Published March 2013
Dynamics of Memory and Identity in Contemporary Europe

Langenbacher, E., Niven, B., & Wittlinger, R. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies

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Published December 2012
Territorial Revisionism and the Allies of Germany in the Second World War

Goals, Expectations, Practices

Cattaruzza, M., Dyroff, S. & Langewiesche, D. (eds)

Subjects: History: World War II History: 20th Century to Present

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Published November 2012
The Third World in the Global 1960s

Christiansen, S. & Scarlett, Z. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology History (General)

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Published August 2012
Journey Through America

Koeppen, W.

Subjects: Literary Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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Published July 2012
Building a European Identity

France, the United States, and the Oil Shock, 1973-74

Gfeller, A. E.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published June 2012
Investigating Srebrenica

Institutions, Facts, Responsibilities

Delpla, I., Bougarel, X., & Fournel, J.-F. (eds)

Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present

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Published June 2012
Journeys Into Madness

Mapping Mental Illness in the Austro-Hungarian Empire

Blackshaw, G. & Wieber, S. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

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Published April 2012
Maternalism Reconsidered

Motherhood, Welfare and Social Policy in the Twentieth Century

Klein, M. van der, Plant, R. J., Sanders, Nichole, & Weintrob L. R. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

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Published March 2012
Cold War Cultures

Perspectives on Eastern and Western European Societies

Vowinckel, A., Payk, M. M., & Lindenberger, T. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published March 2012
Visions of the End of the Cold War in Europe, 1945-1990

Bozo, F., Rey, M.-P., Ludlow, N. P., & Rother, B. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published February 2012
Peter Lorre: Face Maker

Constructing Stardom and Performance in Hollywood and Europe

Thomas, S.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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Published February 2012
Sexual Knowledge

Feeling, Fact, and Social Reform in Vienna, 1900-1934

McEwen, B.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

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Published December 2011
A State of Peace in Europe

West Germany and the CSCE, 1966-1975

Hakkarainen, P.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published October 2011
Vienna Is Different

Jewish Writers in Austria from the Fin-de-Siècle to the Present

Herzog, H. H.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present Literary Studies

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Published August 2011
The Legacies of Two World Wars

European Societies in the Twentieth Century

Kettenacker, L. & Riotte, T. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: World War I History: World War II

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Published August 2011
State and Minorities in Communist East Germany

Dennis, M. & LaPorte, N.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published June 2011
Between Prague Spring and French May

Opposition and Revolt in Europe, 1960-1980

Klimke, M., Pekelder, J. & Scharloth, J. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published June 2011
France in the Age of Organization

Factory, Home and Nation from the 1920s to Vichy

Clarke, J.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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Published May 2011
Screening the East

Heimat, Memory and Nostalgia in German Film since 1989

Hodgin, N.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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Published March 2011
Protest Beyond Borders

Contentious Politics in Europe since 1945

Kouki, H. & Romanos, E. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published December 2010
Popular Historiographies in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Cultural Meanings, Social Practices

Paletschek, S. (ed)

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

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Published December 2010
Divided, But Not Disconnected

German Experiences of the Cold War

Hochscherf, T., Laucht, C. & Plowman, A. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published November 2010
Between Left and Right

The 2009 Bundestag Elections and the Transformation of the German Party System

Langenbacher, E. (ed)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Pb
Published November 2010
From the Bonn to the Berlin Republic

Germany at the Twentieth Anniversary of Unification

Anderson, J. & Langenbacher, E. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Pb
Published October 2010
Latin America Facing China

South-South Relations beyond the Washington Consensus

Fernández Jilberto, A. E. & Hogenboom, B. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published September 2010
Raising Citizens in the 'Century of the Child'

The United States and German Central Europe in Comparative Perspective

Schumann, D. (ed)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Educational Studies

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Published September 2010
Berlin Divided City, 1945-1989

Broadbent, P. & Hake, S. (eds)

Subjects: Urban Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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Published August 2010
Weimar Publics/Weimar Subjects

Rethinking the Political Culture of Germany in the 1920s

Canning, K., Barndt, K. & McGuire, K. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Published June 2010
Post-communist Nostalgia

Todorova, M. & Gille, Z. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies

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Published June 2010
Terror From the Sky

The Bombing of German Cities in World War II

Primoratz, I. (ed)

Subjects: History: World War II History: 20th Century to Present

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Published May 2010
Friendly Enemies

Britain and the GDR, 1949-1990

Berger, S. & LaPorte, N.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published April 2010
Diamonds and War

State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine

De Vries, D.

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present

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Published March 2010
Changing the World, Changing Oneself

Political Protest and Collective Identities in West Germany and the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s

Davis, B., Mausbach, W., Klimke, M. & MacDougall, C. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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Published March 2010
Comparative and Transnational History

Central European Approaches and New Perspectives

Haupt, H. & Kocka, J. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published February 2010
Rhodes Scholars, Oxford, and the Creation of an American Elite

Schaeper, T. & Schaeper, K.

Subjects: Educational Studies History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
Published November 2009
Immigration Policy in the Federal Republic of Germany

Negotiating Membership and Remaking the Nation

Klusmeyer, D. & Papademetriou, D.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Refugee and Migration Studies

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Published August 2009
Voyage Through the Twentieth Century

A Historian's Recollections and Reflections

Klemperer, K. von

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published July 2009
The Political Economy of Germany under Chancellors Kohl and Schröder

Decline of the German Model?

Leaman, J.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies

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Published May 2009
Power and Society in the GDR, 1961-1979

The 'Normalisation of Rule'?

Fulbrook, M. (ed)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published April 2009
Weimar Radicals

Nazis and Communists between Authenticity and Performance

Brown, T. S.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published March 2009
After the 'Socialist Spring'

Collectivisation and Economic Transformation in the GDR

Last, G.

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present

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Published December 2008
Crises in European Integration

Challenges and Responses, 1945-2005

Kuehnhardt, L. (ed)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published August 2008
Destination London

German-Speaking Emigrés and British Cinema, 1925-1950

Bergfelder, T. & Cargnelli, C. (eds)

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Refugee and Migration Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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Published August 2008
Environmental Organizations in Modern Germany

Hardy Survivors in the Twentieth Century and Beyond

Markham, W. T.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present

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Published July 2008
Between Mass Death and Individual Loss

The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany

Confino, A., Betts, P. & Schumann, D. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

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Published May 2008
Nature of the Miracle Years

Conservation in West Germany, 1945-1975

Chaney, S.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present

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Published April 2008
The Fateful Alliance

German Conservatives and Nazis in 1933: The Machtergreifung in a New Light

Beck, H.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published February 2008
Stardom in Postwar France

Gaffney, J. & Holmes, D. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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Published December 2007
Hannah Arendt and the Uses of History

Imperialism, Nation, Race, and Genocide

King, R. H. & Stone, D. (eds)

Subjects: Genocide History Colonial History History: 20th Century to Present

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Published December 2007
France and the Construction of Europe, 1944-2007

The Geopolitical Imperative

Sutton, M.

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present

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Published November 2007
Women Migrants From East to West

Gender, Mobility and Belonging in Contemporary Europe

Passerini, L., Lyon, D., Capussotti, E. & Laliotou, I. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Mobility Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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Published November 2007
The Limits of Loyalty

Imperial Symbolism, Popular Allegiances, and State Patriotism in the Late Habsburg Monarchy

Cole, L. & Unowsky, D. (eds)

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

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Published August 2007
Gendering Modern German History

Rewriting Historiography

Hagemann, K. & Quataert, J. H. (eds)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History: 20th Century to Present

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Published August 2007
Selling the Economic Miracle

Economic Reconstruction and Politics in West Germany, 1949-1957

Spicka, M. E.

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present

Paperback available
Published July 2007
Framing the Fifties

Cinema in a Divided Germany

Davidson, J. & Hake, S. (eds)

Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present

eBook
Published May 2007
Conflicted Memories

Europeanizing Contemporary Histories

Jarausch, K. H. & Lindenberger, T. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies

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Published January 2007
Launching the Grand Coalition

The 2005 Bundestag Election and the Future of German Politics

Langenbacher, E. (ed.)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

Pb
Published October 2006
Coping with the Nazi Past

West German Debates on Nazism and Generational Conflict, 1955-1975

Gassert, P. & Steinweis, A. E. (eds)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published October 2006
Two Lives in Uncertain Times

Facing the Challenges of the 20th Century as Scholars and Citizens

Iggers, W., & Iggers, G.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published June 2006
The Environment and Sustainable Development in the New Central Europe

Bochniarz, Z. & Cohen G. (eds)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present

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Published December 2005
Between Marx and Coca-Cola

Youth Cultures in Changing European Societies, 1960-1980

Schildt, A. & Siegfried, D. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies Sociology

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Published December 2005
The Americanization of Europe

Culture, Diplomacy, and Anti-Americanism after 1945

Stephan, A (ed)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

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Published October 2005
Remaking France

Americanization, Public Diplomacy, and the Marshall Plan

McKenzie, B.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published January 2005
German Scholars and Ethnic Cleansing, 1919-1945

Haar, I. & Fahlbusch, M. (eds)

Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present

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Published July 2004
The Imaginary Revolution

Parisian Students and Workers in 1968

Seidman, M.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published December 2003
Death of the Father

An Anthropology of the End in Political Authority

Borneman, J. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies

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Published October 1999
Dictatorship as Experience

Towards a Socio-Cultural History of the GDR

Jarausch, K. (ed)

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Planting Seeds of Knowledge

Agriculture and Education in Rural Societies in the Twentieth Century

Hartmann, H. & Tischler, J. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Environmental Studies (General)

White Eagle, Black Eagle

Ethnic Relations in the German-Polish Borderlands

Parkin, R.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology History: 20th Century to Present

Music and Postwar Transitions in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Fléchet, A., Guerpin, M., Gumplowicz, P. & Kelly, B. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century Media Studies

Coproducing Europe

An Ethnography of Film Markets, Creativity and Identity

Sideri, E.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present

Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe

The Social Life of Asia Minor Refugees in Piraeus

Hirschon, R.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies History: 20th Century to Present

Chicanery

Senior Academic Appointments in Antipodean Anthropology, 1920–1960

Gray, G., Munro, D. & Winter, C.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History: 20th Century to Present Theory and Methodology

Citizens into Dishonored Felons

Felony Disenfranchisement, Honor, and Rehabilitation in Germany, 1806-1933

de Groot, T.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present

The Burden of German History

A Transatlantic Life

Jarausch, K. H.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History History: World War II

The Rich and the Poor in Modern Europe, 1890-2020

A Historian’s Response to Recent Debates among Economists

Kaelble, H.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

The History of Thyssen

Family, Industry and Culture in the 20th Century

Schulz, G. & Szöllösi-Janze, M.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century

The Right to Memory

History, Media, Law, and Ethics

Tirosh, N. & Reading, A. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies Media Studies

Red America

Greek Communists in the United States, 1920-1950

Karpozilos, K.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

The Marseille Mosaic

A Mediterranean City at the Crossroads of Cultures

Ingram, M. & Kleppinger, K. (eds)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present Sociology Urban Studies

Reparative Citizenship for Sephardi Descendants

Returning to the Jewish Past in Spain and Portugal

Kandiyoti, D. & Benmayor, R. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present

The Guardians of Concepts

Political Languages of Conservatism in Britain and West Germany, 1945-1980

Steber, M.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

End Game

The 1989 Revolution in East Germany

Kowalczuk, I.-S.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

The Servants of Empire

Sponsored German Women’s Colonization in Southwest Africa, 1896-1945

ODonnell, K. M.

Subjects: Colonial History History: 20th Century to Present

Different from the Others

German and Dutch Discourses of Queer Femininity and Female Desire, 1918–1940

Sturgess, C.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History: World War I History: 20th Century to Present

Invested Narratives

German Responses to Economic Crisis

Twark, J. (ed)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century

The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky

Into Germany at the End of World War II