Simon Schama, „Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations“

‘This splendid and often moving work of history… Schama has a gift for combining novelistically colourful detail, serious analysis and wryly amusing asides’ Daily Telegraph‘Superb’ Observer‘Extraordinary… A meticulous retelling of a terrible yet scientifically innovative period… Makes an urgent case for building a better future on our toxic past’ Guardian‘This is history of the best sort – humanly engaged but never sentimental’ Mail on Sunday Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. Read more

Barbara Picht, „Die »Interpreten Europas« und der Kalte Krieg. Zeitdeutungen in der französischen, deutschen und polnischen Geschichts- und Literaturwissenschaft“

[The “Interpreters of Europe” and the Cold War. Interpretations of Contemporary History in French, German, and Polish History and Literary Studies] Wallstein, Göttingen 2022, 335 pages The metaphor of the Iron Curtain dominates our perception of the Cold War until today. Read more

Zrinka Stahuljak, „Fikseri u srednjem vijeku“

Otkako se zapad angažirao u Afganistanu, Iraku, a zatim i Siriji, pojmom “fikser” često se označavaju ljudi koji pružaju razne usluge novinarima i stranim vojskama: oni su istovremeno prevoditelji, pregovarači, doušnici, vodiči, vozači, dobavljači, posrednici i aranžeri koji vladaju jezicima i posjeduju višestruke vještine i tehnike preživljavanja u teškim, često po život opasnim situacijama. Read more
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