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The Pale Death: Poison Gas and German Racial Exceptionalism, 1915–1945 Peter Thompson Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 2, June 2021, pp 273 - 296 doi: 10.1017/S0008938920000515 Published Online on 7 July 2021
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Im Angesicht der “Pestilenz.” Seuchen in westfälischen und rheinischen Städten (1349–1600). By Kay Peter Jankrift. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020. Pp. 388. Paper $82.00. ISBN 978-3515123532. Lucy C. Barnhouse Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 2, June 2021, pp 361 – 362 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000492 Published Online on 7 July 2021
Heresy in Late Medieval Germany: The Inquisitor Petrus Zwicker and the Waldensians. By Reima Välimäki. York: York Medieval Press, 2019. Pp. xv + 335. Cloth $130.00. ISBN 978-1903153864. Scott Wells Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 2, June 2021, pp 362 - 364 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000868 Published Online on 7 July 2021
Ghetto: The History of a Word. By Daniel B. Schwartz. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. Pp. 288. Cloth $35.00. ISBN 978-0674737532. Amos Goldberg Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 2, June 2021, pp 364 - 366 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000601 Published Online on 7 July 2021
A Humanist in Reformation Politics: Philipp Melanchthon on Political Philosophy and Natural Law. By Mads Langballe Jensen. Leiden: Brill, 2020. Pp. xii + 222. Cloth $119.00. ISBN 978-9004412002. Amy Nelson Burnett Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 2, June 2021, pp 367 - 368 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000546 Published Online on 7 July 2021
A New Order of Medicine: The Rise of Physicians in Reformation Nuremberg. By Hannah Murphy. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. Pp. 272. Cloth $50.00. ISBN 978-0822945604. Elisabeth Moreau Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 2, June 2021, pp 368 - 370 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000728 Published Online on 7 July 2021
Crime, Gender and Social Control in Early Modern Frankfurt am Main. By Jeannette Kamp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2020. Pp. 335. Cloth $146.00. ISBN 978-9004388437. Joy Wiltenburg Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 2, June 2021, pp 370 - 371 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000881 Published Online on 7 July 2021
Das Haus Arenberg und die Habsburgermonarchie. Eine transterritoriale Adelsfamilie zwischen Fürstendienst und Eigenständigkeit (16.–20. Jahrhundert). Edited by William D. Godsey and Veronika Hyden-Hanscho. Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner, 2019. Pp. 496. Cloth €69.00. ISBN 978-3795432997. Joseph F. Patrouch Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 2, June 2021, pp 371 - 374 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000765 Published Online on 7 July 2021
Fear in the German Speaking World, 1600–2000. Edited by Thomas Kehoe and Michael Pickering. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Pp. ix + 298. Cloth £85.00. ISBN 976-1350150478. Alison Rose Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 2, June 2021, pp 375 - 377 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000790 Published Online on 7 July 2021
Making Peace in an Age of War: Emperor Ferdinand III (1608–1657). By Mark Hengerer. Translated by Elke Soliday. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2020. Pp. 334. Paper $49.95. ISBN 978-1557538444. Tryntje Helfferich Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 2, June 2021, pp 377 - 378 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000613 Published Online on 7 July 2021
Four Fools in the Age of Reason. Laughter, Cruelty, and Power in Early Modern Germany. By Dorinda Outram. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019. Pp. x + 167. Cloth $35.00. ISBN 978-0813942018. Anu Korhonen Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 2, June 2021, pp 378 - 380 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000649 Published Online on 7 July 2021
Siting China in Germany: Eighteenth-Century Chinoiserie and Its Modern Legacy. By Christiane Hertel. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019. Pp. xiv + 258. Cloth $124.95. ISBN 978-0271082370. Suzanne Marchand Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 2, June 2021, pp 380 - 382 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000674 Published Online on 7 July 2021
Amt und Prestige. Die Kammerrichter in der ständischen Gesellschaft (1711–1806). By Maria von Loewenich. Vienna and Cologne: Böhlau, 2019. Pp. 276. Cloth €50.00. ISBN 978-3412221218. William D. Godsey Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 2, June 2021, pp 382 - 383 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000595 Published Online on 7 July 2021
Remembering German-Australian Colonial Entanglements. Edited by Lars Eckstein and Andrew Wright Hurley. London: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 152. Cloth $155.00. ISBN 978-0367421595. Matthew P. Fitzpatrick Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 2, June 2021, pp 383 - 385 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000571 Published Online on 7 July 2021
Die Fabrik als touristische Attraktion. Entdeckung eines neuen Erlebnisraums im Übergang zur Moderne. By Daniela Mysliwietz-Fleiß. Vienna and Cologne: Böhlau, 2020. Pp. 453. Cloth €49.99. ISBN 978-3412507794. Jill Steward Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 2, June 2021, pp 385 - 387 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000832 Published Online on 7 July 2021
Peak Pursuits: The Emergence of Mountaineering in the Nineteenth Century. By Caroline Schaumann. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2020. Pp. xi + 365. Cloth $40.00. ISBN 978-0300231946. Jon Mathieu Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 2, June 2021, pp 387 - 389 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000698 Published Online on 7 July 2021
Entgrenzte Gewalt in der kolonialen Peripherie. Die Kolonialkriege in “Deutsch-Südwestafrika” und die “Sioux Wars” in den nordamerikanischen Plains. By Daniel Karch. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019. Pp. 415.Paper €64.00. ISBN 978-3515124362. Edward B. Westermann Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 2, June 2021, pp 389 - 390 doi: 10.1017/S000893892100087X Published Online on 7 July 2021
Violence as Usual: Policing and the Colonial State in German Southwest Africa. By Marie Muschalek. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019. Pp. 270. Cloth $49.95. ISBN 978-1501742859. Adam A. Blackler Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 2, June 2021, pp 391 - 392 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000509 Published Online on 7 July 2021
Beyond Versailles: Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and the Formation of New Polities after the Great War. Edited by Marcus M. Payk and Roberta Pergher. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. Pp. 254. Paper $35.00. ISBN 978-0253040916. Claire Morelon Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 2, June 2021, pp 393 - 395 doi: 10.1017/S000893892100073X Published Online on 7 July 2021
The Marginal Revolutionaries: How Austrian Economists Fought the War of Ideas. By Janek Wasserman. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2019. Pp. xii + 354. Cloth $35.00. ISBN 978-0300249170. Nathan Marcus Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 2, June 2021, pp 395 - 397 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000686 Published Online on 7 July 2021
Oil and the Great Powers: Britain and Germany, 1914–1945. By Anand Toprani. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. 336. Cloth $93.00. ISBN 978-0198834601. Petra Dolata Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 2, June 2021, pp 397 - 399 doi: 10.1017/S000893892100056X Published Online on 7 July 2021
Ethnische Ökonomie im politischen Spannungsfeld. Das deutsche Genossenschaftswesen in der Vojvodina (1922–41). By Bernd Robionek. Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovač, 2019. Pp. 258. Paper €88.80. ISBN 978-3339107268. Caroline Mezger Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 2, June 2021, pp 399 - 402 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000716 Published Online on 7 July 2021
Rudolf Olden—Journalist und Pazifist: Vom Unpolitischen zum Pan-Europäer. Moralische Erneuerung im Zeichen moderner Kulturkritik. By Sebastian Schäfer. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019. Pp. 438. Paper $78.00. ISBN 978-3515123938 Arthur Brenner Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 2, June 2021, pp 402 - 403 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000510 Published Online on 7 July 2021
Roads Less Traveled: German-Jewish Exile Experiences in Kenya, 1933–1947. By Natalie Eppelsheimer. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019. Pp. x + 212. Paper $60.95. ISBN 978-1789975390. Shirli Gilbert Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 2, June 2021, pp 404 - 405 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000583 Published Online on 7 July 2021
Nearly the New World: The British West Indies and the Flight from Nazism, 1933–1945. By Joanna Newman. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2019. Pp. 320. Paper $29.95. ISBN 978-1789206494. Debbie McCollin Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 2, June 2021, pp 406 - 407 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000704 Published Online on 7 July 2021
Cities of Refuge: German Jews in London and New York, 1935–1945. By Lori Gemeiner Bihler. Albany: SUNY Press, 2019. Pp. 232. Paper $31.95. ISBN 978-1438468884. Adam R. Seipp Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 2, June 2021, pp 407 - 409 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000819 Published Online on 7 July 2021
Hitler's Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal. By Marion Kaplan. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020. Pp. ix + 356. Cloth $45.00. ISBN 978-0300244250. Laure Humbert Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 2, June 2021, pp 409 - 411 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000637 Published Online on 7 July 2021
Juvenile Crime and Dissent in Nazi Vienna, 1938–1945. By Evan Burr Bukey. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Pp. 197. Cloth $115.00. ISBN 978-1350132603. Kara Ritzheimer Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 2, June 2021, pp 411 - 413 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000789 Published Online on 7 July 2021
From Hitler's Germany to Saddam's Iraq: The Enduring False Promise of Preventive War. By Scott A. Silverstone. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. Pp. v + 325. Cloth $35.00. ISBN 978-1442274457. Gary E. Weir Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 2, June 2021, pp 413 - 414 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000856 Published Online on 7 July 2021
German Women's Life Writing and the Holocaust: Complicity and Gender in the Second World War. By Elisabeth Krimmer. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. 288. Cloth $77.63. ISBN 978-1108472821. Lu Seegers Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 2, June 2021, pp 415 - 416 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000352 Published Online on 7 July 2021
The Resistance in Western Europe, 1940–1945. By Olivier Wieviorka. Foreword by Robert O. Paxton. Translated by Jane Marie Todd. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. Pp. xxi + 488. Cloth $38.00. ISBN 978-0231189965. Ben H. Shepherd Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 2, June 2021, pp 416 - 418 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000364 Published Online on 7 July 2021
The Holocaust and Masculinities: Critical Inquiries into the Presence and Absence of Men. Edited by Björn Krondorfer and Ovidiu Creangă. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2020. Pp. vii + 336. Paper $32.95. ISBN 978-1438477787. Alessio Ponzio Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 2, June 2021, pp 418 - 420 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000777 Published Online on 7 July 2021
Stalin and the Fate of Europe: The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty. By Norman M. Naimark. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019. Pp. 361. Cloth $29.95. ISBN 978-0674238770. Richard Overy Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 2, June 2021, pp 421 - 422 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000753 Published Online on 7 July 2021
Rebuilding Jewish Life in Germany. Edited by Jay Howard Geller and Michael Meng. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2020. Pp. v + 267. Paper $39.95. ISBN 978-1978800717. Dana Smith Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 2, June 2021, pp 422 - 424 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000820 Published Online on 7 July 2021
A People's Music: Jazz in East Germany, 1945–1990. By Helma Kaldewey. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xxviii + 315. Cloth $ 99.99. ISBN 978-1108486187. Gerd Horten Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 2, June 2021, pp 424 - 427 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000625 Published Online on 7 July 2021
Täter von Grafeneck. Vier Ärzte als Angeklagte im Tübinger “Euthanasie”—Prozess 1949. By Verena Christ. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020. Pp. 242. Cloth $57.53. ISBN 978-3515125161. Michael S. Bryant Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 2, June 2021, pp 427 - 429 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000522 Published Online on 7 July 2021
Peace at All Costs: Catholic Intellectuals, Journalists, and Media in Postwar Polish-German Reconciliation. By Annika Elisabet Frieberg. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2019. Pp. 245. Cloth $135.00. ISBN 978-1789200249. Gregor Thum Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 2, June 2021, pp 429 - 431 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000844 Published Online on 7 July 2021
The Human Rights Dictatorship: Socialism, Global Solidarity and Revolution in East Germany. By Ned Richardson-Little. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xi + 274. Paper $29.99. ISBN 978-1108440783. Russel Lemmons Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 2, June 2021, pp 431 - 433 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000662 Published Online on 7 July 2021
Wirtschaftswunder Global. Die Geschichte der Überseemärkte in der frühen Bundesrepublik. By Steffen Dörre. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2019. Pp. 394. Paper €64.00. ISBN 978-3515123778. Katrin Schreiter Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 2, June 2021, pp 433 - 435 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000807 Published Online on 7 July 2021
Die stationäre Versorgung älterer Displaced Persons und “heimatloser Ausländer” in Westdeutschland (ca. 1950–1975). By Nina Grabe. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020. Pp. 237. Cloth €47.00. ISBN 978-3515125574. James Chappel Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 2, June 2021, pp 435 - 436 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000558 Published Online on 7 July 2021
A Social History of Early Rock ‘n’ Roll in Germany: Hamburg from Burlesque to the Beatles, 1956–1969. By Julia Sneeringer. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Pp. 289. Paper $36.00. ISBN 978-1350139534. Priscilla Layne Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 2, June 2021, pp 436 - 438 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000650 Published Online on 7 July 2021
A Survivor Named Trauma: Holocaust Memory in Lithuania. By Myra Sklarew. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2020. Pp. xv + 212. Paper $31.95. ISBN 978-1438477213. Dovilė Budrytė Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 2, June 2021, pp 438 - 440 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000534 Published Online on 7 July 2021
Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism. By Jelena Subotić. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2019. Pp. xx + 244. Cloth $29.95. ISBN 978-1501742408. Christina M. Morus Central European History, Volume 54 / Issue 2, June 2021, pp 440 - 443 doi: 10.1017/S0008938921000741 Published Online on 7 July 2021