New Books Network

New Books in Genocide Studies
Emma Kuby, “Political Survivors: The Resistance, the Cold War, and the Fight against Concentration Camps After 1945” (Cornell UP, 2019)
Emma Kuby
Political Survivors
The Resistance, the Cold War, and the Fight against Concentration Camps After 1945
Cornell University Press, 2019

New Books in French StudiesNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network August 16, 2019 Roxanne Panchasi

Emma Kuby’s new book, Political Survivors: The Resistance, the Cold War, and the Fight against Concentration Camps after 1945 (Cornell UP, 2019) traces the fascinating history of the International Commission Against the Concentration Camp Regime (CICRC) established in 1949 by the French intellectual and Nazi camp survivor David Rousset. In... Read More
Maureen S. Hiebert, “Constructing Genocide and Mass Violence: Society, Crisis, Identity” (Routledge, 2017)
Maureen S. Hiebert
Constructing Genocide and Mass Violence
Society, Crisis, Identity
Routledge, 2017

New Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Sociology August 16, 2019 Kelly McFall

How can this happen? If there’s any question that people interested in genocide ask, it’s this one. How can people do this to each other? How can this be possible? What is wrong with this world that this can happen? Maureen Hiebert‘s book Constructing Genocide and Mass Violence: Society, Crisis,... Read More
David Gaunt, “Let Them Not Return” (Berghahn Books, 2017)
David Gaunt, Naures Atto, Soner O. Barthoma, eds.
Let Them Not Return
Sayfo – The Genocide Against the Assyrian, Syriac, and Chaldean Christians in the Ottoman Empire
Berghahn Books, 2017

New Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Islamic StudiesNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network August 13, 2019 Kelly McFall

Sometimes it seems that there’s nothing left to say about mass violence in the 20th century.  But the new edited volume Let Them Not Return: Sayfo – The Genocide Against the Assyrian, Syriac, and Chaldean Christians in the Ottoman Empire (Berghahn Books, 2017), draws our attention to a conflict that... Read More
Tsega Etefa, “The Origins of Ethnic Conflict in Africa: Politics and Violence in Darfur, Oromia, and the Tana Delta” (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019) 
Tsega Etefa
The Origins of Ethnic Conflict in Africa
Politics and Violence in Darfur, Oromia, and the Tana Delta
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network August 7, 2019 Susan Thomson

Are ethnic conflicts in Africa the product of age-old ancient hatreds? Tsega Etefa’s new book, The Origins of Ethnic Conflict in Africa: Politics and Violence in Darfur, Oromia, and the Tana Delta (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019), provides an answer, arguing that elites mobilize their co-ethnics for political gain. To do so,... Read More
Reinhart Kössler, “Namibia and Germany: Negotiating the Past” (U Namibia Press, 2015)
Reinhart Kössler
Namibia and Germany
Negotiating the Past
University of Namibia Press, 2015

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in German StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network July 24, 2019 Susan Thomson

Today’s Namibia was once the German colony of South West Africa, for a 30-year period spanning of 1884 to 1915. From 1904-1908, German colonial troops committed the first genocide of the 20th century against the Herero and Nama people, many of whom rebelled against the labour and land impositions of... Read More
David Slucki, “Sing This at My Funeral: A Memoir of Fathers and Sons” (Wayne State UP, 2019)
David Slucki
Sing This at My Funeral
A Memoir of Fathers and Sons
Wayne State University Press, 2019

New Books in BiographyNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & Faith July 23, 2019 Max Kaiser

In Sing This at My Funeral: A Memoir of Fathers and Sons (Wayne State University Press, 2019), David Slucki, Assistant Professor in the Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Program at the College of Charleston, gives us a very different type of history book. Slucki’s memoir blends the scholarly and literary, grounding the story of... Read More
James W. Pardew, “Peacemakers: American Leadership and the End of Genocide in the Balkans” (U Kentucky Press, 2017)
James W. Pardew
Peacemaker
American Leadership and the End of Genocide in the Balkans
University Press of Kentucky, 2017

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Eastern European StudiesNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network July 19, 2019 Natasha Margulis

In his book  Peacemakers: American Leadership and the End of Genocide in the Balkans (University of Kentucky Press, 2017), Ambassador James W. Pardew describes the role of the U.S. involvement in ending the wars and genocide in the Balkans.  As a soldier-diplomat, Pardew reminds us of the human nature of diplomacy. ... Read More