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The lively essays collected here explore colonial history, culture, and thought as it intersects with Jewish studies. Connecting the Jewish experience with colonialism to mobility and exchange, diaspora, internationalism, racial discrimination, and Zionism, the volume presents the work of Jewish historians who recognize the challenge that colonialism brings to their work and sheds light on the diverse topics that reflect the myriad ways that Jews...
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Was aviation pioneer and popular American hero Charles A. Lindbergh a Nazi sympathizer and anti-Semite? Or was he the target of a vicious personal vendetta by President Roosevelt? In Lindbergh vs. Roosevelt, author James Duffy tackles these questions head-on, by examining the conflicting personalities, aspirations, and actions of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Charles A. Lindbergh. Painting a politically incorrect portrait of both men, Duffy shows how...
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1956 was one of the most remarkable years of the twentieth century. All across the globe, ordinary people spoke out, filled the streets and city squares, and took up arms in an attempt to win their freedom.
In this dramatic, page-turning history, Simon Hall takes the long view of the year's events-putting them in their post-war context and looking toward their influence on the counterculture movements of the 1960s-to tell the story of the year's...
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In this infamous work, Sorel fiercely advocates for violent revolution as the only means of effecting lasting social change. He details such factors as the role of violence and force in revolutionary movements; the use of insurrection and general strikes; and mythmaking as a key in spurring on and sustaining revolutions. A major influence on Benito Mussolini, the book is still considered controversial and provocative more than 100 years after its...
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America's power is in decline, its allies alienated, its soldiers trapped in a war that even generals regard as unwinnable. What has happened these past few years is well known. Why it happened continues to puzzle. Celebrated Slate columnist Fred Kaplan explains the grave misconceptions that enabled George W. Bush and his aides to get so far off track, and traces the genesis and evolution of these ideas from the era of Nixon through Reagan to the...
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Eric D. Weitz (1953–2021) was Distinguished Professor of History at City College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He was also the author of A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States; A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation; and Creating German Communism, 1890–1990: From Popular Protests to Socialist State (all Princeton).
The definitive history of Weimar politics, culture,...
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At the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, where the victorious Allied powers met to reenvision the map of Europe in the aftermath of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson's influence on the remapping of borders was profound. But it was his impact on the modern political structuring of Eastern Europe that would be perhaps his most enduring international legacy: neither Czechoslovakia nor Yugoslavia exist today, but their geopolitical presence persisted across...
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In the first half of the twentieth century, a pioneering generation of young women exited their homes and entered public space, marking a new era for women's civic participation in northern Sudan. A provocative new public presence, women's civic engagement was at its core a bodily experience. Amid the socio-political upheavals of imperial rule, female students, medical workers, and activists used a careful choreography of body movements and fashion...
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1919-1939: El turbulento y macabro periodo entre las dos guerras que asolaron el mundo:
Organizaciones paramilitares de jóvenes, revolucionarios hallazgos científicos, devastadoras crisis económicas, auge de dictaduras violentas y genocidas, continúas guerras civiles. Descubra las claves históricas de una época que marcó el siglo XX. ¿Quién ordenó a tres ninjas asesinar a la emperatriz de Corea, en 1895? ¿Qué grandes empresarios decidieron...
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A partir del momento en que Einstein publicó, en 1905 y 1917, sus revolucionarios trabajos sobre su teoría de la relatividad, la visión que el ser humano tenía del mundo y del universo cambió para siempre.
Einstein y la relatividad presenta una instantánea brillante de la vida y la obra de Einstein dentro de su contexto histórico y científico, y explica, de un modo claro y accesible, el significado y la importancia de su teoría de la relatividad,...
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A lo largo del siglo xx la configuración del Estado español y la acomodación de la diversidad de las identidades colectivas nacionales ha resultado un problema abierto, una «cuestión» permanentemente por resolver que el debate actual en Cataluña no ha hecho sino volver a poner de manifiesto. El modelo de Estado español que surgió del siglo XX se caracterizó por su fuerte centralismo y por la ausencia absoluta de reconocimiento político...
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El cambio del sistema representativo en España, que se ha hecho visible con el surgimiento de los nuevos partidos y ha culminado en las elecciones del 20 de diciembre de 2015 que han supuesto el final del bipartidismo imperfecto, ha lanzado el debate sobre la calidad y los orígenes del régimen democrático, que fue fruto del proceso de transición que la sociedad española impulsó a la muerte del dictador y que desembocó en la Constitución de...
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Viele Hitlerjungen haben freiwillig im Volkssturm, in der Wehrmacht oder in der Waffen SS gedient.Von falschen Idealen irregeleitet, fanatisiert, abenteuerlustig und zum Kampf erzogen, glaubten sie 1945 doch noch das Großdeutsche Reich vor den Feinden retten zu können.Sie wurden von den braunen Machthabern verführt und schändlich missbraucht. Diese Jungen waren kaum dem Kindesalter entwachsen, als sie sich zum Dienst mit der Waffe und zum Fronteinsatz...
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IN 1981, Detective Inspector Satchwell was the officer in charge of the case against Train Robber Tom Wisbey and twenty others. The case involved massive thefts from mail trains – similar to the Great Train Robbery of 1963 where £2.6 million was taken and only £400,000 ever recovered.
Thirty years later their paths crossed again and an unlikely partnership was formed, with the aim of revealing the truth about the Great Train Robbery.
This book...
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El período más conflictivo y dramático de la historia española del siglo xx es, sin duda, el de la Guerra Civil y el de la dictadura franquista, por lo que se convierte en uno de los temas más delicados a la hora de tratarlo en los manuales de historia. En este estudio se analiza la forma en la que los manuales de historia (en el franquismo, en la transición democrática y en la más reciente actualidad) han tratado y tratan el período comprendido...
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Dieses Buch schildert das Leben in den düsteren Ecken und anrüchigen Etablissements Berlins um 1900.
Selbst als Arbeiterkind im Wedding aufgewachsen, begegnet Ostwald den sozial Gestrandeten auf Augenhöhe und möchte Einblick in ihr Leben und ihren Alltag geben. Dabei geht es ihm vor allem darum, ein lebendiges und authentisches Bild zu zeichnen, das dokumentiert, nicht wertet.
"Dunkle Winkel" erschien erstmals als Band 1 der 1904 in Angriff genommenen...
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The Peace Corps was established in 1961 during the Kennedy administration, symbolizing a new direction in foreign policy-making for the United States. Founded on large aid programs staffed by volunteers, the agency's primary goal was to help modernize Third World countries while guarding against the expansion of communism. Julius A. Amin interprets the motives behind the development of the Peace Corps and analyzes the program and performance of its...
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In the 1980s, Lyn Johns arrives in Saudi Arabia on a mission that may cost her her family, but it is her family's future that has brought her to the Middle East. Her decision may be fraught with unintended consequences, and she knows it, but she leaves a low-paying job in Alabama to take a two-year contract in Saudi Arabia where she will help launch a new medical journal for the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh.
It seems her fears of not...
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Este volumen recoge el testimonio de algunos protagonistas de la cultura mexicana, europea y española sobre la Guerra Civil y el exilio republicano español. Se incluyen entrevistas de los mexicanos Octavio Paz, Juan de la Cabada, José Chávez Morado y Fernando Gamboa, que asistieron al Congreso de Valencia de 1937, y de los reporteros europeos de la Guerra Civil Kati Horna y Walter Reuter. Esta historia se amplía con el testimonio de artistas...
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