New Books in Western European Studies
Episodes
Jonathan Haslam, "The Spectre of War: International Communism and the Origins of World War II" (Princeton UP, 2021)
12 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Spectre of War: International Communism and the Origins of World War II (Princeton UP, 2021), looks at a subject we thought we knew—the roots o...
Lucy Kinski, "European Representation in EU National Parliaments" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
10 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been 44 years since the Young European Federalists first coined the term “democratic deficit” – two years before the first direct electio...
Elizabeth Anthony, "The Compromise of Return: Viennese Jews After the Holocaust" (Wayne State UP, 2021)
08 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Most often our engagement with the Holocaust is a process of wrestling with the absence of presence and the presence of absence. This is right and i...
Jill P. Ingram, "Festive Enterprise: The Business of Drama in Medieval and Renaissance England" (U Notre Dame Press, 2021)
06 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Festive Enterprise: The Business of Drama in Medieval and Renaissance England (University of Notre Dame Press, 2021), Dr. Jill Ingram merges th...
Nina Trige Andersen, "Labor Pioneers: Economy, Labor, and Migration in Filipino-Danish Relations, 1950-2015" (Ateneo de Manila UP, 2019)
06 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What happened to the Filipinas who migrated to Denmark to staff iconic new international hotels in the 1960s and 1970s? Why did the Philippine governm...
John Christopoulos, "Abortion in Early Modern Italy" (Harvard UP, 2021)
05 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today we have John Christopoulos, Assistant Professor of History at the University of British Columbia, to talk about his new book, Abortion in Earl...
Kathryn Smithies, "Introducing the Medieval Ass" (U of Wales Press, 2020)
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kathryn Smithies a medieval historian at the University of Melbourne, Australia, to talk about her new book, Introducing the Medieval Ass, out 2020 ...
James E. Lindsay and Suleiman Mourad, "Muslim Sources of the Crusader Period: An Anthology" (Hackett, 2021)
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the West, the study of the phenomenon known as the Crusades has long been dominated by European concerns: European periodization, European selectio...
Alex Csiszar, "The Scientific Journal: Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to this interview of Alex Csiszar, professor in the Department of the History of Science, Harvard University and author of The Scientific Jour...
Jeremy Black, "France: A Short History" (Thames & Hudson, 2021)
30 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A short and entertaining narrative of France from prehistory to the present, recounting the great events and personalities that helped create France’...
Léonie de Jonge, "The Success and Failure of Right-Wing Populist Parties in the Benelux Countries" (Routledge, 2021)
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"The populist radical right is by far the best-studied party family within political science”. Extremism expert Cas Mudde may be right but, as Lé...
Massimo Rostagno et al., "Monetary Policy in Times of Crisis: A Tale of Two Decades of the European Central Bank" (Oxford UP, 2021)
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In July 2021, nine summers after its then president saved the euro with three choice words (“whatever it takes”), the European Central Bank publis...
Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen, "The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age" (Yale UP, 2019)
27 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
After a turbulent political revolt against the military superpower of the early modern world, the tiny Dutch Republic managed to situate itself as the...
Moshe Halbertal, "Nahmanides: Law and Mysticism" (Yale UP, 2020)
27 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rabbi Moses ben Nahman (1194–1270), known in English as Nahmanides and by the acronym the Ramban, was one of the most creative kabbalists, one of th...
The Renewable Energy Revolution in East Asia and the Nordics
26 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The world is in a midst of a renewable energy revolution, with the price of utility scale photo-voltaic solar power falling by nearly 90% between 2009...
Margo Shea, "Derry City: Memory and Political Struggle in Northern Ireland" (U Notre Dame Press, 2020)
23 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The city that sits on the River Foyle on the North side of the Irish isle in many ways has stood as a microcosm of the conflicts in Northern Ireland, ...
Meryl Altman, "Beauvoir in Time" (Brill, 2020)
23 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Meryl Altman's new book Beauvoir in Time, published by Brill Rodopi Press (2020), situates Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex (1949) in its histo...
Amy Kaufman and Paul Sturtevant, "Devil's Historians: How Modern Extremists Abuse the Medieval Past" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
23 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In The Devil's Historians: How Modern Extremists Abuse the Medieval Past (University of Toronto Press, 2020), Amy S. Kaufman and Paul B. Sturtevant ...
Tonio Andrade, "The Last Embassy: The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China" (Princeton UP, 2021)
22 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On January 10th, 1795, a very tired caravan arrives in Beijing. The travelers have journeyed from Canton on an accelerated schedule through harsh terr...
Andrew Jenks, "Collaboration in Space and the Search for Peace on Earth" (Anthem Press, 2021)
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Jenks' book Collaboration in Space and the Search for Peace on Earth (Anthem Press, 2021) explores the era of space collaboration (from 1970...
Malte Dold and Tim Krieger, "Ordoliberalism and European Economic Policy: Between Realpolitik and Economic Utopia" (Taylor & Francis, 2021)
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Once described as a “German oddity”†, Ordoliberalism was one of a number of new liberalisms that emerged from the political maelstrom of the int...
Mary Louise Roberts, "Sheer Misery: Soldiers in Battle in WWII" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Marching across occupied France in 1944, American GI Leroy Stewart had neither death nor glory on his mind: he was worried about his underwear. "I ran...
Steven Klein, "The Work of Politics: Making a Democratic Welfare State" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Work of Politics: Making a Democratic Welfare State (Cambridge University Press 2020) advances a new understanding of how democratic social movem...
K. J. Drake, "The Flesh of the Word: The Extra Calvinisticum from Zwingli to Early Orthodoxy" (Oxford UP, 2021)
19 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The extra Calvinisticum, that the eternal Son maintains his existence beyond the flesh during his earthly ministry and perpetually, divided the Luther...
Richard Scholar, "Émigrés: French Words That Turned English" (Princeton UP, 2020)
15 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
English has borrowed more words from French than from any other modern foreign language. French words and phrases—such as à la mode, ennui, naï...
Diana Seave Greenwald, "Painting by Numbers: Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art" (Princeton UP, 2021)
09 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Painting by Numbers: Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art (Princeton UP, 2021) presents a groundbreaking blend of art historical and socia...
Nick Lloyd, "The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918" (Liveright, 2021)
09 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Western Front evokes images of mud-spattered men in waterlogged trenches, shielded from artillery blasts and machine-gun fire by a few feet of dir...
Rod Phillips, "French Wine: A History" (U California Press, 2016)
08 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today on New Books in History, Rod Phillips, Professor of History at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, talks about his book, French Wine: A Hist...
Benjamin Steege, "An Unnatural Attitude: Phenomenology in Weimar Musical Thought" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“What are we thinking about when we think about music in non-naturalistic terms?” asks Benjamin Steege—Assistant Professor of Music Theory, Col...
Christopher Wood, "A History of Art History" (Princeton UP, 2019)
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this wide-ranging and authoritative book, the first of its kind in English, Christopher Wood tracks the evolution of the historical study of art fr...
Ruth Mazo Karras, "Thou Art the Man: The Masculinity of David in the Christian and Jewish Middle Ages" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
02 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today on the podcast, Ruth Mazo Karras, the Lecky Professor of History at Trinity College Dublin talks about her new book, Thou Art the Man: The Masc...
Katherine Pangonis, "Queens of Jerusalem: The Women Who Dared to Rule" (Hachette, 2021)
01 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Any study of the Crusades — the religious wars waged by Latin Catholics to recapture the Holy Land — is primarily an exploration of men and their ...
What Do the Ancients Have to Teach Us?: A Discussion with Rob Tempio
01 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Rob Tempio, the editor of a wonderful collection of books from Princeton University Press called "Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers...
Tracing the Rich, Varied History of the Nordic Education System Through Textbooks
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The highest literacy rates worldwide, free universal healthcare, social security, strong economies —these are traits commonly associated with the No...
Christopher Grey, "Brexit Unfolded: How No One Got What They Wanted (and Why They Were Never Going To)" (Biteback, 2021)
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 2020-21, the UK left first the EU and then the 30-nation European Economic Area. Much of the impact has been masked by the coronavirus pandemic but...
Sophie L. Gonick, "Dispossession and Dissent: Migrants and the Struggle for Housing in Madrid" (Stanford UP, 2021)
29 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Since the 2008 financial crisis, complex capital flows have ravaged everyday communities across the globe. Housing in particular has become increasing...
Leah DeVun, "The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance" (Columbia UP, 2021)
29 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Leah DeVun is an Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University. Leah DeVun focuses on the history of gender, sexuality, science, and medicine i...
Alessandro Testa, "Rituality and Social (Dis)Order: The Historical Anthropology of Popular Carnival in Europe" (Routledge, 2020)
25 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rituality and Social (Dis)Order: The Historical Anthropology of Popular Carnival in Europe (Routledge, 2020) is the first comparative historical an...
Jamie Kreiner, "Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West" (Yale UP, 2020)
24 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of New Books in History, Jamie Kreiner, Associate Professor of History at the University of Georgia, talks about her new book, Legion...
Philip Zelikow, "The Road Less Traveled: The Secret Battle to End the Great War, 1916-1917" (PublicAffairs, 2021)
24 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
During a pivotal few months in the middle of the First World War all sides-Germany, Britain, and America-believed the war could be concluded. Peace at...
R. Ward Holder, "John Calvin in Context" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
23 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
John Calvin in Context (Cambridge UP, 2019) offers a comprehensive overview of Calvin's world. Including essays from social, cultural, feminist, and...
Sean McMeekin, "Stalin's War: A New History of World War II" (Basic Books, 2021)
23 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
World War II endures in the popular imagination as a heroic struggle between good and evil, with villainous Hitler driving its events. But Hitler was ...
Jonathon D. Beeke, "Duplex Regnum Christi: Christ's Twofold Kingdom in Reformed Theology" (Brill, 2020)
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Duplex Regnum Christi: Christ's Twofold Kingdom in Reformed Theology (Brill, 2020), Jonathon D. Beeke surveys the development of thinking among ...
Stephen Murray, "Notre-Dame of Amiens: Life of the Gothic Cathedral" (Columbia UP, 2020)
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Notre-Dame of Amiens is one of the great Gothic cathedrals. Its construction began in 1220, and artistic production in the Gothic mode lasted well int...
Megan Carney, "Island of Hope: Migration and Solidarity in the Mediterranean" ( U of California Press, 2021)
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With thousands of migrants attempting the perilous maritime journey from North Africa to Europe each year, transnational migration is a defining featu...
Martha Moffitt Peacock, "Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives: Imaging Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age" (Brill, 2020)
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today we are joined by Martha Moffitt Peacock, Professor of Art History at Brigham Young University about her new book, Heroines, Harpies, and Housew...
Silke Muylaert, "Shaping the Stranger Churches: Migrants in England and the Troubles in the Netherlands, 1547–1585" (Brill, 2020)
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
During the mid-sixteenth century, English reformers invited a group of continental Protestant refugees to London and surrounding provinces. The eccle...
Mary D. Garrard, "Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Artemisia Gentileschi is by far the most famous woman artist of the premodern era. Her art addressed issues that resonate today, such as sexual violen...
Louis Menand, "The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War" (FSG, 2021)
07 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In his follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Metaphysical Club, acclaimed scholar and critic Louis Menand, Professor of English at Harvard U...
Suzanne L. Marchand, "Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe" (Princeton UP, 2020)
04 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Suzanne L. Marchand's new book Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe (Princeton University Press, 2020) balances several histories at once t...
Christopher Ocker, "Luther, Conflict, and Christendom: Reformation Europe and Christianity in the West" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
04 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Martin Luther - monk, priest, intellectual, or revolutionary - has been a controversial figure since the sixteenth century. Most studies of Luther str...
Rob Boddice, "Humane Professions: The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876-1914" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this compelling history of the co-ordinated, transnational defence of medical experimentation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Rob ...
Jurgen Martschukat, "The Age of Fitness: How the Body Came to Symbolize Success and Achievement" (Polity, 2021)
31 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today on New Books in History, Juergen Martschukat, professor of North American History at Universitat Erfurt, talks about his new book, The Age of ...
Paolo Dardanelli and Oscar Mazzoleni, "Dealing with Europe: Lessons from Switzerland's Experience" (Routledge, 2021)
31 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Between voting to leave the European Union in 2016 and doing it four years later, the British political and media classes debated what kind of relatio...
Dave Seminara, "Footsteps of Federer: A Fan’s Pilgrimage Across 7 Swiss Cantons in 10 Acts" (Post Hill Press, 2021)
27 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Dave Seminara about his book Footsteps of Federer: A Fan’s Pilgrimage Across 7 Swiss Cantons in 10 Acts (Post Hill Press, 2021)...
Georgiy Kasianov et al., "From 'the Ukraine' to Ukraine: A Contemporary History, 1991-2021" (Ibidem Press, 2021)
27 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 2021, Ukraine celebrates its thirty-year independence anniversary. During this relatively short period of time—when considered in historical term...
Christiane Tietz, "Karl Barth: A Life in Conflict" (Oxford UP, 2021)
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From the beginning of his career, Swiss theologian Karl Barth (1886-1968) was often in conflict with the spirit of his times. While during the First W...
Linda Colley, "The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World" (Liveright, 2021)
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Linda Colley is a luminary in the fields of British and imperial history, and the Shelby M. C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University...
R. J. B. Bosworth, "Mussolini and the Eclipse of Italian Fascism: From Dictatorship to Populism" (Yale UP, 2021)
25 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A new and incisive account of how Mussolini pioneered policies which we would not label ‘populism’ in reaction to Hitler’s rise to power in 1933...
Beatrice de Graaf, "Fighting Terror after Napoleon: How Europe Became Secure after 1815" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
21 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
After twenty-six years of unprecedented revolutionary upheavals and endless fighting, the victorious powers craved stability after Napoleon's defeat i...
Ned Richardson-Little, "The Human Rights Dictatorship: Socialism, Global Solidarity and Revolution in East Germany" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
21 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In The Human Rights Dictatorship: Socialism, Global Solidarity and Revolution in East Germany (Cambridge UP, 2020), Ned Richardson-Little exposes t...
Michelle Chaplin Sanchez, "Calvin and the Resignification of the World: Creation, Incarnation, and the Problem of Political Theology in the 1559 'Institutes'" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
21 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
John Calvin's 1559 Institutes takes the reader on a journey that ends not in the celestial city but rather an ordinary, terrestrial city with all th...
Jay Lockenour, "Dragonslayer: The Legend of Erich Ludendorff in the Weimar Republic and Third Reich" (Cornell UP, 2021)
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Erich Ludendorff is a contentious figure in military history. Focused, energetic, and hailing from humble origins, Ludendorff rose through the ranks o...
Faith Hillis, "Utopia's Discontents: Russian Emigres and the Quest for Freedom, 1830s-1930s" (Oxford UP, 2021)
18 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In April 1917, Lenin arrived at Petrograd's Finland Station and set foot on Russian soil for the first time in over a decade. For most of the past sev...
Sten Rynniing et al., "War Time: Temporality and the Decline of Western Military Power" (Chatham House, 2020)
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The "decline of the West" is once again a frequent topic of speculation. Often cited as one element of the alleged decline is the succession of prolon...
Erik Jones, "European Studies: Past, Present, and Future" (Agenda, 2020)
07 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“It is no secret that European studies has suffered a setback in the academy”, write William Collins Donahue and Martin Kagel in their contributio...
Diana Arbaiza, "The Spirit of Hispanism: Commerce, Culture, and Identity Across the Atlantic, 1875-1936" (U Notre Dame Press, 2020)
06 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the late nineteenth century, Spanish intellectuals and entrepreneurs became captivated with Hispanism, a movement of transatlantic rapprochement be...
Barbara Pitkin, "Calvin, the Bible, and History" (Oxford UP, 2020)
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
John Calvin was known foremost for his powerful impact on the fundamental doctrines of Protestantism, and his biblical interpretation continues to att...
Domenico Losurdo, "Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel: Intellectual Biography and Critical Balance-Sheet" (Haymarket Books, 2021)
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The 19th century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche stands among the canon’s most-cited figures, with aphorisms dotting texts on a variety of to...
Stella Ghervas, "Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union" (Harvard UP, 2021)
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Stella Ghervas's Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union (Harvard University Press, 2021) is a bold new look at war and dipl...
Erik Grimmer-Solem, "Learning Empire: Globalization and the German Quest for World Status, 1875-1919" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The First World War marked the end point of a process of German globalization that began in the 1870s, well before Germany acquired a colonial empire ...
Ola Innset, "Reinventing Liberalism: The Politics, Philosophy and Economics of Early Neoliberalism (1920-1947)" (Springer, 2021)
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This year, more than 40 books will be published in English with 'Neoliberal' or 'Neoliberalism' in the title. For many in the academy, these words ha...
Philip Cunliffe, "Lenin Lives!: Reimagining the Russian Revolution 1917-2017" (Zero Books, 2017)
22 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
While a number of books came out on the centenary of the Russian Revolution, few seriously considered how the 20th century would have unfolded differ...
William B. Taylor, "Fugitive Freedom: The Improbable Lives of Two Impostors in Late Colonial Mexico" (U California Press, 2021)
19 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Though poverty and vagrancy as social phenomena greatly preoccupied authorities of Colonial Mexico, the social and individual lives of vagabonds and...
Dana Mills, "Rosa Luxemburg" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
15 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Political Theorist and activist Dana Mill’s latest new book, Rosa Luxemburg (Reaktion Books, 2020), is part of an extensive series of books publis...
David Hosaflook (trans.), "The Siege of Shkodra: Albania's Courageous Stand Against Ottoman Conquest, 1478" (2017)
15 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mehmet the Conqueror shook Europe to its foundations when he captured Constantinople in 1453 and, over the next decades, the Ottoman sultan continued ...
Jeremy Black, "A Brief History of Britain 1851-2021: From World Power to ?" (Robinson, 2021)
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jeremy Black, one of the most prolific and punchy of historians of modern Britain, has written a new account of a period on which he has previously pu...
Bruce Berglund, "The Fastest Game in the World: Hockey and the Globalization of Sports" (U California Press, 2020)
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today we are joined by Bruce Berglund, author of The Fastest Game in the World: Hockey and the Globalization of Sports (University of California Pre...
Matthew Frear, "Belarus under Lukashenka: Adaptive Authoritarianism" (Routledge, 2020)
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Often called “Europe’s last dictator”, Alexander Lukashenka has ruled Belarus – a land-locked European country of close to 10 million people b...
Stefano Marcuzzi, "Britain and Italy in the Era of the First World War: Defending and Forging Empires" (Cambridge UP, 2020).
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is a reassessment of British and Italian grand strategies during the First World War. Dr. Stefano Marcuzzi, Max Weber Fellow at the European Uni...
Kenneth Shonk, "Ireland's New Traditionalists: Fianna Fáil Republicanism and Gender, 1926-1938" (Cork UP, 2021)
12 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today on New Books in History, a channel on the New Books Network we are joined by Kenneth L. Shonk, Professor of History at University of Wisconsin-...
Pedro Gustavo Teixeira, "The Legal History of the European Banking Union: How European Law Led to the Supranational Integration of the Single Financial Market" (Hart, 2020)
12 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Pedro Gustavo Teixeira about his new book The Legal History of the European Banking Union: How European Law Led to the Supranation...
Mark A. Waddell, "Magic, Science, and Religion in Early Modern Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
09 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today on New Books in History, Mark A. Waddell, Associate professor of History, Philosophy & Sociology of Science in the Department of History at Mic...
John Sellars, "Marcus Aurelius" (Routledge, 2020)
09 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations is one of the most popular philosophical works by sales to the public, while in academic philosophy he is considered ...
Alison Mountz, "The Death of Asylum: Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
09 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Death of Asylum: Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) arrives at an extraordinarily consequen...
Cedric Cohen-Skalli, "Don Isaac Abravanel: An Intellectual Biography" (Brandeis UP, 2020)
09 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Don Isaac Abravanel (1437–1508) was an important forerunner of Jewish modernity. A merchant, banker, and court financier; a scholar versed in both J...
Sasha Roseneil, "The Tenacity of the Couple-Norm: Intimate Citizenship Regimes in a Changing Europe." (UCL Press, 2020)
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sasha Roseneil, Professor of Interdisciplinary Social Science at the Institute of Advanced Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Social and Historical St...
Richard Pomfret, "The Road to Monetary Union" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Economics is the long-run driver” in the history of Europe’s monetary union, writes Richard Pomfret in the first of a new Cambridge Elements se...
Christopher W. Close, "State Formation and Shared Sovereignty: The Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic, 1488–1690" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today on the New Books in History, a channel on the New Books Network, we’re here today with Christopher Close, Associate Professor of History at S...
Ramsey McGlazer, "Old Schools: Modernism, Education, and the Critique of Progress" (Fordham UP, 2020)
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ramsey McGlazer's Old Schools: Modernism, Education, and the Critique of Progress (Fordham University Press, 2020), traces the ways in which a gr...
Caroline Ritter, "Imperial Encore: The Cultural Project of the Late British Empire" (UC Press, 2021)
02 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What role did culture play in the British Empire? In Imperial Encore: The Cultural Project of the Late British Empire Caroline Ritter, an Assistant ...
Christopher Joby, "The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900): A Cultural and Sociolinguistic Study of Dutch as a Contact Language in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan" (Brill, 2020)
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900): A Cultural and Sociolinguistic Study of Dutch as a Contact Language in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan (Brill,...
Roundtable on Medieval Conspiracy Theories
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Join us today for a roundtable conversation with three leading medieval scholars about the phenomenon of conspiracy theories in history. Michael T. ...
Agnieszka Kościańska, "Gender, Pleasure, and Violence: The Construction of Expert Knowledge of Sexuality in Poland" (Indiana UP, 2021)
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Behind the Iron Curtain, the politics of sexuality and gender were, in many ways, more progressive than the West. While Polish citizens undoubtedly su...
Victoria Shmidt and Bernadette N. Jaworsky, "Historicizing Roma in Central Europe: Between Critical Whiteness and Epistemic Injustice" (Routledge 2021).
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Central Europe, limited success in revisiting the role of science in the segregation of Roma reverberates with the yet-unmet call for contextualizi...
Stephen Snelders, "Drug Smuggler Nation: Narcotics and the Netherlands, 1920-95" (Manchester UP, 2021)
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Why did the international drug regulatory regime of the twentieth century fail to stop an explosive increase in trade and consumption of illegal drugs...
William Max Nelson, "The Time of Enlightenment: Constructing the Future in France, 1750 to Year One" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A new idea of the future emerged in eighteenth-century France. With the development of modern biological, economic, and social engineering, the future...
Sara Ritchey, "Acts of Care: Recovering Women in Late Medieval Health" (Cornell UP, 2021)
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We are here today with Sara Ritchey, associate professor of history at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, TN, about her new book, Acts of Car...
Mayte Green-Mercado, "Visions of Deliverance: Moriscos and the Politics of Prophecy in the Early Modern Mediterranean" (Cornell UP, 2019)
26 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today we hear from Mayte Green-Mercado, Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey to talk about Visions of Delivera...
Eilish Gregory, "Catholics During the English Revolution, 1642-1660: Politics, Sequestration and Loyalty" (Boydell Press, 2021)
25 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eilish Gregory, Catholics During the English Revolution, 1642-1660: Politics, Sequestration and Loyalty (Boydell Press, 2021) is the first book to ...