Damien Stankiewicz. Europe Un-Imagined: Nation and Culture at a French-German Television Channel. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. 304 pp. $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4426-2879-3.
Reviewed by Kristen Ghodsee (University of Pennsylvania) Published on H-SAE (June, 2018) Commissioned by Michael B. Munnik (Cardiff University)
Norma Bouchard, Valerio Ferme. Italy and the Mediterranean: Words, Sounds, and Images of the Post-Cold War Era. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2013. 319 pp. $84.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-137-34345-1.
Reviewed by Nick Dines (Roma Tre University) Published on H-SAE (April, 2018) Commissioned by Michael B. Munnik (Cardiff University)
Emanuela Guano. Creative Urbanity: An Italian Middle Class in the Shade of Revitalization. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 248 pp. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-4878-4.
Reviewed by Jaro Stacul (Memorial University of Newfoundland) Published on H-SAE (December, 2017) Commissioned by Michael B. Munnik
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Denis Vovchenko. Containing Balkan Nationalism: Imperial Russia and Ottoman Christians, 1856-1914. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 360 pp. $78.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-027667-6.
Reviewed by Dan Gashler (SUNY Delhi) Published on H-SAE (September, 2017) Commissioned by Michael B. Munnik
V. P. Nalivkin, Mari͡a Vladimirovna Nalivkina. Muslim Women of the Fergana Valley: A 19th-Century Ethnography from Central Asia. Edited by Marianne Kamp. Translated by Mariana Markova. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016. 231 pp. $32.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-253-02138-0.
Reviewed by Julie Billaud (University of Sussex) Published on H-SAE (May, 2017) Commissioned by Michael B. Munnik
Michael Meng, Erica Lehrer, eds. Jewish Space in Contemporary Poland. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015. 312 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-253-01503-7; $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-01500-6.
Reviewed by Jan Lorenz (Adam Mickiewicz University) Published on H-SAE (October, 2016) Commissioned by Michael B. Munnik
Edin Hajdarpasic. Whose Bosnia? Nationalism and Political Imagination in the Balkans, 1840-1914. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015. xii + 271 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8014-5371-7.
Reviewed by Azra Hromadzic (Syracuse University) Published on H-SAE (October, 2016) Commissioned by Michael B. Munnik
Keith M. Murphy. Swedish Design: An Ethnography. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014. 264 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8014-7966-3.
Reviewed by Wendy Gunn (University of Southern Denmark) Published on H-SAE (September, 2016) Commissioned by Michael B. Munnik
Micheline Nilsen. The Working Man's Green Space: Allotment Gardens in England, France, and Germany, 1870-1919. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2014. xiv + 232 pp. $39.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8139-3508-9; $39.50 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-8139-3537-9.Margaret Willes. The Gardens of the British Working Class. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. 416 pp. $70.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-18784-7; $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-300-21235-8.
Hester Vaizey. Born in the GDR: Life in the Shadow of the Wall. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xiii + 224 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-871873-4.
Reviewed by Ben Gook Published on H-SAE (December, 2015) Commissioned by Michael B. Munnik
Kristen Rogheh Ghodsee. The Left Side of History: World War II and the Unfulfilled Promise of Communism in Eastern Europe. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015. 256 pp. $84.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8223-5823-7; $23.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-5835-0.
Reviewed by Elza Ibroscheva (Southern Illinois University) Published on H-SAE (September, 2015) Commissioned by Michael B. Munnik
Ellen F. Arnold. Negotiating the Landscape: Environment and Monastic Identity in the Medieval Ardennes. Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. 312 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-4463-2; $65.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-8122-0752-1.
Reviewed by Raffaele Florio (Regis College) Published on H-SAE (May, 2015) Commissioned by Michael B. Munnik
Emer Smyth, Maureen Lyons, Merike Darmody, eds. Religious Education in a Multicultural Europe: Children, Parents and Schools. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. x + 215 pp. $105.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-137-28149-4.
Reviewed by Sally Anderson (Aarhus University) Published on H-SAE (May, 2015) Commissioned by Michael B. Munnik
Brian Porter-Szűcs. Poland in the Modern World: Beyond Martyrdom. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. 390 pp. $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4443-3219-3; $99.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4443-3218-6.
Reviewed by Jaro Stacul (University of Alberta) Published on H-SAE (February, 2015) Commissioned by Michael B. Munnik
Sharon Paice MacLeod. The Divine Feminine in Ancient Europe: Goddesses, Sacred Women, and the Origins of Western Culture. Jefferson: McFarland & Company, 2013. 244 pp. $40.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7864-7138-6.
Reviewed by Jennifer Shaffer Foster (State University of New York - Buffalo) Published on H-SAE (June, 2014) Commissioned by Michael B. Munnik
Gender, Goddesses, and Responsibly Interpreting the Past for the Present
