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Painting Regional Identities: Nationalism in the Arts, France, Germany and Spain, 1890--1914

Storm, E. — 2009-09-25

During the decades before 1914, nationalism pervaded cultural discourse more than ever before as a new type of subjectivist, organic nationalism came to the fore. At the same time nations were seen as consisting of a harmonious whole of organically grown regional folk cultures. Thus, a new more activist nationalism coincided and overlapped with the rise of a more folkloristic and regionalist interpretation of the respective national identities. But how did this affect the arts? Paintings by highly relevant fin-de-siècle artists such as Simon and Cottet in France, Bantzer and Mackensen in Germany and Zuloaga in Spain could be seen as interpretations of a specific national or regional ‘soul’. A detailed, comparative analysis of the reviews of their work in the major art magazines of the period shows that their paintings skilfully translated the new, more activist and popular nationalist ideology into art, using similar arguments and rhetorical devices.

A 'New' Woman for a 'New' Spain: The Seccion Femenina de la Falange and the Image of the National Syndicalist Woman

Ofer, I. — 2009-09-25

The Sección Femenina de la FET was founded in 1934 as part of the Spanish Falange. Starting in April 1937 the SF functioned as the sole secular women’s organization of the Franco regime, employing a network of professional, provincial and local delegates throughout the country. Despite its adherence to a radical right-wing ideology and its functioning within an authoritarian regime membership within the SF offered many women a life of unusual public activism, both professionally and politically. The current paper offers a reading of the SF’s gendered discourse, which takes into consideration the relationship between both its progressive and conservative elements. My contention is that in the case of the SF one cannot talk of a model of ‘old-fashioned’ femininity, which was replaced over the years by a model of ‘modern’ femininity, but rather about modernist and conservative elements, which existed in the organizational rhetoric side by side from the beginning. Within this context the ‘modern’ elements were highly significant and their definition was more or less constant as long as the messages were aimed at a population of a specific socio-economic standing and education.

Building to Death: Prisoner Forced Labour in the German War Economy -- The Neuengamme Subcamps, 1942--1945

Buggeln, M. — 2009-09-25

In 1944 most concentration camp prisoners were not interned in the main camps but in subcamps. These subcamps were erected near important armament production sites, where the work power of the prisoners was needed. The conditions in these subcamps were sometimes even more terrible than in the main camps. In historiography, the phrase ‘extermination through work’ is often used in order to describe the subcamps. However, newer studies show that conditions differed enormously between camps. For this reason it is necessary to compare the conditions in the different subcamps systematically. My article discusses the reasons for the differences that have been put forward so far. Afterwards I show that an exploration of the subcamps of Neuengamme leads to somewhat different results, and I argue that, therefore, the phrase ‘extermination through work’ should be used more cautiously.

An 'anti-Catholicism of free trade?' Religion and the Anglo-Italian negotiations of 1863

Raponi, D. — 2009-09-25

This article focuses on the 1863 Anglo-Italian Commercial Treaty as a case study for a wider analysis of the relations between the newly unified Italy and Britain. The importance of this treaty lies chiefly in its peculiarity, mainly due to the fact that the British proposed the inclusion of a religious clause in its text. This clause was meant to protect Protestant missionaries operating in rural parts of Italy, where religious intolerance was still frequent. The resulting confrontation showed the extent to which lack of communication between the Board of Trade and the Foreign Office hampered the pursuit of British policy aims, reflecting the then fashionable combination of free trade and Protestantism to promote a form of ‘anglicized globalization’ in Southern Europe. This resulted in the frustration of British commercial interests as defined by the Chambers of Commerce. The present article throws new light on the multi-layered nature of the British engagement with Italy, which involved different economic and religious pressure groups, and confirms Peter Marsh’s thesis about the inadequacy of the British commercial approach to continental Europe in the age of free trade.

Constructing and Maintaining Socialism in the German Democratic Republic: Dirk Spilker, The East German Leadership and the Division of Germany: Patriotism and Propaganda, 1945--53, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2006; xi + 296 pp.; 9780199284122, {pound}67.00 (hbk) Merrilyn Thomas, Communing with the Enemy: Covert Operations, Christianity and Cold War Politics in Britain and the GDR, Peter Lang: Oxford, Bern, 2005; 293 pp.; 9783039101924, {pound}38.70 (pbk) Jeanette Z. Madarasz, Working in East Germany: Normality in a Socialist Dictatorship, 1961--79, Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, New York, 2006; xi + 206 pp.; 9780230001602, {pound}56.00 (hbk) Stefan Berger and Norman LaPorte (eds), The Other Germany: Perceptions and Influences in British--East German Relations, 1945--1990, ADEF Band 52, Wissner: Augsburg, 2005; 343 pp.; 9783896394859' 39.80 (pbk)

Saunders, A. — 2009-09-25

Beyond the Wire: Allied POWs in the Second World War, the POW 'Myth' and Future Realities: Charles Rollings, Prisoner of War: Voices from Behind the Wire in the Second World War, Ebury Press: Reading, 2007; vii + 392 pp.; 9780091910082, {pound}8.99 (pbk) S.P. MacKenzie, The Colditz Myth: British and Commonwealth Prisoners of War in Nazi Germany, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2004; xvi + 446 pp.; 9780199203079, {pound}25.00 (pbk) Adrian Gilbert, POW: Allied Prisoners in Europe 1939--1945, John Murray: London, 2006; xvi + 397 pp., 16 plates; 9780719561283, {pound}9.99 (pbk) John Nichol and Tony Rennell, The Last Escape: The Untold Story of Allied Prisoners of War in Germany 1944--45, Penguin Books: London, 2003; xxiii + 471 pp., 16 plates; 9780141003887, {pound}9.99 (pbk) Arieh J. Kochavi, Confronting Captivity: Britain and the United States and their POWs in Nazi Germany, University of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill, 2005; x + 382 pp.; 9780807829400, {pound}30.95 (hbk)

Crossland, J. — 2009-09-25

Review: Derek H. Aldcroft, Europe's Third World: The European Periphery in the Interwar Years, Ashgate: Aldershot, Hampshire, 2006; 232 pp.; 9780754605997, {pound}55.00 (hbk)

Swanson, J. C. — 2009-09-25

Review: Francisco Bethencourt and Diogo Ramada Curto, eds, Portuguese Oceanic Expansion, 1400--1800, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2007; xx + 536 pp.; 9780521608916, {pound}18.99 (pbk); 9780521846448, {pound}50.00 (hbk)

Paquette, G.B. — 2009-09-25

Review: Guido Bonsaver, Censorship and Literature in Fascist Italy, University of Toronto Press: Toronto, 2007; 405 pp., 15 illus.; 9780802093011, {pound}50.00 (hbk); 9780802094964, {pound}22.50 (pbk)

Talbot, G. — 2009-09-25

Review: Tim Brooks, British Propaganda to France, 1940--1944: Machinery, Method and Message, Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, 2007; xviii + 233 pp., 13 figures, 1 table, 16 maps; 9780748625192, {pound}60.00 (hbk)

Knapp, A. — 2009-09-25

Review: Peter Campbell, Thomas Kaiser and Marissa Linton, eds, Conspiracy in the French Revolution, Manchester University Press: Manchester, 2007; 222 pp.; 9780719074028, {pound}50.00 (hbk)

Lynn, M. — 2009-09-25

Review: Michael Cherlin, Halina Filipowicz and Richard L. Rudolph, eds, The Great Tradition and its Legacy: The Evolution of Dramatic and Musical Theater in Austria and Central Europe, Berghahn Books: New York and Oxford, 2004; xiii + 274 pp.; 9781571811738, {pound}55.00 (hbk); 9781571814036, {pound}18.50 (pbk)

Robertson, R. — 2009-09-25

Review: Patrick O. Cohrs, The Unfinished Peace after World War I: America, Britain and the Stabilisation of Europe, 1919--1932, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2006; xiv + 693 pp., 1 map; 9780521853538, {pound}65.00 (hbk)

Webster, A. — 2009-09-25

Review: John A. Davis, Naples and Napoleon: Southern Italy and the European Revolutions (1780-- 1860), Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2006; vi + 372 pp.; 9780198207559, {pound}79.00 (hbk)

Hughes, S. C. — 2009-09-25

Review: Christina De Bellaigue, Educating Women: Schooling and Identity in England and France, 1800--1867, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2007; xv + 276 pp., 6 illus.; 9780199289981, {pound}58.00 (hbk)

Lyons, M. — 2009-09-25

Review: Barry Eichengreen, The European Economy Since 1945. Coordinated Capitalism and Beyond, Princeton University Press: Princeton, 2006; xx + 495pp.; 9780691127101, {pound}24.95 (hbk)

Berghahn, V. R. — 2009-09-25

Review: Clive Emsley, Crime, Police, & Penal Policy: European Experiences 1750--1940, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2007; 285 pp.; 9780199202850 {pound}58.00 (hbk)

Glovka Spencer, E. — 2009-09-25

Review: Suraiya N. Faroqhi, ed., The Cambridge History of Turkey: Volume 3, The Later Ottoman Empire, 1603--1839, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2006; xxi + 619 pp.; 9780521620956, {pound}100.00 (hbk)

Inal, O. — 2009-09-25

Review: Deborah A. Field, Private Life and Communist Morality in Khrushchev's Russia, Peter Lang: New York, 2007; x + 148 pp.; 9780820495026, {pound}30.50 (hbk)

Healey, D. — 2009-09-25

Review: Christopher E. Forth and Bertrand Taithe, eds., French Masculinities: History, Culture and Politics, Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke and New York, 2007; xi + 249 pp., 10 illus.; 9780230006614 , {pound}50.00 (hbk)

Mclaren, A. — 2009-09-25

Review: Jeffry A. Frieden, Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century, Norton: New York, 2005; 576 pp.; 9780393058086, $29.95 (hbk)

Freyer, T. A. — 2009-09-25

Review: Elaine Fulton, Catholic Belief and Survival in late Sixteenth-Century Vienna: The Case of Georg Eder (1523--87), Ashgate, St Andrews Studies in Reformation History: Aldershot, 2007; xviii + 189 pp., 3 illus.; 9780754656524, {pound}55.00 (hbk)

Louthan, H. — 2009-09-25

Review: Corinne Gaudin, Ruling Peasants. Village and State in Late Imperial Russia, Northern Illinois University Press: DeKalb, IL, 2007; x + 271 pp.; 9780875803708, $40.00 (hbk)

Waldron, P. — 2009-09-25

Review: Sharif Gemie, Galicia: A Concise History, University of Wales Press: Cardiff, 2006; 205 pp.; 9780708319895, {pound}55.00 (hbk); 9780708319888, {pound}16.95 (pbk)

Nunez, X.-M. — 2009-09-25

Review: Anne Goldgar, Tulipmania. Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age, University of Chicago Press: Chicago, IL, 2007; xx + 425 pp., 71 illus.; 9780226301259, $30.00 (hbk)

Van Berkel, K. — 2009-09-25

Review: Colin Heywood, Growing Up in France: From the Ancien Regime to the Third Republic, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2007; 313 pp., 6 illus.; 9780521868693, {pound}53.00 (hbk)

Tilburg, P. — 2009-09-25

Review: Jonathan Israel, Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670--1752, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2006; 983 pp., 22 illus.; 9780199279227. {pound}30.00 (hbk)

Gordon, D. — 2009-09-25

Review: Maija Jansson, ed., Realities of Representation: State Building in Early Modern Europe and European America, Palgrave Macmillan: New York, London, 2007; 237 pp.; 9781403975348, {pound}45.00 (hbk)

Barber, S. — 2009-09-25

Review: Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, William Heinemann: London, 2005; xv + 878 pp.; 9781594200656, {pound}25.00 (hbk)

Buchanan, T. — 2009-09-25

Review: Simon Kitson, The Hunt for Nazi Spies: Fighting Espionage in Vichy France, University of Chicago Press: Chicago and London, 2008; xxi + 218 pp.; 9780226438931, {pound}14.99 (hbk)

Kalman, S. — 2009-09-25

Review: Cle Lesger, The Rise of the Amsterdam Market and Information Exchange. Merchants, Commercial Expansion and Change in the Spatial Economy of the Low Countries, c. 1550-- 1630, tr. J. C. Grayson, Ashgate: Aldershot, 2006; 326 pp.; 9780754652205, {pound}65.00 (hbk)

Tracy, J. D. — 2009-09-25

Review: Jill Lewis, Workers and Politics in Occupied Austria, 1945--55, Manchester University Press: Manchester, 2007; 224 pp., 1 map; 9780719073502, {pound}55.00 (hbk)

Thorpe, J. — 2009-09-25

Review: Paul Douglas Lockhart, Denmark, 1513--1660. The Rise and Decline of a Renaissance Monarchy, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2007; 279 pp., 6 illus.; 9780199271214, {pound}61.00 (hbk)

Jespersen, K. J.V. — 2009-09-25

Review: Sandra Lustig and Ian Leveson, eds, Turning the Kaleidoscope: Perspectives on European Jewry, Berghahn Books: Oxford and New York, 2006; 239 pp.; 9781845450762, $90.00/{pound}45.00 (hbk)

Baader, B. M. — 2009-09-25

Review: Paul Maddrell, Spying on Science: Western Intelligence in Divided Germany 1945--1961, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2006; 330 pp.; 9780199267507, {pound}70.00 (hbk)

Barlow, J. — 2009-09-25

Review: Joao Pedro Marques, The Sounds of Silence: Nineteenth-Century Portugal and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, Berghahn: Oxford and New York, 2006; 304 pp., 6 pp. illus.; 9781571814470, {pound}50.00 (hbk)

Halikowski Smith, S. — 2009-09-25

Review: Tim McHugh, Hospital Politics in Seventeenth-Century France. The Crown, Urban Elites and the Poor, Ashgate: Aldershot, 2007; 202 pp.; 9780754657620 {pound}55.00 (hbk)

Tingle, E. — 2009-09-25

Review: Bob Moore and Henk van Nierop, eds, Twentieth-century Mass Society in Britain and the Netherlands, Berg: Oxford & New York, 2006; xii + 193 pp.; 9781845205256, {pound}55.00 (hbk)

Heathorn, S. — 2009-09-25

Review: Igor V. Naumov, The History of Siberia, ed. by David N. Collins, Routledge: London and New York, 2006; 242 pp., 74 illus.; 9780415368193, {pound}85.00 (hbk)

Weiss, C. — 2009-09-25

Review: Michelle O'Malley and Evelyn Welch, eds, The Material Renaissance, Manchester University Press: Manchester, 2007; 304 pp., 38 illus.; 9780719076572, {pound}55.00 (hbk)

Fletcher, C. — 2009-09-25

Review: Matt Perry, Prisoners of Want: The Experience and Protest of the Unemployed in France, 1921--45, Ashgate: Aldershot, 2007; 310 pp., 2 illus., 3 maps, 4 charts; 9780754656074, {pound}55.00 (hbk)

Seidman, M. — 2009-09-25

Review: Mary Rogers and Paola Tinagli, eds, Women in Italy, 1350--1650, a Sourcebook: Ideals and Realities, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005; xii + 372 pp., 20 b/w plates, 14 b/w illus.; 9780719072086, {pound}65.00 (hbk); 9780719072093, {pound}16.99 (pbk)

Cossar, R. — 2009-09-25

Review: Clifford Rosenberg, Policing Paris: The Origins of Modern Immigration Control between the Wars, Cornell University Press: Ithaca NY, 2006; 241 pp.; 9780801444272, $62.95/{pound}32.95 (hbk); 9780801473159, $23.95/{pound}13.50 (pbk)

Aissaoui, R. — 2009-09-25

Review: Wendy Slater, The Many Deaths of Tsar Nicholas II. Relics, Remains and the Romanovs, Routledge: London, 2007; 194 pp.; 9780415345163, {pound}85.00 (hbk), 9780415427975, {pound}22.99 (pbk)

Waldron, P. — 2009-09-25

Review: Michael Stanislawski, A Murder in Lemberg: Politics, Religion, and Violence in Modern Jewish History, Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ, 2007; vi + 152 pp., 11 illus.; 9780691128436, {pound}16.95 (hbk)

Dabrowski, P. M. — 2009-09-25

Review: Alexander Stephan, ed., The Americanization of Europe: Culture, Diplomacy and Anti-Americanism after 1945, Berghahn: Oxford, 2006; ix + 432 pp.; 9781845450854, $95.95/{pound}55.00 (hbk); 9781845454869, $34.95/{pound}19.95 (pbk)

Smith, T. — 2009-09-25

Review: Christopher Storrs, The Resilience of the Spanish Monarchy, 1665--1700, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2006; 271 pp.; 9780199246373, {pound}69.00 (hbk)

Pym, R. J. — 2009-09-25

Review: Gerald Stourzh, From Vienna to Chicago and Back: Essays on Intellectual History and Political Thought in Europe and America, University of Chicago Press: Chicago and London, 2007; xiv + 396 pp.; 9780226776361, {pound}28.50 (hbk)

Beller, S. — 2009-09-25

Review: Kiril Tomoff, Creative Union: The Professional Organization of Soviet Composers, 1939-- 1953, Cornell University Press: Ithaca NY, 2006; 321 pp.; 9780801444111, $59.50 (hbk)

Loewenstein, K. E. — 2009-09-25

Review: Edward B. Westermann, Hitler's Police Battalions: Enforcing Racial War in the East, University Press of Kansas: Lawrence, KS, 2005; 329 pp., 20 illus.; 9780700613717, $34.95 (hbk)

Shepherd, B. — 2009-09-25

Review: Nancy M. Wingfield and Maria Bucur, eds, Gender & War in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe, Indiana University Press: Bloomington IN, 2006; 251 pp., 13 b/w photos; 9780253218445, $17.50 (pbk)

Ahlback, A. — 2009-09-25