European Review of History: Revue europeenne d'histoire 

About: European Review of History: Revue europeenne d'histoire is an academic journal published by Taylor & Francis. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Politics & German. It has an ISSN identifier of 1350-7486. Over the lifetime, 1300 publications have been published receiving 10212 citations. The journal is also known as: Revue européene d'histoire.

The Fantasy of Feminist History

Abstract: In the end, neither the private nor the political Salazar really materialise in his text: both remain heavily underdeveloped. Salazar’s motives, goals and views are at no point sufficiently explored. Similarly, the real nature of Salazar’s dictatorship does not become clear: it was after all the most Catholic, the calmest, relatively speaking the most bloodless, and the most enduring personal dictatorship of twentieth-century Europe. These aspects would have deserved much more critical exploration. What did corporatism feel like other than merely a form of control? What did it really mean that Salazar was a ‘professor dictator’? Despite entering almost virgin territory with very good building blocks at hand for both a great analysis and a great narrative, Meneses does not present us a very readable text. Too much guided by the political chronology and slavishly following his source material, there is little left of any attempts to reconstruct a more holistic view of Salazar or to construct a meaningful narrative. Meneses gets side-tracked often and when he does not his narrative relies too much on indirect speech and quotes, sure signs of a lack of selection on the author’s part. Yet for a more comparative and holistic view of Europe’s painful twentieth century, Meneses’ text potentially has much to offer. His contributions may be small, but they are many. One example is how the Second World War and the end of empire in Portugal worked, paradoxically, as both threatening and solidifying experiences for Salazarism – something that would have deserved more attention. Despite its deficiencies, it can only be hoped that Meneses’ book will contribute to a more integrated vision of Europe’s turbulent twentieth century and will perhaps lead to more attention being paid to this often forgotten part of Europe.

The Invention of the Jewish People

Abstract: Shlomo Sand, translated by Yael Lotan, London and New York, Verso, 2009, xi +332 pp., £18.99 (hardback), ISBN 978 1 84467 422 0 /£9.99 (paperback), ISBN 978 1 84467 623 1 Tony Judt called The Inven...