The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading American journal for the study of European intellectual, political, and cultural history. The Journal's geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: the JMH explores not only events and movements in specific countries, but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Articles
Strategists and Ideologues: Russians and the Making of Bulgaria’s Tarnovo Constitution, 1878–1879 Ilya Vinkovetsky The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 751–791. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700299?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Old Volk: Aging in 1950s Germany, East and West James Chappel The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 792–833. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700298?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Contemporary Issues in Historical Perspective
“It is quite impossible to receive them”: Saving the Musa Dagh Refugees and the Imperialism of European Humanitarianism Andrekos Varnava and Trevor Harris The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 834–862. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700215?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Review Article: World War I Centennial Series
An Italian War? War and Nation in the Italian Historiography of the First World War Roberta Pergher The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 863–899. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700561?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Book Reviews
Karl Schlögel, In Space We Read Time: On the History of Civilization and Geopolitics Andrew Denning The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 900–901. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700123?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Jeffrey Andrew Barash, Collective Memory and the Historical Past Carolyn J. Dean The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 901–903. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700120?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Gregory Claeys, Dystopia: A Natural History Samuel Moyn The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 903–904. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700133?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Bradford A. Bouley, Pious Postmortems: Anatomy, Sanctity, and the Catholic Church in Early Modern Europe Jacalyn Duffin The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 905–906. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700126?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Rachael Ball, Treating the Public: Charitable Theater and Civic Health in the Early Modern Atlantic World Walter Cohen The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 906–908. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700130?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Anna Maria Forssberg, The Story of War: Church and Propaganda in France and Sweden, 1610–1710 Daniel Riches The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 908–909. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700134?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Charles W. J. Withers, Zero Degrees: Geographies of the Prime Meridian Simone M. Müller The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 910–911. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700124?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Anton M. Matytsin, The Specter of Skepticism in the Age of Enlightenment James A. Harris The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 911–913. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700131?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Ilya Berkovich, Motivation in War: The Experience of Common Soldiers in Old-Regime Europe Dennis E. Showalter The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 913–914. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700122?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Marten Seppel and Keith Tribe, eds., Cameralism in Practice: State Administration and Economy in Early Modern Europe Andre Wakefield The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 915–916. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700135?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Yota Batsaki, Sarah Burke Calahan, and Anatole Tchikine, eds., The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century E. C. Spary The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 916–918. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700136?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Aurelian Craiutu, A Virtue for Courageous Minds: Moderation in French Political Thought, 1748–1830; Aurelian Craiutu, Faces of Moderation: The Art of Balance in an Age of Extremes Hugo Drochon The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 918–921. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700127?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Susan R. Grayzel and Tammy M. Proctor, eds., Gender and the Great War Martha Hanna The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 921–922. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700129?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Axel Weipert, Salvador Oberhaus, Detlef Nakath, and Bernd Hüttner, eds., “Maschine zur Brutalisierung der Welt”? Der Erste Weltkrieg—Deutungen und Haltungen 1914 bis heute Alan Kramer The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 923–924. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700125?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Christopher Knowles, Winning the Peace: The British in Occupied Germany, 1945–1948 Adam R. Seipp The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 924–926. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700132?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Marco Duranti, The Conservative Human Rights Revolution: European Identity, Transnational Politics, and the Origins of the European Convention Sarah B. Snyder The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 926–928. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700121?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Sina Fabian, Boom in der Krise: Konsum, Tourismus, Autofahren in Westdeutschland und Großbritannien, 1970–1990 Bernhard Rieger The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 928–929. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700128?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
William M. Cavert, The Smoke of London: Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City Fredrik Albritton Jonsson The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 930–931. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700143?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
William J. Ashworth, The Industrial Revolution: The State, Knowledge, and Global Trade Abigail L. Swingen The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 931–933. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700138?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Carla Gardina Pestana, The English Conquest of Jamaica: Oliver Cromwell’s Bid for Empire Matthew Mulcahy The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 933–934. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700141?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Abigail Williams, The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home; Paula McDowell, The Invention of the Oral: Print Commerce and Fugitive Voices in Eighteenth-Century Britain Eve Tavor Bannet The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 935–937. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700139?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Emily Jones, Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism, 1830–1914: An Intellectual History Philip Harling The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 937–939. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700142?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Jonathan Black, Winston Churchill in British Art, 1900 to the Present Day: The Titan with Many Faces Paul Addison The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 939–940. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700144?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
John Bew, Clement Attlee: The Man Who Made Modern Britain Laura Beers The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 940–942. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700140?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Laura Beers, Red Ellen: The Life of Ellen Wilkinson, Socialist, Feminist, Internationalist Chris Wrigley The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 942–943. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700137?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Julian Swann, Exile, Imprisonment, or Death: The Politics of Disgrace in Bourbon France, 1610–1789 Orest Ranum The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 944–945. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700150?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Joshua Schreier, The Merchants of Oran: A Jewish Port at the Dawn of Empire Julie Kalman The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 946–947. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700148?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Gavin Murray-Miller, The Cult of the Modern: Trans-Mediterranean France and the Construction of French Modernity Patricia M. E. Lorcin The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 947–949. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700145?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Bruno Cabanes, August 1914: France, the Great War, and a Month That Changed the World Forever Richard S. Fogarty The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 949–950. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700153?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Andrew Orr, Women and the French Army during the World Wars, 1914–1940 Leonard V. Smith The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 950–952. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700152?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Valerie Deacon, The Extreme Right in the French Resistance: Members of the Cagoule and the Corvignolles in the Second World War Joan Tumblety The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 952–953. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700149?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Sarah Fishman, From Vichy to the Sexual Revolution: Gender and Family Life in Postwar France Camille Robcis The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 954–955. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700146?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Shannon L. Fogg, Stealing Home: Looting, Restitution, and Reconstructing Jewish Lives in France, 1942–1947 Richard D. Sonn The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 956–957. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700147?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Richard J. Golsan, The Vichy Past in France Today: Corruptions of Memory Patrick H. Hutton The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 957–959. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700151?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Paul F. Grendler, The Jesuits and Italian Universities, 1548–1773 Brendan Dooley The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 959–960. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700154?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Paul Garfinkel, Criminal Law in Liberal and Fascist Italy David G. Horn The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 961–962. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700155?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Miguel Martínez, Front Lines: Soldiers’ Writing in the Early Modern Hispanic World Sylvia Sellers-García The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 962–964. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700156?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Eugenia Afinoguénova, The Prado: Spanish Culture and Leisure, 1819–1939 Adrian Shubert The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 964–965. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700157?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Mark Hewitson, Absolute War: Violence and Mass Warfare in the German Lands, 1792–1820; Mark Hewitson, The People’s Wars: Histories of Violence in the German Lands, 1820–1888 James J. Sheehan The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 965–968. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700165?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Gareth Stedman Jones, Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion John Abromeit The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 968–971. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700183?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Bálint Varga, The Monumental Nation: Magyar Nationalism and Symbolic Politics in Fin-de-siècle Hungary Árpád von Klimó The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 971–972. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700162?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
David Hamlin, Germany’s Empire in the East: Germans and Romania in an Era of Globalization and Total War Woodruff D. Smith The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 972–974. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700160?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Jan Vermeiren, The First World War and German National Identity: The Dual Alliance at War Jonathan E. Gumz The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 974–976. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700161?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Mark Jones, Founding Weimar: Violence and the German Revolution of 1918–1919 Henning Grunwald The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 976–977. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700159?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Noah Benezra Strote, Lions and Lambs: Conflict in Weimar and the Creation of Post-Nazi Germany Moritz Föllmer The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 978–979. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700163?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Thomas Kühne, The Rise and Fall of Comradeship: Hitler’s Soldiers, Male Bonding, and Mass Violence in the Twentieth Century; Svenja Goltermann, The War in Their Minds: German Soldiers and Their Violent Pasts in West Germany Greg Eghigian The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 979–981. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700164?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Johan Östling, Sweden after Nazism: Politics and Culture in the Wake of the Second World War Paul A. Levine The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 981–983. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700158?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Devin E. Naar, Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece Bedross Der Matossian The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 984–985. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700166?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Adam Teller, Money, Power, and Influence in Eighteenth-Century Lithuania: The Jews on the Radziwiłł Estates Lynn Lubamersky The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 986–987. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700170?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Sergei Antonov, Bankrupts and Usurers of Imperial Russia: Debt, Property, and the Law in the Age of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy Tracy Dennison The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 987–988. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700168?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Andy Willimott, Living the Revolution: Urban Communes and Soviet Socialism, 1917–1932 Edward Cohn The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 989–990. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700169?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Yuri Slezkine, The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution Catriona Kelly The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 990–992. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700171?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T
Alexis Peri, The War Within: Diaries from the Siege of Leningrad Robert Dale The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 90, No. 4: 993–994. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/700167?ai=tl&ui=19q3&af=Tamp;af=T