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

近現代スペインにおけるカトリシズムと国民化
Alonso, Gregorio / Burgos, Claudio Hernandez (eds.), The Soul of the Nation: Catholicism and Nationalization in Modern Spain. (Studies in Latin American and Spanish History 11) 264 pp. 2024:7 (Berghahn, US) <723-87>
ISBN 978-1-80539-597-3 hard ¥28,957.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

Religion and politics have historically clashed in modern Spain but the complexity of the controversial and sometimes violent relationships between Catholic values and modern political regimes continue to ride a precarious line of spiritual accommodation versus public policy. Leading experts on religious Spanish tradition and recent historiographic findings set out to define and interrogate grey areas in the last two centuries beyond the reductive conventional notion of an ever-warring "Two Spains." The Soul of the Nation unravels the role of religion in the country's public life following the imperial crisis of 1808 when the Catholic Monarchy put the role of the Church at heart of political and cultural debates.

近世スペイン帝国における移動性とコスモポリタニズム
Polo y La Borda, Adolfo, Global Servants of the Spanish King: Mobility and Cosmopolitanism in the Early Modern Spanish Empire. (Cambridge Latin American Studies) 362 pp. 2024:10 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <723-626>
ISBN 978-1-009-40321-4 hard ¥28,160.- (税込) GB￡ 100.00 *

From 1580 to 1700, low-ranking Spanish imperial officials ceaselessly moved across the Spanish empire, and in the process forged a single coherent political unit out of multiple heterogeneous territories, creating the earliest global empire. Global Servants of the Spanish King follows officials as they itinerated between the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Africa, revealing how their myriad experiences of service to the king across a variety of locales impacted the governance of the empire, and was an essential mechanism of imperial stability and integration. Departing from traditional studies which focus on high-ranking officials and are bounded by the nation-state, Adolfo Polo y La Borda centers on officials with local political and administrative duties such as governors and magistrates, who interacted daily with the crown's subjects across the whole empire, and in the process uncovers a version of cosmopolitanism concealed in conventional narratives.

Molho, Tony, Courage and Compassion: A Jewish Boyhood in German-Occupied Greece. 238 pp. 2024:6 (Berghahn, US) <723-1225>
ISBN 978-1-80539-483-9 hard ¥28,957.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-80539-484-6 paper ¥7,496.- (税込) US$ 34.95 *

First published in Greek in 2023. The Greek edition was awarded the OURANIS PRIZE of the Academy of Athens In this extraordinary personal account of childhood and survival during the Holocaust, Tony Molho recounts his adventures in 1940s Greece from ages four to six, as his parents risked everything to hide him from the German occupiers. In doing so he pays homage to the many ordinary people who selflessly protected his family, demonstrating that even in the darkest times the self-sacrifice and kindness of modest people can still prevail. Delving into the power of memory, and exploring questions of personal identity, and the weight of the Shoah, Courage and Compassion goes beyond the bounds of conventional memoir, as Tony Molho also reflects on the nature of Jewish identity in the aftermath of the Holocaust and on how his personal awareness of this trauma has helped him to understand the course of his own life.

Fioravanzo, Monica, Fascist Europe: From Italian Supremacy to Subservience to the Reich (1932-1943). Tr. by I. Mansbridge. 232 pp. 2024:2 (Berghahn, US) <723-1299>
ISBN 978-1-80539-270-5 hard ¥28,957.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

By shedding light on an often-overlooked aspect of Fascism and Nazism, this book examines the ambitious plans for a new European order conceived by Italian intellectuals, historians, geographers, politicians, and even student representative of the Fascist University Groups (GUF). Through expert reconstruction of the debate on this envisaged order's development, Monica Fioravanzo opens a window into the theoretical arena that shaped relationships between German, Italy and the other Axis nations and provides insight into how the project was anticipated to unite the Fascist regime in Italy and the Nazi Reich.

神聖ローマ帝国におけるオランダ人改革派プロテスタント　1550～1620年
Spohnholz, Jesse / Veen, Mirjam van, Dutch Reformed Protestants in the Holy Roman Empire, c.1550-1620: A Reformation of Refugees. (Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe) 326 pp. 2024:2 (U. Rochester Pr., US) <723-1321>
ISBN 978-1-64825-076-7 paper ¥7,599.- (税込) GB￡ 26.99 *

Examines the diverse experiences of Reformed Protestant religious refugees fleeing war and persecution in the Netherlands for cities and towns in the Holy Roman Empire in the late sixteenth century. Starting in the mid-sixteenth century, widespread persecution and war forced tens of thousands of Reformed Protestants in the Netherlands to flee their homes for new communities in England and the Holy Roman Empire. This book follows those refugees who escaped to large cities and small towns to the east and southeast, up the Rhine River watershed. The comprehensive approach taken here examines these forced migrations from political, intellectual, social, cultural, religious, and linguistic perspectives, including using a large prosopographical database to track refugees' movements and experiences. It challenges scholars' claims that Reformed Protestants developed more doctrinal, volunteeristic, and well-organized churches particularly capable of surviving the challenges of persecution and exile. Instead, the authors show, refugees proved remarkably willing to compromise and adapt, even as they built new relationships with the unfamiliar people they met abroad. Based on an extensive collaboration between two senior scholars with different but complementary intellectual backgrounds-one a European trained in theology and intellectual history and the other a North American with expertise in social and cultural history-and the team of researchers they led, this book challenges conventional wisdom about refugees and forced migrations in early modern Europe. Upon publication, this book is openly available in digital formats thanks to generous funding from the Dutch Research Council.

Moreno-Luzon, Javier, Centennial Fever: Transnational Hispanic Commemorations and Spanish Nationalism. Tr. by N. Rider. (Studies in Latin American and Spanish History 10) 336 pp. 2024:1 (Berghahn, US) <723-1401>
ISBN 978-1-80539-246-0 hard ¥28,957.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

Commemorations that shaped major elements of Spanish identity at the beginning of the 20th century are full of centennials and anniversaries that elaborate and renew the Spanish national mythology. In Centennial Fever Javier Moreno-Luzon, one of the most prominent Spanish historians of his generation, studies the milestones that defined transnational dimensions of celebration at the beginning of the 20th century including the Peninsular War, the first Spanish Constitution, the independence of Latin American States, the "discovery" of the Pacific Ocean and the death of Miguel de Cervantes and the publication of Don Quixote of La Mancha. Through these truly global events, a cultural community is created, called "Hispanoamerica" or "La Raza", on which Spanish nationalism has become dependent.

Natarajan, Ambika, Servants of Culture: Paternalism, Policing, and Identity Politics in Vienna, 1700-1914. (Austrian and Habsburg Studies 34) 307 pp. 2023:5 (Berghahn, US) <723-1402>
ISBN 978-1-80073-993-2 hard ¥28,957.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

In nineteenth century Cisleithanian Austria, poor, working-class women underwent mass migrations from the countryside to urban centers for menial or unskilled labor jobs. Through legal provisions on women's work in the Habsburg Empire, there was an increase in the policing and surveillance of what was previously a gender-neutral career, turning it into one dominated by thousands of female rural migrants. Servants of Culture provides an account of Habsburg servant law since the eighteenth century and uncovers the paternalistic and maternalistic assumptions and anxieties which turned the interest of socio-political players in improving poor living and working conditions into practices that created restrictive gender and class hierarchies. Through pioneering analysis of the agendas of medical experts, police, socialists, feminists, legal reformers, and even serial killers, this volume puts forth a neglected history of the state of domestic service discourse at the turn of the 19th century and how it shaped and continues to shape the surveillance of women.

Yagou, Artemis, Products, Users, and Popular Luxury in Early Modern Greece. (Routledge Research in Early Modern History) 192 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <723-1405>
ISBN 978-1-032-62055-8 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

This book analyses aspects of the material culture of early modern Greece from an object-based perspective, using surviving artefacts from that period as primary sources.A printed book, a wine jug, an ecclesiastical embroidery, and a pocket watch are used as entry points to examine the consumer practices of the emerging Greek bourgeoisie under Ottoman rule in the long eighteenth century. The acquisition and usage of novel products - especially imported ones - by Greeks was connected to personal expression, identity building, and self-determination in the context of the Enlightenment. The enjoyment of innovative artefacts opened new horizons to them and facilitated their individual and collective empowerment. The originality of the book lies in its eclectic and interdisciplinary approach towards early modern Greek material culture, an under-researched topic. The study is embedded within contemporary discourses on transnational trade, the materiality of everyday life, pleasurable consumption, and the negotiation of identities.This volume will appeal to students and scholars of early modern and modern Greek history, Ottoman history, European history, material culture, history of technology, museum studies, and cultural heritage studies, as well as museum professionals, collectors, and the wider educated public.