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  • Eigensinnige Musterschüler

    Ländliche Entwicklung und internationales Expertenwissen in der Türkei (1947–1980)

    Serien Buch 31 - Globalgeschichte
    Seit der Gründung der türkischen Republik im Jahr 1923 spielten ausländische Experten beim Aufbau des neuen Staates eine zentrale Rolle. Anhand der Geschichte der Entwicklungspolitik in der ländlichen Türkei lassen sich gut die Erwartungshorizonte aufzeigen, die deutsche, amerikanische und türkische Akteure für das Land in der Nachkriegszeit formulierten, das in der Zeit zwischen Marshallplan, Mehr lesen

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  • Ich-Diskurse in Maxim Billers Prosa

    Serien Buch 10 - Pegisha – Begegnung / Pegisha – Encounters
    Das Buch hat die Darstellung deutsch-jüdischer Identität in ausgewählten Prosatexten des zeitgenössischen, deutsch-jüdischen Autors Maxim Biller zum Thema. Seit 1989 ist jüdisches Leben in Deutschland «sichtbarer» und heterogener geworden. Das liegt maßgeblich an der veränderten Selbstrepräsentation vieler jüngerer Juden. In und mit seinen Texten Der gebrauchte Jude (2009), Esra (2003), Die Mehr lesen

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  • Alienating Labour

    Workers on the Road from Socialism to Capitalism in East Germany and Hungary

    von Eszter Bartha
    Serien Buch 22 - International Studies in Social History
    The Communist Party dictatorships in Hungary and East Germany sought to win over the “masses” with promises of providing for ever-increasing levels of consumption. This policy—successful at the outset—in the long-term proved to be detrimental for the regimes because it shifted working class political consciousness to the right while it effectively excluded leftist alternatives from the public Mehr lesen

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  • Untold Stories of the Spanish Civil War

    Bearbeitet von Raanan Rein, Susanne Zepp-Zwirner
    Series series Routledge/Canada Blanch Studies on Contemporary Spain
    This is the first scholarly volume to offer an insight into the less-known stories of women, children, and international volunteers in the Spanish Civil War.Special attention is given to volunteers of different historical experiences, especially Jews, and voices from less-researched countries in the context of the Spanish war, such as Palestine and Turkey. Of an interdisciplinary nature, this Mehr lesen

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  • Die sieben Monde des Jakobus

    Die große Jakobsweg-Saga | »Eine Spezialistin für historische Romane!« Nürnberger Nachrichten

    von Brigitte Riebe
    Ein episches Abenteuer in dunklen Zeiten: Der Historienroman »Die sieben Monde des Jakobus« von Bestsellerautorin Brigitte Riebe als eBook bei dotbooks. Das streng calvinistische Genf des 16. Jahrhunderts ist kein sicherer Ort für eine Katholikin - und so steht die junge Clara Weingarten nach dem Tod ihres Mannes nicht nur mittellos da, sondern muss auch gegen immer heftigere Anfeindungen und Mehr lesen

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  • The Collapse of Communist Power in Poland

    Strategic Misperceptions and Unanticipated Outcomes

    Based on extensive original research, including interviews with key participants, this book investigates the sudden and unforeseen collapse of communist power in Poland in 1989. It sets out the sequence of events, and examines the strategies of the various political groupings prior to the partially free election of June 1989.This volume argues that the specific negotiating strategies adopted by Mehr lesen

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  • The Vicious Circle 1832–1864

    A History of the Polish Intelligentsia – Part 2

    Serien Buch 8 - Studies in History, Memory and Politics
    The three-part work provides a first synthetic account of the history of the Polish intelligentsia from the days of its formation to World War I. Part two (1832-1864) analyses the growing importance of the intelligentsia in the epoch marked by the triumph of the Polish romanticism. The stress is put on the debates of the position of intelligentsia in the society, as well as on tensions between Mehr lesen

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  • The Great War

    Insights and Perspectives

    Serien Buch 13 - Studies in History, Memory and Politics
    This publication is a collection of articles which summarise results of investigations into archival materials concerning wartime stories of various nations involved in the Great War. The objective of the authors was to analyse the wartime experience of individuals and local communities as well as whole nations. They further tried to present a closer, more personal overview of wartime drama. As a Mehr lesen

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  • European Heritage, Dialogue and Digital Practices

    Series series Critical Heritages of Europe
    European Heritage, Dialogue and Digital Practices focuses on the intersection of heritage, dialogue and digital culture in the context of Europe. Responding to the increased emphasis on the potential for heritage and digital technologies to foster dialogue and engender communitarian identities in Europe, the book explores what kind of role digital tools, platforms and practices play in supporting Mehr lesen

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  • Reliability and Alliance Interdependence

    The United States and Its Allies in Asia, 1949–1969

    von Iain D. Henry
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    In Reliability and Alliance Interdependence**, Iain D. Henry argues for a more sophisticated approach to alliance politics and ideas of interdependence.**It is often assumed that if the United States failed to defend an ally, then this disloyalty would instantly and irrevocably damage US alliances across the globe. Henry proposes that such damage is by no means inevitable and that predictions of Mehr lesen

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  • Rethinking White Societies in Southern Africa

    1930s–1990s

    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Africa
    This book showcases new research by emerging and established scholars on white workers and the white poor in Southern Africa.Rethinking White Societies in Southern Africa challenges the geographical and chronological limitations of existing scholarship by presenting case studies from Angola, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe that track the fortunes of nonhegemonic whites during the era Mehr lesen

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  • A History of Male Psychological Disorders in Britain, 1945-1980

    von Alison Haggett
    Series series Mental Health in Historical Perspective
    This book is open access under a CC BY license and explores the under-researched history of male mental illness from the mid-twentieth century. It argues that statistics suggesting women have been more vulnerable to depression and anxiety are misleading since they underplay a host of alternative presentations of 'distress' more common in men. Mehr lesen

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  • Sweden after Nazism

    Politics and Culture in the Wake of the Second World War

    von Johan Östling
    As a nominally neutral power during the Second World War, Sweden in the early postwar era has received comparatively little attention from historians. Nonetheless, as this definitive study shows, the war—and particularly the specter of Nazism—changed Swedish society profoundly. Prior to 1939, many Swedes shared an unmistakable affinity for German culture, and even after the outbreak of hostilities Mehr lesen

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  • A State of Peace in Europe

    West Germany and the CSCE, 1966-1975

    Serien Buch 10 - Studies in Contemporary European History
    From the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s West German foreign policy underwent substantial transformations: from bilateral to multilateral, from reactive to proactive. The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) was an ideal setting for this evolution, enabling the Federal Republic to take the lead early on in Western preparations for the conference and to play a decisive role in the Mehr lesen

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  • About Russia, Its Revolutions, Its Development and Its Present

    Serien Buch 10 - Prager Schriften zur Zeitgeschichte und zum Zeitgeschehen
    The author analyzes modern Russian history from a new perspective. Due to the ideological heritage of the XIXth and XXth centuries, the social settings of the sociopolitical history of the USSR (1917–1945) have not been fully identified. Detailed examination of ideological and political concepts shows that the revolution of 1917 became not a middle class, proletarian movement, but rather a Mehr lesen

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  • Documenting the Armenian Genocide

    Essays in Honor of Taner Akçam

    Series series Palgrave Studies in the History of Genocide
    This open access book brings together contributions from an internationally diverse group of scholars to celebrate Taner Akçam’s role as the first Turkish intellectual to publicly recognize the Armenian Genocide. As a researcher, lecturer, and mentor to a new generation of scholars, Akçam has led the effort to utilize previously unknown, ignored, or under-studied sources, whether in Turkish, Mehr lesen

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  • The Return of the Buddha

    Ancient Symbols for a New Nation

    The Return of the Buddha traces the development of Buddhist archaeology in colonial India, examines its impact on the reconstruction of India’s Buddhist past, and the making of a public and academic discourse around these archaeological discoveries.The bookdiscusses the role of the state and modern Buddhist institutions in the reconstitution of national heritage through promulgation of laws for Mehr lesen

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  • Coping with Terrorism

    Origins, Escalation, Counterstrategies, and Responses

    Bearbeitet von Rafael Reuveny, William R. Thompson
    Series series SUNY Press Open Access
    Terrorism is imprinted on Western society's consciousness. Nearly every week a terrorist attack occurs in the world. The academic world, in attempting to understand terrorism, has often been limited to descriptive work rather than analysis, and has produced surprisingly few mainstream collections on the subject. Coping with Terrorism offers a collection of essays that ask: who are terrorists, what Mehr lesen

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  • The Fin-de-Siècle World

    Bearbeitet von Michael Saler
    Series series Routledge Worlds
    This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated collection of essays conveys a vivid picture of a fascinating and hugely significant period in history, the Fin de Siècle. Featuring contributions from over forty international scholars, this book takes a thematic approach to a period of huge upheaval across all walks of life, and is truly innovative in examining the Fin de Siècle from a global Mehr lesen

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  • Mnemonic Solidarity

    Global Interventions

    Bearbeitet von Jie-Hyun Lim, Eve Rosenhaft
    Series series Entangled Memories in the Global South
    This open access book provides a concise introduction to a critical development in memory studies. A global memory formation has emerged since the 1990s, in which memories of traumatic histories in different parts of the world, often articulated in the terms established by Holocaust memory, have become entangled, reconciled, contested, conflicted and negotiated across borders. As historical actors Mehr lesen

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  • Space Pioneers: Animals That Paved the Way for Human Space Exploration

    Over the past 70 years, American and Soviet scientists have used the animal world for testing. Despite losses, these animals have taught the scientists a tremendous amount more than could have been learned without them. Without animal testing in the early days of the human space program, the Soviet and American programs could have suffered great losses of human life. These animals performed a Mehr lesen

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  • 14th Cavalry Group in World War II: Story of Cavalryman Bill Null

    The Life and Death of George Smith Patton Jr., #3

    Serien Buch 3 - The Life and Death of George Smith Patton Jr.
    The story of the 14th Cavalry Group ranks as one of the true epics of American military history. During the first two days of the Battle of the Bulge, a small band of cold and confused U.S. cavalrymen (including Bill Null) held the better part of two enemy divisions at bay. During one of the worst winters in Europe, they literally battled the fog and friction of war. On the third day of the battle Mehr lesen

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  • The B&C Kinematograph Company and British Cinema

    Early Twentieth-Century Spectacle and Melodrama

    von Gerry Turvey
    Series series Exeter Studies in Film History
    This book sheds new light on the under-researched period of early British cinema through an in-depth history of the British and Colonial Kinematograph Company—also known as ‘B&C’—in the years 1908–1916, the period when it became one of Britain’s leading film producers. It provides an account of its films and personalities, and explores its production methods, business practices and policy changes Mehr lesen

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  • Diary for a Day: 23rd April 2011

    The residents of Chudleigh, a small town in Devon, kept a diary for 23rd April 2011, which was both St George's Day and Easter Saturday.The diaries were displayed as part of the Chudleigh Literary Festival on 18th July 2011.They are now brought together in book form as input to the social history of Chudleigh. Mehr lesen

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