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Preachers, Partisans, and Rebellious Religion: Vernacular Writing and the Hussite Movement. By Marcela K. Perett. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. Pp. viii + 290. Cloth $85.00. ISBN 978–0812250534. Pavel Soukup Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 1, March 2021, pp 189 – 191 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000376 Published Online on 8 April 2021
Jan Hus: The Life and Death of a Preacher. By Pavel Soukup. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2020. Pp. 238. Paper $49.99. ISBN 978–1557538765. Marcela Perett Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 1, March 2021, pp 191 – 192 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000339 Published Online on 8 April 2021
The Reformation of the Senses: The Paradox of Religious Belief and Practice in Germany. By Jacob M. Baum. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2019. Pp. 312. Paper $35.00. ISBN 978–0252083990. Erin Lambert Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 1, March 2021, pp 193 – 194 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000261 Published Online on 8 April 2021
The Sinews of Habsburg Power: Lower Austria in a Fiscal–Military State 1650–1820. By William D. Godsey. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. 448. Cloth $125.00. ISBN 978–0198809395. Hillay Zmora Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 1, March 2021, pp 194 – 196 doi: 10.1017/S000893892100042X Published Online on 8 April 2021
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Prussian Army Soldiers and the Seven Years’ War: The Psychology of Honour. By Katrin Möbius and Sascha Möbius. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Pp. 240. Cloth $80.50. ISBN 978–1350081574. Jasper Heinzen Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 1, March 2021, pp 199 – 200 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000182 Published Online on 8 April 2021
Experimenting at the Boundaries of Life: Organic Vitality in Germany around 1800. By Joan Steigerwald. Pittsburg: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. Pp. 460. Cloth $55.00. ISBN 978–0822945536. Kelly J. Whitmer Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 1, March 2021, pp 200 – 203 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000418 Published Online on 8 April 2021
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Beyond the Barricades: Government and State–Building in Post–Revolutionary Prussia, 1848–1858. By Anna Ross. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. v + 223. Cloth $85.00. ISBN 978–0198833826. Katherine Aaslestad Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 1, March 2021, pp 204 – 206 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000091 Published Online on 8 April 2021
The Scholems: A Story of the German–Jewish Bourgeoisie from Emancipation to Destruction. By Jay Howard Geller. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2019. Pp. x + 329. Cloth $29.95. ISBN 978–1501731563. Kerry Wallach Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 1, March 2021, pp 206 – 208 doi: 10.1017/S000893892100039X Published Online on 8 April 2021
Entangled Entertainers: Jews and Popular Culture in Fin–de–Siècle Vienna. By Klaus Hödl. Translated by Corey Twitchell. New York: Berghahn Books, 2019. Pp. 194. Cloth $135.00. ISBN 978–1789200300. Heidi Hakkarainen Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 1, March 2021, pp 208 – 210 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000170 Published Online on 8 April 2021
Die mittel–osteuropäischen Nationalstaaten nach 1918. Transformationen nach dem Zusammenbruch der Kaiserreiche. Edited by Rainer Bendel. Münster: LIT, 2019. Pp. 275. Paper €24.90. ISBN 978–3643143174. Christoph Mick Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 1, March 2021, pp 210 – 212 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000285 Published Online on 8 April 2021
Anti–Jewish Violence in Poland, 1914–1920. By William W. Hagen. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xxvii + 541. Paper £24.99. ISBN 978–0521738187. Jochen Böhler Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 1, March 2021, pp 212 – 214 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000121 Published Online on 8 April 2021
Einstein in Bohemia. By Michael D. Gordin. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. 360. Cloth $29.95. ISBN 978–0691177373. William deJong–Lambert Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 1, March 2021, pp 214 – 215 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000145 Published Online on 8 April 2021
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The Pen Confronts the Sword: Exiled German Scholars Challenge Nazism. By Avihu Zakai. Albany: SUNY Press, 2019. Pp. 374. Paper $34.00. ISBN 978–1438471631. Elliot Y. Neaman Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 1, March 2021, pp 217 – 220 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000303 Published Online on 8 April 2021
The First Soldier: Hitler as Military Leader. By Stephen G. Fritz. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018. Pp. xvi + 459. Cloth $30.00. ISBN 978–0300205985. Matthias Strohn Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 1, March 2021, pp 220 – 221 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000388 Published Online on 8 April 2021
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Escapees: The History of Jews Who Fled Nazi Deportation Trains in France, Belgium, and the Netherlands. By Tanja von Fransecky. Translated by Benjamin Liebelt. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2019. Pp. 302. Cloth $135.00. ISBN 9–781785338861. Dienke Hondius Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 1, March 2021, pp 225 – 227 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000200 Published Online on 8 April 2021
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Our Gigantic Zoo: A German Quest to Save the Serengeti. By Thomas M. Lekan. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 348. Cloth $39.95. ISBN 978–0199843671. Astrid M. Eckert Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 1, March 2021, pp 235 – 237 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000169 Published Online on 8 April 2021
Turkish Immigrants in the Federal Republic of Germany: Immigration, Space, and Belonging, 1961–1990. By Sarah Thomsen Vierra. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xii + 282. Cloth $105.00. ISBN 978–1108427302. Pelin Telseren Kadercan Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 1, March 2021, pp 237 – 239 doi: 10.1017/S000893892100025X Published Online on 8 April 2021
An Army in Crisis: Social Conflict and the U.S. Army in Germany, 1968–1975. By Alexander Vazansky. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019. Pp. xxii + 325. Cloth $60.00. ISBN 978–1496215192. Mary Elizabeth Walters Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 1, March 2021, pp 240 – 241 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000406 Published Online on 8 April 2021
Screening the Red Army Faction: Historical and Cultural Memory. By Christina Gerhardt. New York and London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. Pp. xii + 307. Cloth $121.50. ISBN 978–1501336676. Mariana Ivanova Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 1, March 2021, pp 241 – 244 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000224 Published Online on 8 April 2021
After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present. By Hope M. Harrison. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. vii + 463. Cloth $34.99. ISBN 978–1107049314. Molly Wilkinson Johnson Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 1, March 2021, pp 244 – 246 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000236 Published Online on 8 April 2021