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

December 2021
Repressed, Remitted, Rejected
German Reparations Debts to Poland and Greece
Roth, K. H. & Rübner, H.

December 2021
Germany and the Confessional Divide
Religious Tensions and Political Culture, 1871-1989
Ruff, M. E. & Großbölting, T. (eds)

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

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

December 2021
The Power of Scripture
Political Biblicism in the Early Stuart Monarchy between Representation and Subversion
Pečar, A.

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

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

January 2022
The Vienna Gestapo, 1938-1945
Crimes, Perpetrators, Victims
Boeckl-Klamper, E., Mang, T., & Neugebauer, W.

January 2022
France, Germany, and Nuclear Deterrence
Quarrels and Convergences during the Cold War and Beyond
Badalassi, N. & Gloriant, F. (eds)

February 2022
Narratives in Motion
Journalism and Modernist Events in 1920s Portugal
Trindade, L.

February 2022
Times of History, Times of Nature
Temporalization and the Limits of Modern Knowledge
Ekstrom, A. & Bergwik, S. (eds)

February 2022
Moving Frames
Photographs in German Cinema
Collenberg-González, C. & Sheehan, M. P. (eds)

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
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.

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

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.

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

January 2022
Cinema of Collaboration
DEFA Coproductions and International Exchange in Cold War Europe
Ivanova, M.

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

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

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

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

January 2022
Poland Daily
Economy, Work, Consumption and Social Class in Polish Cinema
Mazierska, E.

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

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

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

December 2021
Beyond Inclusion and Exclusion
Jewish Experiences of the First World War in Central Europe
Crouthamel, J., Geheran, M., Grady, T., & Köhne, J. B. (eds)

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

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

December 2021
Changes in the Air
Hurricanes in New Orleans from 1718 to the Present
Rohland, E.

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.

December 2021
Divining History
Prophetism, Messianism and the Development of the Spirit
Svenungsson, J.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)
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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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