New Books in German Studies
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Leslie Waters, "Borders on the Move: Territorial Change and Forced Migration in the Hungarian-Slovak Borderlands, 1938-1948" (U Rochester Press, 2020)
57 mins; December 31, 2020
Anna HĂĄjkovĂĄ, "The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt" (Oxford UP, 2020)
56 mins; December 30, 2020
Monika Black, "A Demon-Haunted Land: Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post–WWII Germany" (Metropolitan, 2020)
58 mins; December 29, 2020
Kiran Klaus Patel, "Project Europe: A History" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
41 mins; December 15, 2020
Douglas Morris, "Legal Sabotage: Ernst Fraenkel in Hitler's Germany" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
63 hours 35 mins; December 14, 2020
Frederick Crews, "Freud: The Making of an Illusion" (Picador, 2018)
60 hours 8 mins; November 25, 2020
S. Burrows and G. Roe, "Digitizing Enlightenment: Digital Humanities and the Transformation of 18th-Century Studies" (Liverpool UP, 2020)
78 hours 21 mins; November 24, 2020
John K. Roth, "The Failures of Ethics: Confronting the Holocaust, Genocide, and Other Mass Atrocities" (Oxford UP, 2018)
68 hours 6 mins; November 19, 2020
Daniela Vallega-Neu, "Heidegger's Poietic Writings: From Contributions to Philosophy to the Event" (Indiana UP, 2018)
63 hours 56 mins; November 18, 2020
Thomas Fleischman, "Communist Pigs: An Animal History of East Germany's Rise and Fall" (U Washington Press, 2020)
60 hours 29 mins; November 03, 2020
N. Chare and D. Williams, "Testimonies of Resistance: Representations of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Sonderkommando" (Berghahn Books, 2019)
50 mins; November 02, 2020
Paolo Astorri, "Lutheran Theology and Contract Law in Early Modern Germany (ca. 1520-1720)" (Verlag Ferdinand Schoningh, 2019)
44 mins; November 02, 2020
Andrew Demshuk, "Bowling for Communism: Urban Ingenuity at the End of East Germany" (Cornell UP, 2020)
56 mins; October 26, 2020
D. Bilak and T. Nummedal, "Furnace and Fugue. A Digital Edition of Michael Maier’s 'Atalanta fugiens' (1618)" (U Virginia Press, 2020)
58 mins; October 21, 2020
Martyn Rady, "The Habsburgs: To Rule the World" (Basic Books, 2020)
60 hours 14 mins; October 20, 2020
Adam Knowles, "Heidegger’s Fascist Affinities: A Politics of Silence" (Stanford UP, 2019)
87 hours 28 mins; October 19, 2020
Rhodri Jeffreys Jones, "The Nazi Spy Ring in America: Hitler’s Agents, the FBI and the Case that Stirred the Nation" (Georgetown UP, 2020)
56 mins; October 13, 2020
Jeremy Black, "The Holocaust: History and Memory" (Indiana UP, 2016)
33 mins; October 08, 2020
Stephen C. Kepher, "COSSAC: Lt. Gen. Sir Frederick Morgan and the Genesis of Operation OVERLORD" (Naval Institute Press, 2020)
62 hours 18 mins; October 05, 2020
Roman Deininger, "Markus Söder: The Shadow Chancellor" (Droemer Knauer, 2020)
37 mins; September 23, 2020
Justin Q. Olmstead, "The United States' Entry into the First World War: The Role of British and German Diplomacy" (Boydell Press, 2019)
41 mins; September 22, 2020
Julia Sneeringer, "A Social History of Early Rock ‘n’ Roll in Germany: Hamburg from Burlesque to The Beatles, 1956-69" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
72 hours 5 mins; September 18, 2020
T. P. Kaplan and W. Gruner, "Resisting Persecution: Jews and Their Petitions during the Holocaust" (Berghahn, 2020)
65 hours 34 mins; September 08, 2020
Helmut Walser Smith, "Germany: A Nation in its Time" (Liveright, 2020)
69 hours 53 mins; September 07, 2020
Molly Loberg, "The Struggle for the Streets of Berlin: Politics, Consumption, and Urban Space, 1914-1945" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
66 hours 6 mins; August 26, 2020
Marion Kaplan, "Hitler’s Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal" (Yale UP, 2020)
49 mins; August 14, 2020
Richard Breitman, "The Journal of Holocaust and Genocide Studies"(Oxford Academic/USHMM)
45 mins; August 07, 2020
A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler. Episode 9: Vanity of Vanities
57 mins; August 04, 2020
A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler. Episode 8: A Very Difficult Man to Kill
40 mins; July 28, 2020
Ari Linden, "Karl Kraus and The Discourse of Modernity" (Northwestern UP, 2020)
53 mins; July 24, 2020
Roger Moorhouse, "Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II" (Basic Books, 2020)
45 mins; July 22, 2020
A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler. Episode 7: The Christ Vision
58 mins; July 21, 2020
Erik Grimmer-Solem, "Learning Empire: Globalization and the German Quest for World Status, 1875-1919"(Cambridge UP, 2019)
81 hours 42 mins; July 16, 2020
A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler. Episode 6: Negative Interest
45 mins; July 14, 2020
Sabine Hildebrandt, "The Anatomy of Murder: Ethical Transgressions and Anatomical Science during the Third Reich" (Berghahn, 2017)
25 mins; July 09, 2020
Francine Hirsch, "Soviet Judgement at Nuremberg" (Oxford UP, 2020)
84 hours 55 mins; July 09, 2020
Luca Scholz, "Borders and Freedom of Movement in the Holy Roman Empire" (Oxford UP, 2020)
64 hours 7 mins; July 09, 2020
A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler. Episode 5: The Slavonic Josephus
41 mins; July 07, 2020
Stephan Talty, "The Good Assassin" (HMH, 2020)
41 mins; July 06, 2020
Hope M. Harrison, "After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
74 hours 7 mins; July 06, 2020
Women’s Coats and Beach Cabanas in Light of the History of Religions; or, The Nebbish Philologist.
46 mins; June 30, 2020
Theodor Adorno, "The Authoritarian Personality" (Verso, 2019)
74 hours 24 mins; June 30, 2020
Richard Carswell, "The Fall of France in the Second World War: History and Memory" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
58 mins; June 25, 2020
Oded Y. Steinberg, "Anglo-German Thought in the Victorian Era" (U Penn Press, 2019)
46 mins; June 25, 2020
A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler. Episode 3: Eisler vs. the Flat Earth
53 mins; June 23, 2020
A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler. Episode 3: Eisler vs. the Flat Earth
53 mins; June 23, 2020
Gabriel Finder, "Justice behind the Iron Curtain: Nazis on Trial in Communist Poland" (U Toronto Press, 2018)
83 hours 19 mins; June 22, 2020
Minou Arjomand, "Staged: Show Trials, Political Theater, and the Aesthetics of Judgment" (Columbia UP, 2020)
76 hours 17 mins; June 18, 2020
A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler. Episode 2: Value Theory
49 mins; June 16, 2020
John K. Roth, "Sources of Holocaust Insight: Learning and Teaching about the Genocide" (Cascade Books, 2020)
75 hours 5 mins; June 15, 2020
Why Did the Allies Win World War One?
37 mins; June 11, 2020
A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler. Episode 1: Man into Wolf
49 mins; June 09, 2020
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
120 hours 37 mins; June 02, 2020
Eric Lee, "The Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler's Revenge, April–May 1945" (Greenhill Books, 2020)
53 mins; June 02, 2020
Brian Crim, "Planet Auschwitz: Holocaust Representation in Science Fiction and Horror Film and Television" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
66 hours 18 mins; May 29, 2020
Björn Krondorfer, "The Holocaust and Masculinities: Critical Inquiries into the Presence and Absence of Men" (SUNY Press, 2020)
49 mins; May 26, 2020
Matthew Miller, "The German Epic in the Cold War: Peter Weiss, Uwe Johnson, and Alexander Kluge" (Northwestern UP, 2018)
69 hours 37 mins; May 07, 2020
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
59 mins; April 28, 2020
David Kettler and Thomas Wheatland, "Learning From Franz L. Neumann" (Anthem Press, 2019)
60 hours 37 mins; April 22, 2020
Gavriel Rosenfeld, "The Fourth Reich: The Specter of Nazism from World War II to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
53 mins; April 10, 2020
Carole Fink, "West Germany and Israel: Foreign Relations, Domestic Politics and the Cold War" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
61 hours 55 mins; April 07, 2020
Peter Fritzsche, "Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich" (Basic Books, 2020)
64 hours 32 mins; April 06, 2020
Alexander Watson, "The Fortress: The Siege of Przemysl and the Making of Europe's Bloodlands" (Basic Books, 2020)
53 mins; April 06, 2020
Kevin O'Connor, "The House of Hemp and Butter: A History of Old Riga" (NIUP, 2019)
62 hours 33 mins; April 01, 2020
Great Books: Amir Eshel on Paul Celan's Poetry
58 mins; March 31, 2020
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
51 mins; March 30, 2020
David Stahel, "Retreat from Moscow: A New History of Germany's Winter Campaign, 1941-1942" (FSG, 2019)
75 hours 15 mins; March 27, 2020
Steven Seegel, "Map Men: Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
46 mins; March 24, 2020
Mathias Haeussler, "Helmut Schmidt and British-German Relations: A European Misunderstanding" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
37 mins; March 19, 2020
Melissa Kravetz, "Women Doctors in Weimar and Nazi Germany: Maternalism, Eugenics and Professional Identity" (U Toronto Press, 2019)
60 hours 20 mins; March 17, 2020
Paul Hanebrink, "A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism" (Harvard UP, 2018)
37 mins; March 16, 2020
Michael O’Sullivan, "Disruptive Power: Catholic Women, Miracles, and Politics in Modern Germany, 1918-1965" (U Toronto Press, 2018)
77 hours 56 mins; March 13, 2020
The Origins of World War One
67 hours 54 mins; March 12, 2020
Steve Vogel, "Betrayal in Berlin: The True Story of the Cold War's Most Audacious Espionage Operation" (Custom House, 2019)
61 hours 58 mins; March 11, 2020
Aimee Fox, "Learning to Fight: Military Innovation and Change in the British Army, 1914-1918" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
34 mins; March 05, 2020
Steven Ross and Wolf Gruner, "New Perspectives on Krystallnacht" (Purdue UP, 2019)
61 hours 6 mins; March 05, 2020
Richard Polt, "Time and Trauma: Thinking Through Heidegger in the Thirties" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020)
58 mins; March 04, 2020
Kathy Peiss, "The Information Hunters" (Oxford UP, 2019)
34 mins; March 04, 2020
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
42 mins; February 25, 2020
Alex J. Kay and David Stahel, "Mass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europe" (Indiana UP, 2018)
42 mins; February 11, 2020
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
36 mins; January 30, 2020
Wulf Gruner, "The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia: Czech Initiatives, German Policies, Jewish Responses" (Berghahn Books, 2019)
63 hours 24 mins; January 23, 2020
Astrid M. Eckert, "West Germany and the Iron Curtain: Environment, Economy, and Culture in the Borderlands" (Oxford UP, 2019)
63 hours 0 mins; January 22, 2020
Lori Gemeiner-Bihler, "Cities of Refuge: German Jews in London and New York, 1935-1945" (SUNY Press, 2019)
67 hours 25 mins; January 16, 2020
Tobias Boes, "Thomas Mann's War: Literature, Politics, and the World Republic of Letters" (Cornell UP, 2019)
89 hours 54 mins; January 14, 2020
Graham T. Clews, "Churchill’s Phoney War: A Study in Folly and Frustration" (Naval Institute Press, 2019)
60 hours 45 mins; January 13, 2020
Sarah Wobick-Segev, "Homes Away from Home: Jewish Belonging in 20th-Century Paris, Berlin, and St. Petersburg" (Stanford UP, 2018)
68 hours 49 mins; January 09, 2020
Brendan Simms, "Hitler: A Global Biography" (Basic Books, 2019)
29 mins; January 08, 2020
Frederick Beiser, "Hermann Cohen: An Intellectual Biography" (Oxford UP, 2018)
53 mins; January 06, 2020
Christopher A. Molnar, "Memory, Politics, and Yugoslav Migrations to Postwar Germany" (Indiana UP, 2018)
70 hours 26 mins; January 03, 2020
The Treaty of Versailles One Hundred Years On
39 mins; December 27, 2019
April Eisman, "Bernhard Heisig and the Fight for Modern Art in East Germany" (Camden House, 2018)
57 mins; December 20, 2019
Thomas KĂŒhne, "The Rise and Fall of Comradeship: Hitler’s Soldiers, Male Bonding and Mass Violence in the Twentieth Century" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
68 hours 18 mins; December 17, 2019
Jelena Subotić, "Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism" (Cornell UP, 2019)
50 mins; December 12, 2019
Chet Van Duzer, "Martin WaldseemĂŒller’s 'Carta marina' of 1516: Study and Transcription of the Long Legends" (Springer, 2019)
59 mins; December 06, 2019
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
57 mins; December 03, 2019
Philipp Stelzel, "History after Hitler: A Transatlantic Enterprise" (U Penn Press, 2018)
60 hours 26 mins; December 02, 2019
Claudia Moscovici, "Holocaust Memories: A Survey of Holocaust Memoirs, Histories, Novels, and Films" (Hamilton, 2019)
30 mins; December 02, 2019
Laura K. T. Stokes, "Fanny Hensel: A Research and Information Guide" (Routledge, 2019)
51 mins; November 28, 2019
C. Browning, P. Hayes, R. Hilberg, "German Railroads, Jewish Souls" (Berghahn Books, 2019)
52 mins; November 27, 2019