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Global History of Right-wing Terrorism, A Published August 2026 A Global History of Right-wing Terrorism Hof, T.

Spanning from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, Hof traces the global evolution of right-wing terrorism across time and continents. Through vivid case studies set in diverse historical and social contexts, he reveals how terrorist movements have transformed, adapted, and connected through transnational networks.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies

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Greek War of Independence, The Published March 2026 The Greek War of Independence Impact, Perceptions, and Transformation Within and Beyond the Empire Moiras, L., Christofis, N., & Lamprou, A., (Eds.)

The Greek Revolution of 1821 reshaped the Eastern Mediterranean and reverberated across the globe. Moving beyond traditional nationalist historiography, this study draws on recent transnational and Ottoman-centered scholarship to examine how diaspora networks, European Philhellenes, and great power rivalries transformed a regional revolt into an international cause.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History (General)

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Making of Modern Eating, The Published February 2026 The Making of Modern Eating How the German Middle Class Forged the Way We Eat, 1780-1910 Kreklau, C.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Food & Nutrition

Habsburg Natures Published November 2025 Habsburg Natures Imperial Governance and Environment in Central Europe, 1850-1918 Daheur, J. & Lučić, I. (eds)

An exacting analysis of the correlation between the environment and power, Habsburg Natures explores how the natural world fundamentally shaped the political and economic landscape within the Austro-Hungarian Empire from 1850 to 1918. 

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Environmental Studies (General)

Post-Contact Archaeology of Michigan and the Upper Great Lakes Region Published November 2025 Post-Contact Archaeology of Michigan and the Upper Great Lakes Region Surface-Evans, S. L. & Jackson, M. M. (eds)

In this comprehensive reassessment of post-contact archaeology in the Upper Great Lakes region, Sarah L. Surface-Evans and Misty M. Jackson highlight the diversity and breadth of the area’s archaeological sites and the innovative findings they offer. In doing so, they highlight archaeology’s implications for transforming our understanding of present-day, social justice.

Subjects: Archaeology Heritage Studies History: 18th/19th Century

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Neutrality’s Empire Published October 2025 Neutrality’s Empire Swedish Colonialism in the Industrial Age Högselius, P., Nilsson, D., & Vikström, H.
Subjects: Colonial History History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present

History and Historiography in Greece Published May 2025 History and Historiography in Greece Recent Trends Christofis, N. (ed)

A comprehensive and temporally wide-ranging reassessment, History and Historiography in Greece examines how historical scholarship in Greece is evolving by reviewing the ideas, methods, and schools of history shaping the field, how this juxtaposes with international trends, and whether Greek historiographical traditions are developing at the same pace as global trends.

Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present

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Habsburg Civil Servants Published May 2025 Habsburg Civil Servants Between Civil Society and the State Maxwell, A. & Ličen, D. (eds)

An innovative exploration of the lives of Habsburg civil servants from the nineteenth century onwards, this volume spotlights the role they played in maintaining the Habsburg Empire’s rule over geographically disparate domains. In doing so, Habsburg Civil Servants illuminates how this social group both constituted and challenged state power.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century History: World War I

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Germany’s Struggle for Modernity Published April 2025 Germany’s Struggle for Modernity Society, Economy, Culture, and Politics, 1789-1918 Kocka, J.

In this history of Germany from 1780 to 1918, Jürgen Kocka re-examines the seismic changes that took place within society, economy, culture, and politics. Innovatively resituating these developments within a wider, European context, this book provides fresh insights into the emergence of classical modernity within the nineteenth century.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present History: World War I

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Political and Legal History of German Jews Published April 2025 Political and Legal History of German Jews A Short Introduction Jensen, U.

An insightful reassessment of the political and legal history of German Jews, this book innovatively resituates German Jews as active and engaged political agents, who were invested in engaging with, resisting, and shaping policy, from the early modern period to the present day.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present

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Island of the Pope, The Published February 2025 The Island of the Pope Catholics in the Aegean Archipelago between Empire and Nation-State, 1770-1830 Kousouris, D.

This illuminating re-examination of Syros’s transition into a major commercial hub following the Greek War of Independence revises the conventional understanding of the island’s demographic history, highlighting how, rather than withdraw, the native Catholic community adjusted and integrated into the new Greek nation-state.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Colonial History Refugee and Migration Studies

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1840 Rhodes Blood Libel, The Published October 2024 The 1840 Rhodes Blood Libel Ottoman Jews at the Dawn of the Tanzimat Era Borovaya, O.

Based on newly discovered Ottoman and Jewish sources and using a legal lens on Levantine practices, The 1840 Rhodes Blood Libel argues that the acquittal of Rhodian Jews following a ritual murder charge is only adequately understood in the context of the Tanzimat and the Sublime Porte’s foreign relations, and in the context of a shared Ottoman and Jewish history.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Jewish Studies

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Rag Fair Published October 2024 Rag Fair A Different Migration History of London’s East End, 1780-1850 Münch, O.

Drawing on approaches across migration history, economic history, economic anthropology, and the sociology of movements, Rag Fair uncovers the social mechanisms behind the world-famous market’s role as an intercultural contact zone where Jewish and Irish migrants mingled, entered client relationships, and forged political alliances.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Cultural Studies (General) Mobility Studies Jewish Studies

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Reversible America Published July 2024 Reversible America Cowboys, Clowns, and Bullfighters Saumade, F. & Maudet, J.-B.

Reversible America negotiates the spectacle of Rodeo, cattle ranching, and bullfighting as it has manifested in California through cross border convergences of Iberian bullfighting, Native American hunting methods, and ethics in human and non-human relationships.

Subjects: Performance Studies History: 18th/19th Century Anthropology (General)

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Soul of the Nation, The Published July 2024 The Soul of the Nation Catholicism and Nationalization in Modern Spain Alonso, G. & Hernández Burgos, C. (eds)

Religion and politics have historically clashed in modern Spain, particularly following the crisis of 1808 when the Catholica Monarchy put the role of the Church at the heart of political cultural Debates. The Soul of the Nation seeks to unravel this complex and oppositional history between Catholic values and modern political regimes.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century

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Science of State Power in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1790-1880, The Published June 2024 The Science of State Power in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1790-1880 Török, B. Z.

The science of Statistik (statistics) by the Habsburg state in the long 19th century was adapted to the political growth of imperial power. The Science of State Power in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1790-1880 connects the disciplinary history of German sciences of the state to the integration of territories into the Habsburg state’s evolution.

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

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Russian Historiography from 1880 to 1905 Published June 2024 Russian Historiography from 1880 to 1905 Pavel N. Miliukov and the Moscow School Bohn, T. M.

Russian Historiography from 1880 to 1905 develops and intervenes the historic record of Pavel Miliukov (1859-1943), the late leader of the Constitutional Democrats and foreign minister of the Provisional Government, who drove the Moscow School’s paradigm shift from political and legal history to social and economic history.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century

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Social History of German Jews Published May 2024 Social History of German Jews A Short Introduction Rürup, M.

Social History of German Jews traces the social history of modern German Jews from the end of the 18th century up to the aftermath of World War II, and focusses on the ascent of German Jews into the middle and upper-middle classes through both adversity and manifold forms of Jewish self-assertion.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present

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Quotas Published May 2024 Quotas The “Jewish Question” and Higher Education in Central Europe, 1880-1945 Miller, M. L. & Szapor, J. (eds)

Quotas focuses on the ideologies and practices of quota regimes in Central and Eastern Europe from the late nineteenth century throughout the 20th century, covering their origins development, and impact particularly on limiting access to higher education.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century

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Political Friendship Published July 2026 Political Friendship Liberal Notables, Networks, and the Pursuit of the German Nation State, 1848-1866 Weaver, M.

Political Friendship demonstrates the central role of the German liberal elite’s interpersonal relationships in the uncertain path to unification and 19th century Germany political culture.

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

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Gender History of German Jews Published February 2024 Gender History of German Jews A Short Introduction Schüler-Springorum, S.

Gender History of German Jews is a concise overview of German-Jewish gender agency and change against the “dawn of modernity” across both men and women who dealt with histories of status change, discrimination, persecution, and deportation.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present

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Yugoslavia without Yugoslavs Published July 2023 Yugoslavia without Yugoslavs The History of a National Idea Jezernik, B.

Following the idea of Yugoslavism since its first public usage in 1849, Yugoslavia without Yugoslavs explains why the concept of Yugoslavia competed with Slavic, Serbian, and Croatian nationalistic ideas and failed just five years after its first nation state was established

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century History: World War I

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Music and Postwar Transitions in the 19th and 20th Centuries Published April 2026 Music and Postwar Transitions in the 19th and 20th Centuries Fléchet, A., Guerpin, M., Gumplowicz, P. & Kelly, B. L. (eds)

Music and Postwar Transitions takes a groundbreaking and much anticipated dive into the concept of postwar transitions and how these affect and are affected by the world of music. Leading scholars in the field explore new approaches to create a novel understanding of music and postwar periods.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century Media Studies

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Servants of Culture Published May 2023 Servants of Culture Paternalism, Policing, and Identity Politics in Vienna, 1700-1914 Natarajan, A.

Using a wide range of material including legal, criminal, literary, and political sources, Servants of Culture brings forward the previously neglected history of a mass migration of women from the Habsburg Empire’s countryside to work as servants for bourgeois households, inns and hotels during the second half of the 19th century.  At the time, socio-political players claimed to want to improve the living and working conditions of these migrants but as Natarajan demonstrates these efforts resulted in an increase in surveillance and a restriction of freedoms for women and servants in Viennese history.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Citizens into Dishonored Felons Published February 2026 Citizens into Dishonored Felons Felony Disenfranchisement, Honor, and Rehabilitation in Germany, 1806-1933 de Groot, T.

Throughout the long nineteenth century felony disenfranchisement affected the moral fabric of German society and coincided with a history of honor in German legal thought. Citizens into Dishonored Felons uses uncommonly extensive archival materials to address the emotional and symbolic impact of punishment as both an enforcement of societal hierarchies and a platform for reform.


 

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present


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History of Thyssen, The Published March 2023 The History of Thyssen Family, Industry and Culture in the 20th Century Schulz, G. & Szöllösi-Janze, M.

The History of Thyssenprovides a summary of a research project funded by the Thyssen Foundations. It is both an explanation of how the project was conceptualized and executed and a detailed case study of a family and business during the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century

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Invested Narratives Published November 2022 Invested Narratives German Responses to Economic Crisis Twark, J. (ed)

Narratives of how nations survive, restructure or even fail during economic crisis not only inform future responses to crisis but also strengthen national theoretical, empirical, and analytical financial discourse. Invested Narratives brings together an interdisciplinary set of scholars to address the history of German responses to crisis over the past 200 years.

 

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century

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Thinking Europe Published November 2024 Thinking Europe A History of the European Idea since 1800 Andrén, M.

This title assesses the idea of Europe through its intellectual history. Exploring the concept of integration and the relationship between this and arguments for division and borders it reveals their interplay in the composition of the contemporary European identity.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century


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Beyond 'Hellenes' and 'Barbarians' Published October 2022 Beyond 'Hellenes' and 'Barbarians' Asymmetrical Concepts in European Discourse Postoutenko, K. (ed)

Surveying a variety of significant asymmetrical conceptualizations, Beyond 'Hellenes' and 'Barbarians' extends our current breadth of understanding of how ascriptive terms such as ‘civilization’ vs. ‘barbarity,’ or ‘order’ vs. ‘chaos’ functioned and continue to function in political, scientific, and fictional discourses.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century History: Medieval/Early Modern

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Borders in East and West Published March 2025 Borders in East and West Transnational and Comparative Perspectives Berger, S. & Hashimoto, N. (eds)

The different ways of understanding borders, through culture, politics, or even religion, is transforming and requires multi-disciplinary approaches the complexity of interactions and tensions that may arise. Borders in East and West focuses on the relationships between Europe and East Asia through comparative case studies to challenge discourses and build new perspectives.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century Colonial History

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Spanish Laughter Published June 2022 Spanish Laughter Humor and Its Sense in Modern Spain Calvo Maturana, A. (ed)

Exploring various forms of humor in Modern Spain since their entry into the eighteenth-century public sphere, Spanish Laughter takes on the comforting, transgressive, conservative, rebellious, and other dynamic forms of humor as they have changed and contributed to the building of Spain’s cultural framework and historiographical panorama.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present

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World beyond the West, The Published April 2026 The World beyond the West Perspectives from Eastern Europe Kałczewiak, M. & Kozłowska, M. (eds)

Exploring the evolution of Eastern European discourses in Asia, Africa and Latin America in nineteenth and twentieth century, this volume locates the mechanisms and strategies that diverse Eastern European social actors adopted when discussing the non-European world. The Eastern European perspective is not only an important addition to the study of orientalism and post coloniality, but the transnational links in-between Eastern Europe show the region’s importance to a global history.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century Colonial History

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Nationalism and Internationalism Intertwined Published June 2025 Nationalism and Internationalism Intertwined A European History of Concepts Beyond the Nation State Ihalainen, P. & Holmila, A. (eds)
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century

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Germany and the Confessional Divide Published December 2021 Germany and the Confessional Divide Religious Tensions and Political Culture, 1871-1989 Ruff, M. E. & Großbölting, T. (eds)

Germany confessional identities developed against cultural, religious, and political tensions in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Unpacking the conflicted religious history, this collection focuses on defining traumatic events, tracing their origins across division between Catholics and Protestants, hinderance of German unification, and transforming religious identities, allegiances, and practices

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present

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Israel-Palestine Published June 2024 Israel-Palestine Lands and Peoples Bartov, O. (ed)

The conflict between Israel and Palestine has raised a plethora of unanswered questions, generated seemingly unreconcilable narratives, and profoundly transformed the land’s physical and political geography. This volume seeks to provide a deeper understanding of the links between the region that is now known as Israel and Palestine and its peoples—both those that live there as well as those who relate to it as a mental, mythical, or religious landscape.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present

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Russian Cold, The Published February 2025 The Russian Cold Histories of Ice, Frost, and Snow Herzberg, J., Renner, A., & Schierle, I. (eds)

Cold has long been a fixture of Russian identity both within and beyond the nation, even as the ongoing effects of climate change complicate its meaning and cultural salience. The Russian Cold assembles fascinating new contributions from a variety of scholarly traditions, offering new perspectives on how to understand this mainstay of Russian culture and history.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Environmental Studies (General)

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Rethinking Atlantic Empire Published June 2021 Rethinking Atlantic Empire Christopher Schmidt-Nowara’s Histories of Nineteenth-Century Spain and the Antilles Eastman, S. & Jacobsen, S. (eds)

In recent years, the historiography of nineteenth-century Spain has been invigorated by interdisciplinary engagement with scholars working on topics such as empire, slavery, and race, exemplified by the work of Christopher Schmidt-Nowara. Rethinking Atlantic Empire places Schmidt-Nowara’s work within the context of the broader field, reflecting on his contributions and charting potential new directions in research.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Colonial History

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Merchant Kings Published April 2021 Merchant Kings Corporate Governmentality in the Dutch Colonial Empire, 1815–1870 Schrauwers, A.

Merchant Kings offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the rapid industrialization of the Netherlands and its colonial holdings in Java during the nineteenth century. By placing colony and metropole into a single analytical frame, it offers a bracing new approach to understanding the development of modern corporations within the context of empire.

Subjects: Colonial History History: 18th/19th Century Political and Economic Anthropology

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More than Mere Spectacle Published November 2025 More than Mere Spectacle Coronations and Inaugurations in the Habsburg Monarchy during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Van Gelder, K.

More than Mere Spectacle brings together new research on the numerous coronations and inaugurations in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Habsburg Monarchy, examining why so many of them still took place, what political, legal, social, and cultural significance they bore, and how they adapted to actual circumstances. It takes the flexibility of their format as the key to understanding their lasting relevance.

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

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Estates and Constitution Forthcoming October 2026 Estates and Constitution The Parliament in Eighteenth-Century Hungary Szijártó, I. M.

Estates and Constitution provides a rich account of Hungarian politics during the eighteenth century, restoring the Diet to its rightful place as one of the era’s major innovations in government. István M. Szijártó traces the religious, economic, and partisan forces that shaped the Diet, putting its historical significance in international perspective and demonstrating that it played a critical role in the eventual dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century


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Antisemitism in Galicia Published December 2023 Antisemitism in Galicia Agitation, Politics, and Violence against Jews in the Late Habsburg Monarchy Buchen, T.

Antisemitism in Galicia investigates the interaction of agitation, violence, and politics against Jews on the periphery of the Danube monarchy. In its comprehensive analysis of the functions and limitations of propaganda, rumors, and mass media, it shows just how significant antisemitism was to the politics of coexistence among Christians and Jews on the eve of the Great War.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Jewish Studies

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Working in Greece and Turkey Forthcoming October 2026 Working in Greece and Turkey A Comparative Labour History from Empires to Nation-States, 1840–1940 Papastefanaki, L. & Kabadayı, M. E. (eds)

The studies in Working in Greece and Turkey provide an overdue exploration of labour history on both sides of the Aegean, before as well as after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Deploying the approaches of global labour history as a framework, this volume presents transnational, transcontinental, and diachronic comparisons that illuminate the shared history of Greece and Turkey.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Sociology


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Candle and the Guillotine, The Published December 2025 The Candle and the Guillotine Revolution and Justice in Lyon, 1789–93 Johnson, J. P.

Using Lyon as a lens for understanding the politics of revolutionary France, this book reveals the widespread enthusiasm for judicial change in Lyon at the time of the Revolution, as well as the conflicts that ensued between elected magistrates in the face of radical democratization.

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

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Rethinking the Age of Emancipation Published September 2025 Rethinking the Age of Emancipation Comparative and Transnational Perspectives on Gender, Family, and Religion in Italy and Germany, 1800–1918 Baumeister, M., Lenhard, P., & Nattermann, R. (eds)

Rethinking the Age of Emancipation aims at a critical reassessment of the development of the two “late” nations, Italy and Germany, from a new and transnational perspective. Essays by an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars examine the discursive relationships among nationalism, war, and emancipation as well as the ambiguous roles of historical protagonists with competing loyalties.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Jewish Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

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Empty Signs, Historical Imaginaries Published March 2020 Empty Signs, Historical Imaginaries The Entangled Nationalization of Names and Naming in a Late Habsburg Borderland Berecz, Á.

Set in a multiethnic region of the nineteenth-century Habsburg Empire, this thoroughly interdisciplinary study maps out how the competing Romanian, Hungarian and German nationalizing projects reinterpreted various types of proper names as symbols of their national histories, how the related mass constituencies resonated with the new meanings and how names were utilized, manipulated and changed in the process.

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

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Beyond Posthumanism Published September 2025 Beyond Posthumanism The German Humanist Tradition and the Future of the Humanities Mathäs, A.

Against the background of debates about a revival of humanist values, this volume seeks to recast the question of the viability of the humanities by analyzing their long-disputed premises in German literature and philosophy. It emphasizes the importance of the humanities’ original mission of establishing a universal ethics by contextualizing disciplinary knowledge and making human experiences, bodily sensations, and emotions comprehensible through literary imagination.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Educational Studies

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Feelings Materialized Published September 2025 Feelings Materialized Emotions, Bodies, and Things in Germany, 1500–1950 Hillard, D., Lempa, H., & Spinney, R. (eds)

Examining the material aspects of emotion, this volume encompasses technology, photography, aesthetics, and a variety of other historical themes in an innovative application of emotion studies. Feelings Materialized brings together an interdisciplinary group of Germanists to unveil the emotions embedded in the world of things and bodies.

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century History: Medieval/Early Modern Literary Studies

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World of Children, The Published December 2025 The World of Children Foreign Cultures in Nineteenth-Century German Education and Entertainment Lässig, S. & Weiß, A. (eds)

In an era of technological advances and rapidly increasing international exchange, how did young Germans come to understand the world beyond their doorstep? Bringing together contributions from specialists in historical, literary, and cultural studies, this is a fascinating kaleidoscopic exploration of the ways that children absorbed, combined, and adapted notions of the world in their own ways.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Cultural Studies (General) Educational Studies

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Hazardous Chemicals Published March 2022 Hazardous Chemicals Agents of Risk and Change, 1800-2000 Homburg, E. & Vaupel, E. (eds)

Covering a host of both notorious and little-known substances, the chapters in this collection investigate the emergence of specific toxic, pathogenic, carcinogenic, and ecologically harmful chemicals as well as the scientific, cultural and legislative responses they have prompted over the past two hundred years.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Sustainable Development Goals

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Comical Modernity Published January 2026 Comical Modernity Popular Humour and the Transformation of Urban Space in Late Nineteenth Century Vienna Hakkarainen, H.

Comical Modernity looks at the years between 1857–1890, a period of dramatic urban renewal within Vienna during which the city’s rapidly changing face was a popular topic in publications. This book shows how humor provided access to understanding modernity in an era of radical change, thus broadening our understanding of the cultural history of nineteenth-century Vienna.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Media Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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Configuration of the Spanish Public Sphere, The Forthcoming November 2026 The Configuration of the Spanish Public Sphere From the Enlightenment to the Indignados Jiménez Torres, D. & Villamediana González, L. (eds)

This volume brings together leading scholars in Spanish and Latin American studies to explore the concept of the Spanish “public sphere” and its relation to society and political power over time. It offers a long-term, panoramic view—spanning from the Enlightenment to current developments in the EU—on one of the most urgent issues for contemporary European societies.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Sociology


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Gustav Stresemann Published May 2019 Gustav Stresemann The Crossover Artist Pohl, K. H.

Gustav Stresemann has become a steadfast icon and key figure in understanding contemporary German and European history. Renowned historian Karl Heinrich Pohl draws on new archival material and extensive research to supplement our previous knowledge of Stresmann’s life and work.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present History (General)

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Negotiating the Secular and the Religious in the German Empire Published June 2025 Negotiating the Secular and the Religious in the German Empire Transnational Approaches Habermas, R. (ed)

Negotiating the Secular and the Religious in the German Empire sheds light on the multitude of worldviews, belief systems, and rituals that defined the borders between the secular and the religious in the German imperial era.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

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Rampart Nations Published May 2022 Rampart Nations Bulwark Myths of East European Multiconfessional Societies in the Age of Nationalism Berezhnaya, L. & Hein-Kircher, H. (eds)

Rampart Nations delves deeper into the bulwark (antemurale) myth and uncovers the stories that have helped to spread it within Eastern Europe. Through perspectives that range from Eastern European art history to theology, with a concentration on the nexus of political, social, and religious history, this volume explores historical narratives that have shaped contemporary Eastern European national identities.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

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Arkansas Regulators, The Published January 2019 The Arkansas Regulators Gerstäcker, F.
Adams, C. & Irmscher, C. (eds)

Friedrich Gerstäcker’s The Arkansas Regulators is a rousing tale of frontier adventure, first published in German in 1846, but virtually lost to English readers for well over a century. This long-awaited translation and scholarly edition of the novel offers a startling rewriting of the frontier myth from a European perspective.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

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Explorations and Entanglements Published June 2024 Explorations and Entanglements Germans in Pacific Worlds from the Early Modern Period to World War I Berghoff, H., Biess, F., & Strasser, U. (eds)

Explorations and Entanglements reconstructs the German elements in the overlapping cultural circuits and complex oceanic transits of the “Pacific Worlds.” It concentrates on the pre-1914 period and encompasses scientific, cultural, religious and commercial exchanges. It opens a gate to a fascinating and hitherto much neglected arena of transnational encounters.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Colonial History

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Democracy in Modern Europe Published March 2025 Democracy in Modern Europe A Conceptual History Kurunmäki, J., Nevers, J., & te Velde, H. (eds)

As one of the most influential ideas in modern European history, democracy has reshaped not only the landscape of government, but also fundamental social and political thought on a global level. Democracy in Modern Europe covers the history of democracy in modern Europe.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present

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Living Past, A Published May 2019 A Living Past Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America Soluri, J., Leal, C., & Pádua, J. A. (eds)

Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is no longer in its infancy. Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past gives a transnational and thematically diverse survey of historical developments since the nineteenth century.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Sustainable Development Goals

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Managing Northern Europe's Forests Published March 2023 Managing Northern Europe's Forests Histories from the Age of Improvement to the Age of Ecology Oosthoek, K. J. & Hölzl, R. (eds)

Eleven chapters, organized regionally, explore the origins of state forestry policy in Northern Europe from the early modern period to the present. Topics include fundamental policy aims, the functioning and organisations of forestry, forest management, wood supply, regulations, forest statistics, wood depletion, growing stock, forest conservation, and landscape protection.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: Medieval/Early Modern History: 18th/19th Century Sustainable Development Goals

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Singing Ideas Published July 2021 Singing Ideas Performance, Politics and Oral Poetry Ní Shíocháin, T.

The songs of the beloved Irish poet Máire Bhuí Ní Laeire (Yellow Mary O’Leary) explore themes of colonial subjection, oppression and injustice, representing an integral contribution to the development of anti-colonial thought in Ireland. Singing Ideas explores the significance of her work, and the immense power of her chosen medium.

Subjects: Performance Studies History: 18th/19th Century Anthropology (General) Literary Studies

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Subjects, Citizens, and Others Published November 2021 Subjects, Citizens, and Others Administering Ethnic Heterogeneity in the British and Habsburg Empires, 1867-1918 Gammerl, B.

Exploring racism, migration, and citizenship, Subjects, Citizens and Others offers a pioneering analysis of how the British and the Austro-Hungarian Empire governed their ethnically diverse populations. Author Benno Gammerl rejects common assumptions about ethnic exclusivity in Eastern and Western Europe, analyzing the legal and political conditions that help to foster ethnic heterogeneity.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Colonial History History: 20th Century to Present

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Unearthing the Past to Forge the Future Published October 2017 Unearthing the Past to Forge the Future Colin Mackenzie, the Early Colonial State, and the Comprehensive Survey of India Wolffhardt, T.

During the 1800s, the East India Company consolidated its rule in India. In desperate need of knowledge about this territory and its population, the company appointed Colin Mackenzie as the first Surveyor General of India. Unearthing the Past to Forge the Future explores the life and career of Mackenzie, and his massive survey of India.

Subjects: Colonial History History: 18th/19th Century

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Making Nordic Historiography Published September 2017 Making Nordic Historiography Connections, Tensions and Methodology, 1850-1970 Haapala, P., Jalava, M., & Larsson, S. (eds)

Is there a “Nordic history”? If so, what are its origins, its scope, and its defining features? In this definitive volume, scholars from all five Nordic nations tackle a notoriously problematic historical concept. Each contribution takes a deliberately transnational approach while grounding itself in careful research, yielding rich, nuanced perspectives on shifting and contested historical terrain.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present

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Laborers and Enslaved Workers Published September 2017 Laborers and Enslaved Workers Experiences in Common in the Making of Rio de Janeiro's Working Class, 1850-1920 Badaró Mattos, M.

In the nineteenth century, Rio de Janeiro was not only home to the largest population of enslaved laborers in the Americas, but it was also the site of an incipient working-class consciousness across seemingly distinct social categories. This volume analyzes the diverse labor arrangements and associative life of Rio’s working class, from which emerged the strategies that workers free and unfree pursued against oppression.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Space and Spatiality in Modern German-Jewish History Published August 2019 Space and Spatiality in Modern German-Jewish History Lässig, S. & Rürup, M. (eds)

This wide-ranging volume revisits both literal and metaphorical spaces in modern German history, working from an expansive concept of “the spatial” to examine the ways in which Jewishness has been attributed to them, and what the implications have been in different eras and social contexts.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century

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Conflict, Domination, and Violence Published November 2019 Conflict, Domination, and Violence Episodes in Mexican Social History Illades, C.

This wide-ranging, briskly narrated volume from acclaimed Mexican historian Carlos Illades guides the reader through key episodes in Mexican social history, from rebellions under Porfirio Díaz to the recent emergence of neo-anarchist movements. Taken together, they comprise a mosaic history of power and resistance, with ordinary people confronting the forces of domination and transforming Mexican society.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Peace and Conflict Studies

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Monumental Nation, The Published November 2019 The Monumental Nation Magyar Nationalism and Symbolic Politics in Fin-de-siècle Hungary Varga, B.

In a quixotic episode in nineteenth-century Hungary’s attempts to spread nationalist sentiments, monuments were erected near small towns commemorating the medieval conquest of the Carpathian Basin—the supposed origin of the Hungarian nation. This study recounts the troubled history of this plan, which provoked resistance and even hostility among provincial Hungarians.

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

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Xenocracy Published November 2023 Xenocracy State, Class, and Colonialism in the Ionian Islands, 1815-1864 Gekas, S.

Xenocracy offers a much-needed account of the islands of the Ionian Sea during their half-century of oversight by Great Britain. It recounts how, despite Britain’s liberal reforms, the Ionian State’s economic deterioration anticipated the “neocolonial” condition with which the Greek nation struggles even today.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Colonial History

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Tropics of Vienna Published August 2021 Tropics of Vienna Colonial Utopias of the Habsburg Empire Bach, U. E.

Though not a conventional colonial power, the Austrian Empire had a metropole-periphery structure that shaped its cultural and intellectual life. This book illuminates colonial utopian writing in the work of Roth, Herzl, and others, revealing a shared longing for alternative social and spatial configurations.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present

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Crown, Church, & Constitution Published May 2016 Crown, Church and Constitution Popular Conservatism in England, 1815-1867 Neuheiser, J.

Much scholarship on nineteenth-century English workers has been devoted to their radical politics, neglecting the patriotism, royalism, and xenophobia that countless Victorian men and women embraced. This study of “conservatism from below” explores the working-class devotion to Britain’s monarchical, religious, and legal institutions in the defense of traditional English culture.

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

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Forgotten Majority, The Published October 2014 The Forgotten Majority German Merchants in London, Naturalization, and Global Trade 1660-1815 Schulte Beerbühl, M.

The “forgotten majority” of German merchants in London between the end of the Hanseatic League and the end of the Napoleonic Wars became the largest mercantile Christian immigrant group in the eighteenth century. Using previously neglected and little used evidence, this book assesses the causes of their migration, the establishment of their businesses in the capital, and the global reach of the enterprises.

Subjects: History (General) History: 18th/19th Century

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Sounds of Modern History Published November 2016 Sounds of Modern History Auditory Cultures in 19th- and 20th-Century Europe Morat, D. (ed)

Since the late 19th century, there has been a paradigmatic shift in auditory cultures and practices in European societies. This change was brought about by modern phenomena such as urbanization, industrialization and mechanization, the rise of modern sciences, and of course the emergence of new sound recording and transmission media. This book contributes to our understanding of modern European history through the lens of sound by examining diverse subjects such as performed and recorded music, auditory technologies like the telephone and stethoscope, and the ambient noise of the city.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies

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What is History For? Published July 2016 What Is History For? Johann Gustav Droysen and the Functions of Historiography Assis, A. A.
Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

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Rise of Market Society in England, 1066-1800, The Published March 2016 The Rise of Market Society in England, 1066-1800 Eisenberg, C.
Subjects: History (General) History: Medieval/Early Modern History: 18th/19th Century

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German History 1789-1871 Published August 2013 German History 1789-1871 From the Holy Roman Empire to the Bismarckian Reich Brose, E.
Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

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Mind of the Nation, The Published June 2016 The Mind of the Nation Völkerpsychologie in Germany, 1851-1955 Klautke, E.

This is a very careful and meticulous study of the history of a forgotten science, namely Völkerpsychologie, a scholarly attempt to study the psychological structure of nations. We can now understand not just its complex origins reaching back to the German intellectual history of the early 19th century, but also the intellectual intricacies in the works of its main protagonists.  ·  Uffa Jensen, Max Planck Institute for Human Development

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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Germany & the Black Diaspora Published July 2016 Germany and the Black Diaspora Points of Contact, 1250-1914 Honeck, M., Klimke, M., & Kuhlmann, A. (eds)
Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern History: 18th/19th Century Colonial History

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Imperial Germany Revisited Published December 2012 Imperial Germany Revisited Continuing Debates and New Perspectives Müller, S. O. & Torp, C. (eds)
Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

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Popular Historiographies in the 19th and 20th Centuries Published December 2012 Popular Historiographies in the 19th and 20th Centuries Cultural Meanings, Social Practices Paletschek, S. (ed)
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

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Constructing Charisma Published January 2013 Constructing Charisma Celebrity, Fame, and Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe Berenson, E. & Giloi, E. (eds)
Subjects: History (General) History: 18th/19th Century

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Frightful Stage, The Published September 2011 The Frightful Stage Political Censorship of the Theater in Nineteenth-Century Europe Goldstein, R. J. (ed)
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Performance Studies Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

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Banned in Berlin Published January 2012 Banned in Berlin Literary Censorship in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918 Stark, G. D.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

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Limits of Loyalty, The Published September 2009 The Limits of Loyalty Imperial Symbolism, Popular Allegiances, and State Patriotism in the Late Habsburg Monarchy Cole, L. & Unowsky, D. (eds)
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

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Kinship in Europe Published January 2010 Kinship in Europe Approaches to Long-Term Development (1300-1900) Sabean, D. W., Teuscher, S., & Mathieu, J. (eds)
Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Anthropology (General) History: 18th/19th Century

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Belle Epoque? A Published February 2007 A Belle Epoque? Women and Feminism in French Society and Culture 1890-1914 Holmes, D. & Tarr, C. (eds)
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century

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Great Tradition & Its Legacy, The Published October 2004 The Great Tradition and Its Legacy The Evolution of Dramatic and Musical Theater in Austria and Central Europe Cherlin, M., Filipowicz, H. & Rudolph, R. L. (eds)
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Performance Studies Literary Studies

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Wilhelminism & Its Legacies Published October 2004 Wilhelminism and Its Legacies German Modernities, Imperialism, and the Meanings of Reform, 1890-1930 Eley, G. & Retallack, J. (eds)
Subject: History: 18th/19th Century

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