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  • Globalizing the Soybean

    Fat, Feed, and Sometimes Food, c. 1900–1950

    by Ines Prodöhl ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
    Globalizing the Soybean asks how the soybean conquered the West and analyzes why and how the crop gained entry into agriculture and industry in regions beyond Asia in the first half of the twentieth century.Historian Ines Prodöhl describes the soybean’s journey centered on three hubs: Northeast China, as the crop’s main growing area up to the Second World War; Germany, to where most of the beans ... Read more

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  • Сто років боротьби

    Брошура в стислій та популярній формі розповідає про події Української революції 1917–1921 років – процеси державного будівництва, творення української політичної нації, відродження української науки, освіти, культури та духовності. Багато уваги приділяється лідерам Української революції – Михайлу Грушевському, Володимиру Винниченку, Симону Петлюрі, Павлу Скоропадському, Євгену Петрушевичу, Номану ... Read more

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  • Don't You Ever Read Anything But Serious Books?

    by Richard Lung ...
    This collection is a personal record of writers observations that aroused my curiosity, mainly in the 1970s and early 1980s. This was a period of about a decade, when I was a young man, forty to fifty years ago.There are some contemporary allusions, in my role as editor. For, the problems then, inequality, tyranny, secrecy, the lack of liberty, and so forth are problems still. indeed, they help ... Read more

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  • Peripheries at the Centre

    Borderland Schooling in Interwar Europe

    Series Book 27 - Studies in Contemporary European History
    Following the Treaty of Versailles, European nation-states were faced with the challenge of instilling national loyalty in their new borderlands, in which fellow citizens often differed dramatically from one another along religious, linguistic, cultural, or ethnic lines. Peripheries at the Centre compares the experiences of schooling in Upper Silesia in Poland and Eupen, Sankt Vith, and Malmedy in ... Read more

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  • Fourth Arm of Defense: Sealift and Maritime Logistics in the Vietnam War

    Sealift and Maritime Logistics in the Vietnam War

    Series series United States Navy and Vietnam War
    Merchant marines and the military sea transportation ships (MSTS) are featured early in this book to showcase how they have been developed compared to prior wars. Combined with Marines and U.S. Army troop forces on the ground through Viet Cong, an aerial combat campaign was also pursued from American ships. A key component featured within this resource is the organization of the Trans-Pacific ... Read more

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  • Making Sense of the Future

    by Rick Szostak ...
    Making Sense of the Future integrates the latest thinking in Future Studies with the author’s expertise in world history, economics, interdisciplinary studies, knowledge organization, and political activism.The book takes a systems approach that recognizes the complexity of our world. It begins by suggesting a set of goals for human societies and identifying innovative strategies for achieving ... Read more

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  • EL Joven Hitler 5 (La Segunda Guerra Mundial, Año 1939)

    Series Book 5 - HITLER SERIES
    Terminada la saga de El Joven Hitler quería que mis lectores tuvieran la oportunidad de conocer la saga que sigue, la de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, y ver si les interesaba continuar leyendo unos libros con muchas más páginas, ya centrados en el conflicto bélico que transcurrió entre 1939 y 1945, aunque dedicando mucho tiempo a la vida privada de Hitler y de sus generales, de sus esposas, y un ... Read more

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  • Democracy and Sovereignty in Spain

    Conceptual Innovation in the Spanish Constituent Assembly of 1931

    Series series Routledge/Canada Blanch Studies on Contemporary Spain
    This book delves into the conceptual changes produced by the Spanish constitutional debate held between 27 August and 9 December 1931. Taking place at the beginning of Spain’s Second Republic, those parliamentary deliberations brought about significant novelties in the political vocabulary. Concepts such as democracy, sovereignty, reform, revolution, and freedom, among others, were re-signified ... Read more

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  • Cydwybod mewn Carchar

    This is a Welsh language essay on the only minister of religion in Wales to be imprisoned during the Great War as a conscientious objector.Hanes achos y gwrthwynebydd cydwybodol, y Parchedig Benjamin Meyrick, yn ystod y Rhyfel Mawr.Os nad ydach chi'n gyfarwydd iawn efo lawrlwytho e-lyfrau yna'r peth gorau ichi ydi dewis 'PDF' isod. ... Read more

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  • Migration in Africa

    Shifting Patterns of Mobility from the 19th to the 21st Century

    This book introduces readers to the age of intra-African migration, a period from the mid-19th century onward in which the center of gravity of African migration moved decisively inward. Most books tend to zoom in on Africa’s external migration during the earlier intercontinental slave trades and the more recent outmigration to the Global North, but this book argues that migration within the ... Read more

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  • Croatian Radical Separatism and Diaspora Terrorism During the Cold War

    Series series Central European Studies
    Croatian Radical Separatism and Diaspora Terrorism During the Cold War examines one of the most active but least remembered groups of terrorists of the Cold War: radical anti-Yugoslav Croatian separatists. Operating in countries as widely dispersed as Sweden, Australia, Argentina, West Germany, and the United States, Croatian extremists were responsible for scores of bombings, numerous attempted ... Read more

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  • The Fin-de-Siècle World

    Edited by 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 ... Read more

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  • dMAC Digest Vol 4 No 5: MERS

    This fifth edition of the dMAC Digest analyses the current information on MERS - Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, a severe pneumonia-like respiratory disease caused by a virus. It has an extremely high death rate among confirmed sufferers and we check the latest data on infection and death by country. What effect may MERS have on the 2-3 million pilgrims whom will perform the Hajj this October in ... Read more

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  • A Political Biography of Aung San Suu Kyi

    A Hybrid Politician

    Series series Politics in Asia
    This book is the first political biography of Aung San Suu Kyi covering both her years in opposition and all her years in power from 2016 onwards. It offers a new interpretation of Aung San Suu Kyi by presenting a balanced and thorough account of Suu Kyi’s policies.In the last 30 years there has not been a person in global politics who has risen so high and fallen so low – and so quickly – as Aung ... Read more

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  • Nuclear Summer

    The Clash of Communities at the Seneca Women's Peace Encampment

    Series series The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
    When thousands of women gathered in 1983 to protest the stockpiling of nuclear weapons at a rural upstate New York military depot, the area was shaken by their actions. What so disturbed residents that they organized counterdemonstrations, wrote hundreds of letters to local newspapers, verbally and physically harassed the protestors, and nearly rioted to stop one of the protest marches? Louise ... Read more

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  • Basic and Applied Research

    The Language of Science Policy in the Twentieth Century

    Series Book 4 - European Conceptual History
    The distinction between basic and applied research was central to twentieth-century science and policymaking, and if this framework has been contested in recent years, it nonetheless remains ubiquitous in both scientific and public discourse. Employing a transnational, diachronic perspective informed by historical semantics, this volume traces the conceptual history of the basic–applied ... Read more

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  • Japanese Americans at Heart Mountain

    Networks, Power, and Everyday Life

    by Saara Kekki ...
    On August 8, 1942, 302 people arrived by train at Vocation, Wyoming, to become the first Japanese American residents of what the U.S. government called the Relocation Center at Heart Mountain. In the following weeks and months, they would be joined by some 10,000 of the more than 120,000 people of Japanese descent, two-thirds of them U.S. citizens, incarcerated as “domestic enemy aliens” during ... Read more

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  • Biopolitics and Historic Justice

    Coming to Terms with the Injuries of Normality

    by Kathrin Braun ...
    Series Book 66 - Edition Politik
    Human rights violations linked to norms of health, fitness, and social usefulness have long been overlooked by Historic Justice Studies. Kathrin Braun introduces the concept of »injuries of normality« to capture the specifics of this type of human rights violation and the respective struggles for historic justice. She examines the processes of Vergangenheitsbewältigung in the context of coercive ... Read more

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  • Polish Theory of History and Metahistory in Topolski, Pomian, and Tokarczuk

    From Hayden White and Beyond

    by Jan Pomorski ...
    This book traces the development of the Polish theory of history, analysing how Jerzy Topolski, Krzysztof Pomian, and Olga Tokarczuk have both built upon and transgressed the metahistorical theories of American historian Hayden White.Poland’s reception of White’s work has gone through different phases, from distancing to a period of fascination and eventual critical analysis, beginning with ... Read more

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  • Remapping Knowledge

    Intercultural Studies for a Global Age

    Series Book 8 - Making Sense of History
    The growing interdependence of the local and the global demand innovative approaches to human development. Such approaches, the author argues, ought to be based on the emerging ethics of global intelligence, defined as the ability to understand, respond to, and work toward what will benefit all human beings and will support and enrich all life on this planet. As no national or supranational ... Read more

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  • El Joven Hitler 2 (Hitler adolescente)

    Series Book 2 - HITLER SERIES
    Este libro puede leerse de forma independiente, si bien forma parte de la Saga de “El Joven Hitler”, formada por 4 novelas, todas ellas autoconclusivas pero con un mismo hilo conductor para poder leerse de forma continuada si así se quiere:1-EL PEQUEÑO ADOLF Y LOS DEMONIOS DE LA MENTE2-HITLER ADOLESCENTE 1889-19033-HITLER, VAGABUNDO Y SOLDADO EN LA GRAN GUERRA 1904-1918 (próximamente a la venta)4 ... Read more

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  • My War at Sea 1914–1916: A Captain's Life with the Royal Navy During the First World War

    This book is based on the wartime recollections of Heathcoat S. Grant, the captain of the HMS Canopus between 1914–1916. It is published in conjunction with the War Letters 1914–1918 series.For the first two years of the war HMS Canopus had as eventful a time as any ship in the Royal Navy, being involved at Coronel, the Battle of the Falklands and the attempt to force the Dardanelles.As captain of ... Read more

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  • In the Fullness of Time: A History of the Church of Saint Mary Magdalene, Toronto

    by David Greig ...
    The Church of Saint Mary Magdalene, Toronto, has long been known as a leading anglo-catholic parish in the Anglican Church of Canada, especially for its rich and influential liturgical and musical traditions. David Greig's history places the well known achievements in the broader context of a living Christian community responding in the fullness of time, both to its developing understanding of the ... Read more

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  • In Their Surroundings

    Localizing Modern Jewish Literatures in Eastern Europe

    From the second half of the nineteenth century through to World War II, Eastern Europe, especially the territories that formerly made up the Pale of Settlement in the Tsarist Empire, witnessed a Jewish cultural flowering that went hand-in-hand with a multifaceted literary productivity in the Hebrew and Yiddish languages. Accompanied and sometimes directly affected by the dramatic political ... Read more

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