Europe: Recent Books

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Recent and Informative in Any Language

The Making of the Modern Refugee by Peter Gatrell
Call Number: HV640 .G38 2013
Publication Date: 2013
The Making of the Modern Refugee is a comprehensive history of global population displacement in the twentieth century.
Ill fares the land by Tony Judt
Call Number: D860 .J83 2010 Memorial Level 2
Publication Date: 2010
In this widely reviewed reflection on Europe today, Tody Judt argues for a new activist social democracy as a way forward out of the current impasse. Judt, who died recently, was an internationally renowned historian at New York University. John Jentz, Raynor Library
The Political Construction of Business Interests: Coordination, Growth, and Equality by Cathie Jo Martin; Duane Swank
Call Number: HD3611 .M375 2012 Memorial Level 3
Publication Date: 2012
Why do employers cooperate with the state in some nations, but elsewhere resist its incursions? How do employers become not just economic, but political sectors? Such are the questions grappled with in this methodologically sophisticated, massively documented study.
Spain : a unique history by Stanley G. Payne
Call Number: DP63 .P1913 2011 Memorial Level 2
Publication Date: 2011
This new volume by distinguished historian Stanley G. Payne draws on his half century of experience to offer a broadly chronological survey of Spanish history from the Visigoths to the present. Originally published in Spain in 2008.
The Spanish holocaust : inquisition and extermination in twentieth-century Spain by Paul Preston
Call Number: DP269.55 .P77 2012 Memorial Level 2
Publication Date: 2012
Paul Preston sheds crucial light on Spain's darkest period, when Franco and his supporters reconstructed an entire society through violence. The Library has the Spanish version of this book as well. Use an author search to find it.
Deutschland schafft sich ab : wie wir unser Land aufs Spiel setzen by Thilo Sarrazin
Call Number: DD74 .S26 2010 Memorial Level 2
Publication Date: 2010
This is one of the most controversial books published in Germany in the last ten years. Fearing the effects of immigrants--especially Turks--on German society, politics, and culture, Thilo Sarrazin voiced concerns that were politically incorrect for a Social-Democratic official. He lost his job as a result.
Recasting Welfare Capitalism: economic adjustment in contemporary France and Germany by Mark I. Vail
Call Number: HN425.5 .V35 2010 Memorial Level 4 Upper
Publication Date: 2009
Compares and contrasts the development of welfare capitalism in France and Germany, through good times and bad, since the 1970s.
Why the French Don't Like Headscarves: : Islam, the State, and public space by John R. Bowen
Call Number: GT2212 .B69 2007 Memorial Level 3
Publication Date: 2006
The French government's 2004 decision to ban Islamic headscarves and other religious signs from public schools puzzled many observers. Why the French Don't Like Headscarves explains why headscarves on schoolgirls caused such a furor, and why the furor yielded this law.
Follow the money : the tale of the merchant of Ennis by David McWilliams
Call Number: HC260.5 .M3294 2009 Memorial Level 3
Publication Date: 2009
Written by one of Ireland’s leading economic commentators, Follow the Money is a devastating look at the way that the Republic’s Celtic Tiger economy collapsed in 2008.
New Voter in Western Europe by Bruno Cautrès (Editor); Anne Muxel (Editor)
Call Number: JN94.A95 N49 2011 Memorial Level 4 Upper
Publication Date: 2011
The analysis provides an understanding of how decisions on voting are made, the process of electoral decision-making, and the mechanisms used by voters to make choices, and attempts to identify the social, political, and psychological factors at play.

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