As with many aspects of European cultural life, film was galvanized and transformed by the revolutionary fervor of 1968. This groundbreaking study provides a full account of the era’s cinematic cris……続きを見る
August 18, 2020, marked the centennial of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. In 1920, women wearing yellow roses stood shoulder to shoulder in Tennessee,……続きを見る
Stories of war and conflict form the backbone of much of the Western literary canon, portraying a certain image of heroism, stoicism, and survival in the face of violence. War and Imagination challe……続きを見る
著者:Benjamin Breen
出版社: Grand Central Publishing
発売日: 2024年01月16日
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A bold and brilliant revisionist take on the history of psychedelics in the twentieth century, illuminating how a culture of……続きを見る
著者:Benjamin Houston
出版社: University of Georgia Press
発売日: 2012年11月01日
Among Nashville’s many slogans, the one that best reflects its emphasis on manners and decorum is the Nashville Way, a phrase coined by boosters to tout what they viewed as the city’s amicable race ……続きを見る
Benjamin A. Valentino finds that ethnic hatreds or discrimination, undemocratic systems of government, and dysfunctions in society play a much smaller role in mass killing and genocide than is commo……続きを見る
著者:Benjamin Talton
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2019年07月26日
On August 7, 1989, Congressman Mickey Leland departed on a flight from Addis Ababa, with his thirteen-member delegation of Ethiopian and American relief workers and policy analysts, bound for Ethiop……続きを見る
Following France’s crushing defeat in June 1940, the Nazis moved forward with plans to reorganize a European continent now largely under Hitler’s heel. While Germany’s military power would set the a……続きを見る
著者:Benjamin R. Young
出版社: Stanford University Press
発売日: 2021年04月06日
Far from always having been an isolated nation and a pariah state in the international community, North Korea exercised significant influence among Third World nations during the Cold War era. With ……続きを見る
著者:Ben Jackson
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2020年07月31日
Scottish nationalism is a powerful movement in contemporary politics, yet the goal of Scottish independence emerged surprisingly recently into public debate. The origins of Scottish nationalism lie ……続きを見る
著者:Benjamin Lai
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日: 2012年11月20日
The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the largest army in the world.
China is predicted to be on the brink of overtaking the USA as the world's largest economy, and China's military capabili……続きを見る
In diesem Band werden die Erkenntnisse des 70. Baltischen Historikertreffens 2017 in Göttingen präsentiert. Er beleuchtet, wie sich die Staaten Nordosteuropas nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg entwickelten,……続きを見る
著者:Benjamin Gross
出版社: The University of Chicago Press
発売日: 2024年05月31日
In 1968 a team of scientists and engineers from RCA announced the creation of a new form of electronic display that relied upon an obscure set of materials known as liquid crystals. At a time when t……続きを見る
著者:Benjamin Nathans
出版社: Princeton University Press
発売日: 2024年08月13日
**WINNER OF THE 2025 PULITZER PRIZE
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**A "riveting history" (Wall Street Journal) of the Soviet dissident ……続きを見る
Moderne wapens, internationale conflicten en toenemend wantrouwen vormden aan het einde van de negentiende eeuw een gevaarlijk huwelijk. Om die dreigende geweldsspiraal te beteugelen kwam in 1899 en……続きを見る
Entgegen der weitverbreiteten Forschungsmeinung, die von einem Rückgang der Gewalt in europäischen Gesellschaften im 18. Jahrhundert ausgeht, ist für Lancashire in England während dieser Zeit ein de……続きを見る
After the techno-futurism of the 1950s and the utopian 1960s vision of a “great society,” the 1970s saw Americans turning to the past as a source for both nostalgic escapism and serious reflection o……続きを見る
How has the distinctive Armenian-American community expressed its identity as an ethnic minority while 'assimilating' to life in the United States? This book examines the role of community leaders a……続きを見る
This is the first fully researched biography of Martin Niemöller (1892-1984). It charts his life from his service in the Imperial German Navy, his work for the Inner Mission and as a Protestant past……続きを見る
This timely book explores immigration into the United States and the effect it has had on national identity, domestic politics and foreign relations from the 1920s to 2006.
Comparing the immigration……続きを見る
著者:Benjamin Lai
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日: 2022年11月02日
A detailed account of the bloody capture of Shanghai and Nanjing by Japan in the early days of World War II in the East.
From 1931, China and Japan had been embroiled in a number of small-scale conf……続きを見る
In March 1969 the two giants of the Communist world – the People’s Republic of China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics – came to blows over the control of a remote and uninhabited island o……続きを見る
著者:Benjamin Looker
出版社: The University of Chicago Press
発売日: 2022年12月22日
Despite the pundits who have written its epitaph and the latter-day refugees who have fled its confines for the half-acre suburban estate, the city neighborhood has endured as an idea central to Ame……続きを見る
"It is probably easier to be Christian in any other area of life than it is in the area of race. Here the practice of the Christian religion seems to break down most completely."
These words of pro……続きを見る
From side-hustlers to start-ups, freelancers to small business owners, Americans have a special affinity for people who make it on their own. But the dream has a dark side.
“One day I’ll work for my……続きを見る
La Prima Guerra Mondiale, durata dal 28 luglio 1914 all'11 novembre 1918, è stata uno dei conflitti più sanguinosi della storia dell'umanità e ha provocato enormi sconvolgimenti nella politica inter……続きを見る
Thomas Edison, een onverzadigbare uitvinder met meer dan duizend patenten, is de belichaming van de Amerikaanse self-made man. Deze autodidact, die op 24-jarige leeftijd ondernemer werd, wordt besch……続きを見る
A Primeira Guerra Mundial, que durou de 28 de Julho de 1914 a 11 de Novembro de 1918, foi um dos conflitos mais sangrentos da história humana e causou enormes convulsões na política internacional: n……続きを見る
Thomas Edison, insaziabile inventore con più di mille brevetti, è l'emblema del self-made man americano. Quest'uomo autodidatta, diventato imprenditore all'età di 24 anni, è considerato il più grand……続きを見る
Nell'inverno del 1915, l'Europa era in una situazione di stallo. C'era un generale stupore per il fatto che la Prima Guerra Mondiale fosse ancora in corso: tutti si aspettavano che i combattimenti f……続きを見る