We are delighted to present a list of our History bestsellers in honor of the American Historical Association’s 2020 – 2021 Virtual Conference. Visit our Virtual AHA Booth for special opportunities for discounts and engagements.
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Posted 15 January 2021
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Tagged: 1960s, AHA21, American Historical Association, auschwitz protocol, Auschwitz-Birkenau, cold war, cold war history, east and west germany, east germany, GDR, german history, german politics and society, german studies, Germany, global south, history, internationalism, jewish refugees, nanking, nanking atrocity, nostalgia, post-communist, postsocialist, postwar history, stasi, wannsee conference, world history
In the spirit of Show and Tell at Work Day, we’d like to share a few recipes from our Berghahn staff.
Did scenes in rock art create new ways of seeing the world? In commemoration of #OldRockDay on 7 January, we are delighted to provide a book preview (along with striking images) of Iain Davidson and April Nowell’s forthcoming title, MAKING SCENES: Global Perspectives on Scenes in Rock Art, available February 2021.
Our editors have put together a list of recommendations per our updated subject categories. Bundle any of these eBooks together at a discounted price by using coupon code 2020EOY through our website. See details about this offer below.
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Posted 15 December 2020
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Tagged: 18th/19th Century History, 20th Century History, anthropology, archaeology, Colonialism, Early modern History, film, film & media, film and media studies, genocide, genocide studies, history, holocaust, holocaust studies, Jewish studies, Memory studies, Transport Studies, World War I, World War II
Winner of the American Anthropological Association’s Executive Director’s Award of Excellence for Publishing in Anthropology, Berghahn Books is proud to remain “absolutely essential to scholarly communication in the field of Anthropology.”
The team at Academic Influence recently published their list of the most influential anthropologists today, featuring 25 academics from across the globe. As a publisher of Anthropology for over 25 years we at Berghahn Books were delighted to find a number of our authors featured. The complete list is well worth reading in full, but […]
In recognition of its Halloween release date, our premiere episode of Salon B is themed around bones, featuring bones both real and fabricated as well as the bone-like structure of a now ghostly bridge. Listen to “Bones” here. Follow along with A.E. Garrison as she recounts the ghosts within the capitalist landscapes of late modernity […]
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Posted 29 October 2020
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Tagged: archaeology, bones, case studies, federal policy, ghosts, haunting, hauntings, memory, nostalgia, public space, Salon B, urban infrastructure
A striking feature of accounts of and literature on miscarriage is the trope of silence. The slogan of Baby Loss Awareness Week, which began in the UK sixteen years ago, is ‘Break the silence’. . . Approaches to miscarriage have changed dramatically and the silence has steadily eroded in much of Euro-America, as evidenced not […]
October 12, 2020 Indigenous Peoples’ Day is observed every second Monday of October in many states in the U.S. to honor the estimated 370 million indigenous people around the world. Replacing Columbus Day, Indigenous Peoples’ Day recognizes that celebrating the life of Christopher Columbus is the same as celebrating the erasure of Indigenous existence.
In commemoration of #ComingOutDay, we are featuring titles edited by Katherine Crawford-Lackey and Megan E. Springate that emphasize the history and preservation of two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer settings in the United States. Browse the editors’ works below and read freely accessible excerpts by following the links.
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Posted 11 October 2020
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Tagged: archaeology, bisexual, coming out day, gay, lgbtq, North America, public history, queer, queer preservation, transgender, two spirit, united states
