{"title":"Book Review: Policing and Urban Society in Eighteenth-Century Paris by Pascal Bastien, ed. Pascal Bastien, ed., Policing and Urban Society in Eighteenth-Century Paris , Liverpool University Press: Liverpool, 2024; 416 pp.; 9781835536766, £85.00 (pbk)","authors":"Harim Yang","doi":"10.1177/02656914251408248c","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914251408248c","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"88 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2026-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146006070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Reviews 56-1 Rustam Alexander, Red Closet: The Hidden History of Gay Oppression in the USSR , Manchester University Press: Manchester, 2023; 288 pp.; 9781526167453, £17.99 (hbk); 9781526181459, £12.99 (pbk)","authors":"Katharina Wiedlack","doi":"10.1177/02656914251408248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914251408248","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145893915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Albanians, the First Balkan War, and the Decisions of the London Conference 1912–1913","authors":"Ethem Çeku, Sedat Baraliu","doi":"10.1177/02656914251401388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914251401388","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the position of the Albanian National Movement during the First Balkan War, adopting a comparative and geopolitical approach. The Movement faced stark constraints, on the one hand from the collapsing Ottoman Empire, which was reluctant to recognize Albanian autonomy, and on the other from the Balkan League, which was eager to annex Albanian-inhabited territories. While both sides sought to instrumentalize the Albanians to serve broader strategic goals, this study re-evaluates the decision to maintain neutrality as a calculated response to an impossible dilemma. Particular attention is given to the decisions made at the London Conference of 1912–1913, which formally acknowledged Albanian statehood but simultaneously undermined its viability by excluding large segments of the Albanian population and severing key socio-economic ties. The article thus situates the Albanian case within broader patterns of nationalist contestation, imperial disintegration, and Great Power diplomacy, offering a reassessment of how Albanian aspirations were both recognized and constrained in the emerging Balkan order.","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145847519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Salazar's Portugal and General Franco's Empire of Hunger: Famine and Fanaticism in Iberia, 1939–1942","authors":"Rúben Leitão Serém","doi":"10.1177/02656914251397292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914251397292","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyses the Portuguese Estado Novo's knowledge of, and policy towards, the Spanish famine of 1939–1942. While historians have broadly acknowledged that Spain's economic difficulties and Germany's refusal to supply its ally prevented General Franco from joining the Axis, there is a dearth of studies on Portugal's economic strategy towards its larger Iberian neighbour. Based upon dozens of confidential documents, the article presents new information on the state of hunger in Spain. It demonstrates that the Portuguese dictatorship was aware of both its magnitude and its political reverberations. Meanwhile, it contextualizes Portuguese aid to Spain through an exploration of broader social and economic conditions within Portugal. In light of the evidence presented, the article presents a strong critique of the rationale for, and subsequent effects of, the foreign policy of Portugal's dictator, António de Oliveira Salazar, towards Spain.","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"158 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145759699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disruptive Journeys: Multi-Sited Archives of ‘Invasion’ and the Everyday","authors":"Tamara West","doi":"10.1177/02656914251401527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914251401527","url":null,"abstract":"This article uses print and associated visual media to investigate the sensationalist reportage of, and the local responses to, a transnational journey undertaken over a century ago. Referred to at the time as the ‘German Gipsy Invasion’, this was a widely reported and highly debated journey of German Roma and Sinti across the UK. The exploration of the media coverage of this event provides a way to geographically and narratively track the activities and local interactions undertaken within a temporary and high-profile migration. It also enables the exploration of domestic, locale-specific discourses around migration, spectacle and the everyday. This paper seeks to explore how, and where, the event was documented in order to explore how it was remembered and later archived. It asks how a perceived spectacle, and the memory of that spectacle, is subsumed into the everydayness of place.","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145664488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Taking Pride in a Jew-Free Town’: Intermediality, Anti-Jewish Imagination, Hybridization and Economic Competition in Upper Silesia (1450–1750)","authors":"Veronika Čapská, Martin Čapský","doi":"10.1177/02656914251396397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914251396397","url":null,"abstract":"This study analyses a long-overlooked Upper Silesian case of ritual murder accusations which appears inspired by, yet of a markedly different profile from the better-researched Tyrolean cases of Simon of Trent and Andreas of Rinn. While iconographic and narrative inspiration for the Upper Silesian case from these earlier Tyrolean cases is evident, neither the name of the alleged victim nor the development of the cult can be documented with certainty. Despite this, the narrative of the Upper Silesian case persisted from the sixteenth century into the modern era and found one of its main memory vehicles in what we describe as a hybrid oil painting of a ritual murder. At the same time, members of the elite social strata showed economic and other interests in achieving and maintaining a permanent expulsion of Jews from their community. They cooperated to achieve this goal and used the blood libel narrative to legitimize it. Intermediality is seen as essential to reinforcing the credibility of prejudicial narratives. The ritual murder accusations are examined as an example of (dis)connected history, which allows late medieval and early modern Central Europe to be seen as closely connected in cultural transmission and simultaneously divided or disconnected by the collective projection of hatred, practices of othering and exclusion. The perspective from the Silesian duchies encourages a decentring look at Central Europe from outside and beyond Bohemian, Polish, German or Austrian historical master narratives. This article discusses the spectrum of possible interpretations of this opaque narrative and emphasizes the cognitive dissonance caused by the hybrid character of the blood libel oil painting.","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"56 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145499045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Faith in War: Religion and the Military in Germany, 1500–1650 by Nikolas M. Funke FunkeNikolas M., Faith in War: Religion and the Military in Germany, 1500–1650 , Berghahn: Oxford, 2024; 246 pp.; 9781805396178, £104.00(hbk)","authors":"Jaap Geraerts","doi":"10.1177/02656914251378001g","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914251378001g","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"94 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145295558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Freedom and the Captive Mind: Fr. Gleb Yakunin and Orthodox Christianity in Soviet Russia by Wallace L. Daniel DanielWallace L., Freedom and the Captive Mind: Fr. Gleb Yakunin and Orthodox Christianity in Soviet Russia , Northern Illinois University Press: Ithaca, NY, 2024; 348 pp., 15 b/w illus.; 9781501777332, $130.00(hbk); 9781501777349, $32.95(pbk)","authors":"Philip Boobbyer","doi":"10.1177/02656914251378001d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914251378001d","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145295563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: The Wagner Group: Inside Russia’s Mercenary Army by Jack Margolin MargolinJack, The Wagner Group: Inside Russia ’ s Mercenary Army , Reaktion Books: London, UK, 2024; 328 pp.4 illus.; 9781789149579, £16.99(hbk); 9781836392033, £12.99(pbk)","authors":"Christopher Faulkner","doi":"10.1177/02656914251378001m","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914251378001m","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145295574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Tchaikovsky’s Empire: A New Life of Russia’s Greatest Composer by Simon Morrison MorrisonSimon, Tchaikovsky’s Empire: A New Life of Russia’s Greatest Composer , Yale University Press: New Haven, CT, 2024; 384 pp., 16 illus.; 9780300192100, $35.00(hbk); 9780300284317, $24.00(pbk); 9780300280586, $35.00(ebook)","authors":"Francis Maes","doi":"10.1177/02656914251378001p","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914251378001p","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"123 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145295562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}