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Shadows of Trauma: Memory and the Politics of Postwar Identity by Aleida Assmann 9780823267279
€118.00We have left the twentieth century, but this century of violence and extremes has not left us: Its shadow has become longer and blacker. Seventy years after the end of the Second World War, the memory of the Holocaust is less and less anchored in the... -
Our Tomorrows Never Came by Etunia Bauer Katz 9780823220311
€80.74Many people think of the death camps when they think of the Holocaust. However, for many thousands of Jews, the Holocaust was in their towns and in the fields, the hills, and on the riverbanks. Clearly, this volume addresses this latter situation in... -
Science and Conscience: The Life of James Franck by Jost Lemmerich 9780804763103
€87.56James Franck (1882-1964) was one of the twentieth century's most respected scientists, known both for his contributions to physics and for his moral courage. During the 1920s, Franck was a prominent figure in the German physics community. His research... -
The History of Futurism: The Precursors, Protagonists, and Legacies by Geert Buelens 9780739173886
RRP: €63.07€55.60Futurism began as an artistic and social movement in early twentieth-century Italy. Until now, much of the scholarship available in English has focused only on a single individual or art form. This volume seeks to present a more complete picture of the... -
The History of Futurism: The Precursors, Protagonists, and Legacies by Geert Buelens 9780739173862
RRP: €148.75€132.51Futurism began as an artistic and social movement in early twentieth-century Italy. Until now, much of the scholarship available in English has focused only on a single individual or art form. This volume seeks to present a more complete picture of the... -
A Place to Remember: A History of the Shrine of Remembrance Bruce Scates (Monash University, Victoria) 9780521129077
RRP: €69.02€60.43On the 11th of November 1934 over 300,000 people gathered on the slopes of Melbourne's Domain to witness the dedication of the Shrine. It was the largest state war memorial Australia would build and it commemorated the sacrifice of no fewer than 114,000... -
A Place to Remember: A History of the Shrine of Remembrance by Bruce Scates 9780521112123
RRP: €160.65€131.91On the 11th of November 1934 over 300,000 people gathered on the slopes of Melbourne's Domain to witness the dedication of the Shrine. It was the largest state war memorial Australia would build and it commemorated the sacrifice of no fewer than 114,000... -
Rhythm and Race in Modernist Poetry and Science: Pound, Yeats, Williams, and Modern Sciences of Rhythm by Michael Golston 9780231142762
€84.53In the half-century between 1890 and 1950, a variety of fields and disciplines, from musicology and literary studies to biology, psychology, genetics, and eugenics, expressed a profound interest in the subject of rhythm. In this book, Michael Golston... -
Counterterrorism Between the Wars: An International History, 1919-1937 by Mary S. Barton 9780198864042
RRP: €103.53€96.43Mary S. Barton explores counterterrorism in the years between World War I and World War II, starting with the attempted assassination of French Prime Minister George Clemenceau in 1919, and taking the story up to and beyond the double assassination of... -
The Cold War: A History in Documents and Eyewitness Accounts by Jussi M. Hanhimaki 9780198208624
€140.02The Cold War contains a selection of official and unofficial documents which provide a truly multi-faceted account of the entire Cold War era. This volume presents the different kinds of materials necessary to understand what the Cold War was about, how... -
Modernism, Material Culture and the First World War by Cedric van Dijck 9781399507868
€115.63Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Amazing Adventures of Bob Brown: A Real-Life Zelig Who Wrote His Way Through the 20th Century by Craig Saper 9780823271467
RRP: €24.98€20.90Contemporary publishing, e-media, and writing owe much to an unsung hero who worked in the trenches of the culture industry (for pulp magazines, Hollywood films, and advertising) and caroused and collaborated with the avant-garde throughout the first... -
First Steps toward Detente: American Diplomacy in the Berlin Crisis, 1958-1963 by Richard D. Williamson 9780739197431
RRP: €53.55€46.99Richard Williamson's First Steps toward Detente provides a history of negotiations conducted from 1958-1963 between the United States, its Western allies in Europe, and the Soviet Union, in order to resolve the Berlin crisis. These negotiations... -
The New Left and the Origins of the Cold War by Robert James Maddox 9780691645575
€96.13As more and more people are questioning the assumptions of present U.S. foreign policy they are reexamining the roots of these policies in the diplomacy of the Cold War. This scrutiny has made the origins of the Cold War the most controversial issue in... -
The Politics of Women's Work: The Paris Garment Trades, 1750-1915 by Judith G. Coffin 9780691634098
€131.39Few issues attracted more attention in the nineteenth century than the "problem" of women's work, and few industries posed that problem more urgently than the booming garment industry in Paris. The seamstress represented the quintessential... -
The Civil Wars in Chile: (or The Bourgeois Revolutions that Never Were) by Maurice Zeitlin 9780691630571
€131.26This penetrating sociological study of the causes, consequences, and historical meaning of the civil wars in mid- and late-nineteenth century Chile argues that they were abortive bourgeois revolutions fought out among rival segments of Chile's dominant... -
Iron Curtain Twitchers: Russo-American Cold War Relations by Jennifer M. Hudson 9781498559263
RRP: €129.71€113.73The Cold War is often viewed in absolutist terminology: the United States and the Soviet Union characterized one another in oppositional rhetoric and pejorative propaganda. State-sanctioned communications stressed the inherent dissimilarity between their... -
Crossing Boundaries: Ethnicity, Race, and National Belonging in a Transnational World by Brian D. Behnken 9781498515061
RRP: €57.12€50.04Crossing Boundaries: Ethnicity, Race, and National Belonging in a Transnational World explores ethnic and racial nationalism within a transnational and transcultural framework in the long twentieth century (late nineteenth to early twenty-first century)... -
Children by Choice?: Changing Values, Reproduction, and Family Planning in the 20th Century by Ann-Katrin Gembries 9783110522020
RRP: €68.43€51.41During the 20th century, medico-technical advances such as the invention of the latex condom (1930), the arrival of the contraceptive pill on the free market (1960/61) and the birth of the first child conceived by in vitro fertilization (1978)... -
All Around the Town: Amazing Manhattan Facts and Curiosities, Second Edition by Patrick Bunyan 9780823231744
RRP: €33.31€26.36Where in Manhattan did Washington sleep? Where was Teddy Roosevelt born? Where did James Monroe die? Where is the birthplace of the “Twist”? Where was Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff's multi-million dollar penthouse? Where is the site of the country’s first... -
Fascism in Greece: The Metaxas Dictatorship 1936-1941 by Harry Cliadakis 9783447101882
RRP: €49.98€48.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447101882Author Harry CliadakisFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 921g -
The Cold War: Historiography, Memory, Representation by Konrad H. Jarausch 9783110495225
RRP: €64.86€52.88The traces of the Cold War are still visible in many places all around the world. It is the topic of exhibits and new museums, of memorial days and historic sites, of documentaries and movies, of arts and culture. There are historical and political... -
Catastrophe and Utopia: Jewish Intellectuals in Central and Eastern Europe in the 1930s and 1940s by Ferenc Laczo 9783110555431
€80.38Catastrophe and Utopia studies the biographical trajectories, intellectual agendas, and major accomplishments of select Jewish intellectuals during the age of Nazism, and the partly simultaneous, partly subsequent period of incipient Stalinization. By... -
Fugitives: A History of Nazi Mercenaries During the Cold War by Danny Orbach 9781643138954
RRP: €34.45€20.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643138954Author Danny OrbachFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 152g -
A Very British Experience: Coalition, Defence and Strategy in the Second World War by Andrew Stewart 9781789760026
RRP: €35.70€32.59Three defining elements of the collective wartime experience deserve full scrutiny: the challenges of building and maintaining coalitions and alliances; the paramount importance of defending the British mainland and its population; and the central role... -
War and Childhood in the Era of the Two World Wars Mischa Honeck (German Historical Institute, Washington DC) 9781108478533
RRP: €107.10€96.90The histories of modern war and childhood were the result of competing urgencies. According to ideals of childhood widely accepted throughout the world by 1900, children should have been protected, even hidden, from conflict and danger. Yet at a time... -
Bombing the Marshall Islands: A Cold War Tragedy by Keith M. Parsons 9781107047327
RRP: €117.80€105.89During the Cold War, the United States conducted atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands of the Pacific. The total explosive yield of these tests was 108 megatons, equivalent to the detonation of one Hiroshima bomb per day over... -
Austrian Banks in the Period of National Socialism by Gerald D. Feldman 9781107001657
RRP: €94.01€86.01This book is the English translation of Gerald D. Feldman's contributions to the multi-author, two-volume study OEsterreichische Banken und Sparkassen im Nationalsozialismus und in der Nachkeriegszeit, which was originally published in German by C. H... -
A History of British Sports Medicine by Vanessa Heggie 9780719082610
RRP: €101.15€71.60This book offers a comprehensive study, and social history, of the development of sports medicine in Britain, as practiced by British doctors and on British athletes in national and international settings. It takes as its focus the changing medical... -
Juke Box Britain: Americanisation and Youth Culture, 1945-60 Adrian Horn 9780719079078
RRP: €101.15€71.60British teenagers witnessed immense cultural change in the period following the second world war. There were less than 100 juke boxes in Britain in 1945 and over 15,000 by 1958. Over the same period there was a similar unprecedented expansion of casual... -
Revolution and the People in Russia and China: A Comparative History by S. A. Smith 9780521886376
RRP: €89.25€80.61A unique comparative account of the roots of Communist revolution in Russia and China. Steve Smith examines the changing social identities of peasants who settled in St Petersburg from the 1880s to 1917 and in Shanghai from the 1900s to the 1940s... -
History, Culture and the Indian City by Rajnayaran Chandavarkar 9780521768719
RRP: €107.10€96.90Raj Chandavarkar was one of the finest Indian historians of the twentieth century. He died sadly young in 2006, leaving behind a very substantial collection of unpublished lectures, papers and articles. These have now been assembled and edited by... -
Inventing Vietnam: The United States and State Building, 1954-1968 by James M. Carter 9780521716901
RRP: €27.36€23.28This book considers the Vietnam war in light of U.S. foreign policy in Vietnam, concluding that the war was a direct result of failed state-building efforts. This U.S. nation building project began in the mid-1950s with the ambitious goal of creating a... -
Suharto: A Political Biography by R. E. Elson 9780521773263
RRP: €58.31€50.11Suharto is synonymous with modern Indonesia. He came to the leadership of Indonesia amidst extreme social upheaval and mass violence in 1966 and established an enduring regime known as the 'New Order'. He remained in command of the world's fourth most... -
A Genealogy of Evil: Anti-Semitism from Nazism to Islamic Jihad by David Patterson 9780521197472
RRP: €89.25€80.61Based on extensive scrutiny of primary sources from Nazi and Jihadist ideologues, David Patterson argues that Jihadist anti-Semitism stems from Nazi ideology. This book challenges the idea that Jihadist anti-Semitism has medieval roots, identifying its... -
The Moment of Liberation in Western Europe: Power Struggles and Rebellions, 1943-1948 by Gerd-Rainer Horn 9780199587919
RRP: €110.67€100.27The Moment of Liberation in Western Europe, 1943-1948, regards the final two years of World War II and the immediate post-liberation period as a moment in twentieth century history, when the shape and contours of postwar Western Europe appeared highly... -
Feeling Revolution: Cinema, Genre, and the Politics of Affect under Stalin by Anna Toropova 9780198831099
RRP: €97.58€88.51Stalin-era cinema was designed to promote emotional and affective education. The filmmakers of the period were called to help forge the emotions and affects that befitted the New Soviet Person - ranging from happiness and victorious laughter, to hatred... -
Unknown Reich: Less Known Facts of the Eastern Front by Perry Pierik 9789461536433
RRP: €14.88€10.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789461536433Author Dr Perry PierikFormat PaperbackPage Count 157Imprint Aspekt B.V., UitgeverijPublisher Aspekt B.V., UitgeverijWeight(grams) 212g -
Cold War Cities: History, Culture and Memory Katia Pizzi 9783034317665
RRP: €62.36€54.51The Cold War left indelible traces on the city, where polarities on the global stage crystallized and intersected with political and social dynamics predating and bypassing the Blocs. This collection taps into the rich fabric of memories, histories and... -
Clifford Case and the Challenge of Liberal Republicanism by William R. Fernekes 9781666928587
RRP: €123.76€108.61Clifford P. Case was an exemplary “liberal Republican” during his 33 years in Congress, including 4 terms in the U.S. Senate. A strong advocate of civil and human rights, environmental protection, high ethical standards for public officials, and U.S...