MB - 20th Century 1

The fifty months of the Siberian Intervention encompass the existential crisis which affected Japanese at virtually all levels when confronted with the new "world situation" left in the wake of the ……続きを見る

**#1 New York Times bestseller “Barry will teach you almost everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history.”ーBill Gates "Monumental... an authoritative and distur……続きを見る

L'histoire méconnue de trois écrivains rebelles et irrévérencieux qui ont fait école. Si la plupart des groupes d'écrivains revendiquent leur appartenance à un mouvement – que l'on songe au naturali……続きを見る

Fidel Castro jailed political prisoners at a higher rate than Stalin during the Great Terror. He murdered more Cubans in his first three years in power than Hitler murdered Germans during his first ……続きを見る

Warum führte das Attentat von Sarajewo, das serbische Nationalisten am 28.Juni 1914 auf Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand und seine Frau verübten, zum Ersten Weltkrieg? Ist Europa in den Krieg „hineingeschl……続きを見る

This volume, a survey of the Canadian scene that urged various reforms, appeared shortly after the First World War. It was considered to be extremely radical in its proposals and implications at tha……続きを見る

Click here to read Revisions, Corrections, and Additions to The Hemingway Log. Few if any writers have made a mark as broad and deep as Ernest Hemingway, whose life and workーand even imageーcontinu……続きを見る

African Americans' long campaign for “the right to fight” forced Harry Truman to issue his 1948 executive order calling for equality of treatment and opportunity in the armed forces. In War! What Is……続きを見る

As the most populous country in Eastern Europe as well as the birthplace of the largest anticommunist dissident movement, Poland is crucial in understanding the end of the Cold War. During the 1980s……続きを見る

Anne M. Blankenship’s study of Christianity in the infamous camps where Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II yields insights both far-reaching and timely. While most Japanese Ame……続きを見る

Dissects the politics of commemoration of soldiers, veterans, and relatives from WWI The United States lost thousands of troops during World War I, and the government gave next-of-kin a choice about……続きを見る

The Other Space Race is a unique look at the early U.S. space program and how it both shaped and was shaped by politics during the Cold War. Eisenhower’s “New Look” expanded the role of the Air Forc……続きを見る

Economic, political, and ethnic favoritism are common themes in the historiography of colonial Africa. Land ownership and control, and the abilities of the respective landscapes to sustain Africa’s ……続きを見る

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europa - and. Länder - Zeitalter Weltkriege, Note: 1,7, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Department für Geschichte), Veran……続きを見る

When the author first moved to Southampton from Middlesex in 1985, he thought it was rather like a provincial town in comparison to London and its outer suburbs. But already things were beginning to……続きを見る

A father's last confession to his son about the CIA, Watergate, and the plot to assassinate President John F. Kennedy, this is the remarkable true story of St. John Hunt and his father E. Howard Hun……続きを見る

The story of the long struggle of African Americans to attain civil rights, particularly in the South, is well documented. The story of the public library movement in America is also well documented……続きを見る

Allies at Odds examines America's Vietnam policy from 1961 to 1968 in an international context by focusing on the United States' relationship with its European partners France, West Germany, and Gre……続きを見る

For her time, Mira Lloyd Dock was an exceptional woman: a university-trained botanist, lecturer, women’s club leader, activist in the City Beautiful movement, and public officialーthe first woman to……続きを見る

In Collective Courage, Jessica Gordon Nembhard chronicles African American cooperative business ownership and its place in the movements for Black civil rights and economic equality. Not since W. E.……続きを見る

Spectacle is not often considered to be a significant part of the style of ‘classical’ cinema. Indeed, some of the most influential accounts of cinematic classicism define it virtually by the suppos……続きを見る

Just in time for the one-hundredth anniversary of Miami Beach, It Happened in Miami, the Magic City: An Oral History features nearly seventy fabulous voices including more than fifteen mini-memorist……続きを見る

Échanges inédits entre El-Sadate et Begin La correspondance échangée entre le président égyptien Anouar el-Sadate et le Premier ministre israélien Menahem Begin de novembre 1977 à octobre 1981, inte……続きを見る

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE ‘A wake-up call’ Amal Clooney ‘Devastating… rape and sexual abuse continue to be a pervasive and all-too-often hidden featu……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

In August 1906, black soldiers stationed in Brownsville, Texas, were accused of going on a lawless rampage in which shots were fired, one man was killed, and another wounded. Because the perpetrator……続きを見る

In the 1990s three college campuses in California exploded as Chicano/a and Latino/a students went on hunger strikes. Through courageous self-sacrifice, these students risked their lives to challeng……続きを見る

Otiginally published in 1975. At the time that Louis Galambos published The Public Image of Big Business in America in 1975, America had matured into a bureaucratic state. The expression of the mili……続きを見る

Bestselling author Tom Brokaw brings readers inside the White House press corps in this up-close and personal account of the fall of an American president. In August 1974, after his involvement in t……続きを見る

I comuni scomparsi della Val Vigezzo Il comune di Folsogno, insieme a quello di Olgia e Dissimo sono stati riuniti nell’unico comune di Re da Vittorio Emanuele III nel 1928. Eppure la loro storia co……続きを見る