著者:Max Foran
出版社: Athabasca University Press
発売日: 2013年11月01日
In June of 1962, the Canadian Pacific Railway announced a proposal to redevelop part of its reserved land in the heart of downtown Calgary. In an effort to bolster its waning revenues and to redefin……続きを見る
Baltimore: Its History and Its People, Vol. II was originally published in 1912 by the Lewis Historical Publishing Company of New York and Chicago as a collaboration of several historians, most nota……続きを見る
著者:John B. Judis
出版社: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
発売日: 2014年02月04日
A probing look at one of the most incendiary subjects of our timeーthe relationship between the United States and Israel
There has been more than half a century of raging conflict between Jews and A……続きを見る
著者:Aram Goudsouzian
出版社: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
発売日: 2014年02月04日
In 1962, James Meredith became a civil rights hero when he enrolled as the first African American student at the University of Mississippi. Four years later, he would make the news again when he ree……続きを見る
著者:Hugh B. Urban
出版社: Princeton University Press
発売日: 2011年08月02日
Scientology's long and complex journey to recognition as a religion
Scientology is one of the wealthiest and most powerful new religions to emerge in the past century. To its detractors, L. Ron Hubb……続きを見る
著者:Sidney L. Pash
出版社: The University Press of Kentucky
発売日: 2014年01月08日
From 1899 until the American entry into World War II, U.S. presidents sought to preserve China's territorial integrity in order to guarantee American businesses access to Chinese marketsーa policy f……続きを見る
This study, now in a revised and updated third edition, covers the economic history of Latin America from independence in the 1820s to the present. It stresses the differences between Latin American……続きを見る
With the end of the Cold War and the prospect of a federal Europe ever closer, this book is a timely reassessment of the processes by which western Europe was reborn out of the devastation and despa……続きを見る
A second edition of this famous survey has been eagerly awaited. When the first edition appeared Brezhnev was still in power, Gorbachev did not make it to the index, and the USSR was a superpower. T……続きを見る
This book opens new perspectives into the Cold War ideological confrontations. Using Austria and Finland as an example, it shows how the Cold War battles for the hearts and minds of the people also ……続きを見る
When the Wall Came Down provides a wide-ranging compendium of responses in Germany and other countries to the events of 1989-90, and includes essays by Henry Kissinger, Vaclav Havel, Ralf Dahrendorf……続きを見る
More than half the nations that exist today have gained their independence since 1945. During this period over 2,300 individuals have ruled the various nations of the world; this encyclopedia offers……続きを見る
著者:Penelope Lively
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2014年02月06日
The beloved and bestselling author takes an intimate look back at a life of reading and writing
“The memory that we live with . . . is the moth-eaten version of our own past that each of us carries ……続きを見る
During ten of the 31 years between 1914 and 1945 the English people were involved in world wars; for 19 of the years they lived in the shadow of mass unemployment. These themes and the politics whic……続きを見る
著者:Brenda Stevenson
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2016年05月31日
Helicopters patrolled low over the city, filming blocks of burning cars and buildings, mobs breaking into storefronts, and the vicious beating of truck driver Reginald Denny. For a week in April 199……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
著者:Richard Ned Lebow
出版社: St. Martin's Publishing Group
発売日: 2014年01月07日
Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives! presents an intellectually invigorating set of hypotheticals about the twentieth century--had we been smart enough to avoid World War I.
The "Great War" claimed nearl……続きを見る
50 marques françaises, la plupart disparues mais pas oubliées... restées dans la mémoire collective par les biais des supports de l'époque, efficaces car faisant p……続きを見る
著者:Stephen Sestanovich
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2014年02月11日
From a writer with long and high-level experience in the U.S. government, a startling and provocative assessment of America’s global dominance. Maximalist puts the history of our foreign policy in a……続きを見る
After the Second World War, the idea that local community action was indispensable for the alleviation of poverty was broadly embraced by US policymakers, social scientists, international developmen……続きを見る
著者:Denise Cruz
出版社: Duke University Press
発売日: 2012年11月19日
In this groundbreaking study, Denise Cruz investigates the importance of the figure she terms the "transpacific Filipina" to Philippine nationalism, women's suffrage, and constructions of modernity.……続きを見る
著者:Adria L. Imada
出版社: Duke University Press
発売日: 2012年07月09日
Aloha America reveals the role of hula in legitimating U.S. imperial ambitions in Hawai'i. Hula performers began touring throughout the continental United States and Europe in the late nineteenth ce……続きを見る
**'Sensationally good ... A riveting story, the real-life spooks and spies far more compelling than anything you will see on the screen ... history doesn't come more fascinating than this' Evening S……続きを見る
Was the Soviet Union a superpower? Red Globalization is a significant rereading of the Cold War as an economic struggle shaped by the global economy. Oscar Sanchez-Sibony challenges the idea that th……続きを見る
This is the first complete economic and social history of Brazil in the modern period in any language. It provides a detailed analysis of the evolution of the Brazilian society and economy from the ……続きを見る
著者:Mehmet Döşemeci
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2016年03月18日
Debating Turkish Modernity describes the opening act of Turkey's half century bid to join the European Community. Between 1959 and 1980, Turks from all walks of life weighed in on their prospective ……続きを見る
World War I and the Versailles Treaty that followed produced the most serious upheaval in a long and stormy course of modern world history. Four great empires - Austria-Hungary, Germany, Russia, and……続きを見る
The twentieth century has been popularly seen as "the American Century," a long period in which the United States had amassed the economic resources, the political and military strength, and the mor……続きを見る
著者:Chiara Ferrari
出版社: University of Toronto Press
発売日: 2014年06月16日
The Italian fascists under Benito Mussolini appropriated many aspects of the country’s Catholic religious heritage to exploit the mystique and power of the sacred. One concept that the regime deploy……続きを見る
Winner, 2014 Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies
Since the 1970s, a key goal of lesbian and gay activists has been protection against street violence, especially in gay neighborhoods. During the s……続きを見る