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“My heart was in a cage. My life was a long struggle to find happiness, to overcome fear, and to find love I had lost. I did not give up, and that is what my story is about.” ー Dr. Ichak K. Adizes ……続きを見る

On August 8, 1942, 302 people arrived by train at Vocation, Wyoming, to become the first Japanese American residents of what the U.S. government called the Relocation Center at Heart Mountain. In th……続きを見る

Den jyske hjemstavnsdigter Jeppe Aakjær (1866-1930) er den dag i dag kendt for sine socialrealistiske romaner og noveller og for sine naturdigte, hvoraf flere lever videre som folkekære sange i Højs……続きを見る

From the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s West German foreign policy underwent substantial transformations: from bilateral to multilateral, from reactive to proactive. The Conference on Security and Coope……続きを見る

Concepts of migration and displacement are all too often separated from ideas of international humanitarianism and occupations; and yet, between 1945 and 1951, victims of war became the joint respon……続きを見る

Migration ist eine historische Normalität. Schon die frühen Besiedlungen der Schweiz am Ende der letzten Eiszeit waren das Ergebnis von Wanderungen. Die eidgenössischen Söldner der Frühen Neuzeit ma……続きを見る

Considering the development and ongoing influence of Black thought From 1900 to the present, people of African descent living in the United States have drawn on homegrown and diasporic minds to crea……続きを見る

After India achieved independence from the British in 1947, there remained five scattered territories governed by the French imperial state. It was not until 1962 that France fully relinquished cont……続きを見る

An unprecedented examination of how news stories, editorials and photographs in the American pressーand the journalists responsible for themーprofoundly changed the nation’s thinking about civil rig……続きを見る

When US-led forces invaded Iraq in 2003, they occupied a country that had been at war for 23 years. Yet in their attempts to understand Iraqi society and history, few policy makers, analysts and jou……続きを見る

The unexpected end of the protracted conflict has been a sobering experience for scholars. No theory had anticipated how the Cold War would be terminated, and none should also be relied upon to expl……続きを見る

Whether for weavers at the handloom, labourers at the plough or factory workers on the assembly line, music has often been a key texture in people's working lives. This book is the first to explore ……続きを見る

In June 1961, Nikita Khrushchev called Berlin "the most dangerous place on earth." He knew what he was talking about. Much has been written about the Cuban Missile Crisis a year later, but the Berli……続きを見る

In this monumental new book, award-winning author Mark Kurlansky has written his most ambitious work to date: a singular and ultimately definitive look at a pivotal moment in history. With 1968, Mar……続きを見る

An illuminating account of John F. Kennedy’s brief but transformative tenure in the White House, from acclaimed author and historian Mark K. Updegrove, head of the LBJ Foundation and presidential hi……続きを見る

Felix Cohen, the lawyer and scholar who wrote The**Handbook of Federal Indian Law (1942), was enormously influential in American Indian policy making. Yet histories of the Indian New Deal, a 1934 pr……続きを見る

**WINNER OF THE 2023 WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE New Yorker • Best Books of 2022 “This is the most comprehensive and best account of resistance I have read. It addresses the story with scholarly objectivi……続きを見る

The Cuban revolution served as a rallying cry to people across Latin America and the Caribbean. The revolutionary regime has provided vital support to the rest of the region, offering everything fro……続きを見る

Much of Missoula's history lies beneath the surface. As in many Old West cities, cavernous underground tunnel systems purportedly hid countless nefarious activities, from clandestine prostitution an……続きを見る

Uit 27 levensverhalen uit de drie Baltische staten komt een grote vitaliteit, maar ook de ongebroken wil tot overleven in autonomie naar voren, kortom: trots. Jan Brokken schetst aan de hand van uit……続きを見る

To understand modern science, it is essential to recognize that many of the most fundamental scientific principles are drawn from the knowledge of ancient civilizations. Taking a global yet comprehe……続きを見る

In this new edition of a cult classic, Henrik Krüger and Jerry Meldon have added new material and provided updates of the investigations Danish investigative author Henrik Krüger set out to write a ……続きを見る

To many, Newark seems a profound symbol of postwar liberalism’s failings: an impoverished, deeply divided city where commitments to integration and widespread economic security went up in flames dur……続きを見る

Zu Recht gilt Max Weber (1864–1920) heute international als einer der einflussreichsten Denker des 20.Jahrhunderts. Seine Werke zählen in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften zu den Schlüsseltexten……続きを見る

More than forty years have passed since the official end of the Vietnam War, yet the war’s legacies endure. Its history and iconography still provide fodder for film and fiction, communities of war ……続きを見る

Det røde tyranni giver en fascinerende analyse af væsentlige begivenheder i Stalins liv, af tiden, af den kulturelle og politiske arv og af den samtidige politiske kultur. Men bogen er i lige så høj……続きを見る

Bogen er en fortælling om Hans V. Toftes (1918-1987) liv under 2. verdenskrig, hvor han blev udnævnt som krigshelt, og hans senere karriere inden for den amerikanske efterretningstjeneste CIA. Bogen……続きを見る

The Soviet Union and Cold War Neutrality and Nonalignment in Europe examines how the neutral European countries and the Soviet Union interacted after World War II. Amid the Cold War division of Euro……続きを見る

The remarkable story of how a consul and his allies helped save thousands of Jews from the Holocaust in one of the greatest rescue operations of the twentieth century. In May 1940, Jan Zwartendijk, ……続きを見る

For most of his sixty-year career, the Reverend Carl McIntire was at the center of controversy. The best-known and most influential of the fundamentalist radio broadcasters and anticommunists of the……続きを見る