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Lust for Virtue
Louis XIV's Attack on Sin in Seventeenth-Century France
E-bok, 2001
1178 kr
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Midway through his reign, in the critical decade of the 1680s, the lusty image of Louis XIV paled and was replaced by that of a straitlaced monarch committed to locking up blasphemers, debtors, gamblers, and prostitutes in wretched, foul-smelling prisons that dispensed ample doses of …
Ambivalent Embrace
America'S Troubled Relations with Spain from the Revolutionary War to the Cold War
E-bok, 2000
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For nearly two centuries interaction between Spain and the United States was characterized by cultural and political differences, mutually perceived conflicts of national interest, and an asymmetry of power. Botero identifies the period from 1945 to 1953 as a watershed in relations, as the two …
Uncertain Alliance
The U.S. and Israel from Kennedy to the Peace Process
E-bok, 2001
1169 kr
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This critical examination of American-Israeli relations from the last year of the Kennedy administration to the last year of Bill Clinton's tenure in office is a companion volume to Herbert Druks' previous book The Uncertain Friendship: The U.S. and Israel from Roosevelt to Kennedy . Based upon …
Uncertain Friendship
The U.S. and Israel from Roosevelt to Kennedy
E-bok, 2000
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Although the United States has been a friend to Israel from the beginning and Israel has in return been an important American ally in the region, relations between the two nations have never been without difficulties. This study traces U.S.-Israeli relations from the 1930s to the early 1960s and …
South Sea Maidens
Western Fantasy and Sexual Politics in the South Pacific
E-bok, 2002
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From the first European contact with Tahiti in 1767, the myth of the South Sea maiden has endured through many incarnations. Although the maiden frequently provided an idealized antidote to Western women's self-assertion, the South Pacific also afforded a space where boundaries between the sexes …
Sanctions and Honorary Whites
Diplomatic Policies and Economic Realities in Relations Between Japan and South Africa
Av Masako Osada
E-bok, 2002
1135 kr
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This study critically examines for the first time the unlikely friendship between apartheid South Africa and non-white Japan. In the mid-1980s, Japan became South Africa's largest trading partner, while South Africa purportedly treated Japanese citizens in the Republic as honorary whites under …
Personal Policy Making
Canada'S Role in the Adoption of the Palestine Partition Resolution
E-bok, 2002
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Without the Canadian mediation between the two world blocs in 1947, UN resolution 181(II) to partition Palestine would likely have failed to secure the two thirds majority necessary for adoption by the General Assembly. In fact, the Canadians were among the main initiators of the partition plan and …
Certain Ideas of France
Essays on French History and Civilization
E-bok, 2002
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The title of this book is, of course, inspired by the famous opening words of General de Gaulle's Memoirs of the Second World War: All my life I have thought of France in a certain way. Wesseling brings together his essays dealing with a great variety of subjects such as culture, society, politics, …
Exploring Nationalisms of China
Themes and Conflicts
Av C. X. George Wei, Xiaoyuan Liu
E-bok, 2002
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China is a site for the evolution, not only of Chinese nationalism, but the nationalism of various non-Han ethnic groups. During the 20th century, these ethnic groups constructed and expressed their own identities and nationalism through interaction with one another and with outside influences. …
Land and Freedom
The Origins of Russian Terrorism, 1876-1879
E-bok, 1987
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This study examines the leading 19th century Russian revolutionary organization, Land and Freedom, during its three brief years of existence and its significance for later Russian history. The book traces the two groups which emerged within Land and Freedom: the populist faction known as the …
Jews of Medieval France
The Community of Champagne
Av Emily Taitz
E-bok, 1994
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This book studies the Jewish community of Champagne from the fifth century to the expulsion of 1306. It documents the growth and decline of the community, examines its interrelationships with the larger Christian culture, and presents a model for the study of other communities. The economic and …
Liberalism and Social Reform
Industrial Growth and Progressiste Politics in France, 1880-1914
Av David Gordon
E-bok, 1996
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This book examines the heroic spirit of French industrial capitalism prior to World War I, and the role certain industrialists played in ensuring the success and stability of the country's economic and political order. It focuses in particular on the success of innovative manufacturers in France's …
Accommodation and Resistance
The French Left, Indochina and the Cold War, 1944-1954
E-bok, 1986
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In this careful historical analysis, Edward Rice-Maximin documents the reactions of the French Left to the First Indochina War, 1944-1954. Unlike previous works, which dealt exclusively with the politics of the French Communists, this book is among the first to deal with the entire French left and …
Last Word?
Essays on Official History in the United States and British Commonwealth
Av Jeffrey Grey
E-bok, 2003
1364 kr
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Official history is a misunderstood genre of historical writing, which attracts much negative comment from (non-official) historians but about which very little detail is actually known. This book examines the development of official history programs in Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New …
Tolerance, Suspicion, and Hostility
Changing U.S. Attitudes Toward the Japanese Communist Movement, 1944-1947
E-bok, 2003
1169 kr
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Over the course of the American Occupation of Japan, the U.S. attitude toward the Japanese Communist Party (JCP) gradually shifted from one of friendly cooperation to one of mutual opposition. This new study examines the initial approach toward communism in Japan; internal and external factors that …
Oder-Neisse Line
The United States, Poland, and Germany in the Cold War
E-bok, 2003
838 kr
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When the United States and its World War II allies met at the Potsdam Conference to provisionally establish the Oder-Neisse line as Poland's western border and to acknowledge the removal of Germans from the area, they created a controversial Cold War issue that would not be resolved until 1990. …
Securing American Independence
John Jay and the French Alliance
E-bok, 2003
1178 kr
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Brecher explores the controversial diplomacy by which the United States separately brought to a de facto close its War of Independence against the British, leaving its one ally, France, in the lurch. He focuses on the two dominant, ostensibly allied peace negotiators, John Jay and Vergennes. …
Defending the West
The Truman-Churchill Correspondence, 1945-1960
E-bok, 2004
1169 kr
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This work provides a documentary record of the correspondence, official and private, between Harry S Truman and Winston Churchill, from Truman's accession to the presidency in April 1945. Official communications between the two resumed during Churchill's second premiership (1951-1955) and more …
Passion, Politics, and Philosophie
Rediscovering J.-P. Brissot
Av Leonore Loft
E-bok, 2001
1204 kr
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Jacques-Pierre Brissot was among the major architects of the French Revolution, yet history has vilified and then dismissed him. His early intellectual development was strongly influenced by Enlightenment ideas and aspirations. However, his own remarkable construct of a just, democratic society, …
We Built Up Our Lives
Education and Community Among Jewish Refugees Interned by Britain in World War II
E-bok, 2001
1204 kr
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Fearing an imminent Nazi invasion, the British government interned 28,000 men and women of enemy nationality living in Britain in the spring of 1940. Most were Jewish refugees who, having fled Nazi persecution, were appalled to find themselves imprisoned as potential Nazi spies. Using oral …
By the Sword and the Cross
The Historical Evolution of the Catholic World Monarchy in Spain and the New World, 1492-1825
E-bok, 2001
1178 kr
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A concise overview of Spanish America during the colonial era (1492-1825), this study attempts a synthesis of Iberian and Latin American historical narratives within the context of world history. Spanish civilization was transferred to the Americas as Spain imposed its medieval Catholic culture …
Chinese Nationalism in Perspective
Historical and Recent Cases
Av C. X. George Wei, Xiaoyuan Liu
E-bok, 2001
1169 kr
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Wei and Liu argue that Chinese nationalism is a multifaceted concept. At different historical moments and under certain circumstances, it had different meanings and interacted with other competing motives and interests. The authors of this timely volume, all of whom are of Chinese origin and …
Family Dynasty, Revolutionary Society
The Cochins of Paris, 1750-1922
E-bok, 2001
1204 kr
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This study analyzes the family life and public careers of six generations of a notable Parisian family, the Cochins. Bourgeois merchants in the 17th and 18th centuries, the Cochins earned nobility through the office of alderman ( ^D'echevin ) of Paris. Their family ethos fostered a much-needed …
U.S. Development Aid--An Historic First
Achievements and Failures in the Twentieth Century
E-bok, 2004
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The first comprehensive account of U.S. development aid policies and implementation operations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, this work is a unique contribution to world history and to the extensive literature on Third World development. Butterfield begins with the remarkable story of why, in …
Finance from Kaiser to Fuhrer
Budget Politics in Germany, 1912-1934
E-bok, 2000
1204 kr
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Germany's ability to support its war machine financially has long puzzled scholars. The young nation had exhausted itself paying for its loss in the First World War, had suffered a hyperinflation in the early 1920s, and had ended the 1920s with a terrible economic depression. This is the first book …
Persistence of Victorian Liberalism
The Politics of Social Reform in Britain, 1870-1900
E-bok, 2000
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The Persistence of Victorian Liberalism examines the question of where to locate the ideological break between classical liberalism and the underlying principles of the modern Welfare State. While most historians of 19th century Britain argue that such a shift occurred prior to 1900, Haggard …
Philanthropic Foundations in the Twentieth Century
E-bok, 2000
1169 kr
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In a readable, coherent, and succinct account, Kiger surveys the changes that have taken place in U.S. foundations in the 20th century and describes our foundations as they exist today. Opening with historical information on the emergence of large foundations at the beginning of the century, the …
Paper Liberals
Press and Politics in Restoration Spain
Av David Ortiz
E-bok, 2000
1204 kr
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The death of General Francisco Franco in November of 1975 ended thirty-six years of fascist-style dictatorship in Spain. The subsequent transition to liberal parliamentary government was remarkably smooth, particularly when compared to the recent difficulties experienced by other states, such as …
Practical Revolutionaries
A New Interpretation of the French Anarchosyndicalists
Inbunden, 1987
1066 kr
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Until recently, historians and political analysts have tended to dismiss French revolutionary syndicalism as a movement whose influence was either negative or ineffectual. This study of French anarchosyndicalism represents a departure from traditional class-based analyses and more recent attempts …
Land and Freedom
The Origins of Russian Terrorism, 1876-1879
Inbunden, 1987
1066 kr
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This study examines the leading 19th century Russian revolutionary organization, Land and Freedom, during its three brief years of existence and its significance for later Russian history. The book traces the two groups which emerged within Land and Freedom: the populist faction known as the …
