Dear Colleague,

As we enter a New Year full of political and economic uncertainty, opportunities in education, and the integrity of evidence-based opinion and decision-making are under attack globally from a populist but neo-liberal philosophy seeking to advance, with depressing success to date, the cause of individualism over the social fabric.

While there will continue to be questions over the character, competence and temperament of many of the world's political leaders over the coming years, Berghahn will continue to champion the values of accessible scholarly learning, and the spirit of protest, reform, equality and tolerance.

To that end, and with National Academic Book Week in the UK (23rd-28th January) in mind, we are delighted to offer, in the form of a New Year tonic, a 60% discount off all History titles, purchased via our website over the next 7 days. At checkout, simply enter the code NYHIS17.

The books featured below form just a small selection from our complete list of History titles. For a full list, please visit our website.

with best wis hes from Marion Berghahn and all of us at Berghahn Books
 
 
General History


 
 
Civil Society in the Age of Monitory Democracy
Edited by Lars Trägårdh, Nina Witoszek, & Bron Taylor
Volume 7, Studies on Civil Society 
 
"This is an ambitious effort to capture and contextualize highly diverse broad-ranging trends of contemporary and emerging civil society worldwide and to open a debate on how to theorize these trends. It provides a set of conceptual and theoretical inroads as well as a variety of empirical cases on state-civil society relations and is a welcomed contribution to the field of civil society studies and democratization studies."  ·  Jens Stilhoff Sörensen, Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm 
 
  
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U.S. Foreign Policy and the Other
Edited by Michael Patrick Cullinane and David Ryan 

"...the book is a valuable contribution to the field of U.S. foreign policy literature. Its greatest contribution will be in its elucidation of the symbiotic relationship between U.S. identity and the identification of U.S. adversaries, with the recognition that a nuanced understanding of its adversaries may facilitate the drafting of more successful foreign policies... The book should find a wide audience within the foreign policy analysis field and become a valuable addition to many libraries." ·
International Social Science Review
 
 
  


 
 
Blood and Kinship
Matter for Metaphor from Ancient Rome to the Present 
Edited by Christopher H. Johnson, Bernhard Jussen, David Warren Sabean, and Simon Teuscher  

"Blood & Kinship is an important contribution to the anthropology of kinship, by providing significant analyses of how kinship in Europe has been understood distinctly through time, incorporating blood as metaphor in different ways." · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
 
 
 
  
FORTHCOMING IN PAPERBACK

 
 
The Hidden History of Crime, Corruption, and States 
Edited by Renate Bridenthal  

"... [an] excellent collection of essays, The Hidden History of Crime, Corruption, and States is a captivating and informative read that demonstrates the possibilities inherent in a broad approach to any subject."
· Canadian Journal of History
 
 
 
 
  
Protest, Culture and Society Series


 
 
Media and Revolt
Strategies and Performances from the 1960s to the Present 
Edited by Kathrin Fahlenbrach, Erling Sivertsen & Rolf Werenskjold  
Volume 11, Protest, Culture & Society

"...a timely, truly interdisciplinary, and much needed volume on the relationship between (mass) media, social movements and protests."  ·   Peter N. Funke, University of South Florida  
  


 
 
Children of the Dictatorship
Student Resistance, Cultural Politics and the 'Long 1960s' in Greece
 
" This long-anticipated... publication signals the beginning of a potentially fruitful and certainly long overdue examination of the 1960s and 1970s in Greece. After so many years of discussions and debates on the Greek Civil War, the time for a careful consideration of the junta and its afterlife seems to have finally come. Kornetis offers an enormously productive entry point by exploring the issue that is analytically most central and socially most sensitive concerning this period: resistance and its counterpart, complicity. For anyone with an interest in the period or in the broad range of theoretical issues raised by its study, Children of the Dictatorship is an indispensible book that is sure to anchor future discussion and debate of the military regime." · Journal of Modern Greek Studies
 
  


 
 
The Third World in the Global 1960s
Edited by Samantha Christiansen and Zachary Scarlett 
"Historians of the burgeoning field of the global 1960s will welcome the contributions the volume makes." · Choice  
  


 
 
Protest Beyond Borders
Contentious Politics in Europe since 1945
Edited by Hara Kouki and Eduardo Romanos
Volume 5, Protest, Culture & Society  
 
"This is a wide ranging and informative study...The essays are well presented [and], intrinsically interesting."   ·  Ruth Kinna, Loughborough University  
 
  
Genocide Studies
 FORTHCOMING

 
 
Genocide in the Ottoman Empire
Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks, 1913-1923
Edited by George N. Shirinian  
  
The final years of the Ottoman Empire were catastrophic ones for its non-Turkish, non-Muslim minorities. From 1913 to 1923, its rulers deported, killed, or otherwise persecuted staggering numbers of citizens in an attempt to preserve "Turkey for the Turks," setting a modern precedent for how a regime can commit genocide in pursuit of political ends while largely escaping accountability. While this brutal history is most widely known in the case of the Armenian genocide, few appreciate the extent to which the Empire's Assyrian and Greek subjects suffered and died under similar policies. This comprehensive volume is the first to broadly examine the genocides of the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks in comparative fashion, analyzing the similarities and differences among them and giving crucial context to present-day calls for recognition. 
  
 

 
 
The Dark Side of Nation-States
Ethnic Cleansing in Modern Europe
  
"This instructive text offers a useful analysis of ethnic cleansing that drills into acts often conflated with genocide... Neatly written in a case study style, the chapters help readers understand the complex interplay of cultural bias and the politics of nation-states... The annotated bibliography that concludes the text is excellent, providing a range of sources that touch on country-specific literature and collective memory. This well-researched text will empower readers to carefully consider the intersections and differences between ethnic cleansing and genocide. - Highly Recommended." · Choice  
  
 

 
 
On the Path to Genocide
Armenia and Rwanda Reexamined
Deborah Mayersen 
  
"Mayersen has written a fine text... Ultimately, Mayersen concludes that genocides are 'fundamentally preventable' and offers insights into prevention.  The text is well organized, thoroughly researched, and brings to bear important new perspectives on genocide studies. - Highly recommended."  ·   Choice 
  
 

 
 
Jewish Histories of the Holocaust
New Transnational Approaches
Edited by Norman J. W. Goda
Volume 19, Making Sense of History  
  
"In the new history, research has been redirected from the perpetrator to the victims, and the goal is to find the authentic Jewish voice. As a consequence, personal diaries, note books, and memoirs have gained a status that traditional historians have not previously imparted to them. Good index and select bibliography. Highly Recommended."
· Choice
 
  
Postwar History
 

 
 
An Introduction
Frédéric Bozo
Translated by Jonathan Hensher

"This is a rational, objective and well-documented book. It is essential for understanding the conduct of one of the few countries in the world that do have a distinctive foreign policy, and indispensable for France's allies and partners alike." · Hubert Védrine, former French Minister of Foreign Affairs 
  
 

 
 
The Merkel Republic
An Appraisal
Edited by Eric Langenbacher
   
"...the book is a must-read for those who seek to get behind the headlines about the chancellor."
· Foreign Affairs
 
 
  
 

 
 
Crises in European Integration
Challenges and Responses, 1945-2005
Edited by Ludger Kühnhardt
Volume 2, New German Historical Perspectives 
 
While the major trends in European integration have been well researched and constitute key elements of narratives about its value and purpose, the crises of integration and their effects have not yet attracted sufficient attention. This volume, with original contributions by leading German scholars, suggests that crises of integration should be seen as engines of progress throughout the history of European integration rather than as expressions of failure and regression, a widely held assumption. It therefore throws new light on the current crises in European integration and provides a fascinating panorama of how challenges and responses were guiding the process during its first five decades. 
 
  
 

 
 
The Americanization of Europe
Culture, Diplomacy, and Anti-Americanism after 1945
Edited by Alexander Stephan  
 
"A welcome and timely addition to college and public library international studies shelves."  ·   The Midwest Book Review
 
 
  
 

 
 
A Social History of Europe, 1945-2000
Recovery and Transformation after Two World Wars
Hartmut Kaelble
Translated from the German by Liesel Tarquini  
 
"A sweeping, fact-filled analysis, this well-researched survey can serve as text and reference work with its graphs and very selective bibliography."  ·  Choice 
 
  
 

 
 
Post-Communist Nostalgia
Edited by Maria Todorova and Zsuzsa Gille  
 
"This book serves an invaluable function by capturing the rich complexity of nostalgia and marking a moment when questions of postmodern historiography can be applied to a past, the recent Communist one, for which the pressures toward absolute evaluations are immense. [It] summarizes some of the scholarship that one might include with the "contemporary history" of the region...This volume should have broad general appeal across a market for post-Communist cultural studies and the study of memory."   ·  H-Habsburg 
 
  
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Editors: Jani Marjanen,  University of Helsinki, Jan Ifversen,  University of Aarhus, Margrit Pernau,  Max Planck Institute for Development

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Senior Editor:  Linda E. Mitchell, University of Missouri, Kansas City
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Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques  (HRRH) has established a well-deserved reputation for publishing high quality articles of wide-ranging interest for over forty years. The journal, which publishes articles in both English and French, is committed to exploring history in an interdisciplinary framework and with a comparative focus. 





Editor:  Eckhardt Fuchs,  Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research

The Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society (JEMMS) explores perceptions of society as constituted and conveyed in processes of learning and educational media. The focus is on various types of texts (such as textbooks, museums, memorials, films) and their institutional, political, social, economic, and cultural contexts. 





Editor in Chief:  Kyle Shelton,  Rice University

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Chief Editor:  Gijs Mom,  Eindhoven University of Technology

Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies is a peer-reviewed journal publishing cutting-edge research on the processes, structures, and consequences of the movement of people, resources, and commodities. 


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