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Mare Nostrum Group
A Family Chronicle
Sergei Aksakov
Translated by Michael R. Katz
Introduction by Marcus C. Levitt
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
October 2024 216pp
9781501777301
£22.99/ $26.95 PB
9781501777295 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
A Family Chronicle (1856) is Sergei Aksakov's blend of memoir and fiction that tells how one Russian family relocated from the city to Russia's eastern frontier in the steppes of Bashkiria. It records oral tradition in writing and occupies a unique place in nineteenth-century Russian narrative.
Adorno's Gamble
Harnessing German Ideology
Mikko Immanen
Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
February 2025 204pp
9781501779527 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
9781501779510 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Adorno's Gamble offers a startling reinterpretation of the evolution of Adorno's thought, usually seen as a mix of critical Marxism, Freudian psychoanalysis, and Jewish tradition. Mikko Immanen argues for the unacknowledged source of his thinking on instrumental reason, dialectic of enlightenment, and frailty of democracy: the intellectual underpinnings of Germany's "conservative revolutionary" movement of the 1920s.
Blood of Others
Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity
In 1944, Stalin deported the Crimean Tatars from their ancestral homeland. The gravity of this event, which claimed the lives of tens of thousands, was shrouded in secrecy after WW2. What broke the silence were works of literature. Finnin presents these works as vivid evidence of literature’s power to lift our moral horizons.
Accidental Shepherd
How a California Girl Rescued an Ancient Mountain Farm in Norway
Liese Greensfelder
November 2024 280pp 28 color images and 1 map
9781517917661 £23.99/ $27.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
A summer job turns serious when a young woman takes the reins on a remote farm—and learns far more than how to herd sheep. In May 1972, Liese Greensfelder arrived in the small Norwegian town of Øystese to startling news: Johannes, the farmer who hired her for the summer, had just been hospitalized after a stroke.
An Imaginary Cinema
Sergei Eisenstein and the Unrealized Film
Dustin Condren
December 2024 372pp 40 b&w hft
9781501778469 £53.00/ $58.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
An Imaginary Cinema is the first systematic study of Sergei Eisenstein's unrealized films as well as a deeply informed historical and theoretical inquiry into the role and meaning of the unmade in his oeuvre. Eisenstein directed some of the twentieth century's most important films, from the early classic of montage, Battleship Potemkin, to his late masterpiece, Ivan the Terrible.
Bounded Wilderness
Land and Reform at the Hermitage of Fonte Avellana, ca. 1035-1072
In Bounded Wilderness, Kathryn Jasper focuses on the innovations undertaken at the hermitage of Fonte Avellana in central Italy during the eleventh century by its prior, Peter Damian (d. 1072). The congregation of Fonte Avellana experimented with reforming practices that led to new ways of managing property and relations among clergy, nobles, and the laity.
Burying Mussolini
Ordinary Life in the Shadows of Fascism
Paolo Heywood
December 2024 204pp 21 b&w hft, 1 map
9781501778285
£25.99/ $29.95 PB
9781501778278
£116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Burying Mussolini addresses the global resurgence in authoritarian and nationalist populism and its connection with valorizations of ordinary life. Predappio is the birthplace and burial site of Benito Mussolini and Italy's premier neo-fascist tourist site with hundreds of thousands of fascist sympathizers descending on the town annually.
Conversion and Catastrophe in German-Jewish Émigré Autobiography
Abraham Rubin
German and European Studies
December 2024 232pp 31 b&w illus.
9781487561093 £20.99/ $27.50 PB
9781487557348 £62.00/ $80.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
A collective biography of four German-Jewish converts to Christianity, recounting their spiritual journeys against the backdrop of the Holocaust. This book explores how Jewish emigrants interpreted their experiences of persecution through the hermeneutics of Christian conversion/
Diplomacy and Disregard
The Hungarian Revolution and the United Nations 1956–1963
András Nagy
Studies in Hungarian History
July 2024 376pp 22 b&w illus.
9780253070289 £43.00/ $48.00 PB
9780253070272 £85.00/ $95.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Provides an unprecedented look at the global reach and consequences of Hungary's 1956 Revolution and at how the UN's action and inaction during this political crisis ultimately defined its ability to maneuver the Cold War's fraught political landscape and live up to the ideals of its charter.
But I Live
Three Stories from Child Survivors of the Holocaust
Edited by Charlotte Schallié
Illustrated by Barbara Yelin, Gilad Seliktar & Miriam Libicki
September 2024 200pp Full-color illus. throughout
9781487526856
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
£18.99/ $24.95 NIP
An intimate co-creation of three graphic novelists and four Holocaust survivors, But I Live consists of three illustrated stories based on the experiences of each survivor during and after the Holocaust. But I Live also includes historical essays, an illustrated postscript from the artists, and personal words from each of the survivors.
Desiring Whiteness
A Racial History of Prostitution in France and Colonial Senegal, 1848–1950
Caroline Séquin
October 2024 264pp 6 b&w hft, 1 map
9781501777035 £47.00/ $51.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Desiring Whiteness uncovers the intertwined histories of commercial sex and racial politics in France and the French Empire. Caroline Séquin challenges the narrative of French exceptionalism by revealing the role of prostitution regulation in policing intimate relationships across racial and colonial boundaries in the century following the abolition of slavery.
Disintegrating Empire
Algerian Family Migration and the Limits of the Welfare State in France
Elise Franklin
France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization
October 2024 278pp 4 illus., 1 table, 2 graphs, index
9781496233141
£58.00/ $65.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Examines the entangled histories of the French welfare state, family migration from Algeria, and the French social workers. This book explores the messy nature of the relationship between colonial citizens and migrants of newly independent countries.
Empire of Contingency
How Portugal Entered the IndoPersian World
Jorge Flores
October 2024 344pp 15 b&w illus., 2 maps, 2 charts
9781512826449
£58.00/ $65.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
This book explores the information and communication practices of the Portuguese empire in late sixteenth and seventeenth-century India— when it was struggling for survival. Flores uncovers how the Estado da Índia endeavored to survive in a vast Indo-Persian world shaped by the influence and power of the Mughal empire.
Family, Sex, and Faith
The Biopolitics of the Russian Orthodox Church
Pål Kolstø
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
January 2025 336pp
9781501779411 £55.00/ $61.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Family, Sex, and Faith is the first systematic examination probing what the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) teaches and how believers respond to its messages regarding issues such as marriage, divorce, contraception, abortion, husband/wife relations, and LGBT+.
Food and Emotions in Italian Women's Writing
A Reassessment
Patrizia Sambuco
Toronto Italian Studies
December 2024 224pp 7 b&w illus.
9781487506834 £49.00/ $65.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Discusses the relevance of food imaginaries in the writing of Italian women over a period of one hundred years, from the 1920s to the present day, while offering new ways to narrate women’s history and creativity. Sambuco shows how food imaginaries in different historical periods challenge established political discourses by conveying unexpressed, alternative, or transgressive emotions.
Eternal Sovereigns
Indigenous Artists, Activists, and Travelers Reframing Rome
Gloria Jane Bell
October 2024 256pp 47 illus., including 16 in color
9781478030881 £22.99/ $26.95 PB
9781478026617
£92.00/ $102.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on years of archival research and field interviews, Bell provides insight into the Catholic Church’s colonial collecting and its ongoing ethnological display practices. Written in a voice that questions the academy’s staid conventions, the book reclaims Indigenous belongings and other stolen treasures that remain imprisoned in the strongholds of the Vatican Museums.
Mark McGowan revisits an important chapter of the Irish emigrant experience, revealing that the story of Canada’s acceptance of the famine orphans is a product of national myth-making that obscures both the hardship the children endured and the agency they ultimately expressed.
For Russia with Hitler
White Russian Émigrés and the German-Soviet War Oleg Beyda
October 2024 408pp 12 b&w illus. 9781487556488 £87.00/ $110.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Tells the story of how thousands of White Russian émigrés joined the German invasion of the Soviet Union as soldiers, translators, and civilian workers. Details the background and ideological framework of the émigrés, how they rationalized their support for Nazism, and what they did on the Eastern Front, including their reactions to life in occupation, war crimes, and the Holocaust.
Foreign Aid and State Building in Interwar Romania
In Quest of an Ideal
Doina Anca Cretu
Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
December 2024 312pp
9781503636781 £63.00/ $70.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
The decades following World War I were a period of transformation for Central and Eastern Europe. This book considers the role of foreign aid in Romania between 1918 and 1940, offering a new history of the interrelation between state building and nongovernmental humanitarianism and philanthropy in the interwar period.
November 2024 384pp
Fyodor Dostoevsky–
Darkness and Dawn (1848–1849)
A Life in Letters, Memoirs, and Criticism
Thomas Gaiton Marullo
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
9781501778131 £53.00/ $58.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
This is the 3rd and final volume on the Fyodor Dostoevsky’s childhood, seeks to disclose way Dostoevsky's last 2 years before his exile to Siberia. These volumes present a complete and congruent picture of the writer's first 28 years.
Hereafter
The Telling Life of Ellen O'Hara
Vona Groarke
The Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series
October 2024 200pp 28 b&w illus.
9781479837748 £12.99/ $14.95 PB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Ellen O’Hara was a young immigrant from Ireland at the end of the nineteenth century who, with courage and resilience, made a life for herself in New York while financially supporting those at home. Hereafter is her story, told by Vona Groarke, her descendant, in a beautiful blend of poetry, prose, and history.
Freedom and the Captive Mind
Fr. Gleb Yakunin and Orthodox Christianity in Soviet Russia
Wallace L. Daniel
NIU Series in Orthodox Christian Studies
October 2024 348pp 15 b&w hft
9781501777349 £27.99/ $32.95 PB
9781501777332 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Freedom and the Captive Mind is a biography of Fr. Gleb Yakunin, the first Orthodox priest to adopt an ecumenical approach to Russian Orthodoxy, earning him the enmity of conservative groups within the Church and gratitude from other religious denominations.
Gothic Italy
Crime, Science, and Literature after Unification, 1861-1914
Stefano Serafini
Toronto Italian Studies
November 2024 224pp
9781487558635 £45.00/ $60.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
The Gothic permeated and influenced the project of Italian nation-building, casting a dark and pervasive shadow on Italian history. Gothic Italy explores the nuances, contradictions, and implications of the conflict between what the Gothic embodies in post-unification Italy and the values that a supposedly secular, modern country tries to uphold and promote.
Homo Temporalis
German Jewish Thinkers on Time
Nitzan Itzhak Lebovic
Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
January 2025 346pp
9781501779565 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9781501779558 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Homo Temporalis focuses on the importance of temporal concepts for four German-Jewish thinkers who profoundly shaped twentieth-century intellectual history: Martin Buber, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, and Paul Celan. By stressing the concept of time in their thinking, Nitzan Lebovic challenges previous debates that have focused on identity, ideology, and territory.
Icons Axed, Freedoms Lost
Russian Desecularization and a Ukrainian Alternative
Vyacheslav Karpov & Rachel L. Schroeder
January 2025 260pp 1 table
9781978822221
£29.99/ $34.95 PB
9781978822238 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Vyacheslav Karpov and Rachel L. Schroeder demonstrate how Russia went from persecuting believers to jailing critics of religion, and why, in contrast, religious pluralism has solidified in Ukraine. This book offers original theoretical and methodological perspectives far beyond the cases of Russia and Ukraine.
Jewish Odesa Negotiating Identities and Traditions in Contemporary Ukraine
Marina Sapritsky-Nahum
The Modern Jewish Experience
July 2024 374pp 32 b&w photos
9780253070111 £43.00/ $48.00 PB
9780253070104 £76.00/ $85.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on extensive field research, Marina SapritskyNahum, examines how the role of Russian language and culture, memories of the Soviet political project, and Odesan's place in a Ukrainian national project have all been questioned in recent years.
Laboring in the Shadow of Empire Race, Gender, and Care Work in Portugal
Celeste Vaughan Curington
Inequality at Work: Perspectives on Race, Gender, Class, and Labor
September 2024 236pp 7 b&w figure and 1 table
9781978827950 £36.00/ $39.95 PB
9781978827967 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines the everyday lives of an African descendant care service workforce that labors in an ostensibly “anti-racial” Europe and against the backdrop of the Portuguese colonial empire as there is less research that explicitly examines African care workers and their migration histories to Europe.
Ideology and Meaning-Making under the Putin Regime
Marlene Laruelle
January 2025 312pp
9781503641594
£27.99/ $32.00 PB
9781503631397 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book provides an innovative, multi-method analysis of the Russian regime's ideological production process and the ways it is operationalized in both domestic and foreign policies. By placing the current Russian regime into a broader context, this book gives readers key insights into how the Russo-Ukrainian War became possible.
Jewishness and Beyond
Jewish Conversions in Hungary 1825–1914
Miklós Konrád
Studies in Hungarian History
August 2024 450pp 29 b&w illus., 5 b&w tables
9780253070517 £45.00/ $50.00 PB
9780253070500 £81.00/ $90.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Jewishness and Beyond, which can be read as an introduction to the identity dilemmas of Hungarian Jews, reveals the motivations and strategies behind the conversions of Hungarian Jews, the complex reactions within and outside of their communities, and converts' own grappling with conversion's expected and unforeseen outcomes.
León and Galicia Under Queen Sancha and King Fernando I
Exploring the interplay of crown and elites, royal women, and rejecting the Reconquista paradigm, León and Galicia Under Queen Sancha and King Fernando I reenvisions medieval Iberia at a pivotal stage in European history.
Lordship and State Transformation
Bohemia and the Habsburg Fiscal-Financial-Military Regime, 1650–1710
Stephan Sander-Faes
December 2024 472pp 17 tables
9780228022909 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Grounded in extensive research into Czech archives and spanning an era from the Thirty Years’ War to the coronation of Charles VI, Stephan Sander-Faes delves into the complex transitions that characterized the first instance of a balance of power in Europe, with a focus on the Habsburg monarchy.
March 1917
The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 4 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Translated by Marian Schwartz
The Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn Series
October 2024 664pp 6 maps
9780268208790 £35.00/ $39.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
One of the masterpieces of world literature, The Red Wheel is Nobel prize–winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s multivolume epic work about the Russian Revolution told in the form of a historical novel. March 1917 tells the story, day by day, of the Russian Revolution itself.
Matchmaking and the Marriage Market in Postrevolutionary France
Andrea Mansker
December 2024 276pp 4 b&w hft
9781501778063 £48.00/ $53.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Uncovers the unexplored history of matrimonial agents, their novel marketing tactics, and the rise of personal advertisements to track the commercialization of marriage in nineteenth-century France. Brokers transformed courtship and marriage into forms of commercial exchange, linking them to the new urban values of abundance, pleasure, and social mobility.
March 1917
The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 3 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Translated by Marian Schwartz
The Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn Series
September 2024 712pp 4 maps
9780268201715 £27.99/ $32.00 NIP
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
One of the masterpieces of world literature, The Red Wheel is Nobel prize–winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s multivolume epic work about the Russian Revolution told in the form of a historical novel. March 1917—the third node—tells the story, day by day, of the Russian Revolution itself. Until recently, the final two nodes have been unavailable in English.
Masculinities and Representation
The Eroticized Male in Early Modern Italy and England
Edited by Konrad Eisenbichler
October 2024 304pp 40 b&w illus. 9781487556976 £69.00/ $90.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
In studies on premodern masculinities that have enriched scholarship in recent years, relatively little attention has been paid to the eroticizing of the male body. Masculinities and Representation seeks to fill this lacuna, illustrating how gender construction served to affirm but also diversify premodern masculinity.
Mobilizing in Uncertainty
Collective Identities and War in Abkhazia
Anastasia Shesterinina
November 2024 258pp 5 b&w hft, 5 b&w line drawings, 5 maps, 6 charts
9781501778964 £28.99/ $33.95
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
How do ordinary people navigate the intense uncertainty of the onset of war? Different individuals mobilize in different ways—some flee, some pick up arms, and some support armed actors as civil war begins. Drawing on nearly two hundred in-depth interviews with participants and nonparticipants in the Georgian-Abkhaz war of 1992–1993, Shesterinina explores Abkhaz mobilization decisions during that conflict.
Mountain Battery
The Alps, Water, and Power in the Fossil Fuel Age
Marc Landry
January 2025 296pp
9781503641570 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9781503639775 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Through historical research conducted in archives across Europe—especially in Germany, Austria, France, Switzerland, and Italy— Landry shows how and why Europeans thoroughly transformed the Alps in order to generate hydroelectricity, and explores the effects of its attendant economic and military advantages across the turbulent twentieth century.
Nobility Lost
French and Canadian Martial Cultures, Indians, and the End of New France
Christian Ayne Crouch
January 2025 264pp 11 hft, 2 maps
9781501778971
£24.99/ $28.95
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Nobility Lost is a cultural history of the Seven Years' War in French-claimed North America, focused on the meanings of wartime violence and the profound impact of the encounter between Canadian, Indian, and French cultures of war and diplomacy.
Photography and the Making of the Nazi Racial Community
Julie R. Keresztes
January 2025 210pp 19 b&w hft
9781501779749 £21.99/ $24.95 PB
9781501779299 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Photography and the Making of the Nazi Racial Community examines the role of photography in the construction of the Nazi Volksgemeinschaft, a racially exclusive community, during the Third Reich. Julie R. Keresztes explores how the dictatorship promoted photography for those who belonged to that community and excluded Jews from the practice.
Nazis at the Watercooler
War Criminals in Postwar German Government Agencies
Terrence Petty
November 2024 304pp 6 photos, 9 illus., index
9781640125698 £29.99/ $34.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
After World War II, when a new German democracy was born, many Ex-Nazis resumed their careers without consequence in the newly created Federal Republic of Germany. With help from the highest levels of West German government, they swept their crimes under the carpet. Petty illuminates the network of ex–Third Reich loyalists and the U.S. government’s complicity that enabled this mass impunity.
Old
Norse Folklore Magic, Witchcraft, and Charms in Medieval Scandinavia
Stephen A. Mitchell
Myth and Poetics II
February 2025 336pp 10 b&w hft
9781501777509 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781501777493 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
The second volume of Old Norse Folklore explores medieval and early modern Nordic magic and witchcraft, covering syncretism, continuity, survival, and the reconstruction of pagan beliefs and cultic practices in this last area of western Europe to be Christianized.
In Louis XIV’s New France, colonial authorities attempted to reproduce French regal authority in novel ways, often by performing typical metropolitan political rituals. This book traces the establishment of a colonial political culture that continued to shape the lives of the French in Canada long after the Sun King’s death in 1715.
Prisoners’ Bodies
Activism, Health, and the Prisoners’ Rights Movement in Ireland, 1972–1985
Oisín Wall
States, People, and the History of Social Change
November 2024 256pp 2 photos, 1 table
9780228022954 £36.00/ $39.95 PB
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
The first book on the history of the prisoner-driven movement that sought to revolutionize the prison system in Ireland between 1972 and 1985. Oisín Wall seeks to amplify the voices of people who have been systemically and institutionally silenced in the history of modern Irish prisons.
Queen of Sorrows
Plague, Piety,
and
Power in Late Medieval Italy
Bianca M. Lopez
Medieval Societies, Religions, and Cultures
September 2024 228pp 6 b&w hft, 2 maps, 5 graphs
9781501775918 £51.00/ $56.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Queen of Sorrows takes an original approach to both late-medieval Italian history and the history of Christianity, using quantitative and qualitative analyses of a remarkable archive of 1,904 testaments to determine patterns in giving to the Virgin of Loreto shrine in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries.
Reimagining Citizenship in Postwar Europe
Edited by Rachel Chin & Samuel Clowes Huneke
Foreword by Anna von der Goltz
February 2025 324pp 3 b&w hft, 1 chart
9781501779190 £27.99/ $31.95 PB
9781501779183 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Reimagining Citizenship in Postwar Europe maps the generation and growth of novel forms of belonging in the years after World War II, crisscrossing the continent from Madrid to Warsaw and from Athens to London. Even as Europe struggled to rebuild, new forms of identity, statehood, and citizenship were beginning to take shape.
Pulcinella's Brood
Popular Culture in the Enlightenment
Karen T. Raizen
Toronto Italian Studies
November 2024 368pp 30 b&w illus., 7 b&w figures
9781487555788 £62.00/ $80.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Pulcinella, a Neapolitan clown born of the commedia dell’arte tradition, went viral in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries. The book explores how Pulcinella was inserted into discourses about social order, aesthetics, and politics – how he became a revolutionary, a critic of the Catholic Church, and a champion of education.
Reading the Archival Revolution
Declassified Stories and Their Challenges
Cristina Vatulescu
Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities
November 2024 320pp
9781503641020 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9781503640276 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
The opening of classified documents from the Soviet era has been dubbed the "archival revolution" due to its unprecedented scale, drama, and impact. With a storyteller's sensibility, Cristina Vatulescu identifies and takes on the main challenges of reading in these archives.
Religion and Secular Modernity in Russian Christianity, Judaism, and Atheism
Edited by Ana Siljak
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
November 2024 306pp
9781501778162 £51.00/ $56.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
A multifaceted account of the engagement between religion and the secular in Russia's Christian, Jewish, and atheist traditions. Ana Siljak brings together an interdisciplinary group of leading scholars to present unique perspectives on the secularization dynamic in Russia and the Soviet Union, telling stories about theologians, sects, churches, poets, and artists.
Russia, Disinformation, and the Liberal Order
RT as Populist Pariah
Stephen Hutchings, Vera Tolz, Precious Chatterje-Doody, Rhys Crilley & Marie Gillespie
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
October 2024 342pp 8 color line drawings
9781501777639 £49.00/ $54.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book sheds new light on the provenance and nature of disinformation's threat to democracy. Interrogating the communications strategies pursued by authoritarian states, the book reveals the interlinked nature of today's global media-politics.
Sing Me Back Home
Ethnographic Songwriting and Sardinian Language Politics
Kristina Jacobsen
Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
October 2024 296pp 20 color illus., 3 b&w tables
9781487553869 £22.99/ $29.95 PB
9781487553852 £56.00/ $70.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Set on the Italian island of Sardinia, this book explores language and culture through songwriting. Based on thirteen months of ethnographic fieldwork writing songs with Sardinian musicians, shepherds, and language activists, Jacobsen asks, how are Sardinian lives and language ideologies narrated against American music?
Staging the Promises
Everyday Future-Making in a Serbian Industrial Town
Deana Jovanović
January 2025 246pp 21 b&w hft, 2 maps
9781501780134 £27.99/ $31.95 PB
9781501779091 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Staging the Promises assesses the performative ways through which contemporary capitalist futures are remade. For Jovanović, Bor represents a site that reflects a current global trend: staging the promises of enhanced futures today play a significant role in contemporary populist politics. Through them, she argues, distant futures become gradually withdrawn from people's horizons.
Shades of Blue
Claiming Europe in the Age of Disintegration
Félix Krawatzek, Friedemann Pestel, Rieke Trimcev & Gregor
Feindt
February 2025 306pp
9781501779329 £55.00/ $61.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Investigates the political project of 'Europe' as it oscillates between the extremes of expectations of an ever-wider integration and fear of disintegration. The authors interrogate and chart the space between these polarities by tracking the many competing conceptions of 'Europe' in European public discourse and relate these meanings to national, regional, and ideological divisions
Spaces of Treblinka
Retracing a Death Camp
Jacob Flaws
November 2024 302pp 21 photos, 1 illus., 2 maps, index
9781496239730 £54.00/ $60.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Rather than the secret, sanitized site of industrial killing Treblinka was intended to be, Jacob Flaws argues, Treblinka’s mass murder was well-known to the nearby townspeople. Through spatial reality, Flaws portrays the conceptions, fantasies, ideological assumptions, and memories of Treblinka from witnesses in the camp and surrounding towns.
Stalin's Quest for Gold
The Torgsin Hard-Currency Shops and Soviet Industrialization
Elena Osokina
November 2024 348pp 29 b&w hft
9781501778940 £27.99/ $31.95
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Stalin's Quest for Gold tells the story of Torgsin, a chain of retail shops established in 1930 with the aim of raising the hard currency needed to finance the USSR's ambitious industrialization program. At a time of desperate scarcity, Torgsin had access to the country's best foodstuffs and goods.
Tangled Transformations
Unifying Germany and Integrating Europe, 1985-1995
Edited by Kiran Klaus Patel
German and European Studies
October 2024 392pp
9781487556846 £62.00/ $80.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Presents a historical analysis of the interplay between German unification and European integration from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Building on freshly released documents, the book’s sixteen chapters explore constellations in which the two processes accelerated and informed one another. Demonstates the strong interlinkages between German unification and European union.
The Business of Transition
Jewish and Greek Merchants of Salonica from Ottoman to Greek Rule
Paris Papamichos Chronakis
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
October 2024 384pp
9781503639669 £63.00/ $70.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book examines how the cosmopolitan bourgeoisie of the Eastern Mediterranean navigated the transition from empire to nation-state in the early twentieth century. Papamichos Chronakis shows how the Jewish and Greek merchants of Salonica managed the shift from Ottoman to Greek rule amidst revolution and war.
The Diplomacy of Independence
Benjamin Franklin Documents in the Archives of
Spain
Thomas E. Chávez
July 2024 472pp
9781606188972 £49.00/ $54.95 PB
9781606188958 £90.00/ $99.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Detailing Franklin’s induction into Spain’s Royal Academy of History, this book explores a facet of Franklin’s life previously overlooked. The Diplomacy of Independence provides more than seventy documents from the Spanish archives to highlight Franklin’s efforts in assuring Spain’s aid in the American Revolutionary war.
The Banat of Temesvar
Borderland Colonization in the Habsburg Monarchy
Timothy Olin
Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
February 2025 352pp
9781503639942 £67.00/ $75.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book explores the establishment and development of a multi-ethnic frontier society on the Habsburg–Ottoman border, in the historic region of the Banat. Olin follows the ethno-religious tensions that characterized the region through the twentieth century and beyond.
The Dialectics of Absolute Nothingness
The Legacies of German Philosophy in the Kyoto School
Edited by Gregory S. Moss & Takeshi Morisato
February 2025 324pp
9781501778988 £55.00/ $61.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book investigates the appropriations, critiques, and innovative interpretations of German philosophy by the Kyoto School, showing how central concepts of German philosophical traditions found a place within non-Western frameworks such as Zen and Pure Land Buddhism, thereby transcending the original Western context.
The Early Printed Illustrations of Dante’s "Commedia"
Matthew Collins
William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature
December 2024 490pp 232 b&w illus., 9 tables
9780268208387 £58.00/ $65.00 PB
9780268208370 £134.00/ $150.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Provides the first systematic overview of the earliest illustrated editions of Dante’s poem, stretching from 1481 through 1596, and features over 230 illustrations. Collins explores the visual sources for the first illustrated editions of the Commedia.
The Hour of Absinthe
A Cultural History of France's Most Notorious Drink
Nina S. Studer
Intoxicating Histories
October 2024 264pp 21 photos 9780228022206 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Providing keen insight into how local cultural narratives about absinthe shaped what quickly became a global reputation, Nina Studer provides a panoptic view of the French Empire’s influence on absinthe’s spectacular fall from grace.
The Hungry City is the story of medieval Barcelona, retold through the lens of food and famine. Between the summer of 1333 and the spring of 1334, severe weather-related grain shortages spread throughout the Mediterranean, and Barcelona's leaders struggled to bring food to the city as its residents grew increasingly desperate.
The Memoir of Ilse Seger
Wife, Mother, Hostage,
Nazi
Resister
Edited
by Melissa Kravetz
Epilogue by Mark Brandt
December 2024 272pp 16 b&w illus.
9780253071552 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9780253071545 £76.00/ $85.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Elisabeth "Ilse" Seger was the wife of Gerhart Heinrich Seger, a German Social Democratic member of the Reichstag from 1930 to 1933. In this gripping narrative of adventure and intrigue, Ilse shows what everyday life was like for the wife of a political opponent in Nazi Germany.
The House of Condulmer
The Rise and Decline of a Venetian Family in the Century of the Black Death
Through original research drawing on hundreds of unpublished archival sources, The House of Condulmer tells the story of a lower patrician Venetian family in the wake of the Black Death, as they strove for status and wealth over the course of the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries.
The Irish Revolution
A Global History
Edited by Patrick Mannion & Fearghal McGarry
The Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series
December 2024 376pp 1 b&w illus. 9781479835256 £21.99/ $25.00 NIP
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Irish War of Independence is often understood as the culmination of centuries of political unrest between Ireland and the English. This book reassesses the conflict as an inherently transnational event, examining how circumstances and individuals abroad shaped the course Ireland’s struggle for independence.
The Miracles of Mary in Twelfth-Century France
Edited and translated by Bruce L. Venarde
December 2024 282pp 7 maps
9781501778438 £28.99/ $33.95 PB
9781501778421 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
The stories recorded in these collections—by Herman of Tournai; Hugh Farsit; Haimo of Saint-Pierre-surDives; John, son of Peter; and Gautier of Compiègne— offer descriptions of travel, living conditions, medical knowledge, conflict between and among lay and religious authorities, and the burgeoning cult of the Virgin Mary, which had only recently become important in Western Europe.
The Mongol Archive in Late Medieval France
Texts, Objects, Encounters, 1221–1422
Mark Cruse
Medieval Societies, Religions, and Cultures
February 2025 366pp 26 color hft, 2 maps
9781501779350 £60.00/ $66.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
This is the first comprehensive study of contact between France and the Mongols in the late Middle Ages. As these realms expanded across Eurasia, their encounters altered each other's understanding of the world and their place in it.
The Politics of Love
Gender and Nation in NineteenthCentury Poland
Natalie Cornett
September 2024 234pp 4 b&w hft
9781501776649 £46.00/ $50.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Politics of Love describes the history of Polish intellectual and cultural life, which covertly flourished at home and abroad despite imperial repression between Poland's two great uprisings in 1830–1831 and 1863.
The Time of the Cannibals
On
Conspiracy
Theory and Context
Elizabeth Anne Davis
Thinking from Elsewhere
November 2024 320pp 8 color and 23
b&w illus.
9781531508852 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9781531508845 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
In 2009, the body of a former president of the Republic of Cyprus, Tassos Papadopoulos, was stolen from his grave. The Time of the Cannibals reconsiders this history and the public discourse on it to reconsider how we think about conspiracy theory, and specifically, what it means to understand conspiracy theories “in context.”
The People's Revolution of 1789
Micah Alpaugh
September 2024 402pp
9781501776618 £55.00/ $60.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
The People's Revolution of 1789 analyzes the historic events that unleashed a vast panoply of anarchic, destructive, and creative disorders that demolished France's Old Regime and founded a new revolutionary order. It captures the complex and dynamic interplay of uprisings, elections, meetings, and revolutionary moments that helped create modern freedom.
The Suicide Archive
Reading
Resistance in the Wake of French Empire
Doyle D. Calhoun
October 2024 344pp 33 illus.
9781478030744 £24.99/ $28.95 PB 9781478026501 £97.00/ $107.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Calhoun offers a new way of writing about suicide, slavery, and coloniality in relation to literary history. Drawing on scientific texts, police files, and legal proceedings alongside contemporary African and Afro-Caribbean novels, film, and Senegalese oral history, Calhoun outlines how such aesthetic works rewrite histories of resistance and loss.
The Waiting Water Order, Sacrifice, and Submergence in German Realism
Alexander Sorenson
Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
September 2024 282pp 3 b&w hft
9781501777103 £28.99/ $33.95 PB
9781501777097 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Waiting Water addresses one of the most recurrent and troubling motifs in German Realist literature—death by drowning. Characters find themselves before bodies of water, presented with the familiar realm above the surface and the unobservable, uncanny domain beneath it.
The War on Rescue
The Obstruction of Humanitarian Assistance in the European Migration Crisis
William Plowright
December 2024 240pp 1 map, 2 graphs
9781501778353 £44.00/ $48.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
The War on Rescue documents how governments block assistance to people in times of crisis. Focusing on the European Migration Crisis of 2015 to 2022 to address the reasons why governments do this, William Plowright discusses the strategies employed which prevent suffering people from receiving help.
Too Black to Be French
Isabelle Boni-Claverie
Translated by Joshua David Jordan
Foreword by Kaiama Glover
February 2025 272pp
9781531508081 £29.99/ $34.95 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Too Black to Be French is at once a sociological portrait of France, a multicultural family album, and a transatlantic coming-of-age story. It will appeal to readers eager for a passionate fresh voice devoted to better understanding the challenges of today’s world and the courage it takes to overcome them.
9781501779688
9781501779671
Unsettling Difference
Music Drama, the Bible, and the Critique of German Jewish Identity
Adi Nester
Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
January 2025 276pp 11 b&w hft
£28.99/ $33.95 PB
£116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Exploring expressions of Jewish identity and difference in biblical-themed musical dramas and their literary sources, Nester argues that the issue of Jewish difference should be treated as an aesthetic question in the first half of the twentieth century.
Tito's Gulag
A History of the Prison Island of Goli Otok
Martin Previšić
Translated by Desmond Maurer & Johannah Maurer
Stanford–Hoover Series on Authoritarianism
January 2025 544pp
9781503629103 £40.00/ $45.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Using previously unexamined materials and interviews with the survivors of Goli Otok, Previšić delves into the origins of political repression under Tito and the daily workings of the prison camp island.
Tropical Despotisms
Enlightened Reform in the French Caribbean
David Allen Harvey
September 2024 306pp
9781501776670 £58.00/ $64.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Tropical Despotisms reveals the alarm that spread among France's Caribbean possessions during the period between the Seven Years' War and the Revolution and the determination to cultivate a new patriotic community rooted in the Enlightenment principles of honor and civic virtue.
Unstuck in Time
On the Post-Soviet Uncanny
Eliot Borenstein
November 2024 222pp
9781501777899
£21.99/ $24.95 PB
9781501777882 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Eliot Borenstein examines the ways in which films, fiction, television, social media, political parties, and even theme parks use the conventions of time travel and alternate history to fantasize about narratives that are more appealing than the post-Soviet present.
Vacationing in Dictatorships
International Tourism in Socialist Romania and Franco's Spain
Adelina Stefan
Histories and Cultures of Tourism
December 2024 282pp 11 b&w hft
9781501778513 £28.99/ $33.95 PB
9781501778506 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines the political effects of international tourism in socialist Romania and Francoist Spain in the postwar era. Despite economic and political differences between the two dictatorial regimes at the start of the Cold War, both states took advantage of international tourism and pursued processes of economic modernization to acquire hard currencies.
Writing Ukraine
Myrna Kostash
June 2024 48pp 8 b&w images
9781771994224 £16.99/ $19.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS
Based on her writer-inresidence lecture at Athabasca University, which began began shortly after the escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2022, Kostash offers a self-critical reflection on her past writing and considers how her visits to Ukraine and the ongoing war have nuanced her writing about and understanding of Ukrainian Canadian identity.
What Ukrainian Elections Taught Me about Democracy
Jane
Cooper
Footprints Series
September 2024 224pp 11 figures 9780228022558 £22.99/ $26.95 PB
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Offering a practical framework for exploring the many things that can go right or wrong during an election, What Ukrainian Elections Taught Me about Democracy is an insider’s view of election monitoring that sheds light on Canada’s support for international democracy.
A Winning Dialect Reinventing Linguistic Tradition in Rural Norway
Thea R. Strand
June 2024 pp
9781487545963 £18.99/ $24.95 PB
9781487545956 £52.00/ $65.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
A Winning Dialect tells the story of linguistic and cultural change in rural Norway over the last two decades.
