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March 2022
The World beyond the West
Perspectives from Eastern Europe
Kałczewiak, M. & Kozłowska, M. (eds)

March 2022
Forging Architectural Tradition
National Narratives, Monument Preservation and Architectural Work in the Nineteenth Century
Damjanović, D. & Łupienko, Al. (eds)

March 2022
Nationalism and Internationalism Intertwined
A European History of Concepts Beyond the Nation State
Ihalainen, P. & Holmila, A. (eds)

March 2022
The Aesthetics of Rule and Resistance
Analyzing Political Street Art in Latin America
Bogerts, L.

March 2022
Indigenous Resurgence
Decolonialization and Movements for Environmental Justice
Dhillon, J.

April 2022
Environing Empire
Nature, Infrastructure and the Making of German Southwest Africa
Kalb, M.

November 2022
Optimizing the German Workforce
Labor Administration from Bismarck to the Economic Miracle
Meskill, D.

April 2022
Nurturing the Other
First Contacts and the Making of Christian Bodies in Amazonia
Grotti, V.

April 2022
African Political Systems Revisited
Changing Perspectives on Statehood and Power
Bošković, A. & Schlee, G. (eds)

April 2022
Minority Discourses in Germany since 1990
Gezen, E., Layne, P., & Skolnik, J. (eds)

November 2022
After the 'Socialist Spring'
Collectivisation and Economic Transformation in the GDR
Last, G.

April 2022
Anglo-American Relations and the Transmission of Ideas
A Shared Political Tradition?
Dobson, A. & Marsh, S. (eds)

May 2022
Hotbeds of Licentiousness
The British Glamour Film and the Permissive Society
Halligan, B.

May 2022
Continental Transfers
Cultural and Political Exchange among Spain, Italy and Argentina, 1914-1945
Fuentes Codera, M. & Dogliani, P. (eds)

November 2022
Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany
Wetzell, R. F. (ed)

May 2022
The Walls of Santiago
Social Revolution and Political Aesthetics in Contemporary Chile
Gordon-Zolov, T. & Zolov, E.

February 2023
Weary Warriors
Power, Knowledge, and the Invisible Wounds of Soldiers
Moss, P. & Prince, M. J.

June 2022
In the Shadow of Auschwitz
German Massacres against Polish Civilians, 1939–1945
Brewing, D.

June 2022
What Remains
Responses to the Legacy of Christa Wolf
Fetz, G. A. & Herminghouse, P. (eds)

December 2022
When Will We Talk About Hitler?
German Students and the Nazi Past
Oeser, A.

June 2022
Ethnographers Before Malinowski
Pioneers of Anthropological Fieldwork, 1870-1922
Rosa, F. & Vermeulen, H. F. (eds)

June 2022
Spanish Laughter
Humor and Its Sense in Modern Spain
Calvo Maturana, A. (ed)

July 2022
Field Manual for the Archaeology of Ritual, Religion, and Magic
Augé , C. R.

July 2022
Rethinking Social Movements after '68
Selves and Solidarities in West Germany and Beyond
Davis, B., Brühöfener, F., & Milder, S. (eds)

July 2022
Oswald Spengler and the Politics of Decline
Lewis, B.

July 2022
Heritage, Gentrification and Resistance in the Neoliberal City
Hammami, F., Jewesbury, D., & Valli, C. (eds)

August 2022
200 Years of Peace
New Perspectives on Modern Swedish Foreign Policy
Biltekin, N., Müller, L., & Petersson, M. (eds)

December 2022
Voices on War and Genocide
Three Accounts of the World Wars in a Galician Town
Bartov, O. (ed)

August 2022
Dynamics of Emigration
Émigré Scholars and the Production of Historical Knowledge in the 20th Century
Berger, S. & Müller, P. (eds)

August 2022
Towards a Collaborative Memory
German Memory Work in a Transnational Context
Jones, S.

January 2023
A U-Turn to the Future
Sustainable Urban Mobility since 1850
Emanuel, M., Schipper. F., & Oldenziel, R. (eds)

January 2023
The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective
Knörr, J. & Kohl, C. (eds)

April 2022
The Vampire
Origins of a European Myth
Bohn, T. M.

September 2022
Pacific Automobilism
Adventure, Status and the Carnival of Mobility, 1970–2015
Mom, G.

September 2022
Borders in East and West
Transnational and Comparative Perspectives
Berger, S. & Hashimoto, N. (eds)

September 2022
The Chernobyl Effect
Antinuclear Protests and the Molding of Polish Democracy, 1986–1990
Szulecki, K., Waluszko, J., & Borewicz, T.

December 2022
Comrades in Arms
Military Masculinities in East German Culture
Smith, T.

September 2022
Managing Sacralities
Competing and Converging Claims of Religious Heritage
Hemel, E. van den, Salemink, O., & Stengs, I. (eds)

September 2022
Critical Public Archaeology
Confronting Social Challenges in the 21st Century
Westmont, V. C. (ed)

September 2022
Edible People
The Historical Consumption of Slaves and Foreigners and the Cannibalistic Trade in Human Flesh
Siefkes, C.

June 2022
Empathy and History
Historical Understanding in Re-enactment, Hermeneutics and Education
Retz, T.

November 2022
In Search of European Liberalisms
Concepts, Languages, Ideologies
Freeden, M., Fernández-Sebastián, J. & Leonhard, J. (eds)

September 2022
Humboldt Revisited
The Impact of the German University on American Higher Education
Brandser, G. C.

October 2022
Brewing Socialism
Coffee, East Germans, and Twentieth-Century Globalization
Kloiber, A.

October 2022
Beyond “Hellenes” and “Barbarians”
Asymmetrical Concepts in European Discourse
Postoutenko, K. (ed)

October 2022
Football Nation
The Playing Fields of German Culture, History, and Society
Dawson, R., Heinsohn, B., Knabe, O., & McDougall, A. (eds)

October 2022
Thinking Europe
A History of the European Idea since 1800
Andrén, M.

October 2022
German–Jewish Studies
Next Generations
Wallach, K. & Elyada. A. (eds)

April 2022
Invisible Founders
How Two Centuries of African American Families Transformed a Plantation into a College
Rainville, L.

November 2022
Invested Narratives
German Responses to Economic Crisis
Twark, J. (ed)

November 2022
The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky
Into Germany at the End of World War II
Lerg, C. A. (ed.)

November 2022
Different from the Others
German and Dutch Discourses of Queer Femininity and Female Desire, 1918–1940
Sturgess, C.

November 2022
End Game
The 1989 Revolution in East Germany
Kowalczuk, I.-S.

February 2023
Entangled Entertainers
Jews and Popular Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna
Hödl, K.

December 2022
The Servants of Empire
Sponsored German Women’s Colonization in Southwest Africa, 1896-1945
ODonnell, K. M.

December 2022
The Politics of Making Kinship
Historical and Anthropological Perspectives
Alber, E. (ed)

May 2022
Rampart Nations
Bulwark Myths of East European Multiconfessional Societies in the Age of Nationalism
Berezhnaya, L. & Hein-Kircher, H. (eds)

December 2022
Taking Our Water for the City
The Archaeology of New York City’s Watershed Communities
Beisaw, A. M.

April 2022
Gulag Memories
The Rediscovery and Commemoration of Russia's Repressive Past
Bogumił, Z.

March 2022
Hazardous Chemicals
Agents of Risk and Change, 1800-2000
Homburg, E. & Vaupel, E. (eds)

January 2023
The Guardians of Concepts
Political Languages of Conservatism in Britain and West Germany, 1945-1980
Steber, M.

January 2023
The Marseille Mosaic
A Mediterranean City at the Crossroads of Cultures
Ingram, M. & Kleppinger, K. (eds)

January 2023
Reparative Citizenship for Sephardi Descendants
Returning to the Jewish Past in Spain and Portugal
Kandiyoti, D. & Benmayor, R. (eds)

February 2023
The Long Shore
Archaeologies and Social Histories of Californias Maritime Cultural Landscapes
Meniketti, M. (ed)

December 2022
Selling the Economic Miracle
Economic Reconstruction and Politics in West Germany, 1949-1957
Spicka, M. E.

February 2023
The Right to Memory
History, Media, Law, and Ethics
Tirosh, N. & Reading, A. (eds)

February 2023
Red America
Greek Communists in the United States, 1920-1950
Karpozilos, K.

February 2023
The Origins of German Self-Cultivation
Bildung and the Future of the Humanities
Ham, J., Kinzel, U., & Pan, D. (eds)

September 2022
Making Bodies Kosher
The Politics of Reproduction among Haredi Jews in England
Kasstan, B.

November 2022
Luso-Tropicalism and Its Discontents
The Making and Unmaking of Racial Exceptionalism
Anderson, W., Roque, R., & Ventura Santos, R. (eds)

March 2023
Music and Postwar Transitions in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Fléchet, A., Guerpin, M., Gumplowicz, P. & Kelly, B. (eds)

July 2022
Money in the German-speaking Lands
Lindemann, M. & Poley, J. (eds)

March 2023
Modeling the Past
Archaeology, History, and Dynamic Networks
Terrell, J., Golitko, M., Dawson, H., and Kissel, M.

August 2022
Gendering Post-1945 German History
Entanglements
Hagemann, K., & Harsch, D., & Brühöfner, F. (eds)

March 2023
Former Neighbors, Future Allies?
German Studies and Ethnography in Dialogue
Weber, A. D. (ed)

March 2023
Family - Business - Public Eye, Thyssen in the 20th Century
A Research Project's Findings
Schulz, G. & Szöllösi-Janze, M.

March 2023
Anthropology, Nationalism and Colonialism
Mendes Correia and the Porto School of Anthropology
Ferraz de Matos, F.
History-Related Journals

Aspasia
The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women's and Gender History
ISSN Print: 1933-2882
ISSN Online: 1933-2890

Contributions to the History of Concepts
ISSN Print: 1807-9326
ISSN Online: 1874-656X

French Politics, Culture & Society
ISSN Print: 1537-6370
ISSN Online: 1558-5271

German Politics and Society
ISSN Print: 1045-0300
ISSN Online: 1558-5441

Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
ISSN Print: 0315-7997
ISSN Online: 1939-2419

Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
ISSN Print: 2041-6938
ISSN Online: 2041-6946

Sibirica
Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies
ISSN Print: 1361-7362
ISSN Online: 1476-6787

Transfers
Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies
ISSN Print: 2045-4813
ISSN Online: 2045-4821
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