wired - 20th Century 30

This book is a collection of essays which span three decades, capping research into the Polish Solidarity movement and its impact on social change. The major one reports on the author’s 1981 study o……続きを見る

The book analyses the attitudes of non-EU countries towards European integration in historical and contemporary perspectives. The authors study a range of actors in Europe and beyond to explain the ……続きを見る

The contributions in this book focus on U.S. migration policies, receiving society, ethnic communities and return migration. The authors analyze various aspects of migratory history ranging from the……続きを見る

Gesellschaften mit starker Einwanderung kennzeichnen vielfältige Formen von Identitätsbildung und das Ringen um politische und zivilgesellschaftliche Partizipation. Dies gilt in besonderer Weise für……続きを見る

Das Reichsministerium für Wiederaufbau mit den zugehörigen Reichsbehörden steht im Mittelpunkt dieser Studie. Seine Aufgaben bestanden sowohl in der Ausführung der wirtschaftlichen Reparationen gemä……続きを見る

Die Untersuchung rekonstruiert Entstehung und Entwicklung des nach seinem Gründungsort benannten «Schwelmer Kreises» (1952–1975), einer linken, vornehmlich in den 1950er Jahren gesamtdeutsch agieren……続きを見る

This volume is a collection of thirty papers written by authors from around the world. The writers focus on topics related to their own research interests. As a result, readers obtain a worldwide pe……続きを見る

This study counters the view that Franklin D. Roosevelt hegemonically exalted Thomas Jefferson to iconic dominance during the Great Depression. It analyzes the diversity of those who appropriated Je……続きを見る

The so-called ‘people's power’ – the communists – tended to make Poles afraid. At first – afraid of the Anglo-Saxon imperialists, then of the German revisionists, Zionist 5th column and ‘Kuroń and M……続きを見る

Das Buch bietet eine diskursanalytische Untersuchung kollektiver Identitätskonstruktionen im Internet. Dabei wird die globale Gottscheer-Diaspora hinsichtlich der Erzählung ihrer eigenen Geschichte ……続きを見る

Walt Whitman wrote: «The real war will never get into the books.» To this day, however, American soldier-authors write about their war and translate traumatic experiences into language accessible to……続きを見る

The photographs from Abu Ghraib triggered a debate on torture in the United States that has been led with a significant amount of visibility. What has been noticeably absent, however, is a thorough ……続きを見る

This collection of essays addresses the ongoing problem of dissent from a broad range of disciplinary perspectives: political philosophy, intellectual history, literary studies, aesthetics, architec……続きを見る

How can art, how can prose and poetry originate in spite of the restraints of manipulation, propaganda, and censorship? This study explores such issues by focusing on the cultural trajectory of Japa……続きを見る

Is the U.S. as a country still capable of finding common ground and effective policy responses in the 21st century, or are the dividing lines within U.S. society actually becoming too deep and too w……続きを見る

The author undertakes an intellectual journey into the hidden past of the Polish history after 1939. He deals with Holocaust, collaboration, totalitarian rule, crisis of communism in Eastern Europe ……続きを見る

Secret Heroes is a remarkable compendium by Paul Martin, former Executive Editor of National Geographic Traveler, that illuminates the lives of thirty forgotten American heroes. Gathering together r……続きを見る

With a foreword by four-time Oscar nominated filmmaker Michael Mann. The story of Paul LeRoux, the twisted-genius entrepreneur and cold-blooded killer who brought revolutionary innovation to interna……続きを見る

The main purpose of this book is to explain how (mainly) American, but also British and other Western, policy makers have planned and largely managed to create an international order in their own im……続きを見る

Hannie Schaft, »das Mädchen mit den roten Haaren«, war knapp zwanzig Jahre alt, als sie von der Gestapo in Holland zum Staatsfeind Nummer eins erklärt wurde. In Warschau jagten die Vollstrecker der ……続きを見る

Deepens our understanding of Black women’s anti-rape activism by attending to how their tactics shifted in response to the federal War on Crime Beginning in the 1970s, a series of government agencie……続きを見る

An imaginative investigation into a historical crime that sheds new light on Jewish history. In 1734 a pedlar turned smuggler named Jacob Harris slit the throats of three people in a pub in Sussex. ……続きを見る

Strawberry Days tells the vivid and moving tale of the creation and destruction of a Japanese immigrant community. Before World War II, Bellevue, the now-booming "edge city" on the outskirts of Seat……続きを見る

Before AIDS or coronavirus, there was the Spanish Flu ー Catharine Arnold's gripping narrative, Pandemic 1918, marks the 100th anniversary of an epidemic that altered world history. In January 1918,……続きを見る

Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg war der europäische Kontinent verwüstet, und der Konflikt hinterließ die Sowjetunion und die Vereinigten Staaten als unangefochtene Supermächte. Damit begann der über 45 J……続きを見る

Un million de P.G. libérés rentrent au printemps 1945 dans leur foyer. La société française récupère brusquement une masse d’hommes dans la force de l’âge, de producteurs, de procréateurs, d’électeu……続きを見る

For a man who grew up to become the “Bull Moose”, Theodore Roosevelt was a sickly child, suffering from asthma and other maladies. But his physical weakness actually drove him to be more active, whi……続きを見る

Aux côtés de Friedrich Hayek, et avant que Milton Friedman n’imprime son empreinte à partir des années I960, l’économiste allemand Wilhelm Röpke (1899-1966), installé à Genève après avoir fui le naz……続きを見る

An illustrated study of RAF Coastal Command's deployment of the Beaufighter against German supply lines in 1941 and the long-running 'arms race' with Kriegsmarine Flak ships that followed. Crucial G……続きを見る

From CNN legal analyst Elliot Williams, a revelatory account of how one man, four teenagers, and a struggling city collided over race, vigilantism, and self-defense . . . and exposed the fault lines……続きを見る