New Books in German Studies
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Lili Zách, "Imagining Ireland Abroad, 1904–1945: Conceiving the Nation, Identity, and Borders in Central Europe" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
41 mins; March 02, 2022
Ulrich Gutmair, "The First Days of Berlin: The Sound of Change" (Polity Press, 2021)
56 mins; March 02, 2022
Silvia Goldbaum Tarabini Fracapane, "The Jews of Denmark in the Holocaust: Life and Death in Theresienstadt Ghetto" (Routledge, 2020)
57 mins; February 28, 2022
Samuel Clowes Huneke, "States of Liberation: Gay Men Between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
56 mins; February 25, 2022
Joanna Sliwa, "Jewish Childhood in KrakĂłw: A Microhistory of the Holocaust" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
79 hours 50 mins; February 25, 2022
Catherine Ehrlich, "Irma's Passport: One Woman, Two World Wars, and a Legacy of Courage" (She Writes Press, 2021)
53 mins; February 21, 2022
Melissa Feinberg, "Communism in Eastern Europe" (Routledge, 2021)
77 hours 30 mins; February 14, 2022
Heather L. Dichter, "Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games: International Sport's Cold War Battle with NATO" (U Massachusetts Press, 2021)
60 hours 52 mins; February 11, 2022
Arthur W. Gullachsen, "Bloody Verrieres: The I. SS-Panzerkorps Defence of the Verrieres-Bourguebus Ridges" (Casemate, 2021)
55 mins; February 11, 2022
Kenneth L. Caneva, "Helmholtz and the Conservation of Energy: Contexts of Creation and Reception" (MIT Press, 2021)
42 mins; February 10, 2022
Rudolf Ramm, "Medical Jurisprudence and Rules of the Medical Profession [1942]" (Springer, 2019)
39 mins; February 08, 2022
Ola Hnatiuk, "Courage and Fear" (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2019)
61 hours 0 mins; February 07, 2022
PaweƂ Markiewicz, "Unlikely Allies: Nazi German and Ukrainian Nationalist Collaboration in the General Government During World War II" (Purdue UP, 2021)
50 mins; February 01, 2022
Rich Brownstein, "Holocaust Cinema Complete: A History and Analysis of 400 Films, with a Teaching Guide" (McFarland, 2021)
42 mins; February 01, 2022
Jeffrey H. Jackson, "Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis" (Algonquin Books, 2020)
60 hours 23 mins; January 28, 2022
The 15 Best Films about the Holocaust
71 hours 14 mins; January 27, 2022
Samuel J. Spinner, "Jewish Primitivism" (Stanford UP, 2021)
75 hours 21 mins; January 26, 2022
Katja Hoyer, "Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire" (Pegasus Books, 2021)
61 hours 23 mins; January 25, 2022
Jason Lustig, "A Time to Gather: Archives and the Control of Jewish Culture" (Oxford UP, 2021)
54 mins; January 24, 2022
Aleksandra Prica, "Decay and Afterlife: Form, Time, and the Textuality of Ruins, 1100 to 1900" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
58 mins; January 21, 2022
James Koranyi, "Migrating Memories: Romanian Germans in Modern Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
73 hours 8 mins; January 18, 2022
Ronald Beiner, "Dangerous Minds: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Return of the Far Right" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
42 mins; January 14, 2022
Marc Caplan, "Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin: A Fugitive Modernism" (Indiana UP, 2021)
68 hours 24 mins; January 13, 2022
Olivier Delers and Martin Sulzer-Reichel, "Wim Wenders: Making Films that Matter" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
72 hours 34 mins; January 07, 2022
Malika Maskarinec, "The Forces of Form in German Modernism" (Northwestern UP, 2018)
72 hours 48 mins; January 05, 2022
Martin Conway, "Western Europe’s Democratic Age: 1945-1968" (Princeton UP, 2021)
41 mins; January 03, 2022
Rich Brownstein, "Holocaust Cinema Complete: A History and Analysis of 400 Films, with a Teaching Guide" (McFarland, 2021)
64 hours 6 mins; December 31, 2021
F. Bruce Gordon, "Zwingli: God's Armed Prophet" (Yale UP, 2021)
29 mins; December 22, 2021
Sa'ed Atshan and Katharina Galor, "The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians" (Duke UP, 2020)
54 mins; December 17, 2021
Alex Panasenko, "The Long Vacation: A Memoir" (Iris Press, 2020)
51 mins; December 16, 2021
"Bambi" isn't about what you think it's about: Jack Zipes explains
39 mins; December 15, 2021
Andrew Demshuk, "Three Cities After Hitler: Redemptive Reconstruction Across Cold War Borders" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
41 mins; December 14, 2021
J. Ryan Stackhouse, "Enemies of the People: Hitler's Critics and the Gestapo" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
61 hours 27 mins; December 07, 2021
Devin J. Vartija, "The Color of Equality: Race and Common Humanity in Enlightenment Thought" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
70 hours 54 mins; December 02, 2021
Noah Isenberg ed., Shelley Frisch, trans., "Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna" (Princeton UP, 2021)
49 mins; December 01, 2021
Annegret Oehme, "The Knight Without Boundaries: Yiddish and German Arthurian Wigalois Adaptations" (Brill, 2021)
55 mins; November 26, 2021
Charles Gallagher, "Nazis of Copley Square: The Forgotten Story of the Christian Front" (Harvard UP, 2021)
52 mins; November 23, 2021
Dana Mack, "All Things That Deserve to Perish: A Novel of Wilhelmine Germany" (2020)
39 mins; November 22, 2021
Charlie Louth on Rainer Maria Rilke
61 hours 51 mins; November 19, 2021
Gershom Gorenberg, "War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East" (PublicAffairs: 2021)
41 mins; November 11, 2021
Julia E. Ault, "Saving Nature Under Socialism: Transnational Environmentalism in East Germany, 1968-1990" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
52 mins; November 09, 2021
Vincent Evener, "Enemies of the Cross: Suffering, Truth, and Mysticism in the Early Reformation" (Oxford UP, 2020)
59 mins; November 08, 2021
Jan Rybak, "Everyday Zionism in East-Central Europe: Nation-Building in War and Revolution, 1914-1920" (Oxford UP, 2021)
77 hours 33 mins; November 02, 2021
Caroline A. Kita, "Jewish Difference and the Arts in Vienna: Composing Compassion in Music and Biblical Theater" (Indiana UP, 2019)
50 mins; October 26, 2021
Onora O’Neill, “Kant, Applied” (Open Agenda, 2021)
91 hours 41 mins; October 15, 2021
Lorena De Vita, "Israelpolitik: German-Israeli Relations, 1949-69" (Manchester UP, 2021)
76 hours 12 mins; October 07, 2021
Sean Andrew Wempe, "Revenants of the German Empire: Colonial Germans, Imperialism, and the League of Nations" (Oxford UP, 2019)
58 mins; October 06, 2021
Michael Geheran, "Comrades Betrayed: Jewish World War I Veterans under Hitler" (Cornell UP, 2020)
73 hours 2 mins; September 22, 2021
H. Glenn Penny, "In Humboldt's Shadow: A Tragic History of German Ethnology" (Princeton UP, 2021)
47 mins; September 06, 2021
Gerd Horten, "Don't Need No Thought Control: Western Culture in East Germany and the Fall of the Berlin Wall" (Berghahn Books, 2020)
92 hours 14 mins; September 02, 2021
Robin Wallace: Inspired By Beethoven
111 hours 51 mins; September 01, 2021
Thomas O. Haakenson, "Grotesque Visions: The Science of Berlin Dada" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
56 mins; August 31, 2021
Salvatore Pappalardo, "Modernism in Trieste: The Habsburg Mediterranean and the Literary Invention of Europe, 1870-1945" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
49 mins; August 24, 2021
Eliza Ablovatski, "Revolution and Political Violence in Central Europe: The Deluge of 1919" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
60 hours 8 mins; August 11, 2021
Ian Ona Johnson, "Faustian Bargain: The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War" (Oxford UP, 2021)
53 mins; August 10, 2021
Elizabeth Anthony, "The Compromise of Return: Viennese Jews After the Holocaust" (Wayne State UP, 2021)
64 hours 29 mins; August 07, 2021
Hillary Angelo, "How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
48 mins; July 29, 2021
Malte Dold and Tim Krieger, "Ordoliberalism and European Economic Policy: Between Realpolitik and Economic Utopia" (Taylor & Francis, 2021)
53 mins; July 21, 2021
Mary Louise Roberts, "Sheer Misery: Soldiers in Battle in WWII" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
65 hours 23 mins; July 20, 2021
K. J. Drake, "The Flesh of the Word: The Extra Calvinisticum from Zwingli to Early Orthodoxy" (Oxford UP, 2021)
28 mins; July 19, 2021
What Can Wittgenstein Teach Us About Raising Our Kids?: A Discussion with Ryan Ruby
64 hours 59 mins; July 13, 2021
Nick Lloyd, "The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918" (Liveright, 2021)
38 mins; July 09, 2021
Kristin Poling, "Germany's Urban Frontiers: Nature and History on the Edge of the Nineteenth-Century City" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2020)
58 mins; July 07, 2021
Benjamin Steege, "An Unnatural Attitude: Phenomenology in Weimar Musical Thought" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
66 hours 46 mins; July 07, 2021
Philip Zelikow, "The Road Less Traveled: The Secret Battle to End the Great War, 1916-1917" (PublicAffairs, 2021)
35 mins; June 24, 2021
Sean McMeekin, "Stalin's War: A New History of World War II" (Basic Books, 2021)
75 hours 10 mins; June 23, 2021
Edward B. Westermann, "Drunk on Genocide: Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany" (Cornell UP, 2021)
71 hours 47 mins; June 10, 2021
Suzanne L. Marchand, "Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe" (Princeton UP, 2020)
60 hours 47 mins; June 04, 2021
Christopher Ocker, "Luther, Conflict, and Christendom: Reformation Europe and Christianity in the West" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
34 mins; June 04, 2021
Jurgen Martschukat, "The Age of Fitness: How the Body Came to Symbolize Success and Achievement" (Polity, 2021)
87 hours 23 mins; May 31, 2021
Katarzyna Person, "Warsaw Ghetto Police: The Jewish Order Service During the Nazi Occupation" (Cornell UP, 2021)
55 mins; May 28, 2021
Christiane Tietz, "Karl Barth: A Life in Conflict" (Oxford UP, 2021)
41 mins; May 26, 2021
Jay Lockenour, "Dragonslayer: The Legend of Erich Ludendorff in the Weimar Republic and Third Reich" (Cornell UP, 2021)
71 hours 56 mins; May 19, 2021
Samantha Matherne, "Cassirer" (Routledge, 2021)
67 hours 15 mins; May 10, 2021
Domenico Losurdo, "Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel: Intellectual Biography and Critical Balance-Sheet" (Haymarket Books, 2021)
86 hours 25 mins; May 05, 2021
Svenja Bethke, "Dance on the Razor's Edge: Crime and Punishment in the Nazi Ghettos" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
56 mins; April 30, 2021
Daniel Herskowitz, "Heidegger and His Jewish Reception" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
68 hours 51 mins; April 28, 2021
Erik Grimmer-Solem, "Learning Empire: Globalization and the German Quest for World Status, 1875-1919" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
71 hours 50 mins; April 28, 2021
Ritchie Robertson, "The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790" (Harper, 2021)
39 mins; April 27, 2021
Richard Hammond, "Strangling the Axis: The Fight for Control of the Mediterranean during the Second World War" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
47 mins; April 27, 2021
Douglas M. O'Reagan, "Taking Nazi Technology: Allied Exploitation of German Science after the Second World War" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
49 mins; April 23, 2021
Dana Mills, "Rosa Luxemburg" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
50 mins; April 15, 2021
Christopher W. Close, "State Formation and Shared Sovereignty: The Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic, 1488–1690" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
64 hours 12 mins; April 07, 2021
Dina Porat, "Vengeance and Retribution Are Mine: Community, the Holocaust, and Abba Kovner's Avengers" (Pardes, 2019)
62 hours 19 mins; April 06, 2021
Roundtable on Medieval Conspiracy Theories
66 hours 3 mins; March 31, 2021
Gershom Gorenberg, "War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East" (Public Affairs, 2021)
62 hours 7 mins; March 31, 2021
Elisabeth Piller, "Selling Weimar: German Public Diplomacy and the United States, 1918-1933" (Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020)
58 mins; March 24, 2021
Jeremy Best, "Heavenly Fatherland: German Missionary Culture and Globalization in the Age of Empire" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
59 mins; March 19, 2021
Peter Hudis, ed., "The Letters Of Rosa Luxemburg" (Verso, 2013)
54 mins; March 09, 2021
R. A. Bennette, "Diagnosing Dissent: Hysterics, Deserters, and Conscientious Objectors in Germany During World War One" (Cornell UP, 2020)
63 hours 43 mins; February 23, 2021
Jason Lutes, "Berlin" (Drawn and Quarterly, 2018)
66 hours 25 mins; February 10, 2021
Tiffany N. Florvil, "Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
55 mins; February 03, 2021
Steven Press, "Rogue Empires: Contracts and Conmen in Europe's Scramble for Africa" (Harvard UP, 2017)
62 hours 42 mins; February 02, 2021
Carina L. Johnson, "Archeologies of Confession: Writing the German Reformation, 1517-2017" (Berghahn, 2019)
55 mins; January 29, 2021
Peter E. Gordon, "Migrants in the Profane: Critical Theory and the Question of Secularization" (Yale UP, 2020)
88 hours 4 mins; January 26, 2021
Sara J. Brenneis and Gina Herrmann, "Spain, the Second World War, and the Holocaust: History and Representation" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
64 hours 30 mins; January 22, 2021
Lenny A. Ureña Valerio, "Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities: Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840-1920" (Ohio UP, 2019
49 mins; January 20, 2021
L. Hilton and A. Patt, "Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust" (U Wisconsin Press, 2020)
71 hours 41 mins; January 18, 2021
Carol Rittner and John K. Roth, "Advancing Holocaust Studies" (Routledge, 2020)
71 hours 31 mins; January 14, 2021
Jesse Spohnholz, "The Convent of Wesel: The Event that Never was and the Invention of Tradition" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
51 mins; January 04, 2021