New Books in Western European Studies
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Donald S. Prudlo, "Stimulus Pastorum: A Charge to Pastors" (St. Augustine's Press, 2022)
30 mins; April 30, 2025
Fernando Collantes, "Milk in Spain and the History of Diet Change: The Political Economy of Dairy Consumption Since 1950" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
60 hours 2 mins; April 29, 2025
Annalisa Marzano, "Plants, Politics and Empire in Ancient Rome" (Cambridge UP. 2022)
49 mins; April 28, 2025
Lorna Gibb, "Rare Tongues: The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages" (Princeton UP, 2025)
39 mins; April 27, 2025
Eleanor Paynter, "Emergency in Transit: Witnessing Migration in the Colonial Present" (U California Press, 2024)
54 mins; April 26, 2025
Christopher Harding, "The Light of Asia: A History of Western Fascination with the East" (Allen Lane, 2024)
70 hours 23 mins; April 25, 2025
Udi Greenberg, "The End of the Schism: Catholics, Protestants, and the Remaking of Christian Life in Europe, 1880s-1970s" (Harvard UP, 2025)
73 hours 56 mins; April 25, 2025
Asa Simon Mittman, "Cartographies of Exclusion: Anti-Semitic Mapping in Medieval England" (Penn State UP, 2024)
66 hours 22 mins; April 24, 2025
Reider Payne, "War and Diplomacy in the Napoleonic Era" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
72 hours 1 min; April 23, 2025
Maurizio Ferrera, "Politics and Social Visions: Ideology, Conflict, and Solidarity in the EU" (Oxford UP, 2024)
82 hours 50 mins; April 21, 2025
Fernanda Gallo, "Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Practice of Ideas, 1832-1900" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
48 mins; April 20, 2025
Faith Tibble, "Crown of Thorns: Humble Gods and Humiliated Kings" (T&T Clark, 2025)
41 mins; April 18, 2025
Agnieszka Pasieka, "Living Right: Far-Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe" (Princeton UP, 2024)
46 mins; April 18, 2025
Mary Bosworth, "Supply Chain Justice: The Logistics of British Border Control" (Princeton UP, 2024)
58 mins; April 17, 2025
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, "The Idea of the City in Late Antiquity: A Study in Resilience" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
75 hours 19 mins; April 16, 2025
Margaret Urwin, "A State in Denial: British Collaboration with Loyalist Paramilitaries" (Mercier Press, 2016)
61 hours 19 mins; April 11, 2025
Sam Wetherell, "Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
53 mins; April 10, 2025
Stephen J. Campbell, "Leonardo da Vinci: An Untraceable Life" (Princeton UP, 2025)
46 mins; April 09, 2025
Stefanie Fischer and Kim WĂźnschmann, "Oberbrechen: a German Village Confronts Its Nazi Past" (Oxford UP, 2024)
60 hours 37 mins; April 08, 2025
Richard Alfred Muller, "Predestination in Early Modern Reformed Theology" (Reformation Heritage Books, 2024)
31 mins; April 07, 2025
Bruno Leipold, "Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2024)
55 mins; April 06, 2025
Patrick Wallis, "The Market for Skill: Apprenticeship and Economic Growth in Early Modern England" (Princeton UP, 2025)
59 mins; April 05, 2025
Liz William, "Rough Music: Folk Customs, Transgression and Alternative Britain" (Reaktion, 2025)
40 mins; March 31, 2025
Hannan Hever, "Hasidism, Haskalah, Zionism: Chapters in Literary Politics" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
56 mins; March 30, 2025
William Max Nelson, "Enlightenment Biopolitics: A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
72 hours 31 mins; March 28, 2025
Bruce L. Vernarde, "The Miracles of Mary in Twelfth-Century France" (Cornell UP, 2024)
69 hours 56 mins; March 27, 2025
Jeremy Black, "A History of Britain's Transport" (Pen and Sword, 2025)
35 mins; March 26, 2025
Kiran Mehta, "To Detain or to Punish: Magistrates and the Making of the London Prison System, 1750–1840" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2025)
70 hours 46 mins; March 25, 2025
Ben Bowles, "Boaters of London: Alternative Living on the Water" (Berghahn Books, 2024)
70 hours 12 mins; March 23, 2025
Holly Grout, "Playing Cleopatra: Inventing the Female Celebrity in Third Republic France" (LSU Press, 2024)
48 mins; March 21, 2025
Clive Bloom, "London Uncanny: A Gothic Guide to the Capital in Weird History and Fiction" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
32 mins; March 20, 2025
Mick Brown, "The Nirvana Express: How the Search for Enlightenment Went West" (Oxford UP, 2023)
103 hours 10 mins; March 19, 2025
Andrew Janiak, "The Enlightenment's Most Dangerous Woman: Émilie Du Châtelet and the Making of Modern Philosophy" (Oxford UP, 2024)
47 mins; March 18, 2025
Alexandra Verini, "English Women’s Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700: New Kingdoms of Womanhood" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
31 mins; March 16, 2025
Anna Nilsson Hammar and Svante Norrhem, "Serving Aristocracy: Negotiation, Learning, and Mobility in an Early Modern Knowledge Community" (Routledge, 2025)
52 mins; March 15, 2025
Martin Spychal, "Mapping the State: English Boundaries and the 1832 Reform Act" (U London Press, 2024)
52 mins; March 14, 2025
Chiara Faggella, "Becoming Couture: The Italian Fashion Industry after the Second World War" (Manchester UP, 2024)
47 mins; March 13, 2025
Harriet Atkinson, "Showing Resistance: Propaganda and Modernist Exhibitions in Britain, 1933-53" (Manchester UP, 2024)
37 mins; March 12, 2025
Gregory Soderberg, "John Brown of Haddington on Frequent Communion" (Wipf & Stock, 2024)
34 mins; March 11, 2025
Abby Innes, "Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
95 hours 2 mins; March 09, 2025
Ethan Kleinberg, "Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic Turn: Philosophy and Jewish Thought" (Stanford UP, 2021)
81 hours 20 mins; March 08, 2025
Anthony Grafton, "Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa" (Harvard UP, 2023)
31 mins; March 08, 2025
Jørgen Møller and Jonathan Doucette, "The Catholic Church and European State Formation, AD 1000-1500" (Oxford UP, 2022)
51 mins; March 08, 2025
Deborah Reed-Donahay, "Sideways Migration: Being French in London" (Routledge, 2025)
32 mins; March 03, 2025
Ellen Fenzel Arnold, "Medieval Riverscapes: Environment and Memory in Northwest Europe, C. 300-1100" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
53 mins; March 01, 2025
Megan Moran, "Gender and Family Networks in Early Modern Italy" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
50 mins; February 23, 2025
Mary Flannery, "Geoffrey Chaucer: Unveiling the Merry Bard" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
63 hours 22 mins; February 22, 2025
Peter Ramey, "The Word-Hoard Beowulf: A Translation with Commentary" (Angelico Press, 2023)
57 mins; February 22, 2025
Kathryn Taylor, "Ordering Customs: Ethnographic Thought in Early Modern Venice" (U Delaware Press, 2023)
43 mins; February 18, 2025
Ruby Lowe on John Milton’s Definition of Free Speech
84 hours 52 mins; February 17, 2025
Shane Bobrycki, "The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages" (Princeton UP, 2024)
73 hours 47 mins; February 17, 2025
Jacqueline M. Burek, "Literary Variety and the Writing of History in Britain's Long Twelfth Century" (York Medieval Press, 2023)
54 mins; February 16, 2025
Marcel Elias, "English Literature and the Crusades: Anxieties of Holy War, 1291-1453" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
26 mins; February 16, 2025
Trevor Wilson, "Alexandre Kojève and the Specters of Russian Philosophy" (Northwestern UP, 2024)
47 mins; February 15, 2025
Adam Pennington, "Henry VIII and the Plantagenet Poles: The Rise and Fall of a Dynasty" (Pen and Sword History, 2024)
48 mins; February 15, 2025
Pamela Allen Brown, "The Diva's Gift to the Shakespearean Stage: Agency, Theatricality, and the Innamorata" (Oxford UP, 2021)
61 hours 19 mins; February 14, 2025
Erika Graham-Goering et al., "Lordship and the Decentralised State in Late Medieval Europe" (Oxford UP, 2025)
48 mins; February 14, 2025
Ada Palmer, "Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
54 mins; February 13, 2025
Philip Howell, "Pub" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
40 mins; February 12, 2025
Magdalena Buchczyk, "Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum: Textiles, History and Ethnography at the Museum of European Cultures, Berlin" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
53 mins; February 10, 2025
Sophia Rosenfeld, "The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life" (Princeton UP, 2025)
37 mins; February 05, 2025
Ann Schmiesing, "The Brothers Grimm: A Biography" (Yale UP, 2024)
51 mins; February 04, 2025
Whitney Dirks, "Monstrosity, Bodies, and Knowledge in Early Modern England" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
61 hours 16 mins; February 03, 2025
Blessin Adams, "Thou Savage Woman: Female Killers in Early Modern Britain" (HarperCollins, 2025)
32 mins; February 02, 2025
Adam Franklin-Lyons, "Shortage and Famine in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon" (Penn State Press, 2022)
61 hours 44 mins; January 30, 2025
Elizabeth Campbell, "Museum Worthy: Nazi Art Plunder in Postwar Western Europe" (Oxford UP, 2024)
58 mins; January 29, 2025
Philip Rathgeb, "How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA" (Oxford UP, 2024)
56 mins; January 28, 2025
Roland Erne et al., "Politicising Commodification: European Governance and Labour Politics from the Financial Crisis to the Covid Emergency" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
64 hours 20 mins; January 28, 2025
Vera Keller, "Curating the Enlightenment: Johann Daniel Major and the Experimental Century" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
51 mins; January 27, 2025
Michael Sonenscher, "After Kant: The Romans, the Germans, and the Moderns in the History of Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2023)
70 hours 22 mins; January 26, 2025
Terrence C. Petty, "Nazis at the Watercooler: War Criminals in Postwar German Government Agencies" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
60 hours 53 mins; January 24, 2025
HÊlène Tessier, "Laplanche's Vocabulary" (PUF, 2024)
87 hours 53 mins; January 24, 2025
Matthew McCormack, "Shoes and the Georgian Man" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
39 mins; January 24, 2025
David Mckinney, "Samuel Beckett and Recent Irish Fiction: A Comparative Study" (Routledge, 2025)
60 hours 8 mins; January 23, 2025
Michelle D. Brock, "Plagues of the Heart: Crisis and Covenanting in a Seventeenth-Century Scottish Town" (Manchester UP, 2024)
63 hours 36 mins; January 22, 2025
Andy Wightman, "The Poor Had No Lawyers: Who Owns Scotland and How They Got it" (Birlinn, 2025)
57 mins; January 22, 2025
April-Louise Pennant, "Babygirl, You've Got This!: Experiences of Black Girls and Women in the English Education System" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
57 mins; January 21, 2025
Bianca M. Lopez, "Queen of Sorrows: Plague, Piety, and Power in Late Medieval Italy" (Cornell UP, 2024)
53 mins; January 21, 2025
Elizabeth King and W. David Todd, "Miracles and Machines: A Sixteenth-Century Automaton and Its Legend" (Getty, 2023)
50 mins; January 19, 2025
Steven King, "Fraudulent Lives: Imagining Welfare Cheats from the Poor Law to the Present" (McGill Queen's UP, 2024)
49 mins; January 19, 2025
Catherine Tatiana Dunlop, "The Mistral: A Windswept History of Modern France" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
50 mins; January 17, 2025
Melissa B. Reynolds, "Reading Practice: The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
69 hours 53 mins; January 17, 2025
Frank Trentmann, "Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022" (Knopf, 2024)
57 mins; January 16, 2025
Yehudah Cohn, trans., "Mine Is The Golden Tongue: The Hebrew Sonnets Of Immanuel Of Rome" (Centro Primo Levi, 2023)
72 hours 17 mins; January 14, 2025
Isaac Stanley-Becker, "Europe Without Borders: A History" (Princeton UP, 2025)
45 mins; January 14, 2025
Emily Murdoch Perkins, "Regina: The Queens Who Could Have Been" (The History Press, 2024)
54 mins; January 14, 2025
Nitzan Lebovic, "Homo Temporalis: German Jewish Thinkers on Time" (Cornell UP, 2025)
102 hours 27 mins; January 13, 2025
Ciaran O'Neill, "Power and Powerlessness in Union Ireland: Life in a Palliative State" (Oxford UP, 2024)
29 mins; January 12, 2025
Gabriele Badano and Alasia Nuti, "Politicizing Political Liberalism: On the Containment of Illiberal and Antidemocratic Views" (Oxford UP, 2024)
64 hours 7 mins; January 11, 2025
Dayne C. Riley, "Consuming Anxieties: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Trade in British Satire, 1660-1751" (Bucknell UP, 2024)
47 mins; January 09, 2025
CaitlĂ­n EilĂ­s Barrett, "Domesticating Empire: Egyptian Landscapes in Pompeian Gardens" (Oxford UP, 2019)
102 hours 22 mins; January 08, 2025
Adam Elliott-Cooper, "Black Resistance to British Policing" (Manchester UP, 2021)
62 hours 13 mins; January 07, 2025
Peter Mandler, "The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Britain's Transition to Mass Education Since the Second World War" (Oxford UP, 2020)
40 mins; January 06, 2025
Peter Mandler, "The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Britain's Transition to Mass Education Since the Second World War" (Oxford UP, 2020)
40 mins; January 06, 2025
Emily Marker, "Black France, White Europe: Youth, Race, and Belonging in the Postwar Era" (Cornell UP, 2022)
68 hours 37 mins; January 05, 2025
Stuart Elden, "The Early Foucault" (Polity Press, 2021)
53 mins; January 03, 2025
Adam Zucker, "Shakespeare Unlearned: Pedantry, Nonsense, and the Philology of Stupidity" (Oxford UP, 2024)
67 hours 2 mins; January 03, 2025
Nicholas R. Jones, "Cervantine Blackness" (Penn State UP, 2024)
56 mins; December 30, 2024
Emily Herring, "Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People" (Basic Books, 2024)
66 hours 1 min; December 29, 2024
Sara Lodge, "The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective" (Yale UP, 2024)
45 mins; December 29, 2024