Second World War Books
Washington State University Press Season of Suffering
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Cornell University Press The Male Body at War
Book SynopsisMuscular, fearless, youthful, athleticthe World War II soldier embodied masculine ideals and represented the manhood of the United States. In The Male Body at War, Christina Jarvis examines the creation of this national symbol, from military recruitment posters to Hollywood war films to the iconic flag-raisers at Iwo Jima. A poignant selection of illustrations brings together comics, advertisements, media images, and government propaganda intended to impress U.S. citizens and foreign nations with America''s strength.Jarvis recognizes, however, that the male body was more than a mere symbol. During the war, the nation literally invested its survival in the corps of servicemen, and the armed forces set about crafting them into soldiers. Drawing upon medical journals, War Department documents, and government health reports, Jarvis scrutinizes the ways in which physical inspections defined male bodies by fitness and race while training molded those bodies for action. At thTrade ReviewA very important work, one of the first books to examine how the efforts of state and military officials during the Second World War reconfigured constructions of American masculinity. -- Leisa D. Meyer, College of William and MaryA fascinating, detailed analysis of military masculinity, and how it enabled male heroism to dominate America even in the face of war wounds and death. -- Suzanne Clark, University of OregonAn interesting and useful look at gender, nationalism, and the soldier. * Canadian Journal of History *Table of ContentsTable of Contents List of Figures Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Building the Body Politic: From the Depression to World War II 2. Classified Bodies: Screening, Sculpting, and Sexualizing Servicemen 3. Representing Wounded Bodies: Personal, Popular, and Medical Narratives 4. "White Man's War?": Race and Masculinity in World War II 5. (Re)Membering the Dead: From the Battlefield to the Home Front Conclusion Appendix: World War II Veterans Survey Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£37.05
Cornell University Press Resisting the Third Reich
Book SynopsisWhen Nazism swept Germany, how did religious leaders respond to attacks not only on their fellow citizens and their government but on their faith as well? Kevin Spicer juxtaposes Catholicism and Nazism.Trade Review"A valuable contribution to scholarship on the role and responsibility of the Catholic Church in Nazi Germany. Spicer provides a fascinating insight into the perceptions, performance, and impact of the clergy in mediating between the demands of their faith and the totalitarian claims of the Nazi state."—Raymond C. Sun, Washington State University "Compelling reading.... Catholic priests, Spicer demonstrates, played a significant and courageous role in resisting Nazi anti-religious aims."—Michael P. Phayer, Marquette University "[An]important exploration of Berlin Catholicism."—The American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsTable of Contents Introduction 1. Initial Encounters 2. Guiding the Flock 3. Negotiating Pastoral Care 4. Serving the Home Front 5. Jews and the Diocese of Berlin 6. For the Glory of the F\u00fchrer: Brown Priests 7. The Unique Path of Bernhard Lichtenberg Conclusion Notes Works Cited Index
£31.45
Cornell University Press Men on Iron Ponies
Book SynopsisAnalyzes the people and personalities involved in the US Cavalry's conversion from horses to machines. This book examines the views of famous men such as George S Patton, Jr, Lesley J McNair, George C Marshall, and Adna R Chaffee, Jr.Trade Review"A coherent, intelligent study of the cavalry branch's flawed efforts to grapple with the problems of mechanization during the interwar period. It will make a major contribution to the literature on innovation during this period." - Dr. Williamson Murray, Ohio State University"Table of ContentsTable of Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1: The Lessons of World War I: Realization to Implementation Chapter 2: The 1930s Chapter 3: The Big Maneuvers and War Chapter 4: War in the Mediterranean Chapter 5: D-Day to VE-Day: Cavalry Groups across Europe Chapter 6: The Last Cavalry War Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£26.59
Cornell University Press Besieged Leningrad
Book SynopsisDuring the 872 days of the Siege of Leningrad (September 1941 to January 1944), the city''s inhabitants were surrounded by the military forces of Nazi Germany. They suffered famine, cold, and darkness, and a million people lost their lives, making the siege one of the most destructive in history. Confinement in the besieged city was a traumatic experience. Unlike the victims of the Auschwitz concentration camp, for example, who were brought from afar and robbed of their cultural roots, the victims of the Siege of Leningrad were trapped in the city as it underwent a slow, horrific transformation. They lost everything except their physical location, which was layered with historical, cultural, and personal memory. In Besieged Leningrad, Polina Barskova examines how the city''s inhabitants adjusted to their new urban reality, focusing on the emergence of new spatial perceptions that fostered the production of diverse textual and visual representations. The myriad texts that emerged durTrade Review"Besieged Leningrad is a sophisticated, immensely rich exploration of what the author calls 'siege spatiality.' The core analytical chapters present fascinating treatments of aspects of the Leningrad Blockade, and the prose is lively, precise, and elegant."—Andreas Schönle, coeditor of The Europeanized Elite in Russia, 1762–1825 (NIU Press, 2016) "This is a poignant story that documents how a war disaster in a major Russian city transformed and shaped perceptual qualities and skills of the city's inhabitants. Through a close reading of well-known texts, new and recently discovered documents, interviews, and collected visual materials, Barskova reconstructs 'practices of life' in a besieged city."—Serguei Alex. Oushakine, author of The Patriotism of Despair: Nation, War, and Loss in Russia "a major work.No other source in English provides such a detailed account of the efforts of State Public Library staff to save private book collections. None does as good of a job establishing the importance of books and reading in the life of siege inhabitants, or offers as much insight into patterns of literary reference in Blockade fiction, poetry, and memoirs. None so sensitively explores one of the great paradoxes of descriptions of Blockade life. Besieged Leningrad is beautifully written, well-organized, and so readable that portions of it might reasonably be assigned to undergraduates. It will interest anyone who works on Petersburg and/or the literature of trauma and will make an excellent library purchase. " –Slavic and East European Journal
£36.80
Cornell University Press Men on Iron Ponies
Book SynopsisAt the end of World War I, the United States Armydespite its recent experience with trenches, machine guns, barbed wire, airplanes, and even tanksmaintained a horse-mounted cavalry from a bygone era. From the end of World War I until well into World War II, senior leaders remained convinced that traditional cavalry units were...Table of ContentsTable of Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1: The Lessons of World War I: Realization to Implementation Chapter 2: The 1930s Chapter 3: The Big Maneuvers and War Chapter 4: War in the Mediterranean Chapter 5: D-Day to VE-Day: Cavalry Groups across Europe Chapter 6: The Last Cavalry War Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£18.99
Cornell University Press On the Farm Front
Book SynopsisRosie the Riveter is an icon for women''s industrial contribution to World War II, but history has largely overlooked the three million women who served on America''s agricultural front. The Women''s Land Army sent volunteers to farms, canneries, and dairies across the country, accounting for the majority of wartime agricultural labor. On the Farm Front tells for the first time the remarkable story of these women who worked to ensure both Freedom from Want at home and victory abroad. Formed in 1943 as part of the Emergency Farm Labor Program, the WLA placed its workers in areas where American farmers urgently needed assistance. Many farmers in even the most desperate areas, however, initially opposed women working their land. Rural administrators in the Midwest and the South yielded to necessity and employed several hundred thousand women as farm laborers by the end of the war, but those in the Great Plains and eastern Rocky Mountains remained hesitant, suffering seriouTrade ReviewCarpenter has exhaustively researched the WLA and its various activities, and her book should serve as the starting point for anyone interested in gender issues on the wartime farm front. * American Historical Review *Carpenter succeeds admirably. * Indiana Magazine of History *Her writing style is clear, her organization is superb, and her interpretations are sound. * The Annals of Iowa *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction—"We Can Drive Tractors" Part I—Creating the Women's Land Army 1. Prewar Precedents 2. The Federal Government and the WLA 3. "Now We're Set"—Outfitting the WLA 4. "Pitch in and Help"—Calling Women to the Farms Part II—The Women's Land Army in Action 5. The East—Dorothy Thompson Led the Way 6. The West—"Ho! For a Tall Glass of Lemonade!" 7. The Midwest—In the House or in the Fields 8. The South—When Race and Class Get in the Way 9. The WLA and Postwar Women Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
£999.99
Temple University Press,U.S. Policy Politics West Germany
Book SynopsisHow can we account for the lack of large-scale policy change in West Germany despite changes in the partisan make-up of the federal government? This book examines how West German policy and politics interrelate in problem areas such as economic management, industrial relations, social welfare, migrant workers, administrative reform, and more.Trade Review"Admirably clear and well written from a new viewpoint, this is the best informed and most thoughtful analysis of the political system of West Germany. Anyone seriously interested in the German Federal Republic should read it." - Karl Deutsch, Stanfield Professor of International Peace, Harvard Emeritus
£26.09
East European Monographs Sowing the Seeds of Hatred AntiJewish Laws and
Book SynopsisWhy was it that Hungarian society ignored the dangers threatening Jews in Europe, including Hungary? Janos Pelle looks for answers in contemporary and modern literature in the psychology and contrasts theories in operation at those tragic times with current information.Trade ReviewHistorians who tackle this question in the future will certainly take Janos Pelle's fascinating book as their point of departure. -- Paul Hanebrink Austrian Studies Newsletter
£35.70
East European Monographs The Treatment of the Holocaust in Hungary and
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£32.30
East European Monographs The Holocaust
Book SynopsisThis volume is the twenty-sixth in the Holocaust Studies Series sponsored by the Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. It contains ten seminal studies the catastrophe that befell the Jews of Europe during the Nazi era. It also reprints two historically crucial documents relating to the so-called Hungarian Gold Train, a freight train that, in 1944, carried stolen or confiscated Jewish valuables from Hungary. Essays recount the unfolding of the Holocaust in Hungary and the history of the Jews in Europe. They detail the elimination of Jews in Greece, particularly from the large Sephardic community of Salonika, and describe the rescue of Jews in Albania. Nonhistorical essays concern autobiographical narratives in which survivors and their descendents reflect on the return to former shtetls in East Central Europe and the attitudes of victims toward the perpetrators of Holocaust crimes. Taken altogether, this volume formulates a more complete understanding of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe.
£42.50
East European Monographs Bibliography of the Holocaust in Hungary
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£68.00
East European Monographs The Politics of Genocide The Holocaust in
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewQuite a few of today's foremost historians spend their lives studying the history of the Holocaust, but none has done more than Braham in uncovering the background and developments of one of the most tragic events of it all, the last-minute destruction of over half a million Hungarian Jews. Braham's familiarity with the events as well as the depth of his research and cool logic of his argument are nearly unassailable. Among all of Braham's works, The Politics of Genocide stands out as the most famous and substantial. -- Istvan Deak, Seth Low professor emeritus of history, Columbia University Randolph Braham is the leading expert on the Holocaust in Hungary. This new edition of his compelling masterpiece is the definitive account of a tragedy that continues to reverberate inside and outside Hungary today. -- Richard Breitman, distinguished professor emeritus, American UniversityTable of ContentsVolume 1 List of Tables List of Figures List of Maps Preface Reference List of Selected Geographic Name Changes Hungarian Military Ranks and Terms Wehrmacht and SS Ranks with their U.S. Equivalents List of Source Abbreviations1. Prelude to Destruction 2. From Consolidation to Proto-Fascism 3. The Jewish Community of Hungary before the Destruction 4. The Beginning of the End 5. The Teleki Era 6. The Bardossy Era 7. The Kallay Era 8. Treatment of Hungarian Jews in German-Occupied Europe 9. The First Mass Deportation Plans 10. The Labor Service System 11. The Road to Destruction 12. The Occupation Forces and Authorities 13. The Sztojay Government 14. The Jewish Council 15. The First Anti-Jewish Measures 16. The Processes of Economic Destruction 17. Ghettoization: Phase I 18. Zone II: Northern Transylvania 19. Deportation 20. Zone III: Northern HungaryVOLUME 2 21. Zone IV: Southern Hungary East of the Danube 22. The Last Phase: Zones V and VI and Auschwitz 23. The Conspiracy of Silence 24. Fate of the Jews of Budapest 25. From the End of the Deportations to the Szalasi Coup 26. The Szalasi Era 27. Treatment of Foreign Jews in Hungary 28. Treatment of Hungarian Jews Abroad 29. Rescue and Resistance 30. The Attitude and Reactions of the Christian Churches 31. International Reaction and Intervention 32. Liberation, Restitution, Retribution 33. Hungarian Reactions to the HolocaustAppendix 1. Administration of the Labor Service System in the Ministry of Defense: 1944 Appendix 2. Labor Service Companies Authorized for Transfer to the Germans Appendix 3. Major Anti-Jewish Decrees Issued Between March 29 and December 6, 1944 Appendix 4. Hungarian and Foreign Jewish Authors Whose Works Were Banned Appendix 5. Chronology Appendix 6. Deportation Trains Passing Through Kassa in 1944: Dates, Origin of Transports, and Number of DeporteesGlossary Name Index Geographic Index Subject Index
£100.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Origins of World War II
Book SynopsisMore than 60 years have passed since the outbreak of the most catastrophic conflict the world has known: 30 million people dead and unbelievable devastation. In the 3rd edition of this popular volume, Keith Eubank seeks answers to the questions that have plagued us: Why, after the ghastly ordeal of World War I did Western powers undervalue the threat from Hitler? Why was there so much reluctance on the part of Britain and France to confront Germany? Why had Germany been permitted to rearm and to occupy independent nations without a struggle? What was the policy of appeasement? Why did the appeasers fail to perceive Hitler''s intentions? In addition to a re-examination of these questions and an effort to dispel the enduring myths surrounding the history of this era, Keith Eubank has enhanced this new edition by including an analysis of the motivations and actions of central figures such as Neville Chamberlain and Joseph Stalin as well as a re-assessment of Soviet policies in the light oTable of ContentsPreface to the Third Edition ix 1. "PEACE," 1918-1933 1 November 11, 1918 1 The Treaty of Versailles 3 The League of Nations 13 French "Security" 16 German "Good Faith" 19 Economic Crisis 22 2. The Uneasy Peace, 1933-1935 25 Adolf Hitler 25 Rearmament and Disarmament 31 The Four-Power Pact 34 The Dollfuss Affair 35 Germany's Military Renaissance 36 The Franco-Soviet Pact 40 The Anglo-German Naval Agreement 43 3. Years of Crisis, 1935-1938 47 Mussolini and Ethiopia 47 Hitler in the Rhineland 56 The Popular Front and the Spanish Civil War 67 Appeasement and Appeasers 72 4. The Road to War, 1938 80 The Reichschancellery Meeting 80 The Anschluss 84 Crisis in Czechoslovakia 96 The Munich Conference 113 The End of Czechoslovakia 120 5. War, 1939 128 Danzig 128 Appeasement Fails 140 Conclusion 168 Bibliographical Essay 175 Index 191 Maps German Territorial Losses in Central Europe, 1919 5 Nazi Aggression in Central Europe, 1933-1939 108
£18.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd European Home Fronts 1939 1945
Book SynopsisIn a book arranged in chapters which deal separately with the Home Fronts of each country, Beck is able to provide a comprehensive picture of the effects of the world''s only ''total war'' upon the civilians who often faced bewilderment, fear, death, and destruction all around them. Beck considers the effects of bombing and sometimes actual fighting in the streets and towns in which people lived, and the policies of individual governments that attempted to encourage and retain support for the war effort in varying ways.Table of ContentsForeword vii Introduction xi 1. Great Britain: The Islands Fortress 1 The Appeasement Era 1 Churchill Becomes Britain’s War Leader 6 The Battle of Britain 9 Other British Cities Attacked 12 The First American Moves Toward Alliance 13 The Days of Austerity 14 American Troops in Britain 17 Preparations for the Invasion of the Continent 19 2. The Soviet Union 23 Rapidity of German Conquests 26 Stalin’s “Patriotic War” 28 The Years of Defeat: 1941-1942 29 The Role of Allied Aid 34 Fall 1942: The Tide Begins to Turn 35 3. France: Under The German Heel 40 Political and Economic Chaos 41 Military Incompetence and Disastrous Defeat 43 The Nature of the Vichy Regime 47 The German Occupation 49 Hostages and Forced Labor 51 The Great Misery of Paris 53 The Resistance 54 De Gaulle’s Move to Leadership 57 The Reminder of France Occupied 59 The Fighting French 60 4. The Axis Powers: Germany and Italy 65 German Military Spirit 65 Did the German Public Want War? 67 Problems with the Churches 69 The Invasion of Russia 70 Domestic Shortages 73 Bad News from the Battle Fronts 74 Firestorms in Hamburg 75 The Final Solution 77 Horrors of the Last Days 78 The Italians at War 79 Declining Popular Support for Mussolini 81 Military Blunders and Defeats 82 The Fall of Mussolini 84 The Neo-Fascist Regime 86 The Allied Campaign in Italy 88 5. Poland and the Holocaust 93 The Destruction of Poland 94 Governments in Exile 97 The Final Solution in Poland 99 The Warsaw Uprising 102 6. Other Home Fronts 105 Presumed Aryan States: The Low Countries and Scandinavia 105 The Fate of Czechoslovakia 116 Fire in the Balkans 122 Postscript 133 Bibliographical Essay 137 Index 151
£18.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Nazi Germany
Book SynopsisBeginning with a brief sketch of Hitler before turning to the political, economic, social, and cultural aspects of the Third Reich, this book presents an historiographical assessment of Hitlerian Germany and its place in the 20th century.Table of ContentsForeword v Preface ix 1. Hitler and the Rise to Power, 1930-1933 1 Hitler’s Crucial Role 2 The National Socialist Movement 7 Achieving Power 9 2. Party and State, 1933-1936 20 The Nazi Revolution 20 Principles of Nazism 25 The Nazi State 31 3. Economic Polities, 1933-1939 45 Overcoming the Depression 45 The Four-Year Plan 55 The Intentionalist-Functionalist Controversy 62 4. Society, Culture, and Foreign Policy, 1933-1939 65 Social Policy 65 Youth 66 Women 72 The Churches 78 Racism 82 The Debasement of Culture 85 Why National Socialism? 90 Toward War 92 5. Germany During the War, 1939-1945 99 The People’s Response 100 The War Economy 108 The Holocaust 118 Resistance 125 Continuity in German History? 131 Afterword: The Third Reich as History 134 Bibliographical Essay 137 Index 153
£18.00
Pippin Publishing Corporation Last Enemy the Commemorative Ed.
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£23.74
MP-MTB University of Manitoba Press Two Years Below the Horn Operation Tabarin Field Science and Antarctic Sovereingty
Book SynopsisVividly recounts the author’s experiences and accomplishments during Operation Tabarin, a landmark British expedition to Antarctica to establish sovereignty and conduct science during the Second World War. This book will appeal to readers interested in history of polar exploration, science and sovereignty. It also sheds light on a distant theatre of the Second World War.Trade ReviewThis important book offers discussion about a man whose accomplishments were ignored for far too long. Heidt and Lackenbauer's grasp of the existing literature is extraordinary, their judgements are prudent, and the story is fascinating""—Galen Perras, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Ottawa.
£28.46
Texas Tech Press,U.S. NonGermans under the Third Reich The Nazi
Book SynopsisUnder the legal and administrative system of Nazi Germany, people categorized as Fremdlkische (‘foreign people’) were subject to special laws that restricted their rights. This book traces the evolution of these laws from the beginnings of the Third Reich through the administration of annexed and occupied eastern territories during the war.
£999.99
MJ - Ohio University Press Wartime in Burma A Diary January to June 1942
Book SynopsisThis diary, begun after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and covering the invasion of Burma up to June 1942, is a moving account of the dilemmas faced by the well-loved and prolific Burmese author Theippan Maung Wa (a pseudonym of U Sein Tin) and his family.Trade Review“Even though we know how it will end, this firsthand account is absorbing in its detail and immediacy. History is full of silences of those who have been forgotten or expunged, but here for once we have a voice.” * The Japan Times *“Wartime in Burma: A Diary, January to June 1942 is an important source that reveals the rare perspective of a Burmese civil servant working in the British administration…. (It) will be valuable to a wide range of scholars, students, and readers interested in World War II, colonialism, and social history.” * The Journal of Asian Studies *“The translation (of Wartime in Burma), which is of a very high quality, was done by the late L. E. Bagshawe and Anna J. Allott. Mr. Bagshawe…was one of the unsung heroes of Burmese studies…. Wartime in Burma is handsomely produced with six illustrations…. Particularly interesting is the reprint of an eyewitness account of the robbery which resulted in U Sein Tin’s death.” * Asian Affairs *“This diary is more than an account of Myanmar during World War II. It is also a repository of the views of one of Myanmar’s most influential literary figures…. Sayagyi L. E. Bagshawe and Sayamagyi Anna Allott have done a great service to scholars of Myanmar studies.” * Aseasuk News *
£20.69
Ohio University Press Camp Life Is Paradise for Freddy A Childhood in
Book SynopsisIn this lyrical but controversial memoir of his childhood in a Japanese internment camp for Dutch colonialists during World War II, Lanzing enlivens ongoing discussions of the politics of memory and the powerful—if contentious—contributions that subjective accounts make to historiography and the legacies of the past.
£52.20
Ohio University Press Camp Life Is Paradise for Freddy A Childhood in
Book SynopsisIn this lyrical but controversial memoir of his childhood in a Japanese internment camp for Dutch colonialists during World War II, Lanzing enlivens ongoing discussions of the politics of memory and the powerful—if contentious—contributions that subjective accounts make to historiography and the legacies of the past.
£18.89
Palgrave MacMillan Us The Lure of Fascism in Western Europe
Book SynopsisThis book breaks new ground by analyzing the reciprocal relationship between a fascism that had reached the power phase (Nazi Germany) and fascist movements in two neighbouring countries which were attempting to come to power in their respective societies.Trade Review"There have been a plethora of studies on western fascist movements, but no one has heretofore addressed the question of what the Nazi regime made of them and how they attempted to encourage them. Drawing on impressive archival research, Dietrich Orlow surveys numerous journals, writers, parties, and movements to untangle a complex but critical chapter in the history of European fascism." - William Irvine, Professor of History, York University, Toronto, Canada "In this elegantly written book, Orlow uncovers a rich texture of transnational interconnections among the French, German, and Dutch fascist/Nazi parties during their ideologically most dynamic years in the 1930s. His profound knowledge of the original-language sources lets him portray the lure of a fascist "national rebirth" across the borders of the three traditional sworn enemy-nations - without losing sight of the ultimately boundless violence of fascism." - Dr. Diethelm Prowe, Laird Bell Professor of History Emeritus at Carleton College and Editor, German Studies ReviewTable of ContentsLeaders, Agencies, Groups, Agendas Between Angst and Euphoria: January 1933-August 1934 Europe Will by a Fascist Europe: July 1934-May 1936 Fascism, the Only Bulwark Against the Advance of Bolshevism: May 1936-March 1938 "We Don't Understand Our Friends Anymore": March 1938-September 1939
£42.74
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Holocaust
Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary collection of primary and secondary readings encourages scholars and students to engage critically with current debates about the origins, implementation and postwar interpretation of the Holocaust. Interdisciplinary content encourages students to engage with philosophical, political, cultural and literary debate as well as historiographical issues. Integrates oral histories and testimonies from both victims and perpetrators, including Jewish council leaders, victims of ghettos and camps, SS officials and German soldiers. Subsections can be used as the basis for oral or written exercises. Whole articles or substantial extracts are included wherever possible. Trade Review"The book is very much what it promises, a reader designed to introduce the student to thinking about the Holocaust in analytical terms." Australian Jewish News "The greatest attribute of The Holocaust is quite simply the work itself as a whole. Rather than a comprehensive history of the Holocaust told from the point of view of one scholar, Gigliotti and Lang present primary and secondary works that approach the subject from historical, ethical, philosophical, sociological, and legal viewpoints. As a result, the editors not only appeal to a wide audience, but they also encourage cooperation between many fields of study. Simone Gigliotti and Berel Lang's contribution should become a staple in undergraduate and graduate seminars on the Holocaust and genocide for years to come, so the next generation of scholars will not forget and will begin their own efforts to understand." H-Net Reviews "Simone Gigliotti and Berel Lang's book constitutes a valuable new contribution to the field." European History QuarterlyTable of ContentsList of Maps. Acknowledgments. Chronology. Glossary. Introduction: Simone Gigliotti and Berel Lang. Part I Preconditions: Nazism and the Turn from Anti-Judaism to Antisemitism. Introduction. 1 Anti-Semites: Bernard Lewis. 2 From Weimar to Hitler: Robert S. Wistrich. 3 Nation and Race: Adolf Hitler. 4 Nuremberg Law for the Protection of the German Blood and of the German Honour of 15 September 1935. Part II A Racial Europe: Nazi Population and Resettlement Policy. Introduction. 5 The Setting: Henry Friedlander. 6 Ghetto Formation: Raul Hilberg. 7 From “Ethnic Cleansing” to Genocide to the “Final Solution”: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, 1939–1941: Christopher R. Browning. 8 Some Thoughts on the Treatment of the Alien Population in the East: Heinrich Himmler. Part III War and the Turn to Genocide. Introduction. 9 The “Commissar Decree,” June 6, 1941. 10 Affidavit of SS Grueppenfuehrer Otto Ohlendorf. 11 Operation Barbarossa as a War of Conquest and Annihilation: Jürgen Förster. 12 From Mass Murder to the “Final Solution:” The Shooting of Jewish Civilians during the first months of the Eastern Campaign within the context of the Nazi Jewish Genocide: Peter Longerich. 13 Savage War: German Warfare and Moral Choices in World War II: Omer Bartov. Part IV Whose "Final Solution"? Revisted Intentionalism and Functionalism. Introduction. 14 Hitler’s Reichstag Speech, January 30, 1939 : Adolf Hitler. 15 Minutes of the Wannsee Conference, January 20, 1942. 16Intentions and the “Final Solution:” Berel Lang. 17 A Controversy about the Historicization of National Socialism: Martin Broszat and Saul Friedlaender. 18 Justice Jackson’s Report to the President on Atrocities and War Crimes, June 6, 1945: Robert H. Jackson. Part V Response and Testimony: At the Center of the Whirlwind. Introduction. 19 Inside the Ghetto: Emmanuel Ringelblum. 20 Notebook H: Oskar Rosenfeld. 21 The Second Winter: October 29, 1942--March 18, 1943: Herman Kruk. 22 Letters from Westerbork: Etty Hillesum. Part VI Genocide and the Holocaust. Introduction. 23 UnitedNations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, December 9, 1948.. 24 Defining Genocide as a Sociological Concept: Helen Fein. 25 Is the Holocaust Simply Another Example of Genocide? Mark Levene. 26 Conceptual Blockages and Definitional Dilemmas in the “Racial Century:” Genocides of Indigenous Peoples and the Holocaust: A. Dirk Moses
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Holocaust
Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary collection of primary and secondary readings encourages scholars and students to engage critically with current debates about the origins, implementation and postwar interpretation of the Holocaust. Interdisciplinary content encourages students to engage with philosophical, political, cultural and literary debate as well as historiographical issues. Integrates oral histories and testimonies from both victims and perpetrators, including Jewish council leaders, victims of ghettos and camps, SS officials and German soldiers. Subsections can be used as the basis for oral or written exercises. Whole articles or substantial extracts are included wherever possible. Trade Review"The book is very much what it promises, a reader designed to introduce the student to thinking about the Holocaust in analytical terms." Australian Jewish News "The greatest attribute of The Holocaust is quite simply the work itself as a whole. Rather than a comprehensive history of the Holocaust told from the point of view of one scholar, Gigliotti and Lang present primary and secondary works that approach the subject from historical, ethical, philosophical, sociological, and legal viewpoints. As a result, the editors not only appeal to a wide audience, but they also encourage cooperation between many fields of study. Simone Gigliotti and Berel Lang's contribution should become a staple in undergraduate and graduate seminars on the Holocaust and genocide for years to come, so the next generation of scholars will not forget and will begin their own efforts to understand." H-Net Reviews "Simone Gigliotti and Berel Lang's book constitutes a valuable new contribution to the field." European History QuarterlyTable of ContentsList of Maps. Acknowledgments. Chronology. Glossary. Introduction: Simone Gigliotti and Berel Lang. Part I Preconditions: Nazism and the Turn from Anti-Judaism to Antisemitism. Introduction. 1 Anti-Semites: Bernard Lewis. 2 From Weimar to Hitler: Robert S. Wistrich. 3 Nation and Race: Adolf Hitler. 4 Nuremberg Law for the Protection of the German Blood and of the German Honour of 15 September 1935. Part II A Racial Europe: Nazi Population and Resettlement Policy. Introduction. 5 The Setting: Henry Friedlander. 6 Ghetto Formation: Raul Hilberg. 7 From “Ethnic Cleansing” to Genocide to the “Final Solution”: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, 1939–1941: Christopher R. Browning. 8 Some Thoughts on the Treatment of the Alien Population in the East: Heinrich Himmler. Part III War and the Turn to Genocide. Introduction. 9 The “Commissar Decree,” June 6, 1941. 10 Affidavit of SS Grueppenfuehrer Otto Ohlendorf. 11 Operation Barbarossa as a War of Conquest and Annihilation: Jürgen Förster. 12 From Mass Murder to the “Final Solution:” The Shooting of Jewish Civilians during the first months of the Eastern Campaign within the context of the Nazi Jewish Genocide: Peter Longerich. 13 Savage War: German Warfare and Moral Choices in World War II: Omer Bartov. Part IV Whose "Final Solution"? Revisted Intentionalism and Functionalism. Introduction. 14 Hitler’s Reichstag Speech, January 30, 1939 : Adolf Hitler. 15 Minutes of the Wannsee Conference, January 20, 1942. 16Intentions and the “Final Solution:” Berel Lang. 17 A Controversy about the Historicization of National Socialism: Martin Broszat and Saul Friedlaender. 18 Justice Jackson’s Report to the President on Atrocities and War Crimes, June 6, 1945: Robert H. Jackson. Part V Response and Testimony: At the Center of the Whirlwind. Introduction. 19 Inside the Ghetto: Emmanuel Ringelblum. 20 Notebook H: Oskar Rosenfeld. 21 The Second Winter: October 29, 1942--March 18, 1943: Herman Kruk. 22 Letters from Westerbork: Etty Hillesum. Part VI Genocide and the Holocaust. Introduction. 23 UnitedNations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, December 9, 1948.. 24 Defining Genocide as a Sociological Concept: Helen Fein. 25 Is the Holocaust Simply Another Example of Genocide? Mark Levene. 26 Conceptual Blockages and Definitional Dilemmas in the “Racial Century:” Genocides of Indigenous Peoples and the Holocaust: A. Dirk Moses
£36.05
Johns Hopkins University Press Our Germans Project Paperclip and the National
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThrough participant vignettes, historian Crim provides insight into early Cold War decision-making in this well-documented, microhistorical, dissertation-like expose of Project Paperclip. Highly recommended.—ChoiceA very fine account concerning the internal dynamics of the Paperclip program, providing a more nuanced evaluation than has hitherto been available.—H-Net ReviewsAt a time when drones, cyberweapons, and other high technology continue to substitute for coherent foreign policy, Crim's book is a sober reminder of the moral hazards of a technocratic national security state.—Journal of American HistoryWhat distinguishes Our Germans is its emphasis on the role of the specialists in the emerging national security state of the early Cold War, where Project Paperclip 'exacerbated the growing rift between the State Department and an ascendant national security bureaucracy' (99). But most importantly, Our Germans is a much-needed update and expansion of Clarence Lasby's 1971 Project Paperclip: German Scientists and the Cold War.—American Historical ReviewIn the aftermath of the Second World War, the US government recruited hundreds of German scientists and engineers, including the designers of the V2 rocket, to staff American agencies and companies under the so-called Paperclip programme. Crim draws on recently declassified documents to reveal the history of the programme and the controversies it provoked.—International Institute for Strategic StudiesTable of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. Aristocracy of Evil2. Implements of Progress3. Conscientious Objectors4. Their Germans5. Paperclip VindicatedEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex
£31.50
Johns Hopkins University Press Cork Wars
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsP. The Blaze1. McManus Peels the Apple2. The Marsas Return to Spain3. The DiCaras in a Bind4. The McManus Cork Project5. Serving the Crown in Wartime Portugal6. Among the Spies in Lisbon7. From the Factory to the Front8. Politics and Gasoline9. Cold New World10. Making it in AmericaEp. Treasury BalanceNotes and Suggestions for Further ReadingAuthor's NoteAcknowledgements
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Johns Hopkins University Press Speaking of Diversity
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1992. In this collection of essays, Philip Gleason explores the different linguistic tools that American scholars have used to write about ethnicity in the United States and analyzes how various vocabularies have played out in the political sphere. In doing this, he reveals tensions between terms used by academic groups and those preferred by the people whom the academics discuss. Gleason unpacks words and phrasessuch as melting pot and pluralityused to visualize the multitude of ethnicities in the United States. And he examines debates over concepts such as assimilation, national character, oppressed group, and people of color. Gleason advocates for greater clarity of these concepts when discussed in America's national political arena. Gleason's essays are grouped into three parts. Part 1 focuses on linguistic analyses of specific terms. Part 2 examines the effect of World War II on national identity and American thought about diversity and intergroup relationsTrade ReviewThis collection succeeds authoritatively in clearing the semantic ground on which one of the most tortured and divisive of American debates still rages.—Kate Fullbrook, Journal of American StudiesA major interpretation of modern American nationalism that deserves a wide readership . . . Careful surveys of the contested histories of such critical terms in the American conversation about diversity as 'melting pot' (where his essays have already been widely cited in the field), 'pluralism,' 'assimilation,' 'minority,' 'identity,' and culture.'.—Terrence J. McDonald, Reviews in American HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Coming to Terms with Ethnicity Chapter 1. The Melting Pot: Symbol of Fusion or Confusion?Chapter 2. Confusion Compounded: A Melting Pot UpdateChapter 3. The Odd Couple: Pluralism and AssimilationChapter 4. Minorities (Almost) AllChapter 5. Identifying Identity: A Semantic HistoryPart II: World War II and American IdentityChapter 6. Americans AllChapter 7. The Study of American CultureChapter 8. Pluralism, Democracy, and Catholicism: Religious TensionsPart III: Religion and American DiversityChapter 9. Hansen, Herberg, and American ReligionChapter 10. Immigration, Religion, and Civil ReligionChapter 11. "Americanism" in American Catholic Discourse Index
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University of Toronto Press Distance from the Belsen Heap
Book SynopsisDistance from the Belsen Heap examines the experiences of hundreds of British and Canadian eyewitnesses to atrocity, including war artists, photographers, medical personnel, and chaplains.Trade Review'A thoughtful and useful addition to the literature on the Holocaust, Celinscak's work brings together solid archival research and interdisciplinary approaches to shed important new light on an under-research subject.' -- Nicholas J. Steneck The Journal of Military History vol 80:04:2016 'This book is a worthy addition to any scholar's library, especially those who study the Holocaust, genocide, or World War II.' -- Melissa Young H-Net/H-War September 2016 "It is the single best book on the liberation of Belsen or any other one of the camps that became symbols of Nazi depravity." -- Robert Abzug Canadian Jewish Studies / Etudes juives canadiennes, vol. 24, 2016 "This book is a valuable addition, with new information, to accounts about this infamous place" -- Jane S Gabin The Wiener Library, December 2016 'Celinscak's book is yet again proof that much new material on the Holocaust remains to be discovered and that even the best-known parts of the history hold secrets yet to be uncovered.' -- Dan Stone Holocaust and Genocide Studies, vol 30:03:2016 'Distance from the Belsen Heap is a model study of events that have for too long been considered footnotes to history.' -- Robert H. Abzug Canadian Jewish Studies vol 24:2016 'Required reading. Essential. All levels/libraries.' -- M.A. Mengerink Choice Magazine vol 53:11:2016 "This is a remarkable account of the Allied liberation of Belsen. It builds on the growing and diverse scholarship in the field and develops it further by wide ranging and careful research. This topic requires a sensitive approach and Celinscak has more than met this challenge. Sources ranging from art and photography, oral history, and contemporary reports are combined with great subtlety and purpose. Neglected areas, especially the Canadian forces and their role in the camp's liberation, are rightly restored to the narrative. Multidisciplinary, it is a major contribution to Holocaust studies." -- Tony Kushner, Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/Non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton "A valuable, thoroughly researched work, Distance from the Belsen Heap rightly rebalances the story of Bergen-Belsen's liberation to include the Canadian experience." -- Suzanne Bardgett, Head of Research and Academic Partnerships, Imperial War Museums "A very well documented study of one of the key events in the history of the Holocaust. Engaging, well researched, and unusually specific in the lenses." -- Jury, Vine Awards for Canadian Jewish LiteratureTable of ContentsPreface Chapter One: Experience, Narrative and Meaning Chapter Two: The Rhine, the Heath, the Wire Chapter Three: The Distance of Presence Chapter Four: A Camp on Exhibit Chapter Five: The Impossible Real Chapter Six: Padres, Patients and Pathologies Conclusion: A Past Intensity
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University of Toronto Press Cargo of Lies
Book SynopsisOn a chilly autumn night in 1942, a German spy was rowed ashore from a U-boat off the Gaspé coast to begin a deadly espionage mission against the Allies. Thanks to an alert hotel-keeper's son, Abwehr agent `Bobbi' was captured and forced by the RCMP to become Canada's first double-agent.For nearly fifty years the full story of the spy case, code-named Watchdog, was suppressed. Now, author Dean Beeby has uncovered nearly five thousand pages of formerly classified government documents, obtained through the Access to Information Act from the RCMP, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, the Department of Justice, the National Archives of Canada, and Naval Intelligence. He has supplemented this treasure trove with research among still heavily censored FBI files, and interviews with surviving participants in the Watchdog story. Although British records of the case remain closed, Beeby also interviewed the MI5 case officer for Watchdog, the late Cyril Mills.The operationTrade Review'Beeby has succeeded in recreating the characters as well as the atmosphere of wartime Canada. And he unveils in some detail the bungling by Canadian authorities ignorant of intelligence matters...The book is a must read for any spy buff and will be enjoyed by everyone who loves a good story.' -- Peter Rehak Toronto Star 'Other attempts have been made to tell the story of Operation Watchdog, but none can compete with Dean Beeby's compelling reconstruction. ... He tells a dramatic tale, with overtones of John le Carr+.' -- Wesley Wark The Globe and Mail 'A fascinating tale of espionage activity right on Canadian soil, by U-boat to Canada's shores.' -- Clare Mellor Chronicle-Herald 'Beeby has meticulously researched Watchdog down to the most minute point.' -- Gavin Murphy Beaver
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University of Toronto Press Lessons of the Holocaust
Book SynopsisAlthough difficult to imagine, sixty years ago the Holocaust had practically no visibility in examinations of the Second World War. Yet today it is understood to be not only one of the defining moments of the twentieth century but also a touchstone in a quest for directions on how to avoid such catastrophes.In Lessons of the Holocaust, the distinguished historian Michael R. Marrus challenges the notion that there are definitive lessons to be deduced from the destruction of European Jewry. Instead, drawing on decades of studying, writing about, and teaching the Holocaust, he shows how its “lessons” are constantly challenged, debated, altered, and reinterpreted.A succinct, stimulating analysis by a world-renowned historian, Lessons of the Holocaust is the perfect guide for the general reader to the historical and moral controversies which infuse the interpretation of the Holocaust and its significance.Trade Review‘Marrus offers a bold and superb assessment of prescriptions drawn from Holocaust history. This is as much an exploration of the uses and abuses of Holocaust history as an intellectual biography, a commentary on decades of studying and teaching the Holocaust.’ -- Joanna Sliwa * H-Poland/H-Net Reviews January 2018 *‘Lessons of the Holocaust is a masterful work of far-reaching significance for scholars, undergraduates and graduate students, and non-specialists that only gains in relevance with time.’ -- Rebekah Klein-Pejšová * Canadian Journal of History - vol 53:01:2018 *"This book makes for great reading in introductory classes on the Holocaust and especially in those on Holocaust memory." -- Thomas Kühne * Seventeenth Century News *"Lessons of the Holocaust is a joy to read. Written with clarity and verve, it covers a lot of ground elegantly and efficiently. But be prepared; at some point, it will hit you how profoundly this book has challenged what you thought you knew about the Holocaust." -- Doris L. Bergen, University of Toronto * University of Toronto Quarterly, vol 87 3, Summer 2018 *Table of Contents1. Public and Personal Lessons 2. Historical Lessons 3. Early Lessons 4. Jewish Lessons 5. Israeli Lessons 6. Universal Lessons 7. Lessons of the Holocaust
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University of Toronto Press The Conscription Crisis of 1944
Book SynopsisIn the late summer of 1944 the people and Government of Canada had every reason to view with satisfaction the progress of the war and their own part in it. The landing in Normandy had been successful, the enemy was in retreat from Belgium and Holland, Germany itself had been entered. The end of hostilities in Europe seemed in sight, and the Canadian Government in October began to plan for the celebrations to take place on the day victory was announced. Suddenly this atmosphere of imminent success and relaxed tension was broken by the unexpected re-appearance of the ghost of conscription.In mid-October Colonel Ralston, the Minister of National Defence, returned abruptly from an inspection trip overseas to report to Prime Minister King that infantry reinforcements for the units fighting in Italy and Northwest Europe were an acute problem and that there seemed no hope of increasing them to the required numbers in the required time. Many, from the Minister himself down, felt that
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University of Toronto Press Recovering from Genocidal Trauma
Book SynopsisRecovering from Genocidal Trauma is a comprehensive guide to understanding Holocaust survivors and responding to their needs. In it, Myra Giberovitch documents her twenty-five years of working with Holocaust survivors as a professional social worker, researcher, educator, community leader, and daughter of Auschwitz survivors.Trade Review"Recovering from Genocidal Trauma is a remarkable book. Breaking the conspiracy of silence surrounding trauma and ageing, this moving and thought-provoking book provides powerful insights that are of deep relevance to practitioners and survivors of genocidal trauma around the globe." -- Myriam Denov, James McGill Professor, School of Social Work, McGill University "Well written, broad in scope, and extremely thorough, Recovering from Genocidal Trauma is an impressive book that contributes to the body of knowledge regarding practice with survivors of mass atrocity and trauma, especially aging Holocaust survivors and their children." -- Sophie Yohani, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Alberta "Recovering from Genocidal Trauma is a unique contribution to the literature on the practical provision of services for the aging Holocaust survivor. Myra Giberovitch's familiarity and personal experience is of enormous benefit in a manual like this." -- Clare Pain, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, and Director of the Psychological Trauma Program at Mount Sinai Hospital "More and more survivors of atrocities are seeking help through health care and social service agencies in Canada, and social work and health care providers need to understand better how to service these people. Recovering from Genocidal Trauma is a much-needed book that looks at the effects of trauma on people who have experienced atrocities and war. Clearly written and quite practical in its content, it offers a wealth of knowledge for academics, practitioners, students and community leaders." -- Linda Kreitzer, Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary "The life work of Myra Giberovitch finds expression in this valuable work infused with wisdom and insight. Myra is a professional (social work) and a daughter of parents who survived Auschwitz, Gross Rosen and Dachau. Raised by survivor-parents within a community of survivors, she knows of what she speaks. And thankfully she speaks not only of the damage inflicted through relentless and prolonged cruelty but also of the courage and strength demonstrated by so many Holocaust survivors in reclaiming a life of normality. In fact, she demonstrates that suffering and coping can indeed exist side by side and that understanding and respectful listening can be helpful to those who live life daily in the shadow of a tragic past. This astonishing work reflects a vast experience and provides a framework for those who work with ageing Holocaust survivors as well as victims of contemporary genocides. It is a gift." -- Robert Krell, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia and Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association "Myra Giberovitch has written a unique contribution to the body of literature on the survivors of the Holocaust. Her ethnographic approach to the long-term effects of genocidal trauma combines the research with years of academic, clinical, and community social work practice, and imbues her work with the personal passion and insight of the daughter of Holocaust survivors. This book will provide new insights for genocide scholars and health and social service agencies, as well as family members." -- Paula David, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto 'An essential tool for everyone who studies, interacts, lives or works with survivors of mass atrocity.' -- Mike Cohen The Jewish Tribune May 2014 'Myra's vision, passion, and determination, as well as her compassion for the survivors, are clearly evident. I would strongly recommend this uplifting book as essential reading for anyone working with survivors of genocidal trauma.' -- Judith Hassan Kavod: A journal for Caregivers and Families March 31, 2015Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Survivors of Mass Atrocity Chapter 1 - Mass Atrocity Crimes Chapter 2 - Understanding the Historical Context Chapter 3 - Identifying a Holocaust Survivor Chapter 4 - Changing Perceptions about Holocaust Survivors Part II: Understanding Survivors Chapter 5 - Impact of Trauma: Vulnerability and Resilience Chapter 6 - Environmental Factors that Reduce the Impact of Trauma Chapter 7 - Other Issues Unique to Survivors Part III: Survivor Services and Programs Chapter 8 - Transcending Victimization through Empowerment Chapter 9 - Creating a Specialized Program Chapter 10 - Short-term Group Services Chapter 11 - Long-Term Group Service: An Incubator Environment Chapter 12 - Intergenerational Programs Part IV: Professional Interactions with Survivors Chapter 13 - Therapeutic Responses Chapter 14 - Responses to Environmental Triggers Chapter 15 - Responses to Emotional Reactions Chapter 16 - Professional Considerations Part V: Going Forward Chapter 17 - Recovery Milestones Applicable to Other Communities Afterword Appendix A: Mass Atrocity Crimes Appendix B: Rafael Lemkin: A Survivor's Contribution to Society Glossary References Index
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University of Toronto Press On the Defensive
Book SynopsisOn the Defensive considers how our ethical responses to the Nazi camps have unintentionally repressed and denied the experiences of their victims. Through detailed readings of survivor narratives, particularly the works of political deportees Jorge Semprun and Charlotte Delbo, Sharon Marquart examines how well-intentioned people – including victims, their family members, and readers of witness literature – respond to such testimony in ways that are understood as ethical by their communities but serve instead to ignore victims’ experiences.As Marquart shows, collective disasters such as the Holocaust expose the limitations of our ethical theories. To cope with this instability we withdraw and defend ourselves through inattentive and formulaic responses that turn a blind eye to the plight of victims. Challenging contemporary theorizations of community, ethics, testimony, and trauma, On the Defensive is a far-reaching reflection on the ways inTrade Review'This is an important book that insightfully questions the ways readers can engage with Holocaust and trauma writing and will be of interest beyond French studies.' -- Ursula Tidd French Studies vol 71:01:2017 'In this admirable book, Marquart writes at the intersections of Holocaust studies, gender studies, and philosophy...The book is thoroughly researched and constitutes an original contribution to understanding Holocaust literature. Highly recommended.' -- E.R. Baer Choice Magazine vol 53:04:2015Table of ContentsIntroduction: On the Defensive: Reading the Ethical in Witness Literature 1. Literature, Theory, and Fraternity 2. Speaking for Others 3. Seeing Responsibility 4. Irony and Community Conclusion: This Has Been for These People
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Chinas Muslims and Japans Empire Centering Islam
Book SynopsisIn this transnational history of World War II, Kelly Hammond places Sino-Muslims at the centre of imperial Japan's challenges to Chinese nation-building efforts. Hammond shows how imperial Japanese aimed to defeat the Chinese Nationalists in winning the hearts and minds of Sino-Muslims, a vital minority population.Trade ReviewChina's Muslims and Japan's Empire has a little bit for everyone. It has contemporary implications for the ways that we think about the place of Muslim minorities who live in the People's Republic of China. At the same time, there are some good escapist stories that follow individual Muslims as they navigate their relationships with the Japanese Empire during World War II." -- Los Angeles Review of Books China Channel”An illuminating overview of Japan's overtures during WWII to minority Muslim communities in Asia as a nation-building tactic…An excellent and important addition to the WWII history shelf.” -- Publishers Weekly
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Chinas Muslims and Japans Empire Centering Islam
Book SynopsisIn this transnational history of World War II, Kelly Hammond places Sino-Muslims at the centre of imperial Japan's challenges to Chinese nation-building efforts. Hammond shows how imperial Japanese aimed to defeat the Chinese Nationalists in winning the hearts and minds of Sino-Muslims, a vital minority population.Trade ReviewChina's Muslims and Japan's Empire has a little bit for everyone. It has contemporary implications for the ways that we think about the place of Muslim minorities who live in the People's Republic of China. At the same time, there are some good escapist stories that follow individual Muslims as they navigate their relationships with the Japanese Empire during World War II." -- Los Angeles Review of Books China Channel”An illuminating overview of Japan's overtures during WWII to minority Muslim communities in Asia as a nation-building tactic…An excellent and important addition to the WWII history shelf.” -- Publishers Weekly
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New York University Press Clipped Wings
Book SynopsisRevives the overlooked stories of pioneering women aviators, who are also featured in the forthcoming documentary film Coming Home: Fight for a LegacyDuring World War II, all branches of the military had women's auxiliaries. Only the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program, however, was made up entirely of women who undertook dangerous missions more commonly associated with and desired by men. Within military hierarchies, the World War II pilot was perceived as the most dashing and desirable of servicemen. Flyboys were the daring elite of the United States military. More than the WACs (Army), WAVES (Navy), SPARS (Coast Guard), or Women Marines, the WASPs directly challenged these assumptions of male supremacy in wartime culture. WASPs flew the fastest fighter planes and heaviest bombers; they test-piloted experimental models and worked in the development of weapons systems. Yet the WASPs were the only women's auxiliary within the armed services of World War II that was not militarTrade ReviewMerryman's work has been hailed as a fresh, astute, analysis of the WASP program. The book is well written and draws on a variety of primary source material including, military documents, interviews with former WASPs, newspapers and articles and Jacqueline Cochran's private papers. * Minerva *Merryman has assembled a formidable study of these women pilots using recently declassified government documents, as well as interviews with surviving WASP personnel. * Feminist Collections *An excellent study . . . its grounding in feminist history and methodology are timely and welcome. * American Historical Review *Clipped Wings lets us peer into the political cockpit of militarized gender construction. I've learned a lot from this fine book. * Cynthia Enloe, author of Does Khaki Still Become You? *
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New York University Press Clipped Wings
Book SynopsisRevives the overlooked stories of pioneering women aviators, who are also featured in the forthcoming documentary film Coming Home: Fight for a LegacyDuring World War II, all branches of the military had women's auxiliaries. Only the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program, however, was made up entirely of women who undertook dangerous missions more commonly associated with and desired by men. Within military hierarchies, the World War II pilot was perceived as the most dashing and desirable of servicemen. Flyboys were the daring elite of the United States military. More than the WACs (Army), WAVES (Navy), SPARS (Coast Guard), or Women Marines, the WASPs directly challenged these assumptions of male supremacy in wartime culture. WASPs flew the fastest fighter planes and heaviest bombers; they test-piloted experimental models and worked in the development of weapons systems. Yet the WASPs were the only women's auxiliary within the armed services of World War II that was not militarTrade Review"Merryman's work has been hailed as a fresh, astute, analysis of the WASP program. The book is well written and draws on a variety of primary source material including, military documents, interviews with former WASPs, newspapers and articles and Jacqueline Cochran's private papers." * Minerva *"Merryman has assembled a formidable study of these women pilots using recently declassified government documents, as well as interviews with surviving WASP personnel." * Feminist Collections *"An excellent study . . . its grounding in feminist history and methodology are timely and welcome." * American Historical Review *"Clipped Wings lets us peer into the political cockpit of militarized gender construction. I've learned a lot from this fine book." * Cynthia Enloe, author of Does Khaki Still Become You? *
£23.74
New York University Press Postcards from Auschwitz
Book SynopsisThe uneasy link between tourism and collective memory at Holocaust museums and memorials Each year, millions of people visit Holocaust memorials and museums, with the number of tourists steadily on the rise. What lies behind the phenomenon of Holocaust tourism and what role do its participants play in shaping how we remember and think about the Holocaust? In Postcards from Auschwitz, Daniel P. Reynolds argues that tourism to former concentration camps, ghettos, and other places associated with the Nazi genocide of European Jewry has become an increasingly vital component in the evolving collective remembrance of the Holocaust. Responding to the tendency to dismiss tourism as commercial, superficial, or voyeuristic, Reynolds insists that we take a closer look at a phenomenon that has global reach, takes many forms, and serves many interests. The book focuses on some of the most prominent sites of mass murder in Europe, and then expands outward to more recent memorial museums. Reynolds pTrade Review"Agraphic journey of discovery that reveals . . . many troubling questions: Do Holocaust tourists come as casual sightseers or as pilgrims? Where is evidence, in those dedicated places, of redemption? Soon there will be no survivors of the Holocaust; what will the places, monuments, and museums tell future generations?" * Kirkus Reviews *"Incisively scrutinizes the intersection of tourism and Holocaust remembrance . . . raises important questions about history, tourism, and genocide." * STARRED Publishers Weekly *"This should be required reading for anyone contemplating a trip to places of remembrance, such as the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum or the Auschwitz and Dachau death camps in Europe. Reynolds effectively tells how history and tourism intersect." * Library Journal *"Postcards from Auschwitz is an important intervention into the vexed topic of Holocaust 'tourism.' Reynolds deftly challenges the various criticisms of the 'Shoah business'its presumed commercialization of suffering, conversion of horror into kitsch, and its putative role in evacuating Holocaust memory of substance. He addresses such received wisdom not by denying its power, but by way of a compelling exploration of the experience of Holocaust memorialization in Warsaw, Berlin, Jerusalem, and Washington, D.C that does not only analyze various national narratives of the event, but also defines the tourist's experience in surprisingly textured and nuanced terms. The book is a real eye-opener and should be read by anyone with an interest in contemporary Holocaust memory." -- Carolyn J. Dean,Charles J. Stille Professor of History and French, Yale University"Reynolds lays bare the faulty assumptions about tourism and tourists that undergird the criticisms leveled at sites of Holocaust commemoration. His own scholarship, by contrast, takes seriously the abilities of tourists to reflect just as critically as any of the scholars who write about the topic, and shows how their presence (including their own discomfort with the idea of tourism) helps Holocaust tourism remain an open-ended process of meaning-making. This is tourism studies at its finest. Reynolds' authorial voice is pitch perfect - sophisticated without being pedantic, readable without being simplistic." -- Shaul Kelner,author of Tours That Bind: Diaspora, Pilgrimage and Israeli Birthright Tourism"Postcards stand for the superficiality of tourism, but also have a flip side in which the viewer can express agency, sometimes undercutting the message of the glossy picture. Reynolds is one of the few scholars to take both Holocaust memory and tourism seriously. Among the questions the book explores are: How does one portray the victims suffering without turning it into a spectacle? How do memorial sites negotiate between historical verities and traumatic experience? What agency do tourist publics have in reading and interpreting Holocaust sites and what are the responsibilities of site managers in responding to them? Where does one draw the line between knowledge-seeking and voyeurism? The result is a thought-provoking, multi-disciplinary account of the ethics of memory and responsibility in an age of snapshots and selfie shares." -- Jackie Feldman,author of Above the Death-Pits, beneath the Flag"Reynolds’ theoretically informed selection of cases allows for both breadth and depth in analyzing the promises and pitfalls of Holocaust tourism. Postcards from Auschwitz does not lay to rest ethical questions, but rather raises new ones for future scholarship. This book will appeal to scholars within the interdisciplinary realms of tourism studies, museum studies, public history, and Holocaust studies, as well as the staples of history, anthropology, philosophy, and literary studies. Reynolds’ courage in broaching a controversial and understudied subject will no doubt inspire continued scholarship on Holocaust tourism’s complexity and transformative potential." * The Polish Review *
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University of Toronto Press Spaniards in Mauthausen
Book SynopsisSpaniards in Mauthausen is the first study of the cultural legacy of Spaniards imprisoned and killed during the Second World War in the Nazi concentration camp Mauthausen. By examining narratives about Spanish Mauthausen victims over the past seventy years, author Sara J. Brenneis provides a historical, critical, and chronological analysis of a virtually unknown body of work. Diverse accounts from survivors of Mauthausen, chronicled in letters, artwork, photographs, memoirs, fiction, film, theatre, and new media, illustrate how Spaniards have become cognizant of the Spanish government’s relationship to the Nazis and its role in the victimization of Spanish nationals in Mauthausen. As political prisoners, their numbers and experiences differ significantly from the millions of Jews exterminated by Hitler, yet the Spaniards in Mauthausen were nevertheless objects of Nazi violence and witnesses to the Holocaust.Trade Review"A painstaking and definitive book." -- Ariel Dorfman * The New York Review of Books *"Brenneis has crafted a cohesive and thought-provoking study on the experiences of Spaniards in Mauthausen, which is underpinned by meticulous research, and engagingly written. A strength of the book is its multidisciplinary approach, combining theories of narrative and memory with Holocaust Studies and historiography. Spaniards in Mauthausen is a valuable contribution not only to Spanish cultural history, but also to Holocaust Studies, and likely to stimulate important critical debate." -- Andrea Hepworth, Victoria University of Wellington * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *"Spaniards in Mauthausen advances historical memory discourse by contributing new voices to the conversation as it brings forth representations of Spaniards from concentration camps to form a part of the historiography of the Spanish Civil War and Franco dictatorship." -- Wendy Perla Kurtz * Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies *"Brenneis’ work critically analyzes an unfamiliar topic from a cultural perspective. The book immerses us in a complex history, which is only now slowly being revealed to Spanish society." -- Santiago López Rodríguez * Holocaust and Genocide Studies *"Sara Brenneis' terrific monograph...makes a timely and important contribution to memory studies both in Spain and across a wider transnational field." -- Maria Delgado * Times Higher Education *"[A]n evocatively written reflection on Mauthausen today – as a physical and imagined space – that reads like a compelling piece of long-form reporting." -- Sebastiaan Faber * Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispanos *"The book is thorough and informative. The bibliography is abundant and pertinent. It is a good source of information about the representation of the Spaniards in Mauthausen." -- Silvia Ribelles de la Vega * University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018 *Table of ContentsThe View from Inside: Clandestine Representations and Testimony of Mauthausen (1940-46) Postwar Impressions: The First Published Representations of the Camp (1945-1963) Transitions: Early Accounts of Mauthausen (1970s) Memories Unleashed: Mauthausen after Franco (1980-2015) Mauthausen Today
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University of Toronto Press The Selected Works of George R. Lindsey
Book SynopsisThe Selected Works of George R. Lindsey provides full access to a wealth of valuable, previously classified, historical material regarding the scientific and technical aspects of Canadian defence and national security in the Cold War.Table of ContentsSection One: Operational Research 1967 Eighteen Years of Military Operational Research in Canada 1974 Operational Research for NATO’s Navies 1979 The Contribution of Operational Research at National Defence 1983 Early Days of Operational Research in Canada and the Founding of the Canadian Operational Research Society 1995 Some Personal Recollections of Army Operational Research on Radar in World War II Section Two: Strategic Analysis 1980 The Linkages of New Technology to Strategic and Theatre Deterrence and Warfighting 1980 The SALT Treaty from a Canadian Point of View 1983 Systems Analysis and Global Strategy 1986 The Strategic Significance of Changes in the Offence/Defence Balance 1993 Taxonomy and Measurement in Arms Control Section Three: Canadian Defence 1971 Canadian Security, Sovereignty, and National Development: Possible Contributions by the Armed Forces and the Defence Research Board 1972 Canadian Maritime Strategy in the Seventies 1980 Operational Research: Flexible Response to the Needs of Canadian Defence through the Postwar Years 1980 The Realities of Strategic Deterrence and their Implications for Canada 1983 A Canadian Perspective on Canada-US Defence Relations 2009 Operational Research: Remarks by George R. Lindsey Bibliography of Works by George R. Lindsey Notes Index
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University of Toronto Press Dance on the Razors Edge
Book SynopsisHistorians have mainly seen the ghettos established by the Nazis in German-occupied Eastern Europe as spaces marked by brutality, tyranny, and the systematic murder of the Jewish population. Drawing on examples from the Warsaw, Lodz, and Vilna ghettos, Dance on the Razor’s Edge explores how, in fact, highly improvised legal spheres emerged in these coerced and heterogeneous ghetto communities. Looking at sources from multiple archives and countries, Svenja Bethke investigates how the Jewish Councils, set up on German orders and composed of ghetto inhabitants, formulated new definitions of criminal offenses and established legal institutions on their own initiative, as a desperate attempt to ensure the survival of the ghetto communities. Bethke explores how people under these circumstances tried to make sense of everyday lives that had been turned upside down, bringing with them pre-war notions of justice and morality, and she considers the extent to which thisTrade Review"The author has written a highly competent, very readable, and […] fair-minded account of a disputed issue in the historiography of the Holocaust, one that makes a […] useful contribution to the literature. Both the subject itself and the author’s treatment of it seem to me deserving of scholarly and public attention." -- Michael A. Livingston, Rutgers Law School * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *“To expert readers, this book provides an important contribution to the examination of ghetto life by adding a well-researched study on legal institutions in the ghettos…To non-expert readers, this book will be eye-opening as it plunges them into the messy, uncomfortable ‘choiceless choices’ that made up everyday life in the ghettos.” -- Amy Simon, Michigan State University * Central European History *“[Bethke’s] careful examination presents the nitty-gritty everyday of the last years and months of hundreds of thousands of people in horrible conditions. Bethke portrays them without false sentimentality as acting and thinking people who adapted, hoped, and tried to survive. Dance on the Razor’s Edge is a bold and important study on how negotiating and breaching rules shows Holocaust victims not as immoral but rather as human.” -- Anna Hájková, University of Warwick * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Names and Places Abbreviations Introduction 1. Nazi Jewish Policy in Eastern Europe and the Perspective of the Jewish Councils 2. Jewish Council Proclamations: Definitions of Criminal Activity 3. The Jewish Police as an Executive Organ 4. The Ghetto Courts 5. The Ghetto Penal System 6. Ordinary Ghetto Residents and Their Relationship with Internal and External Authorities Conclusion: Criminality and Law between the Poles of External Power and Internal Autonomy Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Toronto Press Centuries of Genocide
Book SynopsisThe fifth edition of Centuries of Genocide combines highly informative essays on major genocides with powerful first-person survivor testimonies.Table of ContentsDedication Acknowledgements Introduction Samuel Totten 1. The Genocide of California’s Yana Indians Benjamin Madley 2. Genocide of the Herero and Nama in German South-West Africa, 1904–1907 Dominik J. Schaller 3. The Armenian Genocide Rouben P. Adalian 4. Soviet Manmade Famine in Ukraine James Mace 5. The Holocaust: Jews, Gypsies, and the Handicapped Donald L. Niewyk 6. Genocide in Bangladesh Rounaq Jahan 7. Genocide in Cambodia Craig Etcheson 8. The Genocide Perpetrated by the Government of Argentina (1976–1983) Natasha Zaretsky 9. Guatemala: Acts of Genocide, Scorched-Earth Counterinsurgency War, and the Long Search for Justice Susanne Jonas 10. The Anfal Operations in Iraqi Kurdistan Michiel Leezenberg 11. The 1994 Genocide in Rwanda Gerald Caplan 12. Genocidal Violence in the Former Yugoslavia: Bosnia Herzegovina Martin Mennecke 13. The Darfur Genocide Samuel Totten 14. ISIS’s Genocide of the Yazidis Samuel Totten 15. Genocidal Violence against the Rohingya in Myanmar Ken MacLean 16. China’s Genocide of the Uyghurs Samuel Totten Afterword Samuel Totten Appendices Appendix I. The UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crimes of Genocide Appendix II. List of Crimes against Humanity Appendix III. Summary of the Concept of the Responsibility to Protect Appendix IV. A Select List of Films about Individual Genocides Appendix V. Table of Contents of Earlier Editions of Century of Genocide and Centuries of Genocide Index
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University of Toronto Press Spaniards in Mauthausen
Book SynopsisSpaniards in Mauthausen is the first study of the cultural legacy of Spaniards imprisoned and killed during the Second World War in the Nazi concentration camp Mauthausen. By examining narratives about Spanish Mauthausen victims over the past seventy years, author Sara J. Brenneis provides a historical, critical, and chronological analysis of a virtually unknown body of work. Diverse accounts from survivors of Mauthausen, chronicled in letters, artwork, photographs, memoirs, fiction, film, theatre, and new media, illustrate how Spaniards have become cognizant of the Spanish government’s relationship to the Nazis and its role in the victimization of Spanish nationals in Mauthausen. As political prisoners, their numbers and experiences differ significantly from the millions of Jews exterminated by Hitler, yet the Spaniards in Mauthausen were nevertheless objects of Nazi violence and witnesses to the Holocaust.Trade Review"A painstaking and definitive book." -- Ariel Dorfman * The New York Review of Books *"Brenneis has crafted a cohesive and thought-provoking study on the experiences of Spaniards in Mauthausen, which is underpinned by meticulous research, and engagingly written." -- Andrea Hepworth, Victoria University of Wellington * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *"Spaniards in Mauthausen advances historical memory discourse by contributing new voices to the conversation as it brings forth representations of Spaniards from concentration camps to form a part of the historiography of the Spanish Civil War and Franco dictatorship." -- Wendy Perla Kurtz * Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies *"The book immerses us in a complex history, which is only now slowly being revealed to Spanish society. [...] Brenneis’ work illuminates the complexity of this history, thus making it a necessary reference for future studies." -- Santiago López Rodríguez * Holocaust and Genocide Studies *"Sara Brenneis' terrific monograph...makes a timely and important contribution to memory studies both in Spain and across a wider transnational field." -- Maria Delgado * Times Higher Education *"[A]n evocatively written reflection on Mauthausen today – as a physical and imagined space – that reads like a compelling piece of long-form reporting." -- Sebastiaan Faber * Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispanos *"The book is thorough and informative. The bibliography is abundant and pertinent. It is a good source of information about the representation of the Spaniards in Mauthausen." -- Silvia Ribelles de la Vega * University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018 *Table of ContentsThe View from Inside: Clandestine Representations and Testimony of Mauthausen (1940-46) Postwar Impressions: The First Published Representations of the Camp (1945-1963) Transitions: Early Accounts of Mauthausen (1970s) Memories Unleashed: Mauthausen after Franco (1980-2015) Mauthausen Today
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University of Toronto Press Carved in Stone
Book SynopsisThe memories of Manny Drukier are indelibly inscribed on his mind, and in Carved in Stone he recounts them with honesty and precision.Trade Review"Drukier never presents himself as a hero. He has no time for introspection during the war; the daily search for food is what occupies his thoughts, and the ingenuity he displays in getting an extra portion … is what carries much of the narrative forward. His final moments with his mother and sister, and his father (with whom he was in touch until the elder Drukier’s death from starvation) are numbingly, achingly beautiful. Drukier does not write sentimentally about these things – he simply recounts them, and the effect is almost unbearable." -- Jason Sherman * Quill and Quire *"Seldom have I read a manuscript that has moved me like Manny Drukier’s Carved in Stone: Holocaust Years - A Boy’s Tale." -- John Copley * Edmonton Jewish News *"This account by a successful publisher and businessman should be widely read. It is by a survivor of rare sensitivity who assures us as did Walt Whitman in a different context, "I know, I suffered, I was there."" -- Bernard Baskin * Canadian Jewish News *"He has two stories to tell and does so remarkably well in this book of memoirs. Masterfully, he moves the narrative from the past to the present and back again, incorporating the sad and horrific recollections of the war years with those of his (and his wife Freda’s) travels through Poland in the fall of 1991." -- Allan Levine * Winnipeg Free Press *‘Drukier is sustained by the memory of sustenance, and his ability to feel it so intensely is charming. In fact, the intelligent and restrained way in which he shares his tale gives us a portrait of the survivor as a truly admirable person. He is frank about his suffering without being maudlin, intelligent in his analysis of the social forces at play in Europe, generous with the details that brings his world to life. The superior abilities that enabled him to survive are now put to the task of testimony, and serve him and the reader well.’ -- Robin Roger * Books in Canada *Table of ContentsFOREWORD by Henry Schogt ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Prologue: The Second Coming of the Jews 1 Rehabilitation 2 Warsaw 3 Grandparents 4 New Year 5752 5 An Apartment in Lodi 6 Yorn Kippur in Lodi 7 Last Hours of Childhood 8 Kieke 9 Majdanek 10 Staszow Then and Now 11 Szifra 12 Our Time Has Come 13 We Work 14 The Other Way 15 The End of the Line 16 Auschwitz, 1991 17 The Kindness of Strangers 187 18 In the Orphanage 19 That Side Jordan 20 Greetings
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University of Toronto Press The Labyrinth of Dangerous Hours
Book SynopsisAs many as 150,000 Polish political prisoners were taken during the war, half of whom died in the camps. This memoir is a testament to their struggle.Table of ContentsFOREWORD ACKNOWLEDGMENTS GUIDE TO PRONUNCIATION CAMP VOCABULARY INTRODUCTION Part I: Fighting Poland (September 1939-May 1943) 1 Dies Irae 2 Gone with the Wind 3 Resistance 4 Rescue Part II: Auschwitz (May 1943-January 1945) 5 Nos. 44786-9 6 No Lilies for Mother 7 Gifts and Secrets 8 A Legacy of Herbs 9 High Fever 10 Designing a Dream House 11 SOS Part III: From Winter to Spring (January-April 1945) 12 Walking to Breslau 13 Bergen-Belsen Part IV: The Taste of Freedom (April 1945-June 1946) 14 My Egg of Resurrection 15 Concert for Survivors 16 Capriccio Italiano EPILOGUE ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
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University of Toronto Press Dance on the Razors Edge
Book SynopsisHistorians have mainly seen the ghettos established by the Nazis in German-occupied Eastern Europe as spaces marked by brutality, tyranny, and the systematic murder of the Jewish population. Drawing on examples from the Warsaw, Lodz, and Vilna ghettos, Dance on the Razor’s Edge explores how, in fact, highly improvised legal spheres emerged in these coerced and heterogeneous ghetto communities. Looking at sources from multiple archives and countries, Svenja Bethke investigates how the Jewish Councils, set up on German orders and composed of ghetto inhabitants, formulated new definitions of criminal offenses and established legal institutions on their own initiative, as a desperate attempt to ensure the survival of the ghetto communities. Bethke explores how people under these circumstances tried to make sense of everyday lives that had been turned upside down, bringing with them pre-war notions of justice and morality, and she considers the extent to which thisTrade Review"The author has written a highly competent, very readable, and […] fair-minded account of a disputed issue in the historiography of the Holocaust, one that makes a […] useful contribution to the literature. Both the subject itself and the author’s treatment of it seem to me deserving of scholarly and public attention." -- Michael A. Livingston, Rutgers Law School * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *“To expert readers, this book provides an important contribution to the examination of ghetto life by adding a well-researched study on legal institutions in the ghettos…To non-expert readers, this book will be eye-opening as it plunges them into the messy, uncomfortable ‘choiceless choices’ that made up everyday life in the ghettos.” -- Amy Simon, Michigan State University * Central European History *“[Bethke’s] careful examination presents the nitty-gritty everyday of the last years and months of hundreds of thousands of people in horrible conditions. Bethke portrays them without false sentimentality as acting and thinking people who adapted, hoped, and tried to survive. Dance on the Razor’s Edge is a bold and important study on how negotiating and breaching rules shows Holocaust victims not as immoral but rather as human.” -- Anna Hájková, University of Warwick * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Names and Places Abbreviations Introduction 1. Nazi Jewish Policy in Eastern Europe and the Perspective of the Jewish Councils 2. Jewish Council Proclamations: Definitions of Criminal Activity 3. The Jewish Police as an Executive Organ 4. The Ghetto Courts 5. The Ghetto Penal System 6. Ordinary Ghetto Residents and Their Relationship with Internal and External Authorities Conclusion: Criminality and Law between the Poles of External Power and Internal Autonomy Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Toronto Press Canada at War
Book SynopsisCanada at War explores the impact of the two world wars on Canada and Canadians by examining conscription, foreign policy, and politics, with William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada’s longest-serving prime minister, acting as the book’s central figure. In this collection of essays, J.L. Granatstein brings together research from archives in Canada and abroad, illuminating Canada''s political transition from the British to American sphere of influence in the first half of the twentieth century. Granatstein reflects on the most significant issues affecting Canadians during the wars, showing how this period ushered change into the Canadian landscape and transformed Canada into the country that it is today.Table of ContentsPreface Permissions Introduction Section One: Conscription 1. "To win, at any cost": Politics and Manpower Policies, 1917 2. Conscription in the Great War 3. The Conservative Party and Conscription in the Second World War 4. The York South By-Election of February 9, 1942: A Turning Point in Canadian Politics 5. The "Hard" Obligations of Citizenship: The Second World War in Canada 6. Conscription and My Politics Section Two: Diplomacy 7. "A Self-Evident National Duty": Canadian Foreign Policy, 1935–1939 (with Robert Bothwell) 8. Mackenzie King and Canada at Ogdensburg, August 1940 9. The Hyde Park Declaration 1941: Origins and Significance (with R.D. Cuff) 10. The Man Who Wasn't There: Mackenzie King, Canada, and the Atlantic Charter 11. Happily on the Margins: Mackenzie King and Canada at the Quebec Conferences Section Three: Politics 12. Financing the Liberal Party, 1935–1945 13. King and His Cabinet: The War Years 14. The Evacuation of the Japanese Canadians, 1942: A Realist Critique of the Received Version (with Gregory A. Johnson) 15. Arming the Nation: Canada's Industrial War Effort, 1939–1945 Section Four: Reflections 16. A Half-Century On: The Veterans' Experience 17. "What Is to Be Done?": The Future of Canadian Second World War History 18. Thirty Years in the Trenches: A Military Historian's Report on the War between Teaching and Research
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