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New & Recent History titles

August 2020
Imperial Culture and Colonial Projects
The Portuguese-Speaking World from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries
Curto, D. R.

August 2020
Antisemitism in Galicia
Agitation, Politics, and Violence against Jews in the Late Habsburg Monarchy
Buchen, T.

August 2020
Financialization
Relational Approaches
Hann, C. & Kalb, D. (eds)

August 2020
Globalizing Automobilism
Exuberance and the Emergence of Layered Mobility, 1900–1980
Mom, G.

September 2020
Reconciliation Road
Willy Brandt, Ostpolitik and the Quest for European Peace
Schoenborn, B.

September 2020
Estates and Constitution
The Parliament in Eighteenth-Century Hungary
Szijártó, I. M.

October 2020
Captives, Colonists and Craftspeople
Material Culture and Institutional Power in Malta, 1600–1900
Palmer, R.

November 2020
Writing the Great War
The Historiography of World War I from 1918 to the Present
Cornelissen, C. & Weinrich, A. (eds)

November 2020
Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema
Hales, B. & Weinstein, V. (eds)

November 2020
Collective and State Violence in Turkey
The Construction of a National Identity from Empire to Nation-State
Astourian, S. & Kévorkian, R. (eds)

November 2020
Politics of the Dunes
Poetry, Architecture, and Coloniality at the Open City
Woods, M.

December 2020
Recognizing the Past in the Present
New Studies on Medicine before, during, and after the Holocaust
Hildebrandt, S., Offer, M., & Grodin, M. A. (eds)

December 2020
The Politics of Personal Information
Surveillance, Privacy, and Power in West Germany
Frohman, L.

December 2020
The Meanings of a Disaster
Chernobyl and Its Afterlives in Britain and France
Kalmbach, K.

January 2021
Risk on the Table
Food Production, Health, and the Environment
Creager, A. N. H. & Gaudilière, J.-P. (eds)

January 2021
In the Shadow of the Great War
Physical Violence in East-Central Europe, 1917–1923
Böhler, J., Konrád, O., Kučera, R. (eds)

January 2021
After Auschwitz
The Difficult Legacies of the GDR
Heitzer, E., Jander, M., Kahane, A., & Poutrus, P. G. (eds)

January 2021
Imagining Bosnian Muslims in Central Europe
Representations, Transfers and Exchanges
Šístek, F. (ed)

January 2021
Commerce as Politics
The Two Centuries of Struggle for Basotho Economic Independence
Maliehe, S. M.

February 2021
Four-Color Communism
Comic Books and Contested Power in the German Democratic Republic
Eedy, S.

February 2021
South Africa's Dreams
Ethnologists and Apartheid in Namibia
Gordon, R. J.

February 2021
Political Graffiti in Critical Times
The Aesthetics of Street Politics
Campos, R., Pavoni, A., & Zaimakis, Y. (eds)

February 2021
The Paradoxical Republic
Austria 1945–2020
Rathkolb, O.

February 2021
Nordic War Stories
World War II as History, Fiction, Media, and Memory
Stecher-Hansen, M.

February 2021
More than Mere Spectacle
Coronations and Inaugurations in the Habsburg Monarchy during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Van Gelder, K.

March 2021
On the Death of Jews
Photographs and History
Fresco, N.

March 2021
Peripheries at the Centre
Borderland Schooling in Interwar Europe
Venken, M.

March 2021
Jewish Self-Hate
Lessing, T.

April 2021
Merchant Kings
Corporate Governmentality in the Dutch Colonial Empire, 1815–1870
Schrauwers, A.

April 2021
Bestsellers of the Third Reich
Readers, Writers and the Politics of Literature
Adam, C.

April 2021
The Herero Genocide
War, Emotion, and Extreme Violence in Colonial Namibia
Häussler, M.

April 2021
East German Film and the Holocaust
Ward, E.

May 2021
The Age of Capitalism and Bureaucracy
Perspectives on the Political Sociology of Max Weber
Mommsen†, W. J.

May 2021
When They Came for Me
The Hidden Diary of an Apartheid Prisoner
Schlapobersky, J. R.

May 2021
To See a Moose
The History of Polish Sex Education
Kościańska, A.

May 2021
Echoes of Surrealism
Challenging Socialist Realism in East German Literature, 1945–1990
Berendse, G.-J.

May 2021
Legal Entanglements
Law, Rights and the Battle for Legitimacy in the Two Germanys, 1949–1990
Gehrig, S.

May 2021
Analysing Historical Narratives
On Academic, Popular and Educational Framings of the Past
Berger, S., Brauch, N., & Lorenz, C. (eds)

June 2021
In Memory of Times to Come
Ironies of History in Southeastern Papua New Guinea
Demian, M.

June 2021
German Rule, African Subjects
State Aspirations and the Reality of Power in Colonial Namibia
Zimmerer, J.

June 2021
Rethinking Atlantic Empire
Christopher Schmidt-Nowara’s Histories of Nineteenth-Century Spain and the Antilles
Eastman, S. & Jacobsen, S. (eds)

June 2021
Do Not Forget Me
Three Jewish Mothers Write to Their Sons from the Thessaloniki Ghetto
Saltiel, L. (ed)

July 2021
International Organizations Revisited
Agency and Pathology in a Multipolar World
Dijkzeul, D. & Salomons, D. (eds)

July 2021
Iron Landscapes
National Space and the Railways in Interwar Czechoslovakia
Jeschke, F.

August 2021
The Russian Cold
Histories of Ice, Frost, and Snow
Herzberg, J., Renner, A., & Schierle, I. (eds)

August 2021
Territory, State and Nation
The Geopolitics of Rudolf Kjellén
Björk, R. & Lundén, T. (eds)

August 2021
Israel-Palestine
Lands and Peoples
Bartov, O. (ed)

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Aspasia
The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women's and Gender History
ISSN Print: 1933-2882
ISSN Online: 1933-2890
Volume 13/2019, 1 issue p.a. (spring)
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Contributions to the History of Concepts
Editors: Jani Marjanen, University of Helsinki; Jan Ifversen, University of Aahus; Margrit Pernau, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
ISSN Print: 1807-9326
ISSN Online: 1874-656X
Volume 14/2019, 2 issues p.a. (summer, winter)
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French Politics, Culture & Society
Editor: Herrick Chapman, New York University
ISSN Print: 1537-6370
ISSN Online: 1558-5271
Volume 37/2019, 3 issues p.a. (spring, summer, and winter)
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German Politics and Society
Editor: Jeffrey J. Anderson, Georgetown University
Managing Editor/Book Review Editor: Eric Langenbacher, Georgetown University
ISSN Print: 1045-0300
ISSN Online: 1558-5441
Volume 37/2019, 4 issues p.a. (spring, summer, autumn, winter)
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Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
Outgoing Senior Editor: Linda E. Mitchell, University of Missouri, Kansas City,
Incoming Editor: Elizabeth MacKnight, University of Aberdeen,
Co-editor: W. Brian Newsome, Elizabethtown College
ISSN Print: 0315-7997
ISSN Online: 1939-2419
Volume 45/2019, 3 issues p.a. (spring, summer, winter)
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Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
Editor: Eckhardt Fuchs, Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research
ISSN Print: 2041-6938
ISSN Online: 2041-6946
Volume 11/2019, 2 issues p.a. (spring, autumn)
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Sibirica
Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies
Editor: Matthew Romaniello, University of Hawaii
ISSN Print: 1361-7362
ISSN Online: 1476-6787
Volume 18/2019, 3 issues p.a. (spring, summer, winter)
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Transfers
Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies
Editor: Dagmar Schfer, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
ISSN Print: 2045-4813
ISSN Online: 2045-4821
Volume 9/2019, 3 issues p.a. (spring, summer, winter)
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Mobility in History
The Yearbook of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility
Editors: Kyle Shelton, Rice University
Christiane Katz, Aachen University
Dhan Zunino Singh, University of Quilmes
Kate McDonald, University of California, Santa Barbara
ISSN Print: 2296-0503
ISSN Online: 2050-9197
Volume 8/2017, 1 issue p.a. (Winter)
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