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New Books in Genocide Studies
Christopher E. Mauriello, “Forced Confrontation: The Politics of Dead Bodies in Germany at the End of World War II” (Lexington Books, 2017)
Christopher E. Mauriello
Forced Confrontation
The Politics of Dead Bodies in Germany at the End of World War II
Lexington Books, 2017

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in German StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network September 25, 2019 Natasha Margulis

Christopher Mauriello’s groundbreaking book Forced Confrontation: The Politics of Dead Bodies in Germany at the End of World War II (Lexington Books, 2017) focuses on American soldiers’ reactions to the victims of the Holocaust.  Using photographs, memoirs, and letters from US soldiers, Mauriello attempts to recreate the emotional and traumatic... Read More
Mark Roseman, “Lives Reclaimed: A Story of Rescue and Resistance in Nazi Germany” (Metropolitan Books, 2019)
Mark Roseman
Lives Reclaimed
A Story of Rescue and Resistance in Nazi Germany
Metropolitan Books, 2019

New Books in European StudiesNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in German StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network September 20, 2019 Kelly McFall

What makes some people aid the persecuted while others just stand by? Questions about rescue and resistance have been fundamental to the field of genocide studies since its inception.  Mark Roseman offers a sophisticated and deeply human exploration of this question in his new book Lives Reclaimed: A Story of... Read More
Alex J. Kay, “The Making of an SS Killer: the Life of Colonel Alfred Filbert, 1905-1990” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Alex J. Kay
The Making of an SS Killer
The Life of Colonel Alfred Filbert, 1905-1990
Cambridge University Press, 2016

New Books in BiographyNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in German StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network September 16, 2019 Natasha Margulis

Alex Kay’s The Making of an SS Killer: the Life of Colonel Alfred Filbert, 1905-1990 (Cambridge University Press, 2016) is a must read for those interested in the Third Reich, the Holocaust, and World War II.  Focusing on the actions and consequences of a “front-line Holocaust perpetrator”, Kay’s biography diverges... Read More
Jeffrey Ostler, “Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas” (Yale UP, 2019)
Jeffrey Ostler
Surviving Genocide
Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas
Yale University Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Native American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & Society September 11, 2019 Jeff Bachman

Jeffrey Ostler’s Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas (Yale University Press, 2019) is the first of what will be a two-volume set that comprehensively chronicles the devastating effects of U.S. expansionism on Native Nations. Surviving Genocide covers the eastern United States... Read More
Alma Jeftić, “Social Aspects of Memory: Stories of Victims and Perpetrators from Bosnia-Herzegovina” (Routledge, 2019)
Alma Jeftić
Social Aspects of Memory
Stories of Victims and Perpetrators from Bosnia-Herzegovina
Routledge, 2019

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Eastern European StudiesNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network September 2, 2019 Jelena Golubović

In her new book, Social Aspects of Memory: Stories of Victims and Perpetrators from Bosnia-Herzegovina (Routledge, 2019). Alma Jeftić presents the compelling results of an empirical psychological study on how ordinary people remember war, drawing on narratives from two generations of people in Sarajevo and neighboring East Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. This... Read More
Frank Dikötter, “Mao’s Great Famine” (Bloomsbury, 2011)
Frank Dikötter
Mao's Great Famine
The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962
Bloomsbury, 2011

New Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network August 27, 2019 Krzysztof Odyniec

In the years he ruled the People’s Republic of China, Mao Zedong presided over the greatest mass murder in human history, both in his elimination of millions of perceived political enemies and also in the starving of tens of millions in callously engineered mass famine. Professor Frank Dikötter estimates that... Read More
Evgeny Finkel, “Ordinary Jews: Choice and Survival during the Holocaust” (Princeton UP, 2017)
Evgeny Finkel
Ordinary Jews
Choice and Survival during the Holocaust
Princeton University Press, 2017

New Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in German StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network August 22, 2019 Kelly McFall

Can there be a political science of the Holocaust? Evgeny Finkel, in his new book Ordinary Jews: Choice and Survival during the Holocaust (Princeton University Press, 2017), answers Charles King’s question with a resounding yes. Finkel is interested in a very specific question: What made individual Jews choose from a... Read More