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Rationed Life
Science, Everyday Life, and Working-Class Politics in the Bohemian Lands, 1914–1918
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Far from the battlefront, hundreds of thousands of workers toiled in Bohemian factories over the course of World War I, and their lives were inescapably shaped by the conflict. In particular, they faced new and dramatic forms of material hardship that strained social ties and placed in sharp relief...
The Law in Nazi Germany
Ideology, Opportunism, and the Perversion of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
While we often tend to think of the Third Reich as a zone of lawlessness, the Nazi dictatorship and its policies of persecution rested on a legal foundation set in place and maintained by judges, lawyers, and civil servants trained in the law. This volume offers a concise and compelling account of...
Raising Citizens in the 'Century of the Child'
The United States and German Central Europe in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
The 20th century, declared at its start to be the “Century of the Child” by Swedish author Ellen Key, saw an unprecedented expansion of state activity in and expert knowledge on child-rearing on both sides of the Atlantic. Children were seen as a crucial national resource whose care could not...
Germany and the Black Diaspora
Points of Contact, 1250-1914
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
The rich history of encounters prior to World War I between people from German-speaking parts of Europe and people of African descent has gone largely unnoticed in the historical literature—not least because Germany became a nation and engaged in colonization much later than other European nations....
Managing Northern Europe's Forests
Histories from the Age of Improvement to the Age of Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Northern Europe was, by many accounts, the birthplace of much of modern forestry practice, and for hundreds of years the region’s woodlands have played an outsize role in international relations, economic growth, and the development of national identity. Across eleven chapters, the contributors...
French Foreign Policy since 1945
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
When Charles de Gaulle declared that “it is because we are no longer a great power that we need a grand policy,” he neatly summarized France’s predicament on the world scene. In this compact and engaging history, author Frédéric Bozo deftly recounts France’s efforts to reconcile its proud...
Building a European Identity
France, the United States, and the Oil Shock, 1973-74
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
The Arab-Israeli war of 1973, the first oil price shock, and France’s transition from Gaullist to centrist rule in 1974 coincided with the United States’ attempt to redefine transatlantic relations. As the author argues, this was an important moment in which the French political elite responded...
General de Gaulle's Cold War
Challenging American Hegemony, 1963-68
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
The greatest threat to the Western alliance in the 1960s did not come from an enemy, but from an ally. France, led by its mercurial leader General Charles de Gaulle, launched a global and comprehensive challenge to the United State’s leadership of the Free World, tackling not only the political...
The Road to War
France and Vietnam 1944-1947
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
How did France become embroiled in Vietnam, in the first of long wars of decolonization? And why did the French colonial administration, in late 1946, having negotiated with Ho Chi Minh for a year, adopt a warlike stance towards Ho's régime which ran counter to the liberal colonial doctrine of liberated...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Recent studies on the meaning of cultural diplomacy in the twentieth century often focus on the United States and the Cold War, based on the premise that cultural diplomacy was a key instrument of foreign policy in the nation’s effort to contain the Soviet Union. As a result, the term “cultural...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Exploring the visions of the end of the Cold War that have been put forth since its inception until its actual ending, this volume brings to the fore the reflections, programmes, and strategies that were intended to call into question the bipolar system and replace it with alternative approaches or...
The Good Holiday
Development, Tourism and the Politics of Benevolence in Mozambique
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Drawing on ethnographic research in the village of Canhane, which is host to the first community tourism project in Mozambique, The Good Holiday explores the confluence of two powerful industries: tourism and development, and explains when, how and why tourism becomes development and development,...
People, Money and Power in the Economic Crisis
Perspectives from the Global South
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
The Cold War was fought between “state socialism” and “the free market.” That fluctuating relationship between public power and private money continues today, unfolding in new and unforeseen ways during the economic crisis. Nine case studies -- from Southern Africa, South Asia, Brazil, and...
Applications of Anthropology
Professional Anthropology in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
At the beginning of the twenty-first century the demand for anthropological approaches, understandings and methodologies outside academic departments is shifting and changing. Through a series of fascinating case studies of anthropologists’ experiences of working with very diverse organizations...