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EDITORS’ PICKS

Subject Categories

Anthropology
Food and Nutrition
Economic and Political Anthropology
Refugee and Migration Studies

Sociology

Archaeology
Archaeology of LGBTQ Communities
Heritage Studies
Museum Studies

Cultural Studies
East German Cinema
Philosophy of Film
Shakespeare
Performance Studies
Media / Sound Studies

History
Colonial History
Genocide History
Jewish Studies
Memory Studies
Medieval and Early Modern History
18th and 19th Century History
World War I
World War II
20th Century History to Present
Transport Studies


Anthropology

Food and Nutrition

FOOD AND SUSTAINABILITY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
Edited by Paul Collinson, Iain Young, Lucy Antal, and Helen Macbeth
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FOOD RESEARCH
Nutritional Anthropology and Archaeological Methods
Edited by Janet Chrzan and John Brett
Published in Association with the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN) and in Collaboration with Rachel Black and Leslie Carlin
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FOOD CULTURE
Anthropology, Linguistics and Food Studies
Edited by Janet Chrzan and John Brett
Published in Association with the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN) and in Collaboration with Rachel Black and Leslie Carlin
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FOOD HEALTH
Nutrition, Technology, and Public Health
Edited by Janet Chrzan and John Brett
Published in Association with the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN) and in Collaboration with Rachel Black and Leslie Carlin
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Economic and Political Anthropology

MONEY AT THE MARGINS
Global Perspectives on Technology, Financial Inclusion, and Design
Edited by Bill Maurer, Smoki Musaraj, and Ivan V. Small
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MONEY IN A HUMAN ECONOMY
Edited by Keith Hart
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PEOPLE, MONEY AND POWER IN THE ECONOMIC CRISIS
Perspectives from the Global South
Edited by Keith Hart and John Sharp
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Refugee and Migration Studies

REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT
Power, Politics, and Humanitarian Governance
Edited by Adèle Garnier, Liliana Lyra Jubilut, and Kristin Bergtora Sandvik
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GENDER, VIOLENCE, REFUGEES
Edited by Susanne Buckley-Zistel and Ulrike Krause
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THE MYTH OF SELF-RELIANCE
Economic Lives Inside a Liberian Refugee Camp
Naohiko Omata
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Sociology

BOURDIEU AND SOCIAL SPACE
Mobilities, Trajectories, Emplacements
Deborah Reed-Danahay
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Archaeology

BLURRING TIMESCAPES, SUBVERTING ERASURE
Remembering Ghosts on the Margins of History
Edited by Sarah Surface-Evans, Amanda E. Garrison and Kisha Supernant
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MAGICAL HOUSE PROTECTION
The Archaeology of Counter-Witchcraft
Brian Hoggard
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THE MAN WHO INVENTED AZTEC CRYSTAL SKULLS
The Adventures of Eugène Boban
Jane MacLaren Walsh and Brett Topping
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Archaeology of LGBTQ Communities

PRESERVATION AND PLACE
Historic Preservation by and of LGBTQ Communities in the United States
Edited by Katherine Crawford-Lackey and Megan E. Springate
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IDENTITIES AND PLACE
Changing Labels and Intersectional Communities of LGBTQ and Two-Spirit People in the United States
Edited by Katherine Crawford-Lackey and Megan E. Springate
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COMMUNITIES AND PLACE
A Thematic Approach to the Histories of LGBTQ Communities in the United States
Edited by Katherine Crawford-Lackey and Megan E. Springate
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Heritage Studies

BEING BEDOUIN AROUND PETRA
Life at a World Heritage Site in the Twenty-First Century
Mikkel Bille
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FROM ANTIQUITIES TO HERITAGE
Transformations of Cultural Memory
Anne Eriksen
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WORLD HERITAGE CRAZE IN CHINA
Universal Discourse, National Culture, and Local Memory
Haiming Yan
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HERITAGE MOVEMENTS IN ASIA
Cultural Heritage Activism, Politics, and Identity
Edited by Ali Mozaffari and Tod Jones
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Museum Studies

MUSEUM WEBSITES AND SOCIAL MEDIA
Issues of Participation, Sustainability, Trust and Diversity
Ana Luisa Sánchez Laws
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EXTREME COLLECTING
Challenging Practices for 21st Century Museums
Edited by Graeme Were and J. C. H. King
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EXTINCT MONSTERS TO DEEP TIME
Conflict, Compromise, and the Making of Smithsonian’s Fossil Halls
Diana E. Marsh
Foreword by Jennifer Shannon
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THE MUSEUM OF MANKIND
Man and Boy in the British Museum Ethnography Department
Ben Burt
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Cultural Studies

East German Cinema

CINEMA OF COLLABORATION
DEFA Coproductions and International Exchange in Cold War Europe
Mariana Ivanova
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SCREENED ENCOUNTERS
The Leipzig Documentary Film Festival, 1955-1990
Caroline Moine
Translated from the French by John Barrett
Preface by Dina Iordanova
Edited by Skyler J. Arndt-Briggs

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SCREENING ART
Modernist Aesthetics and the Socialist Imaginary in East German Cinema
Seán Allan
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Philosophy of Film

SOFIA COPPOLA
The Politics of Visual Pleasure
Anna Backman Rogers
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SUPERCINEMA
Film-Philosophy for the Digital Age
William Brown
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KRISTEVA IN FOCUS
From Theory to Film Analysis
Katherine J. Goodnow
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Shakespeare

SHAKESPEARE AND BIOGRAPHY
Edited by Katherine Scheil and Graham Holderness
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SHAKESPEARE AND CREATIVE CRITICISM
Edited by Rob Conkie and Scott Maisano
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SHAKESPEARE AND COMMEMORATION
Edited by Clara Calvo and Ton Hoenselaars
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Performance Studies

CURATING LIVE ARTS
Critical Perspectives, Essays, and Conversations on Theory and Practice
Edited by Dena Davida, Marc Pronovost, Véronique Hudon, and Jane Gabriels
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COLLABORATIVE INTIMACIES IN MUSIC AND DANCE
Anthropologies of Sound and Movement
Edited by Evangelos Chrysagis and Panas Karampampas
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DANCING CULTURES
Globalization, Tourism and Identity in the Anthropology of Dance
Edited by Hélène Neveu Kringelbach and Jonathan Skinner
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Media / Sound Studies

ONE SOUND, TWO WORLDS
The Blues in a Divided Germany, 1945-1990
Michael Rauhut
Translated from the German by Jessica Ring
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24 BARS TO KILL
Hip Hop, Aspiration, and Japan’s Social Margins
Andrew B. Armstrong
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MUSIC AND INTERNATIONAL HISTORY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Edited by Jessica Gienow-Hecht
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History

Colonial History

LUSO-TROPICALISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS
The Making and Unmaking of Racial Exceptionalism
Edited by Warwick Anderson, Ricardo Roque, and Ricardo Ventura Santos
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SLAVERY AND ANTISLAVERY IN SPAIN’S ATLANTIC EMPIRE
Edited by Josep M. Fradera and Christopher Schmidt-Nowara
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THE NATURE OF GERMAN IMPERIALISM
Conservation and the Politics of Wildlife in Colonial East Africa
Bernhard Gissibl
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Genocide History

THEATRES OF VIOLENCE
Massacre, Mass Killing and Atrocity throughout History
Edited by Philip Dwyer and Lyndall Ryan
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THE ANATOMY OF THE HOLOCAUST
Selected Works from a Life of Scholarship
Raul Hilberg
Edited by Walter H. Pehle and René Schlott
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THE HOLOCAUST IN BOHEMIA AND MORAVIA
Czech Initiatives, German Policies, Jewish Responses
Wolf Gruner
Translated from the German by Alex Skinner
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MATTERS OF TESTIMONY
Interpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitz
Nicholas Chare and Dominic Williams
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VOICES ON WAR AND GENOCIDE
Three Accounts of the World Wars in a Galician Town
Edited and with an Introduction by Omer Bartov
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Jewish Studies

CZECHS, GERMANS, JEWS?
National Identity and the Jews of Bohemia
Kateřina Čapková
Translated from the Czech by Derek and Marzia Paton
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THE LEGACY OF LIBERAL JUDAISM
Ernst Cassirer and Hannah Arendt’s Hidden Conversation
Ned Curthoys
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VIENNA IS DIFFERENT
Jewish Writers in Austria from the Fin-de-Siècle to the Present
Hillary Hope Herzog
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NEARLY THE NEW WORLD
The British West Indies and the Flight from Nazism, 1933–1945
Joanna Newman
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Memory Studies

AGENCY IN TRANSNATIONAL MEMORY POLITICS
Edited by Jenny Wüstenberg and Aline Sierp
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THE STRUGGLE FOR THE PAST
How We Construct Social Memories
Elizabeth Jelin
Translated from the Spanish by Wendy Gosselin
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NATIONAL POLICY, GLOBAL MEMORY
The Commemoration of the “Righteous” from Jerusalem to Paris, 1942-2007
Sarah Gensburger
Translated by Katharine Throssell
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HISTORICAL MEMORY IN AFRICA
Dealing with the Past, Reaching for the Future in an Intercultural Context
Edited by Mamadou Diawara, Bernard Lategan, and Jörn Rüsen
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MEMORY UNBOUND
Tracing the Dynamics of Memory Studies
Edited by Lucy Bond, Stef Craps, Pieter Vermeulen
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Medieval and Early Modern History

ARCHEOLOGIES OF CONFESSION
Writing the German Reformation, 1517-2017
Edited by Carina L. Johnson, David M. Luebke, Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer, and Jesse Spohnholz
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THE EMPEROR’S OLD CLOTHES
Constitutional History and the Symbolic Language of the Holy Roman Empire
Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger
Translated from the German by Thomas Dunlap
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THE MIRROR OF THE MEDIEVAL
An Anthropology of the Western Historical Imagination
K. Patrick Fazioli
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THE RISE OF MARKET SOCIETY IN ENGLAND, 1066-1800
Christiane Eisenberg
Translated from the German by Deborah Cohen
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18th and 19th Century History

IMPERIAL GERMANY REVISITED
Continuing Debates and New Perspectives
Edited by Sven Oliver Müller and Cornelius Torp
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RETHINKING THE AGE OF EMANCIPATION
Comparative and Transnational Perspectives on Gender, Family, and Religion in Italy and Germany, 1800–1918
Edited by Martin Baumeister, Philipp Lenhard, and Ruth Nattermann
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BEYOND POSTHUMANISM
The German Humanist Tradition and the Future of the Humanities
Alexander Mathäs
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SUBJECTS, CITIZENS, AND OTHERS
Administering Ethnic Heterogeneity in the British and Habsburg Empires, 1867-1918
Benno Gammerl
Translated from the German by Jennifer Walcoff Neuheiser
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World War I

BETWEEN EMPIRE AND CONTINENT
British Foreign Policy before the First World War
Andreas Rose
Translated from the German by Rona Johnston
Foreword by Sir Christopher Clark, author of Sleepwalkers

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WORLD WAR I AND THE JEWS
Conflict and Transformation in Europe, the Middle East, and America
Edited by Marsha L. Rozenblit and Jonathan Karp
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EMBERS OF EMPIRE
Continuity and Rupture in the Habsburg Successor States after 1918
Edited by Paul Miller and Claire Morelon
Afterword by Pieter Judson
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RATIONED LIFE
Science, Everyday Life, and Working-Class Politics in the Bohemian Lands, 1914–1918
Rudolf Kučera
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DAILY LIFE IN THE ABYSS
Genocide Diaries, 1915-1918
Vahé Tachjian
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CARNAGE AND CARE ON THE EASTERN FRONT
The War Diaries of Bernhard Bardach, 1914-1918
Bernhard Bardach†
Translated and Edited by Peter C. Appelbaum
Foreword by Jay Winter
Introduction by Helmut Konrad

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World War II

VIEWS OF VIOLENCE
Representing the Second World War in German and European Museums and Memorials
Edited by Jörg Echternkamp and Stephan Jaeger
Afterword by Jay Winter
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HITLER’S PLANS FOR GLOBAL DOMINATION
Nazi Architecture and Ultimate War Aims
Jochen Thies
Translated by Ian Cooke and Mary-Beth Friedrich
Foreword by Volker R. Berghahn

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NAZI PARIS
The History of an Occupation, 1940-1944
Allan Mitchell
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OCCUPATION IN THE EAST
The Daily Lives of German Occupiers in Warsaw and Minsk, 1939-1944
Stephan Lehnstaedt
Translated by Martin Dean
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THE PARTICIPANTS
The Men of the Wannsee Conference
Edited by Hans-Christian Jasch and Christoph Kreutzmüller
Translated from the German by Charlotte Kreutzmüller-Hughes and Jane Paulick
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20th Century History to Present

BETWEEN MARX AND COCA-COLA
Youth Cultures in Changing European Societies, 1960-1980
Edited by Axel Schildt and Detlef Siegfried
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NOT EVEN PAST
How the United States Ends Wars
Edited by David Fitzgerald, David Ryan, and John M. Thompson
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COLD WAR CULTURES
Perspectives on Eastern and Western European Societies
Edited by Annette Vowinckel, Marcus M. Payk, and Thomas Lindenberger
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THE DECISIONIST IMAGINATION
Sovereignty, Social Science and Democracy in the 20th Century
Edited by Daniel Bessner and Nicolas Guilhot
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THE HISTORY OF THE STASI
East Germany’s Secret Police, 1945-1990
Jens Gieseke
Translated from the German by David Burnett
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Transport Studies

CYCLING AND RECYCLING
Histories of Sustainable Practices
Edited by Ruth Oldenziel and Helmuth Trischler
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THE DEVIL’S WHEELS
Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic
Sasha Disko
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VEHICLES
Cars, Canoes, and Other Metaphors of Moral Imagination
Edited by David Lipset and Richard Handler
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