Archiv für April 2014

History in Flux: Indira Gandhi and the ‚Great All-Party Campaign‘ for the Protection of the Cow, 1966-8

This article contends that the late 1960s, a period rife with crises in Indian political and economic affairs, merits close attention from historians wanting to construct narratives of the country’s post-Independence experience. More particularly it d…

Matthew M. Briones, Jim and Jap Crow: A Cultural History of 1940s Interracial America,

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Champion of Human Rights: The European Parliament and the Helsinki Process

This article investigates the involvement of the European Parliament – one of today’s key European Union institutions – in human rights in the context of East–West relations during the 1970s and 1980s. It shows that the Europea…

Healing the Soldier, Restoring the Nation: Representations of Shell Shock in the USA During and After the First World War

This article examines representations of shell shock in American culture during and after the First World War. It draws on the large historiography of First World War-era shell shock in Europe where shell shock came to represent the incurable wounds o…

Parallel Diplomacy, Parallel War: The PIDE/DGS’s Dealings with Rhodesia and South Africa, 1961-74

PIDE/DGS, Portugal’s secret police during the New State (1932–74), had an important role to play in the country’s colonial wars, which lasted from 1961 to 1974. Using documentation circulated at meetings held regularly with the polic…

Robert Hudson and Glenn Bowman (eds), After Yugoslavia: Identities and Politics within the Successor States

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Inside a Chinese Communist Municipal Newspaper: Purges at the Beijing Daily

The Beijing Daily, the flagship media outlet of the Beijing Municipal Party, was one of the most influential newspapers established in the early years of the People’s Republic of China. The newspaper’s principal purpose was to propagate th…

John Lewis Gaddis, George F. Kennan: An American Life

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The Price of Belonging to the Volk: Volksdeutsche, Land Redistribution and Aryanization in the Serbian Banat, 1941-4

Between 1941 and 1944, the Serbian Banat was occupied by Reich German forces but administered by its Volksdeutsche (ethnic German) minority. The Banat Volksdeutsche existed in a precarious balance between the Third Reich’s racial policy and their new …

Erratum

Journal of Contemporary History 48(3) July 2013 Book Reviews section, DOI: 10.1177/0022009413481304. Review of Laurent Warlouzet, Le choix de la EEC par la France. L’Europe économique en débat de Mendès France &ag…