European History

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Ancient Bovillae

History, Art, and Archaeology of a Lost City in the Roman Hinterland

Edited by Peter Hatlie
Subjects: Archaeology, Roman, Classical Studies, Roman, History, European History

The first comprehensive study in English of the ancient Roman city and its decline

Beyond the River, Under the Eye of Rome

By Timothy C Hart
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, History, European History

Explores how Roman perceptions of Danubian peoples influenced some of the most politically and socially significant events of Roman antiquity

Performing the Greek Crisis

Navigating National Identity in the Age of Austerity

By Natalie Zervou
Subjects: Dance, History, European History
Series: Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices

Examining how changes in dance amid the Greek financial crisis altered perceptions and discourses of Greece’s culture and national identity

Archaeological Investigations in a Northern Albanian Province: Results of the Projekti Arkeologjik i Shkodrës (PASH)

Volume Two: Artifacts and Artifact Analysis

Edited by Michael L. Galaty & Lorenc Bejko
Subjects: Archaeology, History, European History, European Studies, Eastern European Studies, Balkans
Series: Memoirs

Archaeological Investigations in a Northern Albanian Province: Results of the Projekti Arkeologjik i Shkodrës (PASH)

Volume One: Survey and Excavation Results

Edited by Michael L. Galaty & Lorenc Bejko
Subjects: Archaeology, History, European History, European Studies, Eastern European Studies, Balkans
Series: Memoirs

Writing Imperial History

Tacitus from Agricola to Annales

By Bram L.H. ten Berge
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, History, European History

Analyzes how Tacitus contributed to our current understanding of history and reveals the themes that permeated his writing

Lucian’s Laughing Gods

Religion, Philosophy, and Popular Culture in the Roman East

By Inger NI Kuin
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, History, European History

The first English-language monograph about religion and Lucian of Samosata

Decolonizing German and European History at the Museum

By Katrin Sieg
Subjects: German Studies, History, European History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

How do museums confront the violence of European colonialism, conquest, dispossession, enslavement, and genocide?

The Black Widows of the Eternal City

The True Story of Rome's Most Infamous Poisoners

By Craig A. Monson
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Classical Studies, Roman, History, European History

An intriguing and well-researched account behind the dozens of female poisoners in seventeenth-century Rome

Dispossession

Plundering German Jewry, 1933-1953

By Christoph Kreutzmüller & Jonathan R. Zatlin
Subjects: German Studies, Jewish Studies, History, European History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Comparative context for understanding the experience of the German Jewry in the wake of Nazi plundering, racism, and genocide

Aryan and Non-Aryan in India

Edited by Madhav Deshpande, Peter Edwin Hook, and Peter Edwin Hook
Subjects: Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, History, European History
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

A collection studies of ancient Aryan and non-Aryan Indian cultures from linguistic and historical perspectives

Explorations in Early Southeast Asian History

The Origins of Southeast Asian Statecraft

Edited by Kenneth Hall, John K. Whitmore, and John K. Whitmore
Subjects: Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, Political Science, Human Rights, History, European History
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece

Kid pro quo?

By Gonda Van Steen
Subjects: American Studies, History, American History, European History, Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, European Literature

Reveals the history of how 3,000 Greek children were shipped to the United States for adoption in the postwar period

Yiddish Empire

The Vilna Troupe, Jewish Theater, and the Art of Itinerancy

By Debra Caplan
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Jewish Studies, History, European History

Relates the untold story of a traveling Yiddish theater company and traces their far- reaching influence

Bodies and Ruins

Imagining the Bombing of Germany, 1945 to the Present

By David F. Crew
Subjects: History, German History, German Studies, European History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Explores visual representations of the Allied bombing war on Germany to reveal how Germans remembered and commemorated WWII

The Most Noble of People

Religious, Ethnic, and Gender Identity in Muslim Spain

By Jessica Coope
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Islamic Studies, History, European History

Negotiates ethnic, religious, and gender identity amid turbulent social change in medieval Islamic Spain

Persecution and Rescue

The Politics of the “Final Solution” in France, 1940-1944

By Wolfgang Seibel
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, History, European History

A new look at the politics behind the negotiations that shaped the fate of the Jews in occupied France during World War II

Alienation Effects

Performance and Self-Management in Yugoslavia, 1945-91

By Branislav Jakovljevic
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Art, Art History, History, European History
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Examines the interplay of artistic, political, and economic performance in the former Yugoslavia and reveals their inseparability

Beyond Berlin

Twelve German Cities Confront the Nazi Past

Edited by Gavriel D. Rosenfeld & Paul B. Jaskot
Subjects: German Studies, History, German History, European History, Jewish Studies, Art, Architecture
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

A compelling exploration of the myriad ways in which German cities have confronted their Nazi pasts

It All Began in Nuremberg

Between History and Memory

By Rita Thalmann
Translated by Lois Davis Vines & Marie-Claire Connes Wrage
Subjects: Memoir, History, European History, Jewish Studies

A new translation of Rita Thalmann’s impactful memoir detailing her personal witness of Nazism and the Holocaust

A Tale of Two Capitalisms

Sacred Economics in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By Supritha Rajan
Subjects: Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, 19th Century Literature, Economics, History of Economic Thought, History, European History

An interdisciplinary examination of nineteenth-century British capitalism, its architects, and its critics

After Django

Making Jazz in Postwar France

By Tom Perchard
Subjects: History, European History, Music, Jazz
Series: Jazz Perspectives

The first study to focus on jazz in postwar France, this book explores the ways that French musicians and critics received and remade an American music according to their own cultural concerns

The Real and the Sacred

Picturing Jesus in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

By Jefferson J. A. Gatrall
Subjects: Literary Studies, European Literature, History, European History, Religion, Art, British and Irish Literatures, 19th Century Literature, American Literature

A cultural history of representations of Jesus in nineteenth-century European and American fiction and visual art

Communism Day-to-Day

State Enterprises in East German Society

By Sandrine Kott
Subjects: German Studies, History, European History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

A thoughtful examination of how communism was instituted, debated, and “lived” in the workplaces and in state enterprises of East Germany

Jazz and Machine-Age Imperialism

Music, "Race," and Intellectuals in France, 1918-1945

By Jeremy F. Lane
Subjects: Music, Jazz, Ethnomusicology, History, European History
Series: Jazz Perspectives

A groundbreaking study of the reception of jazz among French-speaking black intellectuals between 1918 and 1945

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