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Mecca of Revolution
Algeria, Decolonization, and the Third World Order
Häftad, 2019
714 kr
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Mecca of Revolution traces the ideological and methodological evolution of the Algerian Revolution, showing how an anticolonial nationalist struggle culminated in independent Algeria's ambitious agenda to reshape not only its own society, but international society too. In this work, Jeffrey James …
Beyond the Arab Cold War
The International History of the Yemen Civil War, 1962-68
Av Asher Orkaby
Häftad, 2020
619 kr
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Beyond the Arab Cold War brings the Yemen Civil War, 1962-68, to the forefront of modern Middle East History. During the 1960s, in the wake of a coup against Imam Muhammad al-Badr and the formation of the Yemen Arab Republic (YAR), Yemen was transformed into an arena of global conflict. Believing …
The Global Offensive
The United States, the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the Making of the Post-Cold War Order
Häftad, 2015
751 kr
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On March 21, 1968, Yasir Arafat and his guerrillas made the fateful decision to break with conventional guerrilla tactics, choosing to stand and fight an Israeli attack on the al-Karama refugee camp in Jordan. They suffered terrible casualties, but they won a stunning symbolic victory that …
The Acadian Diaspora
An Eighteenth-Century History
Häftad, 2017
695 kr
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Late in 1755, an army of British regulars and Massachusetts volunteers completed one of the cruelest, most successful military campaigns in North American history, capturing and deporting seven thousand French-speaking Catholic Acadians from the province of Nova Scotia, and chasing an equal number …
Beyond the Arab Cold War
The International History of the Yemen Civil War, 1962-68
Av Asher Orkaby
Inbunden, 2017
653 kr
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Beyond the Arab Cold War brings the Yemen Civil War, 1962-68, to the forefront of modern Middle East History. During the 1960s, in the wake of a coup against Imam Muhammad al-Badr and the formation of the Yemen Arab Republic (YAR), Yemen was transformed into an arena of global conflict. Believing …
Sharing the Burden
The Armenian Question, Humanitarian Intervention, and Anglo-American Visions of Global Order
Inbunden, 2019
1808 kr
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The destruction of the Armenian community in the Ottoman Empire was an unprecedented tragedy. Even amidst the horrors of the First World War, Theodore Roosevelt insisted that it was the greatest crime of the conflict. The wartime mass killing of approximately one million Armenian Christians was the …
Lamaze
An International History
Häftad, 2017
770 kr
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The Lamaze method is virtually synonymous with natural childbirth in America. In the 1970s, taking Lamaze classes was a common rite of passage to parenthood. The conscious relaxation and patterned breathing techniques touted as a natural and empowering path to the alleviation of pain in childbirth …
For Peace and Money
French and British Finance in the Service of Tsars and Commissars
Häftad, 2017
902 kr
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From the late imperial period until 1922, the British and French made private and government loans to Russia, making it the foremost international debtor country in pre-World War I Europe. To finance the modernization of industry, the construction of public works projects, the building of …
In War's Wake
Europe's Displaced Persons in the Postwar Order
Häftad, 2017
643 kr
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The end of the Second World War in Europe gave way to a gigantic refugee crisis. Thoroughly prepared by Allied military planners, the swift repatriation of millions of former forced laborers, concentration camp inmates and prisoners of war nearly brought this dramatic episode top a close. Yet in …
In War's Wake
Europe's Displaced Persons in the Postwar Order
Inbunden, 2011
1091 kr
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The end of the Second World War in Europe gave way to a gigantic refugee crisis. Thoroughly prepared by Allied military planners, the swift repatriation of millions of former forced laborers, concentration camp inmates and prisoners of war nearly brought this dramatic episode top a close. Yet in …
The War Lords and the Gallipoli Disaster
How Globalized Trade Led Britain to Its Worst Defeat of the First World War
Inbunden, 2021
837 kr
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An eye-opening interpretation of the infamous Gallipoli campaign that sets it in the context of global trade.In early 1915, the British government ordered the Royal Navy to force a passage of the Dardanelles Straits-the most heavily defended waterway in the world. After the Navy failed to breach …
Fear of the Family
Guest Workers and Family Migration in the Federal Republic of Germany
Inbunden, 2022
728 kr
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Beginning in 1955, West Germany recruited millions of people as guest workers from Yugoslavia, Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal, and especially Turkey. This labor force was essential to creating the postwar German economic miracle. Employers fantasized that foreign "guest workers" would provide labor …
The Eastern International
Arabs, Central Asians, and Jews in the Soviet Union's Anticolonial Empire
Inbunden, 2024
1167 kr
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In the first few years after the Russian Revolution, an ideological project coalesced to link the development of what Stalin demarcated as the internal "East"--primarily Central Asia and the Caucasus--with nation-building, the overthrow of colonialism, and progress toward socialism in the "foreign …
The Eastern International
Arabs, Central Asians, and Jews in the Soviet Union's Anticolonial Empire
Häftad, 2024
390 kr
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In the first few years after the Russian Revolution, an ideological project coalesced to link the development of what Stalin demarcated as the internal "East"--primarily Central Asia and the Caucasus--with nation-building, the overthrow of colonialism, and progress toward socialism in the "foreign …
A Scourge of Humanity
The Origins of Interpol and the End of Empire in Central and Eastern Europe
Inbunden, 2026
333 kr
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As the First World War came to a chaotic end, Europeans feared that a wave of crime and anarchy would sweep across their continent. The upheavals of the war and of the subsequent violent breakup of the Habsburg, German, and Ottoman empires magnified longstanding fears that an increasingly …
For Peace and Money
French and British Finance in the Service of Tsars and Commissars
Inbunden, 2015
1582 kr
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From the late imperial period until 1922, the British and French made private and government loans to Russia, making it the foremost international debtor country in pre-World War I Europe. To finance the modernization of industry, the construction of public works projects, railroad construction, …
Lamaze
An International History
Inbunden, 2014
846 kr
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The Lamaze method is virtually synonymous with natural childbirth in America. In the 1970s, taking Lamaze classes was a common rite of passage to parenthood. The conscious relaxation and patterned breathing techniques touted as a natural and empowering path to the alleviation of pain in childbirth …
The Acadian Diaspora
An Eighteenth-Century History
Inbunden, 2012
1035 kr
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Late in 1755, an army of British regulars and Massachusetts volunteers completed one of the cruelest, most successful military campaigns in North American history, capturing and deporting seven thousand French-speaking Catholic Acadians from the province of Nova Scotia, and chasing an equal number …
Grounds of Judgment
Extraterritoriality and Imperial Power in Nineteenth-Century China and Japan
Inbunden, 2012
1261 kr
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Grounds of Judgment reopens the question of consular jurisdiction and extraterritoriality in China and Japan. The book combines recent findings in Qing history on the nature of ethnicity and law with the history of the treaty ports in both China and Japan, especially Shanghai, Yokohama and …
The Global Offensive
The United States, the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the Making of the Post-Cold War Order
Inbunden, 2012
1016 kr
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In 1968, a ragtag group of Palestinian guerrillas burst onto the world stage as part of a global offensive that combined controversial armed operations, diplomacy, and revolutionary politics. In the following years, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) forced the question of Palestine to the …
Gordian Knot
Apartheid and the Unmaking of the Liberal World Order
Inbunden, 2012
1375 kr
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Writing more than one hundred years ago, African American scholar W.E.B. Du Bois speculated that the great dilemma of the twentieth century would be the problem of "the color line." Nowhere was the dilemma of racial discrimination more entrenched--and more complex--than South Africa. This book …
Mecca of Revolution
Algeria, Decolonization, and the Third World Order
Inbunden, 2016
2139 kr
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Amid the burgeoning literature on the connections between the global north and the global south, Mecca of Revolution is a pure example of post-colonial, or "south-south," international history. Through an examination of Algeria's interactions with the wider world, from the beginning of its war of …
Unwanted Visionaries
The Soviet Failure in Asia at the End of the Cold War
Inbunden, 2014
1035 kr
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The European and American dimensions of Mikhail Gorbachev's foreign policy captured the imagination of contemporary observers and, later, historians. The collapse of socialism in Eastern Europe and the fall of the Berlin Wall were the grand events that marked the European finale of the Cold War. …
The First Right
Self-Determination and the Transformation of International Order, 1941–2000
Inbunden, 2025
333 kr
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The idea of self-determination is one of the most significant in modern international politics. For more than a century diplomats, lawyers, scholars, activists, and ordinary people in every part of the globe have wrestled with its meaning and implications for decolonization, human rights, …
