Category Archives: European History

Wreck of the Costa Concordia in the Mediterranean

Posted on January 15, 2012 by briansandberg

A gigantic cruise liner with 4,234 passengers aboard ran aground near Isola del Giglio, a tiny island off the Tuscan coast, over the weekend. The Costa Concordia had sailed from Civitavecchia, heading on cruise of the western Mediterranean. As the … Continue reading →

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New Diplomatic History and Neorealism

Posted on January 13, 2012 by briansandberg

Historians of the “new” Diplomatic History tend to clash with Political Science approaches to International Relations, and especially with Neorealists—who often depict states as “billiard balls” acting against each other on a global pool table. Paul W. Schroeder, a prominent … Continue reading →

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Article Prize in European History

Posted on January 10, 2012 by briansandberg

The Council for European Studies (CES) seeks nominations for its inaugural European Studies First Article Prize. The First Article Prize honors the writers of the best first articles on European studies published within a two-year period and will be awarded … Continue reading →

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Debate over Warrior Pursuits

Posted on November 3, 2011 by briansandberg

A new review of my book, Warrior Pursuits, has been published by Professor Jay M. Smith in H-France Review. The book review editor at H-France invited me to write a response to Smith’s review, which has now been published along … Continue reading →

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Italian Neo-Fascism and the Veneration of Il Duce

Posted on November 2, 2011 by briansandberg

Neo-Fascism is alive and well in modern Italy, where a range of extremist groups and political parties celebrate the fascist history of Italy. Frequent commemorations of the death of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, who is venerated as “Il Duce”, … Continue reading →

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Review of Warrior Pursuits by Frederic J. Baumgartner

Posted on November 2, 2011 by briansandberg

A new review of Warrior Pursuits has just been published in the latest issue of the Journal of Military History. The table of contents of this issue of JMH may be found online.  The review itself may be accessed through … Continue reading →

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Galileo in the News

Posted on November 2, 2011 by briansandberg

A new book about Galileo Galilei’s approach to natural philosophy and mathematics has put Galileo in the news once again. Professor Mark A. Peterson’s Galileo’s Muse: Renaissance Mathematics and the Arts (Harvard University Press, 2011), reexamines Galileo’s method of using … Continue reading →

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L’Histoire globale

Posted on October 19, 2011 by briansandberg

World history and global thematic perspectives have become integral parts of European history, at least as practiced in the United States. Historians in France are now increasingly grappling with how to mesh global historical interpretations with French national history, which … Continue reading →

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Braudel Revisited

Posted on October 19, 2011 by briansandberg

My latest book review, of a collective volume entitled Braudel Revisited: The Mediterranean World, 1600-1800, has been published online in H-France Review. Here is the full citation: Gabriel Piterberg, Teofilo F. Ruiz, and Geoffrey Symcox, eds., Braudel Revisited: The Mediterranean … Continue reading →

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Early Modern Workshop at the University of Chicago

Posted on October 17, 2011 by briansandberg

The Early Modern Workshop at the University of Chicago is an active community of researchers on early modern European and global history. I have attended presentations at the Early Modern Workshop periodically over the past five years, since taking up … Continue reading →

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