Berghahn Books Turpin Distribution The Enemy on Display The Second World War in Eastern European Museums Description: Eastern European museums represent traumatic events of World War II, such as the Siege of Leningrad, the Warsaw Uprisings, and the Bombardment of Dresden, in ways that depict the enemy in particular ways. This image results from the interweaving of historical representations, cultural stereotypes and beliefs, political discourses, and the dynamics of exhibition narratives. This book presents a useful methodology for examining museum images and provides a critical analysis of the role historical museums play in the contemporary world. As the catastrophes of World War II still exert an enormous influence on the national identities of Russians, Poles, and Germans, museum exhibits can thus play an important role in this process. ...the book highlights the fascinating issue of displaying war, and, through display, defining and exposing certain concepts of national and local identity. In that sense the volume is an important contribution to the growing literature on Central and East European museums in particular, and the issue of presentation of war in museums in general. Canadian Slavonic Papers Certain key passages make very important and significant points about the depiction of the past in the recently ‘museified’ Eastern European countries. The focus on Dresden, Warsaw, ISBN: 9781785337604 and Leningrad/St. Petersburg works very well as each thematically driven case study complements each other and offers new ways of understanding images of the enemy in Published: 30-12-17 historicized museum depictions. Keir Reeves, Monash University Price: £ 19.00 About Author/s: Author/s: Zuzanna Bogumi?, Joanna Wawrzyniak, Tim Buchen, Christian Zuzanna Bogumi? is Assistant Professor at the Maria Grzegorzewska Academy of Special Education in Warsaw and a member of the Social Memory Laboratory at the Institute of Ganzer and Maria Senina Sociology, University of Warsaw. Her most recent book is Gulag Memory (Universitas, 2012). Joanna Wawrzyniak is Head of the Social Memory Laboratory at the Institute of Extent: 190 Sociology, University of Warsaw. Among her recent books are Veterans, Victims, and Memory: The Politics of the Second World War in Communist Poland (Peter Lang, 2015) Format: 229mmx152mm and Memory and Change in Europe: Eastern Perspectives(co-edited with Ma?gorzata Pakier, Berghahn Books, 2016). Tim Buchen is the assistant Professor for the Modern History of Ilustrations: 18 illustrations Economic and Social Networks of Germans in Eastern Europe at the Technical University in Dresden. Among his most recent book publications are Elites and Empires. Imperial Biographies in Austria-Hungary and Russia 1850-1918, Berlin 2015 (co –edited with Malte Binding: New in Paperback Rolf) as well as Akteure der Neuordnung. Ostmitteleuropa und das Erbe der Imperien, Berlin 2017 (co-edited with Frank Grelka). Christian Ganzer is a PhD student at Leipzig University, Germany. His publications include a monograph on the Museum of the History of the Zaporozhian Cossackdom in the Ukraine (ibidem-Verlag, 2005). As the chief-editor of a Belarusian-German collective he published an anthology of primary sources on the first four weeks of the German-Soviet war 1941-1945 in the Belarusian city of Brest: Brest: Leto 1941 g. Dokumenty. Materialy. Fotografii [Brest: Summer 1941. Documents, Materials, Photos] (with Irina Yelenskaya, Yelena Pashkovich et al. (eds.). Smolensk: Inbelkul’t 2016. Page 1/229 Second edition forthcomming in 2017). Maria Senina is a historian at the Museum of the Political History of Russia in St. Petersburg. Her main academic interest is the history of Russia at the beginning of twentieth century Contents: List of Illustrations Preface: Project's History Zuzanna Bogumi? Acknowledgements Zuzanna Bogumi? Introduction: The Enemy on Display Chapter 1. Temple of Heroic Community: Soviet people, Leningraders and German- Fascists in the State Museum of the History of St Petersburg Chapter 2. Temple of Romantic Martyrdom: Poles, Germans and Jews in the Historical Museum of Warsaw Chapter 3. Forum Revising National Myths: Second World War in the Dresden City Museum Conclusions Appendix: Museum descriptions: The Second War World and City History Notes on Contributors Page 2/229 Berghahn Books Turpin Distribution World War I and the Jews Conflict and Transformation in Europe, the Middle East, and America Description: World War I utterly transformed the lives of Jews around the world: it allowed them to show their patriotism, to dispel antisemitic myths about Jewish cowardice, and to fight for Jewish rights. Moreover, and especially in Eastern Europe, Jews suffered tremendously as refugees and deportees, and had to cope with the challenges created by the rebordering of Europe and the creation of new states after the war. This book provides a fascinating survey of the ways in which Jewish communities participated in and were changed by the Great War, focusing on the dramatic circumstances they faced in Europe, North America, and the Middle East during and after the conflict. This volume fills a crucial research gap in modern Jewish history, contains excellent essays by senior and junior scholars, and makes a convincing case why the ‘Great War’ marked a crucial turning point in modern Jewish history on both sides of the Atlantic. Tobias Brinkmann, The Pennsylvania State University About Editor/s: Marsha L. Rozenblit is the Harvey M. Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Jewish History at the ISBN: 9781785335921 University of Maryland. She is the author of The Jews of Vienna, 1867-1914: Assimilation and Identity (1983) and Constructing a National Identity: The Jews of Habsburg Austria during World War I (2001) and co-editor, with Pieter M. Judson, of Constructing Published: 30-09-17 Nationalities in East Central Europe (2005). Jonathan Karp is Associate Professor of History and Judaic Studies at Binghamton University. He is the author of The Politics of Price: £ 92.00 Jewish Commerce: Economic Thought and Emancipation in Europe, 1638-1838 (2008) and editor of several academic collections, including, with Adam Sutcliffe, Philosemitism in Editor/s: Marsha L. Rozenblit and History (2012) and the Cambridge History of Judaism in the Early Modern Period (2017). He Jonathan Karp was Executive Director of the American Jewish Historical Society from 2010-2013. Extent: 386 Contents: Format: 229mmx152mm http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/RozenblitWorld#toc Ilustrations: 8 figures; 5 maps Binding: Hardback Page 3/229 Bloomsbury Academic Macmillan Distribution Bloomsbury Academic Australian Soldiers in South Africa and Vietnam Words from the Battlefield Description: The South African and Vietnam Wars provoked dramatically different reactions in Australians, from pro-British jingoism on the eve of Federation, to the anti-war protest movements of the 1960s. In contrast, the letters and diaries of Australian soldiers written while on the South African and Vietnam battlefields reveal that their reactions to the war they were fighting were surprisingly unlike those on the home fronts from which they came. Australian Soldiers in South Africa and Vietnam follows these combat men from enlistment to the war front and analyses their words alongside theories of soldiering to demonstrate the transformation of soldiers as a response to developments in military procedure, as well as changing civilian opinion. In this way, the book illustrates the strength of a soldier’s link to their home front lives. Highly recommended … Well researched and provides a fresh perspective on two distinct wars in which Australia fought, but in which its soldiers still shared a somewhat similar experience of warfare. South African Historical Journal Both the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) and the Vietnam War in the 1960s and early 1970s were in different ways imperial wars which drew in countries other than the main protagonists. Whilst the loyalty of the men from these nations was not really in doubt, they brought with them their lived experiences from their home countries, in this case Australia, ISBN: 9781350048584 which in turn influenced their outlook on the conflict. Cast in the mould of war and society studies, this book provides a revealing comparison of soldiery in different contexts over time Published: 21-09-17 and place. Albert Grundlingh, Stellenbosch University, South Africa Price: £ 28.99 About Author/s: Author/s: Effie Karageorgos Effie Karageorgos is a Tutor in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Extent: 272 Format: 234 x 156mm Contents: Binding: New in Paperback Introduction 1. The Wars in Australia 2. Initial Impressions of the War and the War Front 3. The Impact of the Military Structure 4. Morale: The Psychology of Combat 5. Morale: The Role of Diversions 6. Soldiers and the Home Front Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index Page 4/229 Bloomsbury Academic Macmillan Distribution Bloomsbury Academic The Chaco War Environment, Ethnicity, and Nationalism Description: In 1932 Bolivia and Paraguay went to war over the Chaco region in South America. The war lasted three years and approximately 52,000 Bolivians and Paraguayans died. Moving beyond the battlefields of the Chaco War, this volume highlights the forgotten narratives of the war. Studying the environmental, ethnic, and social realities of the war in both Bolivia and Paraguay, the contributors examine the conflict that took place between 1932 and 1936 and explore