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Legare Street Press The Mediaeval Legend of Judas Iscariot
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Legare Street Press Alexander Pope
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LEGARE STREET PR Les Métèques Athénians Étude Sur La Condition
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Legare Street Press Chronologie Der Geschiedenis Van Suriname
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LEGARE STREET PR Of Communion With God The Father Son And Holy
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LEGARE STREET PR Helons Pilgrimage to Jerusalem
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LEGARE STREET PR Equal Pay for Equal Work
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Legare Street Press A Text Book In Psychology
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LEGARE STREET PR Questions and Exercises on Stewarts Lessons in
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LEGARE STREET PR A Political History Of Europe Since 1814
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LEGARE STREET PR The Fiery Cross
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Legare Street Press Wilhelm III Von Oranien Und Georg Friedrich Von
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Creative Media Partners, LLC The Placenames of the Liverpool District or The
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Comfort in the EighteenthCentury Country House
Book SynopsisCountry houses were grand statements of power and status, but they were also places where people lived. This book traces the changes in layout, the new technologies, and the innovations in furniture that made them more convenient and comfortable. It argues that these material changes were just one aspect of comfort in the country house: feeling comfortable was just as important as being comfortable. Achieving this involved the comfort and solace to be found in daily routines, religious faith and, above all, relationships with family and friends. Such emotional comforts, and the attachment to things and places that embodied and memorialized them, made country houses into homes.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Physical and Social Comfort: The Materiality of the Country House 1. Convenience and Privacy: The Architecture of Comfort 2. Warmth and Light: Technologies of Comfort 3. Comfortable Rooms: Sociability and the "Modern Living Room" Part 2: Emotional Comfort: Feelings, Letters and Home 4. Cleanliness and Godliness: Comforts of the Body and Mind 5. Family and Friends: Comfort, Consolation and Correspondence 6. Home Comforts: Objects and Memories. Conclusions: House and Home
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Europe in 1830
Book SynopsisThis book, first published in 1983, is a valuable corrective to the lack of academic research on the events of 1830 a year of revolutions across the continent of Europe. Social protests and political changes are examined to note the causes of the political turmoil and revolution in 1830, and then the results of the revolutions' developments are analysed, as general European social, political and diplomatic crises as well as a series of individual outbreaks. The book also turns to comparative study to look at the hows and wherefores of the revolutions, as the dynamics, participants and effects of revolution are examined in turn.Table of Contents1. Introduction: the Forgotten Revolutions 2. Causes: Preconditions and Precipitants 3. The July Days and Triggers of Revolution 4. A Bird’s-Eye View of Revolution 5. The Swiss Confederation: the ‘Regeneration’ of Cantonal Democracy 6. France: Political Calculation and Social Protest 7. Belgium: the Revolutionary Creation of a Nation 8. Northern Europe: Adaptation Inside Constitutional Monarchies 9. Poland: a Limited War of Liberation 10. The Southern and Eastern Peripheries: the Limits to Pressure from Without 11. Central Italy: Responses to Maladministration 12. The Dynamics of Change 13. Contenders for Power: Social Participation in the Events of 1830 14. The Revolutions and Their Effects 15. Conclusions: the Significance of 1830
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Taylor & Francis The Turkic Peoples in World History
Book SynopsisThe Turkic Peoples in World History is a thorough and rare introduction to the Turkic world and its role in world history, providing a concise history of the Turkic peoples as well as a critical discussion of their identities and origins.The Turks stepped on to the stage of history by establishing the TÃrk Qaghanate, the first trans-Eurasian empire in history, in 552 CE. In the following millennium, they went on to create empires that had a profound impact on world history such as the Uyghur, Khazar, and Ottoman empires. They also participated in building the Mongol empire, and these Turko-Mongol empires are credited with shaping the destinies of pre-modern China, the Middle East, and Europe. By treating the history of the Turkic peoples as a process of amalgamation and integration, rather than simply categorizing the Turkic peoples chronologically or geographically, this book offers new insights into Turkic history.This volume is a comprehensive guide for stuTrade ReviewLee’s book is an outstanding contribution, an important introduction to the Turkic-speaking world and its role in world history. It is a very convenient, readable introduction to a highly complicated area of study (the Central Asian and Middle Eastern Turkic world). Halford Mackinder (1861-1947), one of the founders of modern geographical studies, termed Central Asia "the pivot" of Eurasia, a role it is again playing in modern affairs. For those seeking background knowledge of the Central Asian/Central Eurasia states, Lee’s book offers a very solid introduction. This is an excellent introduction to the history of the Turkic peoples.Dr. Peter B. Golden, Professor Emeritus of History, Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies, Rutgers University (and Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Lee’s book is an excellent piece of scholarship which gives a well-proportioned introduction to the theme. The author yields an in-depth narrative which is readable nonetheless. The book is useful for both undergraduate and graduate students.István Vásáry m.p. Emeritus Professor, Eötvös Loránd University, BudapestThe movement of Turkic peoples into western Eurasia represents one of the major world historical events during more than half a millennium that stretched between the ninth and sixteenth centuries. It culminated with the establishment of the Ottoman Empire by Oghuz Turks. Joo-Yup Lee’s book The Turkic Peoples in World History offers readers a lucid guide to the complex process of Turkic migration, settlement and empire-building. Dr. Lee is the author of the widely praised work, Qazaqliq or Ambitious Brigandage, and the Formation of the Qazaqs: State and Identity in Post-Mongol Central Eurasia, as well important scholarly articles on the history and identity of Turks and Mongols. His work is informed by an ability to utilize sources in half a dozen languages of the Eurasian region as well as by a specialized knowledge of the genetic relationships of Central Asian peoples. His new book is, quite simply, the best new introduction to the broad geographical and historical expanse of Turkic history.Stephen Frederic Dale, author of The Garden of the Eight Paradises, Babur and the Culture of Empire in Central Asia, Afghanistan and India (1483-1530) and The Muslim Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids and MughalsThis survey is an excellent addition to the study of world history. Joo-Yup Lee provides a concise study with depth and substance that demonstrates the importance of the Turkic peoples in world history, while lucidly connecting the past with the present that both student and specialist will appreciate.Timothy May, Professor of Central Eurasian History, University of North GeorgiaTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Earliest, Nomad Turkic Peoples of the Mongolian Steppe: Tiele, Türks, and Uyghurs 2. The Various Turkic Peoples of South Siberia, Central Asia, and the Qipchaq Steppe: Qirghiz, Khazars, Bulghars, Qarakhanid Türks, and Qipchaqs 3. The Oghuz Turkic Peoples of West Asia and the Middle East: Seljuks, Ottomans, and Other Turkmen Groups 4. The Turko-Mongols (or "Mongol Turks") of the Qipchaq Steppe and Central Asia Epilogue
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Routledge The Making of the CitizenWorker
Book SynopsisOver the course of the 19th century, European societies started thinking of themselves as âœcivilisations of work.â In the wake of the political and industrial revolutions, labour as a human activity and condition gradually came to embody a general principle of order, progress, and governance. How did work become so central to our systems of citizenship and social recognition?The book addresses this question by considering the French context in the long transition between the 1789 and 1848 revolutions and focusing on a specific âœfragmentâ of history in the early 1830s marked by a pandemic crisis and the first consequences of industrialisation. It combines the analysis of both political institutions and social movements to retrace the rise of a labour-based social contract revolving around the âœcitizen-workerâ as the quintessential subject of rights.The first part of the book highlights the role played by the genesis of the modern social sciences and analyses it as a political process that established work as an âœobjectâ of governance and scientific investigation, thus fostering pioneering measures of welfare centred on work conditions. The second part focuses on the emergence of the concept of âœworking classâ and the modern labour movement, which structured the world of work as a collective political âœsubject.âChapter 2 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
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Routledge Science Religion and Nationalism
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Taylor & Francis Reenactment Case Studies
Book SynopsisReenactment Case Studies: Global Perspectives on Experiential History examines reenactment's challenge to traditional modes of understanding the past, asking how experience-based historical knowledge-making relates to memory-making and politics.Reenactment is a global phenomenon that ncompasses living history, historical reality television, performance art, theater, historically-informed music performance, experimental archeology, pilgrimage, battle reenactment, live-action role play, and other forms. These share a concern with simulating the past via authenticity, embodiment, affect, the performative and subjective. As such, reenactment constitutes a global form of popular historical knowledge-making, representation, and commemoration. Yet, in terms of its historical subject matter, styles, and subcultures, reenactment is often nationally or locally inflected. he book thus asks how domestic reenactment practices relate to global ones, as well as to the spread of new populism
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Taylor & Francis Turkism and the Soviets
Book SynopsisTurkism and the Soviets (1957) uses Turkish, Russian and Western sources to present a remarkable study of the Turkish world and its importance in international relations. It thoroughly examines the two factors which give this huge ethnic group its great importance â the strategic position of their territories and secondly their homogeneity and common objectives. Throughout this book the role of the Turkish peoples is examined as an issue intimately connected with the problem of the USSR and Communism. The southern border of the Soviet Union divides the Turkish world into two halves and partially cuts through the living area of the Turkish people. This is the area which contains the most important Soviet oil fields. The section of the book which deals with the splintering away of the Turkic portions of the USSR is of vital importance.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds
Book SynopsisThe essays and original visualizations collected in Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds explore the relationships among natural things - ranging from pollen in a gust of wind to a carnivorous pitcher plant to a shell-like skinned armadillo - and the humans enthralled with them.Episodes from 1500 to the early 1900s reveal connected histories across early modern worlds as natural things traveled across the Indian Ocean, the Ottoman Empire, Pacific islands, Southeast Asia, the Spanish Empire, and Western Europe. In distant worlds that were constantly changing with expanding networks of trade, colonial aspirations, and the rise of empiricism, natural things obtained new meanings and became alienated from their origins. Tracing the processes of their displacement, each chapter starts with a piece of original artwork that relies on digital collage to pull image sources out of place and to represent meanings that natural things lost and remade. Accessible and elegantTrade Review"Natural Things is a creative, exciting, and genre-defying volume that helps readers to understand natural history more attentively and capaciously. The volume puts nature back into nature, and follows natural things across built environments, ecological niches, and academic fields, embracing the unruliness required if one puts them, rather than people, at the centre."Surekha Davies, Ph.D. Researcher, Department of History and Art History, Utrecht University, the Netherlands"What better can be said of a book than that it impels the reader to realize things are not as they seem, nor can they be easily categorized, especially not into binary classifications such as natural/unnatural, live/dead, human/nature, indigenous/exotic, west/east, and subject/object. This is a volume full of surprises, changelings, liminalities, and polyvalent meanings. In its capacious and always fascinating roving around the terrains, ecologies, and intersections of material culture, global exchange, environmental history, and the history of knowledge and science/nature studies, Natural Things will unsettle assumptions and introduce instabilities into seemingly fixed points of reference. Read it!"Pamela H. Smith, PhD, Seth Low Professor of History, Columbia University, New York"This excellent collection of essays brings alive crucial exchanges of ideas and objects that characterize the scientific and cultural history of the early modern world. Combining archival erudition, critical historiography, and imaginative visualization, this book is an inspiring new resource for teaching as well as further research. In evocative essays, we are reminded that ‘seeing’ things that make up various understandings of nature should be understood as an active pursuit, whether for us today or in the way we ascribe it to past peoples whose imaginations we try to bring to life in our work. The book provides one of the most successful cases I know for using images as crucial historical evidence rather than as indexical illustrations."Shahzad Bashir, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Humanities, Brown University USA"This visually arresting and all-absorbing book takes the reader on a kaleidoscopic journey across the world from the Pacific Islands to South Asia, from the Atlantic world to Europe and the Americas at a time in which humans profoundly redefined their relationship with the global natural world. By bringing material culture, ecology, technologies, science and economy into conversation, Natural Things defies disciplinary boundaries and redefines our understanding of nature. It does so by considering a number of surprising ‘things’, among which an pink edible animal and a carnivorous plant; an anti-poison stone and one of the most toxic plants; the produce of the intestines of a sperm whale and a delicious beverage to be sipped in company. After reading Natural Things, when you step out of your front door, you’ll never see the world with the same eyes, and you’ll notice ‘things’ that you had not appreciated before!"Giorgio Riello, Professor of Early Modern Global History, European University Institute, Florence, Italy[This book] pushes readers (…) to begin to ask questions about the natural histories of other organisms and to question more closely long-standing narratives about plant discovery and botany. It’s an interesting blend of more traditional history of science with the newer fields of critical plant studies and the plant humanities, which are also at work enriching our views of the floral world.Maura Flannery, Herbarium World (August 2023)“The volume (…) offers a brilliant contribution to the study of non-European knowledge about nature. A rich and pathbreaking volume that, rather than simplifying, sketches a more complex and nuanced picture of the histories of early modern natural things and the humans they met along their ways"Lavinia Gambini, Journal of Early Modern History 27 (2023) 555–568."Like any worthy Wunderkammer, to reap its finer rewards this eclectic collection demands close looking and deep reading, if not several return visits. Smartly designed, edited, and formatted in the manner of a weighty exhibition catalog, Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds falls into that venerable hybrid genre that since the Enlightenment has sought to marry art and nature. At the same time, it mimics a current trend in museography, wherein visual artists are invited to mount critical interventions within the museum’s galleries."Mark Thurner, Hispanic American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: Natural Things in Early Modern WorldsMackenzie Cooley, Anna Toledano, and Duygu YıldırımOn the DesignZoë Sadokierski and Katie DeanPart I: Manipulated1. Pollen: The Sexual Life of Plants in MesoamericaHelen Burgos-Ellis2. Bezoar: Medicine in the Belly of the BeastMackenzie Cooley 3. Canal: Cross-Cultural Encounters and Control of WaterAlexander Statman4. Ambergris: From Sea to Scent in Renaissance ItalyMackenzie Cooley and Kathryn BiedermannPart II: Felt5. Squid: Natural History as Food History Whitney Barlow Robles 6. Coffee: Of Melancholic Turkish Bodies and Sensory ExperiencesDuygu Yıldırım7. Manchineel: Power, Pain, and Knowledge in the Lesser AntillesThomas C. Anderson8. Pitcher Plant: Drowning in her Sweet NectarElaine AyersPart III: Preserved9. Leaf: The Materiality of Early Modern HerbalsJulia Heideklang10. Armadillo: An Animal in Search of a Place Florencia Pierri 11. Bird: Living Names of Félix de Azara’s Lost CollectionAnna Toledano12. Brain: Objecthood, Subjecthood, and the Genius of GaussNicolaas RupkeEpilogue: Nature’s NarrativesPaula FindlenAfterword: The Disorder of ThingsAlan Mikhail Index
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Routledge Radical Basque NationalistIrish Republican
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Taylor & Francis Hitlers Party Comrades
Book SynopsisThis study is the first to analyze both the Nazi partyâs membership development and composition and the motives for joining and the exoneration strategies of former party members chosen during the denazification process.The book examines how many members joined the party between 1919 and 1945 (over 10 million), how many left (more than 750,000), and how many the party lost through death in World War II. Furthermore, the question of whether the NSDAP was a middle-class or a catch-all party, the latter being closer to the truth, is linked to the thesis of whether party members predominantly belonged to the frontline fighter generation, or the generation of war children born between 1900 and 1915. The study is based on the most comprehensive sample to date, more than 50,000 cases, from both central NSDAP membership registers, covering Germany, Austria and the occupied Czech territories. The book also presents a unique analysis of the influence of the denominational context, the dominant local economic sector and the extent of mass unemployment on the recruitment success of the National Socialists.Hitlerâs Party Comrades is a comprehensive guide to understanding the Nazi party and will be of interest to scholars and students of World War II and European history.
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Taylor & Francis Consumerism in World History
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Austin Macauley Publishers Mary Queen of Scots Slept Here
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Austin Macauley Publishers Twenty Cars that Defined the 20th Century
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Taylor & Francis Australian Economic Development in the Twentieth
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David J. Glass Growing the Golden State 18471900 The Adventures
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Cambridge University Press History and Identity
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Cambridge University Press The Hellenistic World
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge World History of Violence
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge World History of Violence
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Cambridge University Press Warrior Ascetics and Indian Empires 12 Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society Series Number 12
Book SynopsisMany people assume, largely because of Gandhi's legacy, that Hinduism is a religion of non-violence. In this 2006 book William R. Pinch shows just how wrong this assumption is. Using the life of Anupgiri Gosain, a Hindu ascetic who lived at the end of the eighteenth century, he demonstrates that Hindu warrior ascetics were an important component of the South Asian military labor market in the medieval and early modern Indian past, and crucial to the rise of British imperialism. Today, they occupy a prominent place in modern Indian imaginations, ironically as romantic defenders of a Hindu India against foreign invasion, even though they are almost totally absent from Indian history. William R. Pinch's innovative and gloriously composed book sets out to piece together the story of the rise and demise of warrior asceticism in India from the 1500s to the present. It will appeal to students of religion and historians of empire.Trade Review'This book deserves to become a runaway bestseller.' The Indian Economic and Social History Review'Yogis seem to have gone particularly out of control during the eighteenth-century anarchy between the fall of the Mughals and the rise of the British. This is a subject explored by William Pinch in his brilliant 2006 study of the militant yogis of the period, Warrior Ascetics and Indian Empires.' William Dalrymple, The New York Review of BooksTable of Contents1. Mughal Yogis; 2. WarLords; 3. Company Gosains; 4. Begams and Ranis in Rasdhan; 5. Sakti Bhakti; 6. Indian Sadhus; Kailash's counterfactual and other conclusions; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press A Concise History of Bosnia
Book SynopsisA Concise History of Bosnia integrates the political, economic and cultural history of this fascinating, beautiful, but much misunderstood country. Engaging and authoritative, the book succinctly explores how Bosnia has changed over many centuries, and looks beyond the events of the 1990s.Trade Review'This cogent book by Cathie Carmichael, an internationally known historian of Bosnia, is based on her two decades of research and engagement with the region. A Concise History of Bosnia is essential reading for anyone interested in the rich and dynamic history of the country, its culture, and its people.' Ivana Maček, Stockholm University'Cathie Carmichael has written an accessible historical introduction to Bosnia-Herzegovina, moving beyond the high politics focus of her predecessors to offer insights into [the] cultural, social and economic history of the country. Anyone wishing to find out more about the past and present of this tragic but fascinating part of the world should read this book.' Dejan Djokić, Goldsmiths, University of London'As the political and economic impasse in Bosnia-Herzegovina drags on, the value of a book like this becomes ever more apparent. Written by a seasoned scholar of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Balkan history, this volume is an excellent new addition to Cambridge's Concise History series. Professor Carmichael makes ample use of illustrations and primary sources relating to everything from gastronomy and the natural sciences to ethnography and diplomacy to discuss the unique and evolving situation of the regions known as Bosnia and Hercegovina from classical times to the present. With an emphasis on cultural and intellectual history, A Concise History of Bosnia is especially useful in its explication of Tito's revisionist communism and the genocide-ridden wars of Yugoslav secession. Debunking myths and comprehensively embracing the latest scholarship in the field, Carmichael is a powerful, engaging, and reliable writer.' John K. Cox, North Dakota State University'This concise history is the best up-to-date study of Bosnia's rich and traumatic past. Cathie Carmichael is a steady and authoritative guide through the region's unique blend of cultures as well as the controversial questions of ethnic violence. Especially welcome are the vivid eyewitness accounts, by both Bosnians and foreigners, that are skilfully woven into the narrative. The result is a vivid landscape full of mountains and troughs which has withstood a cycle of empires and wars: where the present-day can only be understood by pealing back the layers of the past.' Mark Cornwall, University of Southampton'An accessible and often insightful summary of a complex land and its people.' Abdullah Drury, Islam and Christian–Muslim RelationsTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Bosnia, Herzegovina and the Ottoman empire (1463–1912); 3. Rebellion, war and the Habsburgs (1875–1918); 4. Royalist Yugoslavia, the independent state of Croatia and the Second World War (1918–45); 5. Bosnia and the communist experiment; 6. Bosnian independence, war and genocide; 7. Conclusion: 'unmixing' Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of the Cold War Volume II
Book SynopsisThis volume examines the developments that made the Cold War into a long-lasting international system during the 1960s and 1970s. It delves into the social and economic histories of the conflict, the roles of intelligence, culture and national identities and discusses the newest findings on US and Soviet foreign policy.Trade ReviewReview of the set: 'There has never been a Cold War history like it; everything about it is monumental … In total, the volumes represent a successful interconnected attempt at describing the Cold War in full.' Jost Dülffer, H-Soz-u-KultReview of the set: 'The Cambridge History of the Cold War (CHCW) marks a coming of age for Cold War studies. This multi-volume compilation provides a synthesis of the 'New Cold War History'. It is a signal moment in the evolution of the field.' Mike Sewell, H-DiploReview of the set: '… if (I) could recommend just three books to a reader with no prior knowledge of the Cold War - the average undergraduate, say - it would likely be this series. The breadth and depth of coverage, in disciplinary and geographical terms, is unparalleled.' David Milne, H-Diplo'The geographic span of the book is particularly impressive, covering many regions and countries, including those not traditionally integrated into the narrative … In this way, the authors combine the thematic-chronological approach with a regional context, significantly expanding our concept of the Cold War and its impact on countries and peoples.' Ilya Gaiduk, H-Diplo'… this fine volume brings together leading scholars in the field to present in clear and perceptive chapters the latest knowledge and the current state of debate on the Cold War. There is no better place to begin to understand this conflict.' Michael Hopkins, H-Diplo'… a sophisticated and lucid history of the Cold War during its second phase…' Sandra Scanlon, H-DiploTable of Contents1. Grand strategies in the Cold War John Lewis Gaddis; 2. Identity and the Cold War Robert Jervis; 3. Economic aspects of the Cold War, 1962–1975 Richard N. Cooper; 4. The Cuban Missile Crisis James G. Hershberg; 5. Nuclear competition in an era of stalemate, 1963–1975 William Burr and David Alan Rosenberg; 6. US foreign policy from Kennedy to Johnson Frank Costigliola; 7. Soviet foreign policy, 1962–1975 Svetlana Savranskaya and William Taubman; 8. France, 'Gaullism', and the Cold War Frédéric Bozo; 9. European integration and the Cold War N. Piers Ludlow; 10. Détente in Europe, 1962–1975 Jussi M. Hanhimäki; 11. Eastern Europe: Stalinism to solidarity Anthony Kemp-Welch; 12. The Cold War and the transformation of the Mediterranean, 1960–1975 Ennio Di Nolfo; 13. The Cold War in the Third World, 1963–1975 Michael E. Latham; 14. The Indochina Wars and the Cold War, 1945–1975 Fredrik Logevall; 15. The Cold War in the Middle East: Suez crisis to Camp David Accords Douglas Little; 16. Cuba and the Cold War, 1959–1980 Piero Gleijeses; 17. The Sino-Soviet split Sergey Radchenko; 18. Détente in the Nixon-Ford years, 1969–1976 Robert D. Schulzinger; 19. Nuclear proliferation and non-proliferation during the Cold War Francis J. Gavin; 20. Intelligence in the Cold War Christopher Andrew; 21. Reading, viewing and tuning in to the Cold War Nicholas J. Cull; 22. Counter-cultures: the rebellions against the Cold War order, 1965–1975 Jeremi Suri; 23. The structure of great power politics, 1963–1975 Marc Trachtenberg; 24. The Cold War and the social and economic history of the twentieth century Wilfried Loth.
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Cambridge University Press Cambridge International as Level History Teachers
Book SynopsisCambridge International AS Level History is a suite of three books that offer complete coverage of the Cambridge International AS Level History syllabus (code 9389). This comprehensive Teacher''s Resource CD-ROM is written by an experienced teacher and examiner and provides comprehensive support for the three associated coursebooks. Teaching ideas offer help with lesson planning; worksheets with associated answers save precious time in preparing and setting homework; and further exemplar exam questions for all papers offer support to teachers to help students attain highly. The resource also offers further guidance on syllabus and assessment and provides answers to all questions and activities contained in the Coursebooks.Table of ContentsInternational History - Introduction; 1. International relations in an age of imperialism 1871–1918; The 'scramble for Africa'; The emergence of the USA as a world power; The emergence of Japan as a world power; The alliance system in Europe; 2. International relations in an age of uncertainty 1919–33; The peace settlements of 1919–20; Attempts to improve international relations; Problems in Europe 1919–33; American foreign policy; 3. International relations in an age of extremism 1919–39; Mussolini's foreign policy; Civil war in Spain; Hitler's foreign policy; The road to war; 4. China and Japan in an age of development 1919–45; The implications of the 'warlord era' 1916–28; The Kuomintang and its aims; Support for communism in China; Japan and military dictatorship during the 1930s; 5. The search for international peace and security 1919–45; The origins and aims of the League of Nations; The organisation of the League of Nations; The successes and failures of the League of Nations; The origins and aims of the United Nations; 6. Examination skills; What skills will examiners be testing and how?; Knowledge and understanding questions; Analysis and evaluation questions; Source-based questions; Examination technique; Index; Acknowledgements. History of the USA - Introduction; 1. Origins of the Civil War 1846–61; Sectional tensions in the United States; The outcomes of the war with Mexico; The Compromise of 1850 and its breakdown; The 1860 presidential election; The beginning of the Civil War in April 1861; 2. The Civil War and Reconstruction 1861–77; Four years of the Civil War; Impact of the Civil War; Aims and outcomes of Reconstruction; How successful was Reconstruction?; 3. Expansion of US power in the 19th and 20th centuries; Expansion in North America 1840s–1890s; Central America and the Caribbean 1840–1930; Relationship with Europe 1840–1930; US relations with China, Japan, the Philippines and the Pacific Islands; 4. The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era 1870s–1920s; Industrial expansion in the 1870s and 1880s; Economic and social consequences of rapid industrialisation in the late 19th century; Aims of the Progressive Movement 1890s–1900s; The Progressive Movement – success or failure?; The presidency of Woodrow Wilson 1913–21; 5 The Great Crash, the Great Depression and the New Deal 1929–41; Causes and impact of the Great Crash and the Great Depression; Strategies for domestic problems by Hoover and Roosevelt in the 1930s; Opposition to the New Deal; Roosevelt – a great American president?; 6. Examination skills; Introduction; What skills will be tested in examination?; Analysis and evaluation questions; Source-based questions; Examination technique; Index; Acknowledgements. European History - Introduction; 1. The French Revolution and Napoleon 1789–1804; The aims and domestic problems of French politicians 1789–95; The instability of French governments 1791–95; Napoleon Bonaparte's rise to power; Napoleon's domestic aims 1799–1804; 2. The Industrial Revolution c.1800–50; Causes of the Industrial Revolution by 1800; What factors encouraged and discouraged industrialisation from 1800 to 1850?; The social effects of the Industrial Revolution on different classes; The political effects of the Industrial Revolution up to 1850; 3. Liberalism and nationalism: Italy and Germany 1830–71; The rise of nationalism in Germany and Italy; Prussia and the unification of Germany; Italian leaders and the unification of Italy; 4. The origins of the First World War; The development of the alliance system; Militarism and the naval race; Instability in the Balkans; Reasons for the outbreak of war in 1914; 5. The Russian Revolution 1905–17; Russia at the beginning of the 20th century; The causes and immediate outcomes of the 1905 Revolution; The strengths and weaknesses of Romanov rule 1906–14; The causes of the February Revolution in 1917; The Bolsheviks' rise to power
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Cambridge University Press A History of Modern Tunisia
Book SynopsisKenneth Perkins's second edition of A History of Modern Tunisia carries the history of this country from 2004 to the present, with particular emphasis on the Tunisian revolution of 2011 - the first critical event of that year's Arab Spring and the inspiration for similar populist movements across the Arab world. After providing an overview of the country in the years preceding the inauguration of a French protectorate in 1881, the book examines the impact of colonialism on the country, with particular attention to the evolution of a nationalist movement that secured the termination of the protectorate in 1956. Its analysis of the first three decades of independence, during which the leaders of the anticolonial struggle consolidated political power, assesses the challenges that they faced and the degree of success they achieved. No other English-language study of Tunisia offers as sweeping a time frame or as comprehensive a history of this nation.Trade Review'This new edition of [Perkins'] history brings the story up to post-2011 revolution times and examines how Tunisia's intelligentsia and leaders have dealt with currents, frequently in the ascendant, drawing the country towards Europe and the opposing currents moving her towards the Arab world, the Middle East, and traditional (usually Islamic) values.' Kenneth W. Meyer, African Studies QuarterlyTable of Contents1. The march to Bardo, 1835–81; 2. Whose Tunisia? 1881–1912; 3. Squaring off, 1912–40; 4. Redefining the relationship, 1940–56; 5. The independent state sets its course, 1956–69; 6. Regime entrenchment and the intensification of opposition, 1969–87; 7. Innovation in the 'New Tunisia', 1987–2003; 8. A revolution for dignity, freedom, and justice.
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Cambridge University Press Religious Networks in the Roman Empire
Book SynopsisThis innovative study applies cutting-edge network methodology to ancient religious data, and uses it to demonstrate that the spread of religious movements in the Roman Empire was the result of social networks, rather than 'inevitable progress'. An essential resource for students and scholars of ancient history, archaeology and religious studies.Trade Review'Particularly engaging.' History TodayTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The network approach; 2. Networks and religion in the Roman world; 3. Jupiter Dolichenus: military networks on the edges of empire; 4. The Jewish Diaspora in the West: the rabbinic reforms, ethnicity and the (re?)activation of Jewish identity; 5. Theos Hypsistos: God-fearers, the rabbinic reforms, the fiscus Judaicus and the redefinition of the Jewish-gentile relationship; 6. Religion and social networks in archaeology and ancient history: conclusions.
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Cambridge University Press Protection and Empire A Global History
Book SynopsisFor five centuries protection has provided a basic currency for organising relations between polities. Protection underpinned sprawling tributary systems, permeated networks of long-distance trade, reinforced claims of royal authority in distant colonies and structured treaties. Empires made routine use of protection as they extended their influence, projecting authority over old and new subjects, forcing weaker parties to pay them for safe conduct and, sometimes, paying for it themselves. The result was a fluid politics that absorbed both the powerful and the weak while giving rise to institutions and jurisdictional arrangements with broad geographic scope and influence. This volume brings together leading scholars to trace the long history of protection across empires in Asia, Africa, Australasia, Europe and the Americas. Employing a global lens, it offers an innovative way of understanding the formation and growth of empires and uncovers new dimensions of the relation of empires to Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Protecting Subjects, Projecting Power: 1. Protection and the chanelling of movement on the margins of the Holy Roman Empire Luca Scholz; 2. Containing law within the walls: the protection of customary law in Santiago Del Cercado, Peru Karen B. Graubart; Part II. Conquest Reconsidered: 3 Webs of protection and interpolity zones in the Early Modern World Lauren Benton and Adam Clulow; 4. Plunder and profit in the name of protection: royal Iberian armadas in the early Atlantic Gabriel De Avilez Rocha; Part III. Protection and Languages of Political Authority: 5. Protection as a political concept in English political thought, 1603–51 Annabel Brett; 6. Limited liabilities: the corporation and the political economy of protection in the British Empire Philip J. Stern; 7. From nurturing to protection in nineteenth-century Japan David L. Howell; Part IV. Protection and Colonial Governance: 8. Protection claims: the British, Maori and the islands of New Zealand, 1800–40 Bain Attwood; 9. Protecting the peace on the edges of empire: commissioners of crown lands in New South Wales Lisa Ford; 10. British protection, extraterritoriality and protectorates in West Africa, 1807–80 Inge Van Hulle; Part V. Protection in an Inter-Imperial World: 11. Between imperial subjects and political partners: Bedouin borders and protection in Ottoman Palestine, 1900–17 Ahmad Amara; 12. Protection by proxy: the Hausa-Fulani as agents of British Colonial rule in Northern Nigeria Moses E. Ochono; 13. The problem of protectorates in an age of decolonisation: Britain and West Africa, 1955–60 Barnaby Crowcroft.
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Cambridge University Press The Origins of Globalization
Book SynopsisFor better or for worse, in recent times the rapid growth of international economic exchange has changed our lives. But when did this process of globalization begin, and what effects did it have on economies and societies? Pim de Zwart and Jan Luiten van Zanden argue that the networks of trade established after the voyages of Columbus and Da Gama of the late fifteenth century had transformative effects inaugurating the first era of globalization. The global flows of ships, people, money and commodities between 1500 and 1800 were substantial, and the re-alignment of production and distribution resulting from these connections had important consequences for demography, well-being, state formation and the long-term economic growth prospects of the societies involved in the newly created global economy. Whether early globalization had benign or malignant effects differed by region, but the world economy as we now know it originated in these changes in the early modern period.Trade Review'Here two top historians of the global economy offer a perfect summary of recent findings on how five continents were bound together over 300 years that shaped the modern world. The book is essential reading for any course in modern world history.' Peter H. Lindert, University of California, Davis'Skilfully combining quantitative evidence with an accessible narrative, the authors show how 'the changing geography of international exchange' between 1500 and 1800 transformed production, consumption and standards of living throughout the world. This impressive book deserves its place among the best in global economic history.' Tirthankar Roy, London School of Economics and Political Science'This is a remarkable work of synthesis and interpretation. de Zwart and van Zanden root their account in the latest specialized research while never losing sight of the large questions of global history. Their book is at once an excellent teaching tool and a sure-footed guide to the many debates that continue to enliven the history of early globalization.' Jan de Vries, University of California, Berkeley'Economic historians have established that the First Global Century was the nineteenth, recording the same globalization dynamic that the world has seen since the Second World War as the Second Global Century. This fine book shows how the years between 1500 and 1800 set the stage. Anyone interested in globalization should read this book.' Jeffrey G. Williamson, Harvard University, Massachusetts and University of WisconsinTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Global connections: ships, commodities and people; 3. Consequences of conquest in Latin America; 4. Africa and the slave trades; 5. Export-led development in North America; 6. Global trade and economic decline in South Asia; 7. The 'age of commerce' in Southeast Asia; 8. East Asia and the limits of globalization; 9. Europe and the spoils of globalization; 10. Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of Terrorism
Book SynopsisThe Cambridge History of Terrorism provides a comprehensive reference work on terrorism from a distinctly historical perspective, offering systematic analyses of key themes, problems and case studies from terrorism''s long past. Featuring expert scholars from across the globe, this volume examines the phenomenon of terrorism through regional case studies, largely written by local scholars, as well as through thematic essays exploring the relationship between terrorism and other historical forces. Each of the chapters - whether thematic or case-study focused - embodies new, research-based analysis which will help to inform and reshape our understanding of one of the world''s most challenging problems.Trade Review'… the book delivers what the title promises to a broader audience and puts recent terror events into a broader, longer historical context … Recommended.' C. J. Wright, Choice ConnectTable of ContentsPart I. Introduction: 1. History and the Study of Terrorism Richard English; Part II. Frameworks and Definitions: 2. History and the Definition of Terrorism Martyn Frampton; 3. Terrorism, History and Periodisation Warren C. Brown; 4. Terrorism, History and Regionalisation Rory Miller; 5. A Processual Approach to Political Violence: How History Matters Lorenzo Bosi; 6. Terrorism, History and Neighbouring Disciplines in the Academy Bernhard Blumenau; Part III. Historical Case Studies in Terrorism: 7. Terrorism in Israel/Palestine Julie M. Norman; 8. Terrorism in the Basque Country Ludger Mees; 9. Terrorism in African History Richard Reid; 10. The History of Terrorism in Pakistan Dayyab Gillani; 11. Political Violence in Ireland Fearghal McGarry; 12. Terrorism in the Russian Empire: the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Ekaterina Stepanova; 13. Terrorism in Post-Soviet Russia: 1990s to 2010s Ekaterina Stepanova; 14. Terrorism in The Netherlands: A History Beatrice de Graaf; 15. Terrorism: An American Story Dennis Dworkin; 16. Political Violence and Terrorism in Colombia Roddy Brett; 17. The Paths of Terrorism in Peru: Nineteenth to Twenty-First Centuries Cecilia Mendez; 18. Aqtihams (Whirlwind Attacks): The Rise, Fall and Phoenix-Like Resurgence of ISIS and Shiite Terrorists Groups in Iraq Brian Glyn Williams; 19. Transnational Connections: Militant Irish Republicans and the World Kieran McConaghy; Part IV. Thematic Essays: 20. 'September 12 Thinking': The Missing Histories of Counter-Terrorism Steve Hewitt; 21. The History of Terrorism and Communication Brigitte L. Nacos and Melih Barut; 22. Terrorism, History and Religion Richard English; 23. History, Terrorism and the State Rory Cox; 24. Into the Labyrinth: Terrorism, History and Diplomacy Joseph Morrison Skelly; 25. Gender Politics and Terrorist Histories Sylvia Schraut; Part V. Conclusion: 26. Terrorism and History: Current Knowledge and Future Research Richard English.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean 2
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Cambridge University Press The Origins of AIDS
Book SynopsisIt is now forty years since the discovery of AIDS, but its origins continue to puzzle doctors, scientists and patients. Inspired by his own experiences working as a physician in a bush hospital in Zaire, Jacques Pépin looks back to the early twentieth-century events in central Africa that triggered the emergence of HIV/AIDS and traces its subsequent development into the most dramatic and destructive epidemic of modern times. He shows how the disease was first transmitted from chimpanzees to man and then how military campaigns, urbanisation, prostitution and large-scale colonial medical interventions intended to eradicate tropical diseases combined to disastrous effect to fuel the spread of the virus from its origins in Léopoldville to the rest of Africa, the Caribbean and ultimately worldwide. This is an essential perspective on HIV/AIDS and on the lessons that must be learned as the world faces another pandemic.Trade Review'Superb ... Pépin rightly argues that, apart from social factors promoting HIV spread, inherent properties of the virus must determine its fitness to become pandemic. He also provides the best analysis I have read of the declining HIV-2 epidemic in West Africa.' Nature'Extensively referenced, [this] well-written book reads like a detective story, while at the same time providing a didactic introduction to epidemiology and evolutionary genetics. As far as the origins of AIDS are concerned, unless some completely new evidence emerges, it will be difficult to come up with a better explanation than Pepin's.' Science'A remarkable feat … works out the most likely path the virus took during the years it left almost no tracks'. The New York Times'An impressive feat of scientific scholarship … absorbing throughout, interweaving quantitative data with historical narrative and lively biographies.' The Lancet'A model study of epidemiology, microbiology, genetics, and social and cultural history … The Origins of AIDS bears brilliant witness to the costs of living in a world plagued by emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases'. The New Republic'This is scientific history at its most compelling … He writes with grace and feeling, and makes accessible the scientific and clinical issues. Above all, he comes across as a humane and caring doctor. This is a major contribution to our understanding of the scourge that has defined our times.' The Times Literary Supplement'This book takes on a journalistic quality, supported by solid evidence including maps, illustrations, graphs, etc. Such a precise analysis is more necessary than ever as the search for the origin of the recent COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated. Abundance and accuracy of information, careful analysis, and clear and fluid presentation together with a deep knowledge of the topic are more welcome than ever - not only for the understanding of AIDS, but also for the reaffirmation of the value of science in a time when its benefits to society are so widely contested.' Alain Touwaide, Doody's ReviewsTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Out of Africa; 2. The Source; 3. The Timing; 4. The Cut Hunter; 5. The Scramble for Central Africa; 6. Tropical Boom Towns; 7. The Oldest Profession; 8. Injections and the Transmission of Viruses; 9. The Legacies of French Colonial Medicine; 10. The Legacies of Belgian Tropical Medicine; 11. The Other Human Immunodeficiency Viruses; 12. From the Congo to the Caribbean; 13. The Blood Trade; 14. A Long Journey; 15. Globalisation; 16. A False Villain, a Genuine Hero; 17. Epilogue
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Cambridge University Press Strolling Players of Empire
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Cambridge University Press Beyond the Silk Roads
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Cambridge University Press To Save the People from Themselves
Book SynopsisIn this expansive history, Steinfeld develops a thorough, systematic account describing how American judicial review was brought into being during the 1780s. This book will be an indispensable resource to those interested in constitutional history, as well as to legal scholars more generally.Trade Review'In this meticulous study Robert Steinfeld examines how the distinctive US form of constitutional review emerged from a background tradition in which legislatures and executives assessed constitutionality in their regular work. Combining institutional, political, and intellectual history, Professor Steinfeld shows how the transformation was both rapid and strongly contested. Seeing judicial review as part of a conservative counterrevolution against the democratic excesses of post-Revolutionary legislatures, this is an important new contribution to long-standing discussions about judicial review in the United States.' Mark Tushnet, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law Emeritus, Harvard Law School'This book is a major contribution to the historiography of American law from the 1750s through the first decade of the nineteenth century, representing an important advance in our understanding of the emergence of judicial review in America. The result of Steinfeld's painstaking investigations is to open up a lost world of what might be called 'pre-Constitutional' jurisprudence, and the gradual disintegration of that world as Americans came to understand constitutions, including the US federal Constitution, as a distinctive form of 'higher law' authority that was capable of being interpreted in the same fashion as other 'common law' sources. Anyone interested in exploring the origins of judicial review in America will need to reckon with Steinfeld's research and arguments.' G. Edward White, David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of LawTable of ContentsIntroduction. Part I. Legislatures and Legislation under the First American Constitutions: 1. The largely 'legislative' character of the ('Horizontal' and 'Vertical') constitutional checks placed on colonial legislatures; 2. The traditional nature of the first written constitutions and the role of legislatures as their primary expounders; 3. Restoring 'legislative' review of the laws: the New York Constitution of 1777; Part II. The Emergence Of American Judicial Review: 1779-1787: I. 1779-1782; 4. Supplementing traditional legislative 'revision' with judicial review: the New Jersey case of Holmes V. Walton, 1779-1780; 5. The debate over judicial review in the Virginia court of appeals: the case of the prisoners, 1782; II. 1784-1787: 6. The reappearance of 'vertical' judicial review in the case of Rutgers v. Waddington, New York, 1784; 7. The successful battle to establish judicial review in New Hampshire: the ten pound act cases, 1786-87, and their aftermath; 8. Judicial review and legislative supremacy in Rhode Island: the case of Trevett v. Weeden, 1786, and its aftermath; 9. The struggle between traditional constitutionalism and the constitution of judicial review in North Carolina: the case of Bayard v. Singleton, 1786-87, and its aftermath; Part III. Judicial Review at the Federal Convention: 10. Judicial review and the fate of traditional constitutionalism at the federal convention.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A History of Germany 1918 2020
Book SynopsisThe new edition of the acclaimed textbook on modern German history, written by a leading scholar inthe field Now in its fifth edition, A History of Germany 1918-2020 provides a clear and well-balanced survey of German history from the creation of the Weimar Republic to the era of Angela Merkel's Chancellorship. Guiding readers through the complex patterns of the nation's historical development using clear and compelling narrative, this classic textbook introduces readers to the key themes of modern German history while tracing the social, cultural, and political tensions that have challenged German stability and unity across more than a century. Fully updated for the next generation of readers, A History of Germany 1918-2020 extends its framework for exploring legacies of the past into the 21st century. The fifth edition includes enhanced coverage of the extremes of nationalism, military aggression, and genocide under Nazism, as well as Table of ContentsList of Plates vii List of Maps ix Preface to the Fifth Edition x Preface to the Fourth Edition xi Preface to the Third Edition xii Preface to the Second Edition xiii Acknowledgments xv 1 The Course of German History 1 Part I A Divided Society: The Weimar Republic and the Third Reich 13 2 The Weimar Republic: Origins and Orientations 15 3 The Collapse of Democracy and the Rise of Hitler 42 4 A ‘National Community’? State, Economy and Society, 1933–1939 60 5 War, Extermination and Defeat 85 Part II The Divided Nation: The Two Germanies, 1945–1990 119 6 Occupation and Division, 1945–49 121 7 Crystallization and Consolidation, 1949–61 152 8 Transformation and the ‘Established Phase’, 1961–88 175 9 Diverging Societies 195 10 Politics and the State 214 11 Dissent and Opposition 231 12 Diverging Cultures and National Identities? 252 13 The East German Revolution and the End of the Postwar Era 274 Part III The Divided Century 297 14 The Berlin Republic 299 15 Tension and Transformation in Twentieth-Century Germany 325 Notes 344 Select Bibliography of English-Language Works 362 Index 371
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd TwentiethCentury Europe
Book SynopsisProvides an engaging narrative account of modern European history, featuring new chapters on modern Europe and the post-Cold War world Twentieth-Century Europe: 1900 to the Present provides a concise and accessible review of the significant themes and major events that shaped European history from the beginning of the twentieth century. This student-friendly textbook places Europe in a global context as it explores key themes such as the slow unraveling of European colonial and political power throughout the world, the emergence of the United States as a major influence on European politics, the different postwar approaches to European cooperation, and competing perspectives on political, economic, and social questions. Each of the book's four parts opens with a brief overview, summarizing the main themes of the period and providing historical context to the upcoming chapters. The text is organized chronologically, with each chapter including a brief chronology. Maps, tables, Illustrations, and photographs are scattered throughout. The fourth edition of Twentieth-Century Europe: 1900 to the Present offers an extensive revision of all chapters, including new and updated content on Brexit; terrorist attacks in France, Belgium, Germany, and Britain; the Covid-19 pandemic; the Russian invasion of Ukraine; the rise of right-wing parties in Italy and Hungary; and much more. Discussions of intellectual and cultural trends are included, enabling readers to examine political and economic developments in their historical context. Provides brief chapters suitable for both traditional and non-traditional coursesThe text is divided into four chronological sections and 12 logically organized and easy to read and comprehend chaptersIncludes an extensive index and a useful appendix of abbreviations and acronymsFeatures useful maps, illustrations, and other visual aids to reinforce learning of key themes in European history Twentieth-Century Europe: 1900 to the Present, Fourth Edition is an ideal textbook for undergraduate history courses and an excellent introduction to modern European history for general readers with an interest in the subject.Table of ContentsPreface vii Part 1 Overview: 1900–1919 1 1 Europe and the World Before the Great War, 1900–1914 5 2 The Great War, 1914–1918 31 3 Revolution and Peacemaking, 1917–1919 59 Part 2 Overview: 1919–1945 95 4 Recovery and Prosperity, 1919–1929 99 5 From Depression to War, 1929–1939 129 6 Armageddon: Europe in World War II, 1939–1945 157 Part 3 Overview: 1945–1989 195 7 Cold War and Decolonization, 1945–1961 201 8 Out of the Ashes: From Stunde Null (Zero Hour) to a New Golden Age, 1945–1967 231 9 Metamorphosis: An Era of Revolutionary Change, 1968–1988 264 Part 4 Overview: 1989–Present 297 10 Post- World War II Intellectual and Culture Trends 303 11 Prelude to the Twenty- First Century: Europe and the World, 1989–2000 327 12 Terrorism, Economic Turmoil, Pandemic, Invasion, 2000 to the Present 350 Appendix Abbreviations and Acronyms 385 Index 392
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