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This volume retraces Carl Lutz’s diplomatic wartime rescue efforts in Budapest, Hungary, through the lens of Jewish eyewitness testimonies. Together with his wife, Gertrud Lutz-Fankhauser, the direc……続きを見る

The proliferation of railroads around the world was integral to the emergence of a global market-based economy at the turn of the twentieth century. This deeply researched and comprehensive book exa……続きを見る

The phenomenon of “war brides” from Japan moving to the West has been quite widely discussed, but this book tells the stories of women whose lives followed a rather different path after they married……続きを見る

Comment un monde où la paix et la démocratie paraissent solidement implantées peut-il sombrer si rapidement ? Par la profonde déstabilisation qu'elle engendre, la crise de 1929 rebat les cartes de l……続きを見る

A vivid portrait of how Naval oversight shaped American oceanography, revealing what difference it makes who pays for science. What difference does it make who pays for science? Some might say none.……続きを見る

Das Wechselspiel von Frieden, Konflikten, Gewalt und Krieg prägt unsere Gegenwart ebenso wie die Vergangenheit. Dieser Band bietet einen aktuellen Überblick über die programmatischen und methodische……続きを見る

An educational crisis from its origins to present-day experiences In the United States today, almost three-quarters of the people teaching in two- and four-year colleges and universities work as con……続きを見る

The remarkable true story of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, and the two men in war-torn Japan whose lives he changed forever. On the 14th of August 1941, a Polish priest named Maximilian Maria Kolbe was mu……続きを見る

“A compelling account of the lives of Japanese and Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II . . . instructive and moving.”ーNippon.com From the editor of the award-winning Children of Man……続きを見る

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In many ways, the Arab-Israeli war of 1948 is typical of the total military conflicts that characterized the first half of the twentieth century. However, in addition to the military course of the w……続きを見る

In his last work before his death in 2014, American historian Martin J. Sklar analyzes the influence of early twentieth-century foreign policy makers, focusing on modernization, global development, ……続きを見る

American Survivors is a fresh and moving historical account of U.S. survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, breaking new ground not only in the study of World War II but also in the……続きを見る

"An eye-opening exploration and a riveting read." "The story telling, full of fascinating social detail, is gently captivating." London in the summer of 1940... June Spencer volunteers for the Londo……続きを見る

Les années folles? Des années tristes. Les années vingt, des années folles ? La postérité évoque des parties dansantes endiablées, le son élégant du jazz et la fièvre de music-hall. En réalité, rien……続きを見る

What stands behind the propensity to remember victims of mass atrocities by their personal names? Grounded in ethnographic and archival research with Last Address and Memorial, one of the oldest ind……続きを見る

In this bold book, A. Naomi Paik grapples with the history of U.S. prison camps that have confined people outside the boundaries of legal and civil rights. Removed from the social and political comm……続きを見る

In 1967, Reies Lopez Tijerina led an armed takeover of a New Mexico courthouse in the name of land rights for disenfranchised Spanish-speaking locals. The small-scale raid surprisingly thrust Tijeri……続きを見る

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This unique literary study of Yiddish children’s periodicals casts new light on secular Yiddish schools in America in the first half of the twentieth century. Rejecting the traditional religious edu……続きを見る

La paix introuvable. Le 11 novembre 1918, au matin, Georges Clemenceau déclare à son chef de cabinet : " Nous avons gagné la guerre, il nous faut maintenant gagner la paix, et ce sera plus dur encor……続きを見る

From the dawn of the atomic age, art and popular culture have played an essential role interpreting nuclear issues to the public and investigating the implications of nuclear weapons to the future o……続きを見る

Turkish republicanism is commonly thought to have originated with Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and the founding of modern Turkey in 1923, and understood exclusively in terms of Kemalist ideals, characteriz……続きを見る

Few economists can claim the influenceーor fameーof F. A. Hayek. Winner of the Nobel Prize, Hayek was one of the most consequential thinkers of the twentieth century, his views on the free market ec……続きを見る

'As skilful, stylish and pacy as one would expect from so adept a novelist' Sunday Telegraph Edna O'Brien depicts James Joyce as a man hammered by Church, State and family, yet from such adversities……続きを見る

In the years following the fall of Slobodan Milosevic, Serbian social, cultural and political responses to the wars of the 1990s have fallen under intense scrutiny. In Ethnic Conflict and War Crimes……続きを見る

During World War II, Japan was vilified by America as our hated enemy. As the Cold War heated up, however, the U.S. government decided to make Japan its bulwark against communism in Asia. In this re……続きを見る

Poonam Bala’s Contesting Colonial Authority explores the interplay of conformity and defiance amongst the plural medical tradition in colonial India. The contributors reveal how Indian elites, natio……続きを見る