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By Andrea

November 2026 Cover of Historia oculta, showing a colonial-era watercolor of women, an attendant with a parasol, and other figures in a desert town, beneath the title and editors’ names on a yellow background.

Central European perspectives on the American Conquest

Edited by Monika Brenišínová, Anna Libánská, and Lillyam Rosalba González Espinosa, 2026

Hana Bortlová-Vondráková

By Andrea

October 2026 Cover of The Women Are Not Fine by Hope Reese: bold yellow title over a dark tapestry of women in period dress gathered under trees beside a cottage, one standing with a jug.

The poisonous sisterhood of early 20th-century Hungary

Hope Reese, 2025

Sara Turnbull

By Andrea

October 2026 Book cover of Refugees and Citizens in Twentieth-Century East Central Europe: An Unlikely Refuge?, edited by Michal Frankl (CEU Press), showing a black-and-white photo of a woman handing a plate of food to a young boy in front of a brick wall.

Rethinking refugeedom in East Central Europe

Edited by Michal Frankl, 2026

Emma Dal Mas

By Andrea

October 2026 Book cover of Re-examining nineteenth-century Easts: Gendered narratives of encounter, edited by Claudia Capancioni, Mariaconcetta Costantini and Julia Kuehn. The background is a red-tinted nineteenth-century map of Asia, showing Russia, Central Asia, Persia, India and China, with labels such as Turkey, Afghanistan and Beloochistan visible near the top. The title and subtitle appear on a pale yellow panel in the middle, and the editors' names are in white below it. A circular badge in the top right corner reads "Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century."

Encountering the many "Easts"

Edited by Claudia Capancioni, Julia Kuehn and Mariaconcetta Costantini, 2026

Tomasz Ewertowski

By Andrea

October 2026 Book cover of “Working at the Margins in Interwar Yugoslavia” by Stefano Petrungaro, showing a black-and-white photo of a person in red talking with a woman in front of a tent.

The importance of work and nonwork

Stefano Petrungaro, 2026

Ambika Natarajan

By Andrea

September 2026 Book cover of "Credit to the Nation: Eastern European Jewish Immigrant Bankers and the Shaping of American Finance, 1873–1930" by Rebecca Kobrin. The cover is a grid of color blocks and black-and-white archival photographs: a crowd of men in hats outside a Lower East Side storefront bank, a tall early-twentieth-century bank tower, and crowds gathered before the columned entrance of the Bank of United States.

Credit where it's due: Jewish immigrant bankers and American finance

Rebecca Kobrin, 2026

Zachary Mazur

By Andrea

September 2026 Black-and-white archival photo of a domed hall for the Afro-Asian Women's Conference, with a woman's silhouette emblem over a map of Africa and Asia, ringed by national flags. Book cover for "Socialism, Internationalism, and Development in the Third World," ed. Su Lin Lewis & Nana Osei-Opare, Bloomsbury.

Socialist modernities and South-South internationalism

Edited by Su Lin Lewis and Nana Osei-Opare, 2024

Anchana Wachira-asakon

By Andrea

September 2026 Book cover of Marxism and the Interpretation of Dreams by Molly Pucci. Abstract constructivist design in red and tan geometric shapes, such as circles, angular blocks, and grids evoking industrial and avant-garde forms. Subtitle reads: Communism in Interwar Czechoslovakia and the Idea of Central Europe.

A mini-Comintern in Central Europe: Rethinking interwar Czechoslovak communism

Molly Pucci, 2026

Václav Kaška

By Andrea

September 2026 **Alt text:** Book cover for "The New Yugoslav Woman: Reproductive Regulation in Socialist Yugoslavia" by Branka Bogdan. The design features a peach and navy geometric background with angular shapes, and a central black-and-white photograph of a young woman operating an industrial sewing machine, focused on stitching a garment.

Women and reproductive politics in socialist Yugoslavia

Branka Bogdan, 2025

Sara Žerić Đulović

By Andrea

July 2026 Alt text: Book cover for The Aesthetics of Populism: Political Struggle and the Aesthetics Experience in Poland after 1989, edited by Leszek Koczanowicz, Michał Stambulski, Wojciech Ufel and Rafał Włodarczyk. On a black background, the title and editors appear in white and red text at the top. The lower half shows a stylized, high-contrast graphic in red, white, black, and orange of a crowd of people with raised arms and clenched fists. The Brill logo and "Value Inquiry Book Series" label appear at the bottom.

What does populism look like?

Edited by Leszek Koczanowicz, Michał Stambulski, Wojciech Ufel, and Rafał Włodarczyk, 2025

Jack Dean