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Marion Kaplan, “Hitler’s Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal” (Yale UP, 2020)

Marion Kaplan
Hitler’s Jewish Refugees
Hope and Anxiety in Portugal
Yale University Press, 2020

New Books in European Studies New Books in Genocide Studies New Books in German 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 August 14, 2020 Robin Buller

Marion Kaplan’s riveting book, Hitler’s Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal (Yale University Press) describes the dramatic experiences of Jewish refugees as they fled Hitler’s regime and then lived in limbo in Portugal until they could reach safer havens abroad. Drawing attention not only to the social and physical... Read More

Paul De Grauwe, “Economics of Monetary Union” (Oxford UP, 2020)

Paul De Grauwe
Economics of Monetary Union

Oxford University Press, 2020

New Books in Economics New Books in European Studies New Books in Finance New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society August 13, 2020 Tim G. Jones

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 standard text for undergraduates seeking to understand this remarkable but “fragile” project. Updated every two years and now in its 13th edition, the book can hardly keep... Read More

Patrice Gueniffey, “Napoleon and de Gaulle: Heroes and History” (Harvard UP, 2020)

Patrice Gueniffey
Napoleon and de Gaulle
Heroes and History
Harvard University Press, 2020

New Books in Biography New Books in European Studies New Books in French Studies New Books in History New Books in Military History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network August 11, 2020 Charles Coutinho

One of France’s most famous historians compares and contrasts the two most famous French exemplars of political and military leadership of the past two-hundred and fifty years to make the case that individuals, for better and worse, matter in history. Historians have tried to teach us that the historical past... Read More

Costas Lapavitsas
The Left Case Against the EU

Polity, 2018

New Books in Economics New Books in European Studies New Books in Finance New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Public Policy August 7, 2020 Daniel Lucas

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 has drifted rightward, the answer is to fight for reform from within. In this iconoclastic polemic, economist Costas Lapavitsas demolishes this view. In The Left... Read More

Richard Breitman
The Journal of Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Oxford Academic/USHMM, 2020

New Books in European Studies New Books in Genocide Studies New Books in German Studies New Books in Jewish Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion & Faith New Books in World Affairs August 7, 2020 Kelly McFall

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 Genocide Studies, it has been one of a few journals that led the field in new directions. So it seemed appropriate to mark the moment by talking with... Read More

Joshua Nall, “News from Mars: Mass Media and the Forging of a New Astronomy, 1860-1910” (U Pittsburgh Press, 2019)

Joshua Nall
News from Mars
Mass Media and the Forging of a New Astronomy, 1860-1910
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019

New Books in American Studies New Books in European Studies New Books in Intellectual History New Books in Journalism New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Science & Technology New Books in Science, Technology, and Society August 6, 2020 Mikey McGovern

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 Mars: Mass Media and the Forging of a New Astronomy, 1860-1910 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019), historian of science Joshua Nall shows us that a... Read More

Russell J. A. Kilbourn
The Cinema of Paolo Sorrentino
Commitment to Style
Wallflower Press, 2020

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Biography New Books in European Studies New Books in Film New Books in Italian Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network August 4, 2020 Nicoletta Marini-Maio

Russell J. A. Kilbourn’s The Cinema of Paolo Sorrentino: Commitment to Style (Wallflower Press, 2020) is the first comprehensive study published in the English-speaking world on one of the most compelling figures in twenty-first century European film, Italian 2014 Academy Award recipient Paolo Sorrentino. Kilbourn’s book offers close readings of... Read More

Nicholas B. Miller
John Millar and the Scottish Enlightenment
Family Life and World History
Voltaire Foundation, 2017

New Books in British Studies New Books in European Studies New Books in Intellectual History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Sociology August 3, 2020 Alexandra Ortolja-Baird

During the long eighteenth century the moral and socio-political dimensions of family life and gender were hotly debated by intellectuals across Europe. John Millar, a Scottish law professor and philosopher, was a pioneer in making gendered and familial practice a critical parameter of cultural difference. His work was widely disseminated... Read More

Mari K. Webel, “The Politics of Disease Control: Sleeping Sickness in Eastern Africa, 1890-1920” (Ohio UP, 2019)

Mari K. Webel
The Politics of Disease Control
Sleeping Sickness in Eastern Africa, 1890-1920
Ohio University Press, 2019

New Books in African Studies New Books in European Studies New Books in History New Books in Medicine New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Science & Technology New Books in Science, Technology, and Society New Books Network August 3, 2020 Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia

In The Politics of Disease Control. Sleeping Sickness in Eastern Africa, 1890-1920 (Ohio University Press, 2019), Mari K. Webel tells a history of colonial interventions among three communities of the Great Lakes region of East Africa. At the dawn of the twentieth century, Eastern African societies faced a range of... Read More