New Books in Western European Studies
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Jack Crangle, "Migrants, Immigration and Diversity in Twentieth-century Northern Ireland: British, Irish or 'Other’?" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
53 mins; September 20, 2024
Michael Livingston, "Agincourt: Battle of the Scarred King" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
67 hours 33 mins; September 20, 2024
William H. F. Altman, "The German Stranger: Leo Strauss and National Socialism" (Lexington Books, 2010)
132 hours 4 mins; September 18, 2024
Zrinka Stahuljak, "Fixers: Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
70 hours 44 mins; September 18, 2024
Caroline Burt and Richard Partington, "Arise, England: Six Kings and the Making of the English State" (Faber & Faber, 2024)
71 hours 5 mins; September 17, 2024
Wendy Ugolini, "Wales in England, 1914-1945: A Social, Cultural, and Military History" (Oxford UP, 2024)
60 hours 27 mins; September 16, 2024
Karl Marx, "Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1" (Princeton UP, 2024)
35 mins; September 16, 2024
Jennifer Redmond and Mary McAuliffe, "The Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Modern Ireland: A Reader" (Four Courts Press, 2024)
58 mins; September 14, 2024
Lynn M. Tesser, "Rethinking the End of Empire: Nationalism, State Formation, and Great Power Politics" (Stanford UP, 2024)
55 mins; September 13, 2024
Whitney Barlow Robles, "Curious Species: How Animals Made Natural History" (Yale UP, 2023)
54 mins; September 13, 2024
Edel Bhreathnach, "Monasticism in Ireland, AD 900-1250" (Four Courts Press, 2024)
32 mins; September 11, 2024
Morgane Cadieu, "On Both Sides of the Tracks: Social Mobility in Contemporary French Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
55 mins; September 10, 2024
Raquel Velho on Disability, Infrastructure, and London's Public Transport System
88 hours 8 mins; September 09, 2024
Martha Rampton, "Trafficking with Demons: Magic, Ritual, and Gender from Late Antiquity to 1000" (Cornell UP, 2021)
56 mins; September 09, 2024
Naomi Leite, "Unorthodox Kin: Portuguese Marranos and the Global Search for Belonging" (U California Press, 2017)
91 hours 7 mins; September 06, 2024
Duncan Simpson, "I am pleased to inform the director: letters from Portuguese people to PIDE (1958-1968)" (Silveira, BookBuilders, 2022)
57 mins; September 05, 2024
Daniel Laqua, "Activism Across Borders Since 1870: Causes, Campaigns and Conflicts in and Beyond Europe" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
33 mins; September 04, 2024
Andrea Moudarres, "The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic: Images of Hostility from Dante to Tasso" (U Virginia Press, 2019)
61 hours 37 mins; September 03, 2024
Violet Moller, "The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found" (Doubleday, 2019)
66 hours 15 mins; September 02, 2024
Daniel Todman, "Britain's War: A New World, 1942-1947" (Oxford UP, 2020)
54 mins; August 31, 2024
Lise Butler, "Michael Young, Social Science, and the British Left, 1945-1970" (Oxford UP, 2020)
74 hours 59 mins; August 30, 2024
Ludovico Silva, "Marx's Literary Style" (Verso, 2023)
68 hours 3 mins; August 28, 2024
Ellen Hampton, "Doctors at War: The Clandestine Battle Against the Nazi Occupation of France" (LSU Press, 2023)
58 mins; August 28, 2024
Anders Persson, "EU Diplomacy and the Israeli-Arab Conflict, 1967-2019" (Edinburgh UP, 2020)
60 hours 18 mins; August 24, 2024
Christopher Beckman, "Twist in the Tail: How the Humble Anchovy Flavoured Western Cuisine" (Hurst, 2024)
44 mins; August 23, 2024
Laurien Vastenhout, "Between Community and Collaboration: 'Jewish Councils' in Western Europe under Nazi Occupation" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
88 hours 15 mins; August 23, 2024
Ren Pepitone, "Brotherhood of Barristers: A Cultural History of the British Legal Profession, 1840–1940" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
58 mins; August 22, 2024
Joachim C. HĂ€berlen, "Beauty Is in the Street: Protest and Counterculture in Post-War Europe" (Penguin, 2023)
79 hours 17 mins; August 21, 2024
Oliver Volckart, "The Silver Empire: How Germany Created Its First Common Currency" (Oxford UP, 2024)
53 mins; August 21, 2024
Shaun S. Yates, "Over-Efficiency in the Lower Criminal Courts: Understanding a Key Problem and How to Fix it" (Policy Press, 2024)
46 mins; August 17, 2024
Lesley Smith, "Fragments of a World: William of Auvergne and His Medieval Life" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
41 mins; August 16, 2024
Javier FernĂĄndez-Galeano, "Queer Obscenity: Erotic Archives in Dictatorial Spain" (Stanford UP, 2024)
65 hours 9 mins; August 16, 2024
Barbara Emerson, "The First Cold War: Anglo-Russian Relations in the 19th Century" (Hurst, 2024)
40 mins; August 13, 2024
Sara J. Charles, "The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
50 mins; August 12, 2024
Marissa Nicosia, "Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590-1660" (Oxford UP, 2023)
46 mins; August 11, 2024
Cordelia Heß, "The Medieval Archive of Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century Sweden" (de Gruyter, 2021)
84 hours 17 mins; August 10, 2024
George Musgrave, "The England No One Cares About: Lyrics from Suburbia" (Goldsmiths Press, 2023)
90 hours 12 mins; August 10, 2024
Dora Osborne, "What Remains: The Post-Holocaust Archive in German Memory Culture" (Camden House, 2020)
62 hours 29 mins; August 09, 2024
Katharine Sykes, "Symbolic Reproduction in Early Medieval England" (Oxford UP, 2024)
42 mins; August 08, 2024
Petra Goedde, "The Politics of Peace: A Global Cold War History" (Oxford UP, 2019)
57 mins; August 04, 2024
Nicholas Orme, "Going to Church in Medieval England" (Yale UP, 2021)
70 hours 27 mins; August 04, 2024
Douglas Greene, "The New Reformism and the Revival of Karl Kautsky: The Renegade's Revenge" (Routledge, 2024)
86 hours 14 mins; August 04, 2024
Laura Beers. "Orwell’s Ghosts Wisdom and Warnings for the 21st Century" (Norton, 2024)
46 mins; August 03, 2024
Tim Cooper, "When Christians Disagree: Lessons from the Fractured Relationship of John Owen and Richard Baxter" (Crossway, 2024)
35 mins; July 30, 2024
Richard D. Oram, "Where Men No More May Reap Or Sow: The Little Ice Age: Scotland 1400-1850" (Birlinn, 2024)
73 hours 57 mins; July 30, 2024
David A. Messenger, "Hunting Nazis in Franco's Spain" (LSU Press, 2014)
71 hours 33 mins; July 30, 2024
Gilad Sharvit, "Dynamic Repetition: History and Messianism in Modern Jewish Thought" (Brandeis UP, 2022)
63 hours 3 mins; July 27, 2024
David Burke, "The Puppet Masters: How MI6 Masterminded Ireland's Deepest State Crisis" (Mercier Press, 2024)
73 hours 16 mins; July 25, 2024
Nancy M. Bradbury, "Rival Wisdoms: Reading Proverbs in the Canterbury Tales" (Penn State UP, 2024)
64 hours 9 mins; July 23, 2024
Charles Barr, "British Cinema: a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2022)
62 hours 0 mins; July 23, 2024
Anton Howes, "Arts and Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation" (Princeton UP, 2020)
70 hours 57 mins; July 22, 2024
Alessandra Montalbano, "Ransom Kidnapping in Italy: Crime, Memory, and Violence" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
52 mins; July 19, 2024
Michelle Moffat, "Scottish Society in the Second World War: Tradition, Tension, Transformation" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
59 mins; July 18, 2024
Anthony Di Renzo, "Pasquinades: Essays from Rome's Famous Talking Statue" (Cayuga Lake Books, 2023)
43 mins; July 18, 2024
Sarah Milton, "Ageing and New Intimacies: Gender, Sexuality and Temporality in an English Salsa Scene" (Manchester UP, 2024)
53 mins; July 17, 2024
Nuria Silleras-Fernandez, "The Politics of Emotion: Love, Grief, and Madness in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia" (Cornell UP, 2024)
60 hours 17 mins; July 17, 2024
Helen Freear-Papio and Candyce Crew Leonard, "The Theatre of Twenty-First Century Spain" (Vernon Press, 2022)
54 mins; July 16, 2024
Stefanie Coché, "Psychiatric Institutions and Society: The Practice of Psychiatric Committal in the "Third Reich," the Democratic Republic of Germany, and the Federal Republic of Germany, 1941-1963" (Routledge, 2024)
54 mins; July 16, 2024
Emily Wilbourne, "Voice, Slavery, and Race in Seventeenth-Century Florence" (Oxford UP, 2023)
67 hours 6 mins; July 16, 2024
Yosefa Raz, "The Poetics of Prophecy: Modern Afterlives of a Biblical Tradition" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
75 hours 56 mins; July 16, 2024
Toby Green, "A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
49 mins; July 15, 2024
Matt Houlbrook et al., "Men and Masculinities in Modern Britain: A History for the Present" (Manchester UP, 2024)
44 mins; July 13, 2024
David Joseph, "Burgenland: Village Secrets and the First Tremors of the Holocaust" (Amberley, 2023)
73 hours 54 mins; July 12, 2024
James D. Fisher, "The Enclosure of Knowledge: Books, Power and Agrarian Capitalism in Britain, 1660–1800" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
56 mins; July 12, 2024
Gayle K. Brunelle and Stephanie Finley-Croswhite, "Assassination in Vichy: Marx Dormoy and the Struggle for the Soul of France" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
146 hours 40 mins; July 11, 2024
Benjamin J. B. Lipscomb, "The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics" (Oxford UP, 2021)
43 mins; July 09, 2024
Ed Simon, "Devil's Contract: A History of the Faustian Bargain" (Melville House, 2024)
50 mins; July 09, 2024
Karine Varley, "Vichy's Double Bind: French Collaboration between Hitler and Mussolini during the Second World War" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
78 hours 46 mins; July 09, 2024
Paige Reynolds, "Modernism in Irish Women's Contemporary Writing: The Stubborn Mode" (Oxford UP, 2023)
58 mins; July 09, 2024
Tabitha Stanmore, "Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic" (Bloombury, 2024)
33 mins; July 07, 2024
Jessie Abrahams, "Schooling Inequality: Aspirations, Opportunities and the Reproduction of Social Class" (Bristol UP, 2024)
55 mins; July 06, 2024
Elizabeth Storr Cohen and Marlee J. Couling, "Non-Elite Women's Networks Across the Early Modern World" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
47 mins; July 06, 2024
Jeremy Black, "Defoe's Britain" (St. Augustine's Press, 2023)
24 mins; July 05, 2024
Language Policy at an Abortion Clinic
41 mins; July 04, 2024
Miranda Sachs, "An Age to Work: Working-Class Childhood in Third Republic Paris" (Oxford UP, 2023)
27 mins; July 02, 2024
Peter Murray Jones, "The Medicine of the Friars in Medieval England" (Boydell & Brewer, 2024)
53 mins; June 30, 2024
Shahmima Akhtar, "Exhibiting Irishness: Empire, Race and Nation, c. 1850-1970" (Manchester UP, 2024)
18 mins; June 30, 2024
Michael Sonenscher, "Capitalism: The Story Behind the Word" (Princeton UP, 2022)
51 mins; June 30, 2024
Denva Gallant, "Illuminating the Vitae Patrum: The Lives of Desert Saints in Fourteenth-Century Italy" (Penn State UP, 2024)
52 mins; June 29, 2024
Nicola Clark, "The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens" (Norton, 2024)
59 mins; June 28, 2024
Nicolas Véron, "Europe's Banking Union at Ten: Unfinished Yet Transformative" (Bruegel, 2024)
43 mins; June 28, 2024
Simon Heffer, "Sing As We Go: Britain Between the Wars" (Penguin, 2024)
62 hours 33 mins; June 26, 2024
Matthijs Lok, "Europe Against Revolution: Conservatism, Enlightenment, and the Making of the Past" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
56 mins; June 24, 2024
Henry Reece, "The Fall: The Last Days of the English Republic" (Yale UP, 2024)
36 mins; June 23, 2024
Genji Yasuhira, "Catholic Survival in the Dutch Republic: Agency in Coexistence and the Public Sphere in Utrecht, 1620-1672" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
64 hours 49 mins; June 21, 2024
Nathaniel Gray Sutanto and Cory Brock, "T&T Clark Handbook of Neo-Calvinism" (T&T Clark, 2023)
38 mins; June 19, 2024
Harry R. McCarthy, "Boy Actors in Early Modern England" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
44 mins; June 17, 2024
Todd H. Weir, "Red Secularism: Socialism and Secularist Culture in Germany 1890 to 1933" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
36 mins; June 16, 2024
Carlos M. N. Eire, "They Flew: A History of the Impossible" (Yale UP, 2023)
53 mins; June 16, 2024
Laurence M. Geary, "The Land War in Ireland: Famine, Philanthropy and Moonlighting" (Cork UP, 2023)
27 mins; June 15, 2024
Cory C. Brock and Nathaniel Gray Sutanto, "Neo-Calvinism: A Theological Introduction" (Lexham Press, 2023)
40 mins; June 14, 2024
Mark Gilbert, "Italy Reborn: From Fascism to Democracy" (Norton, 2024)
44 mins; June 13, 2024
Bronagh Ann McShane, "Irish Women in Religious Orders, 1530-1700: Suppression, Migration and Reintegration" (Boydell & Brewer, 2022)
37 mins; June 11, 2024
Joseph A. Skloot, "First Impressions: Sefer Hasidim and Early Modern Hebrew Printing" (Brandeis UP, 2023)
56 mins; June 08, 2024
Alistair Moffat, "The Highlands and Islands of Scotland: A New History" (Birlinn, 2024)
51 mins; June 07, 2024
Claire Weeda, "Ethnicity in Medieval Europe 950-1250: Medicine, Power and Religion" (Boydell and Brewer, 2021)
58 mins; June 02, 2024
Cathal J. Nolan, "The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost" (Oxford UP, 2019)
77 hours 10 mins; June 02, 2024
RamĂłn Espejo, "The Catalonian Journey of American Drama 1909-2000: From Jimmy Valentine to The Vagina Monologues" (Legenda, 2024)
31 mins; June 02, 2024
Matthew Kadane, "The Enlightenment and Original Sin" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
55 mins; June 01, 2024
Polo B. Moji, "Gender and the Spatiality of Blackness in Contemporary AfroFrench Narratives" (Routledge, 2022)
55 mins; May 31, 2024