Articles

Augsburg, Zurich, and the Transfer of Preachers during the Schmalkaldic War
Christopher W. Close
Central European History, Volume 42, Issue 04, December 2009, pp 595-619
doi:10.1017/S0008938909991002

False Fire: The Wartburg Book-Burning of 1817
Steven Michael Press
Central European History, Volume 42, Issue 04, December 2009, pp 621-646
doi:10.1017/S0008938909991014

Anticipating the Future in the Present: “New Women” and Other Beings of the Future in Weimar Germany
Rüdiger Graf
Central European History, Volume 42, Issue 04, December 2009, pp 647-673
doi:10.1017/S0008938909991026

Preparing for Victory: Heinrich Hunke, the Nazi Werberat, and West German Prosperity
Pamela E. Swett
Central European History, Volume 42, Issue 04, December 2009, pp 675-707
doi:10.1017/S0008938909991038

Nazi Germany's Propaganda Aimed at Arabs and Muslims During World War II and the Holocaust: Old Themes, New Archival Findings
Jeffrey Herf
Central European History, Volume 42, Issue 04, December 2009, pp 709-736
doi:10.1017/S000893890999104X

Memorial

Henry Ashby Turner, Jr. (1932–2008)
Helmut Walser Smith
Central European History, Volume 42, Issue 04, December 2009, pp 737-744
doi:10.1017/S0008938909991051

Featured Book Review

The Continuities of German History: Nation, Religion, and Race across the Long Nineteenth Century. By Helmut Walser Smith. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. 2008. Pp. 246. Cloth $75.00. ISBN 978-0-521-89588-0 Paper $22.99. ISBN 978-0-521-72025-0 .
James M. Brophy
Central European History, Volume 42, Issue 04, December 2009, pp 745-749
doi:10.1017/S0008938909991063

Book Reviews

Das Alte Europa vom Hochmittelalter bis zur Moderne. By Peter Blickle. Munich: C. H. Beck. 2008. Pp. 330. Cloth €26.90. ISBN 978-3-406-57171-8 .
Peter H. Wilson
Central European History, Volume 42, Issue 04, December 2009, pp 751-753
doi:10.1017/S0008938909991075

The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Early Modern Germany: Protestant and Catholic Piety, 1500–1648. By Bridget Heal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2007. Pp. xvi+338. Cloth $99.00. ISBN 978-0-521-87103-7.
Jason P. Coy
Central European History, Volume 42, Issue 04, December 2009, pp 753-755
doi:10.1017/S0008938909991129

The Last Witch of Langenburg: Murder in a German Village. By Thomas Robisheaux. New York: W. W. Norton. 2009. Pp. 427. Cloth $25.95. ISBN 978-0-393-06551-0 .
R. Po-chia Hsia
Central European History, Volume 42, Issue 04, December 2009, pp 755-757
doi:10.1017/S0008938909991130

The Religious Enlightenment: Protestants, Jews, and Catholics from London to Vienna. By David Sorkin. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2008. Pp. xv+339. Cloth $35.00. ISBN 978-0-691-13502-1 .
Suzanne Marchand
Central European History, Volume 42, Issue 04, December 2009, pp 757-759
doi:10.1017/S0008938909991142

Shylock in Germany: Antisemitism and the German Theatre from The Enlightenment to the Nazis. By Andrew G. Bonnell. London: Tauris Academic Studies. 2008. Pp. viii+254. Cloth $85.00. ISBN 978-1-84511-557-9 .
Laird M. Easton
Central European History, Volume 42, Issue 04, December 2009, pp 759-761
doi:10.1017/S0008938909991154

Luftmenschen. Zur Geschichte einer Metapher. By Nicolas Berg. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 2008. Pp. 245. Paper €19.90. ISBN 978-3-525-35092-8 .
Galili Shahar
Central European History, Volume 42, Issue 04, December 2009, pp 761-763
doi:10.1017/S0008938909991166

Habsburgs Diener in Post und Politik. Das “Haus” Thurn und Taxis zwischen 1745 und 1867. By Siegfried Grillmeyer. Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern. 2005. Pp. x+562. Cloth €55.50. ISBN 3-8053-3566-0 .
Laurence Cole
Central European History, Volume 42, Issue 04, December 2009, pp 763-766
doi:10.1017/S0008938909991178

Poor Relief and Welfare in Germany from the Reformation to World War I. By Larry Frohman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2008. Pp. x+257. Cloth $85.00. ISBN 0521506034 .
Eric Kurlander
Central European History, Volume 42, Issue 04, December 2009, pp 766-768
doi:10.1017/S000893890999118X

Liberal Imperialism in Germany: Expansionism and Nationalism 1848–1884. By Matthew P. Fitzpatrick. Monographs in German History, vol. 23. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. 2008. Pp. x+237. Cloth $99.95. ISBN 978-1-84545-520-0.
Matthew Jefferies
Central European History, Volume 42, Issue 04, December 2009, pp 768-770
doi:10.1017/S0008938909991191

The State, the Nation, and the Jews: Liberalism and the Antisemitism Dispute in Bismarck's Germany. By Marcel Stoetzler. Lincoln, NE, and London: University of Nebraska Press. 2008. Pp. 530. Cloth $55.00. ISBN 978-0-8032-1625-9 .
Matthew Fitzpatrick
Central European History, Volume 42, Issue 04, December 2009, pp 770-772
doi:10.1017/S0008938909991208

Exclusion and Inclusion: Gradations of Whiteness and Socio-Economic Engineering in German Southwest Africa, 1884–1914. By Robbie Aitken. Cultural Identity Studies, vol. 6. Oxford: Peter Lang. 2007. Pp. 265. Paper $87.95. ISBN 3039110608 .
Andrew Zimmerman
Central European History, Volume 42, Issue 04, December 2009, pp 772-774
doi:10.1017/S000893890999121X

Religious Conflict and the Evolution of Language Policy in German and French Cameroon, 1885–1939. By Kenneth J. Orosz. New York: Peter Lang. 2008. Pp. xii+345. Cloth $82.95. ISBN 978-0-8204-7909-5 .
Robbie Aitken
Central European History, Volume 42, Issue 04, December 2009, pp 774-776
doi:10.1017/S0008938909991221

Cult of the Will: Nervousness and German Modernity. By Michael Cowan. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press. 2008. Pp. 343. Cloth $65.00. ISBN 978-0-271-03206-1 .
Andreas Killen
Central European History, Volume 42, Issue 04, December 2009, pp 777-778
doi:10.1017/S0008938909991233

Topographies of Class: Modern Architecture and Mass Society in Weimar Berlin. By Sabine Hake. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press. 2008. Pp. viii+323. Paper $35.00. ISBN 0-6472-05038-9.
Richard Bodek
Central European History, Volume 42, Issue 04, December 2009, pp 779-781
doi:10.1017/S0008938909991245

“Das stille Sterben … ” Feldpostbriefe von Konrad Jarausch aus Polen und Russland 1939–1942. Edited by Konrad H. Jarausch and Klaus Jochen Arnold. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh. 2008. Pp. 387. Cloth €29.90. ISBN 978-3-506-7654-8.
Dieter K. Buse
Central European History, Volume 42, Issue 04, December 2009, pp 781-783
doi:10.1017/S0008938909991257

Die Herrschaft der Wehrmacht. Deutsche Militärbesatzung und einheimische Bevölkerung in der Sowjetunion, 1941–1944. By Dieter Pohl. Munich: Oldenbourg. 2008. Pp. 399. Cloth €39.80. ISBN 978-3-486-58065-5 .
Peter Black
Central European History, Volume 42, Issue 04, December 2009, pp 783-785
doi:10.1017/S0008938909991269

Sex Crimes under the Wehrmacht. By David Raub Snyder. Lincoln, NE, and London: University of Nebraska Press. 2007. Pp. xiv+287. Cloth $55. ISBN 978-0-8032-4332-3 .
Geoffrey J. Giles
Central European History, Volume 42, Issue 04, December 2009, pp 786-788
doi:10.1017/S0008938909991270

Voices in Ruins: West German Radio across the 1945 Divide. By Alexander Badenoch. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2008. Pp. xi+289. Cloth $69.95. ISBN 978-0-230-00903-5 .
Alan McDougall
Central European History, Volume 42, Issue 04, December 2009, pp 788-790
doi:10.1017/S0008938909991282

Haunted City: Nuremberg and the Nazi Past. By Neil Gregor. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 2007. Pp. 390. Cloth $45.00. ISBN 9780300101072 .
Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Central European History, Volume 42, Issue 04, December 2009, pp 791-794
doi:10.1017/S0008938909991294

Seduced by Secrets: Inside the Stasi's Spy-Tech World. By Kristie Macrakis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2008. Pp. xv+370. Cloth $28.00. ISBN 978-0-521-88747-2 .
Mary Elise Sarotte
Central European History, Volume 42, Issue 04, December 2009, pp 794-795
doi:10.1017/S0008938909991300