CHRISTINE - 20th Century 1

Why were Hollywood producers eager to film on the other side of the Iron Curtain? How did Western computer games become popular in socialist Czechoslovakia's youth paramilitary clubs? What did Finni……続きを見る

"Richard Strauss zu dirigieren fühlt sich an wie der Landeanflug auf eine Mega-City: Überall sind Lichter, alles glitzert, und man denkt, das kann doch nicht wahr sein, ist das immer noch L. A., hör……続きを見る

Revisitant l’histoire de l’Allemagne aux xixe et xxe-xxie siècles sous le prisme de l’étude combinée de la naissance d’un discours national en Prusse et de celle de l’entreprise coloniale allemande ……続きを見る

Der Neandertaler gehört zu den geheimnisumwitterten Verwandten des Homo sapiens: War er ein dumpfer, keulenschwingender Kraftprotz oder ein Wesen mit entwickeltem Sozialverhalten und der Fähigkeit z……続きを見る

Dossier : Quel héritage possible pour Mai 68 ? → Entretien avec Jean-François Kahn. « À gauche comme à droite, Mai 68 est un mythe reconstruit » Jean-François Kahn a couvert Mai 68 pour l’Express. L……続きを見る

For half a century, the United States has treated Cuba and Hawai'i as polar opposites: despised nation and beloved state. But for more than a century before the Cuban revolution and Hawaiian stateho……続きを見る

Today, the military is one the most racially diverse institutions in the United States. But for many decades African American soldiers battled racial discrimination and segregation within its ranks.……続きを見る

In the early 1920s, amid rising anti-Catholic sentiment and hysteria generated by World War I, the reconstituted Ku Klux Klan found new footing in many states outside the Deep Southーincluding Monta……続きを見る

What more could there be to know about FDR, given how exhaustively his life has been written about? As it happens, there is more and that focuses on Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, the queen of her Washingt……続きを見る

CHRISTINE KEINER is a professor of science, technology, and society at Rochester Institute of Technology and the author of The Oyster Question: Scientists, Watermen, and the Maryland Chesapeake Bay ……続きを見る

In Lily Dale, New York, the dead don't die. Instead, they flit among the elms and stroll along the streets. According to spiritualists who have ruled this community for five generations, the spirits……続きを見る

In her own words, the life of the beautiful young model and dancer who helped to bring down the Tory government of Harold Macmillan - the 'Profumo Affair' remains the greatest political sex scandal ……続きを見る

Tales of a life well lived. Rewind 60 plus years, to an era devoid of social media and mobile phones. Where one was fully engaged in the here and now, and personal events were witnessed by those who……続きを見る

The 1950s as a cultural concept has surged with astonishing force over the last half century. Cultural and political investment in the postwar era has been heavily determined by the desires, anxieti……続きを見る

Tyrannen haben wieder Konjunktur. Eine wachsende Zahl von Autokraten ist dabei, dem westlichen Traum vom unaufhaltsamen Siegeszug der Demokratie und Rechtsstaatlichkeit ein Ende zu bereiten. Darunte……続きを見る

The discovery of oil brought enormous change to the Gulf. It transformed the simple fishing and grazing economies of the Gulf states into some of the wealthiest countries in the world. This book, fi……続きを見る

In The Simple Faith of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, religion journalist and author Christine Wicker establishes that faith was at the heart of everything Roosevelt wanted for the American people. This……続きを見る

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Die Neandertaler gehören nicht nur zu unseren, vor weniger als 30.000 Jahren ausgestorbenen Verwandten, sondern sind - 150 Jahre nach der Entdeckung der ersten Neandertalerfossilien unweit von Düsse……続きを見る

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice A Telegraph Editor’s Choice An Evening Standard “Best Books about London” Selection In popular imagination, London is a city of fog. The classic London f……続きを見る

La plus grande bataille d'idée du XXe siècle qui a changé la vie de plus d'un milliard de catholiques il y a 50 ans. En janvier 1959, moins de cent jours après son élection, le pape Jean XXIII, un p……続きを見る

Alice Paul: Equality for Women shows the dominant and unwavering role Paul played in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, granting the vote to American women. The dramatic details of Paul's impr……続きを見る

The country’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, its interventions around the world, and its global military presence make war, the military, and militarism defining features of contemporary American lif……続きを見る

In the early twentieth century, an exuberant brand of gifted men and women moved to New York City, not to get rich but to participate in a cultural revolution. For them, the city's immigrant neighbo……続きを見る

S-21 fu il principale "ufficio di sicurezza" sotto il regime dei Khmer Rossi guidato da Pol Pot. Tra il 1975 e il 1979 in questo centro di detenzione 17 mila persone furono imprigionate, fotografate……続きを見る

This readable and informative survey, including both new research and synthesis, provides the first close comparison of race, class and internationalism in the British and American women's movements……続きを見る

Toward a Cultural Archive of la Movida revisits the cultural and social milieu in which laMovida, an explosion of artistic production in the late 1970s and early 1980s, was articulated discursively,……続きを見る

In recent years, much Spanish literary criticism has been characterized by debates about collective and historical memory, stemming from a national obsession with the past that has seen an explosion……続きを見る

Today, the military is one the most racially diverse institutions in the United States. But for many decades African American soldiers battled racial discrimination and segregation within its ranks.……続きを見る

For half a century, the United States has treated Cuba and Hawai'i as polar opposites: despised nation and beloved state. But for more than a century before the Cuban revolution and Hawaiian stateho……続きを見る