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Anthony L. Gardner, “Stars with Stripes: The Essential Partnership between the European Union and the United States” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Anthony L. Gardner
Stars with Stripes
The Essential Partnership between the European Union and the United States
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network October 23, 2020 Tim Gwynn Jones

If the US is – in the words of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright – the “indispensible nation” then the economic, democratic and institutional alliance between the US and the EU is the “essential partnership”. So argues Tony Gardner, Barack Obama’s ambassador to the EU and advisor to Joe... Read More
Noel Malcolm, “Useful Enemies: Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450-1750” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Noel Malcolm
Useful Enemies
Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450-1750
Oxford University Press, 2020

New Books in Eastern European StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Islamic StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network October 22, 2020 Vladislav Lilić

Sir Noel Malcolm’s captivating new book, Useful Enemies: Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450-1750 (Oxford University Press, 2019), tells the story of Western European fascination with the Ottoman empire and Islam between the fall of Constantinople in 1453 and the latter half of the 18th century.... Read More
D. Bilak and T. Nummedal, “Furnace and Fugue. A Digital Edition of Michael Maier’s ‘Atalanta fugiens’ (1618)” (U Virginia Press, 2020)
Donna Bilak and Tara Nummedal
Furnace & Fugue
A Digital Edition of Michael Maier’s “Atalanta fugiens” (1618) with Scholarly Commentary
University of Virginia Press, 2020

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in German StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books NetworkNew Work in Digital Humanities October 21, 2020 Molly Taylor-Poleskey

In 1618, on the eve of the Thirty Years’ War, the German alchemist and physician Michael Maier published Atalanta fugiens, an intriguing and complex musical alchemical emblem book designed to engage the ear, eye, and intellect. The book unfolds as a series of fifty emblems, each of which contains an... Read More
James Simpson, “Permanent Revolution: The Reformation and the Illiberal Roots of Liberalism” (Harvard UP, 2019)
James Simpson
Permanent Revolution
The Reformation and the Illiberal Roots of Liberalism
Harvard University Press, 2019

New Books in British StudiesNew Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network October 20, 2020 Jonathan Megerian

The Protestant Reformation looms large in our cultural imagination. In the standard telling, it’s the moment the world went modern. Casting off the shackles and superstitions of medieval Catholicism, reformers translated the Bible into the vernacular and democratized religion. In this story, it’s no wonder that Protestantism should give birth... Read More
Martyn Rady, “The Habsburgs: To Rule the World” (Basic Books, 2020)
Martyn Rady
The Habsburgs
To Rule the World
Basic Books, 2020

New Books in European StudiesNew Books in German StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network October 20, 2020 Charles Coutinho

In The Habsburgs: To Rule the World (Basic Books, 2020), Martyn Rady, Masaryk Professor of Central European History at University College London, tells the epic story of a dynasty and the world it built — and then lost — over nearly a millennium. From modest origins in what is to-day southern Germany... Read More
K. Grenier and A. Mushal, “Cultures of Memory in the Nineteenth Century: Consuming Commemoration” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Katherine Grenier and Amanda Mushal
Cultures of Memory in the Nineteenth Century
Consuming Commemoration
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network October 19, 2020 Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed

Cultures of Memory in the Nineteenth Century: Consuming Commemoration (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) explores commemorative practices as they developed in the nineteenth century. The editors of the volume, Katherine Grenier and Amanda Mushal, and its contributors invite the readers to consider memorial practices as insights into the culture of both the... Read More
Adam Knowles, “Heidegger’s Fascist Affinities: A Politics of Silence” (Stanford UP, 2019)
Adam Knowles
Heidegger’s Fascist Affinities
A Politics of Silence
Stanford University Press, 2019

NBN Book of the DayNBN Special SeriesNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in German StudiesNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & Society October 19, 2020 Stephen Dozeman

The German philosopher Martin Heidegger’s influence over the last several decades of philosophy is undeniable, but his place in the canon has been called into question in recent years in the wake of the publication of his private journals kept throughout his life, including during his involvement with the Nazi... Read More
Stefan Bauer, “The Invention of Papal History: Onofrio Panvinio between Renaissance and Catholic Reform” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Stefan Bauer
The Invention of Papal History
Onofrio Panvinio between Renaissance and Catholic Reform
Oxford University Press, 2020

New Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Italian StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network October 19, 2020 Crawford Gribben

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 new position teaching history at Warwick University, UK, has spent much of the last decade working on the life and work of Onofrio Panvinio.... Read More
Bernice Lerner, “All the Horrors of War: A Jewish Girl, a British Doctor, and the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
Bernice Lerner
All the Horrors of War
A Jewish Girl, a British Doctor, and the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020

New Books in BiographyNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & Faith October 16, 2020 Mark Klobas

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 experiences serving in two world wars could not compare to the horrors he saw at the end of the war. In her book All the... Read More
Ben Vinson III, “Before Mestizaje: The Frontiers of Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Ben Vinson III
Before Mestizaje
The Frontiers of Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico
Cambridge University Press, 2017

New Books in European StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network October 14, 2020 Powell Morales

Since its 2017 publication, Ben Vinson III’s book Before Mestizaje: The Frontiers of Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico (Cambridge University Press) has opened new dimensions on race in Latin America by examining the extreme caste groups of colonial Mexico. In tracing their experiences, a broader understanding of the connection... Read More

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