New Books Network
European Studies
Celebration Studies June 25, 2021

Rituality and Social (Dis)Order

The Historical Anthropology of Popular Carnival in Europe

Alessandro Testa

Hosted by Emily Ruth Allen
Rituality and Social (Dis)Order: The Historical Anthropology of Popular Carnival in Europe (Routledge, 2020) is the first comparative historical anthropology of popular European Carnival in the English language, with a focus on its …

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History June 24, 2021

Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West

Jamie Kreiner

Hosted by Jana Byars
On this episode of New Books in History, Jamie Kreiner, Associate Professor of History at the University of Georgia, talks about her new book, Legions of Pigs in the Early …
History June 24, 2021

The Road Less Traveled

The Secret Battle to End the Great War, 1916-1917

Philip Zelikow

Hosted by Charles Coutinho
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 the end of 1916 would …
Christian Studies June 23, 2021

John Calvin in Context

R. Ward Holder

Hosted by Zachary McCulley
John Calvin in Context (Cambridge UP, 2019) offers a comprehensive overview of Calvin's world. Including essays from social, cultural, feminist, and intellectual historians, each specially commissioned for this volume, the book …
History June 23, 2021

Stalin's War

A New History of World War II

Sean McMeekin

Hosted by Charles Coutinho
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 not in power when the …
Christian Studies June 22, 2021

Duplex Regnum Christi

Christ's Twofold Kingdom in Reformed Theology

Jonathon D. Beeke

Hosted by Crawford Gribben
In Duplex Regnum Christi: Christ's Twofold Kingdom in Reformed Theology (Brill, 2020), Jonathon D. Beeke surveys the development of thinking among early modern Reformed theologians about the relationship between religion and …
Architecture June 22, 2021

Notre-Dame of Amiens

Life of the Gothic Cathedral

Stephen Murray

Hosted by Bryan Toepfer
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 into the sixteenth century. In Notre-Dame …
Anthropology June 15, 2021

Island of Hope

Migration and Solidarity in the Mediterranean

Megan A. Carney

Hosted by Fulya Pinar
With thousands of migrants attempting the perilous maritime journey from North Africa to Europe each year, transnational migration is a defining feature of social life in the Mediterranean today. On …
Christian Studies June 8, 2021

Shaping the Stranger Churches

Migrants in England and the Troubles in the Netherlands, 1547–1585

Silke Muylaert

Hosted by Ryan Shelton
During the mid-sixteenth century, English reformers invited a group of continental Protestant refugees to London and surrounding provinces. The ecclesiastical authorities allowed them liberty to establish their own churches with relatively little …
History June 8, 2021

Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives

Imaging Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age

Martha Moffitt Peacock

Hosted by Jana Byars
Today we are joined by Martha Moffitt Peacock, Professor of Art History at Brigham Young University about her new book, Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives: Imaging Women of Consequence in the …
Art June 8, 2021

Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe

Mary D. Garrard

Hosted by Allison Leigh
Artemisia Gentileschi is by far the most famous woman artist of the premodern era. Her art addressed issues that resonate today, such as sexual violence and women’s problematic relationship to …
History June 7, 2021

The Free World

Art and Thought in the Cold War

Louis Menand

Hosted by Ryan Tripp
In his follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Metaphysical Club, acclaimed scholar and critic Louis Menand, Professor of English at Harvard University and staff writer at The New Yorker, offers a new intellectual …
History June 4, 2021

Porcelain

A History from the Heart of Europe

Suzanne L. Marchand

Hosted by John Raimo
Suzanne L. Marchand's new book Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe (Princeton University Press, 2020) balances several histories at once through the story of a single commodity. Porcelain …
Christian Studies June 4, 2021

Luther, Conflict, and Christendom

Reformation Europe and Christianity in the West

Christopher Ocker

Hosted by Zachary McCulley
Martin Luther - monk, priest, intellectual, or revolutionary - has been a controversial figure since the sixteenth century. Most studies of Luther stress his personality, his ideas, and his ambitions …
Medicine June 2, 2021

Humane Professions

The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876-1914

Rob Boddice

Hosted by Claire Clark
In this compelling history of the co-ordinated, transnational defence of medical experimentation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Rob Boddice explores the experience of vivisection as humanitarian practice. He …
History June 1, 2021

The Valkyries' Loom

The Archaeology of Cloth Production and Female Power in the North Atlantic

Michèle Hayeur Smith

Hosted by Jennifer Davis Cline
Marianne Hem Eriksen (Associate Professor, School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester) speaks with Michèle Hayeur Smith (Research Associate, Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University) about Smith's recent …
History May 31, 2021

The Age of Fitness

How the Body Came to Symbolize Success and Achievement

Jurgen Martschukat

Hosted by Jana Byars
Today on New Books in History, Juergen Martschukat, professor of North American History at Universitat Erfurt, talks about his new book, The Age of Fitness: How the Body Became a Sign …
European Studies May 31, 2021

Dealing with Europe

Lessons from Switzerland's Experience

Paolo Dardanelli and Oscar Mazzoleni

Hosted by Tim Jones
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 relationship they should have with …
Eastern European Studies May 27, 2021

From "the Ukraine" to Ukraine

A Contemporary History of 1991-2021

Georgiy Kasianov, Matthew Rojansky, and Mykhailo Minakov

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
In 2021, Ukraine celebrates its thirty-year independence anniversary. During this relatively short period of time—when considered in historical terms—Ukraine underwent a number of drastic changes that have so far shaped …
History May 26, 2021

The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen

Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World

Linda Colley

Hosted by Vladislav Lilic
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. Her captivating new book The …