New Books in European Studies
Interviews with Scholars of Europe about their New Books
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- Interviews with Scholars of Europe about their New Books
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- 2024-11-24 15:48
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- 2024-11-24 09:00
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Episodes
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| 2024-11-24 |
Andrew Fleming, "The Gravity of Feathers: Fame, Fortune and the Story of St Kilda" (Birlinn, 2024) When the last 36 inhabitants of St Kilda, 40 miles west of the Scottish Hebrides, were evacuated in 1930, the archipelago at âthe edge of the worldâ lost its permanent population after five millennia. It has long been accepted that the islandersâ failu... |
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| 2024-11-22 | Monstrous Fantasies: England's Crusading Imaginary and the Romance of Recovery, 1300-1500Â (Cornell University Press, 2024) by Dr. Leila Norako asks why medieval romances reimagining the crusades ending in a Christian victory circulated in England with ... |
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| 2024-11-22 |
Jill Norman, "The English Table: Our Food Through the Ages" (Reaktion, 2024) The English Table: Our Food through the Ages (Reaktion, 2024) by Jill Norman is a delectable journey through the culinary history of England, from ancient times to the present day. The book sheds light on the evolution of English cuisine, which essenti... |
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| 2024-11-22 | With Mussolini's Nation-Empire: Sovereignty and Settlement in Italy's Borderlands, 1922â1943 (Cambridge UP, 2017), Roberta Pergher transforms our understanding of Fascist rule. Examining Fascist Italy's efforts to control the antipodes of its realm - t... |
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| 2024-11-22 | On a winter's night in 1951, shortly after Evensong, the interior of St Paul's Cathedral echoed with gunfire. This was no act of violence but a scientific demonstration of new techniques in acoustic measurement. It aimed to address a surprising questio... |
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| 2024-11-20 |
Owen Ware, "Indian Philosophy and Yoga in Germany" (Routledge, 2023) Indian Philosophy and Yoga in Germany by Owen Ware (Routledge, 2024) takes the reader on a tour through the reception of Yoga philosophies in nineteenth-century German and the early twentieth century. European luminaries like Schlegel, Hegel, von Gßnde... |
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| 2024-11-20 |
Dennis Romano, "Venice: The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City" (Oxford UP, 2023) No city stirs the imagination more than Venice. From the richly ornamented palaces emerging from the waters of the Grand Canal to the dazzling sites of Piazza San Marco, visitors and residents alike sense they are entering, as fourteenth-century poet P... |
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| 2024-11-20 |
Ramie Targoff, "Shakespeare's Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance" (Knopf, 2024) In Shakespeare's Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance (Knopf, 2024) by Dr. Ramie Targoff, discover the lives and work of four ambitious Renaissance women who, against all odds, made themselves heard-and read-in the time of Shakespeare In an in... |
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| 2024-11-19 | In Radical Acts: HIV/AIDS Activism in Late Twentieth-Century England (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024), Dr George Severs draws on activist campaign literature and materials, broadcast media, and new oral history interviews to reconstruct the overlooked world... |
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| 2024-11-16 | Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism (University of California Press, 2024) by Dr. Nicholas Baer reassesses Weimar cinema in light of the "crisis of historicism" widely diagnosed by German philosophers in the early twentieth ce... |
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