Pub Date : 2025-07-23DOI: 10.1177/02656914251350851b
Duncan Bowie
{"title":"Book Review: Leftist Internationalisms: A Transitional Political History by Michele Di Donato and Mathieu Fulla, eds Di DonatoMicheleFullaMathieu, eds, Leftist Internationalisms: A Transitional Political History , Bloomsbury Academic: London, 2023; 280 pp., 10 b/w illus.; 9781350247918, £85.00 (hbk); 9781350247949, £28.99 (pbk); 9781350247925, £26.09 (ebook)","authors":"Duncan Bowie","doi":"10.1177/02656914251350851b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914251350851b","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144693958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-07-23DOI: 10.1177/02656914251350851a
Vadim Mukhanov
{"title":"Book Review: Myth-Making and Nation-Building: Ziia Buniiatov and the Construction of the Azerbaijani Past by Sara Crombach CrombachSara, Myth-Making and Nation-Building: Ziia Buniiatov and the Construction of the Azerbaijani Past , Uitgeverij Pegasus: Amsterdam, 2023; 258 pp.; 9789061434863, €26.00 (pbk)","authors":"Vadim Mukhanov","doi":"10.1177/02656914251350851a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914251350851a","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144693961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-07-23DOI: 10.1177/02656914251350851g
Bodie A. Ashton
{"title":"Book Review: Queer Lives Across the Wall: Desire and Danger in Divided Berlin, 1945–1970 by Andrea Rottmann RottmannAndrea, Queer Lives Across the Wall: Desire and Danger in Divided Berlin, 1945–1970 , University of Toronto Press: Toronto, 2023; 266 pp.; 9781487547806, $37.95 (pbk)","authors":"Bodie A. Ashton","doi":"10.1177/02656914251350851g","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914251350851g","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"699 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144693956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-07-23DOI: 10.1177/02656914251350851h
Theodore R. Weeks
{"title":"Book Review: The Jews of Lithuania: A Journey through the Long Twentieth Century by Nick Sayers SayersNick, The Jews of Lithuania: A Journey through the Long Twentieth Century , Vallentine Mitchell: Elstree, 2024; 324 pp.; 9781803710655, £19.95 (pbk)","authors":"Theodore R. Weeks","doi":"10.1177/02656914251350851h","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914251350851h","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144693968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-07-23DOI: 10.1177/02656914251350851f
Aidan Jones
{"title":"Book Review: Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha as Collector, Educator and Cultural Transferant by Jana Riedel RiedelJana, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha as Collector, Educator and Cultural Transferant , Duncker & Humblot: Berlin, 2024; 265 pp., 29 illus.; 9783428189113, €99.90 (hbk); 9783428589111, €99.90 (ebook)","authors":"Aidan Jones","doi":"10.1177/02656914251350851f","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914251350851f","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144694097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-07-23DOI: 10.1177/02656914251350851i
Jonah I. Garde
{"title":"Book Review: The Scattered Library: The Various Fates of the Remnants of Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute of Sexual Science Collection in France and Czechoslovakia, 1932–1942 by Hans P. Soetaert SoetaertHans P., The Scattered Library: The Various Fates of the Remnants of Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute of Sexual Science Collection in France and Czechoslovakia, 1932–1942 , Ibidem: New York, 2024; 850 pp.; 9783838218953, $81.00 (hbk)","authors":"Jonah I. Garde","doi":"10.1177/02656914251350851i","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914251350851i","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"115 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144694092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-07-10DOI: 10.1177/02656914251356118
Jonne Harmsma
The politicization of the environment in the 1970s involved a paradigmatic challenge to the ‘hegemony of growth’. In the Netherlands, this economic growth debate was particularly fierce and long-lasting, with protagonists among left-wing parties, Christian democrats, and right-wing liberals, all advocating some sort of ‘limits to growth’. Moreover, the Dutch growth debate also took on a policymaking dimension. Propelled by earlier attempts to implement ‘selectivity’ in certain policies, the Selective Growth Memorandum of 1976 set out to surpass the hegemony of growth and align environmental and economic objectives. As such, the Dutch growth debate of the early 1970s inspired a rapprochement in which environmental regulation was framed as a positive-sum game in consonance with economic considerations by stimulating investments, productivity, and growth. Even though the memorandum ultimately ended up primarily re-articulating the growth paradigm, this article highlights that discursively, it still prefigured the discourse of ecological modernization that would dominate the environmental discourse in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Pub Date : 2025-07-02DOI: 10.1177/02656914251350851
Natalia Núñez Bargueño
{"title":"Book Reviews AlonsoGregorioBurgosClaudio Hernández, eds, The Soul of the Nation: Catholicism and Nationalization in Modern Spain , Berghahn: Oxford, 2024; 264 pp.; 9781805395973, £104.00 (hbk)","authors":"Natalia Núñez Bargueño","doi":"10.1177/02656914251350851","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914251350851","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144534073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-06-26DOI: 10.1177/02656914251349738
Camilo Erlichman
Military occupation and imperial domination have often been regarded as two distinctive ruling systems. This article calls this dichotomy into question and looks at how imperial ruling techniques informed occupation practices in mid-twentieth-century Europe. Through an analysis of the British occupation of north-western Germany after the Second World War, the article provides an in-depth exploration of the imperial experiences, imaginaries, and discourses of some of the key officials involved in the British Military Government, tracing how their imperial store of knowledge shaped their attitudes in Germany. In doing so, the article concentrates on the lineages of ‘indirect rule’, which became the central ruling strategy of the occupation authorities. It then explores its implementation on the ground through the system of local Kreis Resident Officers . In a final step, the article assesses the larger impact of this ruling technique on different social groups in the British Zone, including German officials, trade unionists, and clergymen. The article argues that the British decision to use a specific set of notables as social intermediaries had significant socio-political consequences. The application of indirect rule led to the suspension of the political process and allowed for the resurgence of local notable elites who had seen their power marginalized by the emergence of mass politics in the previous decades. With the end of occupation and the re-establishment of effective state authority, the social winners of the occupation used their novel influence to dominate national politics. The article contends that the marriage of occupation and imperial ruling techniques had a strikingly conservative impact that may help to explain the distinctive character of the post-war political order.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-26DOI: 10.1177/02656914251349734
Bjørn Bøgh Eld
A majority of British descriptions of Denmark in the eighteenth century portrayed the Danish constitution negatively and depicted the people as degenerate. While the negative perception of Denmark up to the 1760s could largely be attributed to the success of Robert Molesworth's An Account of Denmark as it was in 1692 , the descriptions of Denmark in the late eighteenth century were rather independent in language but consistent in meaning. Many British authors still characterized Denmark in the same way as Molesworth had done in 1694. Like a ghost from the past century, Molesworth haunted the British descriptions of Denmark of the eighteenth century. Travellers like Joseph Marshall, William Coxe and Mary Wollstonecraft, who visited the country by the end of the century, portrayed the country and its inhabitants in terms of slavery and despotism. An Account of Denmark was more about the British Isles than Denmark. It was written as a political manifesto against Jacobitism in particular and absolutism in general. However, the sad story of a people who, out of a desire of revenge, gave up their liberties and put themselves in a situation that was even worse than the previous one, became a powerful stereotype that lingered in British publications throughout the eighteenth century. From this perspective, the British descriptions of Denmark served as mirrors to a British audience; mirrors that confirmed the superiority of the British constitution.
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