European History Quarterly current issue

Efforts to Modernize Chapbooks during the Initial Years of the Turkish Republic

Ozturk, S. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:38 PST

Chapbook reform was part and parcel of larger projects of folk culture reform in Europe between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. Political powers excised content perceived as dangerous and substituted material reflecting their own principles and aims. This article examines the reflections of this process in Turkey. The modernization of chapbooks was carried out by the Turkish political authorities as a state project only in 1937. That project included the transformation of traditional heroes and events in these chapbooks to place them in line with the Republican revolution and the state ideology of modernity.

Catholicism and Judaism in the Catholic Defence against Alfred Rosenberg, 1934--1938: Anti-Jewish Images in an Age of Race Science

Ehret, U. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:38 PST

This article examines the images of Jews and Judaism in the popular Catholic defence against Alfred Rosenberg’s anticlericalism and ‘neo-paganism’ between 1934 and 1938. It contributes to the debate on Catholic attitudes to Jews, and National Socialist anti-Semitism and racism during the Third Reich. Looking at the grassroots level of this defence, the article demonstrates how the hierarchy communicated traditional religious views on Jews and Judaism to a Catholic public, taking into account the restrictions imposed by a dictatorial regime as well as long-held anti-Jewish attitudes in German Catholicism. The article suggests that the popular literature clung to traditional creeds and values of the Catholic Church and defended biblical Jewry. Yet, at the same time, the defence was clad in the language of the time and consequently used images of Jews closer to National Socialist racial rhetoric. Taking the restrictions of the dictatorship into account, the article argues that this is to a considerable extent the result of the authors of the popular Church literature and the German bishops who failed to acknowledge that it was no longer possible to distinguish between a ‘good’ Jew and a ‘degenerate’ Jew in the face of the Third Reich’s sweeping anti-Semitism and its core ideology that made no distinction between racial and religious Jewishness.

Socialism and National Identity in Alsace from Reichsland to Republique, 1890-1921

Carrol, A. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:38 PST

This article traces the evolution of socialism in Alsace through an analysis of socialist attitudes towards the nation and region. After Alsace’s annexation into Prussia in 1871, socialism in the province developed under the auspices of the German social democracy. This did a great deal to integrate Alsatian workers into a wider national political culture, while local militants retained the symbols and language of the French revolutionary tradition. Such flexibility eased the transition from German to French rule when the province was returned to France after the First World War. However, this flexibility also masked a range of contradictions in the socialist analysis. These contradictions meant that during the later years of annexation, during the War and the Revolution of 1918, the Alsatian socialist idea of the nation was still being shaped and contested. At the Tours Congress, the party’s militants explicitly stated their attitudes towards Alsace, France and Germany, yet the tensions resulting from their dual heritage were never satisfactorily resolved. The result was the clash of expectations, and of political cultures, which characterizes French governmental attempts to reintegrate its lost provinces. The discussion here addresses the evolution, articulation and application of Alsatian socialist attitudes towards nation and region as their province was transferred from German Reichsland to French République.

Socialism in Microcosm: The Municipal Administration of Dr Ernest Ferroul in Narbonne, 1896--1921

Guthrie, C. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:38 PST

The municipal administration of Dr Ernest Ferroul in the southern French city of Narbonne during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries reflected the contradictions within the French socialist movement regarding the purpose of socialist municipalities. While frequently proclaiming violent revolutionary intentions, Ferroul primarily concentrated on issues of local improvements and symbolic gestures of worker solidarity. This concentration was influenced by the local ideological tradition of the république démocratique et sociale, the desire, born during the political struggles of the Second Republic, to create a local government controlled by ‘the people’ that would govern with their interests foremost in mind. The centralized state had smashed earlier attempts to assert local popular political autonomy and did its best to frustrate Ferroul’s similar efforts. But the limited successes that he did achieve illustrated his commitment to creating a local government that put the well-being of ‘the people’ first. Moreover, the negative response by national authorities highlighted the continued validity and value of his efforts to achieve popular political control at the local level.

The French Overseas Empire and its Contemporary Legacy

Aldrich, R. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:38 PST

Review: Edward Acton and Tom Stableford, eds, The Soviet Union: A Documentary History. Volume 2: 1939--1991, University of Exeter Press: Exeter, 2007; xxxi + 543 pp., 7 maps; 9780859897167, {pound}60.00 (hbk); 9780859895828, {pound}18.99 (pbk)

Viola, L. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:38 PST

Review: Michael D. Bailey, Magic and Superstition in Europe: A Concise History from Antiquity to the Present, Rowman & Littlefield: Lanham, MD, 2007; x + 275 pp.; 9780742533868, {pound}49.00 (hbk); 9780742533875, {pound}15.99 (pbk)

Gaskill, M. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:38 PST

Review: Frances Lee Bernstein, The Dictatorship of Sex: Lifestyle Advice for the Soviet Masses, Northern Illinois University Press: Dekalb, 2007; 264 pp., 22 illus.; 9780875803715, $42.00 (hbk)

Hyer, J. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:38 PST

Review: Rosalind P. Blakesley and Susan E. Reid, eds, Russian Art and the West: A Century of Dialogue in Painting, Architecture, and the Decorative Arts, Northern Illinois University Press: Dekalb, 2007; 246 pp., 37 illus.; 9780875803609, $42.00 (hbk)

Mally, L. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: S. A. J. Bradley, ed., N. F. S. Grundtvig -- A Life Recalled. An Anthology of Biographical Source-Texts, trans. S. A. J. Bradley, Aarhus University Press: Aarhus, 2008; 600 pp.; 9788772889696, 66.95 (hbk)

Moller, J. F. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Matthew Brown, ed., Informal Empire in Latin America: Culture, Commerce and Capital, The Bulletin of Latin American Research Book Series, Blackwell: Oxford, 2008; 296 pp.; 9781405179324, {pound}19.99 (pbk)

Paquette, G.B. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Brian D. Bunk, Ghosts of Passion: Martyrdom, Gender, and the Origins of the Spanish Civil War, Duke University Press: Durham, 2007; 244 pp., 8 illus., 1 table; 9780822339328, $79.95 (hbk); 9780822339434, $22.95 (pbk)

Esenwein, G. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Charles Burdett, Journeys through Fascism. Italian Travel Writing between the Wars, Berghahn: New York and Oxford, 2007; 288 pp., 25 illus.; 9781571815408, $90.00 (hbk); 9781845457167 $32.50 (pbk)

Pergher, R. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Kim Coleman, IG Farben and ICI, 1925--53. Strategies for Growth and Survival, Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, 2006; xxiv + 225 pp.; 9780230003293, {pound}50.00 (hbk)

Grunbacher, A. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Sean J. Connolly, Contested Island: Ireland 1460--1630, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2009; 440 pp., 6 maps, 1 table; 9780199563715, {pound}19.99 (pbk)

O'Connor, T. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: R. J. Crampton, Bulgaria, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2007; 532 pp., 5 maps; 9780198205142, {pound}42.00 (hbk)

Vukov, N. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: T. David Curp, A Clean Sweep? The Politics of Ethnic Cleansing in Western Poland, 1945-- 1960, Rochester Studies in Central Europe, University of Rochester Press: Rochester, NY, 2006; x + 270 pp.; 9781580462389, $85.00/{pound}50.00 (hbk)

Kamusella, T. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Robert V. Daniels, The Rise and Fall of Communism in Russia, Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 2007; ix + 481 pp.; ISBN: 9780300106497 (hbk)

Landis, E. C. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Julia von Dannenberg, The Foundations of Ostpolitik: The Making of the Moscow Treaty between West Germany and the USSR, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2008; 320 pp., 12 illus.; 9780199228195, {pound}61.00 (hbk)

Haase, C. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Christopher Duggan, The Force of Destiny: A History of Italy since 1796, Penguin: London, 2007; 653 pp., 33 illus.; 9780713997095, {pound}30.00 (hbk); 9780141013909, {pound}12.99 (pbk): Alfonso Scirocco, Garibaldi: Citizen of the World, trans. Allan Cameron, Princeton University Press: Princeton NJ, 2007; 442 pp.; 9780691115405, $35.00 (hbk)

Dumont, D. M. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Michel Dumoulin, ed., The European Commission 1958--72. History and Memories, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities: Luxembourg, 2007; 626 pp., 97 illus.; 9789279054945, {pound}22.00 (pbk)

Kaiser, W. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Silvia Evangelisti, Nuns: A History of Convent Life, 1450--1700, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2007; 301 pp., 21 half-tones; 9780192804358, {pound}17.99 (hbk)

Herzig, T. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: R.J.W. Evans, Austria, Hungary, and the Habsburgs: Essays on Central Europe, c.1683-- 1867, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2006; xx + 337 pp., 2 maps; 9780199281442, {pound}64.00 (hbk); 9780199541621, {pound}24.99 (pbk)

Szantay, A. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Ian A. Gadd and Patrick Wallis, eds, Guilds and Association in Europe, 900--1900, Centre for Metropolitan History: London, 2006; 206 pp., 8 figures, 9 tables; 9781905165131, {pound}15.00 (pbk)

Steidl, A. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Barry G. Garnham, ed., The Intellectual Background of the French Revolution: Original Texts of Les Ideologues, 1789--1825 with an Interpretive Commentary, Edwin Mellen Press: Lewiston, NY, 2007; 276 pp.; 9780773454729, {pound}69.95 (hbk)

Caradonna, J. L. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Andrew A. Gentes, Exile to Siberia 1590--1822, Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, 2008; xii + 252 pp.; 9780230536937, {pound}53.00 (hbk)

Hartley, J. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: David Gillard, Appeasement in Crisis. From Munich to Prague, October 1938--March 1939, Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, 2007; 221 pp.; 9780230500402, {pound}50.00 (hbk)

Johnson, G. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Jack Goody, The Theft of History, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2006; x + 342pp.; 9780521870696, {pound}43.00 (hbk)

Arnold, J. H. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham, eds, Medicine and Religion in Enlightenment Europe, Ashgate: Aldershot, 2007; 278 pp., 21 b&w illus.; 9780754656388, {pound}55.00 (hbk)

Reid, D. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Tamar Herzig, Savonarola's Women. Visions and Reform in Renaissance Italy, University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 2007; xvi + 333 pp., 7 halftones, 2 maps; 9780226329154, $35.00/{pound}20.00 (hbk)

Mazzonis, Q. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Hannfried von Hindenburg, Demonstrating Reconciliation: State and Society in West German Foreign Policy toward Israel, 1952--1965, Berghahn: New York, 2007; vii + 229 pp.; 9781845452872, {pound}47.00 (hbk)

Gray, W. G. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Marko Attila Hoare, Genocide and Resistance in Hitler's Bosnia: The Partisans and the Chetniks, 1941--1943, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2006; 400 pp., 13 maps; 9780197263808, {pound}65.00 (hbk)

Korb, A. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Marko Attila Hoare, The History of Bosnia: From the Middle Ages to the Present Day, Saqi: London, 2007; 620 pp.; 9780863569531, {pound}35.00 (hbk)

Newman, J. P. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Konrad H. Jarausch, After Hitler: Recivilizing Germans, 1945--1995, Oxford University Press: New York, 2006; 379 pp; 9780195127799, {pound}22.99 (hbk)

Lansing, C. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Matthew Jefferies, Contesting the German Empire 1871--1918, Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford, 2007; 248 pp.; 9781405129961, {pound}55.00 (hbk)

Bland, C. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Wolfram Kaiser, Christian Democracy and the Origins of European Union, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2007; xii + 374 pp.; 9780521883108, {pound}55.00 (hbk)

Ludlow, N. P. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Ian Kershaw, Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry and Britain's Road to War, Penguin: London, 2005; xix + 488 pp., 33 illus.; 9780141014234, {pound}10.99 (pbk)

Dutton, D.J. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Tanya Kevorkian, Baroque Piety: Religion, Society, and Music in Leipzig, 1650--1750, Ashgate: Farnham, 2007; 266 pp.; 9780754654902, {pound}60.00 (hbk)

Fisher, A. J. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Reviews: Simon Kitson, The Hunt for Nazi Spies: Fighting Espionage in Vichy France, University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 2008; xxi + 218 pp.; 9780226438955 {pound}14.00 (hbk)

Kalman, S. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Robert Lumley and John Foot, eds, Italian Cityscapes: Culture and Urban Change in Contemporary Italy, Exeter University Press: Exeter, 2004; 244 pp., 32 illus.; 9780859897365, {pound}47.50 (hbk); 9780859897372, {pound}15.99 (pbk)

Baxa, P. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Paul Madden and Detlef Muhlberger, The Nazi Party: The Anatomy of a People's Party 1919--1933, Peter Lang: Bern, 2008; 329 pp.; 9783039105427, {pound}45.00 (hbk)

Noakes, J. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Frank McDonough, The Conservative Party and Anglo-German Relations, 1905--1914, Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, 2007; x + 201 pp.; 9780230517110, {pound}50.00 (hbk)

Fahrmeir, A. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Stephen Miller, State and Society in Eighteenth-Century France. A Study of Political Power and Social Revolution in Languedoc, Catholic University of America Press: Washington, DC, 2008; 322 pp.; 9780813215174, {pound}54.50 (hbk)

Forrest, A. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Lynn Wood Mollenauer, Strange Revelations: Magic, Poison, and Sacrilege in Louis XIV's France, Pennsylvania State University Press: University Park, PA, 2007; 213 pp; 6 illus.; 9780271029153, $70.00 (hbk); 9780271029160, $25.00 (pbk)

Locklin, N. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Susan K. Morrissey, Suicide and the Body Politic in Imperial Russia, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2006; 384 pp., 10 illus.; 9780521865456, {pound}55.00 (hbk)

Frede, V. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Donald Quataert, Miners and the State in the Ottoman Empire: The Zonguldak Coalfield, 1822--1920, Berghahn: New York and Oxford, 2006; 288 pp., 28 photographs, 8 illus., 2 maps, 38 tables; 9781845451332, $80.00/{pound}50.00 (hbk); 9781845451349, $25.00/{pound}15.00 (pbk)

Akarli, E. D. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Matthias Reiss, ed., The Street as Stage: Protest Marches and Public Rallies since the Nineteenth Century, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2007; 367 pp., 7 maps, 2 tables; 9780199226788, {pound}60.00 (hbk)

Paces, C. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, Russian Identities: A Historical Survey, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2005; 288 pp.; 9780195156508, {pound}41.00 (hbk)

Flenley, P. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Mary Roberts, Intimate Outsiders: The Harem in Ottoman and Orientalist Art and Travel Literature, Duke University Press: Durham, NC, 2007; 195 pp., 32 plates, 7 figures; 9780822339564, {pound}55.00 (hbk); 9780822339670, {pound}13.99 (pbk)

Miller, R. A. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Stella Rock, Popular Religion in Russia: 'Double Belief ' and the Making of an Academic Myth, Routledge: Abingdon, 2007; xiii + 234 pp.; 9780415317719, {pound}85.00 (hbk)

Schlafly, D. L. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Moshe Sluhovsky, Believe Not Every Spirit: Possession, Mysticism and Discernment in Early Modern Catholicism, University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 2007; 384 pp.; 9780226762821, {pound}28.50/$45.00 (hbk)

Gibbons, K. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Hazel Knowles Smith, The Changing Face of the Channel Islands Occupation: Record, Memory and Myth, Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, 2007; 312 pp., 14 illus.; 9781403988041, {pound}62.00 (hbk)

Biddiscombe, P. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Leonard V. Smith, The Embattled Self: French Soldiers' Testimony of the Great War, Cornell University Press: Ithaca, NY, 2007; xi + 214 pp.; 9780801445231, {pound}20.50/$39.95 (hbk)

Lyons, M. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Michael Sonenscher, Before the Deluge; Public Debt, Inequality, and the Intellectual Origins of the French Revolution, Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ, 2007; x + 415 pp.; 9780691124995, {pound}23.95 (hbk)

Andress, D. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Michael Sutton, France and the Construction of Europe, 1944--2007. The Geopolitical Imperative, Berghahn Books: New York and Oxford, 2007; 336 pp.; 9781845453930, $85.00/{pound}42.50 (hbk)

Hayward, J. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Toby Thacker, Music after Hitler, 1945--1955, Ashgate: Aldershot, 2007; 280 pp.; 9780754653462, {pound}55.00 (hbk)

Applegate, C. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: James D. Tracy, The Founding of the Dutch Republic: War, Finance and Politics in Holland, 1572--1588, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2008; 368 pp., 7 half-tones, 6 maps; 9780199209118, {pound}66.00 (hbk)

Cook, H. J. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Frank Uekotter, The Green and the Brown: A History of Conservation in Nazi Germany, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006; xv + 230 pp., 12 illus.; 9780521848190, {pound}43.00 (hbk); 9780521612777, {pound}15.99 (pbk)

Lekan, T. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Daniel M. Vyleta, Crime, Jews and News: Vienna 1895--1914, Berghahn: New York and Oxford, 2007; 266 pp., 20 illus.; 9781845451813, $80.00/{pound}47.00 (hbk)

Coen, D. R. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Lee Palmer Wandel, The Eucharist in the Reformation. Incarnation and Liturgy, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2006; xi + 302 pp.; 9780521673129, {pound}15.99 (pbk)

Murdock, G. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Nicolas Werth, Cannibal Island: Death in a Siberian Gulag, trans. Steven Rendall, Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ, 2007; xx + 223 pp., map; 9780691130835, {pound}16.95 (hbk)

Gentes, A. A. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: David Lay Williams, Rousseau's Platonic Enlightenment, Pennsylvania State University Press: University Park, PA, 2007; xxx + 306 pp.; 9780271029979, $25.00 (hbk)

Armenteros, C. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Heinrich August Winkler, Germany: The Long Road West, Vol. 2, 1933--1990, trans. Alexander J. Sager, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2007; 704 pp.; 9780199265985, {pound}39.00 (hbk)

Healy, R. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST

Review: Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter, Russia's Age of Serfdom 1649--1861, Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford, 2008; xx + 287 pp., 4 illus.;. 9781405134576, {pound}55.00 (hbk); 9781405134583, {pound}22.99 (pbk)

Saunders, D. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:30:39 PST