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What Nostalgia Was
War, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly Emotion
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Nostalgia today is seen as essentially benign, a wistful longing for the past. This wasn't always the case, however: from the late seventeenth century through the end of the nineteenth, nostalgia denoted a form of homesickness so extreme that it could sometimes be deadly.
What Nostalgia Was unearths...
Voices in a Revolution
The Collapse of East German Communism
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Afeatured article in Die Zeit, the leading German weekly, begins with "Melvin, du hast gewonnen"--Mel, you have won! In his extraordinary account of the final days of the German Democratic Republic (DDR) we see the reckoning of a regime, and also the vindication of a life-long devotee of European...
by Mark Traugott
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
"To the barricades!" The cry conjures images of angry citizens, turmoil in the streets, and skirmishes fought behind hastily improvised cover. This definitive history of the barricade charts the origins, development, and diffusion of a uniquely European revolutionary tradition. Mark Traugott...
Venice Incognito
Masks in the Serene Republic
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
"The entire town is disguised," declared a French tourist of eighteenth-century Venice. And, indeed, maskers of all ranks—nobles, clergy, imposters, seducers, con men—could be found mixing at every level of Venetian society. Even a pious nun donned a mask and male attire for her liaison...
Fascism and the Masses
The Revolt Against the Last Humans, 1848-1945
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
Highlighting the "mass" nature of interwar European fascism has long become commonplace. Throughout the years, numerous critics have construed fascism as a phenomenon of mass society, perhaps the ultimate expression of mass politics. This study deconstructs this long-standing perception....
The Witch
A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Why have societies all across the world feared witchcraft? This book delves deeply into its context, beliefs, and origins in Europe’s history The witch came to prominence—and often a painful death—in early modern Europe, yet her origins are much more geographically diverse and historically deep....
The Far Reaches
Phenomenology, Ethics, and Social Renewal in Central Europe
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
When future historians chronicle the twentieth century, they will see phenomenology as one of the preeminent social and ethical philosophies of its age. The phenomenological movement not only produced systematic reflection on common moral concerns such as distinguishing right from wrong and explaining...
Muscular Judaism
The Jewish Body and the Politics of Regeneration
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2007
Providing valuable insights into an element of European nationalism and modernist culture, this book explores the development of the 'Zionist body' as opposed to the traditional stereotype of the physically weak, intellectual Jew. It charts the cultural and intellectual history showing how the 'Muscle Jew' developed as a political symbol of national regeneration.
Settler Colonialism
A Theoretical Overview
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
A vivid exploration of the history of a very powerful and long lasting idea: building European worlds outside of Europe. Veracini outlines how the founding of new societies was envisaged and practiced and explores the specific ways in which settler colonial projects tried to establish ideal and regenerated political bodies.
Aspiration, Representation and Memory
The Guise in Europe, 1506–1688
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Exploiting the turbulence and strife of sixteenth-century France, the House of Guise arose from a provincial power base to establish themselves as dominant political players in France and indeed Europe, marrying within royal and princely circles and occupying the most important ecclesiastical and...
Foundational Pasts
The Holocaust as Historical Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Alon Confino seeks to rethink dominant interpretations of the Holocaust by examining it as a problem in cultural history. As the main research interests of Holocaust scholars are frequently covered terrain – the anti-Semitic ideological campaign, the machinery of killing, the brutal massacres during...
by Dan Michman
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
This book is a linguistic-cultural study of the emergence of the Jewish ghettos during the Holocaust. It traces the origins and uses of the term 'ghetto' in European discourse from the sixteenth century to the Nazi regime. It examines with a magnifying glass both the actual establishment of and the...
A Book Forged in Hell
Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published--"godless," "full of abominations," "a book forged in hell . . . by the devil himself." Religious and secular authorities saw it as a threat...
by Max Beer
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
First published 1935, this title presents a series of recollections, some intimately personal, others bearing on the great social, cultural and political issues that faced the Jews and the European population more generally during the first part of the twentieth century. The author specifically focuses...