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August 2023
Remapping Knowledge
Intercultural Studies for a Global Age
Spariosu, Mihai I.

October 2023
Alienating Labour
Workers on the Road from Socialism to Capitalism in East Germany and Hungary
Bartha, E.

July 2023
Driving Modernity
Technology, Experts, Politics, and Fascist Motorways, 1922-1943
Moraglio, M.

July 2023
Global Exchanges
Scholarships and Transnational Circulations in the Modern World
Tournès, L. & Scott-Smith, G. (eds)

September 2023
German Division as Shared Experience
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Postwar Everyday
Carter, E., Palmowski, J., & Schreiter, K. (eds)

September 2023
Crossing Histories and Ethnographies
Following Colonial Historicities in Timor-Leste
Roque, R. & Traube, E. G. (eds)

August 2023
Testimonies of Resistance
Representations of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Sonderkommando
Chare, N. & Williams, D. (eds)

September 2023
Friendship without Borders
Women's Stories of Power, Politics, and Everyday Life across East and West Germany
Leask, P.

October 2023
Resisting Persecution
Jews and Their Petitions during the Holocaust
Pegelow Kaplan, T. & Gruner, W. (eds)

September 2023
The Politics of Personal Information
Surveillance, Privacy, and Power in West Germany
Frohman, L.

August 2023
Peripheries at the Centre
Borderland Schooling in Interwar Europe
Venken, M.

July 2023
Diamonds and War
State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine
De Vries, D.

July 2023
Innovation and Implementation
Critical Reflections on New Approaches to Historic Mortuary Data Collection, Analysis, and Dissemination
Mytum, H. & Veit, R. (eds)

July 2023
Yugoslavia without Yugoslavs
The History of a National Idea
Jezernik, B.

July 2023
If Cars Could Walk
Postsocialist Streets in Transformation
Duijzings, G. & Tuvikene, T. (eds)

July 2023
Thinking Russia's History Environmentally
Evtuhov, C., Lajus, J., & Moon, D. (eds)

July 2023
Sites of Modernity—Places of Risk
Risk and Security in Germany since the 1970s
Geyer, M. H. (ed)

August 2023
Entertaining German Culture
Contemporary Transnational Television and Film
Ehrig, S., Schaper, B. & Ward, E. (eds)

August 2023
Weaponizing the Past
Collective Memory and Jews, Poles, and Communists in Twenty-First Century Poland
Korycki, K.

August 2023
Inside Party Headquarters
Organizational Culture and Practice of Rule in the Socialist Unity Party of Germany
Bergien, R.

September 2023
Love, Loyalty and Deceit
Rosemary Firth, a Life in the Shadow of Two Eminent Men
Firth, H. & Brown, L.

September 2023
Visions of Humanity
Historical Cultural Practices since 1850
Kunkel, S., Jessica Gienow-Hecht, J., & Jobs, S. (eds)

October 2023
Audiences of Nazism
Using Media in the Third Reich
Weckel, U.

October 2023
Poverty Archaeology
Architecture, Material Culture and the Workhouse under the New Poor Law
Newman, C. & Fennelly, K.
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ISSN Print: 1807-9326
ISSN Online: 1874-656X

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ISSN Print: 1537-6370
ISSN Online: 1558-5271

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ISSN Print: 1045-0300
ISSN Online: 1558-5441

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ISSN Online: 1939-2419

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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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