Jay Winter: 14 books
La Première Guerre mondiale - tome 3
Sociétés
Language: French
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Voici l’ouvrage de référence sur la Première Guerre mondiale. Sous la direction de Jay Winter, professeur à l’université de Yale, avec le Centre international de recherche de l’Historial de la Grande Guerre et coordonné par Annette Becker, il réunit les plus grands spécialistes internationaux...
by Jay Winter
Language: French
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Voici l’ouvrage de référence sur la Première Guerre mondiale. Sous la direction de Jay Winter, professeur à l’université de Yale, avec le Centre internationale de recherche de l’Historial de la Grande Guerre et coordonné par Annette Becker, il réunit les plus grands spécialistes internationaux...
Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning
The Great War in European Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Jay Winter's powerful study of the 'collective remembrance' of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in the cultural history of the twentieth century. Dr Winter looks anew at the culture of commemoration and the ways in which communities endeavoured to find collective...
Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning
The Great War in European Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 1998
Jay Winter's powerful 1998 study of the 'collective remembrance' of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in the cultural history of the twentieth century. Dr Winter looks anew at the culture of commemoration and the ways in which communities endeavoured to find...
Dreams of Peace and Freedom
Utopian Moments in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In the wake of the monstrous projects of Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and others in the twentieth century, the idea of utopia has been discredited. Yet, historian Jay Winter suggests, alongside the major utopians” who murdered millions in their attempts to transform the world were disparate groups of people...
War beyond Words
Languages of Remembrance from the Great War to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
What we know of war is always mediated knowledge and feeling. We need lenses to filter out some of its blinding, terrifying light. These lenses are not fixed; they change over time, and Jay Winter's panoramic history of war and memory offers an unprecedented study of transformations in our imaginings...
by Jay Winter
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
This eBook includes the complete book of Enoch which has been translated from the Ethiopic. The Book of Noah, Testament of Solomon, Book of Giants, and a few other extras are also included in this third ePUB edition. The introduction by David Chariot is perhaps the best short form explanation of the...
by Jay Winter
Language: French
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: April 23, 2014
La Première Guerre mondiale a cent ans : entre 1914 et 1918, pour la première fois de l’histoire, le monde entier participait à une guerre vorace en hommes, en ressources matérielles, en énergies, en loyautés, en ferveurs, en horreurs. A guerre mondiale, histoire mondiale : à partir de l’idée,...
The Global Spread of Fertility Decline
Population, Fear, and Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
The world's population has grown by five billion people over the past century, an astounding 300 percent increase. Yet it is actually the decline in family size and population growth that is the issue attracting greatest concern in many countries. This eye-opening book looks at demographic trends...
René Cassin and Human Rights
From the Great War to the Universal Declaration
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Through the life of one extraordinary man, this biography reveals what the term human rights meant to the men and women who endured two world wars, and how this major political and intellectual movement ultimately inspired and enshrined the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. René Cassin was a...
The Great War in History
Debates and Controversies, 1914 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2005
Since the Armistice, a vast literature has been produced on the First World War and its repercussions. In this 2005 book, two leading historians from the United States and France have produced a fully comparative analysis of the ways in which this history has been written and interpreted. The book...
by Delilah Devlin, Elle James, Megan Mitcham
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
***Rogues! Even the word conjures a special sort of hero—***a playful bad boy with a heart of gold—at least when it comes to his lady love. This volume is filled with the Jack Sparrows of old—pirates sailing the high seas, Regency-era highway men, modern day jewel thieves, like Cary Grant in...
Socialism and the Challenge of War (RLE The First World War)
Ideas and Politics in Britain, 1912-18
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
The First World War marks a crucial period in the history of the socialist wing of the British labour movement. This book is an account of the development of the political ideas and activities of some of the most influential British socialist thinkers of that time: Beatrice and Sidney Webb, R. H....
by Divaldo Antonio Gutierrez Calvache, Racso Fernandez Ortega, Pedro A. Alvarado Layos
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
This compilation, by an international grouping of scholars, focuses on the nature of Caribbean rock art or rock graphics and makes clear the region's substantial and distinctive rock art tradition. Thorough and comparative, it includes data on the history of rock graphic research, the nature of the...