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Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
A Deep Exploration of the Rise, Reign, and Legacy of the Third Reich
For its brief existence, National Socialist Germany was one of the most destructive regimes in the history of humankind. Since that time, scholarly debate about its causes has volleyed continuously between the effects of political...
Artists Under Hitler
Collaboration and Survival in Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
“What are we to make of those cultural figures, many with significant international reputations, who tried to find accommodation with the Nazi regime?” Jonathan Petropoulos asks in this exploration of some of the most acute moral questions of the Third Reich. In his nuanced analysis of prominent...
by Ralph J. Bunche
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
A world-renowned scholar and statesman, Dr. Ralph J. Bunche (1903—1971) began his career as an educator and a political scientist, and later joined the United Nations, serving as Undersecretary General for seventeen of his twenty-five years with that body. This African American mediator was the...
The German Bourgeoisie (Routledge Revivals)
Essays on the Social History of the German Middle Class from the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
First published in 1991, this collection of original studies by British, German and American historians examines the whole range of modern German bourgeoisie groups, including professional, mercantile, industrial and financial bourgeoisie, and the bourgeois family. Drawing on original research, the...
Histories of Productivity
Genealogical Perspectives on the Body and Modern Economy
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Global issues such as climate change and the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis have spurred interest in thinking about the history of the modern economy that goes beyond disciplinary economic history. This book contributes to the cultural history of capitalism and its different regimes of productivity...
by Thomas Withington
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
The B-2A 'Spirit' was an aircraft conceived to fight the Cold War but which has proved invaluable to both the 'New World Order' and more recently the 'War on Terrorism'. The combination of low-observability, precision strike, range and payload flexibility has made the 'Spirit' the weapon of choice...
Authoritarian El Salvador
Politics and the Origins of the Military Regimes, 1880-1940
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
In December 1931, El Salvador’s civilian president, Arturo Araujo, was overthrown in a military coup. Such an event was hardly unique in Salvadoran history, but the 1931 coup proved to be a watershed. Araujo had been the nation’s first democratically elected president, and although no one could...
The art of the possible
Politics and governance in modern British history, 1885–1997: Essays in memory of Duncan Tanner
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Explores some of the major transitions, opportunities and false dawns of modern British political history. It engages with the scholarly legacy of Professor Duncan Tanner (1958–2010) whose work was focused on the political process and on politics in government.
by Clive Emsley
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Ranging from the middle of the eighteenth through to the end of the nineteenth century, Crime and Society in England, 1750–1900 explores the developments in policing, the courts and the penal system as England became increasingly industrialised and urbanised. Through a consideration of the difficulty...
Gourmets in the Land of Famine
The Culture and Politics of Rice in Modern Canton
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
A study of the politics of rice in Canton, this book sheds new light on the local history of the city and illuminates how China's struggles with food shortages in the early twentieth century unfolded and the ways in which they were affected by the rise of nationalism and the fluctuation of global...
by Kaushik Roy
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
This book argues that the role of the British East India Company in transforming warfare in South Asia has been overestimated. Although it agrees with conventional wisdom that, before the British, the nature of Indian society made it difficult for central authorities to establish themselves fully...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Historical surveys of postwar Japan are usually established on the grounds that the era is already over, interpreting "postwar" to be the years directly proceeding World War II. However, the contributors to this book take a unique approach to the concept of the postwar epoch and treat it as a network...
A Modern History of Hong Kong
1841-1997
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2007
This major history of Hong Kong tells the remarkable story of how a cluster of remote fishing villages grew into an icon of capitalism. The story began in 1842 with the founding of the Crown Colony after the First Anglo-Chinese war - the original 'Opium War'. As premier power in Europe and an expansionist...
Chasing the Chinese Dream
Stories from Modern China
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
China is undergoing the biggest and fastest societal and economic change in human history. Driving this dizzying transformation is the idea of the 'Chinese Dream', the promise that in the new China, anyone can make it. Journalist and writer Nick Holdstock has travelled the length of this huge country...