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EUROPEAN HISTORY / STUDIES
Northeast Modern Language Association: 50th Anniversary Convention
Convention Theme: Transnational Spaces-Intersections of Cultures, Languages, and Peoples
Washington, D.C., March 21-24, 2019
Panel: The Media of Transnational Memory
This panel addresses the theme of the 2019 NeMLA convention to consider the transnational turns in both German studies and memory studies that have prompted a rethinking of national memories in the context of transnational connectedness.
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Call for Papers, Renaissance Society of America Conference, Toronto, ON, Canada, March 17-19, 2019
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EUROPEAN HISTORY / STUDIES
Conference Report
Alternative Realities: Utopian Thought in Times of Political Rupture (April 16-17, 2018)
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Ralph Jessen, Lydia Nembach-Langer, eds. Transformations of Retailing in Europe after 1945. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Pub., 2012. xvi + 234 pp. GBP 74.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4094-2444-4; ISBN 978-1-4094-2445-1.
Reviewed by Robert P. Stephens (Virginia Tech) Published on H-German (April, 2015) Commissioned by Chad Ross
A Close Examination of Postwar Retailing
Arnd Bauerkämper, Hartmut Kaelble, eds. Gesellschaft in der europäischen Integration seit den 1950er Jahren: Migration – Konsum – Sozialpolitik – Repräsentationen. Studies on the History of European Integration Series. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012. 187 pp. $54.00 (paper), ISBN 978-3-515-10045-8.
Thomas Trezise. Witnessing Witnessing: On the Reception of Holocaust Survivor Testimony. New York: Fordham University Press, 2013. 336 pp. $26.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8232-4448-5.
Reviewed by Lily E. Hirsch (California State University-Bakersfield) Published on H-German (March, 2015) Commissioned by Chad Ross
Trauma and Biography
Thomas Doherty. Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939. Film and Culture Series. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. 448 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-16392-7; $22.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-231-16393-4.
Reviewed by Tom Saunders (University of Victoria) Published on H-German (March, 2015) Commissioned by Chad Ross
Business Strategies, Politics and Morality: American Cinema and Nazi Germany
Martin Schaad. Dann geh doch rüber - Über die Mauer in den Osten. Berlin: Ch Links Verlag, 2009. x + 208 pp. EUR 4.95 (paper), ISBN 978-3-86153-516-4.
Reviewed by Christiane Grieb (University College London) Published on H-German (March, 2015) Commissioned by Shannon Nagy
Stasiobjekt “Mauer”: Menschen im Konflikt zwischen Mauer und Souveränität
Leighton S. James. Witnessing the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in German Central Europe. War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850 Series. London: Palgrave Macmillan. xiii + 281 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-230-24917-2.
Reviewed by Robert D. Billinger, Jr. (Wingate University) Published on H-German (March, 2015) Commissioned by Chad Ross
Contemporary Accounts of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in German Central Europe
Ronny Loewy, Katharina Rauschenberger. "Der Letzte der Ungerechten": Der "Judenälteste" Benjamin Murmelstein in Filmen 1942-1975. Wissenschaftliche Reihe des Fritz Bauer Instituts Series. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 2011. 208 pp. EUR 24.90 (paper), ISBN 978-3-593-39491-6.
Reviewed by Margrit Frolich (University of California San Diego) Published on H-German (February, 2015) Commissioned by Chad Ross
"Der Letzte der Ungerechten"
Lewis H. Siegelbaum, ed. The Socialist Car: Automobility in the Eastern Bloc. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011. vii + 242 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8014-4991-8; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8014-7738-6.
Reviewed by Zachary Doleshal (Sam Houston State University) Published on H-German (February, 2015) Commissioned by Shannon Nagy
Ulrike Weckel. Beschämende Bilder: Deutsche Reaktionen auf alliierte Dokumentarfilme über befreite Konzentrationslager. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012. 672 pp. EUR 76.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-515-10113-4.
Reviewed by Steven R. Cerf (Bowdoin College) Published on H-German (February, 2015) Commissioned by Chad Ross
The Showing of Allied Documentary Atrocity Films in 1945 and 1946 and the Shaming of Three Groups of German Nationals
Adam Kożuchowski. The Afterlife of Austria-Hungary: The Image of the Habsburg Monarchy in Interwar Europe. Russian and East European Studies Series. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013. 232 pp. $25.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8229-6265-6.
Reviewed by John Fahey (Purdue University) Published on H-German (February, 2015) Commissioned by Chad Ross
Finding Meaning in Austria-Hungary’s Postmortem
