{"title":"Book Review: <i>Gente Rutheni, Natione Poloni: The Ruthenians of Polish Nationality in Habsburg Galicia</i> by Adam Świątek","authors":"Tomasz Kamusella","doi":"10.1177/02656914231199945w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914231199945w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134937862","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: <i>International Law and the Politics of History</i> by Anne Orford","authors":"Luigi Lonardo","doi":"10.1177/02656914231199945q","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914231199945q","url":null,"abstract":"adapted, it feels like an added-on section that would have been better suited to being woven into the narrative of each chapter. Particularly in instances where anarchism, which was never a reserve of Europeans only as Murray-Miller correctly identifies, was a significant influence on these revolutionary movements an inclusion in the overall narrative would have been beneficial. Overall, Murray-Miller’s work has provided a much needed and easily accessible overview of the extensive and impressive entangled web of revolutionary movements and thinkers in the period under investigation. His work provides a remarkably clear and concise overview of the vast scholarship on European revolutionary movements, historiographical trends and some of the most recent theories in the field. Having these broad geographic entanglements synthesized in one single, concise volume makes it an important starting point for any advanced reader with an interest in European revolutionary movements.","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"125 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134937574","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: <i>Casanova’s Lottery: The History of a Revolutionary Game of Chance</i> by Stephen M. Stigler","authors":"Nicholas Scott Baker","doi":"10.1177/02656914231199945v","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914231199945v","url":null,"abstract":"Catholic and Protestant) and radical nationalism, which in the period under study held out the promise for many clerics and laymen of an effective struggle against Bolshevism as the common enemy of both religious conservatives and fascists. These expectations also enabled many critical Christians to hold what Spicer calls a ‘dualistic view of antisemitism’ (188, fn 38), that is, to come to terms with the aporias arising from rejecting ‘pagan’ racist antisemitism while simultaneously demonizing ‘Judeo-Bolshevism’ and proclaiming the need for a ‘solution to the Jewish question’. This tension, which weaves through many chapters of the monograph reviewed here, deserves special emphasis and examination, for it is a phenomenon that is typical not only of modern Catholic antisemitism: its consideration would certainly allow for a more critical look at, for example, the personality and work of Ukrainian Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky (see Andriy Mykhaleyko, Metropolitan Andrey Graf Sheptytskyj und das NS-Regime. Zwischen christlichem Ideal und politischer Realität [2020]). Moreover, such an approach could help create a better understanding of the dynamics of the ethnicization of religion, which took different forms and conditions for radicalization in different national contexts. It is to be hoped that future researchwill take these issues into account. One will find more than enough stimulus in the monograph reviewed here.","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134978092","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":"When the Vote is Not the Only Factor: (Re)thinking Electoral Corruption in Nineteenth-Century Europe from the Electors’ Perspective","authors":"Oriol Luján","doi":"10.1177/02656914231199950","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914231199950","url":null,"abstract":"Practices labelled as corrupt in nineteenth-century European elections are generally conceived either as a form of domination where the candidates and their agents use exclusive resources for personal gain or a means of transaction between candidates and voters, on the assumption that candidates deploy corrupt practices in order to perusade voters. Consequently, electoral corruption in the nineteenth century is considered a tool that limits the participation of enfranchised citizens, whose conception of corruption is largely uncultivated. This study challenges this notion and demonstrates how corrupt practices by electors in societies where freedom was not guaranteed, did not restrain but instead extended the possibilities of political participation. The novelty of this study is based on integrating research focused on politicization beyond the elite and the new history of corruption, using Great Britain, France, and Spain as case studies. This integrated process found that corruption was used by electors to overturn unfavourable results, thus providing a platform for participation beyond voting.","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134937563","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":"Globalization in Socialist Eastern Europe: A Turn in Research and its Discontents","authors":"Béla Tomka","doi":"10.1177/02656914231200215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914231200215","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134937860","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":"Africa for the Africans? Risorgimento Republicans and Cosmopolitan Nationalists in an Age of Empire","authors":"Diana Moore","doi":"10.1177/02656914231199226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914231199226","url":null,"abstract":"Within a few decades, the Italian people went from a partially colonized to colonizing power. A number of Italian patriots, therefore, who had espoused the ideals of self-determination, republicanism, and cosmopolitan nationalism, found themselves grappling with the rapid entry into colonization of the nation they had fought so hard to create. This article examines the thoughts and ideas of a select group of these individuals: Aurelio Saffi, Agostino Bertani, Alberto Mario, and Jessie White Mario. Focusing on their arguments in the 1880s and 1890s, it examines their reaction to the establishment of the French protectorate in Tunisia (1881), the British invasion of Egypt and defeat of Ahmad ʿUrabi's seemingly nationalist movement (1882), and the development of the Italian colony in East Africa. Throughout, the article emphasizes the shared importance of the civilizing mission in the ideology of both Italian cosmopolitan nationalism and colonialism. Though left-wing thinkers like Saffi or Bertani fervently argued for the freedom of nationalities and a brotherhood of peoples, their belief that a people needed to be sufficiently advanced for self-government, and that not all peoples were equally ready for that stage, allowed them to justify aspects of Italy's African empire. By examining their differing treatment of the people of Egypt, Tunisia, and East Africa, moreover, the article shows the extent and complexity of their classification of civilizations. While they showed a high level of sympathy for the more ‘Europeanized’ Egyptians, they viewed the people of Eritrea as ‘savages’ in need of Italian guidance and intervention. Finally, the article shows how they attempted to distinguish their version of benign and respectful colonization from the more avaricious or aggressive practices of the French or British empires.","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"203 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134978081","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: <i>Global War, Global Catastrophe: Neutrals, Belligerents and the Transformations of the First World War</i> by Maartje Abbenhuis and Ismee Tames","authors":"Samuël Kruizinga","doi":"10.1177/02656914231199945","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914231199945","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134978082","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: <i>Uncertain Allies: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Threat of a United Europe</i> by Klaus Larres","authors":"Dianne Kirby","doi":"10.1177/02656914231199945l","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914231199945l","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134978089","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: <i>The Ruling Families of Rus: Clan, Family and Kingdom</i> by Christian Raffensperger and Donald Ostrowski","authors":"Derek Offord","doi":"10.1177/02656914231199945s","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914231199945s","url":null,"abstract":"spring’, the city on the frontline, the final resting place for unidentified Ukrainian fighters, home to thousands of refugees and IDPs, Dnipro came to embody Ukraine’s resilience and inclusivity. And although Portnov maintains that political allegiances back in 1991 and 2014 could not be presupposed, those were the exact choices which have determined what modern Ukrainianness should look like. In the end, ‘who controls Dnipropetrovsk, controls the entire east’ (325). Overall, the book offers a vivid assemblage of interwoven storylines and episodes from the city’s multi-dimensional past, which combined result in an entangled history of Dnipro as a European city. This book is an essential read for everyone wishing to understand the multi-layered history of Ukraine and diversity of its regions. It can also serve as a starting point for scholars wishing to explore numerous episodes and historical events mentioned in the book, which unfortunately could not be discussed in more detail due to the extensive scope of the study.","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134978169","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: <i>Opera: The Autobiography of the Western World</i> by Simon Banks","authors":"Francis Maes","doi":"10.1177/02656914231199945e","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914231199945e","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134937858","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}