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New Books in Western European Studies
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Georgios Varouxakis, "The West: The History of an Idea" (Princeton UP, 2025)
69 hours 52 mins; October 04, 2025
Carol Atack, "Plato: A Civic Life" (Reaktion, 2025)
72 hours 55 mins; September 27, 2025
Árni Heimir Ingólfsson , "Jón Leifs and the Musical Invention of Iceland" (Indiana UP, 2019)
68 hours 17 mins; September 27, 2025
Eleanor Conlon and Martin Vaux, "The Three Ravens Folk Tales: New Tellings of Half-forgotten Stories from England's 39 Historic Counties" (The History Press, 2025)
52 mins; September 18, 2025
Christopher Millington, "Murder in Marseille: Right-Wing Terrorism in 1930s Europe" (Manchester UP, 2025)
37 mins; September 16, 2025
Brandon Bloch, "Reinventing Protestant Germany: Religious Nationalists and the Contest for Post-Nazi Democracy" (Harvard UP, 2025)
55 mins; September 11, 2025
David Welsh, "The Social Railway and Its Workers in Europes Modern Era, 1880-2023: Moments of Fury, Ramparts of Hope" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
64 hours 50 mins; September 10, 2025
Joanne Yao, "The Ideal River: How Control of Nature Shaped the International Order" (Manchester UP, 2022)
39 mins; September 08, 2025
Steven Veerapen, "Witches: A King's Obsession" (Birlin, 2025)
39 mins; September 03, 2025
David Woodman, "The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom" (Princeton UP, 2025)
39 mins; September 02, 2025
Chris Millington, "A History of Fascism in France: From the First World War to the National Front" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
63 hours 9 mins; August 31, 2025
Anders M. Greene-Crow, "Austerity Measures: The Poetics of Food Insecurity in Early Modern English Literature" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
64 hours 33 mins; August 27, 2025
Jonathan Daly and Leonid Trofimov, "The Russian Revolution and Its Global Impact: A Short History with Documents" (Hackett Publishing, 2017)
63 hours 50 mins; August 26, 2025
Harald Bodenschatz et al., "Urban Planning in Nazi Germany: Attack, Triumph, Terror in the European Context, 1933–1945" (DOM, 2025)
56 mins; August 26, 2025
Jérémy Filet, "The Jacobites and the Grand Tour: Educational Travel and Small-States' Diplomacy" (Manchester UP, 2025)
36 mins; August 26, 2025
Agnes Arnold-Forster, "The Cancer Problem: Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2021)
61 hours 30 mins; August 25, 2025
Konrad H. Jarausch, "Embattled Europe: A Progressive Alternative" (Princeton UP, 2021)
31 mins; August 23, 2025
Michelle P. Brown, "Bede and the Theory of Everything" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
74 hours 55 mins; August 23, 2025
Raymond Jonas, "Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire" (Harvard UP, 2024)
65 hours 12 mins; August 23, 2025
Mariya Grinberg, "Trade in War: Economic Cooperation Across Enemy Lines" (Cornell UP, 2025)
46 mins; August 21, 2025
Paul Thomas Chamberlin, "Scorched Earth: A Global History of World War II" (Basic Books, 2025)
64 hours 46 mins; August 19, 2025
Barry Strauss, "Jews vs. Rome: Two Centuries of Rebellion Against the World's Mightiest Empire" (Simon & Schuster, 2025)
44 mins; August 19, 2025
Mark Braude, "The Invisible Emperor: Napoleon on Elba from Empire to Exile" (Penguin Press, 2018)
62 hours 8 mins; August 17, 2025
Marla Segol, "Kabbalah and Sex Magic: A Mythical-Ritual Genealogy" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2022)
56 mins; August 17, 2025
Thomas Kemple, “Intellectual Work and the Spirit of Capitalism: Weber’s Calling” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
73 hours 10 mins; August 16, 2025
David de Boer, "The Early Modern Dutch Press in an Age of Religious Persecution" (Oxford UP, 2023)
34 mins; August 16, 2025
Enrique Dussel, "The Theological Metaphors of Marx" (Duke UP, 2024)–A Conversation with Camilo PĂ©rez-Bustillo and Eduardo Mendieta
55 mins; August 15, 2025
Garrett M. Graff, "When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
54 mins; August 13, 2025
Ned Richardson-Little, "The German Democratic Republic: The Rise and Fall of a Cold War State" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
53 mins; August 13, 2025
Federico Marcon, "Fascism: The History of a Word" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
94 hours 3 mins; August 11, 2025
Megan Brown, "The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community" (Harvard UP, 2022)
64 hours 55 mins; August 09, 2025
Michael Geheran, "Comrades Betrayed: Jewish World War I Veterans under Hitler" (Cornell UP, 2020)
73 hours 2 mins; August 08, 2025
Margaret C. Jacob, "The Secular Enlightenment" (Princeton UP, 2019)
64 hours 36 mins; August 04, 2025
Robert Morstein-Marx, "Julius Caesar and the Roman People" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
87 hours 12 mins; August 04, 2025
Giles Tremlett, "The International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
53 mins; August 04, 2025
Julia Sneeringer, "A Social History of Early Rock ‘n’ Roll in Germany: Hamburg from Burlesque to The Beatles, 1956-69" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
74 hours 5 mins; August 03, 2025
Hannah Charnock, "Teenage intimacies: Young Women, Sex and Social Life in England, 1950-80" (Manchester UP, 2025)
42 mins; August 02, 2025
Y. Kokosalakis and F. J. Leira-Castiñeira, "Violence and Propaganda in European Civil Wars" (Routledge, 2025)
54 mins; August 02, 2025
Sasha D. Pack, "The Deepest Border: The Strait of Gibraltar and the Making of the Hispano-African Border" (Stanford UP, 2019)
61 hours 54 mins; August 01, 2025
Jeremy DeWaal, "Geographies of Renewal: Heimat and Democracy in West Germany, 1945-1990" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
50 mins; July 30, 2025
Murad Idris, "War for Peace: Genealogies of a Violent Ideal in Western and Islamic Thought" (Oxford UP, 2019)
66 hours 1 min; July 30, 2025
Christopher Ocker, "Luther, Conflict, and Christendom: Reformation Europe and Christianity in the West" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
38 mins; July 27, 2025
Christy Pichichero, "The Military Enlightenment: War and Culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to Napoleon" (Cornell UP, 2018)
65 hours 30 mins; July 27, 2025
Victoria de Grazia, "The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini’s Italy" (Harvard UP, 2020)
66 hours 20 mins; July 27, 2025
Marion Bower, "The Life and Work of Joan Riviere: Freud, Klein and Female Sexuality" (Routledge, 2018)
60 hours 8 mins; July 27, 2025
Julian Jackson, "De Gaulle" (Harvard UP, 2018)
72 hours 2 mins; July 26, 2025
Nathan Stoltzfus, “Hitler’s Compromises: Coercion and Consensus in Nazi Germany” (Yale UP, 2016)
57 mins; July 26, 2025
Alex J. Kay and David Stahel, "Mass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europe" (Indiana UP, 2018)
42 mins; July 20, 2025
Meegan Kennedy, "Writing Embodiment in Victorian Microscopy: Beautiful Mechanism" (Oxford UP, 2025)
42 mins; July 18, 2025
Anastasios Karababas, "In the Footsteps of the Jews of Greece: From Ancient Times to the Present Day" (Vallentine Mitchell & Co, 2024)
43 mins; July 16, 2025
Ian Stewart, "The Celts: A Modern History" (Princeton UP, 2025)
62 hours 33 mins; July 15, 2025
John McGahern, "The Dark: A Critical Edition" (Syracuse UP, 2025)
85 hours 16 mins; July 14, 2025
Juliet Rix, "London's Statues of Women" (SafeHaven Books, 2025)
50 mins; July 14, 2025
Rosemary Goring, "Exile: The Captive Years of Mary, Queen of Scots" (Berlinn, 2025)
37 mins; July 12, 2025
Neil Gregor, "The Symphony Concert in Nazi Germany" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
32 mins; July 12, 2025
Samuel Kline Cohn, "Popular Protest and Ideals of Democracy in Late Renaissance Italy" (Oxford UP, 2022)
33 mins; July 11, 2025
Joseph Valente, "Irish Shame: A Literary Reckoning" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
83 hours 27 mins; July 10, 2025
Michael Green and Ineke Huysman eds., "Private Life and Privacy in the Early Modern Low Countries" (Brepols Publishers, 2023)
34 mins; July 10, 2025
Robert G. Morrison, "Merchants of Knowledge: Intellectual Exchange in the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Europe" (Stanford UP, 2025)
62 hours 4 mins; July 10, 2025
Julie Singer, "Out of the Mouths of Babes: Infant Voices in Medieval French Literature" (U ï»żChicago Press, 2025)
45 mins; July 05, 2025
Andrew Hartman, "Karl Marx in America" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
50 mins; July 05, 2025
Enrique FernĂĄndez and Darlene Abreu-Ferreira, "Death and Gender in the Early Modern Period" (Brill, 2024)
45 mins; July 04, 2025
Elisabeth Åsbrink, "1947: Where Now Begins" (Other Press, 2019)
64 hours 37 mins; July 01, 2025
Jonathan Teubner, "Charity After Augustine: Solidarity, Conflict, and the Practices of Charity in the Latin West" (Oxford UP, 2025)
90 hours 45 mins; June 23, 2025
Bernd Roeck, "The World at First Light: A New History of the Renaissance" (Princeton UP, 2025)
54 mins; June 22, 2025
Violet Moller, "Inside the Stargazer's Palace: The Transformation of Science in 16th-Century Europe" (OneWorld, 2024)
40 mins; June 18, 2025
Alice Hunt, "Republic: Britain's Revolutionary Decade, 1649–1660" (Faber and Faber, 2024)
49 mins; June 18, 2025
Carolin Duttlinger, "Attention and Distraction in Modern German Literature, Thought, and Culture" (Oxford UP, 2022)
62 hours 45 mins; June 17, 2025
Elise Franklin "Disintegrating Empire: Algerian Family Migration and the Limits of the Welfare State in France" (University of Nebraska Press, 2024)
78 hours 18 mins; June 10, 2025
Charles J Esdaile, "The Spanish Civil War: A Military History" (Routledge, 2019)
121 hours 58 mins; June 08, 2025
Julia Sneeringer, "West Germany: A Society in Motion, 1949-89" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
66 hours 47 mins; June 08, 2025
Stephan Kieninger, "Dynamic DĂ©tente: The United States and Europe, 1964-1975" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016)
45 mins; June 07, 2025
David de Boer and Geert H. Janssen eds.,"Refugee Politics in Early Modern Europe" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024)
34 mins; June 07, 2025
Sabrin Hasbun, "Crossing: A Love Story Between Italy and Palestine" (Footnote Press, 2025)
35 mins; June 06, 2025
Questions: A Discussion with Leslie Butler and Holly Case
96 hours 39 mins; June 06, 2025
Roger Chickering, "The German Empire, 1871–1918" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
57 mins; June 04, 2025
Elisabeth Åsbrink "And in the Vienna Woods the Trees Remain: The Heartbreaking True Story of a Family Torn Apart by War" (Other Press, 2020)
65 hours 31 mins; June 04, 2025
Simon Stjernholm, "Sensing Islam: Engaging and Contesting the Senses in Muslim Religiosity" (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025)
45 mins; June 03, 2025
Keir Giles, "Who Will Defend Europe?: An Awakened Russia and a Sleeping Continent" (Hurst & Co., 2024)
42 mins; May 28, 2025
Camilla Annerfeldt, "Clothing and Identity in Early Modern Rome" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
30 mins; May 24, 2025
Richard D. Oram, "A Land Won from Waste: Scotland AD 400-1400" (Birlinn, 2025)
61 hours 12 mins; May 24, 2025
Dan Sperrin, "State of Ridicule: A History of Satire in English Literature" (Princeton UP, 2025)
53 mins; May 23, 2025
Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine
72 hours 46 mins; May 22, 2025
Quentin Skinner, "Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
57 mins; May 20, 2025
DagrĂșn Ósk JĂłnsdĂłttir, "Ghosts, Trolls, and the Hidden People: An Anthology of Icelandic Folk Legends" (Reaktion, 2025)
49 mins; May 19, 2025
Aviva Briefel, "Ghosts and Things: The Material Culture of Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism" (Cornell UP, 2025)
61 hours 6 mins; May 18, 2025
Ben Jackson, "Material Masculinities: Men and Goods in Eighteenth-Century England" (Manchester UP, 2025)
58 mins; May 17, 2025
Rochelle Rojas, "Bad Christians and Hanging Toads: Witch Crafting in Northern Spain, 1525–1675" (Cornell UP, 2025)
45 mins; May 16, 2025
Claire McNulty, "Edinburgh's Unruly Women: Gender, Discipline, and Power, 1560-1660" (Routledge, 2024)
36 mins; May 15, 2025
Beaty Rubens, "Listen In: How Radio Changed the Home" (Bodleian Library, 2025)
52 mins; May 14, 2025
Anna Wainwright, "Widow City: Gender, Emotion, and Community in the Italian Renaissance" (U Delaware Press, 2025)
55 mins; May 13, 2025
Andrew Griebeler, "Botanical Icons: Critical Practices of Illustration in the Premodern Mediterranean" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
64 hours 24 mins; May 12, 2025
Make Britain Great Again? The MAGA-Style Rise of Reform UK
42 mins; May 08, 2025
Marc Jaffré, "The Courtiers and the Court of Louis XIII, 1610-1643" (Oxford UP, 2025)
62 hours 8 mins; May 07, 2025
"I have not Finished...": Rokahya Diallo on being Black, Muslim, and frequently interrupted (Emilie Diouf, JP)
48 mins; May 06, 2025
Jeremy Black, "British Politics and Foreign Policy, 1727-44" (Routledge, 2014)
35 mins; May 05, 2025
Ipek A. Celik Rappas, "Filming in European Cities: The Labor of Location" (Cornell UP, 2025)
44 mins; May 04, 2025
Miles Pattenden, "Electing the Pope in Early Modern Italy, 1450-1700" (Oxford UP, 2017)
54 mins; May 03, 2025
Jeremy Black, "Politics and Foreign Policy in the Age of George I, 1714-1727" (Routledge, 2016)
40 mins; May 02, 2025
Timothy Twining, "The Limits of Erudition: The Old Testament in Post-Reformation Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
70 hours 6 mins; May 01, 2025
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