Benjamin G. Martin

Publications

Monograph

• The Nazi-Fascist New Order for European Culture (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016)

Edited Works

• B. G. Martin and Elisabeth M. Piller, eds., “European Cultural Diplomacy and the Twenty Years’ Crisis, 1919-1939,” Special Issue of Contemporary European History 30, 2 (May 2021)

• B. Martin, ed., European Environments: How a New Climate is Changing the Old World. Euroculture IP Publication Series, 4. Groningen: Euroculture Consortium, 2016.

Articles

• B. G. Martin, F. Mohammadi Norén, R. Mähler, A. Marklund, O. Martin, “The Curated UNESCO Courier 1.0: Annotated Corpora for Digital Research in the Global Humanities,” Journal of Open Humanities Data 10: 20 (2024), pp. 1–13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.181

• B. G. Martin and F. Mohammadi Norén, “Nature and Culture in the Age of Environmental Crisis: Digital Analysis of a Global Debate in The UNESCO Courier, 1948-2020,” in A. Rockenberger, S. Gilbert and J. Tiemann, eds., DHNB2023 Conference Proceedings. Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications 5, 1 (Oslo, 2023): 274-86. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5617/dhnbpub.10671

• “The Rise of the Cultural Treaty: Diplomatic Agreements and the International Politics of Culture in the Age of Three Worlds,” The International History Review 44, 6 (2022): 1327-1346.

• “The Birth of the Cultural Treaty in Europe’s Age of Crisis,” Contemporary European History 30, 2 (May 2021): 301-317

• B. G. Martin and Elisabeth M. Piller, “Introduction: Cultural Diplomacy and Europe’s Twenty Years’ Crisis,” Contemporary European History 30, 2 (May 2021): 149-163

• “Keeping it Simple: Word Trend Analysis for the Intellectual History of International Relations”, in S. Reinsone et al., eds., DHN2020: Proceedings of the Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 5th Conference. Riga, Latvia, October 21-23, 2020 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings, v. 2612, 2020)

• “The Art of Nazi International Networking: The Visual Arts in the Rhetoric and Reality of Hitler’s European New Order,” in M. Björkman, P. Lundell, and S. Widmalm, eds., Intellectual Collaboration with the Third Reich: Treason or Reason? (London: Routledge, 2019): 37-54

• “Fascist Italy’s Illiberal Cultural Networks: Culture, Corporatism and International Relations,” in L. Cerasi, ed., Genealogie e geografie dell’anti-democrazia nella crisi europea degli anni Trenta (Venice: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, 2019): 137-158

• “Charting the ‘Culture’ of Cultural Treaties: Digital Humanities Approaches to the History of International Ideas” (peer-reviewed conference paper), Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries, Helsinki (2018)

• “International Legal Cooperation in the Nazi-Fascist New Order,” International Politics 55 (2018): 870-88

• “Computer-Assisted Research on Cultural Treaties: A Methodological Inquiry for the History of International Ideas,” Uppsala Papers in History of Ideas 17 (Uppsala: Inst. för idé- och lärdomshistoria, 2016)

• “Svensk film i Hitlers Europa: Nationell filmindustri och internationella nätverk,” in M. Björkman, P. Lundell, and S. Widmalm, eds., De intellektuellas förräderi? Relationer mellan Sverige och Tredje riket inom vetenskap och kultur (Stockholm: Arkiv, 2016): 253-75

• “‘European Literature’ in the Nazi New Order: The Cultural Politics of the European Writers’ Union, 1941-3,” Journal of Contemporary History 48, 3 (2013): 486-508

• “‘European Cinema for Europe!’ The International Film Chamber, 1935-1942,” in R. Vande Winkel and D. Welch, eds., Cinema and the Swastika. The International Expansion of Third Reich Cinema (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007): 25-41

• “Celebrating the Nation’s Poets: Petrarch, Leopardi, and the Appropriation of Cultural Symbols in Fascist Italy,” in R. Crum and C. Lazzaro, eds., Donatello Among the Blackshirts: History and Modernity in the Visual Culture of Fascist Italy (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005): 187-202

Online

• “‘A New Type of Diplomatic Treaty’ for Cultural Relations: Rome, 1935,” Cambridge Core Blog (March 2021)

• with Elisabeth Piller, “Cultural Diplomacy and Europe’s Twenty Years Crisis, 1919-1939,” Cambridge Core Blog (February 2021)

• “A Digital Approach to Global Intellectual History: Text Mining UNESCO”, The Digital Humanities Uppsala Blog (December 2020)

• “Zarah Leander and the Dream of a (Nazi) European Cinema,” International Association for Media and History Blog (October 2017).

• “‘European Culture’ is an Invented Tradition,” Aeon.co digital magazine (January 2017)

Book Reviews

• Review of Nicola D’Elia, Giuseppe Bottai e la Germania nazista (Rome, 2019) in The Journal of Modern Italian Studies 26, 2 (2021): 231-234.

• Review of Michael H. Kater, Culture in Nazi Germany (New Haven, 2019) in German History 38, 1 (January 2020): 158-160. 

• Review of Alessio Ponzio, Shaping the New Man: Youth Training Regimes in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany (Madison, 2015) in The American Historical Review 122, 5 (2017): 1700–1701.