Jason Crouthamel. Trauma, Religion and Spirituality in Germany during the First World War. New York: Bloomsbury, 2021. Cloth $103.50. 272 PP. ISBN: 9781350083707. “There are no atheists in foxholes,” so they say. The aphorism states …
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Conrad Allen, review of Mary Louise Roberts’s “Sheer Misery”
Mary Louise Roberts. Sheer Misery: Soldiers in Battle in WWII. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 208 PP. Cloth $23.00. ISBN: 9780226753287. In Sheer Misery: Soldiers in Battle in WWII, Mary Louise Roberts examines the …
Mosse Comic: “Ideas can be Weapons”
Nick Thorkelson, Dave Wagner, and Paul Buhle have illustrated and written a new comic based on Mosse’s scholarship: “Ideas can be Weapons.” Below we have asked all three to answer a few questions about this …
Terrence Peterson: Reading Mosse in an Age of Populism
For George L. Mosse, the past was always contemporary. Historians may search for meaning in the past, but that search is – and should be, Mosse would add – tied to the ‘vital problems’ historians …
Sean Bloch: The “ben Izraeli” and the British Colonial Imagination in East Africa
Africa is a space for imagining. From a land of slaves with different attributes to Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness to a “country” beset by maladies, the African continent has been and remains a repository …