Thomas Laqueur
Thomas Laqueur is the Helen Fawcett Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he writes about and teaches European cultural history.
In the LRB Archive:
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Among the Graves: Naming the Dead · 18 December 2008
- The Civil War and the Limits of Destruction by Mark Neely
- This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
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Lectures about Heaven: Forgiving Germany · 7 June 2007
- Five Germanys I Have Known by Fritz Stern
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Diary: My Dead Fathers · 7 September 2006
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Unquiet Bodies: burying the 20th century · 6 April 2006
- Retroactive Justice: Prehistory of Post-Communism by István Rév
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Four pfennige per track km: Adolf Eichmann and Holocaust photography · 4 November 2004
- Eichmann: His Life and Crimes by David Cesarani
- Photographing the Holocaust: Interpretations of the Evidence by Janina Struk
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Diary: memories in German · 4 December 2003
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Travelling in the Classic Style: Primo Levi · 5 September 2002
- Primo Levi’s Ordinary Virtues: From Testimony to Ethics by Robert Gordon
- Primo Levi by Ian Thomson
- The Double Bond: Primo Levi, a Biography by Carole Angier
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In and Out of the Panthéon on funerals, politics and memory in France · 20 September 2001
- Funerals, Politics and Memory in Modern France 1789-1996 by Avner Ben-Amos
- Monumental Intolerance: Jean Baffier, a Nationalist Sculptor in Fin-de-Siècle France by Neil McWilliam
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Festival of Punishment: On Death Row · 5 October 2000
- Proximity to Death by William McFeely
- Death Row: The Encyclopedia of Capital Punishment edited by Bonnie Bobit
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Pint for Pint: The Price of Blood · 14 October 1999
- Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce by Douglas Starr
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Even Immortality: Medicomania · 29 July 1999
- The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present by Roy Porter
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The Old Country: the troublesome marriage of Poles and Jews · 4 June 1998
- Heshel's Kingdom by Dan Jacobson
- Shtetl: The History of a Small Town and an Extinguished World by Eva Hoffman
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The Sound of Voices Intoning Names · 5 June 1997
- French Children of the Holocaust: A Memorial by Serge Klarsfeld
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The Past’s Past · 19 September 1996
- Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History by Jay Winter
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Simply Doing It · 22 February 1996
- The Facts of Life: The Creation of Sexual Knowledge in Britain 1650-1950 by Roy Porter and Lesley Hall
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Closing Time · 18 August 1994
- How We Die by Sherwin Nuland
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