New Books in Western European Studies
Episodes
Cristina A. Bejan, "Intellectuals and Fascism in Interwar Romania: The Criterion Association" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019)
23 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 1930s Bucharest, some of the country's most brilliant young intellectuals converged to form the Criterion Association. Bound by friendship and the ...
Mark Gilbert, "European Integration: A Political History" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020)
20 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Awareness of the EU's undeniable past and present importance can - and has - led to complacency and hubris. There is nothing inevitable about Europ...
Ara H. Merjian, "Against the Avant-Garde: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Contemporary Art, and Neocapitalism" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
18 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of New Books in History, Jana Byars talks with Ara Marjian, Professor of Italian and affiliate of the Institute of Fine Arts and the ...
Sharon T. Strocchia, "Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy" (Harvard UP, 2019)
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of New Books in History, Jana Byars talks with Sharon Strocchia, Professor of History at Emory University. She is the author of Deat...
Marisa Anne Bass, "Insect Artifice: Nature and Art in the Dutch Revolt" (Princeton UP, 2019)
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Insect Artifice: Nature and Art in the Dutch Revolt (Princeton UP, 2019) Marissa Anne Bass explores the moment when the seismic forces of the Dut...
Nurfadzilah Yahaya, "Fluid Jurisdictions: Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia" (Cornell UP, 2020)
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Fluid Jurisdictions: Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia (Cornell University Press, 2020) by Prof. Nurfadzilah Yahaya is a wide-ranging, geograph...
Ken Tully and Chad Leahy, "Jerusalem Afflicted: Quaresmius, Spain, and the Idea of a 17th-century Crusade" (Routledge, 2019)
11 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On Good Friday, 1626, Franciscus Quaresmius delivered a sermon in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem calling on King Philip IV of Spain to ...
Joanne Paul, "Counsel and Command in Early Modern English Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
11 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
While it has often been recognized that counsel formed an essential part of the political discourse in early modern England, the precise role that it ...
Niklas Frykman, "The Bloody Flag: Mutiny in the Age of Atlantic Revolution" (U California Press, 2020)
09 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The 1790s were a decade of turmoil and strife across the West. With the French Revolution, a new era of wars began that invoked the language of equal ...
John Tolan, "Faces of Muhammad: Western Perceptions of the Prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to Today" (Princeton UP, 2019)
06 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
John Tolan’s latest book Faces of Muhammad: Western Perceptions of the Prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to Today (Princeton UP, 2019) is a fa...
Ewald Nowotny, "Money and Life" (Braumüller Verlag, 2020)
05 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In September 2008, Ewald Nowotny joined the governing council of the European Central Bank. Just two weeks later, Lehman Brothers filed the largest ba...
Alexander Lee, "Humanism and Empire: The Imperial Ideal in Fourteenth-Century Italy" (Oxford UP, 2018)
02 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Renaissance humanists and the Holy Roman Empire haven’t mixed well in most scholarship. Humanists were supposed to be learned exponents of liberty. ...
Grégory Quin, "Des Réseaux et des Hommes: Participation et Contribution de la Suisse à l’Internationalisation du Sport (1912-1972)" (Éditions Alphil, 2019)
02 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today we are joined by Grégory Quin, maître d’enseignement et de recherche à l’Institut des sciences du sport de l’Université de Lausanne, a...
Cynthia Miller-Idriss, "Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right" (Princeton UP, 2020)
02 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A startling look at the unexpected places where violent hate groups recruit young people. Hate crimes. Misinformation and conspiracy theories. Foiled ...
M. Sobolewska and R. Ford, "Brexitland: Identity, Diversity and the Reshaping of British Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What are the identity conflicts that define contemporary society? In Brexitland: Identity, Diversity and the Reshaping of British Politics (Cambridge ...
Lissette Lopez Szwydky, "Transmedia Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century" (Ohio State UP, 2020)
26 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of New Books in Literary Studies we speak with Lissette Lopez Szwydky, author of the new book Transmedia Adaptation in the Nineteenth ...
Anthony L. Gardner, "Stars with Stripes: The Essential Partnership between the European Union and the United States" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
23 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If the US is – in the words of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright – the "indispensible nation" then the economic, democratic and institu...
Noel Malcolm, "Useful Enemies: Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450-1750" (Oxford UP, 2019)
22 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sir Noel Malcolm’s captivating new book, Useful Enemies: Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450-1750 (Oxford University Pre...
D. Bilak and T. Nummedal, "Furnace and Fugue. A Digital Edition of Michael Maier’s 'Atalanta fugiens' (1618)" (U Virginia Press, 2020)
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 1618, on the eve of the Thirty Years’ War, the German alchemist and physician Michael Maier published Atalanta fugiens, an intriguing and complex...
James Simpson, "Permanent Revolution: The Reformation and the Illiberal Roots of Liberalism" (Harvard UP, 2019)
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Protestant Reformation looms large in our cultural imagination. In the standard telling, it’s the moment the world went modern. Casting off the ...
Martyn Rady, "The Habsburgs: To Rule the World" (Basic Books, 2020)
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In The Habsburgs: To Rule the World (Basic Books, 2020), Martyn Rady, Masaryk Professor of Central European History at University College London, te...
K. Grenier and A. Mushal, "Cultures of Memory in the Nineteenth Century: Consuming Commemoration" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
19 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Cultures of Memory in the Nineteenth Century: Consuming Commemoration (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) explores commemorative practices as they developed in...
Stefan Bauer, "The Invention of Papal History: Onofrio Panvinio between Renaissance and Catholic Reform" (Oxford UP, 2020)
19 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Stefan Bauer has written an outstanding study of one of the most important Catholic historians in early modern Europe. Bauer, who has just taken up a ...
Bernice Lerner, "All the Horrors of War: A Jewish Girl, a British Doctor, and the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
16 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
One was a teenage Jewish girl, forcibly transported from her home in Hungary to a Nazi concentration camp. The other was a British doctor, whose exper...
Ben Vinson III, "Before Mestizaje: The Frontiers of Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
14 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Since its 2017 publication, Ben Vinson III's book Before Mestizaje: The Frontiers of Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico (Cambridge University Press) ha...
Julie Hardwick, "Sex in an Old Regime City: Young Workers and Intimacy in France, 1660-1789" (Oxford UP, 2020)
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Young women and men sought out each other’s company in the workshops, cabarets, and streets of Old Regime Lyon, and evidence of these relationships ...
Mira L. Siegelberg, "Statelessness: A Modern History" (Harvard UP, 2020)
12 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In her book, Statelessness: A Modern History (Harvard University Press, 2020), Mira L. Siegelberg traces the history of the concept of statelessness i...
Charles F. Walker, "Witness to the Age of Revolution: The Odyssey of Juan Bautista Tupac Amaru" (Oxford UP, 2020)
12 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Charles F. Walker’s Witness to the Age of Revolution: The Odyssey of Juan Bautista Tupac Amaru, 2020, is part of Oxford University Press’ Graphic...
Stephen Wall, "Reluctant European: Britain and the European Union from 1945 to Brexit" (Oxford UP, 2020)
09 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In January 2020, the UK became the first country to leave the European Union after a troubled 47-year membership. What was at the core of the country’...
Jill Richards, "The Fury Archives: Female Citizenship, Human Rights, and the International Avant-Gardes" (Columbia UP, 2020)
08 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In The Fury Archives: Female Citizenship, Human Rights, and the International Avant-Gardes (Columbia UP 2020), Jill Richards radically rewrites our un...
Jeremy Black, "The Holocaust: History and Memory" (Indiana UP, 2016)
08 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The event that is commonly labeled as the ‘Holocaust’, was one of the most horrific of the Twentieth Century. It is also one of the most popularl...
Patrick Honohan, "Currency, Credit and Crisis: Central Banking in Ireland and Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
08 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For readers – including non-economists – who want to get to grips with the nature and scale of the last financial crisis, how it was managed and m...
Sheri Berman, "Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe: From the Ancien Régime to the Present Day" (Oxford UP, 2019)
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
At the end of the twentieth century, many believed the story of European political development had come to an end. Modern democracy began in Europe, b...
Cory C. Brock, "Orthodox Yet Modern: Herman Bavinck’s Use of Friedrich Schleiermacher" (Lexham Press, 2020)
02 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Cory C. Brock has published an exciting new book on one of the most important Dutch Reformed theologians from the late nineteenth and early twentieth ...
Rogers M. Smith, "That Is Not Who We Are!: Populism and Peoplehood" (Yale UP, 2020)
01 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Rogers M. Smith, the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, has written a new book on t...
Adriaan C. Neele, "Petrus van Mastricht (1630-1706): Text, Context, and Interpretation" (Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2020)
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Adriaan Neele, who is director of the doctoral programme and Professor of Historical Theology at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, has edited an ...
John Connelly, "From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe" (Princeton UP, 2020)
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
John Connelly’s new book – From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe (Princeton University Press, 2020) – is an encyclopedic but li...
Geoffrey Plank, "Atlantic Wars: From the Fifteenth Century to the Age of Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2020)
29 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For the people of the Dawnland, they were floating islands. The sails resembled clouds, and the men gathered on deck looked like bears. When Europeans...
Karl Gerth, "Unending Capitalism: How Consumerism Negated China's Communist Revolution" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
25 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Karl Gerth’s new book, Unending Capitalism: How Consumerism Negated China's Communist Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2020) details how the...
Alison Games, "Inventing the English Massacre: Amboyna in History and Memory" (Oxford UP, 2020
24 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
My Lai, Wounded Knee, Sandy Hook: the place names evoke grief and horror, each the site of a massacre. Massacres-the mass slaughter of people-might se...
Marlene Wind, "The Tribalization of Europe: A Defence of our Liberal Values" (Polity, 2020)
24 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The European Union is arguably facing the greatest existential threat in its history. One of its big four member states has left and the main oppositi...
Edgardo Pérez Morales, "No Limits to Their Sway: Cartagena’s Privateers and the Masterless Caribbean in the Age of Revolutions" (Vanderbilt UP, 2018)
23 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In No Limits to Their Sway: Cartagena’s Privateers and the Masterless Caribbean in the Age of Revolutions (Vanderbilt UP, 2018), Edgardo Pérez Mora...
Roman Deininger, "Markus Söder: The Shadow Chancellor" (Droemer Knauer, 2020)
23 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Next year, Germany goes to the polls. For the first time in 15 years, Angela Merkel will not be a candidate for chancellor. Although a leadership elec...
Kenneth Austin, "The Jews and the Reformation" (Yale UP, 2020)
21 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kenneth Austin, who teaches history at the University of Bristol, UK, is well-known for his work on Jews and Judaism in early modern Europe. His new b...
Jonathan Robinson, "Rights at the Margins: Historical, Legal and Philosophical Perspectives" (Brill, 2020)
18 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The essays in Rights at the Margins: Historical, Legal and Philosophical Perspectives (Brill) explore the ways rights were available to those in the m...
Despina Stratigakos, "Hitler’s Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway" (Princeton UP, 2020)
17 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In her new book Hitler’s Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway (Princeton University Press, 2020), Despina Stratigakos investi...
Kris Alexanderson, "Subversive Seas: Anticolonial Networks across the Twentieth-Century Dutch Empire" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
14 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Subversive Seas: Anticolonial Networks across the Twentieth-Century Dutch Empire (Cambridge UP, 2019), Kris Alexanderson offers a revealing portrai...
Jeremy Black, "A History of Britain: 1945 to Brexit" (Indiana UP, 2017)
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
According to the influential French commentator and scholar, Raymond Aron, one the great un-answered questions of the post-1945 period is how and why ...
Sandra Young, "The Early Modern Global South in Print: Textual Form and the Production of Human Difference as Knowledge" (Routledge, 2015)
07 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Early modern geographers and compilers of travel narratives drew on a lexicon derived from cartography’s seemingly unchanging coordinates to explain...
Helmut Walser Smith, "Germany: A Nation in its Time" (Liveright, 2020)
07 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In his groundbreaking 500-year history entitled Germany: A Nation in its Time (Liveright, 2020), Helmut Walser Smith challenges traditional perceptio...
Carolyn J. Dean, "The Moral Witness: Trials and Testimony after Genocide" (Cornell UP, 2019)
07 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Moral Witness: Trials and Testimony after Genocide (Cornell University Press, 2019) is the first cultural history of the "witness to genocide" in ...
Rachel Mesch, "Before Trans: Three Gender Stories from Nineteenth-Century France" (Stanford UP, 2020)
04 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Before Trans: Three Gender Stories from Nineteenth-Century France (Stanford University Press), Rachel Mesch reads the biographies and work of three...
J. Herbst and S. Lovegrove, "Brexit And Financial Regulation" (Oxford UP, 2020)
04 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The UK’s transition from legally withdrawing from the EU to leaving the union’s single market will come to an end at midnight on December 31 with ...
Jeff Schauer, "Wildlife between Empire and Nation in 20th-Century Africa" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
02 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The protection of African wildlife enjoys the support of large numbers of individuals and institutions throughout the world. In Wildlife between Empir...
Jeremy Black, "A Brief History of the Mediterranean" (Little Brown, 2020)
31 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jeremy Black, the prolific professor of history at Exeter University, has published A Brief History of the Mediterranean (Little Brown, 2020), to offe...
Olli Rehn, "Walking the Highwire: Rebalancing the European Economy in Crisis" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
28 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Walking the Highwire: Rebalancing the European Economy in Crisis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) tells the story of the Eurozone’s crisis from the perspe...
S. Grayzel and T. Proctor, "Gender and the Great War" (Oxford UP, 2017)
28 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this week episode of “New Books in History,” we’ll discuss Gender and the Great War (Oxford University Press, 2017) with editors Sue Grayzel ...
Steven Shapin, "The Scientific Revolution" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
26 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it.” With this provocative and apparently paradoxical claim, Steve...
David Bressoud, "Calculus Reordered: A History of the Big Ideas" (Princeton UP, 2019)
24 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Calculus Reordered: A History of the Big Ideas (Princeton UP, 2019) takes readers on a remarkable journey through hundreds of years to tell the story ...
Jered Rubin, "Rulers, Religion, and Riches: Why the West Got Rich and the Middle East Did Not" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
19 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Rulers, Religion, and Riches: Why the West Got Rich and the Middle East Did Not (Cambridge UP, 2020) addresses one of the big questions in economics a...
Colin Rose, "A Renaissance of Violence: Homicide in Early Modern Italy" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
18 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of New Books in History, Jana Byars talks with Colin Rose, Assistant Professor of History at Brock University in St. Catherine’s, On...
Pamila Gupta, "Portuguese Decolonization in the Indian Ocean World: History and Ethnography" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
17 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Pamila Gupta’s Portuguese Decolonization in the Indian Ocean World: History and Ethnography (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2020), takes a unique approa...
Marion Kaplan, "Hitler’s Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal" (Yale UP, 2020)
14 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Marion Kaplan's riveting book, Hitler’s Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal (Yale University Press) describes the dramatic experiences of...
Paul De Grauwe, "Economics of Monetary Union" (Oxford UP, 2020)
13 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
First published in 1992 before the creation of the euro, Paul De Grauwe’s Economics of Monetary Union (Oxford University Press, 2020) has become a s...
Patrice Gueniffey, "Napoleon and de Gaulle: Heroes and History" (Harvard UP, 2020)
11 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
One of France’s most famous historians compares and contrasts the two most famous French exemplars of political and military leadership of the past ...
Costas Lapavitsas, "The Left Case Against the EU" (Polity, 2018)
07 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Many on the Left see the European Union as a fundamentally benign project with the potential to underpin ever greater cooperation and progress. If it ...
Richard Breitman, "The Journal of Holocaust and Genocide Studies"(Oxford Academic/USHMM)
07 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Journal of Holocaust and Genocide Studies is turning twenty-five. One of the first academic journals focused on the study of the Holocaust and G...
Ananya Chakravarti, "The Empire of Apostles" (Oxford UP, 2018)
07 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ananya Chakravarti’s The Empire of Apostles: Religion, Accommodatio and The Imagination of Empire in Modern Brazil and India (Oxford University Pres...
Joshua Nall, "News from Mars: Mass Media and the Forging of a New Astronomy, 1860-1910" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2019)
06 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, we’re hearing an awful lot about the fraught relationship between science and media. In his book, News from M...
David Tavárez, "Words and Worlds Turned Around: Indigenous Christianities in Colonial Latin America" (U Colorado Press, 2017)
06 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Professor David Tavárez’s edited volume, Words & Worlds Turned Around: Indigenous Christianities in Colonial Latin America (Boulder: University of ...
Russell J. A. Kilbourn, "The Cinema of Paolo Sorrentino: Commitment to Style" (Wallflower Press, 2020)
04 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Russell J. A. Kilbourn’s The Cinema of Paolo Sorrentino: Commitment to Style (Wallflower Press, 2020) is the first comprehensive study published in ...
Mari K. Webel, "The Politics of Disease Control: Sleeping Sickness in Eastern Africa, 1890-1920" (Ohio UP, 2019)
03 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In The Politics of Disease Control. Sleeping Sickness in Eastern Africa, 1890-1920 (Ohio University Press, 2019), Mari K. Webel tells a history of col...
Nicholas B. Miller, "John Millar and the Scottish Enlightenment: Family Lfe and World History" (Voltaire Foundation, 2017)
03 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
During the long eighteenth century the moral and socio-political dimensions of family life and gender were hotly debated by intellectuals across Europ...
Ann Tucker, "Newest Born of Nations: European Nationalist Movements and the Making of the Confederacy" (UVA Press, 2020)
29 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
From the earliest stirrings of southern nationalism to the defeat of the Confederacy, analysis of European nationalist movements played a critical rol...
James Renshaw, "In Search of the Romans" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
27 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
James Renshaw modestly describes his interactive textbook, In Search of the Romans (Bloomsbury, 2019) as an attempt to bring his high school readers t...
Ari Linden, "Karl Kraus and The Discourse of Modernity" (Northwestern UP, 2020)
24 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Karl Kraus and The Discourse of Modernity (Northwestern University Press, 2020), Ari Linden analyzes Karl Kraus’s oeuvre while engaging in the co...
Roger Moorhouse, "Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II" (Basic Books, 2020)
22 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Historian and academic Roger Moorhouse, revisits the opening campaign of World War II, the German invasion of Poland in September 1939., in his new bo...
Tamar Herzog, "A Short History of European Law: The Last Two and a Half Millennia" (Harvard UP, 2019)
22 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
To many observers, European law seems like the endpoint of a mostly random walk through history. Certainly the trajectory of legal systems in the West...
Giulia Bonazza, "Abolitionism and the Persistence of Slavery in Italian States 1750–1850" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
21 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Abolitionism and the Persistence of Slavery in Italian States 1750–1850 (Palgrave MacMillian, 2019) offers a pioneering study of slavery in the Ital...
Amanda L. Scott, "The Basque Seroras: Local Religion, Gender, and Power in Northern Iberia, 1550-1800" (Cornell UP, 2020)
21 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Amanda L. Scott’s book, The Basque Seroras: Local Religion, Gender, and Power in Northern Iberia, 1550-1800 (Cornell University Press, 2020), focu...
Erik Grimmer-Solem, "Learning Empire: Globalization and the German Quest for World Status, 1875-1919"(Cambridge UP, 2019)
16 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In his new book, Learning Empire: Globalization and the German Quest for World Status, 1875-1919 (Cambridge University Press) Erik Grimmer-Solem e...
Jeremy Black, "War in Europe: 1450 to the Present" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016)
10 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
War in Europe: 1450 to the Present (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016) is a masterful overview of war and military development in Europe since 1450, bringing ...
Francine Hirsch, "Soviet Judgement at Nuremberg" (Oxford UP, 2020)
09 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How did an authoritarian regime help lay the cornerstones of human rights and international law? Soviet Judgement at Nuremberg: A New History of the I...
Robert Gerwarth, "November 1918: The German Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2020)
08 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Was Weimar doomed from the outset? In November 1918: The German Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2020), Robert Gerwarth argues that this is the wr...
Jeremy Black, "History of Europe: From Prehistory to the 21st Century" (Arcturus, 2019)
08 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In History of Europe: From Prehistory to the 21st Century, Jeremy Black presents a learned and yet entertaining exploration of the history: politi...
Christian Kleinbub, "Michelangelo’s Inner Anatomies" (Penn State UP, 2020)
07 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Michelangelo’s Inner Anatomies (Penn State University Press), Christian Kleinbub challenges the notion that Michelangelo, renowned for his magnif...
Hope M. Harrison, "After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
06 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In her new book, After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Hope M. Harr...
Allison Bigelow, "Mining Language: Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World" (UNC Press 2020)
06 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Historians of Latin America have long appreciated the central role of mining and metallurgy in the region. The Spanish Empire in particular was create...
David Carballo, "Collision of Worlds: A Deep History of the Fall of Aztec Mexico and the Forging of New Spain" (Oxford UP, 2020)
03 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mexico of five centuries ago was witness to one of the most momentous encounters between human societies, when a group of Spaniards led by Hernando Co...
Richard Carswell, "The Fall of France in the Second World War: History and Memory" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
25 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This fascinating book by Richard Carswell looks at how the fall of France in the Second World War has been recorded by historians and remembered withi...
Alec Ryrie, "Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt" (Harvard UP, 2019)
22 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt (Harvard University Press, 2019), Alec Ryrie, the award-winning author of Protestants offers a new visi...
Anya P. Foxen, "Inhaling Spirit: Harmonialism, Orientalism, and the Western Roots of Modern Yoga" (Oxford UP, 2020)
19 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In her new book Inhaling Spirit: Harmonialism, Orientalism, and the Western Roots of Modern Yoga (Oxford University Press, 2020), Anya Foxen traces ...
Elizabeth Horodowich, "The Venetian Discovery of America" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
16 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Jana Byars speaks with Elizabeth Horodowich, Professor of History at New Mexico State University, about her new book, The Venetian Dis...
John K. Roth, "Sources of Holocaust Insight: Learning and Teaching about the Genocide" (Cascade Books, 2020)
15 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
At Newman I co-teach a class titled "The Holocaust and its Legacies." I teach the course with a Professor of Theology and it's designed to help stude...
Why Did the Allies Win World War One?
11 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Great War was perhaps the greatest single upheaval of the 20th century. While World War II saw more lives lost, in terms of the shock to European/...
Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir, "Valkyrie: The Women of the Viking World" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
11 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Fascination with the Viking Age seems to be at an all-time high, though it has never really gone out of fashion. There is something irresistible about...
Pablo Meninato, "Unexpected Affinities: The History of Type in Architectural Project from Laugier to Duchamp" (Routledge, 2018)
03 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
While the concept of "type" has been present in architectural discourse since its formal introduction at the end of the eighteenth century, its role i...
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
02 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Greene is a Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Columbia University in the City of New York, where he is the Director of the Institute for S...
Roxann Prazniak, "Sudden Appearances: The Mongol Turn in Commerce, Belief, and Art" (U Hawaii Press 2019)
02 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The “Mongol turn” in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries forged new political, commercial, and religious circumstances in Eurasia. This legacy...
Michael Braddick, "The Common Freedom of the People: John Lilburne and the English Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2018)
29 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As historical topics, political revolutions come in and out of fashion. At the moment the American Revolution as an ideological struggle engages the p...