CFP: Western Slavic and Eurasian Association Annual Conference (Portland, 1-4 April 2020)
The Call for Papers and registration are now open for the annual conference of the Western Slavic and Euras
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JOB: Tenure-Track Professor in Modern German History, Havard University
TENURE-TRACK PROFESSOR IN MODERN GERMAN HISTORY
Harvard University
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Department of History
ANN: To attend in Göttingen, 12-13 September: "Striking Back? On Imperial Fantasies and Fantasies of Empire"
Dear Colleagues,
Although this is rather late notice, I wanted to extend a warm invitation to my research group's upcoming conference, "Striking Back? On Imperial Fantasies and Fantasies of Empire," which will convene in Göttingen, Germany, on the 12th and 13th of September. You can find the full programme for the conference on our website, at
CFP: Modernizing the unmodern: Europe’s imperial monarchies and their path to modernity in the 19th and 20th centuries
In the past decade, historians (e.g. Sellin 2011) have established the manifold strategies with which monarchs across Europe sought to generate popular political legitimacy for their exalted positions in the long century between the French Revolution and the First World War.
ARTICLE ALERT: Sounds of Loss: Church Bells, Place, and Time in the Habsburg Empire During the First World War
Claire Morelon. Sounds of Loss: Church Bells, Place, and Time in the Habsburg Empire During the First World War. Past & Present. Vol 244, Issue 1, 2019, Pp. 195–234. DOI: doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtz006
CFP: Apply for the 2020 Lessons and Legacies Conference on the Holocaust XVI
Call for Papers
Lessons and Legacies Conference on the Holocaust XVI
The Holocaust: Rethinking Paradigms in Research and Representation
7-10 November 2020 (Saturday-Tuesday)
Ottawa, Canada
Carleton University and University of Ottawa
CFP: What was the Habsburg Monarchy? 16th–20th centuries, Vienna, ÖAW, October 2020
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CfP: Renaissance Society of America Session: "From Italy to the World: the Reception of Cruciform Planimetry in the 16th Century Hospital Architecture" (April 2-4, 2020)
Dear colleagues,
In the framework of the project "Hospitalis - Hospital architecture in Portugal at the dawn of Modernity: identification, characterization and contextualization" (PTDC/ART-HIS/30808/2017) (https://projecthospitalis.net), we are trying to put together a session to propose to the RSA 2020 (https://www.rsa.org), 2-4 April 2020 in Philadelphia.
ARTICLE ALERT: Indifferent but Mobilized: Rural Politics during the Interwar Period in Eastern and Western Europe
Daniel Brett (2019) Indifferent but Mobilized: Rural Politics during the Interwar Period in Eastern and Western Europe, Central Europe, DOI: 10.1080/14790963.2019.1624461
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14790963.2019.1624461
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Recent Reviews
Reviewer:
Cathie Carmichael
Carmichael on Gerlach, 'The Economy of Ethnic Cleansing: The Transformation of the German-Czech Borderlands after World War II'
David W. Gerlach. The Economy of Ethnic Cleansing: The Transformation of the German-Czech Borderlands after World War II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 308 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-19619-3.
Reviewed by Cathie Carmichael (University of East Anglia) Published on HABSBURG (May, 2019) Commissioned by Borislav Chernev
Reviewer:
Matei Costinescu
Costinescu on Livezeanu and Klimó, 'The Routledge History of East Central Europe since 1700'
Irina Livezeanu, Árpád von Klimó, eds. The Routledge History of East Central Europe since 1700. Routledge Histories Series. New York: Routledge, 2017. xvi + 522 pp. $245.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-415-58433-3.
Reviewed by Matei Costinescu (Independent Scholar) Published on HABSBURG (May, 2019) Commissioned by Borislav Chernev
Reviewer:
Tim Kirk
Kirk on Haider, 'Wien 1918: Agonie der Kaiserstadt'
Edgard Haider. Wien 1918: Agonie der Kaiserstadt. Weimar, Germany: Boehlau Verlag, 2017. 418 pp. $37.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-205-20486-2.
Reviewed by Tim Kirk (Newcastle University) Published on HABSBURG (April, 2019) Commissioned by Borislav Chernev
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=53044
Reviewer:
Aleksandra Witczak Haugstad
Witczak Haugstad on Trojanowska and Niżyńska and Czapliński, 'Being Poland: A New History of Polish Literature and Culture since 1918'
Tamara Trojanowska, Joanna Niżyńska, Przemysław Czapliński. Being Poland: A New History of Polish Literature and Culture since 1918. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. 856 pp. $125.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4426-5018-3.
Reviewed by Aleksandra Witczak Haugstad (Research Council of Norway) Published on HABSBURG (April, 2019) Commissioned by Borislav Chernev
Reviewer:
Roland Clark
Clark on Goldstein and Goldstein, 'The Holocaust in Croatia'
Ivo Goldstein, Slavko Goldstein. The Holocaust in Croatia. Russian and East European Studies Series. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. 736 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8229-4451-5.
Reviewed by Roland Clark (University of Liverpool) Published on HABSBURG (March, 2019) Commissioned by Borislav Chernev
Reviewer:
Alexey Miller
Miller on Hastings, 'Nationalism in Modern Europe: Politics, Identity, and Belonging since the French Revolution'
Derek Hastings. Nationalism in Modern Europe: Politics, Identity, and Belonging since the French Revolution. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. vii + 345 pp. $26.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4742-1339-4; $88.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4742-1338-7.
Reviewed by Alexey Miller (European University at St. Petersburg) Published on HABSBURG (September, 2018) Commissioned by Borislav Chernev
Reviewer:
Günter J. Bischof
Bischof on Kuzmany and Garstenauer, 'Aufnahmeland Österreich: Über den Umgang mit Massenflucht seit dem 18. Jahrhundert'
Börries Kuzmany, Rita Garstenauer, eds. Aufnahmeland Österreich: Über den Umgang mit Massenflucht seit dem 18. Jahrhundert. Vienna: Mandelbaum Verlag, 2017. 262 pp. EUR 19.90 (paper), ISBN 978-3-85476-816-6.
Reviewed by Günter J. Bischof (University of New Orleans) Published on HABSBURG (August, 2018) Commissioned by Borislav Chernev
Reviewer:
Mark Von Hagen
Von Hagen on Brogi Bercoff and Pavlyshyn and Plokhy, 'Ukraine and Europe: Cultural Encounters and Negotiations'
Giovanna Brogi Bercoff, Marko Pavlyshyn, Serhii Plokhy, ed. Ukraine and Europe: Cultural Encounters and Negotiations. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. 480 pp. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4875-0090-0.
Reviewed by Mark Von Hagen (Arizona State University) Published on HABSBURG (June, 2018) Commissioned by Borislav Chernev
Reviewer:
Dorothy Barenscott
Barenscott on Cuevas-Wolf and Poggi, 'Promote, Tolerate, Ban: Art and Culture in Cold War Hungary'
Cristina Cuevas-Wolf, Isotta Poggi, eds. Promote, Tolerate, Ban: Art and Culture in Cold War Hungary. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2018. Illustrations. 160 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-60606-539-6.
Reviewed by Dorothy Barenscott (Kwantlen Polytechnic University) Published on HABSBURG (June, 2018) Commissioned by Borislav Chernev
Reviewer:
Petru Szedlacsek
Szedlacsek on Török, 'Exploring Transylvania: Geographies of Knowledge and Entangled Histories in a Multiethnic Province, 1790-1918'
Borbála Zsuzsanna Török. Exploring Transylvania: Geographies of Knowledge and Entangled Histories in a Multiethnic Province, 1790-1918. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2015. 286 pp. $142.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-90-04-30304-1; $142.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-90-04-30305-8.
Reviewed by Petru Szedlacsek (Max Planck Institute for Human Development) Published on HABSBURG (May, 2018) Commissioned by Borislav Chernev