Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Augustynowicz, Christoph / Fuchs, Martina u. a. (Hrsg.), Alltag - Erinnerung - Aufarbeitung an der Universitaet Wien: Historische Wissenschaften in Austrofaschismus, Nationalsozialismus und Nachkriegszeit. (Schriften des Archivs der Universitaet Wien 30) 196 S. 2025:1 (Vienna U. Pr., AU) <741-1252>
ISBN 978-3-8471-1787-2 hard ¥11,605.- (税込) EUR 50.00

Erinnern ist ein aktiver, kollaborativer Prozess zur Verlangsamung kollektiven Vergessens. Die historischen Institute der Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultaet der Universitaet Wien beschaeftigen sich vermehrt mit ihrer Vergangenheit in den Jahren von Austrofaschismus, Nationalsozialismus und der Nachkriegszeit. Viele Angehoerige der Universitaet Wien waren Opfer, aber noch viele mehr Wegbereiter und Mittaeter der nationalsozialistischen Ideologie. Einzelne Ergebnisse dieser Aufarbeitung werden im vorliegenden Band praesentiert. Neben grundsaetzlichen Ausfuehrungen zum Fach Geschichte an der Universitaet Wien, zur Entwicklung der Disziplin zwischen den 1930er- und 1960er-Jahren sowie zu Universitaetsalltag und Bibliothekswesen werden vier Lehrende unter dem Signum ?Zwischen Opfer- und Taeterrollen“ vorgestellt. Ein weiterer Beitrag gedenkt eines Grazer Mediaevisten, der in Wien studiert hatte und 1942 im Ghetto Theresienstadt umkam. Remembering is an active, collaborative process to slow down collective forgetting. The historical institutes of the Historical and Cultural Studies Faculty at the University of Vienna are increasingly dealing with their past during the years of Austrofascism, National Socialism, and the post-war period. Many members of the University of Vienna were victims, but even more were facilitators and accomplices of the National Socialist ideology. This volume presents individual results of this reappraisal. In addition to fundamental discussions about the field of history at the University of Vienna, the development of the discipline between the 1930s and the 1960s, and everyday university life and library science, four lecturers are presented under the heading "Between Victim and Perpetrator Roles." Another contribution commemorates a medievalist from Graz who had studied in Vienna and perished in the Theresienstadt Ghetto in 1942.

Barksdale, Marcellus Chandler, The Cross, the Candle, and the Crown: A Narrative History of Morehouse College, 1867-2021. 456 pp. 2025:2 (Mercer U. Pr., US) <741-1253>
ISBN 978-0-88146-967-7 hard ¥9,652.- (税込) US$ 45.00 *

Levy, David W. (ed.), Sooner Doughboys Write Home: The University of Oklahoma and World War I. 262 pp. 2025:2 (U. Oklahoma Pr., US) <741-1255>
ISBN 978-0-8061-9527-8 hard ¥6,424.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

Days before the armistice was signed ending World War I, Stratton D. Brooks, third president of the University of Oklahoma, sent a letter to every student, former student, and faculty member serving in the armed forces. He had a request: would each man write a letter in reply, describing his experiences and impressions during his wartime service? Dozens of them responded in late 1918 and early 1919. Now, more than a century later, historian David W. Levy has selected and annotated fifty-three of these letters. Sooner Doughboys Write Home is a richly detailed-and often poignant-record of what these young men thought about the war and what they witnessed firsthand. As Levy explains in his thorough introduction, most of these young men, or "doughboys" as they were called, came from small Oklahoma towns and farms. Suddenly thrust into strange and often dangerous circumstances after the United States entered the war in 1917, they betray in their letters an appealing innocence of this wider world. For some of them, it is a world of dreary inactivity and boredom, punctuated by moments of breathtaking violence and danger. Others marvel at sights in Paris and in Germany. All the while, they keep a sharp eye out for their Sooner classmates from Norman, eager to share a quick drink or hurried chat. Although these Sooner doughboys, as Levy acknowledges, were not "ordinary," given their privileged status as college students, they observed the war from the field and not from some more remote vantage point. Drawing on his expertise as an American historian and his extensive knowledge of the university's history, Levy identifies and explains in ample footnotes the numerous people and places mentioned by the letter writers. In so doing, he ties the experience of everyday Oklahomans to a global conflict that changed the course of history.

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Rinsum, Henk, Utrecht University and Colonial Knowledge: Exploration, Exploitation and the Civilising Mission since 1636. 352 pp. 2025:3 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <741-1256>
ISBN 978-90-485-6797-3 hard ¥13,220.- (税込) GB￡ 46.95 *

In this book, Henk van Rinsum provides an in-depth description of the colonial past of Utrecht University in the Netherlands, from its foundation in 1636. He describes the development of (scientific) knowledge and knowledge transfer about and in the Dutch colonies, especially in the Dutch East Indies. The central theme of his book is the idea of Western superiority - the assumption that we are 'developed' and therefore modern, while those in the colonies are 'not (yet) developed' and therefore primitive or traditional. This colonial past is also the framework in which Utrecht University became involved in slavery and its abolition. Henk van Rinsum shows how the knowledge acquired in the colony also contributed significantly to the scientific development of the university, especially towards the end of the nineteenth century. Utrecht University and Colonial Knowledge is therefore an important contribution to both colonial and intellectual history.

Rogers, William Warren, Jr., The Battle for the University of Alabama: The Perilous Path of Higher Education in the Reconstruction South. 286 pp. 2025:4 (U. Alabama Pr., US) <741-1257>
ISBN 978-0-8173-2228-1 hard ¥23,595.- (税込) US$ 110.00
ISBN 978-0-8173-6200-3 paper ¥7,496.- (税込) US$ 34.95

The University of Alabama was burned to the ground in the final days of the Civil War. In the war's aftermath, survivors constructed a new collection of buildings using many of the bricks left from the original campus. Nevertheless, the university's presidency changed frequently, Alabama had a new egalitarian constitution created by a racially diverse coalition of Republicans, the fate of the University of Alabama soon became a key battleground in the contested nature of state. In The Battle for the University of Alabama, historian William Warren Rogers, Jr. traces this incredible yet little-known story of the bitter contest for the fate of a cultural citadel in relation to the histories of other public universities in the former states of the Confederacy as they struggled to make their own way after the war.

Woodin, Tom / Vernon, Keith / Shaw, Linda, The Co-operative College and a Century of Social Change: Internationalism, Co-operativism and Learning. (Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning) 342 pp. 2025:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <741-1258>
ISBN 978-3-031-72975-1 hard ¥34,811.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This open access book explores the Co-operative College's distinctive adult educational tradition over the past century as it provided education for co-operative leaders, employees and members in addition to developing a range of wider educational initiatives and ideas internationally. The Co-operative College is a British educational charity established in 1919, founded on co-operative principles. It played a crucial role in co-operative education in the British Empire and subsequently in the independent nations. In doing so, it brought together vocational and liberal education as well as educating members as part of a movement that fostered significant social change. It draws on original archival research at the National Co-operative Archive in Manchester as well as other material at the National Archives, Bishopsgate Institute and the British Library. Furthermore, the rich archives of the National Co-operative Archive allow for the development of a rich visual history of the movement to be explored.

Carter, Andy, Games, Greek and Pluck: Classicism, Masculinity, Elite Education and British Sport, 1850-1914. (Sport, History and Culture 13) 330 pp. 2024:12 (P. Lang, SZ) <741-1099>
ISBN 978-1-80374-613-5 paper ¥17,746.- (税込) SFR 73.00

Public school education in the second half of the nineteenth century was completely dominated by classics and sport. Rejecting the view that these were competing strands resulting in friction between aesthetic scholars and athletic philistines, this book shows how classicism and athleticism were closely entwined. Using primary sources, such as school magazines and memoirs, it considers how classical ideas shaped the elite British male's view of his place in the world and his attitudes to masculinity, gender, race, class and duty. At the heart of this process were a comparatively small number of classically-educated men who influenced the reorganisation and reform of games between 1850 and 1914 laying the foundations for modern sport. This book explores their overlapping social networks, and the ways in which they sometimes co-opted ancient history, as they tried to retain control of the sporting landscape and promote an 'amateur ideal' based on a past that never really existed.