M.B - 20th Century 5

Is today’s left really new? How has the European radical left evolved? Giorgos Charalambous answers these questions by looking at three moments of rapid political change - the late 1960s to late 197……続きを見る

The modern, centralized American state was supposedly born in the Great Depression of the 1930s. Kimberley S. Johnson argues that this conventional wisdom is wrong. Cooperative federalism was not bo……続きを見る

Making Choices, Making Do is a comparative study of Black and white working-class women’s survival strategies during the Great Depression. Based on analysis of employment histories and Depression-er……続きを見る

Donald J. Trump ran on a platform that, among other things, promised to "drain the swamp" that is Washington, DC. Part of that draining would entail what his chief strategist, Steve Bannon, would ca……続きを見る

In this book, lectures delivered at the Metropolitan Museum during February and March, 1920, have been elaborated in an effort to present a comprehensive and accurate view of the evolution of the ea……続きを見る

Journalism in the Civil War Era presents the historical context of Civil War journalismーplacing the press of the era within the entire nineteenth century. It gives a broad account of journalism in ……続きを見る

My Lady Nicotine is a humorous essay by Scottish author J.M. Barrie. The author reflects on his love affair with smoking, including the pleasures and difficulties of quitting, and the role of smokin……続きを見る

A site-by-site guide to the wonders of the world’s greatest city. Unless you know where Edgar Allan Poe liked to sit and think and Cab Calloway used to perform, where the first Oreo was baked and Am……続きを見る

Ob als Effekt staatlicher Hilfspakete, als kontroverses Thema des EU-Haushalts oder als mögliche Ursache der rasant steigenden Inflation – in einer Welt im Krisenmodus ist das Problem der Staatsvers……続きを見る

Kriegsgefangenschaft war eine tiefgreifende Erfahrung für Militärangehörige im Russländischen Reich und in der Sowjetunion. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes untersuchen Lageralltag, Gewalt, Überlebensstra……続きを見る

From the Bible’s “Canst thou raise leviathan with a hook?” to Captain Ahab’s “From Hell’s heart I stab at thee!,” from the trials of Job to the legends of Sinbad, whales have breached in the human i……続きを見る

This is a memoir of my experiences and recollections of the Bronx, with background information that complements the content and provides an appropriate historical setting and perspective for this sn……続きを見る

Comprised of the frontier military and the Indian conflicts of the southwest preceding the Civil War. The conflicts and eventual peace. Well researched and written. “Between 1845 and 1848 the United……続きを見る

Blue Moon over Cuba is the only known personal account of the lead photographic reconnaissance squadron during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Most books on the Cuban Missile Crisis tell the story using t……続きを見る

This book examines Japan’s Heisei era through the lens of the crisis in Japanese professional baseball of 2004, challenging the narrative of decline that dominates the discourse on the period. The s……続きを見る

A distanza di quattro anni dalla prima raccolta su Craveggia dal 1895 al 1925, il seguito delle Cronache dal 1926 al 1960. La Val Vigezzo, anche denominata valle dei pittori, ha per De Petri un part……続きを見る

La Val Vigezzo - Turismo e arte La Valle Vigezzo è uno scrigno contenente preziosi tesori e il paese di Craveggia è uno di questi. Ho dunque deciso, dopo avere raccolto le cronache di Crana, che die……続きを見る

Am 19. Februar 1937 wurde Friedrich Weißler leblos in seiner Zelle im KZ Sachsenhausen aufgefunden. Wie sich herausstellte, war er von einem SS-Totschlägerkomplott zu Tode geprügelt worden. Weißler ……続きを見る

Si tratta di momenti di vita quotidiana in cui si alternano varie vicende: nascite, morti, battesimi, matrimoni, inaugurazioni di opere pubbliche, incidenti, disgrazie, questioni riguardanti il Comu……続きを見る

Freedom of information is a principle commonly associated with the United States’ First Amendment traditions or digital-era technology boosters. Barriers Down reveals its unexpected origins in polit……続きを見る

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'This book is his best yet . . . Dimbleby’s work is in a different league, told with such skill and judgment' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times A gripping and autho……続きを見る

An elusive and complex idea of truth lies at the center of Theodor Adorno's thought. Yet he never spells out what it is. Through close readings of Negative Dialectics, Aesthetic Theory, and related ……続きを見る

The 'WILD WEST Boxed Set: 150+ Western Classics in One Volume' is an expansive anthology that brings together a diverse array of literature encapsulating the essence and mythos of the American West.……続きを見る

Rigurosa investigación sobre las mentiras, los engaños, las muertes y las torturas ocurridas durante los mandatos de Perón, y una desmitificación de la frase que sostiene que en la Argentina "somos ……続きを見る

“An informative and often enthralling book…in the appealing style of Tom Clancy” (Kirkus Reviews) about the 1983 war game that triggered a tense, brittle period of nuclear brinkmanship between the U……続きを見る

New York Times Bestseller: The prize-winning historian’s definitive, “riveting” account of the eleven months from D-Day to Germany’s surrender (Atlanta Journal-Constitution). From America’s preemine……続きを見る

A “gripping narrative” of natural disaster and human corruption and “an accomplished and important social history, magisterial in its scope” (The New York Times). Rising Tide tells the riveting stor……続きを見る

The Soviet Space Programme (1988) presents a comprehensive over-view of the Soviet space programme from its beginnings up to the end of the 1980s. One important theme explored is the degree to which……続きを見る

This updated, new edition of this book explores the emergence of what the author terms "late modernist freakish aesthetics"– a creative fusion of "high" and "low" themes and forms in relation to dis……続きを見る

The first complete narrative of the pursuit & capture of SS Nazi officer and Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann, by a New York Times–bestselling author. When the Allies stormed Berlin in the last da……続きを見る