Tag: book review

Rezension: Peters, Von Solidarność zur Schocktherapie

11/12/2024

Monographie rezensiert für H-Soz-u-Kult (11.12.2024.) Fazit: Florian Peters hat eine nuancierte Erzählung des polnischen Wegs in den Kapitalismus geschrieben. Dabei analysiert er Thesenpapiere, Partei- und Gewerkschaftsprogramme sowie graue Literatur, Memoiren, Umfragen, Presse und auch Gedichte. Er zeigt hervorragende Kenntnisse der relevanten (meist polnischsprachigen) Literatur und liefert eine überzeugende, klar argumentierte, gut lesbare Ideen- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte…
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Review: Smith, Terror and Terroir

29/09/2018

Monograph reviewed for French History, Volume 32, Issue 4, December 2018, pp. 615–617. doi:10.1093/fh/cry078 Summary: In the summer of 1907, France’s Midi rouge (the ‘red South’) was in revolt, with regular Sunday protests in towns throughout the region drawing as many as 600,000 participants. After protesters torched buildings in Narbonne, the military occupied the town,…
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Review: Davey, Idealism Beyond Borders

19/12/2017

Monograph reviewed for Social History, Vol. 43, No. 1 (2018), pp. 156-158. doi:10.1080/03071022.2017.1397367 Summary: Davey convincingly argues that tiers-mondisme and sans-frontiérisme were never so far apart as their advocates subsequently claimed, showing that they always shared key points of reference (the post-colonial third world, the Second World War) and even key practices (e.g. ‘speaking out’,…
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Review: Naples and Bickham Mendez, Border Politics

04/04/2017

Volume reviewed for the Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 52, No. 2 (2017), pp. 474-476. doi:10.1177/0022009416688182 Summary: This interdisciplinary volume weds social movement studies, which remains largely embedded in the social sciences, with border studies, a growing field with roots in geography, anthropology and women’s studies. The editors take an intersectional approach, looking at how…
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Review: Timothy Scott Brown, West Germany and the Global Sixties

01/09/2014

Monograph reviewed for German History, Vol. 32, No. 3 (2014), pp. 507-509. doi:10.1093/gerhis/ghu024 Summary: Brown offers an incisive critique of many supposedly ‘transnational’ studies published in the last decade, focused as they are on the accumulation of national case studies.  His own ‘transnational’ tells us far more about how Germans drew on ‘the global’ than…
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