The Journal of Contemporary History (JCH) is a quarterly peer-reviewed international journal publishing articles and book reviews on twentieth-century history (post-1930), covering a broad range of historical approaches including social, economic, political, diplomatic, intellectual and cultural. This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Special Section:
Science Diplomacy, Knowledge, and Transnationalism in International Relations, 1890s–1980s Guest Editor: Sönke Kunkel
Science Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century: Introduction Söenke Kunkel
Learning from the Earthquake Nation: Japanese Science Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century Julia Mariko Jacoby
‘The Battle for Abu Simbel’: Archaeology and Postcolonial Diplomacy in the UNESCO Campaign for Nubia Adam C. Hill
Science Diplomacy at the International Atomic Energy Agency: Isotope Hydrology, Development, and the Establishment of a Technique Matthew Adamson
Trading Global Catastrophes: NATO’s Science Diplomacy and Nuclear Winter Simone Turchetti
Peace Movements in Southern Europe during the 1970s and 1980s Guest Editors: Benjamin Ziemann and Martin Baumeister
Introduction: Peace Movements in Southern Europe during the 1970s and 1980s Martin Baumeister and Benjamin Ziemann
Under Attack? The PCI and the Italian Peace Movement in the 1980s Valentine Lomellini
‘Against Any Army’: Italian Radical Party’s Antimilitarism from the 1960s to the Early 1980s Lucia Bonfreschi
‘Out With the Bases of Death’: Civil Society and Peace Mobilization in Greece During the 1980s Eirini Karamouzi
Cultural Resistances in Post-Authoritarian Greece: Protesting the Turkish Invasion of Cyprus in 1974 Kostis Kornetis
Italian Physicists and the Bomb: Edoardo Amaldi’s Network for Arms Control and Peace during the Cold War Lodovica Clavarino
Walls of Anxiety: The Iconography of Anti-NATO protests in Spain, 1981–6 Giulia Quaggio
Articles
A Jewish Italienische Reise during the Nazi period Sarah Wobick-Segev
Early Reactions to Raul Hilberg’s History of the Holocaust, 1961–7 Olof Bortz
Twice Exiled: Leo Zuckermann (1908–85) and the Limits of the Communist Promise Philipp Graf
A World Class Industry: Honda in Alabama and the Rise of the Foreign-Owned Auto Sector Timothy J. Minchin
Book Reviews
Scott Kaufman, The Environment and International History Miriam F. Lipton
Helen McCarthy, Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite
Peter R. Mansoor and Williamson Murray (eds), The Culture of Military Organizations Thomas Furse
Karl Heinrich Pohl, Gustav Stresemann. The Crossover Artist Jonathan Wright
Benjamin T. Smith, The Mexican Press and Civil Society, 1940–1976 Roderic Ai Camp
Jochen Lingelbach, On the Edges of Whiteness: Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa During and After the Second World War Amina Marzouk Chouchene
David Brydan, Franco’s Internationalists. Social Experts and Spain’s Search for Legitimacy Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez
Anne Scrimgeour, On Red Earth Walking: The Pilbara Aboriginal Strike, Western Australia 1946–1949 Glen O’Hara, The Politics of Water in Post-War Britain Jim Tomlinson
Olivier Esteves, The ‘Desegregation’ of English Schools: Bussing, Race and Urban Space 1960s–80s Satya Gunput
Philip Begley, The Making of Thatcherism: The Conservative Party in Opposition, 1974–79 Emma Barrett
John J. Pitney Jr., After Reagan: Bush, Dukakis, and the 1988 Election; Michael Nelson, Clinton’s Elections: 1992, 1996, and the Birth of a New Era of Governance Vincent Stine