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Crime, Clairvoyance and the Weimar Police

Wolffram, H. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:16:19 PDT

During the Weimar years, Germany’s police experimented with a wide range of new technologies and forensic techniques. Among the more unusual of these was so-called criminal telepathy (Kriminaltelepathie): the practice of using a telepath or clairvoyant to shed light on unsolved crimes. Placing the emergence of the criminal telepath in the context of interwar crime and occultism, and the police interest in these occult practitioners in the context of professionalization, this article maintains that the Weimar police’s brief flirtation with the occult was consistent with, rather than antagonistic to, their efforts to professionalize through science. This article also explores contemporary critiques of this practice, arguing that the bitter polemics against criminal telepathy by men such as Albert Hellwig and Albert Moll resulted from their belief that the activities of clairvoyants endangered the claims of criminalists, jurists and psychiatrists to expertise in the nascent fields of criminology and criminalistics.

Rule Rather than Exception: Bruning's Fear of Devaluation in Comparative Perspective

Straumann, T. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:16:19 PDT

For decades, historians have debated why Germany’s Chancellor Heinrich Brüning resorted to policies worsening the economic crisis in the early 1930s. Some scholars, first and foremost Knut Borchardt, have argued that for various reasons the Chancellor had no choice but to depress the economy. In particular, Borchardt has pointed out that Brüning was reluctant to devalue the currency because he feared a return of hyperinflation. Borchardt’s critics, by contrast, have rejected this argument on the grounds that Brüning’s fear of devaluation was not shared by all German policy-makers and the public in general. This article tries to make a contribution to this debate by assessing Brüning’s fear of devaluation from a comparative perspective. Narrative evidence from Britain, the Netherlands, the Scandinavian countries and Switzerland strongly suggests that Borchardt’s argument is well grounded. Across Europe, politicians and central bankers, as well as business and union leaders, were convinced that devaluation would lead to inflation and do more harm than good. The evidence also shows that, because of this widespread fear of inflation, not a single European country deliberately devalued its currency in the 1930s.

'We Must Push Eastwards!' The Challenges and Dilemmas of President Benes after Munich

Hauner, M. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:16:19 PDT

This article has been inspired by the author’s editing of E. Benes’ Memoirs 1938—45 . One of the strongest challenges for the former Czechoslovak President Benes was the relationship with the Soviet Union. Did Benes, who formed his government in exile in the West, succumb to Stalin’s will during his visit in Moscow in late 1943 or later, during the communist putsch of 1948? The author believes that Benes’ decision to push eastwards, for the sake of building a closer relationship with Soviet Russia, was formulated much earlier, as a response to the western betrayal of Czechoslovakia at Munich in 1938. However, Benes’ motivation in the process of rebuilding Czechoslovakia was geopolitical rather than ideological, aiming at three objectives: a common border with the USSR (which entailed the sacrifice of Subcarpathian Ruthenia); crushing Slovak autonomy and reinforcing the Czecho-Slovak link; and the transfer of non-Slavic minorities, the Sudeten Germans and Hungarians. Moscow, rather than London or Washington, seemed to have satisfied Benes’ objectives. This pragmatic dependence on Stalin led also to Benes’ unwavering acceptance of the Soviet version of the Katyn massacre.

Foibe : Nationalism, Revenge and Ideology in Venezia Giulia and Istria, 1943--5

Baracetti, G. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:16:19 PDT

This article deals with a little-known but controversial chapter of second world war history: the massacres, arrests and deportations Yugoslavs carried out against Italians in the Venezia Giulia region between 1943 and 1945. Many of the victims were thrown into natural cavities of the Carso region called foibe. It is argued that these events were neither simply the effect of an anti-fascist reprisal, nor an instance of planned ethnic cleansing against Italians. Rather, the article will explore the complex interplay of personal and collective revenge, national and ideological rivalry and policies of pre-emptive cleansing that led to mass persecution.

Refugee Town: Germans, Americans, and the Uprooted in Rural West Germany, 1945--52

Seipp, A. R. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:16:19 PDT

This article examines the experience of the small rural community of Wildflecken in the Bavarian district of Lower Franconia after the second world war. This area became an important center for those uprooted by the war, including Polish displaced persons, evacuees from German cities, and Germans who fled or were expelled from Eastern Europe. Because of its strategic location, it also attracted the interest of the US Army. The multi-faceted refugee crisis strongly influenced the development and implementation of occupation policy, while the presence of American and non-German outsiders helped to integrate ethnic German refugees into rural communities.

'This is What Growth Does': British Views of the European Economies in the Prosperous 'Golden Age' of 1951--73

O'Hara, G. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:16:19 PDT

This article attempts to deconstruct and analyse British views of the European economies during the post-war years of fast growth, low unemployment and subdued inflation. Though there had been a great deal of academic attention paid to Britons’ self-perceptions, less research has been conducted as to how they saw the most relevant ‘other’: the societies and economies on either side of the English Channel. Two case-studies are utilized here to suggest both how Britons saw themselves by reference to their near-neighbours, and to study how policy ideas moved around the international world of advice, interpretation and global governance that was emerging after the Second World War. The French and Soviet examples, so scrutinized and apparently fascinating at the time, are the main focus of the article, though other sources of inspiration — German, Scandinavian, Italian — are also suggested. The article concludes with a brief sketch of the main reasons other Europeans’ apparent ‘success’ came to seem so important. These include a national sense of ‘declinism’; the importance of international bodies such as the United Nations; and the intertwined relationship between domestic and foreign policy during the Cold War.

Politics, Culture, and Economics: Reassessing the West German Guest Worker Agreement with Yugoslavia

Shonick, K. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:16:19 PDT

In 1968 the Federal Republic of Germany signed a guest worker agreement with Yugoslavia. Within the existing historiography, this agreement has largely been described in economic terms as resulting from the economic miracle. This article complicates that perspective by arguing that in fact political and cultural rather than economic priorities were responsible for the successful conclusion of the agreement between the FRG and Yugoslavia. Specifically, it argues that in his capacity as the FRG’s Foreign Minister, Willy Brandt pushed for the guest worker agreement with Yugoslavia as a means of addressing the legacies of National Socialism and promoting peace and reconciliation in Europe. The West German-Yugoslav guest worker agreement therefore should be understood as a product of West Germany’s changing political culture and priorities during the 1960s, and as one of the FRG’s earliest successes with Ostpolitik.

Cyprus, Britain, the USA, Turkey and Greece in 1977: Critical Submission or Submissive Criticism?

Mallinson, W. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:16:19 PDT

For hundreds of years, the Eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus has been subjected to the — not always welcome — attentions of external powers, finally gaining some independence from Britain in 1960. Since then, Cyprus has been the object of three international crises, almost leading to war between NATO members Greece and Turkey. Following a Turkish invasion and occupation which continues to the present, tensions have continued, while Turkey continues to occupy over one-third of Cyprus, an EU member, while trying itself to gain entry to the organisation. Papers released by British government departments in January 2008 reveal the following: an increasingly submissive yet tetchy attitude in British foreign policy formulation vis-à-vis American pressure (mainly Kissinger) on Britain not to leave Cyprus; the question of the USA financing the British bases; British government criticism of Turkey’s perceived intransigence in finding a solution to the Cyprus conundrum; British government criticism of Turkey’s position on its continental-shelf dispute with Greece; Britain’s strong support for Turkey’s European aspirations, flying in the face of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Cyprus’ recommendations; past and future President Clerides’ seeming contentedness with the British military presence on Cyprus; and a marked difference between French and British views. The article concludes that the British government submitted to US demands and suggests that Cyprus remains a cat’s paw of big-power politics.

Review Article: Genocidal Politics -- Rethinking Crimes against Humanity in Global Perspective

Rensmann, L. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:16:19 PDT

Book Review: Tim Barringer, Geoff Quilley and Douglas Fordham (eds), Art and the British Empire, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2007; xx + 442pp.; {pound}60.00 hbk; ISBN 9780719073922

Potter, M. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:16:19 PDT

Book Review: Jack Kugelmass (ed.), Jews, Sports and the Rites of Citizenship, Urbana, IL, University of Illinois Press, 2007; viii + 232 pp.; $20.00 pbk; ISBN 0252030826 Marline Otte, Jewish Identities in German Popular Culture, 1890--1933, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006; xiv + 334 pp.; $85.00 hbk; ISBN 0521856302

Reuveni, G. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:16:19 PDT

Book Review: John Turnock, Television and Consumer Culture: Britain and the Transformation of Modernity, London, I.B. Tauris, 2007; xii + 244 pp.; {pound}14.99 pbk; ISBN 9781845110796 David Bell and Joanne Hollows (eds), Historicizing Lifestyle: Mediating Taste, Consumption and Identity from the 1900s to the 1970s, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2006; x + 178 pp.; {pound}45.00 hbk; ISBN 0754644413

Lunt, P. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:16:19 PDT

Book Review: Louise A. Jackson, Women Police: Gender, Welfare and Surveillance in the Twentieth Century, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2006; ix + 220 pp.; {pound}50.00 hbk; ISBN 0719073901

Smith, H. L. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:16:19 PDT

Book Review: Thomas Burkman, Japan and the League of Nations: Empire and World Order, 1914--1938, Honolulu, University of Hawai'i Press, 2008; xv + 289 pp.; $58.00 hbk; ISBN 97808248290827

Barnhart, M. A. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:16:19 PDT

Book Review: MacGregor Knox, To the Threshold of Power, 1922--33: Origins and Dynamics of the Fascist and National Socialist Dictatorships, volume 1, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007; xii + 448 pp.; {pound}40.00 hbk, {pound}14.99 pbk; ISBN 9780521703291 (pbk)

Reichardt, S. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:16:19 PDT

Book Review: Ludmilla Stern, Western Intellectuals and the Soviet Union, 1920--40: From Red Square to the Left Bank, London and New York, Routledge, 2007; xi + 269 pp.; {pound}75.00 hbk; ISBN 100415360056

Sked, A. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:16:19 PDT

Book Review: Robert Stradling, Your Children Will Be Next: Bombing and Propaganda in the Spanish Civil War 1936--1939, Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 2008; xix + 315 pp.; {pound}19.99 hbk; ISBN 9780708320952

Garcia, H. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:16:19 PDT

Book Review: Thomas Zeller, Driving Germany: The Landscape of the German Autobahn, 1930--1970, New York, Berghahn Books, 2007; 289 pp.; $85.00, {pound}50.00 pbk; ISBN 9781845453091

Closmann, C. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:16:19 PDT

Book Review: Robert Gildea, Olivier Wieviorka and Anette Warring (eds), Surviving Hitler and Mussolini: Daily Life in Occupied Europe, Oxford and New York, Berg Publishers, 2006; x + 244 pp.; $99.95 hbk; ISBN 1845201809

Scheck, R. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:16:19 PDT

Book Review: Kevin P. Spicer, Hitler's Priests: Catholic Clergy and National Socialism, DeKalb, IL, Northern Illinois University Press, 2008; xv + 369 pp.; {pound}29.95 hbk; ISBN 9780875803845

Hastings, D. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:16:19 PDT

Book Review: Henry Patterson and Eric Kaufmann, Unionism and Orangeism in Northern Ireland since 1945: The Decline of the Loyal Family, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2007; xii + 269 pp.; {pound}16.99 pbk; ISBN 9780719077449

Kerr, M. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:16:19 PDT

Book Review: Michael S. Sherry, Gay Artists in Modern American Culture: An Imagined Conspiracy, Chapel Hill, NC, The University of North Carolina Press, 2007; 238 pp.; {pound}20.00 hbk; ISBN 9780807831212

Narlock, J. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:16:19 PDT

Book Review: Angela Villani, L'Italia e l'Onu negli anni della coesistenza competitiva (1955--1968), Padova, Cedam, 2007; xxviii + 487 pp.; 42.00; ISBN 9788813272951

Tosone, L. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:16:19 PDT

Book Review: Eric P. Kaufmann, The Orange Order: A Contemporary History, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007; xv + 373pp.; {pound}32.00 hbk; ISBN 9780199208487

Bew, J. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:16:19 PDT

Book Review: Kevin B. Witherspoon, Before the Eyes of the World: Mexico and the 1968 Olympic Games, DeKalb, IL, Northern Illinois University Press, 2008; xi + 212 pp.; $35.00 hbk; ISBN 9780875803883

Beck, P. J. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:16:19 PDT

Book Review: Jeffrey A. Engel (ed.), Local Consequences of the Global Cold War, Washington, DC, Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2007; xvii + 334 pp.; {pound}44.50 hbk; ISBN 9780804759472

Unger, C. R. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:16:19 PDT

Book Review: Julia von Dannenberg, The Foundations of Ostpolitik: The Making of the Moscow Treaty between West Germany and the USSR, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008; xvi + 301 pp.; {pound}55.00 hbk; ISBN 9780199228195

Niedhart, G. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:16:19 PDT

Book Review: Julie Hemment, Empowering Women in Russia: Activism, Aid, and NGOs, Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, 2007; xv + 188 pp.; $22.95 pbk; ISBN 9780253218919

Noonan, N. C. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:16:19 PDT

Commemoration and Propaganda in Salazar's Portugal: The Mundo Portugues Exposition of 1940

Corkill, D., Pina Almeida, J. C. — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:49:30 PDT

Salazar's Portugal is often represented as a colourless, pale imitation of the fascist dictatorships in other parts of Europe during the 1930s and 1940s. Yet, in its consolidation phase, the regime embraced the concept of the `festival state', and commemorative events and expositions became key ingredients in the attempt to forge a new, highly selective cultural identity for the Portuguese people. The centerpiece of these efforts was the Mundo Português Exposition of 1940, when the symbols of a new hybrid identity grafted the discourse of Empire onto the traditional conservatism of the New State (Estado Novo). This major cultural event served a triple function for the regime's propagandists: in their quest for regime legitimacy, for propagating Salazar's nationalist version of the nation's history, and in shaping the national consciousness of the Portuguese people in order to eliminate the `anti-national'.

The Failure of Electoral Modernization: The Elections of May 1936 in Granada

Villa Garcia, R. — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:49:30 PDT

There are many studies of elections under the Second Spanish Republic, some of them of great merit. Most, however, are narrow accounts lacking in contextualization, and fail to examine the broader history of parliamentary politics in Spain. The present article analyzes Republican democracy in its final phase — the months in which the Popular Front was in power — through an examination of the elections of May 1936, the last to be held in Spain until 1977. The comparison between the general elections of February 1936 and the partial elections of May, as well as the comparison with broader electoral history in Spain, reveals the rapid deterioration of parliamentary and electoral practice on the eve of the Civil War.

Japan and the Axis, 1937--8: Recognition of the Franco Regime and Manchukuo

Rodao, F. — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:49:30 PDT

After just one year of the Spanish Civil War, the Marco Polo Bridge Incident led to the Sino-Japanese War, both conflicts remaining for two years as daily reminders of the world conflicts of the time. This article attempts to emphasize the importance of the coincidence in time of those conflicts in delimiting each bloc, especially through a decision that was particularly divisive for the Japanese government, such as recognition of Franco's rebel government after the outbreak of the war in China. Efforts by Japanese Foreign Minister Hirota Koki to avoid a decision that would further Japan's pro-Axis drift show the lines of division in the government. His maneuvers progressively failed, including the November 1937 proposal for negotiations to include the recognition of Manchukuo, accepted first by Franco's Spain, later by Italy and finally by the Germans. The article emphasizes the role of Italy in Asia, the reasons for Spanish actions, and the aims of other key persons in this period, such as Prime Minister Konoe, the postwar leader Yoshida Shigeru, or Ishihara Kanji, the officer who masterminded the 1931 invasion of Manchuria.

Seventy Years On: Historians and Repression During and After the Spanish Civil War

Ruiz, J. — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:49:30 PDT

The issue of repression remains one of the most controversial issues arising from the Spanish Civil War and General Franco's unconditional victory in 1939. This article discusses the (mainly Spanish) historiography of both Francoist and Republican political violence, and questions the widely held belief that a `pact of forgetfulness' characterized Spanish historians' treatment of the subject following the death of Franco in November 1975. It argues that the dominant characteristic of repression historiography has been the persistence of contemporary Republican explanations, in particular the alleged contrast between Francoist `plans of extermination' and Republican `uncontrollable' violence. The article rejects such interpretations, and points to new trends in research.

Obshchestvennost' as Key to Understanding Soviet Writers of the 1950s: Moskovskii Literator, October 1956--March 1957

Loewenstein, K. — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:49:30 PDT

The concept of obshchestvennost' , a Russian term that is difficult to translate, helps us understand the ways that writers responded to Nikita Khrushchev's speech denouncing Stalin in 1956. The term can be seen as the public, public opinion or civil society, and was part of an attempt to transform the Moscow section of the Writers' Union. This article uses the concept to investigate the formation of a new newspaper called The Moscow Writer. The newspaper was envisioned as the way to re-create the section as a place for criticism of the current situation within the USSR. The newspaper's independent voice lasted a few months before the authorities intervened. This short interlude demonstrates the desire of writers to provide critical analysis of their position and their future, not to lead a revolution. It also shows the limits of Khrushchev's reforms; he would not allow independent opinion to emerge, even if produced by loyal group of writers.

Public Policies and the Development of National Computer Industries in Britain, France, and the Soviet Union, 1940--80

Cortada, J. W. — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:49:30 PDT

France, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union implemented various public policies designed to promote the development of local computer industries, beginning in the late 1940s, that had mixed results but were part of a larger pan-European interest in promoting national economic development through the use of technologies.

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; {pound}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; {pound}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

Gooch, J. — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:49:30 PDT

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; {pound}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

Roberts, D. — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:49:30 PDT

Review: A. D. Smith, The Cultural Foundations of Nations: Hierarchy, Covenant and Republic, Oxford: John Wiley and Sons, 2008; 243 pp; {pound}19.99 pbk; ISBN 9781405177986

Hirschi, C. — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:49:30 PDT

Review: Martin L. Davies, Historics: Why History Dominates Contemporary Society, London and New York: Routledge, 2006; ix + 287 pp; {pound}19.95 pbk; ISBN: 139780415261661 Harriet Jones, Kjell Ostberg, 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; {pound}50.00 hbk; ISBN: 9780719074172

Fink, C. — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:49:30 PDT

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; {pound}28.95 hbk; ISBN: 0299218201

Hopkin, D. — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:49:30 PDT

Review: Karl Christian Fuhrer and Corey Ross (eds), Mass Media, Culture and Society in Twentieth-Century Germany, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006; 254 pp; $85.00 hbk; ISBN: 9780230008380

Geppert, D. — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:49:30 PDT

Review: Matthew Connelly, Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population, Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2008; xiv + 521 pp; {pound}22.95 hbk; ISBN: 9780674024236

Hartmann, B. — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:49:30 PDT

Review: Jan Ruger, The Great Naval Game: Britain and Germany in the Age of Empire, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007; xv + 337 pp; {pound}50 hbk; ISBN 9780521875769

Rowe, L. — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:49:30 PDT

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; {pound}12.95 pbk; ISBN: 0520246492

Allen, W. R. — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:49:30 PDT

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

Gullace, N. F. — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:49:30 PDT

Review: Matthew Stibbe, British Civilian Internees in Germany: The Ruhleben Camp, 1914--18, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008; xiii + 210 pp; {pound}55.00 hbk; ISBN: 9780719070846; pbk {pound}14.99; ISBN: 9780719070853

Jones, H. — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:49:30 PDT

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

Zembrzycki, S. — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:49:30 PDT

Review: Brian Shelmerdine, British Representations of the Spanish Civil War, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006; vi + 185 pp; {pound}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; {pound}48.00 hbk; ISBN: 9780822340553; {pound}12.99 pbk; ISBN: 9780822340768

Fox, S. — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:49:30 PDT

Review: Andy Durgan, The Spanish Civil War, Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007; xx + 156 pp; {pound}14.99/$26.95 pbk; ISBN: 033379365X

Blaney, G. — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:49:30 PDT

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

Case, H. — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:49:30 PDT

Review: Gordon Horwitz, Ghettostadt: Lodz and the Making of a Nazi City, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008; 395 pp; {pound}19.95 hbk; ISBN: 9780674027992

Fritzsche, P. — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:49:30 PDT

Review: Ian Connor, Refugees and Expellees in Post-War Germany, Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2007; xv + 266 pp; {pound}55.00; ISBN 9780719068867

Kossert, A. — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:49:30 PDT

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

Prazmowska, A. J. — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:49:30 PDT

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; {pound}45.00 hbk; ISBN: 9781571815233

Blessing, B. — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:49:30 PDT

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; {pound}45.00/$75.00 hbk; ISBN: 9781845452049

Wilms, W. — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:49:30 PDT

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; {pound}25.99 pbk; ISBN 13: 9781403921024

Hamer, C. — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:49:30 PDT

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

Toaldo, M. — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:49:30 PDT

The `White Slave Trade' and the Music Hall Affair in 1930s Malta

Knepper, P. — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:52:19 PDT

The music hall affair in 1930s Malta serves as a window into wider social, political issues embodied in the recurring furore that was `white slavery'. Sparked by accusations in London newspapers about sexual exploitation of English women who had come to work as music hall artistes, politicians, newspaper editors, the police and the church in Malta addressed the issue. Although the claims about English women were not true, the stories raised larger questions about prostitution in Malta's night-time leisure economy, and sexual exploitation of foreign artistes and Maltese barmaids did occur in this context. The British reaction followed the pattern of response in other colonies: military authorities chose to focus on the health threat to their personnel posed by what they saw as an indigenous problem of prostitution, rather than acknowledge the effects of colonial rule on local society. Maltese authorities chose to avoid political and economic truths of colonial rule as well: they decided to make the immoral character of the women involved the problem to be addressed. The music hall affair did not champion international human rights, but reflected parochial fears of foreigners and colonial others.

Decentring the German Spirit: The Weimar Republic's Cultural Relations with Latin America

Goebel, M. — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:52:19 PDT

This article analyses the Weimar Republic's cultural relations with Latin America. Based on diplomatic correspondence and the writings of Latin American intellectuals who visited Weimar Germany, the article combines an exploration of the goals and methods of Germany's official foreign cultural policy towards the region with a brief examination of the varied ways in which the supposed recipients of these policies approached German culture. The key argument is that the limited capacities of official cultural policy created space for a large number of actors who pursued divergent interests when appropriating or trying to spread German ideas in Latin America.

An Army of Spies? The Gestapo Spy Network 1933--45

Hall, C. M. — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:52:19 PDT

The contemporary belief of a Gestapo spy on every corner that, in turn, helped create a veil of fear over the German people has been too easily dismissed by scholars on the grounds that the Gestapo did not possess an `army of spies'. The image of the Gestapo as a `big brother' figure with eyes and ears everywhere has been discredited by historians such as Robert Gellately as a nazi fabrication. Gellately's important work on denunciations successfully pushed his thesis of a `self-policing' society operating within a `consensus dictatorship' to the forefront of historiography, but in a revisionist overstatement he exaggerated the significance of denunciations. This article hopes to address the current debate concerning the nature of policing in nazi Germany by demonstrating that there was a regular presence of paid informers alongside denouncers, reinforcing the proactive nature of the Gestapo in repressing dissent.

Shakespeare under Different Flags: The Bard in German Classrooms from Hitler to Honecker

Korte, B., Spittel, C. — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:52:19 PDT

This article contributes to the study of Shakespeare's appropriation in Germany during the twentieth century, with a particular focus on its two authoritarian regimes: the Third Reich and the German Democratic Republic. Germans have had their very own `German' Shakespeare since the eighteenth century. Goethe and Schiller, among others, claimed the playwright for their projects of literary (and national) self-assertion. Ideologues in the Third Reich and the GDR conscripted this already `naturalized' Shakespeare for the purposes of ideological education, and even hailed a new era in the appreciation of his work. Under the swastika, teachers were encouraged to study Shakespeare's Führerfiguren, as well as his anticipation of the racial concerns of National Socialism. In classrooms of the GDR, the emphasis shifted to Shakespeare's humanism and realism, from which, students learned, contemporary socialist literature had evolved. The plays were now read as critical and optimistic responses to a social and political reality defined by class struggle.

Amber Nine: NATO's Secret Use of a Flight Path over Sweden and the Incorporation of Sweden in NATO's Infrastructure

Nilsson, M. — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:52:19 PDT

All through the 1950s and 1960s NATO had secretly utilized a secret flight path, called Amber Nine, over the southwestern part of Sweden. The Swedish government condoned the frequent overflights, despite the fact that Sweden was at the time professing to follow a policy of neutrality in the power struggle between the two superpowers. This article argues that the frequent American use of Amber Nine should be viewed as a materialization of Sweden's consent to US hegemony, and that Amber Nine effectively made Swedish airspace and airports a part of NATO's infrastructure. It also makes the case that the arrangement contributed to the eradication of the credibility of Sweden's policy of neutrality, and that NATO's routine use of a flight path over Sweden, a non-NATO country, warrants a reinterpretation of Sweden's role in the Cold War on NATO's northern flank, as well as challenging the definition of the NATO alliance.

Writing History in the Aftermath of `Relief': Some Comments on `Relief in the Aftermath of War' (Special Issue of Journal of Contemporary History July 2008)

Gemie, S., Humbert, L. — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:52:19 PDT

Review Article: William of Ockham, Where Are You When We Need You? Reviewing Modern Terrorism Studies: Anne Aldis and Graeme P. Herd (eds), The Ideological War on Terror: Worldwide Strategies for Counter-Terrorism, London, Routledge, 2007; 285 pp.; {pound}85.00; ISBN 13: 9780414400749 Christopher Ankerson (ed.), Understanding Global Terror, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2007; 244 pp.; {pound}16.99; ISBN 13: 9780745634609 Tore Bjorgo (ed.), The Roots of Terrorism: Myths, Reality and Ways Forward, London, Routledge, 2005; 269 pp.; {pound}24.99 hbk; ISBN 10: 0415351502 Tilman Bruck (ed.), The Economic Analysis of Terrorism, London, Routledge, 2007; 302 pp.; {pound}80.00; ISBN 10: 0415365236

Smith, M.L.R. — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:52:19 PDT

Book Review: Owen Davies, The Haunted -- A Social History of Ghosts, Hampshire and New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007; viii + 248 pp.; {pound}19.99 pbk; ISBN 9781403939241

Kselman, T. — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:52:19 PDT

Book Review: Roberta Bivins and John V. Pickstone (eds), Medicine, Madness and Social History: Essays in Honour of Roy Porter, New York, Palgrave, 2007; 312 pp.; {pound}58.00 hbk; ISBN 9780230525490

Buckle, K. — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:52:19 PDT

Book Review: Billie Melman, The Culture of History: English Uses of the Past 1800--1953, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006; xiii + 363 pp.; {pound}60.00 hbk; ISBN 019929688X

Swenson, A. — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:52:19 PDT

Book Review: Phillip Buckner (ed.), Canada and the British Empire, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008; 320 pp.; {pound}35.00 hbk; ISBN 13: 9780199271641

Gorman, D. — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:52:19 PDT

Book Review: Leo Lucassen, The Immigrant Threat: The Integration of Old and New Migrants in Western Europe since 1850, Urbana, IL, University of Illinois Press, 2005; xii + 277 pp.; $25.00 pbk; ISBN 9780252072944 Marjory Harper (ed.), Emigrant Homecomings: The Return Movement of Emigrants 1600--2000, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2005; xi + 276 pp.; {pound}55.00 hbk; ISBN 0719070708

Burrell, K. — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:52:19 PDT

Book Review: Steven King, Women, Welfare and Local Politics 1880--1920: `We might be trusted', Brighton, Sussex Academic Press, 2006; ix + 364 pp.; {pound}55.00 hbk; ISBN 1845190874

Rix, K. — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:52:19 PDT

Book Review: Charles F. McGovern, Sold American: Consumption and Citizenship, 1890--1945, Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press, 2006; xv + 536 pp.; $65.00 hbk; ISBN 13: 9780807830338; $24.95 pbk; ISBN 13: 9780807856765 Kristin L. Hoganson, Consumers' Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press, 2007; xiv + 402 pp.; $65.00 hbk; ISBN 13: 9780807830895; $24.95 pbk; ISBN 13: 9780807857939

Rappaport, E. — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:52:19 PDT

Book Review: Eric Kurlander, The Price of Exclusion. Ethnicity, National Identity, and the Decline of German Liberalism, 1898--1933, New York and Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2006; x + 387 pp.; {pound}53.00 hbk; ISBN 1845450694

Langewiesche, D. — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:52:19 PDT

Book Review: Frederick C. Corney, Telling October: Memory and the Making of the Bolshevik Revolution, Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 2004; xvi + 301 pp.; $59.95 hbk; ISBN 0801442193; $22.50 pbk; ISBN 0801489310

Smith, K. E. — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:52:19 PDT

Book Review: Philip Boobbyer, Conscience, Dissent and Reform in Soviet Russia, London and New York, Routledge, 2005; xiv + 282 pp.; $175.00 hbk; ISBN 041533162

Dobson, M. — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:52:19 PDT

Book Review: Marta Petricioli and Donatella Cherubini (eds), Pour la paix en Europe: Institutions et societe civile dans l'entre-deux-guerres, Brussels and New York, Peter Lang, 2007; 636 pp.; ISBN 9789052013640

Hiden, J. — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:52:19 PDT

Book Review: Mark Cornwall and R.J.W. Evans (eds), Czechoslovakia in a Nationalist and Fascist Europe, 1918--1948, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2007; Proceedings of the British Academy 140; xvii + 258 pp.; {pound}35.00 hbk; ISBN 9780197263914

Abrams, B. — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:52:19 PDT

Book Review: Lindsay Earner-Byrne, Mother and Child: Maternity and Child Welfare in Dublin, 1922--60, Manchester and New York, Manchester University Press, 2008; x + 245 pp.; {pound}50.00 hbk; ISBN 9780719074745

Mangion, C. M. — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:52:19 PDT

Book Review: Hugo Garcia, Mentiras Necesarias: la Batalla por la Opinion Britanica durante la Guerra Civil, Madrid, Biblioteca Nueva, 2008; 266 pp.; ISBN 9788497427883

Walton, J. K. — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:52:19 PDT

Book Review: Wolfram Wette, The Wehrmacht: History, Myth and Reality, trans. Deborah Lucas Schneider, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2006; xix + 372 pp.; $29.95 hbk; ISBN 9780674022130; $17.95 pbk; ISBN 0674025776

Rutherford, J. — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:52:19 PDT

Book Review: Martin Lynn (ed.), The British Empire in the 1950s, Retreat or Revival? New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006; xvii + 242 pp.; $85.00 hbk; ISBN 13: 9781403932266 Peter Clarke, The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire, London, Penguin Books, 2007; xxvii + 559 pp.; {pound}25.00 hbk; ISBN 13: 9780713998306

Harrison, R. T. — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:52:19 PDT

Book Review: Nur Masalha (ed.), Catastrophe Remembered: Palestine, Israel and the Internal Refugees, London and New York, Zed Books, 2005; 288 pp.; {pound}19.99 pbk; ISBN 9781842776230

Greenstein, R. — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:52:19 PDT

Book Review: Javier Tusell, Spain from Dictatorship to Democracy. 1939 to the Present, trans. Rosemary Clark, Oxford, Blackwell, 2007; 494 pp.; {pound}55.00 hbk; ISBN 9780631206156

Quiroga, A. — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:52:19 PDT

Book Review: Axel Schildt and Detlef Siegfried (eds), Between Marx and Coca-Cola: Youth Cultures in Changing European Societies, 1960--1980, New York and Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2006; vii + 424 pp.; {pound}50.00 hbk; ISBN 1845450094

Buchanan, T. — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:52:19 PDT

Book Review: Robert J. Bunker (ed.), Networks, Terrorism and Global Insurgency, London and New York, Routledge, 2005; xxvi + 211 pp.; {pound}26.99 pbk; ISBN 0415385946 Brynjar Lia, Globalisation and the Future of Terrorism: Patterns and Predictions, London and New York, Routledge, 2005; xvii + 259 pp.; {pound}21.99 pbk; ISBN 0415402965

Miller, R. — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:52:19 PDT

'The Ghosts of Menin Gate': Art, Architecture and Commemoration

Stephens, J. — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:31:56 PST

Straddling the Meensestraat through the old ramparts of Ypres in Belgium is the Menin Gate. Designed by the architect Reginald Blomfield in 1922, this building commemorates the 56,000 British Empire missing from the battles of the Ypres Salient during the first world war. This solemn memorial has significance and commemorative meaning to relatives of those whose names appeared on the structure. Responding to an eerie vision at the Gate in 1927, the Australian artist and soldier William Longstaff painted his allegorical work Menin Gate at Midnight , showing it as an ethereal structure in a brooding landscape populated with countless ghostly soldiers. The painting was an instant success and was reverentially exhibited at all Australian capital cities. This article contends that both gate and painting — in diverse and complementary ways — attempt to come to terms with the idea of the missing as a special class of soldier death and to create particular sites of memory for those who had no physical remains over which to grieve.

'Interwar Pro-Empire Propaganda and European Colonial Culture: Toward a Comparative Research Agenda'

Stanard, M. G. — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:31:57 PST

Histories of colonial culture in Europe have been narrowly focused, whereas comparative and transnational studies can provide more fruitful results. By resisting the traditional approach to imperialistic culture, which focuses on individual nation-states and their empires, one can examine common themes and practices across Western Europe, for instance during the interwar period. During that time, states, pro-empire interest groups, and others repeatedly portrayed empires as singular, unified entities as well as realms of untold fortunes, even when in most instances they were neither. Reinforcing these themes were a number of near-universal practices, including the holding of so-called `colonial days' and the creation of ethnographic exhibits of colonial subjects, often at international expositions. An examination of pro-empire propaganda between the wars demonstrates that European states with overseas colonies in the twentieth century did not develop distinct colonial cultures; rather, they shared a number of common premises and performances. This suggests the coming into being of a broader European colonial culture and the need for comparative and transnational studies in this field. The states included in this analysis are Britain, France, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Portugal, and the Netherlands.

Diverging Paths: Nazism, the National Civic Federation, and American Anticommunism, 1933--9

Goodall, A. — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:31:57 PST

This article examines the development of anticommunism in the United States in the Depression years. It argues that the rise of nazism on the international stage had profound repercussions for domestic anticommunist groups in the United States, forcing them into making strategic decisions about the content of their own ideology. By closely associating anticommunism with fascism, the spectre of nazism damaged those anticommunist groups such as the National Civic Federation (NCF) that sought to stress the nationalist origins of their politics. This in turn produced splits and realignments in the anticommunist community, but in time led to the emergence of a new kind of anticommunist rhetoric that — instead of being damaged by associations with fascism — legitimated itself within a broader framework of anti-totalitarianism.

The Sino-Indian War of 1962 in Anglo-American Relations

Devereux, D. R. — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:31:57 PST

China's attack on India in 1962 came at a time of high tension in the Cold War, and its objective was not immediately clear. The crisis provided an opportunity for Britain and the US to support India against China and possibly to woo that country towards the western powers. The brevity of the war and the apparently limited Chinese aims did not alter the status quo. However, the crisis demonstrated an Anglo-American willingness to co-operate on South Asian defense policy, although the two tended to differ in their perceptions of the Chinese threat to India.

`Informed By, but Not Guided By, the Concerns of the Present': Contemporary History in UK Higher Education -- Its Teaching and Assessment

Chambers, V. A. — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:31:57 PST

In September 2007, the Higher Education Academy's Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology commissioned a detailed survey of how and where contemporary history is taught in UK higher education institutions and further education institutions offering degree-level courses. The aim was to establish where contemporary history is taught in UK higher education departments and to understand chronologies used by departments; the resources used in its teaching; how learning is assessed; and the distinctiveness of contemporary history. The survey, based on analysis of university and further education college websites and answers to a questionnaire, resulted in a report which was presented at the Subject Centre's annual conference in 2008. The findings of the survey revealed some interesting comment from those involved in contemporary history teaching in higher education in the UK, feeding into wider issues and ongoing debates about the scope and meaning of contemporary history. The following article discusses the results of the survey in detail and outlines concerns raised. It is intended as a platform for further discussion and to aid fuller understanding of contemporary history teaching generally at higher education level in the UK. It is hoped that this initial investigation and discussion will spark ongoing interest in how the subject is taught in the future and will provide groundwork for enhancing the subject and its further development.

Review Article: Voices in the Dark: Representations of Disability in Historical Research: Pamela Dale and Joseph Melling (eds), Mental Illness and Learning Disability Since 1850: Finding a Place for Mental Disorder in the United Kingdom, Abingdon: Routledge, 2006; pp. vii + 234; ISBN10: 0--415--36491--4 (hb) Waltraud Ernst (ed.), Histories of the Normal and the Abnormal: Social and Cultural Histories of Norms and Normativity, Abingdon: Routledge, 2006; pp. vii + 288; ISBN10: 0--415--36843--X (hb) David M. Turner and Kevin Stagg (eds), Social Histories of Disability and Deformity, Abingdon: Routledge, 2006; pp. vii + 198; ISBN10: 0--415-- 36098--6 (hb)

Anderson, J. — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:31:57 PST

Review Article: Rethinking Reproduction: New Approaches to the History of Sexuality, Gender, the Family, and Reproductive Control: Laura Briggs, Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico, Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 2002; pp. xi + 278; ISBN 0--520--23258--5 Matthew Connelly, Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population, Cambridge, MA, and London, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008; pp. xiv + 521; ISBN 978--0--674--02423--6 Kate Fisher, Birth Control, Sex, and Marriage in Britain, 1918--1960, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006; pp. vi + 294; ISBN 0--19--926736--7 Joanna Schoen, Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare, Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 2005; pp. xiv + 331; ISBN 0--8078--5585--5 Alexandra Stern, Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America, Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 2005; pp. xi + 347; ISBN 0--520--24444--3

Klausen, S. — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:31:57 PST

Review Article: The Causes and Consequences of Stalinism: Alter Litvin and John Keep, Stalinism: Russian and Western Views at the Turn of the Millennium, New York: Routledge, 2005; xiv + 248 pp; ISBN 0--415-- 35109-X (pbk). Kevin McDermott, Stalin, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006; xiii + 219 pp; ISBN 0--333--71122-X (pbk). David Priestland, Stalinism and the Politics of Mobilization: Ideas, Power, and Terror in Inter-War Russia, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007; xii + 487 pp; ISBN 978--0--19--924513--0 (hbk). Lynne Viola, The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin's Special Settlements, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007; xxv + 278 pp; ISBN 978--0-- 19--518769--4 (hbk). Elizabeth Wood, Performing Justice: Agitation Trials in Early Soviet Russia, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005; viii + 301 pp; ISBN 0--8014--4257-- 5 (hbk)

Hoffmann, D. L. — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:31:57 PST

Review Article: `1945: A Hungarian year nulla?': Adam Biro, translated by Catherine Tihanyi, One Must also be Hungarian, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2006; pp. xvii + 169; ISBN 978--0-- 226--05212--0 Gemma La Guardia Gluck, Fiorello's Sister. Gemma La Guardia Gluck's Story, newly expanded edition, edited by Rochelle G. Saidel, Syracuse, Syracuse University Press, 2007; pp. xx + 152; ISBN 978--0--8156--0861--5 Paul A. Hanebrink, In Defense of Christian Hungary. Religion, Nationalism and Antisemitism, 1890--1944, Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2006; pp. x + 255; ISBN 978--0--8014--4485--2 Peter Kenez, Hungary from the Nazis to the Soviets. The Establishment of the Communist Regime in Hungary, 1944--1948, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006; pp. ix + 312; ISBN 978--0--521--85766--6 Ernest Levy, The Single Light, compiled and adapted by David Spear, London, Vallentine Mitchell, 2007; pp. xviii + 358; ISBN 978--0--85303--748--4

Cole, T. — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:31:57 PST

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Book Review: Sunil S. Amrith, Decolonizing International Health: India and Southeast Asia, 1930--65, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006; pp. xiii + 261; {pound}50.00 hbk; ISBN 1 4039 8593 6

Arnold, D. — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:31:57 PST

Book Review: Krista Cowman, Women of the Right Spirit: Paid Organisers of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) 1904--18, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2007; xi + 248 pp; {pound}55 hbk; ISBN 978--0719070020

Delap, L. — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:31:57 PST

Book Review: Didier Fassin, translated by Amy Jacobs and Gabrielle Varro, When Bodies Remember: Experiences and Politics of AIDS in South Africa, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2007; xxiv + 365 pp; {pound}12.95; ISBN 978--0--520-- 25027--7

Berridge, V. — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:31:57 PST

Book Review: Peter Fritzsche, Life and Death in the Third Reich, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008; viii + 368 pp; {pound}18.95 hbk; ISBN 978--0674--02793--0

Noakes, J. — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:31:57 PST

Book Review: John R. Gold, The Practice of Modernism: Modern Architects and Urban Transformation, 1954--1972, London and New York, Routledge, 2007; pp. xvi + 336; {pound}29.99 pbk; ISBN 978--0415258432

Whyte, W. — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:31:57 PST

Book Review: Gerd-Rainer Horn, The Spirit of '68: Rebellion in Western Europe and North America, 1956--1976, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007; pp. x+251; {pound}39.00 hbk; ISBN 978--0--19--927666--0

Suri, J. — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:31:57 PST

Book Review: Andreas Killen, Berlin Electropolis: Shock, Nerves, and German Modernity, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006; viii + 295 pp; {pound}32.95 hbk; ISBN 978--0520--24362--0

Cocks, G. — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:31:57 PST

Book Review: Diane P. Koenker, Republic of Labor: Russian Printers and Soviet Socialism, 1918--1930, Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2005; xiii + 343 pp; {pound}32.95 hbk; ISBN: 0801443083

Zhuk, S. I. — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:31:57 PST

Book Review: Janet Lee, War Girls. The First Aid Nursing Yeomanry in the First World War, Manchester and New York, Manchester University Press, 2005; xiii + 269pp; {pound}30 hbk; ISBN 978--0719067129

Noakes, L. — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:31:57 PST

Book Review: Klaus-Michael Mallmann and Martin Cuppers, Halbmond und Hakenkreuz. Das Dritte Reich, die Araber und Palastina, Darmstadt: WGB, 2006; 287 pp; E49.90 hbk; ISBN 3 534 19729 1

Due Enstad, J. — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:31:57 PST

Book Review: Beverley Milton-Edwards and Peter Hinchcliffe, Conflicts in the Middle East since 1945, third edition, London, Routledge, 2007; 158 pp; {pound}14.99 pbk; ISBN: 9781415440172 Rob Johnson, Oil, Islam and Conflict: Central Asia since 1945, London, Reaktion Books, 2007; 272 pp; {pound}15.95; ISBN: 9781861893390

Lawson, F. H. — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:31:57 PST

Book Review: Philip Morgan, The Fall of Mussolini: Italy, the Italians, and the Second World War, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007; pp. 263 + ill.; $29.95; ISBN-10: 019280247X; ISBN-13: 978--0192802477

Finaldi, G. — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:31:57 PST

Book Review: Michelle Mouton, From Nurturing the Nation to Purifying the Volk. Weimar and Nazi Family Policy, 1918--1945, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2007; iii + 310 pp; $75.00 hbk; ISBN 0 521 86184 5

Kundrus, B. — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:31:57 PST

Book Review: Mark Moyar, Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954--1965, Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press, 2006; 512 pp; ISBN 13: 978--0-- 521--86911--9

Quinn-Judge, S. — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:31:57 PST

Book Review: Murray Pittock, The Road to Independence? Scotland Since the Sixties, London: Reaktion Books, 2008; 206 pp; {pound}15.95 pbk; ISBN 978 1 86189 365 9

Cameron, E. A. — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:31:57 PST

Book Review: Hilari Raguer, Gunpowder and Incense: The Catholic Church and the Spanish Civil War, Abingdon, Routledge, Canada Blanch Studies on Contemporary Spain, 2007; xix+418 pp; ISBN 0--415--31889--0

Casanova, J. — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:31:57 PST

Book Review: Richard Rodger and Joanna Herbert (eds), Testimonies of the City. Identity, Community and Change in a Contemporary Urban World (Historical Urban Studies), Aldershot, Ashgate, 2007; xvii + 276 pp; {pound}52.25 hbk; ISBN 978 07546 5560 2

Follmer, M. — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:31:57 PST

Book Review: Aviel Roshwald, The Endurance of Nationalism: Ancient Roots and Modern Dilemmas, Cambridge University Press, 2006; xii + 349 pp; $30.99; ISBN10: 0521603641

Leerssen, J. — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:31:57 PST

Book Review: Raffael Scheck, Hitler's African Victims. The German Army Massacres of Black French Soldiers in 1940, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006; xxii + 202 pp, {pound}38.00 hbk; ISBN 13: 9780521857994

Lieb, P. — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:31:57 PST

Book Review: Selina Todd, Young Women, Work, and Family in England 1918--1950, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005; xiii + 272; {pound}50 hbk; ISBN 10: 0 19 928275 7

Wright, V. — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:31:57 PST

Book Review: Frank Trentmann and Fleming Just (eds), Food and Conflict in Europe in the Age of the Two World Wars, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006; xiii + 296 pp; $74.95 hbk; ISBN 13: 978 14039 8684 9

Healy, M. — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:31:57 PST

Book Review: Erik van der Vleuten and Arne Kaijser (eds), Networking Europe: Trans-national Infrastructures and the Shaping of Europe, 1850--2000, Sagamore Beach, MA, Watson Publishing International, 2006; vii + 335pp; $47.50 hbk; ISBN 10: 0881353949

Millward, R. — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:31:57 PST

Book Review: Paul Wanke, Russian/Soviet Military Psychiatry, 1904--1945, London and New York: Frank Cass, 2005; 145 pp; {pound}80.00 hbk; ISBN 0415354609

Wessely, S. — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:31:57 PST