Esra Özyürek, "Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Esra Özyürek, "Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany" (Stanford UP, 2023)
At the turn of the millennium, Middle Eastern and Muslim Germans had rather unexpectedly become central to the country's... Read more
10 Aug 2023
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43mins
Jon Stewart, "A History of Nihilism in the Nineteenth Century: Confrontations with Nothingness" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jon Stewart, "A History of Nihilism in the Nineteenth Century: Confrontations with Nothingness" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Nihilism - the belief that life is meaningless - is frequently associated with twentieth-century movements such as exist... Read more
9 Aug 2023
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1hr 15mins
Michael Roper, "Afterlives of War: A Descendants' History" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Michael Roper, "Afterlives of War: A Descendants' History" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Afterlives of War: A Descendants' History (Manchester University Press, 2023) by Dr. Michael Roper documents the lives a... Read more
9 Aug 2023
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55mins
Steven Press, "Blood and Diamonds: Germany's Imperial Ambitions in Africa" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Steven Press, "Blood and Diamonds: Germany's Imperial Ambitions in Africa" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Since the late 1990s, activists have campaigned to remove "conflict diamonds" from jewelry shops and department stores. ... Read more
8 Aug 2023
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1hr 22mins
Alexander Hill, "The War on the Eastern Front: The Soviet Union, 1941-1945 - A Photographic History" (Pen & Sword Military, 2021)
Alexander Hill, "The War on the Eastern Front: The Soviet Union, 1941-1945 - A Photographic History" (Pen & Sword Military, 2021)
In The War on the Eastern Front: The Soviet Union, 1941-1945 - A Photographic History (Pen & Sword Military, 2021), ... Read more
1 Aug 2023
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53mins
50 Years after Martin Jay's "The Dialectical Imagination"
50 Years after Martin Jay's "The Dialectical Imagination"
After 50 years of the publication of The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of... Read more
24 Jul 2023
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1hr 53mins
Heidi Hausse, "The Malleable Body: Surgeons, Artisans, and Amputees in Early Modern Germany" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Heidi Hausse, "The Malleable Body: Surgeons, Artisans, and Amputees in Early Modern Germany" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Heide Hausse's book The Malleable Body: Surgeons, Artisans, and Amputees in Early Modern Germany (Manchester University ... Read more
21 Jul 2023
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52mins
Wirsching: Bombay Talkies B-Side
Wirsching: Bombay Talkies B-Side
In this episode of High Theory, we continue our conversation with Debashree Mukherjee about the pioneering film studio B... Read more
20 Jul 2023
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14mins
Jeffrey S. Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg, "Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust" (Cornell UP, 2018)
Jeffrey S. Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg, "Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust" (Cornell UP, 2018)
Why do pogroms occur in some localities and not in others? Jeffrey S. Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg examine a particular... Read more
19 Jul 2023
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1hr 12mins
Judith Roumani, "Jews in Southern Tuscany During the Holocaust" (Lexington Books, 2020)
Judith Roumani, "Jews in Southern Tuscany During the Holocaust" (Lexington Books, 2020)
The province of Grosseto in southern Tuscany shows two extremes in the treatment of Italian and foreign Jews during the ... Read more
15 Jul 2023
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1hr 31mins