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New & Recent titles
April 2021
East German Film and the Holocaust
Ward, E.
April 2021
The Herero Genocide
War, Emotion, and Extreme Violence in Colonial Namibia
Häussler, M.
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)
December 2021
Changes in the Air
Hurricanes in New Orleans from 1718 to the Present
Rohland, E.
November 2021
The Changing Meanings of the Welfare State
Histories of a Key Concept in the Nordic Countries
Edling, N. (ed)
January 2022
Cinema of Collaboration
DEFA Coproductions and International Exchange in Cold War Europe
Ivanova, M.
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)
May 2021
Echoes of Surrealism
Challenging Socialist Realism in East German Literature, 1945–1990
Berendse, G.-J.
August 2021
The Total Work of Art
Foundations, Articulations, Inspirations
Imhoof, D., Menninger, M. E., & Steinhoff, A. J. (eds)
May 2021
Legal Entanglements
Law, Rights and the Battle for Legitimacy in Divided Germany, 1945-1989
Gehrig, S.
October 2021
Lobbying Hitler
Industrial Associations between Democracy and Dictatorship
Bera, M.
June 2022
Empathy and History
Historical Understanding in Re-enactment, Hermeneutics and Education
Retz, T.
May 2021
To See a Moose
The History of Polish Sex Education
Kościańska, A.
May 2021
When They Came for Me
The Hidden Diary of an Apartheid Prisoner
Schlapobersky, J. R.
May 2021
Analysing Historical Narratives
On Academic, Popular and Educational Framings of the Past
Berger, S., Brauch, N., & Lorenz, C. (eds)
June 2021
In Memory of Times to Come
Ironies of History in Southeastern Papua New Guinea
Demian, M.
June 2021
Do Not Forget Me
Three Jewish Mothers Write to Their Sons from the Thessaloniki Ghetto
Saltiel, L. (ed)
June 2021
Rethinking Atlantic Empire
Christopher Schmidt-Nowara’s Histories of Nineteenth-Century Spain and the Antilles
Eastman, S. & Jacobsen, S. (eds)
June 2021
German Rule, African Subjects
State Aspirations and the Reality of Power in Colonial Namibia
Zimmerer, J.
June 2021
The Age of Capitalism and Bureaucracy
Perspectives on the Political Sociology of Max Weber
Mommsen, W. J.
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
Taking on Technocracy
Nuclear Power in Germany, 1945 to the Present
Augustine, D. L.
April 2022
Invisible Founders
How Two Centuries of African American Families Transformed a Plantation into a College
Rainville, L.
August 2021
International Organizations Revisited
Agency and Pathology in a Multipolar World
Dijkzeul, D. & Salomons, D. (eds)
August 2021
Territory, State and Nation
The Geopolitics of Rudolf Kjellén
Björk, R. & Lundén, T. (eds)
August 2021
Iron Landscapes
National Space and the Railways in Interwar Czechoslovakia
Jeschke, F.
November 2021
Jesus Reclaimed
Jewish Perspectives on the Nazarene
Homolka, W.
September 2021
Israel-Palestine
Lands and Peoples
Bartov, O. (ed)
September 2021
The Greek Military Dictatorship
Revisiting a Troubled Past, 1967–1974
Anastasakis, O. & Lagos, K. (eds)
April 2022
The Vampire
Origins of a European Myth
Bohn, T. M.
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.
October 2021
Heritage under Socialism
Preservation in Eastern and Central Europe, 1945–1991
Gantner, E. B., Geering, C., & Vickers, P. (ed)
April 2022
Gulag Memories
The Rediscovery and Commemoration of Russia's Repressive Past
Bogumił, Z.
October 2021
Guido Goldman
Transatlantic Bridge Builder
Klingst, M.
October 2021
Transcending the Nostalgic
Landscapes of Postindustrial Europe beyond Representation
Jaramillo, G. S. & Tomann, J. (eds)
March 2022
Hazardous Chemicals
Agents of Risk and Change, 1800-2000
Homburg, E. & Vaupel, E. (eds)
November 2021
Defeating Impunity
Attempts at International Justice in Europe since 1914
Rovetta, O. & Lagrou, P. (eds)
April 2021
Disrupted Landscapes
State, Peasants and the Politics of Land in Postsocialist Romania
Dorondel, S.
November 2021
Medieval Intersections
Gender and Status in Europe in the Middle Ages
Weikert, K. & Woodacre, E. (eds)
December 2021
Divining History
Prophetism, Messianism and the Development of the Spirit
Svenungsson, J.
November 2021
The Paradoxical Republic
Austria 1945–2020
Rathkolb, O.
January 2022
Poland Daily
Economy, Work, Consumption and Social Class in Polish Cinema
Mazierska, E.
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
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.
January 2022
The Vienna Gestapo 1938-1945
Crimes, Perpetrators, Victims
Boeckl-Klamper, E., Mang, T., & Neugebauer, W.
January 2022
The World beyond the West
Perspectives from Eastern Europe
Kałczewiak, M. & Kozłowska, M. (eds)
January 2022
Indigenous Resurgence
Decolonialization and Movements for Environmental Justice
Dhillon, J.
August 2022
Gendering Post-1945 German History
Entanglements
Hagemann, K., & Harsch, D., & Brühöfner, F. (eds)
September 2021
The Indoctrination of the Wehrmacht
Nazi Ideology and the War Crimes of the German Military
Sait, B.
January 2022
France, Germany, and Nuclear Deterrence
Quarrels and Convergences during the Cold War and Beyond
Badalassi, N. & Gloriant, F. (eds)
June 2021
Narratives in the Making
Writing the East German Past in the Democratic Present
Gallinat, A.
February 2022
Narratives in Motion
Journalism and Modernist Events in 1920s Portugal
Trindade, L.
February 2022
Moving Frames
Photographs in German Cinema
Collenberg-González, C. & Sheehan, M. P. (eds)
February 2022
Times of History, Times of Nature
Temporalization and the Limits of Modern Knowledge
Ekstrom, A. & Bergwik, S. (eds)
March 2022
Environing Empire
Nature, Infrastructure and the Making of German Southwest Africa
Kalb, M.
September 2021
Expeditionary Anthropology
Teamwork, Travel and the ''Science of Man''
Thomas, M. & Harris, A. (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
Nationalism and Internationalism Intertwined
A European History of Concepts Beyond Nation States
Ihalainen, P. & Holmila, A. (eds)
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)
July 2022
Money in the German-speaking Lands
Lindemann, M. & Poley, J. (eds)
April 2022
Continental Transfers
Cultural and Political Exchange among Spain, Italy and Argentina, 1914-1945
Fuentes Codera, M. & Dogliani, P. (eds)
April 2022
The Walls of Santiago
Social Revolution and Political Aesthetics in Contemporary Chile
Gordon-Zolov, T. & Zolov, E.
April 2022
Anglo-American Relations and the Transmission of Ideas
A Shared Political Tradition?
Dobson, A. & Marsh, S. (eds)
April 2022
Nurturing the Other
First Contacts and the Making of Christian Bodies in Amazonia
Grotti, V.
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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