Robbing the Jews

The Confiscation of Jewish Property in the Holocaust, 1933–1945

Martin Dean

Robbing the Jews reveals the mechanisms by which the Nazis and their allies confiscated Jewish property, demonstrating the close relationship between robbery and the Holocaust.

Beyond Totalitarianism

• Edited by Michael Geyer
• In essays written jointly by specialists on Soviet and German history, the contributors to this book rethink and rework the nature of Stalinism and Nazism and establish a new methodology for viewing their histories that goes well beyond the now-outdated twentieth-century models of totalitarianism, ideology, and personality.

Networks of Empire
Forced Migration in the Dutch East India Company

Ward argues that the Dutch East India Company empire manifested itself through multiple networks that amalgamated spatially and over time into an imperial web whose sovereignty was effectively created and maintained but always partial and contingent.

The Politics of Everyday Life in Vichy France
Foreigners, Undesirables, and Strangers

Shannon L. Fogg

This book examines the effects of material distress on attitudes toward the Vichy government and on the treatment of outsiders in France during the Second World War.

Mussolini and his Generals

• John Gooch
• This is the first authoritative study of the Italian armed forces and the relationship between the military and foreign policies of Fascist Italy from Mussolini's rise to power in 1922 to the catastrophic defeat of 1940.

The Chinese Cultural Revolution

• Paul Clark
• A groundbreaking study of cultural life during a turbulent and formative decade in contemporary China, this book seeks to explode several myths about the Cultural Revolution (officially 1966–1976).

The Crisis of Imprisonment

• McLennan
• In the Age of Jackson, private enterprise set up shop in the American penal system. Working hand in glove with state government, contractors in both the North and the South would go on to put more than half a million imprisoned men, women, and youth to hard, sweated toil for private gain by 1900.

Inventing Vietnam

• Carter
• This book considers the Vietnam war in light of U.S. foreign policy in Vietnam, concluding that the war was a direct result of failed state-building efforts.

The Industrious Revolution

• de Vries
• In the long eighteenth century, new consumer aspirations combined with a new industrious behavior to fundamentally alter the material cultures of northwest Europe and North America.

The Continuities of German History

• Helmut Walser Smith
• This book addresses the long term of German history, tracing ideas and politics across what have become sharp chronological breaks.

Never Sang for Hitler

• Kater
• Lotte Lehmann ranks among the most celebrated singers of the twentieth century. She was a favorite of Richard Strauss, and over her lifetime became the friend of other famous men: Bruno Walter, Arturo Toscanini and Thomas Mann.

Church and State in America The First Two Centuries

• James H. Hutson
• This book describes American ideas about and policies toward the relationship between government and religion from the founding of Virginia in 1607 to the presidency of Andrew Jackson, 1829-1837.

Kennedy in Berlin

• Andreas W. Daum
• For the first time, a book tells the story of John F. Kennedy's spectacular visit to Berlin in 1963. It solves the riddle of why Kennedy uttered "Ich bin ein Berliner" and explains why the Germans venerated the American President more than anyone else after Adolf Hitler.

A Faustian Foreign Policy from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush

• Joan Hoff
• Professor Joan Hoff's A Faustian Foreign Policy: Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush critiques U.S. foreign policy during this period by showing how moralistic diplomacy has increasingly taken on Faustian overtones.

Making a New Deal Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939 2nd Edition

• Lizabeth Cohen
• This book examines how it was possible and what it meant for ordinary factory workers to become effective unionists and national political participants by the mid-1930s.

Commemorating the Dead in Revolutionary France

• Joseph Clarke
• Based on extensive research across a wide range of sources, this book is the first comprehensive study of the cultural politics of commemoration in Revolutionary France.