Transcript Berghahn Books

Who is Berghahn Books?
• Berghahn Books is an independent scholarly publisher in the humanities
and social sciences, with a focus on History, Politics & Economics, Cultural
and Media Studies, Anthropology & Sociology, International Relations, and
Migration Studies.
• A peer-review press, Berghahn is committed to the highest academic
standards and seeks to enable innovative contributions to the scholarship in
its fields of specialty. Thanks to a strong transatlantic position and close links
to Continental Europe, the press sees it as one of its important roles to
further the dialogue between European and American scholars. The
Berghahn publishing programs are widely recognized for the quality both of
their lists and of the production of their books and journals.
ESCAPE FROM HELL
The True Story of the Auschwitz Protocol
Alfred Wetzler
"Alfred Wetzler was a true hero. His escape from
Auschwitz, and the report he helped compile, telling for the
first time the truth about the camp as a place of mass
murder, led directly to saving the lives of 120,000 Jews: the
Jews of Budapest who were about to be deported to their
deaths. No other single act in the Second World War saved
so many Jews from the fate that Hitler and the SS had
determined for them. This book tells Wetzler's story." · Sir
Martin Gilbert
2007, 288 pages, appendices, index
ISBN 978-1-84545-183-7 hardback $34.95 / £19.95
TURNING THE KALEIDOSCOPE
Perspectives on European Jewry
Edited by Sandra Lustig and Ian Leveson
This volume explores such key questions as the new roles
for Jews in Europe; models of Jewish community
organization in Europe; concepts of diaspora and galut; a
European-Jewish way of life in the era of globalization; and
European Jews' relationship to Israel and to non-Jews.
Some contributions highlight experiences of Jews in Britain,
Sweden, Norway, Hungary, Austria, Germany, and the
Netherlands. Helping us to understand the special and
common characteristics of European Jewry, this collection
offers a valuable contribution to the continued rebuilding of
Jewish life in the postwar era.
2006, 288 pages
ISBN 978-1-84545-076-2 hardback $90.00 / £45.00
ISBN 978-1-84545-535-4 paperback $34.95 / £19.95
BETWEEN MARX AND COCA-COLA
Youth Cultures in Changing European Societies, 19601980
Edited by Axel Schildt and Detlef Siegfried
“…undergraduates who purchase this book will not sell it
back to the bookstore at the end of the semester. It is
thoroughly readable and the translations and writings of
non-native English speakers flow very well. It is also
engaging and thought-provoking, with something to offer
everyone, from the college student activist to the expert on
youth culture and rebellion...In an impressive display of
thematic unity for an edited volume, the authors'
contributions are in dialogue with one another… the volume
is one of the year's best books…By demonstrating the
varying aspects of youth movements in different national
settings, this volume takes the reader far beyond the parts
of its whole.” · H-German
2005, 434 pages
ISBN 978-1-84545-009-0 hardback $85.00 / £50.00
ISBN 978-1-84545-333-6 paperback $29.95 / £19.95
THE HISTORY OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
Ethnic Conflict from the Balkans to Anatolia to the
Caucasus
Vahakn N. Dadrian
"... totally innovative ... Dadrian exhibits exemplary objectivity
and provides us with the fruits of a life of scholarship and
research. An inestimable contribution to our knowledge of
history." · Journal of the Society of Armenian Studies
”... marshals considerable evidence to show how the
development of the Turkish-Armenian conflict escalated to
the point of genocide ... Dadrian makes [an] important
contribution to our understanding of the dynamics of the
Ottoman decision to destroy its Armenian subjects." · MESA
Bulletin
2003, 480 pages, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-84545-666-5 paperback $29.95 / £20.00
PORTRAITS OF HOPE
Armenians in the Contemporary World
Edited by Huberta von Voss
“…certainly a well-put together and edited compendium of
Armenian socio-political and cultural essays ...And it has a
great deal to offer both the educated and altruistic reader
alike about the passionate and fatalistic woven threads that
compose Armenian life and identity today.” · Armenian
Weekly
“…highly informative and important for the understanding
not only of an ignored past…One reads with astonishment
how much creative potential the oldest Christian people still
has.” · Die Welt
2007, 400 pages, photographs
ISBN 978-1-84545-257-5 hardback $39.95 / £25.00
(RE)CONSTRUCTING ARMENIA IN LEBANON AND
SYRIA
Ethno-Cultural Diversity & the State in the Aftermath of a Refugee
Crisis
Nicola Migliorino
The author shows that, while in Lebanon the state has
facilitated the development of an extensive and effective
system of Armenian ethno-cultural preservation, in Syria the
emergence of centralizing, authoritarian regimes in the
1950s and 1960s has severely damaged the autonomy and
cultural diversity of the Armenian community.
2008, 256 pages, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-84545-352-7 hardback $75.00 / £35.00
A FOREIGN AFFAIR
Billy Wilder’s American Films
Gerd Gemünden
"Billy Wilder is hard to trump, because everything one
writes about him is only half as entertaining as his great
sense of humor. Gerd Gemünden, however, achieves a
small miracle: his A Foreign Affair is a highly readable yet
serious critical study that reveals Wilder, the alleged cynic,
as the moralist he really was." · Volker Schlöndorff
Volume 5, Film Europa
2008, 206 pages, 36 ills, chronology, filmography, bibliog.,
index
ISBN 978-1-84545-418-0 hardback $85.00 / £42.50
ISBN 978-1-84545-419-7 paperback $27.95 / £15.00
WOMEN IN POLISH CINEMA
Ewa Mazierska and Elzbieta Ostrowska
“… an important contribution to film studies not only in
Poland, but in Eastern and Central Europe in general. The
authors demonstrate that women are both revered and
despised in Polish culture, a phenomenon Mazierska and
Ostrowska attribute to the persistence of overt patriarchy in
both social relations and culture. This system of thought,
they aver, has ‘shaped and policed the lives of Polish
women’ for generations.” · Historical Journal of Film,
Radio and Television
2006, 256 pages, 36 ills, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-57181-947-5 hardback $75.00 / £45.00
ISBN 978-1-57181-948-2 paperback $25.00 / £15.00
MOZART
The First Biography
Franz Xaver Niemetschek
“It is perhaps not for the critique of contemporaneous
music that we turn to Niemetschek but, rather, to enjoy the
warmth and affection that shine through in a manner rare
in biography.” · Music and Letters
“…this book includes much contemporary debate (on
whether music is a victim of fashion, for instance, or on the
paucity of good musical education), and is absorbing to
read.” · Jane Glover in Times Literary Supplement
2006, 96 pages, 6 ills, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-84545-231-5 hardback $29.95 / £17.50
AN ACADEMIC SKATING ON THIN ICE
Peter Worsley
“Peter Worsley's vividly remembered and incisively told
Autobiography is an important addition to the history of the
social sciences. He is a major figure in both anthropology
and sociology, whose work is widely read and discussed
today. A formidable thinker who introduced 'The Third
World' into English, he is not only an important theoretician
and ethnographer, but also a central founding member of
the 'New Left' in Britain. This is a book which captures with
great honesty a rich and varied life and a major moment in
British intellectual history.” · Alan Macfarlane, Professor
of Anthropological Science at the University of Cambridge
2008, 296 pages, 12 ills, index
ISBN 978-1-84545-370-1 hardback $39.95 / £22.00
THE VOICE OF PROPHECY
And Other Essays
Edwin Ardener
“His voice is as deeply needed as ever. Ardener
anticipated numerous central issues in the social sciences
today…This publishing event will achieve something much
more significant still: a long-overdue recognition that
Ardener not only forged ahead of today’s mainstream but
bequeathed a legacy of ideas that can regenerate and
redirect anthropological thought today. This new edition will
allow a new and more receptive audience to come to grips
with Ardener’s distinctive mode of analysis and
understanding, bringing it more clearly into the mainstream
of anthropological thought not only as a historical
contribution but also, and especially, as a source of new
reflections.” (From the Foreword)
“The intellectual bequest of a brilliant and compassionate
human being.” · Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University
2006, 326 pages, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-84545-331-2 hardback $27.50 / £16.50
HEART OF LIGHTNESS
The Life Story of an Anthropologist
Edith Turner
"Edith and Victor Turner were among the most influential
researchers and teachers and social and cultural
anthropology in the twentieth century. Together they, and
Edie alone after Vic's death, raised the idea of participant
observation (and indeed of team learning) to heights and
depth most anthropologists never achieve." [From the
Foreword]
This fascinating memoir is a lively testimony to a
remarkable partnership and to Edie Turner's own
achievements during more than two decades after Victor's
untimely death.
2006,320 pages, 46 photos, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-8454-5126-4 hardback $85.00 / £47.50
ISBN 978-1-84545-127-1 paperback $27.95 / £15.00
POSTSOCIALISM
Politics and Emotions in Central and Eastern Europe
Edited by Maruska Svasek
This volume proves the significance of emotions to postsocialist political processes as an inherent part of the
transformations and sheds new light on the impact of local,
national, and transnational political forces that have given
rise to the resurgence of nationalist sentiments, increasing
poverty and marginalization, conflicts arising from the
restitution of state property, constitutional changes, and
economic deprivation.
2006, 224 pages, index
ISBN 978-1-8454-124-0 hardback $75.00 / £37.50
ISBN 978-1-84545534-7 paperback $27.95 / £15.00 (2007)
PRACTICING PUBLIC DIPLOMACY
A Cold War Odyssey
Yale Richmond
“This short, readable volume is a treasure trove of sound
advice wrapped in the recollections of one of America’s
leading public diplomacy practitioners and top Soviet
hands whose lengthy US government career spanned 44
years.” · WhirledView
“instructive book…[is] much more enlightening about
down-to-earth public diplomacy than a training manual or
abstract academic treatise can ever be…a delightful
volume.” · AmericanDiplomacy.org
2007, 192 pages, 12 ills, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-8454-475-3 hardback $29.95 / £16.50
ON PERPETUAL PEACE
A Tinely Assessment
Dieter Senghaas
Dieter Senghaas today is the world’s leading figure in
the field of conflict research, conflict management
research, and the study of the prerequisites of lasting
peace. The fact that virulent conflict within what
Senghaas calls the OECD world, essentially the
European Union, has become unthinkable over the
past half-century encourages him – in the face of
violent conflict in many parts of the world – to be
reasonably optimistic about the prospect for our
planet as a whole.
2007 216 pages, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-8454-324-4 hardback $75.00 / £37.50
ISBN 978-1-8454-325-1 paperback $27.95 / £15.00
A DIFFERENT KIND OF WAR
The UN Sanctions Regime in Iraq
H. C. von Sponeck
“It is necessary reading, with crucial lessons for the
immediate future as well. And immensely sad". · Noam
Chomsky
"This is one of the most important books I can
remember." · John Pilger
"This book is my personal history. I grew up during the
embargo years - no health care, poor education, not
enough food. God and my parents helped me to
survive." · Wissam Khalifa (18), Al-Fallujah/Iraq
2006, 336 pages
ISBN 978-1-84545-222-3 Hb $39.95/£22.95