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New & Recent titles

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

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

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

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

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

November 2023
Agency in Transnational Memory Politics
Wüstenberg, J. & Sierp, A. (eds)

November 2023
In the Shadow of the Great War
Physical Violence in East-Central Europe, 1917–1923
Böhler, J., Konrád, O., Kučera, R. (eds)

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

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

November 2023
Perestroika and the Party
National and Transnational Perspectives on European Communist Parties in the Era of Soviet Reform
Di Palma, F. (ed)

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

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

November 2023
Xenocracy
State, Class, and Colonialism in the Ionian Islands, 1815-1864
Gekas, S.

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.

November 2023
John F. Kennedy’s Hidden Diary, Europe 1937
The Travel Journals of JFK and Kirk LeMoyne Billings
Kennedy, J. F., LeMoyne Billings, K., & Lubrich, O.

November 2023
The Middle-Income Trap in Central and Eastern Europe
Causes, Consequences and Strategies in Post-Communist Countries
Kouli, Y. & Müller, U. (eds)
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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German Unity Day is celebrated on October 3rd. Tag der Deutschen Einheit celebrates the 1990 reunification of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic with ceremonial acts and the citizens’ festival Bürgerfest. Browse our relevant titles and journals on the ramifications of a divided Germany below. NEW in Paperback! GERMAN DIVISION AS […]
An Interview with Series Editors – Peer Review Week
Berghahn Books has been a rigorous peer-reviewed press since its inception in 1994 and has always considered this essential both for assuring the quality and scholarship of our titles but also for providing insightful feedback for our authors to enable them to improve, refine and develop their work. Supporting early career academics is an important […]
Interview with an author – Peer Review Week
Berghahn Books has been a rigorous peer-reviewed press since its inception in 1994 and has always considered this essential both for assuring the quality and scholarship of our titles but also for providing insightful feedback for our authors to enable them to improve, refine and develop their work. Supporting early career academics is an important […]
Interview with a Journal Editor – Peer Review Week
As a peer-reviewed press, our journals are committed to instituting a thorough review process that is thoughtfully mediated by our journal editors to be inclusive, constructive, and ethical. Our journals pride themselves on being especially supportive of the innovative insights of early career researchers and it is thanks to the peer review process that up-and-coming […]
Women’s Equality Day
Women’s Equality Day is celebrated each year on August 26th to commemorate the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote. Today the observance of Women’s Equality Day has grown to mean much more than just sharing the right to the vote, but also calls attention to women’s continuing efforts toward full equality. Numerous […]
Author Interview: Rowan Mackenzie on ‘Shakespeare and Social Engagement’
Rowan Mackenzie, co-editor of 'Shakespeare and Social Engagement' takes us through the development of the latest book in our Shakespeare & series, her focus on practice-based research and what this collected volume reveals.
World Breastfeeding Week
World Breastfeeding Week is held yearly from 1st to 7th of August in more than 120 countries. Being organized by WABA, WHO and UNICEF, the goal is to promote exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life which yields tremendous health benefits, providing critical nutrients, protection from deadly diseases and fostering growth. To learn more […]
Readings on Abortion
In an effort to further public understanding of abortion and Roe v. Wade, we are offering free access to these relevant journal articles and book chapters. ABORTION IN ASIALocal Dilemmas, Global PoliticsEdited by Andrea Whittaker “[This book] makes an empirically rich and important contribution to social scientific scholarship on induced abortion practices and will hopefully […]
Celebrating Bastille Day
Celebrated on July, 14, Bastille Day is the French national day and one of the most important bank holidays in France. The day commemorates the beginning of the French Revolution with the storming of the Bastille on the 14th July 1789, a medieval fortress and prison which was a symbol of tyrannical Bourbon authority and […]
Author Article: Servants of Culture: Paternalism, Policing, and Identity Politics in Vienna, 1700-1914
Ambika Natarajan discusses her new book, Servants of Culture: Paternalism, Policing, and Identity Politics in Vienna, 1700-1914, which provides an account of Habsburg servant law since the eighteenth century and uncovers the paternalistic and maternalistic assumptions and anxieties which turned the interest of socio-political players in improving poor living and working conditions into practices that […]
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