ANN: New Books in German History and German Studies (June 2018)
New Books in German History and German Studies (June 2018)
Recent Discussions
ANN: H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-German: 28 May - 4 June 2018
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 28 May 2018 to 4 June 2018. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-German. See the H-Net Job Guide website at http://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information. To contact the Job Guide, write to jobguide@mail.h-net.msu.edu, or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 am and 5 pm US Eastern time.
EUROPEAN HISTORY / STUDIES
CFP(conference): Sites of Transit in Europe from WW2 to the present. History, Spaces, Memories (new deadline: June 17th)
Sites of Transit in Europe from WW2 to the present.
History, Spaces, Memories
Fondazione Campo Fossoli (Carpi, Modena - Italy)
October 4-5, 2018
The conference aims to analyse the roles and uses of transit camps and sites in the European historical, geographical and cultural context from WW2 to today from a multidisciplinary and comparative perspective. The two-day conference is organized by the Fondazione Campo Fossoli, whose mission is to preserve and transmit the history and memories of this Italian site of transit.
CFP: PCA/ACA National Conference, Washington, D.C., 17-20 April, 2019 (Deadline: Oct. 1, 2018)
CFP: German Culture Studies, PCA (Washington, DC, 17-20 April 2019)
POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION & AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION
ANN: Parker-Schmitt Dissertation Award
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Type:
Prize
Date:
August 1, 2018
ANN: Past Rosenberg Prize Winners Sought
The Central European History Society (CEHS, neé Conference Group for Central European History, CGCEH) seeks information on past winners of the group's book prize (before the mid-1980s).
Pages
Recent Reviews
Reviewer:
Lily E. Hirsch
Hirsch on Thomas Trezise, 'Witnessing Witnessing: On the Reception of Holocaust Survivor Testimony'
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
Reviewer:
Tom Saunders
Saunders on Doherty, 'Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939'
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
Reviewer:
Christiane Grieb
Grieb on Schaad, 'Dann geh doch rüber - Über die Mauer in den Osten'
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
Reviewer:
Robert D. Billinger, Jr.
Billinger, Jr. on James, 'Witnessing the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in German Central Europe'
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
Reviewer:
Margrit Frolich
Frolich on Loewy and Rauschenberger, '"Der Letzte der Ungerechten": Der "Judenälteste" Benjamin Murmelstein in Filmen 1942-1975'
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"
Reviewer:
Zachary Doleshal
Doleshal on Siegelbaum, 'The Socialist Car: Automobility in the Eastern Bloc'
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
Reviewer:
Steven R. Cerf
Cerf on Weckel, 'Beschämende Bilder: Deutsche Reaktionen auf alliierte Dokumentarfilme über befreite Konzentrationslager'
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
Reviewer:
John Fahey
Fahey on Kożuchowski, 'The Afterlife of Austria-Hungary: The Image of the Habsburg Monarchy in Interwar Europe'
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
Reviewer:
Stephen J. Silvia
Silvia on Berghoff and Kocka and Ziegler, 'Business in the Age of Extremes: Essays in Modern German and Austrian Economic History'
Hartmut Berghoff, Jürgen Kocka, Dieter Ziegler, eds. Business in the Age of Extremes: Essays in Modern German and Austrian Economic History. Publications of the German Historical Institute Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. ix + 249 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-01695-8.
Reviewed by Stephen J. Silvia (American University) Published on H-German (January, 2015) Commissioned by Chad Ross
Reviewer:
Janet M. C. Walmsley
Walmsley on Swett, 'Selling under the Swastika: Advertising and Commercial Culture in Nazi Germany'
Pamela E. Swett. Selling under the Swastika: Advertising and Commercial Culture in Nazi Germany. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013. 361 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-7355-3; $65.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-8047-8883-0.
Reviewed by Janet M. C. Walmsley (George Mason University) Published on H-German (November, 2014) Commissioned by Chad Ross
How to Sell in the Hardest of Times