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New Books in Western European Studies
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Roseen Giles, "Monteverdi and the Marvellous: Poetry, Sound, and Representation" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
59 mins; March 04, 2024
Yaniv Feller, "The Jewish Imperial Imagination: Leo Baeck and German-Jewish Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
63 hours 12 mins; March 03, 2024
Jennifer Evans, "Men's Sexual Health in Early Modern England" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
48 mins; March 02, 2024
Stanley Wells, "What Was Shakespeare Really Like?" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
36 mins; February 26, 2024
Ariel Mae Lambe, "No Barrier Can Contain It: Cuban Antifascism and the Spanish Civil War" (UNC Press, 2019)
70 hours 4 mins; February 25, 2024
Michael Johnston, "The Middle English Book: Scribes and Readers, 1350-1500" (Oxford UP, 2023)
43 mins; February 24, 2024
Jacob Ward, "Visions of a Digital Nation: Market and Monopoly in British Telecommunications" (MIT Press, 2024)
51 mins; February 23, 2024
Harriet Lyon, "Memory and the Dissolution of the Monasteries in Early Modern England" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
59 mins; February 22, 2024
Isabella Alexander, "Copyright and Cartography: History, Law, and the Circulation of Geographical Knowledge" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
43 mins; February 22, 2024
Ruth Ahnert and Sebastian E. Ahnert, "Tudor Networks of Power" (Oxford UP, 2023)
41 mins; February 21, 2024
T. Corey Brennan, "The Fasces: A History of Ancient Rome's Most Dangerous Political Symbol" (Oxford UP, 2022)
49 mins; February 21, 2024
Robert Louis Wilken, "Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom" (Yale UP, 2019)
62 hours 49 mins; February 20, 2024
Tom Hamilton, "A Widow's Vengeance After the Wars of Religion: Gender and Justice in Renaissance France" (Oxford UP, 2024)
56 mins; February 19, 2024
Isabel B. Taylor, "The Crown and Its Records: Archives, Access, and the Ancient Constitution in Seventeenth-Century England" (De Gruyter, 2023)
45 mins; February 19, 2024
Why is Right-Wing Extremism so Widespread in Italy?
36 mins; February 19, 2024
Alexander Henry, "War Through Italian Eyes: Fighting for Mussolini, 1940-1943" (Routledge, 2021)
90 hours 30 mins; February 19, 2024
Alison M. Downham Moore, "The French Invention of Menopause and the Medicalisation of Women's Ageing" (Oxford UP, 2022)
45 mins; February 14, 2024
Laura Flannigan, "Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485–1547" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
50 mins; February 13, 2024
Anthony Kaldellis, "Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium" (Harvard UP, 2019)
49 mins; February 13, 2024
Matteo Millan, "The Blackshirts' Dictatorship: Armed Squads, Political Violence, and the Consolidation of Mussolini's Regime" (Routledge, 2022)
90 hours 59 mins; February 12, 2024
Timothy A. Sayle, "Enduring Alliance: A History of NATO and the Postwar Global Order" (Cornell UP, 2019)
53 mins; February 11, 2024
Despina Stratigakos, "Hitler’s Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway" (Princeton UP, 2020)
58 mins; February 11, 2024
BjĂžrn Westlie, "My Father's War: Confronting Norway's Nazi Past" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)
67 hours 12 mins; February 11, 2024
Erin R. Graham, "Transforming International Institutions: How Money Quietly Sidelined Multilateralism at the United Nations" (Oxford UP, 2023)
55 mins; January 30, 2024
Marco Armiero et al., "Mussolini's Nature: An Environmental History of Italian Fascism" (MIT Press, 2022)
69 hours 57 mins; January 30, 2024
Paul Franke, "Feeling Lucky: The Production of Gambling Experiences in Monte Carlo and Las Vegas" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
52 mins; January 29, 2024
Gregor Gall, "Mick Lynch: The Making of a Working-Class Hero " (Manchester UP, 2024)
66 hours 56 mins; January 27, 2024
Renée Fox, "The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
35 mins; January 27, 2024
Eugenio Refini, "Staging the Soul: Allegorical Drama as Spiritual Practice in Baroque Italy" (Legenda, 2022)
53 mins; January 25, 2024
Camillo Leonardi, "Speculum Lapidum: A Renaissance Treatise on the Healing Properties of Gemstones" (Penn State UP, 2023)
52 mins; January 23, 2024
Catherine Powell-Warren, "Gender and Self-Fashioning at the Intersection of Art and Science: Agnes Block, Botany, and Networks in the Dutch 17th Century" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
49 mins; January 22, 2024
Jakob Norberg, "The Brothers Grimm and the Making of German Nationalism" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
60 hours 25 mins; January 21, 2024
Brian Gastle et al., "The Lover's Confession: A Translation of John Gower's Confessio Amantis" (Medieval Institute Press, 2023)
49 mins; January 21, 2024
Jessica Goethals, "Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
64 hours 26 mins; January 20, 2024
Jane Ohlmeyer, "Making Empire: Ireland, Imperialism, and the Early Modern World" (Oxford UP, 2023)
60 hours 32 mins; January 20, 2024
Kyle Gervais et al., "Lucan and Flavian Epic" (Brill, 2023)
56 mins; January 19, 2024
Lewis Wade, "Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France: Marine Insurance, War and the Atlantic Empire Under Louis XIV" (Boydell Press, 2023)
54 mins; January 19, 2024
The Future of Ireland: Kevin Meagher on Why a United Ireland is Inevitable
59 mins; January 17, 2024
Emma Gleadhill, "Taking Travel Home: The Souvenir Culture of British Women Tourists, 1750-1830" (Manchester UP, 2022)
62 hours 24 mins; January 16, 2024
Christopher Corker, "The Business and Technology of the Sheffield Armaments Industry, 1900-1930" (U of York, 2016)
42 mins; January 16, 2024
Miles P. Grier, "Inkface: Othello and White Authority in the Era of Atlantic Slavery" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
83 hours 50 mins; January 15, 2024
Elisabeth Gernerd, "The Modern Venus: Dress, Underwear and Accessories in the Late 18th-Century Atlantic World" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
95 hours 51 mins; January 14, 2024
Stéphane Jettot, "Selling Ancestry: Family Directories and the Commodification of Genealogy in Eighteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2023)
55 mins; January 13, 2024
Jennifer V. Evans, "The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship After Fascism" (Duke UP, 2023)
34 mins; January 12, 2024
Peter J. Williamson, "Duce: The Contradictions of Power: The Political Leadership of Benito Mussolini" (Oxford UP, 2023)
91 hours 42 mins; January 09, 2024
Ofer Ashkenazi, "Anti-Heimat Cinema: The Jewish Invention of the German Landscape" (U Michigan Press, 2020)
63 hours 47 mins; January 09, 2024
Jennifer Cazenave, "An Archive of the Catastrophe: The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah" (SUNY Press, 2019)
63 hours 32 mins; January 08, 2024
Matthew Carr, "Blood and Faith: The Purging of Muslim Spain, 1492-1614" (Hurst, 2017)
111 hours 7 mins; January 08, 2024
Seth Bernard, "Building Mid-Republican Rome: Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy" (Oxford UP, 2018)
35 mins; January 07, 2024
Emma Kuby, "Political Survivors: The Resistance, the Cold War, and the Fight against Concentration Camps After 1945" (Cornell UP, 2019)
62 hours 53 mins; January 07, 2024
Eileen Botting, "The Wollstonecraftian Mind" (Routledge, 2019)
68 hours 46 mins; January 06, 2024
Elizabeth Eva Leach, "Medieval Sex Lives: The Sounds of Courtly Intimacy on the Francophone Borders" (Cornell UP, 2023)
38 mins; January 06, 2024
Roland Allen, "The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper" (Profile Books, 2023)
60 hours 31 mins; January 06, 2024
Colin Jones, "The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris" (Oxford UP, 2021)
56 mins; January 05, 2024
Kate Kirkpatrick, "Becoming Beauvoir: A Life" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
56 mins; January 05, 2024
Virginia Chieffo Raguin, "The Illuminated Window: Stories Across Time" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
52 mins; January 05, 2024
William G. Pooley, "Body and Tradition in 19th-Century France: FĂ©lix Arnaudin and the Moorlands of Gascony, 1870-1914" (Oxford UP, 2019)
58 mins; January 03, 2024
Noel Malcolm, "Useful Enemies: Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450-1750" (Oxford UP, 2019)
64 hours 1 min; January 03, 2024
Ronen Steinberg, "The Afterlives of the Terror: Facing the Legacies of Mass Violence in Postrevolutionary France" (Cornell UP, 2019)
61 hours 23 mins; January 01, 2024
John Christopoulos, "Abortion in Early Modern Italy" (Harvard UP, 2021)
56 mins; January 01, 2024
Jonathan Scott, "How the Old World Ended: The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution, 1500-1800" (Yale UP, 2019)
27 mins; December 31, 2023
Michael Braddick, "The Common Freedom of the People: John Lilburne and the English Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2018)
28 mins; December 30, 2023
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 7: A Genealogy of Gun Violence
51 mins; December 28, 2023
Stuart Elden, “Foucault: The Birth of Power” (Polity Press, 2017)
46 mins; December 26, 2023
Timothy McCall, "Making the Renaissance Man: Masculinity in the Courts of Renaissance Italy" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
64 hours 31 mins; December 25, 2023
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin, "Charm Offensive: Commodifying Femininity in Postwar France" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
53 mins; December 22, 2023
Anne E. Linton, "Unmaking Sex: The Gender Outlaws of Nineteenth-Century France" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
62 hours 41 mins; December 22, 2023
Huw Bennett, "Uncivil War: The British Army and the Troubles, 1966–1975" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
26 mins; December 22, 2023
Brian Jeffrey Maxson, "Early Modern Europe: Facts and Fictions" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
50 mins; December 21, 2023
Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff, "Basketball Empire: France and the Making of a Global NBA and WNBA" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
66 hours 58 mins; December 19, 2023
Katlyn Marie Carter, "Democracy in Darkness: Secrecy and Transparency in the Age of Revolutions" (Yale UP, 2023)
51 mins; December 19, 2023
AntĂłnio Costa Pinto, "An Authoritarian Third Way in the Era of Fascism: Diffusion, Models and Interactions in Europe and Latin America" (Routledge, 2021)
93 hours 18 mins; December 19, 2023
Alice Cavalieri, "Italian Budgeting Policy: Between Punctuations and Incrementalism" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
56 mins; December 16, 2023
Jonathan Sumption, "Triumph and Illusion: The Hundred Years War, Vol. 5" (Faber & Faber, 2023)
42 mins; December 14, 2023
Kathy Stuart, "Suicide by Proxy in Early Modern Germany: Crime, Sin and Salvation" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
66 hours 57 mins; December 13, 2023
Ervin Malakaj, "Anders als Die Andern" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)
37 mins; December 11, 2023
Paolo Caroli, "Transitional Justice in Italy and the Crimes of Fascism and Nazism" (Routledge, 2022)
97 hours 1 min; December 10, 2023
Paul Crosthwaite et al., "Invested: How Three Centuries of Stock Market Advice Reshaped Our Money, Markets, and Minds" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
50 mins; December 10, 2023
Burkhard Bilger, "Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets" (Random House, 2023)
63 hours 56 mins; December 08, 2023
Guy Miron, "Space and Time Under Persecution: The German-Jewish Experience in the Third Reich" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
46 mins; December 06, 2023
Abigail Agresta, "The Keys to Bread and Wine: Faith, Nature, and Infrastructure in Late Medieval Valencia" (Cornell UP, 2022)
47 mins; December 06, 2023
Hannah Carlson, "Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close" (Algonquin Books, 2023)
48 mins; December 06, 2023
Christopher A. Whatley and Joanna Hambly, "Salt: Scotland's Newest Oldest Industry" (Birlinn, 2023)
59 mins; December 05, 2023
Hilary French, "Ballroom: A People’s History of Dancing" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
42 mins; December 05, 2023
Simon Joyce, "LGBT Victorians: Sexuality and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Archives" (Oxford UP, 2022)
74 hours 34 mins; December 05, 2023
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 1: Climbing the Mountains of Modernity
46 mins; December 05, 2023
The Future of the State: A Discussion with Graeme Garrard
38 mins; December 04, 2023
Anna M. GrzymaƂa-Busse, "Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State" (Princeton UP, 2023)
55 mins; December 03, 2023
Daniel JĂŒtte, "Transparency: The Material History of an Idea" (Yale UP, 2023)
63 hours 3 mins; December 01, 2023
D. L. d'Avray, "The Power of Protocol: Diplomatics and the Dynamics of Papal Government, c. 400-c.1600" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
81 hours 58 mins; November 30, 2023
Sandra Destradi, "Reluctance in World Politics: Why States Fail to Act Decisively" (Bristol UP, 2023)
51 mins; November 30, 2023
Poppy Corbett et al., "Creative Histories of Witchcraft: France, 1790–1940" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
61 hours 53 mins; November 30, 2023
JĂŒrgen Zimmerer, "Memory Wars: New German Historical Consciousness" (Reclam Verlag, 2023)
61 hours 32 mins; November 29, 2023
Charles S. Maier, "The Project-State and Its Rivals: A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries" (Harvard UP, 2023)
50 mins; November 29, 2023
Richard Schoch, "Shakespeare’s House: A Window onto his Life and Legacy" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
59 mins; November 29, 2023
G. H. Bennett, "The War for England's Shores: S-Boats and the Fight Against British Coastal Convoys" (US Naval Institute Press, 2023)
59 mins; November 27, 2023
Peter Bellerby, "The Globemakers: The Curious Story of an Ancient Craft" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
39 mins; November 27, 2023
Roslyn Weiss, "Hasdai Crescas: Collected Writings" (Library of the Jewish People, 2023)
71 hours 50 mins; November 27, 2023
E. T. Dailey, "Radegund: The Trials and Triumphs of a Merovingian Queen" (Oxford UP, 2023)
66 hours 0 mins; November 26, 2023
Jenny Benham, "International Law in Europe, 700–1200" (Manchester UP, 2022)
73 hours 7 mins; November 24, 2023
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