New Books in German Studies
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Mark Edward Ruff, “The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany, 1945-1980” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
65 hours 21 mins; February 21, 2018
Jeffrey Shandler, “Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age: Survivors’ Stories and New Media Practices” (Stanford UP, 2017)
55 mins; February 19, 2018
Mahon Murphy, “Colonial Captivity during the First World War: Internment and the Fall of the German Empire, 1914-1919” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
58 mins; February 14, 2018
David Gerlach, “The Economy of Ethnic Cleansing: The Transformation of German-Czech Borderlands after World War II” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
60 hours 55 mins; February 05, 2018
Roger Frie, “Not in My Family: German Memory and Responsibility After the Holocaust” (Oxford UP, 2017)
66 hours 24 mins; January 30, 2018
Omer Bartov, “Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz” (Simon and Schuster, 2018)
65 hours 48 mins; January 30, 2018
Noam Zadoff, “Gershom Scholem: From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back” (Brandeis UP, 2018)
74 hours 11 mins; January 23, 2018
Margarete Fuchs, “The Moving View: The Gaze in the Modern German Literature” (Rombach Verlag, 2014)
20 mins; January 22, 2018
Lena Wetenkamp, “Europe Narrated, Contextualized and Remembered” (Koenigshausen and Neumann, 2017)
32 mins; January 16, 2018
Wolfgang Seibel, “Persecution and Rescue: The Politics of the Final Solution in France, 1940-1944” (U Michigan Press, 2017)
62 hours 5 mins; January 09, 2018
Vanya E. Bellinger, “Marie von Clausewitz: The Woman Behind the Making of On War” (Oxford UP, 2016)
41 mins; January 03, 2018
Martin Kalb, “Coming of Age: Constructing and Controlling Youth in Munich, 1942-1973” (Berghahn Books, 2016)
45 mins; January 03, 2018
Tanja Angela Kunz , “Sehnsucht nach dem Guten” (Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2017)
35 mins; December 24, 2017
Robbert-Jan Adriaansen, “The Rhythm of Eternity: The German Youth Movement and the Experience of the Past, 1900-1933” (Berghahn Books, 2015)
63 hours 15 mins; December 19, 2017
Steven P. Remy, “The Malmedy Massacre: The War Crimes Trial Controversy” (Harvard UP, 2017)
56 mins; December 13, 2017
Sareeta Amrute, “Encoding Race, Encoding Class: Indian IT Workers in Berlin” (Duke UP, 2016)
48 mins; December 13, 2017
Lars Rensmann, “The Politics of Unreason: The Frankfurt School and the Origins of Modern Antisemitism” (SUNY Press, 2017)
60 hours 59 mins; December 11, 2017
Christian Kirchmeier “Morality and Literature: A Historical Typology” (Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2013)
30 mins; December 01, 2017
Guenter Lewy, “Perpetrators: The World of the Holocaust Killers” (Oxford UP, 2017)
40 mins; November 29, 2017
Andrew S. Tompkins, “Better Active than Radioactive! Anti-Nuclear Protest in 1970s France and West Germany” (Oxford UP, 2016)
56 mins; November 28, 2017
Lawrence R. Douglas, “The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial” (Princeton UP, 2016)
47 mins; November 27, 2017
Andreas Gehrlach, “Thieves: Stealing in Literature, Philosophy, and Myth” (Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2016)
28 mins; November 24, 2017
Pamela Swett, “Selling under the Swastika: Advertising and Commercial Culture in Nazi Germany” (Stanford UP, 2013)
56 mins; November 16, 2017
Nicholas O’Shaughnessy, “Marketing the Third Reich: Persuasion, Packaging, and Propaganda” (Routledge, 2017)
40 mins; November 06, 2017
Theodore Vial, “Modern Religion, Modern Race” (Oxford UP, 2016)
49 mins; November 06, 2017
Christian Ingrao, “Believe and Destroy: Intellectuals in the SS War Machine” (Polity Press, 2015)
57 mins; October 26, 2017
Marion Deshmukh, “Max Liebermann: Modern Art and Modern Germany” (Routledge, 2015)
68 hours 15 mins; October 17, 2017
Rachel Seelig, “Strangers in Berlin: Modern Jewish Literature between East and West, 1919-1933” (U. Michigan Press, 2016)
33 mins; September 25, 2017
Scott Moranda, “The People’s Own Landscape: Nature, Tourism and Dictatorship in East Germany” (U. Michigan Press, 2014)
47 mins; August 19, 2017
Alice Weinreb, “Modern Hungers: Food and Power in Twentieth-Century Germany” (Oxford UP, 2017)
55 mins; August 13, 2017
Albert Wu, “From Christ to Confucius: German Missionaries, Chinese Christians, and the Globalization of Christianity, 1860-1950” (Yale UP, 2016)
58 mins; July 19, 2017
Eric Kurlander, “Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich” (Yale UP, 2017)
53 mins; July 11, 2017
Amir Engel, “Gershom Scholem: An Intellectual Biography” (U. Chicago Press, 2017)
38 mins; May 15, 2017
Leonard Barkan, “Berlin for Jews: A Twenty-First Century Companion” (U. Chicago Press, 2016)
39 mins; May 08, 2017
Tania Munz, “The Dancing Bees: Karl von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language” (U of Chicago Press, 2016)
63 hours 16 mins; April 25, 2017
James Q. Whitman, “Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law” (Princeton UP, 2017)
49 mins; April 12, 2017
Richard Weikart, “Hitler’s Religion: The Twisted Beliefs that Drove the Third Reich” (Regnery History, 2016)
62 hours 37 mins; March 14, 2017
Norman Ohler, “Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017)
52 mins; March 08, 2017
Eve Rosenhaft and Robbie Aitken, “Black Germany: The Making and Unmaking of a Diaspora Community, 1884-1960” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
54 mins; February 04, 2017
Stephen Brockmann, “The Writers’ State: Constructing East German Literature, 1945-1959” (Camden House, 2015)
52 mins; January 27, 2017
Benjamin Martin, “The Nazi-Fascist New Order for European Culture” (Harvard UP, 2016)
60 hours 1 min; November 29, 2016
Colin Holmes, “Searching for Lord Haw-Haw: The Political Lives of William Joyce” (Routledge, 2016)
52 mins; November 18, 2016
Fred Amram, “We’re in America Now: A Survivor’s Stories” (Holy Cow! Press, 2016)
33 mins; October 14, 2016
Carsten Schapkow, “Role Model and Countermodel: The Golden Age of Iberian Jewry and German Jewish Culture during the Era of Emancipation” (Lexington Books, 2015)
51 mins; September 19, 2016
Greg Eghigian, “The Corrigible and the Incorrigible: Science, Medicine, and the Convict in Twentieth-Century Germany” (U. of Michigan Press, 2015)
49 mins; September 09, 2016
Lauren Faulkner Rossi, “Wehrmacht Priests: Catholicism and the Nazi War of Annihilation” (Harvard UP, 2015)
63 hours 38 mins; August 16, 2016
John Freed, “Frederick Barbarossa: The Prince and the Myth” (Yale UP, 2016)
69 hours 50 mins; July 15, 2016
Sven-Erik Rose, “Jewish Philosophical Politics in Germany, 1789-1848” (Brandeis UP, 2014)
32 mins; June 19, 2016
Stefan Ihrig, “Justifying Genocide: Germany and the Armenians from Bismarck to Hitler” (Harvard UP, 2016)
54 mins; June 18, 2016
Robert Holub, “Nietzsche’s Jewish Problem: Between Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism” (Princeton UP, 2016)
34 mins; May 09, 2016
John M. Efron, “German Jewry and the Allure of the Sephardic” (Princeton UP, 2016)
44 mins; April 28, 2016
Suzanne Brown-Fleming, “Nazi Persecution and Postwar Repercussions” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016)
43 mins; March 31, 2016
Alan McDougall, “The People’s Game: Football, State and Society in East Germany” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
49 mins; March 24, 2016
Stefan Ihrig, “Ataturk in the Nazi Imagination” (Harvard UP, 2014)
57 mins; February 24, 2016
Timothy Snyder, “Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning” (Tim Duggan Books, 2015)
78 hours 55 mins; January 28, 2016
Kim Wunschmann, “Before Auschwitz: Jewish Prisoners in the Prewar Concentration Camps” (Harvard University Press 2015)
32 mins; December 12, 2015
Nick Hopwood, “Haeckel’s Embryos: Images, Evolution, and Fraud” (University of Chicago Press, 2015)
46 mins; November 29, 2015
Nicholas Stargardt, “The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945” (Basic Books, 2015)
70 hours 49 mins; November 18, 2015
Shelly Cline, “Women at Work: The SS Aufseherin and the Gendered Perpetration of the Holocaust” (Ph. D. Diss, U of Kansas, 2014)
55 mins; September 22, 2015
Kelly J. Whitmer, “The Halle Orphanage as Scientific Community: Observation, Eclecticism, and Pietism in the Early Enlightenment” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)
69 hours 12 mins; August 30, 2015
Dan Stone, “The Liberation of the Camps: The End of the Holocaust and its Aftermath” (Yale UP, 2015)
61 hours 13 mins; August 25, 2015
Nikolaus Wachsmann, “KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps” (FSG, 2015)
58 mins; August 10, 2015
Sarah Helm, “Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women” (Nan A. Talese, 2015)
87 hours 32 mins; August 01, 2015
Geoff Megargee, ed., “The USHMM Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos,” Vols. 1 and 2 (Indiana UP, 2009 and 2012)
55 mins; July 21, 2015
Anton Weiss-Wendt, “The Nazi Genocide of the Roma” (Berghahn, 2015) and “Racial Science in Hitler’s New Europe” (U of Nebraska Press, 2013)
77 hours 13 mins; July 06, 2015
J. Laurence Hare, “Excavating Nations: Archaeology, Museums, and the German-Danish Borderlands” (U of Toronto Press, 2015)
52 mins; June 28, 2015
Emily Kuriloff, “Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Third Reich” (Routledge, 2013)
53 mins; June 02, 2015
Juergen Matthaus et al., “War, Pacification and Mass Murder, 1939: The Einsatzgruppen in Poland” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014)
52 mins; May 18, 2015
Michael Leggiere, “Blucher: Scourge of Napoleon” (U Oklahoma Press, 2014)
57 mins; May 01, 2015
Thomas Kemple, “Intellectual Work and the Spirit of Capitalism: Weber’s Calling” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
71 hours 10 mins; April 28, 2015
Michael Gorra, “The Bells in Their Silence: Travels through Germany” (Princeton UP, 2006)
57 mins; April 24, 2015
Udi Greenberg, “The Weimar Century: German Emigres and the Ideological Foundation of the Cold War” (Princeton UP, 2015)
48 mins; March 09, 2015
Alon Confino, “A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide” (Yale UP, 2014)
52 mins; March 01, 2015
Martin Shuster, “Autonomy after Auschwitz: Adorno, German Idealism and Modernity” (U of Chicago Press, 2014)
47 mins; February 02, 2015
Anne Knowles, Mastering Iron (U of Chicago Press, 2013) and Geographies of the Holocaust (Indiana UP, 2014)
48 mins; January 30, 2015
Sean Forner, “German Intellectuals and the Challenge of Democratic Renewal: Culture and Politics after 1945” (Cambridge University Press, 2014)
78 hours 52 mins; January 30, 2015
Thomas Kuehne, “Belonging and Genocide: Hitler’s Community, 1918-1945” (Yale UP, 2013)
69 hours 50 mins; December 23, 2014
Michelle Moyd, “Violent Intermediaries: African Soldiers, Conquest, and Everyday Colonialism in German East Africa” (Ohio UP, 2014)
66 hours 18 mins; December 04, 2014
Todd H. Weir, “Secularism and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Germany” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
65 hours 44 mins; December 01, 2014
Edward Ross Dickinson, “Sex, Freedom and Power in Imperial Germany 1880-1914” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
74 hours 56 mins; November 18, 2014
Thomas Kohut, “A German Generation: An Experiential History of the Twentieth Century” (Yale UP, 2012),
66 hours 57 mins; October 06, 2014
Anson Rabinbach and Sander Gilman, “The Third Reich Sourcebook” (U California Press, 2013)
55 mins; September 26, 2014
David B. Dennis, “Inhumanities: Nazi Interpretations of Western Culture” (Cambridge UP, 2012)
55 mins; August 08, 2014
Andrew Demshuk, “The Lost German East: Forced Migration and the Politics of Memory, 1945-1970” (Cambridge UP, 2012)
71 hours 55 mins; July 23, 2014
Michael Bryant, “Eyewitness to Genocide: The Operation Reinhard Death Camp Trials, 1955-1966” (University of Tennessee Press, 2014)
77 hours 23 mins; July 15, 2014
Ari Joskowicz, “The Modernity of Others: Jewish Anti-Catholicism in Germany and France” (Stanford UP, 2014)
78 hours 30 mins; July 15, 2014
Wendy Lower, “Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013)
59 mins; July 07, 2014
Filip Slaveski, “The Soviet Occupation of Germany” (Cambridge UP, 2013)
70 hours 29 mins; July 02, 2014
Barry Rubin and Wolfgang G. Schwanitz, “Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East” (Yale UP, 2014)
61 hours 49 mins; May 11, 2014
Richard Weikart, “Hitler’s Ethic: The Nazi Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress” (Palgrave MacMillan, 2011)
55 mins; May 03, 2014
Nitzan Lebovic, “The Philosophy of Life and Death: Ludwig Klages and the Rise of a Nazi Biopolitics” (Palgrave, 2013)
71 hours 58 mins; February 14, 2014
H. Glenn Penny, “Kindred by Choice: Germans and American Indians since 1800” (UNC Press, 2013)
50 mins; February 04, 2014
Robert J. Richards, “Was Hitler a Darwinian?: Disputed Questions in the History of Evolutionary Theory” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
62 hours 4 mins; January 21, 2014
Gabriel Finkelstein, “Emil du Bois-Reymond: Neuroscience, Self, and Society in Nineteenth-Century Germany” (MIT Press, 2013)
75 hours 1 min; January 14, 2014
Waitman Beorn, “Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus” (Harvard UP, 2013)
78 hours 23 mins; January 10, 2014
Todd H. Weir, “Monism: Science, Philosophy, Religion, and the History of a Worldview” (Palgrave, 2012)
53 mins; November 25, 2013
John Roth and Peter Hayes, “The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies” (Oxford UP, 2010)
63 hours 58 mins; November 20, 2013
Karrin Hanshew, “Terror and Democracy in West Germany” (Cambridge UP, 2012)
51 mins; November 16, 2013
Arnie Bernstein, “Swastika Nation: Fritz Kuhn and the Rise and Fall of the German-American Bund” (St. Martin’s Press, 2013)
55 mins; October 31, 2013
Jeff Bowersox, “Raising Germans in the Age of Empire: Youth and Colonial Culture, 1871-1914” (Oxford UP, 2013)
61 hours 30 mins; October 23, 2013