European History
European History 20C European History After the Deportation Memory Battles in Postwar France Philip Nord | Princeton University, New Jersey
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160,000 people, a mix of résistants and Jews, were deported from France to camps in Central and Eastern Europe during the Second World War. Philip Nord addresses how the Deportation, and how it was remembered, became politicized against the backdrop of changing domestic and international contexts. • Focuses on both Jews and non-Jews who were deported from France in large numbers during the Second World War • Provides a fresh perspective on source materials, using politics, films and literature as key sources • Considers the religious dimension of post-war memorialization in France Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare 450pp November 2020 9781108478908 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108781398
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Eating Nature in Modern Germany Food, Agriculture and Environment, c.1870 to 2000 Corinna Treitel | Washington University, St Louis
A fascinating new account of eating naturally as an aspect of German biopolitics. Corinna Treitel explores the allure of vegetarianism, organic farming, and other such practices to a wide variety of Germans, from socialists, liberals, and radical anti-Semites in the nineteenth century to fascists, communists, and Greens in the twentieth century. • Examines the complex historical roots of a contemporary trend • Shows how developments in science, medicine, agriculture, popular culture, and politics produced and sustained this historical phenomenon • Explores the connections between eating naturally and other major biopolitical projects such as eugenics, racial hygiene, and pro-natalism, broadening the discussion of biopolitics in European history
404pp 22 b/w illus. March 2020 9781316638392 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 April 2017 9781107188020 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781316946312
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Christian Democratic Workers and the Forging of German Democracy, 1920–1980 William L. Patch | Washington and Lee University, Virginia
Why has democracy flourished in the Federal Republic of Germany? This book illuminates the pivotal role played by the half million veterans of the Christian trade unions of the Weimar Republic, who sought with great success after 1945 to alleviate class conflict through welfare legislation and worker participation in management. • Painstaking archival research uncovers new evidence unknown even to specialists in the field • Integrates the analysis of party politics, labor history and labor relations, and Catholic Church history • Illuminates what German political actors truly learned from the dissolution of the Weimar Republic and the experience of the Third Reich 341pp October 2020 9781108439367 Paperback GBP 28.99 / USD 37.99 March 2018 9781108424110 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108539753
Democracy, Nazi Trials, and Transitional Justice in Germany, 1945–1950 Devin O. Pendas | Boston College, Massachusetts
Revising our understanding about how transitional justice works, this study analyses and compares Nazi trials in post-war East and West Germany from 1945 to 1950 to challenge assumptions about the political outcomes of prosecuting mass atrocities. • Examines the experience of transitional justice in West and East Germany between 1945 and 1950 • Shows how ‘bad trials’ have promoted democracy in West Germany, while ‘good trials’ helped legitimate a new dictatorship in East Germany • Shows that transitional justice trials can lead to both democracy and new dictatorships, challenging conventional wisdom 230pp September 2020 9780521871297 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781139021074
Enterprising Empires Russia and Britain in Eighteenth-Century Eurasia Matthew P. Romaniello | Weber State University, Utah
Matthew P. Romaniello charts how commercial competition between Britain and Russia became entangled in a critical era of empire. He reveals how geopolitical developments affected trade more than commercial regulations, while also challenging depictions of this period as a straightforward era of Russian economic decline. • Uncovers the people and history of the British Russia Company in the eighteenth century • Highlights British trade in Asia and the North Pacific, rather than focusing on the economy of the Atlantic • Moves Russia from the global ‘semi-periphery’ to the center of the global economy 307pp 7 b/w illus. 3 maps 7 tables November 2020 9781108703086 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 35.99 February 2019 9781108497572 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108628600
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German Soldiers and the Occupation of France, 1940–1944 Julia S. Torrie
For four years, German soldiers not only stood guard over and fought in France, but also lived their lives. While the everyday experiences of the occupied French population are well-documented, we know much less about the occupiers. The lives of ordinary German soldiers offer new insights into the occupation of France and the history of Nazism. • A corrective to standard accounts of the German occupation of France that cover German policy-makers only • Argues that occupied France was integrally linked to the larger war • The book is based on a wide variety of primary sources, including soldiers’ letters, photographs and memoirs Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare 290pp February 2020 9781108457590 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 October 2018 9781108471282 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108658935
