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Today, no one really thinks of Britain as a land of camps. Camps seem to happen 'elsewhere', from Greece, to Palestine, to the global South. Yet over the course of the twentieth century, dozens of B……続きを見る

Nineteenth-century Russian intellectuals were faced with a dilemma. They had to choose between modernizing their country, thus imitating the West, or reaffirming what was perceived as their country'……続きを見る

'If you are susceptible to Miss Marple and Harriet Vane you must read The Adventures of Maud West. You will never know the difference between fact and fiction again.' – Jill Paton Walsh, author of t……続きを見る

This book is the first study of displaced Mozambican men, women, and childrenーfrom refugees and asylum seekers to liberation leaders, students, and migrant workersーduring the war for independence ……続きを見る

Cambridge is now world-famous as a centre of science, but it wasn't always so. Before the nineteenth century, the sciences were of little importance in the University of Cambridge. But that began to……続きを見る

The Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) was created in 1917, re-formed in 1938 and maintained after 1945. This book determines for the first time the reasons for the expansion and contraction of the ……続きを見る

Situated on Broadway between Fourteenth and Seventeenth Streets, Union Square occupies a central place in both the geography and the history of New York City. Though this compact space was originall……続きを見る

The collaborative effort of scholars from Russia and the United States, this book reevaluates the history of postwar Eastern Europe from 1944 to 1949, incorporating information gleaned from newly op……続きを見る

**Skipping Stones Honor Award Winner** The true story of a prince from Bali, whose fascinating life was shaped by uncommon events and exotic places. Born in 1919, Prince Made Djelantik witnessed piv……続きを見る

A comprehensive and moving biography of Max Jacob, a brilliant cubist poet who lived at the margins of fame. Though less of a household name than his contemporaries in early twentieth century Paris,……続きを見る

"What would rodeo look like if we took it as a record, not of human triumph and resilience, but of human imperfection and stubbornness?” asks animal historian Susan Nance. Against the backdrop of th……続きを見る

Beginning with the Cold War and concluding with the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Hannah Gurman explores the overlooked opposition of U.S. diplomats to American foreign policy in the latter half of the twe……続きを見る

This book examines Soviet agriculture in post-1945 Hungary. It demonstrates how the agrarian lobby, a development following the 1956 revolution, led to contact with the West which allowed for the cr……続きを見る

Hanna Dalvai, verehelichte Goldmann, geboren am 18. Februar 1920 in Salurn an der südlichen Grenze der Provinz Bozen, hat in späteren Jahren als reife Frau ihre Erinnerungen an ihre kargen Kindheits……続きを見る

Communist Propaganda at School is based on an analysis of reading primers from the Soviet bloc and recreates the world as presented to the youngest schoolchildren who started their education between……続きを見る

In Ondanks de zwaartekracht toont Suzanna Jansen hoe dwarsdenkers van een eeuw geleden onze tijd hebben vormgegeven. Van de auteur van de bestseller Het pauperparadijs. Ondanks de zwaartekracht van ……続きを見る

What is the soundtrack for a nuclear war? During the Cold War, over 500 songs were written about nuclear weapons, fear of the Soviet Union, civil defense, bomb shelters, McCarthyism, uranium mining,……続きを見る

Le persecuzioni a cui fu sottoposta la Chiesa cattolica all’avvento della Seconda Repubblica spagnola (1931) e sino al termine della Guerra Civile (1939) sono state a lungo omesse o trascurate dalla……続きを見る

Torna di attualità in questi mesi un testo scritto da Hannah Arendt negli anni Settanta. Si tratta di un’originale riflessione sulla natura della politica e sul suo rapporto con la verità. Il libro ……続きを見る

The dazzling story of the Greenwich Village feminists who blazed the trail for the movement’s most radical ideas On a Saturday in New York City in 1912, around the wooden tables of a popular Greenwi……続きを見る

2022 History Book Festival Official Selection. The 1930s still conjure painful images: the great want of the Depression, and overseas, the exuberant crowds motivated by self-appointed national savio……続きを見る

Welche Beweggründe motivierten Deutsche, in die NSDAP einzutreten? Und welche Strategien wählten genau diese Parteimitglieder nach 1945, um sich in ihren Entnazifizierungsprozessen zu entlasten? Anh……続きを見る

Die von Deutschen im Nationalsozialismus begangenen Verbrechen wären nicht möglich gewesen ohne die Existenz eines Geflechts von geteilten ethischen Überzeugungen. "Dichte" Begriffe wie "Arbeit", "V……続きを見る

A faithful retelling of the Hofmann forgeries, and their impact on the progressive rewriting of Latter-Day Saint history. Why did New Mormon Historians insist Hofmann's forgeries were legitimate, ev……続きを見る

This pioneering study shows what brought Yiddish-speaking Jewish intelligentsia to the Communist movement in the interwar years. They believed that Communism is not only a way to solve the Jewish pr……続きを見る

Gerade wegen der Abkühlung des sowjetisch-amerikanischen Verhältnisses entwickelten sich die Beziehungen zwischen ost- und westdeutschen Instituten für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik in den 1970er un……続きを見る

How did Britain's most prominent armaments firms, Armstrongs and Vickers, build their businesses and sell armaments in Britain and overseas from 1855 to 1955? Joanna Spear presents a comparative ana……続きを見る

Joining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Zora Neale Hurston’s rediscovered classic Barracoon, an immersive and revelatory history of the Clotilda, the last slav……続きを見る

A gripping story of the scientific breakthrough crucial to modern medical care: explores the polio epidemic that led to the invention of intensive care and ventilators, which weren’t created until……続きを見る

Ray Stannard Baker's 'Following the Color Line' is a thought-provoking exploration of race relations in America during the early 20th century. Through a series of in-depth interviews and observation……続きを見る