The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading American journal for the study of European intellectual, political, and cultural history. The Journal's geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: the JMH explores not only events and movements in specific countries, but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
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The Book of Job and the Sex Life of Elephants: The Limits of Evidential Credibility in Eighteenth-Century Natural History and Biblical Criticism Avi Lifschitz The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 739–775. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705813?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Pragmatism and Prejudice: Revisiting the Origin of the Pale of Jewish Settlement and Its Historiography Robert Geraci The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 776–814. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/706046?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Marx and Engels, Ireland, and the Racial History of Capitalism Aidan Beatty The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 815–847. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705777?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Failure on Display: The Meaning of Eighteenth-Century French India in Twentieth-Century Colonial Administration and Historiography Danna Agmon The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 848–882. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705902?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Contemporary Issues in historical Perspective
The Course of History: Arno J. Mayer, Gerhard L. Weinberg, and David Cesarani on the Holocaust and World War II Dan Stone The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 883–904. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705740?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Book reviews
Edward Ross Dickinson, The World in the Long Twentieth Century: An Interpretive History Tyler Stovall The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 905–907. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705900?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Dale K. Van Kley, Reform Catholicism and the International Suppression of the Jesuits in Enlightenment Europe Michael Printy The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 907–908. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705841?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Enrico Dal Lago, Mark M. Smith, and Peter Coclanis, eds., Civil War and Agrarian Unrest: The Confederate South and Southern Italy Anthony L. Cardoza The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 909–910. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705840?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Stephanie L. Mudge, Leftism Reinvented: Western Parties from Socialism to Neoliberalism Stefan Berger The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 910–912. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705844?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Virginia Iris Holmes and Henry Feingold, eds., Einstein’s Pacifism and World War I Ofer Ashkenazi The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 913–914. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705845?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Padraic Kenney, Dance in Chains: Political Imprisonment in the Modern World Seán McConville The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 915–916. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705843?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Daniel Knegt and Karel Berkhoff, eds., Fascism, Liberalism, and Europeanism in the Political Thought of Bertrand de Jouvenel and Alfred Fabre-Luce; Arnd Bauerkämper and Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe, eds., Fascism without Borders: Transnational Connections and Cooperation between Movements and Regimes in Europe from 1918 to 1945; Ángel Alcalde and Jay Winter, eds., War Veterans and Fascism in Interwar Europe Pablo del Hierro The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 917–921. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705842?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Conan Fischer, A Vision of Europe: Franco-German Relations during the Great Depression, 1929–1932 Alan Sharp The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 921–923. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705846?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
David Weinstein and Avihu Zakai, Jewish Exiles and European Thought in the Shadow of the Third Reich: Baron, Popper, Strauss, Auerbach Ben Wurgaft The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 923–924. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705839?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Koji Yamamoto, Taming Capitalism before Its Triumph: Public Service, Distrust, and “Projecting” in Early Modern England Eric H. Ash The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 925–926. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705848?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Caroline Boswell, Tim Harris, Stephen Taylor, and Andy Wood, eds., Disaffection and Everyday Life in Interregnum England Paul Griffiths The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 926–928. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705849?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Stephen Conway, Britannia’s Auxiliaries: Continental Europeans and the British Empire, 1740–1800 Andrew C. Thompson The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 928–930. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705850?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Simon Kerry, Lansdowne: The Last Great Whig William Anthony Hay The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 930–932. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705851?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Norman Etherington and Andrew S. Thompson, eds., Imperium of the Soul: The Political and Aesthetic Imagination of Edwardian Imperialists Dan Gorman The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 932–933. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705852?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Rory Cormac, Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy David French The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 934–935. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705847?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Anne C. Vila and Angus Burgin, eds., Suffering Scholars: Pathologies of the Intellectual in Enlightenment France Sabine Arnaud The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 935–937. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705853?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Elizabeth C. Macknight, David Hopkin, and Máire Cross, eds., Nobility and Patrimony in Modern France Katherine A. Lynch The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 937–938. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705860?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Roger Price, Religious Renewal in France, 1789–1870: The Roman Catholic Church between Catastrophe and Triumph Thomas Kselman The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 939–940. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705859?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Sun-Young Park and Dianne Harris, eds., Ideals of the Body: Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in Postrevolutionary Paris Peter Soppelsa The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 940–942. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705855?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Alison Carrol, The Return of Alsace to France, 1918–1939 Anthony J. Steinhoff The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 942–944. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705856?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Françoise Thébaud, Une traversée du siècle: Marguerite Thibert, femme engagée et fonctionnaire internationale Carolyn J. Eichner The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 944–946. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705861?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Mary Lynn Stewart, Gender, Generation, and Journalism in France, 1910–1940 Whitney Walton The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 946–948. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705857?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Chris Millington, Fighting for France: Violence in Interwar French Politics Samuel Huston Goodfellow The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 948–949. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705858?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Lindsey Dodd and David Lees, eds., Vichy France and Everyday Life: Confronting the Challenges of Wartime, 1939–1945 Sandra Ott The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 949–951. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705854?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Gary Ferguson, Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome: Sexuality, Identity, and Community in Early Modern Europe Thomas Kuehn The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 951–953. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705863?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Mary Ann Smart, Waiting for Verdi: Opera and Political Opinion in Nineteenth-Century Italy, 1815–1848 Alexander Grab The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 953–955. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705862?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
James C. Kennedy, A Concise History of the Netherlands Wayne te Brake The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 955–956. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705865?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Sebastiaan Faber, Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil War: History, Fiction, Photography; Joan Ramon Resina, Elena Delgado, and Niamh Thornton, eds., The Ghost in the Constitution: Historical Memory and Denial in Spanish Society Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 957–959. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705864?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Jasper Heinzen and Peter Baldwin, eds., Making Prussians, Raising Germans: A Cultural History of Prussian State-Building after CivilWar, 1866–1935 David E. Barclay The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 959–960. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705872?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Willeke Sandler, Empire in the Heimat: Colonialism and Public Culture in the Third Reich; Itohan Osayimwese and Dianne Harris, eds., Colonialism and Modern Architecture in Germany Woodruff D. Smith The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 961–963. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705869?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Tim Grady, A Deadly Legacy: German Jews and the Great War Paul Lerner The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 963–965. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705873?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Thomas Childers, The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany Hermann Beck The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 965–967. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705875?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Konrad H. Jarausch, Broken Lives: How Ordinary Germans Experienced the 20th Century Mary Fulbrook The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 967–969. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705867?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Zsolt Nagy, Great Expectations and Interwar Realities: Hungarian Cultural Diplomacy, 1918–1941 Thomas Lorman The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 969–970. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705870?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Daniel Siemens, Stormtroopers: A New History of Hitler’s Brownshirts Richard Steigmann-Gall The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 970–972. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705871?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Paul Nolte, Lebens Werk: Thomas Nipperdeys Deutsche Geschichte; Biographie eines Buches James J. Sheehan The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 972–974. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705868?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Miriam Gebhardt and Nick Somers, Crimes Unspoken: The Rape of German Women at the End of the Second World War Annemarie Sammartino The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 974–976. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705866?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
David W. Gerlach, The Economy of Ethnic Cleansing: The Transformation of the German-Czech Borderlands after World War II; Celia Donert, Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann, and Samuel Moyn, eds., The Rights of the Roma: The Struggle for Citizenship in Postwar Czechoslovakia Jeremy King The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 976–978. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705874?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Serhii Plokhy, Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation, from 1470 to the Present Willard Sunderland The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 978–980. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705876?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
John Bushnell, Russian Peasant Women Who Refused to Marry: Spasovite Old Believers in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Steven L. Hoch The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 980–981. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705877?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Robert Henderson, Vladimir Burtsev and the Struggle for a Free Russia: A Revolutionary in the Time of Tsarism and Bolshevism; Ben Eklof and Tatiana Saburova, A Generation of Revolutionaries: Nikolai Charushin and Russian Populism from the Great Reforms to Perestroika Sarah Badcock The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 982–984. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705878?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Eren Tasar, Soviet and Muslim: The Institutionalization of Islam in Central Asia; Dominic Rubin, Russia’s Muslim Heartlands: Islam in the Putin Era Adrienne L. Edgar The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 91, No. 4: 984–987. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/705879?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T