The Antonian

THE ANTONIAN

1970s

1980s

Dr Peter Harris (MPhil International Relations, 1977) Hanshan: Cold Mountain Poems [edited and translated by Peter Harris] Everyman’s Library, Penguin Random House, 2024 A new translation of poems by the much-loved Tang Dynasty Buddhist recluse or recluses— there was probably more than one author— called Hanshan, meaning Cold Mountain. Lewis Siegelbaum (DPhil History, 1975) Reflections on Stalinism [co-edited with J. Arch Getty] Northern Illinois University Press, 2024 This book brings together twelve senior historians to reflect on their engagement with Stalinism, what they thought of it then and now. Sections include those devoted to social history, state terror, emotion, and spatial considerations. Professor Ryszard Stemplowski (Academic Visitor, 1974; Visiting Fellow) Polska polityka zagraniczna 1918-2023 [Edited with P. Długołęcki, A. Friszke, M. Kornat, W. Materski, A. Nowak-Far, R. Stemplowski] Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar, 2024

Karim Tabet (MLitt Middle Eastern History, 1970)

Omer Bartov (DPhil German History, 1983) Genocide, the Holocaust and Israel-Palestine: First Person History in Times of Crisis Bloomsbury, 2023 Winner of the 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic Title, this book assesses the tensions between Holocaust and genocide studies, argues for the importance of local history and individual testimony in grasping the nature of mass murder, examines how legal discourse has served to uncover (and deny) individual and national complicity, outlines how first-person histories provide a better understanding of events otherwise perceived as inexplicable and, lastly, considers links between the fate of Jews in World War II and the plight of Palestinians during and after 1948. President (Queens’ College Cambridge) Mohamed El-Erian (MPhil; DPhil Economics, 1980) Permacrisis: A Plan to Fix a Fractured World [co-authored with Gordon Brown, Michael This Times’ ‘Top Ten Book’ analyses what is at the heart of several of today’s sense and reality of rolling national and global crises—namely, broken approaches to growth, economic management, and global governance—and how to fix them. By illustrating the dynamics of permacrises, the authors show why the longer these three problems persist, the worse the situation gets. That’s why we must act now. Spence and Reid Lidow] Simon and Schuster, 2023

Lori Maguire (DPhil History, 1982) Consuls in the Cold War [co-edited with Sue Onslow] Brill, 2023

Un Écran de Fumée Complicités, 2023

A thriller inspired by the political situation in Lebanon. It focuses on the decision of one person to get rid of the gang that rules the country, through the adoption of the Trojan horse strategy: integrate the system, get close to the decision makers and then annihilate the political class through the execution of a Machiavellian plan. This fiction is inspired by the political situation in Lebanon. The name of the country has been changed for reasons of personal security.

No studies currently exist on consuls and consulates (often dismissed as lowly figures in the diplomatic process) in the Cold War. Research into the work of these overlooked ‘poor relations’ offers the chance of new perspectives in the field of Cold War studies, exploring their role in representing their country’s interests in far flung and unexpected places and their support for particular communities of fellow nationals and itinerant travellers in difficulties. These unnoticed actors on the international stage played far more complicated roles than one generally imagines. Dr Baņuta Rubess (DPhil History, 1982) Te bija Brunis Latvijas mediji, 2024 Translated by Leva Lešinska from the English manuscript called Bruno Slept Here . A documentary novel about Dr Baņuta’s teenage father during World War Two and how yoga saved his life. The story begins in Nazi-occupied Riga, in 1942, moves to Pomerania during the last year of war, and ends with the discovery of four forgotten POW camps in Germany and Belgium.

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