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Daniel Unowsky, “The Plunder: The 1898 Anti-Jewish Riots in Habsburg Galicia” (Stanford UP, 2018)

Daniel Unowsky
The Plunder
The 1898 Anti-Jewish Riots in Habsburg Galicia
Stanford University Press, 2018

New Books in Eastern European Studies New Books in European Studies New Books in Genocide Studies New Books in History New Books in Jewish Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion & Faith New Books Network February 19, 2019 Kelly McFall

Daniel Unowsky‘s book isn’t about a genocide or other incident of mass violence. Instead, The Plunder: The 1898 Anti-Jewish Riots in Habsburg Galicia (Stanford UP, 2018) examines a series of riots against Jews in Habsburg Galicia in the year 1898. Unowsky tries to understand how, in an Empire built around... Read More

Jeremy Black
Britain and Europe
A Short History
Hurst, 2019

New Books in British Studies New Books in Christian Studies New Books in European Studies New Books in History New Books in National Security New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion & Faith New Books Network February 13, 2019 Crawford Gribben

It was a pleasure, earlier today, to speak to Jeremy Black, professor of history at the University of Exeter, about his new book, Britain and Europe: A Short History (Hurst, 2018). Jeremy is one of the best-known and certainly the most prolific of British historians, and his new book demonstrates... Read More

Stefanos Geroulanos, “Transparency in Postwar France: A Critical History of the Present” (Stanford UP, 2017)

Stefanos Geroulanos
Transparency in Postwar France
A Critical History of the Present
Stanford University Press, 2017

New Books in European Studies New Books in French Studies New Books in History New Books in Intellectual History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network February 12, 2019 Roxanne Panchasi

What does it mean to do a “microhistory” of a concept? Stefanos Geroulanos pursues just such a project in the 22 chapters of Transparency in Postwar France: A Critical History of the Present (Stanford University Press, 2017). A rich and complex history of France in the decades after 1945, the... Read More

Robin Wallace, “Hearing Beethoven: A Story of Musical Loss and Discovery” (UChicago Press, 2018)

Robin Wallace
Hearing Beethoven
A Story of Musical Loss and Discovery
University of Chicago Press, 2018

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Biography New Books in European Studies New Books in History New Books in Music New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Sound Studies New Books Network February 7, 2019 Kristen M. Turner

Music lovers and researchers alike have long been fascinated by the story of Ludwig van Beethoven who became profoundly deaf as an adult and could not hear some of his most famous compositions including the Ninth Symphony. Many people have written about Beethoven’s deafness and speculated how he might have... Read More

Kevin Ingram
Converso Non-Conformism in Early Modern Spain
Bad Blood and Faith from Alonso de Cartagena to Diego Velázquez
Palgrave, 2018

New Books in Christian Studies New Books in European Studies New Books in History New Books in Jewish Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion New Books in Religion & Faith New Books Network February 7, 2019 Crawford Gribben

It was a delight to catch up with Kevin Ingram, professor of history at Saint Louis University, Madrid, to discuss his very impressive new book. Converso Non-Conformism in Early Modern Spain: Bad Blood and Faith from Alonso de Cartagena to Diego Velázquez (Palgrave, 2018) sets out to account for the... Read More