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The Politics of Race and the Future of British Political History (2023)
Journal Article
Liburd, L. (2023). The Politics of Race and the Future of British Political History. The Political Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-923x.13259

This article addresses the field of British political history's blind spot when it comes to race. Where modern British political historians are comfortable approaching politics in ‘high’ and ‘popular’ forms as well as in terms of ideas, institutions... Read More about The Politics of Race and the Future of British Political History.

Global White Nationalism: From Apartheid to Trump (eds Daniel Geary, Camilla Schofield, and Jennifer Sutton. Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2021, 336 pp., £19.99. ISBN 978-1-5261-4707-3.) (2022)
Journal Article
Liburd, L. (2022). Global White Nationalism: From Apartheid to Trump (eds Daniel Geary, Camilla Schofield, and Jennifer Sutton. Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2021, 336 pp., £19.99. ISBN 978-1-5261-4707-3.). Immigrants and Minorities, 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1080/02619288.2022.2138170

Eastern, East-Central and South-Eastern European Cities, 1850-2000 (2022)
Book Chapter
Prokopovych, M. (in press). Eastern, East-Central and South-Eastern European Cities, 1850-2000. In D. Brantz, & G. Sonkoly (Eds.), Cambridge Urban History of Europe. Cambridge University Press

This chapter delineates eastern, east-central and south-eastern Europe, highlights its problematic and shifting geographies for the study of cities, and argues for the need to see the region ‘between the Baltic and the Adriatic’ as one whole for the... Read More about Eastern, East-Central and South-Eastern European Cities, 1850-2000.

The Biopolitics of Education in the Third Reich’s ‘Special Schools’ and ‘Elite Schools’ (2022)
Journal Article
Roche, H., & Pine, L. (2023). The Biopolitics of Education in the Third Reich’s ‘Special Schools’ and ‘Elite Schools’. Historical Journal, 66(2), 413-434. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x22000358

While discussion of eugenics and biopolitics during the Third Reich has largely focused upon the regime's most destructive and genocidal policies, this article concentrates on Nazi ‘special schools’ and ‘elite schools’ as a crucial sphere of quasi-eu... Read More about The Biopolitics of Education in the Third Reich’s ‘Special Schools’ and ‘Elite Schools’.

Debate: Decolonising Fascist Studies (2021)
Journal Article
Liburd, L., & Jackson, P. (2021). Debate: Decolonising Fascist Studies. Fascism, 10(2), 323-345. https://doi.org/10.1163/22116257-bja10039

The drive to decolonise is of central importance to the study of fascism, which after all was and remains a politics rooted in specific conceptions of colonialism and race. In this article, we have invited both leading academics and early career scho... Read More about Debate: Decolonising Fascist Studies.

When John met Benny: class, pets and family life in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain (2021)
Journal Article
Strange, J. (2021). When John met Benny: class, pets and family life in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. The History of the Family, 26(2), 214-235. https://doi.org/10.1080/1081602x.2021.1897028

Histories of human-animal companionship have expanded in recent years but studies of British pet keeping prior to the twentieth century have been skewed towards the middle and upper classes. Such models risk establishing middle-class values and pract... Read More about When John met Benny: class, pets and family life in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain.

The Museum Age in Austria-Hungary: Art and Empire in the Long Nineteenth Century (2021)
Book
Rampley, M., Prokopovych, M., & Veszpremi, N. (2021). The Museum Age in Austria-Hungary: Art and Empire in the Long Nineteenth Century. Penn State University Press

This important critical study of the history of public art museums in Austria-Hungary explores their place in the wider history of European museums and collecting, their role as public institutions, and their involvement in the complex cultural polit... Read More about The Museum Age in Austria-Hungary: Art and Empire in the Long Nineteenth Century.

Eine Vergangenheit, die lieber vergessen wird? Scholarly Habitus-Forming, Professional Amnesia, and Postwar Engagement with Nazi Classical Scholarship (2020)
Journal Article
Roche, H. (2020). Eine Vergangenheit, die lieber vergessen wird? Scholarly Habitus-Forming, Professional Amnesia, and Postwar Engagement with Nazi Classical Scholarship. History of Humanities, 5(1), 165-177. https://doi.org/10.1086/707697

This case study will take Volker Losemann’s recently published collection of essays titled Clio und die Nationalsozialisten and the (often far from complimentary) reception of his groundbreaking work on classics in the Third Reich since the 1970s as... Read More about Eine Vergangenheit, die lieber vergessen wird? Scholarly Habitus-Forming, Professional Amnesia, and Postwar Engagement with Nazi Classical Scholarship.

Semperian Trajectories: Architectural Development of Design Museums (2020)
Book Chapter
Prokopovych, M. (2020). Semperian Trajectories: Architectural Development of Design Museums. In Liberalism, Nationalism and Design Reform in the Habsburg Empire (91-123). Routledge

This chapter analyzes a critical reassessment of that Semperian tradition through analysis of museum architecture, paying particular attention to the important studies by Rebecca Houze. Design museums also served as architectural models for each othe... Read More about Semperian Trajectories: Architectural Development of Design Museums.

Liberalism, Nationalism and Design Reform in the Habsburg Empire: Museums of Design, Industry and the Applied Arts (2020)
Book
Rampley, M., Prokopovych, M., & Veszpremi, N. (2020). Liberalism, Nationalism and Design Reform in the Habsburg Empire: Museums of Design, Industry and the Applied Arts. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003003625

Liberalism, Nationalism and Design Reform in the Habsburg Empire is a study of museums of design and applied arts in Austria-Hungary from 1864 to 1914. The Museum for Art and Industry (now the Museum of Applied Arts) as well as its design school occu... Read More about Liberalism, Nationalism and Design Reform in the Habsburg Empire: Museums of Design, Industry and the Applied Arts.

Educating the Public: Schools of Design and Applied Arts as Educational and Reform Institutions (2020)
Book Chapter
Prokopovych, M. (2020). Educating the Public: Schools of Design and Applied Arts as Educational and Reform Institutions. In M. Rampley, M. Prokopovych, & N. Veszprémi (Eds.), Liberalism, Nationalism and Design Reform in the Habsburg Empire (124-150). Routledge

The role of the museums as depositories of knowledge for professional education in the provinces was far from negligible. Many of the institutions involved in founding museums also actively promoted design education themselves. Alongside museums, sch... Read More about Educating the Public: Schools of Design and Applied Arts as Educational and Reform Institutions.

Mussolini’s ‘Third Rome’, Hitler’s Third Reich and the Allure of Antiquity: Classicizing Chronopolitics as a Remedy for Unstable National Identity? (2019)
Journal Article
Roche, H. (2019). Mussolini’s ‘Third Rome’, Hitler’s Third Reich and the Allure of Antiquity: Classicizing Chronopolitics as a Remedy for Unstable National Identity?. Fascism, 8(2), 127-152. https://doi.org/10.1163/22116257-00802004

While it is generally acknowledged that fascist movements tend to glorify the national past of the country in which they arise, sometimes, fascist regimes seek to resurrect a past even more ancient, and more glorious still; the turn towards ancient G... Read More about Mussolini’s ‘Third Rome’, Hitler’s Third Reich and the Allure of Antiquity: Classicizing Chronopolitics as a Remedy for Unstable National Identity?.

Language Diversity in the Late Habsburg Empire (2019)
Book
Prokopovych, M., Bethke, C., & Scheer, T. (Eds.). (2019). Language Diversity in the Late Habsburg Empire. Brill Academic Publishers

The Habsburg Empire often features in scholarship as a historical example of how language diversity and linguistic competence were essential to the functioning of the imperial state. Focusing critically on the urban-rural divide, on the importance of... Read More about Language Diversity in the Late Habsburg Empire.