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New & Recent titles
January 2021
After Auschwitz
The Difficult Legacies of the GDR
Heitzer, E., Jander, M., Kahane, A., & Poutrus, P. G. (eds)
January 2021
In the Shadow of the Great War
Physical Violence in East-Central Europe, 1917–1923
Böhler, J., Konrád, O., Kučera, R. (eds)
January 2021
Imagining Bosnian Muslims in Central Europe
Representations, Transfers and Exchanges
Šístek, F. (ed)
January 2021
Commerce as Politics
The Two Centuries of Struggle for Basotho Economic Independence
Maliehe, S. M.
January 2021
Risk on the Table
Food Production, Health, and the Environment
Creager, A. N. H. & Gaudilière, J.-P. (eds)
February 2021
South Africa's Dreams
Ethnologists and Apartheid in Namibia
Gordon, R. J.
February 2021
More than Mere Spectacle
Coronations and Inaugurations in the Habsburg Monarchy during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Van Gelder, K.
February 2022
Narratives in Motion
Journalism and Modernist Events in 1920s Portugal
Trindade, L.
June 2021
Narratives in the Making
Writing the East German Past in the Democratic Present
Gallinat, A.
February 2021
Nordic War Stories
World War II as History, Fiction, Media, and Memory
Stecher-Hansen, M. (ed)
February 2021
Four-Color Communism
Comic Books and Contested Power in the German Democratic Republic
Eedy, S.
February 2021
Political Graffiti in Critical Times
The Aesthetics of Street Politics
Campos, R., Pavoni, A., & Zaimakis, Y. (eds)
September 2021
Taking on Technocracy
Nuclear Power in Germany, 1945 to the Present
Augustine, D. L.
March 2021
Jewish Self-Hate
Lessing, T.
January 2022
Poland Daily
Economy, Work, Consumption and Social Class in Polish Cinema
Mazierska, E.
March 2021
Peripheries at the Centre
Borderland Schooling in Interwar Europe
Venken, M.
March 2021
On the Death of Jews
Photographs and History
Fresco, N.
December 2021
Changes in the Air
Hurricanes in New Orleans from 1718 to the Present
Rohland, E.
April 2021
Merchant Kings
Corporate Governmentality in the Dutch Colonial Empire, 1815–1870
Schrauwers, A.
May 2021
Metaphors of Spain
Representations of Spanish National Identity in the Twentieth Century
Moreno-Luzón, J. & Núñez Seixas, X. M. (eds)
April 2021
Bestsellers of the Third Reich
Readers, Writers and the Politics of Literature
Adam, C.
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)
April 2021
The Herero Genocide
War, Emotion, and Extreme Violence in Colonial Namibia
Häussler, M.
November 2021
The Changing Meanings of the Welfare State
Histories of a Key Concept in the Nordic Countries
Edling, N. (ed)
April 2021
East German Film and the Holocaust
Ward, E.
January 2022
Cinema of Collaboration
DEFA Coproductions and International Exchange in Cold War Europe
Ivanova, M.
May 2021
When They Came for Me
The Hidden Diary of an Apartheid Prisoner
Schlapobersky, J. R.
August 2021
The Total Work of Art
Foundations, Articulations, Inspirations
Imhoof, D., Menninger, M. E., & Steinhoff, A. J. (eds)
May 2021
To See a Moose
The History of Polish Sex Education
Kościańska, A.
January 2021
Magical House Protection
The Archaeology of Counter-Witchcraft
Hoggard, B.
October 2021
Lobbying Hitler
Industrial Associations between Democracy and Dictatorship
Bera, M.
May 2021
Legal Entanglements
Law, Rights and the Battle for Legitimacy in Divided Germany, 1945-1989
Gehrig, S.
January 2021
Who Abolished Slavery?
Slave Revolts and Abolitionism
A Debate with João Pedro Marques
Drescher, S. & Emmer, P. (eds)
May 2021
Analysing Historical Narratives
On Academic, Popular and Educational Framings of the Past
Berger, S., Brauch, N., & Lorenz, C. (eds)
September 2021
Expeditionary Anthropology
Teamwork, Travel and the ''Science of Man''
Thomas, M. & Harris, A. (eds)
May 2021
Echoes of Surrealism
Challenging Socialist Realism in East German Literature, 1945–1990
Berendse, G.-J.
June 2021
The Age of Capitalism and Bureaucracy
Perspectives on the Political Sociology of Max Weber
Mommsen, W. J.
June 2021
German Rule, African Subjects
State Aspirations and the Reality of Power in Colonial Namibia
Zimmerer, J.
June 2021
Do Not Forget Me
Three Jewish Mothers Write to Their Sons from the Thessaloniki Ghetto
Saltiel, L. (ed)
June 2021
In Memory of Times to Come
Ironies of History in Southeastern Papua New Guinea
Demian, M.
June 2021
Rethinking Atlantic Empire
Christopher Schmidt-Nowara’s Histories of Nineteenth-Century Spain and the Antilles
Eastman, S. & Jacobsen, S. (eds)
July 2021
The Paradoxical Republic
Austria 1945–2020
Rathkolb, O.
July 2021
International Organizations Revisited
Agency and Pathology in a Multipolar World
Dijkzeul, D. & Salomons, D. (eds)
July 2021
Iron Landscapes
National Space and the Railways in Interwar Czechoslovakia
Jeschke, F.
August 2021
Territory, State and Nation
The Geopolitics of Rudolf Kjellén
Björk, R. & Lundén, T. (eds)
July 2021
Singing Ideas
Performance, Politics and Oral Poetry
Ní Shíocháin, T.
August 2021
The Russian Cold
Histories of Ice, Frost, and Snow
Herzberg, J., Renner, A., & Schierle, I. (eds)
September 2021
Traumatic Pasts in Asia
History, Psychiatry, and Trauma from the 1930s to the Present
Micale, M. S. & Pols, H. (eds)
August 2021
Tropics of Vienna
Colonial Utopias of the Habsburg Empire
Bach, U. E.
November 2021
Jesus Reclaimed
Jewish Perspectives on the Nazarene
Homolka, W.
September 2021
The Greek Military Dictatorship
Revisiting a Troubled Past, 1967–1974
Anastasakis, O. & Lagos, K. (eds)
September 2021
Guido Goldman
Transatlantic Bridge Builder
Klingst, M.
September 2021
Israel-Palestine
Lands and Peoples
Bartov, O. (ed)
October 2021
Heritage under Socialism
Preservation in Eastern and Central Europe, 1945–1991
Gantner, E. B., Geering, C., & Vickers, P. (ed)
October 2021
Indigenous Resurgence
Decolonialization and Movements for Environmental Justice
Dhillon, J.
October 2021
Transcending the Nostalgic
Landscapes of Postindustrial Europe beyond Representation
Jaramillo, G. S. & Tomann, J. (eds)
September 2021
The Indoctrination of the Wehrmacht
Nazi Ideology and the War Crimes of the German Military
Sait, B.
December 2021
Divining History
Prophetism, Messianism and the Development of the Spirit
Svenungsson, J.
April 2021
Disrupted Landscapes
State, Peasants and the Politics of Land in Postsocialist Romania
Dorondel, S.
November 2021
Defeating Impunity
Attempts at International Justice in Europe since 1914
Rovetta, O. & Lagrou, P. (eds)
November 2021
Medieval Intersections
Gender and Status in Europe in the Middle Ages
Weikert, K. & Woodacre, E. (eds)
November 2021
The Vienna Gestapo 1938-1945
Crimes, Perpetrators, Victims
Boeckl-Klamper, E., Mang, T., & Neugebauer, W.
December 2021
The Power of Scripture
Political Biblicism in the Early Stuart Monarchy between Representation and Subversion
Pečar, A.
December 2021
Germany and the Confessional Divide
Religious Tensions and Political Culture, 1871-1989
Ruff, M. E. & Großbölting, T. (eds)
December 2021
Repressed, Remitted, Rejected
German Reparations Debts to Poland and Greece
Roth, K. H. & Rübner, H.
May 2022
The Walls of Santiago
Social Revolution and Political Aesthetics in Contemporary Chile
Gordon-Zolov, T. & Zolov, E.
History-Related Journals
Aspasia
The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women's and Gender History
Contributions to the History of Concepts
Editors: Jani Marjanen, University of Helsinki; Jan Ifversen, University of Aahus; Margrit Pernau, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
French Politics, Culture & Society
Editor: Herrick Chapman, New York University
German Politics and Society
Editor: Jeffrey J. Anderson, Georgetown University
Managing Editor/Book Review Editor: Eric Langenbacher, Georgetown University
Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
Outgoing Senior Editor: Linda E. Mitchell, University of Missouri, Kansas City,
Incoming Editor: Elizabeth MacKnight, University of Aberdeen,
Co-editor: W. Brian Newsome, Elizabethtown College
Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
Editor: Eckhardt Fuchs, Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research
Mobility in History
The Yearbook of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility
Editors: Kyle Shelton, Rice University
Christiane Katz, Aachen University
Dhan Zunino Singh, University of Quilmes
Kate McDonald, University of California, Santa Barbara
Sibirica
Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies
Editor: Matthew Romaniello, University of Hawaii
Transfers
Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies
Editor: Dagmar Schfer, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
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