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CONTINENTAL EUROPE
HIGHLIGHT
THE SHAPE OF POPULISM
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Serbia before the Dissolution of Yugoslavia
Marko Grdešic
University of Michigan Press
HIGHLIGHT
SOVIET SOFT POWER IN POLAND
Culture and the Making of Stalin’s New Empire, 1943-1957
Patryk Babiracki
The New Cold War History
HIGHLIGHT
POLISH LITERATURE AND THE HOLOCAUST
Eyewitness Testimonies, 1942–1947
Rachel Feldhay Brenner
Northwestern University Press
HIGHLIGHT
THE FIREBIRD
The Elusive Fate of Russian Democracy
Andrei Kozyrov
Russian and East European Studies
The University of North Carolina Press University of Pittsburgh Press
HIGHLIGHT
NEW PERSPECTIVES ON KRISTALLNACHT
After 80 Years, the Nazi Pogrom in Global Comparison, 17th Edition
Edited by Steven J. Ross
Jewish Role in American Life
Purdue University Press
Academica Press
NEW IN PAPERBACK ITALIA REDIVIVA
A Social and Cultural History of Italy, 1740-1900
Neil Kent Jul 2019 277pp 9781680531879 Paperback £31.95 / €36.00 Rather than considering the Risorgimento and Italy’s national unification as the defining events of the period, this work provides an alternative focus, rejecting sweeping conclusions in favour of a more nuanced analysis.
NEW IN PAPERBACK SUBJUGATE OR EXTERMINATE!
A Memoir of Russia’s Wars Against Chechnya
Akhmed Zakaev Jan 2019 512pp 9781680530889 Paperback £37.50 / €42.00 An authoritative first-hand account of the Russo-Chechen conflict by a Chechen leader who played a central role in all the main events, providing a historical survey of the fraught relations between the Chechens and the Russian Empire and Soviet Union, up to the collapse of the USSR.
Academic Studies Press
BETWEEN ROME AND BYZANTIUM
The Golden Age of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania’s Political Culture
Jrat Kiaupien Jan 2020 320pp 9781644691465 Hardback £105.00 / €116.00 Lithuanian Studies without Borders Focuses on the unique socio-political and socio-cultural community of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the golden age of the late fifteenth to early seventeenth century. This study analyses the impact of the values disseminated in the newly created state, such as the concept of the state itself, its governance, representation, and laws.
THE JEWS IN ITALY
Edited by Yaron Harel & Mauro Perani Jul 2019 460pp 9781644690253 Hardback £126.00 / €142.00 All twenty-two articles in this volume are based on lectures given at the conference “The Jews in Italy: Their Contribution to the Development and Diffusion of Jewish Heritage”.
THE MOST TENACIOUS OF MINORITIES
The Jews of Italy
Sara Reguer Jan 2019 240pp 9781644690307 Paperback £27.50 / €31.00 9781618112446 Hardback £61.50 / €67.00 Since arriving in Rome more than 2,000 years ago, the Jewish communities of Italy have retained their identity over millennia. This book traces the foundations of their community, focusing on their economic, intellectual, and social lives as they moved between northern and southern Italy.
Brookings Institution Press
THE DISSIDENTS
A Memoir of Working with the Resistance in Russia, 1960-1990
Peter Reddaway Oct 2019 320pp 9780815737735 Hardback £24.95 / €29.00 It has been nearly three decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union - enough time for the role that the courageous dissidents ultimately contributed to the communist system’s collapse to have been largely forgotten. This book brings to life, for contemporary readers, the often underground work of the men and women who opposed the regime.
University of Delaware Press
THE ENEMY IN ITALIAN RENAISSANCE EPIC
Images of Hostility from Dante to Tasso
Andrea Moudarres Feb 2019 288pp 9781644530016 Paperback £37.50 / €42.00 9781644530009 Hardback £74.95 / €84.00 Early Modern Exchange Examines influential works from the literary canon of the Italian Renaissance, arguing that hostility consistently arises from within political or religious entities. Andrea Moudarres reads these works in the context of historical and political patterns, demonstrating that there was little distinction between public and private spheres.
WOMEN WARRIORS IN EARLY MODERN SPAIN
A Tribute to Bárbara Mujica
Edited by Susan L. Fischer & Frederick A. de Armas May 2019 304pp, 1 b&w illustration 9781644530160 Paperback £39.95 / €45.00 9781644530153 Hardback £79.95 / €90.00 Early Modern Exchange Although scholars often depict early modern Spanish women as victims, history and fiction of the period are filled with examples of women who defended their right to make their own decisions and to define their own identities. The essays in this volume examine many such examples, demonstrating how women battled the status quo.
The University of Georgia Press
VÉNUS NOIRE
Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France
Robin Mitchell Jan 2019 192pp, 26 b&w images 9780820354316 Paperback £29.95 / €34.00 9780820354323 Hardback £84.95 / €97.00 Race in the Atlantic World, 1700-1900 Shows how literary and visual depictions of black women helped to shape France’s post-revolutionary national identity, particularly in response to the trauma of the French defeat in the Haitian Revolution. The stories of these women reveal a blind spot about race in French national identity that persists in the postcolonial present.
Markus Wiener Publishers
HIDDEN LIVES OF JEWS AND AFRICANS
Jonathan Schorsch Aug 2019 360pp 9781558766303 Paperback £32.95 / €36.00 Draws on protocols of the inquisition to create a panorama of the lives of free and enslaved people from Europe and Africa to Central and South America, including Conversos and freed Africans who were business partners and rivals, some involved in clandestine relations between dominated groups.
University of Massachusetts Press
LISBON
A Biography
Magda Pinheiro Feb 2019 512pp, 89 illustrations, 9 maps 9781933227757 Paperback £26.95 / €30.00 Throughout the pages of this meticulously researched book, we follow the fascinating history of Lisbon - European capital city and cosmopolitan metropolis - from its legendary founding by Ulysses to the present day, covering the most remarkable moments of the city. Richly recounted, this amply illustrated and engaging book makes the enchanting city of Lisbon come to life.
Tagus Press
McFarland
UNDERSTANDING NAZI IDEOLOGY
Its Historical Roots, Evolution and Consequences
Carl Müller Frøland & John Irons Nov 2019 349pp, photos 9781476678306 Paperback £53.50 / €60.00 Tracing the origins of the Nazi “political religion”, this book examines its foundation in ultra-nationalism, totalitarianism, the Führer cult, racial theory and antiSemitism, and the glorification of violence - all swathed in an element of occultism - and its culmination in the global cataclysm of World War II and the Holocaust.
University of Michigan Press
ADOPTION, MEMORY, AND COLD WAR GREECE
Kid pro quo?
Gonda Van Steen Dec 2019 368pp, 18 illustrations 9780472131587 Hardback £72.50 / €81.00 Studies the biopolitics of the mass adoption movement of children and youngsters from Greece to the US starting in the 1950s. The story of these Greek postwar and Cold War adoptions, whose procedures ranged from legal to highly irregular, has never been told or analysed before.
HISTORY, MEDICINE, AND THE TRADITIONS OF RENAISSANCE LEARNING
Nancy G. Siraisi Apr 2019 456pp 9780472037469 Paperback £38.50 / €44.00 Cultures of Knowledge In The Early Modern World Examines the intersections of medically trained authors and history, in the period 1450 to 1650. Rather than studying medicine and history as separate disciplinary traditions, Nancy Siraisi calls attention to their mutual interaction in the rapidly changing world of Renaissance erudition.
KINGSHIP AND JUSTICE IN THE OTTONIAN EMPIRE
Laura Wangerin Apr 2019 280pp, 15 illustrations 9780472131396 Hardback £63.95 / €73.00 Challenges traditional views of the Ottonian Empire’s rulership. Drawing from a broad array of sources including royal diplomas, manuscript illuminations, Ottonian kingship and the administration of justice are investigated using traditional historical and comparative methodologies as well as through the application of modern systems theories.
THE SHAPE OF POPULISM
Serbia before the Dissolution of Yugoslavia
Marko Grdešic Aug 2019 204pp, 11 b&w images 9780472131334 Hardback £59.50 / €68.00 For more information on this title, see page 42.
University Press of Mississippi
FOLKLORE IN BALTIC HISTORY
Resistance and Resurgence
Sadhana Naithani Mar 2019 80pp 9781496823571 Paperback £29.95 / €34.00 9781496823564 Hardback £97.95 / €110.00 Explores the role of folklore, folklore archives, and folklore studies in the contemporary history of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Sadhana Naithani combines the study of written works, archival documents, lifestories, and conversations with folklorists, ethnologists, archivists, and historians in Tartu, Riga, and Vilnius.
GRAPHIC SATIRE IN THE SOVIET UNION
Krokodil’s Political Cartoons
John Etty Oct 2018 240pp 9781496821089 Paperback £29.95 / €34.00 9781496820525 Hardback £88.95 / €100.00 After the death of Joseph Stalin, Soviet-era Russia experienced a flourishing artistic movement due to relaxed censorship and economic growth. In this atmosphere of freedom, Russia’s satirical magazine Krokodil became rejuvenated. John Etty explores Soviet graphic satire through Krokodil and its political cartoons.
Modern Language Association
TEACHING REPRESENTATIONS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
Edited by Julia V. Douthwaite, Antoinette Sol & Catriona Seth Aug 2019 268pp 9781603294003 Paperback £29.95 / €35.00 9781603294652 Hardback £69.50 / €78.00 Options for Teaching, Vol. 47 Unusually manifold and complicated, the French revolution affords many teaching opportunities and challenges. This volume helps instructors seeking to connect developments today-terrorism, propaganda, extremism-with the events that began in 1789, contextualizing for students a world that seems always unmoored and in crisis.
NewSouth Publishing
BATTLE ON 42ND STREET
War in Crete and the Anzacs’ Bloody Last Stand
Peter Monteath Nov 2019 288pp 9781742236032 Paperback £22.95 / €25.00 The Battle of Crete was one of the most spectacular military campaigns of the twentieth century. Acclaimed historian Peter Monteath draws on records and recollections of Australian, New Zealand, German, and British forces — and local Cretans — to reveal the truth behind one of the most gruesome battles of World War II.
University of Notre Dame Press
A BOCCACCIAN RENAISSANCE
Essays on the Early Modern Impact of Giovanni Boccaccio and His Works
Edited by Martin Eisner & David Lummus Jun 2019 350pp 9780268105891 Hardback £69.50 / €78.00 William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature Brings together essays written by internationally recognised scholars in diverse national traditions to respond to the largely unaddressed question of Boccaccio’s impact on early modern literature and culture in Italy and Europe. This is the first comprehensive examination in English of Boccaccio’s impact on the Renaissance.
CULTURE OF ENLIGHTENING
Abbé Claude Yvon and the Entangled Emergence of the Enlightenment
Jeffrey D. Burson Jun 2019 620pp 9780268105419 Hardback £79.95 / €90.00 Argues that regnant notions of the Enlightenment, the Radical Enlightenment, and the multitude of regional and religious enlightenments all share an intellectual genealogy rooted in a broader revolutionary “culture of enlightening” that took shape from the waning of the sixteenth-century Reformations to the dawn of the Atlantic Revolutionary era.
MARCH 1917
The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 1
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 2017 672pp 9780268102654 Hardback £43.95 / €48.00 To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the University of Notre Dame Press is proud to publish Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s epic work March 1917, Node III, Book 1, of The Red Wheel.
MARCH 1917
The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 2
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Nov 2019 700pp 9780268106850 Hardback £41.95 / €47.00 The Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn Series The Red Wheel is Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s multivolume epic work about the Russian Revolution. He spent decades writing about just four of the most important periods, or “nodes”. This is the first time that the monumental March 1917 –the third node–has been translated into English.
THE MIRACLE OF AMSTERDAM
Biography of a Contested Devotion
Charles Caspers & Peter Jan Margry Apr 2019 464pp 9780268105655 Hardback £69.50 / €78.00 Presents a “cultural biography” of a Dutch devotional manifestation. According to tradition, on the night of March 15, 1345, a Eucharistic host thrown into a burning fireplace was found intact hours later. A chapel was erected over the spot, and the citizens of Amsterdam became devoted to their “Holy Stead”.
RIVALROUS MASCULINITIES
New Directions in Medieval Gender Studies
Edited by Ann Marie Rasmussen Apr 2019 288pp 9780268105570 Hardback £63.95 / €72.00 Bringing together the work of both leading and emerging scholars in the field of medieval gender studies, the essays in Rivalrous Masculinities advance our understanding of medieval masculinity as a pluralized category and as an intersectional category of gender.
VARIETIES OF MONASTIC EXPERIENCE IN BYZANTIUM, 800-1453
Alice-Mary Talbot Apr 2019 292pp 9780268105624 Paperback £47.95 / €54.00 9780268105617 Hardback £106.00 / €120.00 Conway Lectures in Medieval Studies In this unprecedented introduction to Byzantine monasticism, based on the Conway Lectures she delivered at the University of Notre Dame in 2014, Alice-Mary Talbot surveys the various forms of monastic life in the Byzantine Empire between the ninth and fifteenth centuries.
The University of North Carolina Press
BUILDING THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE
Brunelleschi’s Dome and the Florence Cathedral
Paula Kay Lazrus Jul 2019 82pp, 22 halftones 9781469653396 Paperback £32.50 / €36.00 Focuses on the competition to select a team to execute the final architectural challenge of the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore - the erection of its dome. Although the model for the dome was widely known, the question of how this was to be accomplished was the great challenge of the age.
SOVIET SOFT POWER IN POLAND
Culture and the Making of Stalin’s New Empire, 1943-1957
Patryk Babiracki Aug 2019 368pp, 28 illustrations 9781469654782 Paperback £31.95 / €36.00 The New Cold War History For more information on this title, see page 42.
Northwestern University Press
ABSOLUTIST ATTACHMENTS
Emotion, Media, and Absolutism in Seventeenth-Century France
Chloé Hogg May 2019 272pp, 14 b&w illustrations 9780810139411 Paperback £37.50 / €42.00 9780810139428 Hardback £106.00 / €120.00 Rethinking the Early Modern Reveals the affective and media connections that shaped Louis XIV’s absolutism. Studying literature, painting, engravings, correspondence, and the emerging periodic press, Chloé Hogg diagnoses the emotions that created absolutism’s feeling subjects and publics.
THE FOURTH ESTATE AT THE FOURTH WALL
Newspapers on Stage in July Monarchy France
Cary Hollinshead-Strick Jul 2019 184pp 9780810140356 Paperback £37.50 / €42.00 9780810140363 Hardback £106.00 / €120.00 New media are often greeted with suspicion by older media. The Fourth Estate at the Fourth Wall explores how, when the commercial press arrived in France in 1836, popular theatre critiqued its corruption, its diluted politics, and its tendency to orient its content toward the lowest common denominator.
POLISH LITERATURE AND THE HOLOCAUST
Eyewitness Testimonies, 1942–1947
Rachel Feldhay Brenner Apr 2019 184pp 9780810139800 Paperback £37.50 / €42.00 9780810139817 Hardback £106.00 / €120.00 For more information on this title, see page 42
University of Pittsburgh Press
DAUGHTER OF THE COLD WAR
A Memoir
Grace Kennan Warnecke Aug 2019 290pp, 33 photographs 9780822965893 Paperback £20.50 / €22.00 Russian and East European Studies Grace Kennan Warnecke’s memoir is about a life lived on the edge of history. This compelling and evocative memoir allows readers to follow Grace’s amazing path through life - a whirlwind journey of survival, risk, and self-discovery through a kaleidoscope of many countries, historic events, and fascinating people.
THE FIREBIRD
The Elusive Fate of Russian Democracy
Andrei Kozyrov
Sep 2019 350pp, 20 b&w photos and illustrations 9780822945925 Hardback £37.50 / €42.00 Russian and East European Studies For more information on this title, see page 42.
IVAN THE TERRIBLE
Free to Reward and Free to Punish
Charles J. Halperin Oct 2019 360pp, 10 b&w illustrations 9780822945918 Hardback £47.95 / €54.00 Russian and East European Studies Ivan the Terrible is widely regarded as creating the model of autocratic rule thought to be necessary, or even natural, for the Russian state whether Tsarist or Communist. Halperin, in this biography, shatters the myths surrounding Ivan and reveals a complex ruler who had much in common with his European contemporaries, such as Henry the Eighth.
LIBERTY’S DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD
The Liberum Veto and the Destruction of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Catherine McKenna Jun 2019 277pp, 25 b&w illustrations 9780822965763 Paperback £47.95 / €54.00 Russian and East European Studies Explores one of the most famous episodes in Polish history. McKenna shows how the earliest and largest republic in Europe was brought crashing down by political leaders who cynically took advantage of the very civil liberties they should have defended.
MAKING MEDICINE IN REFORMATION NUREMBERG
Hannah Murphy Jun 2019 277pp, 30 b&w illustrations 9780822945604 Hardback £53.50 / €60.00 The sixteenth century saw an unprecedented growth in the number of educated physicians practicing in German cities. Hannah Murphy offers the first systematic interpretation of the growth of elite medical “practice”, its relationship to Galenic theory, and the emergence of medical order in the contested world of the German city.
RISING SUBJECTS
The 1905 Revolution and the Origins of Modern Polish Politics
Wiktor Marzec May 2020 320pp, 25 b&w illustrations 9780822946120 Hardback £56.50 / €61.00 Russian and East European Studies Explores the change of the public sphere in Russian Poland during the 1905 Revolution: one of the few bottom-up political transformations and general democratizations in Polish history.
UNINTENDED AFFINITIES
German and Polish Nineteenth-Century Historians on the Holy Roman Empire and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Adam Kozuchowski Apr 2019 256pp 9780822986577 Hardback £47.95 / €54.00 Russian and East European Studies Analyses how German and Polish nationalistic historians, who played central roles in propagandizing a glorious past that justified a centralized modern state, struggled with how to portray the very decentralized and multiethnic empires that preceded their time.
VÁCLAV HAVEL
A Biography
David Barton Mar 2020 320pp 9780822946069 Hardback £39.50 / €43.00 Russian and East European Studies This is the story of a man who tried to resurrect the spirit of democratic life. He was born into a time of chaos and absurdity, and he took it as his fate to carry a candle into the night. This is his story and the story many others, the writers, artists, actors, and philosophers who took it upon themselves to remember a tradition that had failed so miserably it had almost been forgotten.
Purdue University Press
EVA AND OTTO
Resistance, Refugees, and Love in the Time of Hitler
Tom Pfister, Kathy Pfister & Peter Pfister Nov 2019 478pp, 60 illustrations 9781557538819 Paperback £31.95 / €36.00 A true story about German opposition and resistance to Hitler as revealed through the early lives of Eva Lewinski Pfister and Otto Pfister. This is an intimate and epic account of two Germans who worked with a little-known German political group that resisted and fought against Hitler in Germany before 1933, and then in exile in Paris.
A HISTORY OF YUGOSLAVIA
Marie-Janine Calic Jan 2019 457pp 9781557538383 Paperback £63.95 / €72.00 Central European Studies Provides a comprehensive synthesis of the political, cultural, social, and economic life of Yugoslavia, from its nineteenth-century South Slavic origins to the demise of the multinational state in the 1990s. Marie-Janine Calic looks at the complex history of Yugoslavia, emphasising major social, economic, and intellectual changes and the transition to modern industrialised mass society.
JAN HUS
The Life and Death of a Preacher
Pavel Soukup Dec 2019 271pp 9781557538765 Paperback £53.50 / €60.00 Central European Studies Jan Hus was a late medieval Czech university master and popular preacher who was condemned at the Council of Constance, and burned at the stake as a heretic in 1415. Looking for Hus’s significance in his own time, this treatment tells a story of a late medieval intellectual who generated conflict and eventually brought execution upon himself.
MAKING PEACE IN AN AGE OF WAR
Emperor Ferdinand III (1608–1657)
Mark Hengerer Jul 2019 362pp, 27 illustrations 9781557538444 Paperback £53.50 / €60.00 Central European Studies This translation of Mark Hengerer’s Kaiser Ferdinand III: 1608- 1657 is based on an analysis of reports sent by the papal nuncio’s office to the Vatican. They give information about the daily whereabouts of the dynasty, courtiers, and foreign visitors, and contain the gossip of the court in addition to analysis of political problems.
NEW PERSPECTIVES ON KRISTALLNACHT
After 80 Years, the Nazi Pogrom in Global Comparison, 17th Edition
Edited by Steven J. Ross Dec 2019 200pp 9781557538703 Paperback £37.50 / €42.00 Jewish Role in American Life For more information on this title, see page 43.
Syracuse University Press
BORDERLAND GENERATION
Soviet and Polish Jews under Hitler
Jeffrey Koerber Oct 2019 392pp 9780815636373 Paperback £33.95 / €38.00 9780815636199 Hardback £67.95 / €77.00 Modern Jewish History Traces the prewar and wartime experiences of young adult Jews raised under distinct political and social systems. Each cohort harnessed the knowledge and skills attained during their formative years to seek survival during the Holocaust through narrow windows of chance.
Texas Tech University Press
CHOICES UNDER DURESS OF THE HOLOCAUST
Benjamin Murmelstein and the Fate of Viennese Jewry, Volume I: Vienna
Leonard H. Ehrlich & Edith Ehrlich Edited by Carl S. Ehrlich Jan 2019 651pp 9781682830345 Hardback £69.50 / €78.00 In 1973, Leonard and Edith Ehrlich chose to undertake a daunting task that would ultimately become their greatest work: conducting over thirty years of meticulous research to investigate and document Vienna’s Jewish community and its leadership during the Holocaust.
University of Virginia Press
FOUR FOOLS IN THE AGE OF REASON
Laughter, Cruelty, and Power in Early Modern Germany
Dorinda Outram Apr 2019 184pp, 8 b&w illustrations 9780813942018 Hardback £37.50 / €42.00 Studies in Early Modern German History Unveiling the nearly lost world of the court fools of eighteenth-century Germany, Dorinda Outram shows that laughter was an essential instrument of power.
The University of Wisconsin Press
THE INVISIBLE JEWISH BUDAPEST
Metropolitan Culture at the Fin de Siècle
Mary Gluck Jul 2019 240pp, 40 b&w illustrations 9780299307745 Paperback £21.95 / €25.00 George L. Mosse Series in Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History Budapest at the fin de siècle was famed and emulated for its cosmopolitan urban culture and nightlife. It was also the second-largest Jewish city in Europe. Mary Gluck delves into the popular culture of Budapest’s coffee houses, music halls, and humor magazines to uncover the enormous influence of assimilated Jews in creating modernist Budapest.
MY SISTER’S MOTHER
A Memoir of War, Exile, and Stalin’s Siberia
Donna Solecka Urbikas Mar 2019 312pp, 14 b&w photos 9780299308544 Paperback £19.95 / €23.00 In the 1950s, baby boomer Donna Solecka Urbikas grew up in the American Midwest yearning for a “normal” American family. But her Polish-born mother and half-sister had endured hunger, disease, and desperate escape from slave labour in Siberia. In this unforgettable memoir, Donna recounts her family history and her own survivor’s story.
REMEMBERING LENINGRAD
The Story of a Generation
Mary McAuley Jul 2019 288pp, 20 b&w photos, 3 maps 9780299322502 Hardback £39.50 / €45.00 By weaving history and anecdotes to create a picture of Russia’s cultural center, McAuley underscores the impact of time and place on the Russian intelligentsia who lived through the transition from Soviet to postSoviet life. The result is a remarkable group portrait of a generation.
Vanderbilt University Press
CARTOGRAPHIES OF MADRID
Contesting Urban Space at the Crossroads of the Global South and Global North
Edited by Silvia Bermudez & Anthony L. Geist Feb 2019 296pp 9780826522153 Paperback £39.50 / €43.00 9780826522146 Hardback £89.95 / €97.00 Evaluates the complex ways that Madrid has served as the political, economic, and cultural capital of the Global South from the end of the Franco dictatorship to the present.
IBERIAN EMPIRES AND THE ROOTS OF GLOBALIZATION
Edited by Ivonne del Valle, Anna More & Rachel Sarah O’Toole Jan 2020 328pp 9780826522535 Paperback £39.50 / €43.00 9780826522528 Hardback £78.95 / €85.00 Through interdisciplinary essays covering the wide geography of Spanish and Portuguese empires, Iberian Empires and the Roots of Globalization investigates the diverse networks and multiple centres of early modern globalisation that emerged in conjunction with Iberian imperialism.
SURVIVING THE PEACE
The Struggle for Postwar Recovery in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Peter Lippman Nov 2019 500pp 9780826522610 Hardback £29.95 / €34.00 Unique in its breadth and profoundly humanitarian in its focus, Surviving the Peace situates digestible explanations of the region’s bewilderingly complex recent history among interviews, conversations, and tableaus from the lives of everyday Bosnians attempting to make sense of what passes for normal in a postwar society.
BESTSELLERS
Holmes & Meier Publishers
THE DESTRUCTION OF EUROPEAN JEWS
Raoul Hilberg 1985 360pp 9780841909106 Paperback £29.50 / €33.00 This student edition of The Destruction of the European Jews makes accessible for classroom use Raul Hilberg’s landmark account of Germany’s annihilation of Europe’s Jewish communities in 1933-1945. Perhaps more than any other book, it answers the question: How did it happen?
ISI Books
THE MYTH OF THE ANDALUSIAN PARADISE
Muslims, Christians, and Jews under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain
Dario Fernandez Morera 2016 336pp 9781610170956 Hardback £29.95 / €34.00 In this groundbreaking new book, Dario Fernández Morera tells the full story of Islamic rule in medieval Spain. He shines light on hidden history by drawing on primary sources that have been ignored, as well as archaeological evidence recently unearthed.
University of Michigan Press
CAROLINGIAN CHRONICLES
Royal Frankish Annals and Nithard’s Histories
Edited by Bernhard Walter Scholz 1970 248pp, maps 9780472061860 Paperback £16.95 / €19.00 Ann Arbor Paperbacks Makes available for the first time in English two works which together form the most comprehensive and official contemporary record of the rise and fall of the Carolingian Empire: The Royal Frankish Annals and Nithard’s Histories.
THE EARLY MEDIAEVAL BALKANS
A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century
John V.A. Fine 1991 372pp, maps 9780472081493 Paperback £35.95 / €40.00 Offers a comprehensive examination of the events of early medieval Balkan history - events that were as important as they are fascinating. This is an important source for those who wish to expand their knowledge of this turbulent period and who wish to broaden their understanding of the region.
PASSING ILLUSIONS
Jewish Visibility in Weimar Germany
Kerry Wallach 2017 288pp, 20 b&w illustrations 9780472053575 Paperback £25.50 / €29.00 Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany Being visible as a Jew in Weimar Germany often involved appearing simultaneously non-Jewish and Jewish. Passing Illusions examines the constructs of German-Jewish visibility during the Weimar Republic and explores the controversial aspects of this identity - and the complex reasons many decided to conceal or reveal themselves as Jewish.
The University of North Carolina Press
PUTINOMICS
Power and Money in Resurgent Russia
Chris Miller 2018 240pp 9781469640662 Hardback £29.95 / €34.00 When Vladimir Putin first took power in 1999, he was a little-known figure ruling a country that was reeling from a decade and a half of crisis. In the years since, he has reestablished Russia as a great power. In this new analysis of Putin’s Russia, Chris Miller examines its economic policy and the tools Russia’s elite have used to achieve its goals.
THE STRUGGLE TO SAVE THE SOVIET ECONOMY
Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR
Chris Miller 2016 256pp 9781469630175 Hardback £31.95 / €36.00 The New Cold War History Why did the Soviet economy suddenly collapse in the late 1980s, only a few years after Mikhail Gorbachev came to power? In this groundbreaking study, Chris Miller shows that although Gorbachev and his allies sought to learn from China’s economic reforms under Deng Xiaoping, their efforts to revitalize Soviet socialism proved much less successful.
Northwestern University Press
TRAP WITH A GREEN FENCE
Survival in Treblinka
Richard Glazar 1995 196pp, illustrations 9780810111691 Paperback £22.50 / €26.00 Jewish lives A memoir of deportation, escape, and survival. In economical prose, Richard Glazar weaves a description of Treblinka and its operations into his evocation of himself and his fellow prisoners as denizens of an underworld. Glazar gives us compelling images of these horrors in a tone that remains thoughtful but sober, affecting but simple.
University of Pittsburgh Press
SOVIET SPACE MYTHOLOGIES
Public Images, Private Memories, and the Making of a Cultural Identity
Slava Gerovitch 2015 296pp 9780822963639 Paperback £34.95 / €40.00 Explores the history of the Soviet human space programme within a political and cultural context, giving particular attention to the two professional groups–space engineers and cosmonauts–who built and represented the program.
Wayne State University Press
JEWS AND THE GERMAN STATE
The Political History of a Minority, 1848-1933
Peter G.J. Pulzer 2002 394pp 9780814331309 Paperback £23.50 / €27.00 Many historians focus on the growing anti-Semitism of the period 1848 to 1933, culminating in the Nazi Party’s rise to power and its programme of genocide, but Peter Pulzer emphasizes the evolution of the ethnic identity, social roles and political activities of German Jews.
The University of Wisconsin Press
POWER AND PERSUASION IN LATE ANTIQUITY
Towards a Christian Empire
Peter Brown 1992 192pp 9780299133443 Paperback £18.95 / €22.00 Traces the growing power of early Christian bishops as they wrested influence from the philosophers who had traditionally advised the rulers of Graeco-Roman society, transforming the Roman empire from an ancient to a medieval society.
PRIMED FOR VIOLENCE
Murder, Antisemitism, and Democratic Politics in Interwar Poland
Paul Brykczynski 2018 240pp, 21 b&w illustrations 9780299307042 Paperback £19.95 / €23.00 In 1922, voters in the newly created Republic of Poland democratically elected their first president, Gabriel Narutowicz. Within hours, bloody riots erupted in Warsaw, and within a week the president was assassinated. As Paul Brykczynski tells this gripping story, he explores the complex role of antisemitism, nationalism, and violence in Polish politics between the two World Wars.
RUSSIAN-OTTOMAN BORDERLANDS
The Eastern Question Reconsidered
Edited by Lucien J. Frary & Mara Kozelsky 2014 320pp, 9 b&w illustrations, 2 maps 9780299298043 Paperback £34.50 / €39.00 During the nineteenth century European and Russian diplomats debated the “Eastern Question”, or, “What should be done about the Ottoman Empire?” RussianOttoman Borderlands brings together an international group of scholars to show that the Eastern Question was not just one but many questions that varied tremendously from one historical actor and moment to the next.
SPAIN
A Unique History
Stanley G. Payne 2011 326pp 9780299250249 Paperback £26.95 / €30.00 This new volume by distinguished historian Stanley Payne draws on his half century of experience to offer a balanced, broadly chronological survey of Spanish history from the Visigoths to the present. Examining Spain’s unique role in the larger history of Western Europe, Payne reinterprets key aspects of the country’s history.
AN UNCOMPROMISING GENERATION
The Nazi Leadership of the Reich Security Main Office
Michael Wildt 2010 592pp, 29 b&w photos 9780299234645 Paperback £36.50 / €42.00 Follows the journey of a strikingly homogenous group of young academics - who came from the educated, bourgeois stratum of society - as they started to identify with the Nazi concept of Volksgemeinschaft, which labelled Jews as enemies of the people and justified their murder.
