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by Michael Oppenheim
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Encounters of Consequence provides an introduction to and deeper analysis of the situation of Jewish philosophy beginning in the last century. It charts Jewish philosophys engagement with modernity and post-modernity along two overlapping axesissues and personswhich often intersect. Key issues in modern...
José Limón and La Malinche
The Dancer and the Dance
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
José Limón (1908-1972) was one of the leading figures of modern dance in the twentieth century. Hailed by the New York Times as "the finest male dancer of his time" when the José Limón Dance Company debuted in 1947, Limón was also a renowned choreographer who won two Dance Magazine Awards and a...
The Cold War
A New Oral History of Life Between East and West
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
The Cold War is one of the furthest-reaching and longest-lasting conflicts in modern history. It spanned the globe - from Greece to China, Hungary to Cuba - and lasted for almost half a century. It has shaped political relations to this day, drawing new physical and ideological boundaries between...
by Lyndsy Spence, Joseph Dumas
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
A look at how the perennially popular Mitford girls would cope with modern life, with rare and unpublished images courtesy of the Mary Evans Picture Library, and extracts from archived interviews previously unused Nancy Mitford was the ultimate tease, and her talent for mockery reformed the publishing...
History, Memory, and State-Sponsored Violence
Time and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Modern historiography embraces the notion that time is irreversible, implying that the past should be imagined as something ‘absent’ or ‘distant.’ Victims of historical injustice, however, in contrast, often claim that the past got ‘stuck’ in the present and that it retains a haunting...
by Hugo Grotius
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2004
Liberty Fund’s edition of The Free Sea is the only translation of Grotius’s masterpiece undertaken in his own lifetime, left in manuscript by the English historian, Richard Hakluyt (1552–1616). It also contains William Welwod’s critique of Grotius (reprinted for the first time since the seventeenth...
Rebel in the Ranks
Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the Conflicts That Continue to Shape Our World
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
When Martin Luther published his 95 Theses in October 1517, he had no intention of starting a revolution. But very quickly his criticism of indulgences became a rejection of the papacy and the Catholic Church emphasizing the Bible as the sole authority for Christian faith, radicalizing a continent,...
Anzac's Long Shadow
The Cost of Our National Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
A century ago we got it wrong. We sent thousands of young Australians on a military operation that was barely more than a disaster. It’s right that a hundred years later we should feel strongly about that. But have we got our remembrance right? What lessons haven’t we learned about war, and what...
The Spanish Civil War
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
“Mr. Thomas has understood [the Spanish Civil War] incredibly well and has written it superbly. A full, vivid and deeply serious treatment of a great subject.”—Vincent Sheean, The New York Times Book Review
A masterpiece of the historian’s art, Hugh Thomas’sThe Spanish Civil War remains...
Frank Aiken
Nationalist and Internationalist
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Revolutionary; statesman; polymath: Frank Aiken cuts a colossal figure in twentieth century Irish history. However, he remains a controversial figure regarded as a war criminal by some and a principled proponent of National liberation by others.
In this engaging biographical collection, contributors...
Phantom Terror
Political Paranoia and the Creation of the Modern State, 1789-1848
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
For the ruling and propertied classes of the late eighteenth century, the years following the French Revolution were characterized by intense anxiety. Monarchs and their courtiers lived in constant fear of rebellion, convinced that their power-and their heads-were at risk. Driven by paranoia, they...
Madam Atatürk
The First Lady of Modern Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is hailed as one of the most charismatic political leaders of the twentieth century, but little is known today about his one and only wife, Latife Hanim. A multilingual intellectual educated at the Sorbonne, Latife's marriage to Atatürk in 1923 set her apart from her contemporaries,...
Great Catastrophe
Armenians and Turks in the Shadow of Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
The destruction of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire in 1915-16 was the greatest atrocity of World War I. Around one million Armenians were killed, and the survivors were scattered across the world. Although it is now a century old, the issue of what most of the world calls the Armenian Genocide...
Sun Yat Sen and the birth of modern China
20th Century China: Volume One
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
As the increasingly powerless Qing Dynasty in 19th Century China struggled to defend itself from European, American and Japanese colonial control, and bloody civil wars and rebellions fought by an angry and desperate people raged, a new revolutionary force emerged.Sun Yat Sen's Tongmenghui, later known...