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Hitler’s regime invested heavily into radio as the most modern media of its era. First in Germany, later in Austria and the Sudetenland, Joseph Goebbels motivated his Volksgenossen to become active ……続きを見る

Sheds new light on European and regional book markets, the development of a public sphere and the impact of new media on intellectual, social, religious and political change. How do you become a cit……続きを見る

The Amharc Éireann film series (literally translated as Views/Visions of Ireland) was a cultural nationalist project sponsored by Gael Linn, an organization whose mandate was the revitalization of t……続きを見る

Christian Schmidt-Rost vergleicht die Jazzszenen in der DDR und Polen und beschäftigt sich mit den transatlantischen Transferprozessen, in die sie eingebunden waren. Sein Buch gibt einen Einblick in……続きを見る

During the Cold War, jazz became a cultural weapon that was employed by both sides to advance their interests. This volume explores the history and roles of jazz in Poland, the German Democratic Rep……続きを見る

The volume deals with the evolution and metamorphoses of the political elite in the Habsburg lands and the neighbouring countries during the long 19th century. It comprises fourteen studies, compile……続きを見る

This comparative study focuses on the ways in which the British settler colonies of Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa treated indigenous peoples in relation to political rights, encomp……続きを見る

Das Ende des nationalsozialistischen Deutschen Reichs scheint klar verortet: Am 7. bzw. 9. Mai wird die bedingungslose Kapitulation der deutschen Wehrmacht unterzeichnet. Damit war zwar der Krieg zu……続きを見る

New York Times, USA Today, Amazon, and Publishers Weekly bestseller Aspects of History, The Critic, Octavian, and Modern War Institute Book of the Year.** Two leading authoritiesーan acclaimed histo……続きを見る

Brings together agenda-setting essays that illuminate the complex relationship between ideas and political activity in modern British history. Ideas matter in modern British political life: culture,……続きを見る

Der Siebenjährige Krieg (1756–1763) war ein globaler Konflikt, in dem sich anfangs unabhängig voneinander schwelende Konflikte in Europa und Übersee miteinander verflochten. Auf der einen Seite führ……続きを見る

Definitive accounts of JFK’s and Martin Luther King’s assassinations by a Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times–bestselling author. Case Closed: A Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bes……続きを見る

Pulitzer Prize Finalist: “By far the most lucid and compelling account . . . of what probably did happen in Dallasーand what almost certainly did not.” ーThe New York Times Book Review The Kennedy a……続きを見る

Since its establishment in 1922 the BBC has continually asserted itself as one of the great British institutions at home and abroad. David Pat Walker offers an in-depth analysis of the history of BB……続きを見る

New York Times, USA Today, Amazon, and Publishers Weekly bestseller Aspects of History, The Critic, Octavian, and Modern War Institute Book of the Year.** Two leading authoritiesーan acclaimed histo……続きを見る

Not One More Death examines the record of US and UK troops in Iraq, questions Bush and Blair's position under international law, and considers the responsibilities of artists, writers and the wider ……続きを見る

A journey through one of the world's most divided cities – Hebron, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank of Palestine, exploring the influence of the history, religion and myth on the country's tumultuo……続きを見る

With his groundbreaking and controversial DIM hypothesis, Dr. Leonard Peikoff casts a penetrating new light on the process of human thought, and thereby on Western culture and history. In this far-r……続きを見る

Recent years have seen a re-examination of Britain's imperialist past, with changes to how its citizens understand, study and scrutinize its history. In Britain's Contested History, eminent historia……続きを見る

The 1959 purge of the Latvian national communists has long been cast in black-and-white terms: Russification and resistance; victimizers and victims. Conventional wisdom holds that Nikita Khrushchev……続きを見る

Charles Greville (1794-1865) made his first occasional diary entries in 1814, but the diary only became a regular habit in the mid-1820s, continuing with occasional breaks, about which he is self-re……続きを見る

This is the first book to survey the experience of servants in rural Europe from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. Live-in servants were a distinctive element of early modern society. They we……続きを見る

This is the first book to survey the experience of servants in rural Europe from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. This is the first book to survey the experience of servants in rural Europe ……続きを見る

Revivez le naufrage comme si vous y étiez ! Lorsque le RMS Titanic quitte le port irlandais de Queenstown (aujourd'hui Cobh) le jeudi 11 avril 1912, il emmène avec lui 2228 hommes, femmes et enfants……続きを見る

Découvrez les dessous des plus grandes catastrophes maritimes Jusqu'à la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, le bateau était le seul moyen de traverser les mers et les océans. Le voyage n'était pas s……続きを見る

Als Kind westdeutscher Linker im provinziellen Solingen lernt Richard David Precht schon früh zwischen Gut und Böse zu unterscheiden: Sozialismus und Kapitalismus. Er wächst mit einem klaren Feindbi……続きを見る

AFRICA IS FAILING. AFRICA IS SUCCEEDING. Africa is betraying its citizens. Africa is a place of starvation, corruption, disease. African economies are soaring faster than any on earth. Africa is squ……続きを見る

Lloyd Gartner presents, in chronologically-arranged chapters, the story of the changing fortunes of the Jewish communities of the Old World (in Europe and the Middle East and beyond) and their gradu……続きを見る

DDR, 1980: Die staatliche Überwachung und das eintönige Leben treiben viele junge Menschen in die rebellische Subkultur des Punk. Die Bands tragen schrille Namen wie 'Schleim-Keim', 'Wutanfall' oder……続きを見る

Der amerikanische Bürgerkrieg (1861–1865) galt nicht allein der Frage der Moral und der Menschenrechte, sondern war auch eine Auseinandersetzung um wirtschaft-liche Interessen. Diese Kontroverse kos……続きを見る