New Books Network

New Books in Genocide Studies
Carolyn J. Dean, “The Moral Witness: Trials and Testimony after Genocide” (Cornell UP, 2019)
Carolyn J. Dean
The Moral Witness
Trials and Testimony after Genocide
Carolyn J. Dean, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network June 19, 2019 Natasha Margulis

Carolyn J. Dean’s The Moral Witness: Trials and Testimony after Genocide (Cornell University Press, 2019) examines the cultural history of the idea of the “witness to genocide” in Western Europe and the United States.  She portrays the witness in non-traditional genocide court trials as the moral compass.  In fact, many... Read More
Paul Thomas Chamberlin, “The Cold War’s Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace” (Harper, 2018)
Paul Thomas Chamberlin
The Cold War's Killing Fields
Rethinking the Long Peace
Harper, 2018

New Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Southeast Asian StudiesNew Books Network June 13, 2019 Kelly McFall

Paul Thomas Chamberlin has written a book about the Cold War that makes important claims about the nature and reasons for genocide in the last half of the twentieth century. In The Cold War’s Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace (Harper, 2018), Chamberlin reminds us that the Cold War was... Read More
Jennifer Dixon, “Dark Pasts: Changing the State’s Story in Turkey and Japan” (Cornell UP, 2018)
Jennifer Dixon
Dark Pasts
Changing the State’s Story in Turkey and Japan
Cornell University Press, 2018

New Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network June 6, 2019 Nathan Hopson

Jennifer Dixon’s Dark Pasts: Changing the State’s Story in Turkey and Japan (Cornell University Press, 2018), investigates the Japanese and Turkish states’ narratives of their “dark pasts,” the Nanjing Massacre (1937-38) and Armenian Genocide (1915-17), respectively. The official version of history initially advocated by both states was similar in its adherence... Read More
Andrew Wallis, “Stepp’d in Blood:  Akazu and the Architects of the Rwandan Genocide Against the Tutsis” (Zero Books, 2019)
Andrew Wallis
Stepp’d in Blood
Akazu and the Architects of the Rwandan Genocide Against the Tutsis
Zero Books, 2019

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in JournalismNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network May 16, 2019 Kelly McFall

Last month Rwanda commemorated the 25th anniversary of the genocide. Unlike the recent outpouring of books marking hundredth anniversary of the end of the First World War, there was only a short flurry of newspaper and radio remembrances of the events of April and May of 1994. The number of... Read More
Henning Pieper, “Fegelein’s Horsemen and Genocidal Warfare: The SS Cavalry Brigade in the Soviet Union” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
Henning Pieper
Fegelein’s Horsemen and Genocidal Warfare
The SS Cavalry Brigade in the Soviet Union
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

New Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in German StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Russian and Eurasian StudiesNew Books Network April 30, 2019 Craig Sorvillo

In his book, Fegelein’s Horsemen and Genocidal Warfare: The SS Cavalry Brigade in the Soviet Union (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Dr. Henning Pieper, examines the conduct of the SS Cavalry Brigade during World War II. The SS Cavalry Brigade was a unit of the Waffen-SS that differed from other German military formations... Read More
Deborah E. Lipstadt, “Antisemitism: Here and Now” (Schocken, 2019)
Deborah Lipstadt
Antisemitism
Here and Now
Schocken, 2019

New Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Israel StudiesNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network March 28, 2019 Lindsey Jackson

Over the past decade, and especially in the last several years, anti-Semitic crimes have increased significantly. According to FBI Statistics, hate crimes against Jews in the US spiked 37% between 2016 and 2017. We are witnessing similar trends in Canada, where anti-Semitic crimes increased by 60% since last year, according... Read More
Amit Pinchevski, “Transmitted Wounds: Media and the Mediation of Trauma” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Amit Pinchevski
Transmitted Wounds
Media and the Mediation of Trauma
Oxford University Press, 2019

New Books in CommunicationsNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network March 13, 2019 Tal Zalmanovich

What does it mean to consider trauma and media from the perspective of technology and not from that of the subject of trauma, the clinician or the witness? In Transmitted Wounds: Media and the Mediation of Trauma (Oxford University Press, 2019), Amit Pinchevski carries out this thought experiment to great effect.... Read More