David Corkill and José Carlos Pina Almeida

Commemoration and Propaganda in Salazar's Portugal: The Mundo Português Exposition of 1940
Journal of Contemporary History 2009 44: 381-399. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permission]  

Roberto Villa García

The Failure of Electoral Modernization: The Elections of May 1936 in Granada
Journal of Contemporary History 2009 44: 401-429. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permission]  

Florentino Rodao

Japan and the Axis, 1937—8: Recognition of the Franco Regime and Manchukuo
Journal of Contemporary History 2009 44: 431-447. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permission]  

Julius Ruiz

Seventy Years On: Historians and Repression During and After the Spanish Civil War
Journal of Contemporary History 2009 44: 449-472. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permission]  

Karl Loewenstein

Obshchestvennost' as Key to Understanding Soviet Writers of the 1950s: Moskovskii Literator, October 1956—March 1957
Journal of Contemporary History 2009 44: 473-492. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permission]  

James W. Cortada

Public Policies and the Development of National Computer Industries in Britain, France, and the Soviet Union, 1940—80
Journal of Contemporary History 2009 44: 493-512. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permission]  

John Gooch

Review Article Target Practice: Azar Gat, War in Human Civilization, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006; xv + 822 pp; $50.00 hbk; ISBN 13: 9780199262136 Matthew Hughes and William J. Philpott (eds), Modern Military History, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006; ix + 289 pp; £19.99 pbk; ISBN 13: 9781403917683 G.C. Peden, Arms, Economics and British Strategy: From Dreadnoughts to Hydrogen Bombs, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007; xiii + 384 pp; £55.00 hbk; ISBN 13: 9780521867481 Hew Strachan (ed.), Big Wars and Small Wars: The British Army and the Lessons of War in the Twentieth Century, London: Routledge, 2006; xi + 186 pp; $150.00 hbk; ISBN 10: 0415361966
Journal of Contemporary History 2009 44: 513-521. [PDF] [Request Permission]  

David Roberts

Review Article: Italian Fascism: New Light on the Dark Side: Davide Rodogno, Fascism's European Empire: Italian Occupation during the Second World War, translated by Adrian Belton (New Studies in European History), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006; first Italian edition 2003; xxi + 504 pp; $99.00. ISBN 13: 9780521845151; ISBN 10: 0521845157 Michele Sarfatti, The Jews in Mussolini's Italy: From Equality to Persecution, translated by John and Anne C. Tedeschi (George L. Mosse Series in Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History), Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006; revised and expanded from 2000 Italian edition; xv + 419 pp; $65.00 hbk; ISBN 10: 0299217302; ISBN 13: 9780299217303 George Talbot, Censorship in Fascist Italy, 1922—1943: Policies, Procedures and Protagonists, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007; ix + 251 pp; £53.00; ISBN 10: 0230543081; ISBN 13: 9780230543089 Manuela A. Williams, Mussolini's Propaganda Abroad: Subversion in the Mediterranean and the Middle East, 1935—1940 (Studies in Intelligence), London and New York: Routledge, 2006; xii + 238 pp; $120.00 hbk; ISBN 10: 0415358566; ISBN 13: 9780415358569
Journal of Contemporary History 2009 44: 523-533. [PDF] [Request Permission]  

Caspar Hirschi

Review: A. D. Smith, The Cultural Foundations of Nations: Hierarchy, Covenant and Republic, Oxford: John Wiley and Sons, 2008; 243 pp; £19.99 pbk; ISBN 9781405177986
Journal of Contemporary History 2009 44: 535-536. [PDF] [Request Permission]  

Carole Fink

Review: Martin L. Davies, Historics: Why History Dominates Contemporary Society, London and New York: Routledge, 2006; ix + 287 pp; £19.95 pbk; ISBN: 139780415261661 Harriet Jones, Kjell Östberg, and Nico Randeraad (eds), Contemporary History on Trial: Europe since 1989 and the Role of the Expert Historian, Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2007; xii + 204 pp; £50.00 hbk; ISBN: 9780719074172
Journal of Contemporary History 2009 44: 537-539. [PDF] [Request Permission]  

David Hopkin

Review: Guy Beiner, Remembering the Year of the French: Irish Folk History and Social Memory, Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2007; xix + 466 pp; £28.95 hbk; ISBN: 0299218201
Journal of Contemporary History 2009 44: 539-541. [PDF] [Request Permission]  

Dominik Geppert

Review: Karl Christian Führer and Corey Ross (eds), Mass Media, Culture and Society in Twentieth-Century Germany, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006; 254 pp; $85.00 hbk; ISBN: 9780230008380
Journal of Contemporary History 2009 44: 542-544. [PDF] [Request Permission]  

Betsy Hartmann

Review: Matthew Connelly, Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population, Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2008; xiv + 521 pp; £22.95 hbk; ISBN: 9780674024236
Journal of Contemporary History 2009 44: 544-546. [PDF] [Request Permission]  

Laura Rowe

Review: Jan Rüger, The Great Naval Game: Britain and Germany in the Age of Empire, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007; xv + 337 pp; £50 hbk; ISBN 9780521875769
Journal of Contemporary History 2009 44: 547-548. [PDF] [Request Permission]  

Walter R. Allen

Review: Natalia Molina, Fit To Be Citizens? Public Health and Race in Los Angeles 1879—1939, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2006; xiv + 279 pp; £12.95 pbk; ISBN: 0520246492
Journal of Contemporary History 2009 44: 548-550. [PDF] [Request Permission]  

Nicoletta F. Gullace

Review: Lucy Noakes, Women in the British Army: War and the Gentle Sex, 1907—1948, Milton Park and New York: Routledge, 2006; xii + 209 pp; $24.95; ISBN: 0415390575
Journal of Contemporary History 2009 44: 550-552. [PDF] [Request Permission]  

Heather Jones

Review: Matthew Stibbe, British Civilian Internees in Germany: The Ruhleben Camp, 1914—18, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008; xiii + 210 pp; £55.00 hbk; ISBN: 9780719070846; pbk £14.99; ISBN: 9780719070853
Journal of Contemporary History 2009 44: 552-554. [PDF] [Request Permission]  

Stacey Zembrzycki

Review: Mary E. Triece, On the Picket Line: Strategies of Working-Class Women during the Depression, Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007; viii + 179 pp; $25.00 pbk; ISBN 0252073915
Journal of Contemporary History 2009 44: 554-555. [PDF] [Request Permission]  

Soledad Fox

Review: Brian Shelmerdine, British Representations of the Spanish Civil War, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006; vi + 185 pp; £50.00 hbk; ISBN: 0719074150 Dominic Tierney, FDR and the Spanish Civil War: Neutrality and Commitment in the Struggle that Divided America, Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2007; x + 224 pp; £48.00 hbk; ISBN: 9780822340553; £12.99 pbk; ISBN: 9780822340768
Journal of Contemporary History 2009 44: 556-559. [PDF] [Request Permission]  

Gerald Blaney, jr

Review: Andy Durgan, The Spanish Civil War, Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007; xx + 156 pp; £14.99/$26.95 pbk; ISBN: 033379365X
Journal of Contemporary History 2009 44: 559-561. [PDF] [Request Permission]  

Holly Case

Review: Chad Bryant, Prague in Black: Nazi Rule and Czech Nationalism, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007; xv + 378 pp; $49.95 hbk; ISBN10: 0674024516
Journal of Contemporary History 2009 44: 561-563. [PDF] [Request Permission]  

Peter Fritzsche

Review: Gordon Horwitz, Ghettostadt: Lodz and the Making of a Nazi City, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008; 395 pp; £19.95 hbk; ISBN: 9780674027992
Journal of Contemporary History 2009 44: 563-565. [PDF] [Request Permission]  

Andreas Kossert

Review: Ian Connor, Refugees and Expellees in Post-War Germany, Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2007; xv + 266 pp; £55.00; ISBN 9780719068867
Journal of Contemporary History 2009 44: 565-566. [PDF] [Request Permission]  

Anita J. Prazmowska

Review: Kevin McDermott and Matthew Stibbe (eds), Revolution and Resistance in Eastern Europe: Challenges to Communist Rule, Oxford: Berg, 2006; 202 pp + Index; $25.00 pbk; ISBN 9781845202590
Journal of Contemporary History 2009 44: 567-568. [PDF] [Request Permission]  

Benita Blessing

Review: Mark Fenemore, Sex, Thugs and Rock 'n' Roll: Teenage Rebels in Cold-War East Germany, London: Berghahn, 2007; 277 pp + illustrations (19) and index; £45.00 hbk; ISBN: 9781571815233
Journal of Contemporary History 2009 44: 568-570. [PDF] [Request Permission]  

Wilfried Wilms

Review: John Davidson and Sabine Hake (eds), Framing the Fifties: Cinema in a Divided Germany, New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2007; vi + 250 pp; £45.00/$75.00 hbk; ISBN: 9781845452049
Journal of Contemporary History 2009 44: 570-572. [PDF] [Request Permission]  

Chris Hamer

Review: Lorna Arnold and Mark Smith, Britain, Australia and the Bomb: The Nuclear Tests and their Aftermath, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006; 2nd edn, xiv + 322 pp; £25.99 pbk; ISBN 13: 9781403921024
Journal of Contemporary History 2009 44: 572-573. [PDF] [Request Permission]  

Mattia Toaldo

Review: Michael E. Shin and John A. Agnew, Berlusconi's Italy: Mapping Contemporary Italian Politics, Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2008; 184 pp; $21.95 pbk; ISBN 9781592137176
Journal of Contemporary History 2009 44: 574-575. [PDF] [Request Permission]  

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