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Out of the Shadows
Women and Politics in the French Revolution, 1789-95
Häftad, 1998
459 kr
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Named an Outstanding Academic Book for 1997 by CHOICE.Out of the Shadows demonstrates the importance of the role of women in the French Revolution. It traces the growth of female political awareness and depicts the determination of women of the working class to participate in the life of the new …
Haeckel's Monism and the Birth of Fascist Ideology
Inbunden, 1999
1117 kr
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Utilizing hitherto unexplored material that has become available only after the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, this book examines the Monist philosophy of the German zoologist Ernst Haeckel, and its role in stimulating the birth of Fascist ideology in Italy and France. Focusing on the relevance of …
Conflict and Diplomacy from the Great War to the Cold War
Av Donald E. Shepardson, Frank J. Coppa
Häftad, 2000
395 kr
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Conflict and Diplomacy from the Great War to the Cold War begins with the weakening of the old European order in World War I – the challenge of communism and fascism to the established international system. The author examines the origins of World War II in Asia and Europe and the advent of global …
Hungry Moscow
Scarcity and Urban Society in the Russian Civil War, 1917-1921
Av Mauricio Borrero, Frank J. Coppa
Inbunden, 2003
747 kr
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Severe food shortages and unremitting hunger served as the background to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the civil war that followed. Hungry Moscow examines the impact of these food shortages on Moscow residents, focusing on the survival strategies they devised to overcome or minimize hunger. …
Remembering the Holocaust in Germany, 1945-2000
German Strategies and Jewish Responses
Av Dan Michman
Inbunden, 2002
691 kr
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Ten authors from five countries present a variety of fresh analyses of the strategies Germans have adopted in coping with the Nazi past. Through historical, sociological, educational, and cultural approaches the unresolved tensions existing in German society – between the will to be accepted as an …
Against Capitalism
The European Left on the March
Inbunden, 2007
709 kr
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Typically the gains in living standards and political rights of Europeans are presented as flowing from the good graces of industrial capitalism. In reality, as this book proves, it was the massive, militant struggle of millions of average persons who forced concessions such as the welfare state …
Nuremberg Medical Trial
The Holocaust and the Origin of the Nuremberg Medical Code
Häftad, 2005
575 kr
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Following World War II, the American Military Tribunal indicted twenty-three Nazi doctors and administrators for performing agonizing and often fatal experiments on helpless concentration camp inmates. Using primarily court records, this book attempts to answer the following salient questions: What …
Belgium
A History
Häftad, 2004
575 kr
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Although Belgium has only been an independent state since the 1830s, it has a long and complex past. This history is essential for understanding the complexities of issues that led to a devolution of the unitary Belgian state into a federation of linguistically based regions. In addition to the …
Reform in Revolutionary Times
The Civil-Military Relationship in Early Soviet Russia
Inbunden, 2009
1097 kr
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How does a state effectively mobilize its citizens for armed conflict? Why do citizens allow themselves to be placed in harm’s way? The military relationship between the state and its citizens, in terms of rights and obligations, remains as important today as it did when Europe first moved from …
In the Shadow of Vichy
The Finaly Affair- With a Foreword by Robert Finaly
Inbunden, 2008
776 kr
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In the immediate aftermath of World War II, a judicial case involving the custody of two Jewish orphans mushroomed into a major crisis of Jewish-Christian relations in France. A New York Times journalist called this affair «the worst religious storm of post-war France». The Finaly Affair …
French Urban Planning, 1940-1968
The Construction and Deconstruction of an Authoritarian System
Inbunden, 2009
1135 kr
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French Urban Planning 1940-1968 explores the creation and progressive dismantling of France’s centralized, authoritarian system of urban and architectural planning. Established in the wake of World War II to facilitate the reconstruction and expansion of cities, this planning program led to the …
Dealing with the Devil
Anglo-Soviet Intelligence Cooperation During the Second World War
Inbunden, 2010
1271 kr
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When Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union, Moscow officials expected the British Navy to appear on the shore of Leningrad, fulfilling the Bolshevik nightmare of a concerted Capitalist plot. Instead, Prime Minister Winston Churchill reached out to promise support to the Kremlin and collaborate …
Building Culture
Ernst May and the New Frankfurt am Main Initiative, 1926–1931
Inbunden, 2013
1445 kr
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This book is a history of the initiative, its projects and actors, notably the architect and planner Ernst May, and its achievements, set within the turbulent context of the Weimar decade. It chronicles its many accomplishments: the construction of housing settlements, innovations in construction …
Accomplices
Churchill, Roosevelt and the Holocaust
Av Groth
Inbunden, 2011
1062 kr
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This volume asserts that there was tacit cooperation in the Nazi extermination of the Jewish population of Europe by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and American President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Second World War. Although the Allies publicly recognized the Nazi massacre of the …
Army of the Sky
Russian Military Aviation before the Great War, 1904–1914
Inbunden, 2012
1039 kr
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Army of the Sky addresses the development of military aviation from 1904 to 1914 in order to explore the relationship of modernization and Russian Imperial officer culture. Utilizing archival material, army reports, the military and popular press, published tracts, and comparative literature, this …
Germany’s Catholic Fraternities and the Weimar Republic
Inbunden, 2015
1025 kr
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Through the last century, Catholic fraternity alumni have served as German chancellors, presidents, federal ministers, state executives, and leading voices in Germany’s parliament. They have played leading roles in the Catholic press, in Catholic youth groups, in Catholic civic associations, and in …
From Revolutionary Theater to Reactionary Litanies
Gustave Hervé (1871–1944) at the Extremes of the French Third Republic
Inbunden, 2016
1857 kr
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Gustave Hervé (1871–1944) seemed to have traditional Breton roots and a typical republican education. As a young socialist journalist and professor, he gained notoriety following a 1901 article which appeared to plant the tricolor in a dung pile. When French socialists unified in 1905, the …
Truber, Ungnad & Vergerio
Territorial Churches in the Habsburg/Ottoman Borderlands
Inbunden, 2016
1267 kr
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Truber, Ungnad & Vergerio: Territorial Churches in the Habsburg/Ottoman Borderlands provides a critical study of Lutheran reformers in Krain, formerly a province along what is now the Croatian/Slovenian border, and acts as a case study for the rest of the Habsburg-Ottoman borderlands. Focus is …
From the «Terror of the World» to the «Sick Man of Europe»
European Images of Ottoman Empire and Society from the Sixteenth Century to the Nineteenth
Av Asli Cirakman, Frank J. Coppa
Inbunden, 2004
550 kr
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From the «Terror of the World» to the «Sick Man of Europe» sheds new light on the hotly debated issue of Orientalism by looking at the European images of the Ottoman Empire and society over three centuries. Through a careful examination of the European intellectual discourse, this book claims that …
Rosa Luxemburg and the Noble Dream
Av Donald E. Shepardson, Frank J. Coppa
Inbunden, 1996
550 kr
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Rosa Luxemburg was a Jew, a Pole, and a woman who considered herself to be a prophet of socialism - and only a citizen of the proletariat. She dedicated her life to fulfilling the noble dream of socialism in the belief that only socialism could bring true freedom and the end of oppression. Rosa …
Spain and Portugal Today
Av Julia L. Ortiz-Griffin, William D. Griffin m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
395 kr
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Spain and Portugal, which share the Iberian Peninsula, also share many experiences, including replacing long-standing dictatorships with democracies during 1974-1975. This book examines their parallel struggles during the last quarter of the twentieth century to create a new political, social, and …
Islands of Law
A Legal History of the British Isles
Av Richard S. Tompson, Frank J. Coppa
Häftad, 2000
352 kr
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This comprehensive legal history of the British Isles describes the growth and interaction of legal systems in England, Scotland, and Ireland from the seventeenth century to the present. Islands of Law undertakes to amend two gaps in historical writing by using legal history to illuminate the …
Resistance, Imprisonment, and Forced Labor
A Slovene Student in World War II
Av Metod M. Milac, Frank J. Coppa
Häftad, 2003
367 kr
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Resistance, Imprisonment, and Forced Labor recalls the author’s struggle for survival as a prisoner and forced laborer following the Axis occupation of Yugoslavia in 1941. He describes a dizzying and fateful journey during which he worked with both pro-Western and Partisan forces and was variously …
Belgium
A History-
Av Bernard A. Cook, Frank J. Coppa
Inbunden, 2004
508 kr
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Although Belgium has only been an independent state since the 1830s, it has a long and complex past. This history is essential for understanding the complexities of issues that led to a devolution of the unitary Belgian state into a federation of linguistically based regions. In addition to the …
Politics, Patriotism and Language
Niccolò Machiavelli’s «Secular Patria» and the Creation of an Italian National Identity
Av William J. Landon, Frank J. Coppa
Inbunden, 2005
818 kr
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Niccolò Machiavelli may not have been a cynical realist as he is often portrayed. On the contrary, this book argues that he precociously possessed the characteristics of an impassioned, sometimes misguided idealist, obsessed with the idea of Italian unification, but blinded to the practicalities of …
