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{"title":"Book Review: Niamh Gallagher: Ireland and the Great War: A Social and Political History","authors":"Elaine Callinan","doi":"10.1177/00472441221136736a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00472441221136736a","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43875,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES","volume":"52 1","pages":"331 - 333"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44038719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Patrick Wright: The Sea View Has Me Again: Uwe Johnson in Sheerness","authors":"G. Bond","doi":"10.1177/00472441221136736d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00472441221136736d","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43875,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES","volume":"52 1","pages":"337 - 339"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41983353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Paul Julian Smith: Reimagining History in Contemporary Spanish Media: Theater, Cinema, Television, Streaming","authors":"Fiona Noble","doi":"10.1177/00472441221136736g","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00472441221136736g","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43875,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES","volume":"52 1","pages":"344 - 346"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43570472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Alberto Bertozzi: Plotinus on Love: An Introduction to his Metaphysics through the Concept of Eros","authors":"P. Bishop","doi":"10.1177/00472441221136736b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00472441221136736b","url":null,"abstract":"nationalists in Ireland. In Canada and Australia, Catholic clerics exerted a strong influence resulting in strong allegiances to Ireland alongside a loyalty to their dominion of residence. There is a wealth of numerical evidence on diaspora recruitment and an analysis of how Ireland featured in propaganda to entice potential recruits. The emphasis then shifts to combine the national with the international through a case study of the IrishCanadian Rangers founded by Fr McShane of Montreal. The only comment here is that I am not sure this chapter is situated correctly in the book as Chapter 6 returns to the domestic front. Chapter 6 explores popular reactions to departing troops, familial and fraternal support, and educational support for Catholic servicemen, at least until the large death tolls from the Gallipoli campaign. An examination of reaction at home and abroad to the passage of the third Home Rule bill, particularly among the clergy, opens the question of similar support for the IPP’s position on the war effort. The author points out that ‘public opinion towards recruitment was highly complex’ (p. 142) and some interesting analysis on attendance at recruitment meetings is provided. The book culminates in an exploration of what happened after the Armistice of 1918 to look at the notion of ‘amnesia’. It also offers some evaluation of the ‘place of the Great War’ in the later twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book covers many topics, and the research certainly brings some new opinions and evidence about Ireland’s war effort. Voice is given to ‘ordinary’ people rather than military and political elites, and this adds value to the history of the period. The research throws light on the conflicting atmosphere among Irish people of all denominations and highlights the nuances within Irish society to the war effort both before and after the Easter Rising. By situating Ireland’s response within the transnational and international this study of the Irish Catholic war experience builds on the work of other scholars of the Great War. A wide range of secondary and primary source evidence was used, such as newspapers, educational publications, private papers, personal diaries, war journals and letters, reports and maps, memoirs and autobiographical accounts and nationalist witness statements from the Bureau of Military History Archives. This book will be of particular interest to scholars, students and history enthusiasts of the Great War in Ireland, Europe and especially among the wider global diaspora communities.","PeriodicalId":43875,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES","volume":"52 1","pages":"333 - 335"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46761904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Franziska Exeler: Ghosts of War: Nazi Occupation and its Aftermath in Soviet Belarus","authors":"Jeremy Black","doi":"10.1177/00472441221136736f","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00472441221136736f","url":null,"abstract":"nation-wide network of patriotic exhibitions and theme parks collectively called ‘Russia. My History’. A travesty of Russia’s genuine past, these lavish installations seek – with jaw-dropping popular success – to inculcate a cult of the glories of the country’s magnificent evolution – military, territorial, political, cultural, and religious – perniciously marginalizing or ignoring any negative features and instilling a frenzy of popular patriotic fervour in unquestioning exaltation of the collaborative achievements of the Russian people, the Russian Church, and the Russian state. One original supporter, now critic, of this grotesque enterprise, Pavel Kuzenkov, described it as ‘a striking example of history used in lieu of political propaganda’ (p. 66). Or, as the author succinctly puts it, under the regime of Vladimir Putin: ‘History is politics in Russia’ (p. 255). In his book, based on his 2018 doctoral thesis, James Pearce demonstrates how this situation is utilized as the basis of the teaching of history throughout the Russian education system from kindergarten to high school. It is worth remembering that everyone in Russia under the age of 22 has grown up in the Putin era, and therefore have no knowledge of the history of their own country other than that taught to them by the peddlers of the ‘Authorized Version’. This version may not exactly be written down in stone, but it is certainly etched indelibly into their own consciousness. There is simply no textbook or forum from which it is possible to mount a critical challenge to the official orthodoxy – which would in any case be likely to be illegal. Unfortunately, or unavoidably, there is – given the books’ respective titles – a good deal of subject matter and evidential overlap. The same emphases, arguments and examples are present in both volumes, and both come to inevitably similar conclusions. They are: that under Putin, reasserting control over Russia’s past is seen as an essential weapon in the struggle to create a patriotic-minded, right-thinking, quintessentially Russophile, nationalistic and culturally homogeneous society. One of the distinguishing features of Pearce’s book is his analysis – based on personal interviews and questionnaires – of the way in which both qualified, experienced teachers and young trainee teachers of history view their role, their tasks, and their objectives in tutoring a new generation of Russian citizens who will, after all, shape their country’s future. These people will, in the very nature of things, outlive Putin and Putinism, and who can foresee what new contours may then emerge on the landscape of Russian historiography or ‘historymaking’? As the Leningrad (now St Petersburg!) writer, Tatyana Tolstaya, has put it: ‘Russia is a country whose past is impossible to predict’.","PeriodicalId":43875,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES","volume":"52 1","pages":"342 - 343"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46259124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: James C. Pearce: The Use of History in Putin’s Russia and Anton Weiss-Wendt: Putin’s Russia and the Falsification of History: Reasserting Control of the Past","authors":"Alan B. Wood","doi":"10.1177/00472441221136736e","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00472441221136736e","url":null,"abstract":"major novel Jahrestage. Aus dem Leben von Gesine Cresspahl in 1983 (newly translated by Damien Searls as Anniversaries. From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, 2018). Three volumes had already been published and the fourth was well in progress when Johnson left Berlin, but Wright does not reflect on Johnson’s nearly 10-year struggle to complete it, nor particularly on its significance as a major work of twentieth-century European literature. Otherwise, Johnson’s two most important works during his Sheerness years were his 1979 Frankfurt poetics lectures, published as Begleitumstände (Attendant Circumstances) in 1980, and the novella Skizze eines Verunglückten (Sketch of An Accident Victim) of 1981. Wright does not discuss the former in any depth, even though it is as close as Johnson got to an autobiography and offers plenty of material that might help understand his move to England. Wright uses the latter only as a comment on the break-up of Johnson’s marriage that took place during his Sheerness years, which it certainly can be seen to be, but to which it should not be reduced. It may be the case that there simply is not enough to say about Johnson himself in Sheerness that makes the tale worth telling as a story in its own right, whereas there would be value in a study of his years in Sheerness that addresses and assesses his literary production there and that also weaves in the author’s own origins and life before Sheerness, while taking a far more selective approach to Sheerness local history. A volume of Inselgeschichten (Island Stories, 1985) was published from Johnson’s literary estate, containing largely unfinished texts, mostly from Johnson’s letters, and only three short texts that Johnson published in his own lifetime. His essay ‘Ein unergründliches Schiff’ (published in English as ‘An Unfathomable Ship’ in 1983, translated by Lawrence Wilson) on the Richard Montgomery, a US ammunitions ship that was wrecked in 1944 and lies in view of Sheerness, stands out as the only text of substance based on the town of Sheerness that he wrote. Johnson’s research on the wreck evokes a sense of place in the present while salvaging the history that lies submerged, spinning a tale from contemporary Sheerness to the Second World War and its consequences. It condenses the ‘sea view’ that he himself ‘had’ in Sheerness down to a bigger story worth telling. Here we see Johnson not as ‘Charlie’ in Sheerness, but as the major European intellectual that he undoubtedly was.","PeriodicalId":43875,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES","volume":"52 1","pages":"339 - 342"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48960430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Hannah Smith: Armies and Political Change in Britain, 1660–1750","authors":"Jeremy Black","doi":"10.1177/00472441221136736","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00472441221136736","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43875,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES","volume":"52 1","pages":"330 - 331"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42472135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Conceptualising Europe from the far right: The mobilisation of intellectual heritage in Germany","authors":"Sabine Volk","doi":"10.1177/00472441221115564","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00472441221115564","url":null,"abstract":"Against the backdrop of multiple European crises and the end of the ‘liberal consensus’ on European integration, this article explores the increasing politicisation of ‘Europe’ by the populist far right. As a case study, it focuses on how key far-right actors in Germany deploy a term from the country’s intellectual history, namely the notion of the Abendland (‘Occident’), to construct ‘Europe’ and ‘European civilisation’ according to an exclusionary and populist political agenda. Drawing from the toolboxes of conceptual history and ethnography, the interpretive analysis traces the long-term semiotic shifts of the concepts of Abendland and ‘Europe’ in the context of post-war democratisation, European integration and social liberalisation. Applying a rhetorical lens to original empirical material, the article explains how contemporary far-right players strategically ‘redescribe’ the Abendland to mobilise it in the struggle over the meaning of ‘Europe’.","PeriodicalId":43875,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES","volume":"52 1","pages":"238 - 254"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44636185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dialogue in and as European heritage","authors":"Viktorija L. A. Čeginskas, Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus","doi":"10.1177/00472441221115568","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00472441221115568","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we scrutinize the use and institutionalization of the concept of ‘dialogue’ in the cultural politics of the European Union. Our focus is on how dialogue is understood in the context of the European Union’s flagship heritage action, the European Heritage Label, that aims to strengthen citizens’ sense of belonging to the Union. Since heritage has gained increasing prominence in the European Union international relations, we also discuss how ‘dialogue’ is institutionalized in the European Heritage Label as part of the European Union’s heritage diplomacy. We approach dialogue in the context of the European Heritage Label as a floating signifier; an ideal seldom explicitly defined and never fully achieved but actively used to organize society and power relations. The empirical data consist of official European Heritage Label reports and interviews conducted with European Union officials and members of the European Heritage Label panel in charge of the selection and awarding of European Heritage Label sites.","PeriodicalId":43875,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES","volume":"52 1","pages":"187 - 203"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42619177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘What I shall miss’: European heritage in Tom Lanoye’s Fortress Europe (2005)","authors":"Astrid Van Weyenberg, Didi Spaans","doi":"10.1177/00472441221115858","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00472441221115858","url":null,"abstract":"Tom Lanoye’s ‘theatre novella’ Fort Europa: Hooglied van Versplintering (Fortress Europe: A Canticle of Fragmentation) (2005) features a range of characters who probe Europe’s possible future by turning to its past. The Eurocentric heritage narratives on which they draw perpetuate an idea of Europe as a civilization founded on Christianity and on the Enlightenment and racially defined as White. The way in which Lanoye stages these conservative narratives and the way in which he employs irony, however, invites critical reflection, thus calling for a postcolonial perspective on Europe and on European heritage. We approach Fortress Europe as a literary text that reflects on and intervenes in dominant heritage discourses. Through close reading, we investigate how this work stages and engages with European heritage and how it thereby explores specific ideas about European culture and identity. Our focus is on the literary means by which Lanoye reflects on the place of heritage in narratives of Europe.","PeriodicalId":43875,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES","volume":"52 1","pages":"272 - 288"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42666120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}