Library Guides/ Modern and Contemporary History 1800 AD - Present

New Books (March 2024)

Argentina, La república posible

Sapag, Santiago. Argentina, la república posible. Montevideo: Imaginante Editorial, 2023.

What It Took to Win

Kazin, Michael. What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.

De bolle Gogh

Cohen, Jaap. De bolle Gogh. Amsterdam: Em. Querido’s Uitgeverij, 2024.

De hoogste ambtenaar

Bekker, Roel. De hoogste ambtenaar: De secretaris-generaal van Algemene Zaken 1945-2023: Sfinx of spin? Den Haag: Boom bestuurskunde, 2024.

Weapons of Mass Delusion

Draper, Robert. Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind. New York: Penguin Press, 2022.

New Books (January-February 2024)

Voices from Chernobyl

Svetlana Aleksievich. Voices from Chernobyl. Translated by Keith Gessen. Normal: Dalkey Archive Press, 2005.

Understanding Ukraine

Beck, Marieluise. Understanding Ukraine: Tracing the Roots of Terror and Violence. Berlin: Ibidem Verlag, 2023.

Transplanting Modernity?

Smith, Jenny Leigh, and Tom Robertson, eds. Transplanting Modernity? New Histories of Poverty, Development, and Environment. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023.

Judgement at Tokyo

Bass, Gary Jonathan. Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia. London: Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, 2023.

Segregation

Nightingale, Carl Husemoller. Segregation: A Global History of Divided Cities. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.

The Russo-Ukrainian War

Plokhy, Serhii. The Russo-Ukrainian War. London: Penguin Books, 2023.

Hitler’s Personal Prisoner

Ziemann, Benjamin. Hitler’s Personal Prisoner: the Life of Martin Niemöller. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2024.

A History of Czechoslovakia Since 1945 (ebook)

Renner, Hans. A History of Czechoslovakia since 1945. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2023. Originally published in 1989.

New Books Shelf: Contemporary History (December 2023)

On Decoloniality

Mignolo, Walter, and Catherine E Walsh. On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis. On Decoloniality. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018.

Subverting the System

Harris, Jonathan. Subverting the System: Gorbachev's Reform of the Party's Apparat, 1986-1991. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004.

Conflict

Petraeus, David Howell, and Andrew Roberts. Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine. New York, NY: Harper, 2023.

New Books Shelf: Contemporary History (November 2023)

Nel cantiere della memoria

Focardi, Filippo. Nel cantiere della memoria: Fascismo, resistenza, shoah, foibe. Collana dell'Istituto nazionale Ferruccio Parri, 1. Roma: Viella, 2020.

Violence and Genocide in Kurdish Memory

Yetkin, Eren Yıldırım. Violence and Genocide in Kurdish Memory: Exploring the Remembrance of the Armenian Genocide through Life Stories. Qualitative Fall- Und Prozessanalysen. Biographie - Interaktion - Soziale Welten, 24. Leverkusen-Opladen: Verlag Barbara Budrich, 2022.

Understanding Ethiopia's Tigray War

Plaut, Martin, and Sarah Vaughan. Understanding Ethiopia's Tigray War. La Vergne: Hurst, 2023.

The Arts of War

Ruble, Blair A. The Arts of War: Ukrainian Artists Confront Russia, Year One. ibidem-Verlag, 2023.

Visions of Inequality

Milanović Branko. Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2023.

Winnie and Nelson

Steinberg, Jonny. Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage. New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2023.

New Books Shelf: Contemporary History (October 2023)

Goodbye, Eastern Europe

Mikanowski, Jacob. Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land. New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2023.

Die Digitalisierung der Kreditwirtschaft

Schmitt, Martin. Die Digitalisierung der Kreditwirtschaft: Computereinsatz in den Sparkassen der Bundesrepublik und der DDR 1957-1991. Medien und Gesellschaftswandel im 20. Jahrhundert, 15. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2021.

New Books Shelf: Contemporary History (September 2023)

Les juifs sépharades en France, 1965-1985

Tapia, Claude. Les juifs sépharades en France, 1965-1985: Études psychosociologiques et historiques. Collection histoire et perspectives méditerranéennes. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1986.

Lebanon Uprising of 2019

Karam, Jeffrey G. and Rima Majed (eds). Lebanon Uprising of 2019: Voices from the Revolution. London: I.B. Tauris, 2021.

Interventie, pacificatie en wederopbouw

Hoop, Sipke de (ed.). Interventie, pacificatie en wederopbouw: Nederlandse inspanningen voor een duurzaam Bosnië. Severnoe Okno, 7. Groningen: Instituut voor Noord- en Oost-Europese Studies, 2020.

Militair, dominee en koopman in Oost-Europa

Hoop, Sipke de, Frank Smit, Marlies Zaadnoordijk, eds. Militair, dominee en koopman in Oost-Europa: Nederlandse politiek en diplomatie tussen idealisme en eigenbelang. Severnoe Okno, 6. Groningen: Instituut voor Noord- en Oost-Europese Studies, 2018.

Nederland op missie

Hoop, Sipke de and Arthur ten Cate, eds. Nederland op missie: Bescherming van burgers bij het streven naar duurzame vrede. Severnoe Okno, 8. Groningen: Instituut voor Noord- en Oost-Europese Studies, 2022.

This is my truth

Davies, Nye. This is my truth: Aneurin Bevan in Tribune. La Vergne: University of Wales Press, 2023.

Oorlogswinst

Setten, Gert Jan van. Oorlogswinst: Bezettingsmaatregelen die bleven. Amsterdam: Boom, 2023.

New Books Shelf: Contemporary History (August 2023)

#antisemitism

Vinokor-Meinrath, Samantha A. #antisemitism : Coming of Age during the Resurgence of Hate. Santa Barbara, California: Praeger, 2022.

Beyond the Wall

Hoyer, Katja. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990. UK: Allen Lane, 2023.

Born with a Copper Spoon

Declercq, Robrecht, Duncan Money, and Hans Otto Frøland, eds. Born with a Copper Spoon: A Global History of Copper, 1830-1980. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2022.

Before HIV

Doyle, Shane. Before HIV: Sexuality, Fertility, and Mortality in East Africa, 1900-1980. A British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monograph. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

New Books Shelf: Contemporary History (July 2023)

Ik wil er niets van weten

Teeuw, Josine. Ik wil er niets van weten: Hoe visie, kennis en tijd uit Den Haag verdwenen. Hilversum: Uitgeverij Verloren, 2023.

Gekränkte Freiheit

Amlinger, Carolin, and Oliver Nachtwey. Gekränkte Freiheit: Aspekte des libertären Autoritarismus. Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2022.

New Books Shelf: Contemporary History (June 2023)

Attention Servicemember

Brody, Ben. Attention Servicemember. Edited by Deborah Artman. Second edition. Massachusetts: Mass Books, 2020.

Mediatization of Politics

Esser, Frank, and Strömbäck Jesper, eds. Mediatization of Politics: Understanding the Transformation of Western Democracies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Security Assistance in the Middle East

Alaoui, Hicham, and Robert Springborg, eds. Security Assistance in the Middle East: Challenges ... and the Need for Change. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner, 2023.

The Soviet World (ebook)

Pietromarchi, Luca. The Soviet World. Routledge Library Editions. Soviet Foreign Policy. London: Routledge, 2022. Originally published in 1965.

Failed State

Bugajski, Janusz. Failed State: A Guide to Russia's Rupture. Washington, DC: Jamestown Foundation, 2022.

New Books Shelf: Contemporary History (May 2023)

Small Armies, Big Cities

Tumchewics, Louise A, ed. Small Armies, Big Cities: Rethinking Urban Warfare. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2022.

Policing New Risks in Modern European History

Campion, Jonas, and Xavier Rousseaux, eds. Policing New Risks in Modern European History. World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.