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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992764876Author Russell PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Shilka PublishingPublisher Shilka PublishingWeight(grams) 304g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593728093Author Ben MacintyreFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was not widely known when he led the national resistance movement in Anatolia in 1919. However, the effort and attention that his government devoted to the creation of his public image gradually turned him into a superhuman figure...

Sudan's modern history has been consumed by revolution and civil war. The country attracted international attention in the 1990s as a breeding ground of Islamist terrorism and recently tensions between the prosperous centre and the periphery, between...

General histories of the twentieth century will have much to say about the establishment, spread, maintenance and sudden collapse of Soviet Communism. This book outlines a major feature of twentieth-century world history that arguably affected more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313229718Author Stuart ChaseFormat HardbackPage Count 239Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Buenos Aires is Argentina's national capital and largest city. This book, first published in 1994, describes the development of the city during the period from 1910 to the early 1940s. It focuses on the role of politics and local government in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820441948Author Donald E ShepardsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 470g

General answers are hard to imagine for the many puzzling questions that are raised by Soviet relations with the world in the early years of the Cold War. Why was Moscow more frightened by the Marshall Plan than the Truman Doctrine? Why would the Soviet...

The essays, written by leading experts, examine the history of the international financial system in terms of the debate about globalization and its limits. In the nineteenth century, international markets existed without international institutions. A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780755201778Author Mark QuinlanFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams) 617g

Enlightened Aid is a unique history of foreign aid. It begins with the modern concept of progress in the Scottish Enlightenment, follows its development in nineteenth and early twentieth-century economics and anthropology, describes its transformation...

There is perhaps nothing so commonplace and yet so mystifying as money. But to European communists, money was clearly an instrument of economic exploitation and spiritual alienation. In this groundbreaking study, Jonathan R. Zatlin explores the East...

This three-volume study examines the questions raised by the performance of the military institutions of France, Germany, Russia, the United States, Great Britain, Japan and Italy in the period from 1914 to 1945. Leading military historians deal with the...

Rivers of Blood offers a glimpse into the brutal world of state terrorism. In this innovative study, the author explores the strategies, targets, and motives of terror by reviewing the conditions surrounding government massacres. By introducing an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802844569Author Edward R. KantowiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 508Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

The first comprehensive history of labour relations and the working class in twentieth-century Monterrey, Deference and Defiance explores how both workers and industrialists perceived, responded to and helped shape the outcome of Mexico's revolution...

A Partnership for Disorder examines American-Chinese foreign policy planning in World War II for decolonising the Japanese Empire and controlling Japan after the war. This study unravels some of the complex origins of the postwar upheavals in Asia by...

In nineteenth-century Britain, public debates about the nation's moral health and about men's and women's responsibility for it were shaped decisively by a tradition of female moralists. This book looks at the cultural criticism of eight of the most...

This ambitious work is the definitive account of Russia's land reform initiatives from the late 1980s to today. In Russia, a country controlling more land than any other nation, land ownership is central to structures of power, class division, and...

This book, first published in 2007, presents research by leading scholars to an international audience of academics, business executives, and policy makers. This research is presented in two clusters. The first cluster of studies explores four...

Social movements have shown themselves to be one of the most dramatic and effective forms of political action. America, founded as the result of a challenge to one kind of political order, has been, in part, recreated as a result of movements of...

In Markets in History leading economic historians present the results of their research on the scope of markets in economies past and present, ranging from English open fields in the age of Chaucer to racial discrimination in the age of Martin Luther...

Shanghai's nightlife, from the mid-nineteenth century until the victory of the Communist Party in 1949, was dominated by the world of prostitution. Henriot portrays the Chinese sex trade, from the sophisticated life of the courtesan to the common life of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738804576Author Cres SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint XlibrisPublisher XlibrisWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780755649242Author Sanaz FotouhiFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint I. B. Tauris & CompanyPublisher I. B. Tauris & CompanyWeight(grams) 140g

Judith Shapiro, in clear and compelling prose, relates the great, untold story of the devastating impact of Chinese politics on China's environment during the Mao years. Maoist China provides an example of extreme human interference in the natural world...

The Birth of the New Justice is a history of the attempts to instate ad hoc and permanent international criminal courts and new international criminal laws from the end of World War I to the beginning of the Cold War. The purpose of these courts was to...

This 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...

Drawing on hundreds of newly available, top-secret KGB and party Central Committee documents, historian Matthew E. Lenoe reexamines the 1934 assassination of Leningrad party chief Sergei Kirov. Joseph Stalin used the killing as the pretext to unleash the...

Company town: the very phrase sounds un-American. Yet company towns are the essence of America. Hershey bars, Corning glassware, Kohler bathroom fixtures, Maytag washers, Spam,each is the signature product of a company town in which one business, for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759614987Author G.H. SpauldingFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 245g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692350553Author Heather a CaranciFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Stillwater River PublicationsPublisher Stillwater River PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Social movements have shown themselves to be one of the most dramatic and effective forms of political action. America, founded as the result of a challenge to one kind of political order, has been, in part, recreated as a result of movements of...

This book fills an important gap in the literature of modern warfare by focusing on random elements in warfare often overlooked in both the planning and execution of military operations-factors that can turn certain success into devastating failure. By...

Within popular culture studies, one finds discussions about quantitative sociology, Marxism, psychoanalysis, myth criticism, feminism, and semiotics, but hardly a word on the usefulness of phenomenology, the branch of philosophy concerned with human...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802844552Author Edward R. KantowiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

Thousands of young Jews were orphaned by the Nazi genocide in the German-occupied Soviet Union and struggled for survival on their own. This book weaves together oral histories, video testimonies, and memoirs produced in the former Soviet Union to show...

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Voices of the Holocaust and the act of memory.Book InformationISBN 9780814343012Author Henri Lustiger ThalerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Wayne State University PressPublisher Wayne State University Press