R. & R. CLARK, LIMITED, EDINBURGH, 1906. — 240 p 1906 collection of lectures on history delivered in 1899–1901, covering the development of the modern state through the American Revolution. The Lectures on Modern History were delivered by Lord Acton in his ordinary course as Professor in the academical years 1899-1900 and 1900-01 . The Inaugural Lecture on the Study of History,...
Türkiye araştırmaları Enstitüsü. Sayı 15. Erzurum. 2000. - 323-348 Türkiye kuzeydoğu komşusu Rusya'da da önemli gelişmeler yaşanıyordu. XX. yüzyılın başlarında doğan ve Lenin tarafından geliştirilen komUnist hareketin taraftarı olan Bolşevikler 7/8 Kasım 1917 gecesi Rusya'da duruma hakim oldular.3 Bolşevikler, Lenin'in baskısı ile 3 Mart 1918'de Almanya, Avusturya ve Osmanlı...
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1986. — 718 p. The manual is a summary of the world history of modern times. The author's approach is based on the analysis of key program issues of Soviet history and modern history of Europe, Asia and the United States. Historical material is analyzed comprehensively: the development of the economy, their domestic political life, international...
Brill, 2011. — 384 p. Usually it is a foreign military threat or the geopolitical position of a country that attracts the most attention as a factor to explain the emergence of the national security policies of small, neutral powers like the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Norway and Switzerland in the period 1900-1940. While these factors may explain the similarities between...
Tarih İnceleme Araştırma, 2014. — 492 s. Günümüz dünyasını milletlerarası münasebetlerin yapısını ve niteliğini oluşturan gelişmelerin başlangıcı, 1914-18 arasında cereyan etmiş olan Birinci Dünya Savaşı’nın sonuçlarına kadar gitmektedir. Fakat Birinci Dünya Savaşı da durup dururken patlak vermiş olan bir milletlerarası buhran değildir. Bu savaş, 1789-1815 arasında Avrupa’yı...
Oxford University Press, 2000. — 312 p. — ISBN: 9780195077230. Mirrors of Destruction examines the relationship between total war, state-organized genocide, and the emergence of modern identity. Here, Omer Bartov demonstrates that in the twentieth century there have been intimate links between military conflict, mass murder of civilian populations, and the definition and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 322 p. This book explores the relationship between diverse social movements and Marxist historical cultures during the second half of the twentieth century in Western Europe, with special emphasis on the Federal Republic of Germany and Italy. During the Cold War, Marxist ideas and understandings of history informed not only the traditional Communist...
New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. — 283 p. The nineteen seventies, considered as an informal era rather than as a formal decade, began during 1973 and lasted until Ronald Reagan assumed the presidency in 1981. During 1973 America’s involvement in the Vietnam War ended, and the oil crisis that would usher in an economic recession started. In that same year, the vice...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 318 p. Francesco Bongiovanni returns with a sequel to The Decline and the Fall of Europe , a book Guardian journalist Nils Pratley labelled 'a wake-up call for the twenty-first century'. Since 2012 Europe has been confronted with new, unexpected game-changing challenges such as the refugee crisis and its human tsunami, the surprise of Brexit and the...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. — 416 p. ISBN10: 069115791X; ISBN13: 978-0691157917 The 1970s looks at an iconic decade when the cultural left and economic right came to the fore in American society and the world at large. While many have seen the 1970s as simply a period of failures epitomized by Watergate, inflation, the oil crisis, global unrest, and...
Cambridge University Press 1987. — 504 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-32535-6 ; ISBN: 978-0-521-12497-3. In the aftermath of the First World War British politics were subordinated to the goal of reconstructing a multilateral trade and payments system. This decision must be understood as the result of the peculiar structure of British capitalism wherein mercantile and financial activity...
New York: Vintage, 2002. — 848 p. — ISBN10: 0375708081; ISBN13: 978-0375708084. The 1930s were perhaps the seminal decade in twentieth-century history, a dark time of global depression that displaced millions, paralyzed the liberal democracies, gave rise to totalitarian regimes, and, ultimately, led to the Second World War. In this sweeping history, Piers Brendon brings the...
Lund: Lund University, 2006. — 393 p. — ISBN: 91-628-7022-X; 978-91-628-7022-5. The primary purpose of this work is to write a history of certain conceptions, theorists and theories of unequal exchange, which ought to be of interest to those wishing to understand the problematic of ‘ecological unequal exchange’. Its title is a quote from William Shakespeare’s King John (Act II,...
Brill, 2010. — 613 p. — (Studies in Global Social History). — ISBN10: 9004185453. The volume situates itself within the growing field of research on the global social history of the World Wars. By investigating social and cultural aspects of these wars in African, South Asian and Middle Eastern societies it aims at recovering both the diversity of perspectives and their...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 361 p. Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Postcommunist World examines three waves of democratic change that took place in eleven different former Communist nations. It draws important conclusions about the rise, development, and breakdown of both democracy and dictatorship in each country, providing a comparative perspective on the...
University of North Carolina Press, 2018. — 368 p. Freedom fighters. Guerrilla warriors. Soldiers of fortune. The many civil wars and rebellions against communist governments drew heavily from this cast of characters. Yet from Nicaragua to Afghanistan, Vietnam to Angola, Cuba to the Congo, the connections between these anticommunist groups have remained hazy and their...
Dutton Adult, 2002. — 332 p. — ISBN: 978-0-525946793. While sailing alone one night in the shipping lanes across one of the busiest waterways in the world, John Burnett was attacked by pirates. Through ingenuity and a little bit of luck, he survived, and his shocking firsthand experience inspired him to investigate this growing, global problem. Now, in Dangerous Waters, he...
New York: The MacMillann Company, 1947. — 126 p. The impact of the Soviet Union on the western world has been a decisive historical event, though it may be difficult to assess its consequences with precision. Even in the physical sciences, where experiments can be repeated and results verified, the relation of cause and effect seems today more tenuous and more uncertain than it...
With a new preface from Michael Cox. — New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 233 p. — ISBN10: 1349950750; ISBN13: 978-1349950751 E.H. Carr's Twenty Years' Crisis is a classic work in International Relations. Published in 1939, on the eve of World War II, it was immediately recognized by friend and foe alike as a defining work in the fledgling discipline. The author was one of...
University of Nebraska Press, 2019. — 304 p. In the wake of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the late twentieth century was a time of unprecedented hope for democracy and freedom in Eastern Europe. The collapse of the Soviet Union left in its wake a number of independent countries where the Scorpions’ 1990 pop ballad "Wind of Change" became a rallying cry. Communist propaganda was...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 320 p. — (Oxford Historical Monographs). Commemorating the Holocaust: The Dilemmas of Remembrance in France and Italy reveals how and why the Holocaust came to play a prominent role in French and Italian political culture in the period after the end of the Cold War. By charting the development of official, national Holocaust commemorations in...
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1988. — 359 p. British and German Attitudes in 1933 The Colonial Question and the Reaction to Hitler 1933–35 German Irredentism in Africa The Colonial Question and a General Settlement The Plymouth Report Schacht Chamberlain The Van Zeeland Report
San Diego: ReferencePoint Press, Inc., 2015. — 96 p. — (History’s great structures). — ISBN: 978-1-60152-710-3 The Panama Canal, which links the Pacific and Atlantic oceans through 44 miles of Central America, will have been open for 100 years in 2014. Constructed in a difficult environment by workers from many nations, the canal increased trade and eased global travel. The...
London: Serpent's Tail, 2015. - 388 p. The updated edition of Secret Affairs covers the momentous events of the past year in the Middle East. It reveals the unreported attempts by Britain to cultivate relations with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt after the fall of Mubarak, the military intervention on the side of Libyan rebel forces which include pro-al-Qaeda elements, and the...
London: Routledge, 1995. — 374 p. Looking back from the perspective of the mid-1990s, it is hard to believe that Soviet power for so long presented a threat and a challenge to the capitalist system. This book examines the assumptions of Soviet post-war economic theory and policy, traces the Soviets' analysis of Western economic development from the post-war period through to...
Liverpool: K. R. P. Publications Limited, 1945. — 92 p. 'But the money myth has been exploded; and legal control of raw materials is essential to the pursuit of the policy to a final and successful issue. Genuine and unfettered private property of any description whatever, is absolutely fatal to it; and the liberal financing of any movement, 'Commonwealth', 'Liberal',...
Harvard University Press, 2009. — 592 p. As the driving force behind the Allied effort in World War I, France willingly shouldered the heaviest burden. In this masterful book, Robert Doughty explains how and why France assumed this role and offers new insights into French strategy and operational methods.
3rd ed. — Cengage Learning, 2004. — 352 p. A comprehensive and balanced history of the world in the 20th century. not only chronicles the key events in this revolutionary century, but also examines the underlying issues that have shaped the times.
Springer, 2019. — 426 p. This edited volume maps the development of the use of political campaigning and marketing techniques in countries of the former Communist Bloc over the last thirty years. Focusing on the shift from propaganda to political marketing, and from manipulation to persuasion, the book consists of a series of case studies of countries in Central Europe, Eastern...
Springer, 2019. — 426 p. This edited volume maps the development of the use of political campaigning and marketing techniques in countries of the former Communist Bloc over the last thirty years. Focusing on the shift from propaganda to political marketing, and from manipulation to persuasion, the book consists of a series of case studies of countries in Central Europe, Eastern...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000. — 296 p. — ISBN10: 0521645867; ISBN13: 978-0521645867 — (Cambridge Cultural Social Studies) This book is a major comparative analysis of fundamentalist movements in historical and cultural context, spanning revolutionary France, America and Japan, with an emphasis on the contemporary scene. Leading sociologist S. N. Eisenstadt...
Boca: CRC Press, 2019. - 210 p. Extremist Propaganda in Social Media: A Threat to Homeland Security presents both an analysis of the impact of propaganda in social media and the rise of extremism in mass society from technological and social perspectives. The book identifies the current phenomenon, what shall be dubbed for purposes of this book "Blisstopian Societies" ―...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. - 344 p. How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development create the so-called Third World? And what will happen when development ideology collapses? To answer these...
Routledge, 2008. — 270 p. The Seven Streams: Napoleon Moves on Vienna, 1805 Preserving a Way of Life: The War Between the States, 1861 Imperial Hegemony: The Russo–Japanese War, 1904–1905 Trapped into War: Imperial Germany and the Great War in Europe, 1914 A Question of Survival: National Socialism takes Germany to War, 1939 97 Choosing Enemies: Japan Accepts the US Challenge...
Por el bien del imperio. Una historia del mundo desde 1945 es el título de un libro de Josep Fontana editado en el año 2011, sobre la historia del mundo desde 1945 - fin de la segunda guerra mundial
Lexington Books, 2018. — 352 p. The essays in this collection make up the first study of "dropping out" of late state socialism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. From Leningrad intellectuals and Berlin squatters to Bosnian Muslim madrassa students and Romanian yogis, groups and individuals across the Eastern Bloc rejected mainstream socialist culture. In the process,...
Lexington Books, 2018. — 352 p. The essays in this collection make up the first study of "dropping out" of late state socialism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. From Leningrad intellectuals and Berlin squatters to Bosnian Muslim madrassa students and Romanian yogis, groups and individuals across the Eastern Bloc rejected mainstream socialist culture. In the process,...
Castle Hill Publishers, 2005. — 145 p. Inhalt Was ist Holocaust Revisionismus? Was ist Revisionismus Warum geschichtlicher Revisionismus? Warum Holocaust-Revisionismus? Was versteht man unter dem “Holocaust” bzw. der “Shoa”? Was behauptet der Holocaust-Revisionismus? Was ist mit den Bilder von Leichenbergen in den KZs? Welchen Unterschied macht es, ob die Opfer an Seuchen oder...
Chicago: Theses & Dissertations Press, 2005. — 573 p. First Lecture: Food for Thought Second Lecture: Public Controversies Third Lecture: Material and Documentary Evidence Fourth Lecture: Witness Testimonies and Confessions Fifth Lecture: On Science and Freedom
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1997. — 976 p. —ISBN: 0-688-10064-3 (v. 1) What a terrible disappointment the twentieth century has been, was Winston Churchills comment in 1922. One world war was over, more than 6 million soldiers had been killed, and four vast empires had been destroyed. A second mass slaughter in which more than 46 million would die was yet to...
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1998. —1104 p. — ISBN: 0-688-10065-1 (v 2) The world was still reeling from the ravages of the century's first Great War when a dramatic and inexorable chain of events set it afire once again. In the Second World War, forty-six million people would lost their lives, and deep and lasting upheavals would cast the world's social and...
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1999. — 1120 p. — ISBN10: 068810066X; ISBN13: 978-0688100667 Martin Gilbert brings readers up to date in this rich historical narrative of the contradictory events of the last fifty years. Volume II ended in 1951, as the world recovered from World War II, and the nuclear threat increased. In this volume, Gilbert recalls the Cold War...
Scarecrow Press, 2007. — 439 p. A unique one-stop source for vital information on the background and history of human rights theory and practice in the international arena, the ''Historical Dictionary of Human Rights and Humanitarian Organizations'' provides extensive background on the creation and ideals of these important organizations. The authors begin their study by giving...
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016. — 316 p. This collection offers a fresh interpretation of the Cold War as an imaginary war, a conflict that had imaginations of nuclear devastation as one of its main battlegrounds. The book includes survey chapters and case studies on Western Europe, the USSR, Japan and the USA. Looking at various strands of intellectual debate...
New York: Peter Smith, 1941. — 402 p. America's Siberian Adventure 1918-1920, first published in 1931, recounts the campaign by American troops to ostensibly stabilize and bring peace to a region beleaguered by several long-standing conflicts. Author William Graves, the General in charge of the expeditionary force, had to contend with Russian warlords, the Red Army, a roving...
Routledge, 2005. — 1008 p. — ISBN10: 0415289556 ISBN13: 9780415289559. This second edition has been thoroughly updated and includes discussions on 9/11 and the second Gulf War, and takes into account the latest historical research. A comprehensive survey of the key events and personalities of this period throughout the world, it includes discussion on topics such as: the...
Cornell University Press, 1997. — 142 p. — ISBN: 0-8014-3195-6 The Development of Industrial Capitalism and Democracy in Europe and in the Contemporary Third World Europe's Colonial Past and " Artificially " Constructed States Nationalism, the Aristocracy, and the State The Erroneous Class Succession Thesis Dependency and Development in Europe Between Feudalism and Capitalism:...
Routledge, 2013. — 326 p. — ISBN: 978-0-203-62903-1. Global Development The Origins and Development of Capitalism Industrialization and Expansion of Capital: Core and Periphery Redefined City States and Nationalism The Imperial " Historic Block "of the Nineteenth Century The System Unravels: Contraction, Conflict, and Social Revolution The post-World War Interregnum...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 538 p. — ISBN: 978-0-511-16477-4 Social Forces, Industrial Expansion, and Conflict in Europe's Nineteenth-Century Market System. The Interregnum. The Great Transformation.
Liverpool University Press, 2019. — 352 p. Our Civilizing Mission is at once an exploration of colonial education, and a response to current anxieties about the historical and conceptual foundations of the "humanities". On the one hand, focusing in detail on the example of Algeria, it treats colonial education as a facet of colonialism, exploring work by 'colonized' writers...
Chicago (Illinois): Theses & Dissertations Press, 2003. — 149 p. Preface, by Germar Rudolf Activities Prior to World War One World War One Activities Postwar Campaigns The 1926 Campaigns Following The Money The Trail Continues
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016. — 301 p. The Arab-Israeli conflict cannot be properly understood without considering the larger context of the Cold War. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Israel's relationships with the United States and the Soviet Union from 1948 to 1967, showing how the fledgling state had to manoeuvre between the two superpowers in...
London, 1995. — ISBN: 0-349-10671-1. This is a sequel to Hobsbawm's trilogy of the history of the 19-th century. The Age of Extremes covers the period 1914-1991, which includes the entire history of the Soviet Union, the two World Wars, and the cultural clashes of modern nations of the 20-th century.
Bloomsbury, 2010. — 194 p. Absolute beginners The powePoint patriots Beat them up and go home The other war History lessons Conclusion: foreign policy out of balance
New York University, 2004. — 430 p. To Be of “Pure European Descent” The Asiatic Black Man? Race/War Internment War/Race Race Reversed/Gender Transformed The White Pacific Asians versus White Supremacy Race at War Race World Conclusion: In the Wake of White Supremacy Epilogue
Transl. by Jeremiah Riemer. — Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 9780691165219; ISBN13: 978-0691165219 A concise and accessible history of decolonization in the twentieth century. The end of colonial rule in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean was one of the most important and dramatic developments of the twentieth century. In the decades after World...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 369 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-60692-7, 978-3-319-60693-4. This volume offers innovative insights into and approaches to the multiple historical intersections between distinct modalities of internationalism and imperialism during the twentieth century, across a range of contexts. Bringing together scholars from diverse theoretical, methodological and...
WeidWeidenfeld & Nicolson., Inc., 1984. — 817 p. — ISBN: 0064334279. Nearly of all of Paul Johnson's books now achieve best-seller status in America, thanks largely to the initial success of Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Eighties (1983). Instead of model-oriented social science or a pantheon of ruling ideological concepts, Johnson offers us largely a...
Allen Lane, 2010. — 237 p. In "Ill Fares The Land," Tony Judt, one of our leading historians and thinkers, reveals how we have arrived at our present dangerously confused moment and offers the language we need to address our common needs, rejecting the nihilistic individualism of the far right and the debunked socialism of the past. To find a way forward, Judt argues that we...
New York: Praeger, 1965. - 308 p. Let us start by reviewing some important aspects of "escalation theory." Any such theory will have descriptive, normative and tactical aspects, and many of the misunderstandings which arise in discussions of escalation theory result from confusing these aspects. On the descriptive level such "theory" concentrates on describing the dynamics and...
London: Pluto Press, 2007. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 0745324789; ISBN13: 978-0745324784 Are oil-rich countries prone to war? And, if so, why? There is a widely held belief that contemporary wars are motivated by the desire of great powers like the United States or Russia to control precious oil resources and to ensure energy security. This book argues that the main reason why oil-rich...
Stockholm: Forum for Living History, 2008. — 112 p. — ISBN: 978-91-977487-2-8. This report is an analysis of research carried out on crimes against humanity perpetrated by communist regimes in the Soviet Union, China and Cambodia. Terms. Terms of reference. New trends in research - three analytical perspectives. Russia and the Soviet Union . Soviet communist criminal history....
Yale University Press, 2018. — 296 p. — ISBN: 0300221622 (ISBN13: 9780300221626). A thoughtful analysis of how our world’s borders came to be and why we may be emerging from a lengthy period of “cartographical stasis” What is a country? While certain basic criteria — borders, a government, and recognition from other countries — seem obvious, journalist Joshua Keating’s book...
New York: Harper & Row Perennial Library, 1987. - 689 pgs. This book is a collection of accounts about the crucial year in world history. The Versailles Peace Conference takes center stage, while many other details, including the baseball season which will culminate with the Black Sox scandal, social trends of great and minor import (Prohibition and Votes for Women, as well as...
New York: Harper & Row Perennial Library, 1987. - 689 pgs. This book is a collection of accounts about the crucial year in world history. The Versailles Peace Conference takes center stage, while many other details, including the baseball season which will culminate with the Black Sox scandal, social trends of great and minor import (Prohibition and Votes for Women, as well as...
New York: I. B. Tauris, 2011. — 715 p. On July 26, 1956, the British Empire received a blow from which it would never recover. On this day, Egypt's President Gamal Abdul Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal Company, one of the gems of Britain's imperial portfolio. It was to be a fateful day for Britain as a world power. Britain, France and Israel subsequently colluded in...
Harper Collins, 2014. — 666 p. Comparing and contrasting the World Wars. This will be a landmark in military history: a collaborative venture between historians from 20 different countries addressing every aspect of the two world wars. The scope of the book is enormous. From frontline combat to civilian experience, women and children in wartime, genocide etc. The Face of...
Elliott & Thompson, 2019. — 320 p. A gripping eyewitness account of a major 20th-century military conflict by the UK's most popular writer on geopolitics. The shattering of Yugoslavia in the 1990s showed that, after nearly 50 years of peace, war could return to Europe. It came to its bloody conclusion in Kosovo in 1999. Tim Marshall, then diplomatic editor at Sky News , was on...
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 310 p. Language: English. Gil Merom argues that modern democracies fail in insurgency wars because they are unable to find a winning balance between expedient and moral tolerance for the costs of war. Small wars are lost at home when a critical minority shifts the balancing element from the battlefield to the marketplace of ideas....
Berghahn Books, 2015. — 325 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78238-866-1; ISBN: 978-1-78238-867-8. Cold War history has emphasized the division of Europe into two warring camps with separate ideologies and little in common. This volume presents an alternative perspective by suggesting that there were transnational networks bridging the gap and connecting like-minded people on both sides of the...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 452 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-02455-7 We know a great deal about how Europeans sailed in ships to the far reaches of the world, set in motion a process of world integration, and,from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, established extended maritime empires. Strangely, we know much less about how Europeans circulated goods and people across...
FRANK CASS LONDON . PORTLAND, OR - 2004. 143 p. This book attempts to set out a research agenda for a truly comparative approach to the cultural and social history of the Cold War. Although the international history of high politics still dominates the Cold War field, a good number of exciting and provocative books and articles have already tackled the cultural and, to a lesser...
Cambridge University Press, 1998. — 428 p. In 1914, the armies and navies that faced each other were alike right down to the strengths of their companies and battalions and the designs of their battleships and cruisers. Differences were of degree rather than essence. During the interwar period, however, the armed forces grew increasingly asymmetrical, developing different...
Harvard University Press, 2019. — 320 p. The Cold War division of Europe was not inevitable - the acclaimed author of Stalin's Genocides shows how postwar Europeans fought to determine their own destinies. Was the division of Europe after World War II inevitable? In this powerful reassessment of the postwar order in Europe, Norman Naimark suggests that Joseph Stalin was far...
Harvard University Press, 2019. — 320 p. The Cold War division of Europe was not inevitable - the acclaimed author of Stalin's Genocides shows how postwar Europeans fought to determine their own destinies. Was the division of Europe after World War II inevitable? In this powerful reassessment of the postwar order in Europe, Norman Naimark suggests that Joseph Stalin was far...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 368 p. — (Oxford Historical Monographs). How did European societies experience the Cold War? Politics of Security focuses on a number of peace movements in Britain and West Germany from the end of Second World War in 1945 to the early 1970s to answer this question. Britons and West Germans had been fierce enemies in the Second World War. After...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 136 p. Signed on June 28, 1919 between Germany and the principal Allied powers, the Treaty of Versailles formally ended World War I. Problematic from the very beginning, even its contemporaries saw the treaty as a mediocre compromise, creating a precarious order in Europe and abroad and destined to fall short of ensuring lasting peace. At the...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 136 p. Signed on June 28, 1919 between Germany and the principal Allied powers, the Treaty of Versailles formally ended World War I. Problematic from the very beginning, even its contemporaries saw the treaty as a mediocre compromise, creating a precarious order in Europe and abroad and destined to fall short of ensuring lasting peace. At the...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 144 p. Signed on June 28, 1919 between Germany and the principal Allied powers, the Treaty of Versailles formally ended World War I. Problematic from the very beginning, even its contemporaries saw the treaty as a mediocre compromise, creating a precarious order in Europe and abroad and destined to fall short of ensuring lasting peace. At the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 175 p. How did globalization come to dominate our lives? What have been, are, and most likely will be globalization's potential benefits and costs? This book explores the world's most powerful force for good and evil from the Renaissance through today and beyond.
New York: Berghahn Books, 2016. — 322 p. — ISBN10: 178533252X; ISBN13: 978-1785332524 — (Environment in History: International Perspectives. Book 10) Beginning in 1948, the Soviet Union launched a series of wildly ambitious projects to implement Joseph Stalin’s vision of a total “transformation of nature.” Intended to increase agricultural yields dramatically, this utopian...
Anadolu University, 2013. — 231 s. Önsöz Kisaltmalar Ikinci Dünya Savasi’na Giden Yol (1929-1939) Ikinci Dünya Savasi (1939-1945) Savafl Sonras›nda Dünya Düzeni (1945-1950) Soguk Savasi’ta Tarmanma (1950-1962) Yumuflama Ikinci Soguk Savafl Dönemi So¤uk Savafl’in Sona Ermesi Küreselleflme ve Yeni Dünya Düzeni (1991-2003)
Labor, 2008. — 307 págs. Una completa Historia Gráfica del Siglo XX que muestra, con las mejores imágenes y reseñas, todos los acontecimientos de la centuria divididos por décadas, en una perspectiva global única y necesaria para abarcar un panorama tan complejo en conflictos, descubrimientos científicos, guerras y cambios sociales. Sumario: Mi siglo XX. Recuerdos y...
Labor, 2008. — 307 págs. Una completa Historia Gráfica del Siglo XX que muestra, con las mejores imágenes y reseñas, todos los acontecimientos de la centuria divididos por décadas, en una perspectiva global única y necesaria para abarcar un panorama tan complejo en conflictos, descubrimientos científicos, guerras y cambios sociales. Contenido: Evans y el secreto del Minotauro...
Labor, 2008. — 309 págs. Una completa Historia Gráfica del Siglo XX que muestra, con las mejores imágenes y reseñas, todos los acontecimientos de la centuria divididos por décadas, en una perspectiva global única y necesaria para abarcar un panorama tan complejo en conflictos, descubrimientos científicos, guerras y cambios sociales. Contenido: Creación de la Sociedad de...
Labor, 2008. — 307 págs. Una completa Historia Gráfica del Siglo XX que muestra, con las mejores imágenes y reseñas, todos los acontecimientos de la centuria divididos por décadas, en una perspectiva global única y necesaria para abarcar un panorama tan complejo en conflictos, descubrimientos científicos, guerras y cambios sociales. Contenido: Ghandi, la fuerza de la no...
Labor, 2008. — 307 págs. Una completa Historia Gráfica del Siglo XX que muestra, con las mejores imágenes y reseñas, todos los acontecimientos de la centuria divididos por décadas, en una perspectiva global única y necesaria para abarcar un panorama tan complejo en conflictos, descubrimientos científicos, guerras y cambios sociales. Contenido: Prólogo Winston Churchill. el...
Labor, 2008. — 327 págs. Una completa Historia Gráfica del Siglo XX que muestra, con las mejores imágenes y reseñas, todos los acontecimientos de la centuria divididos por décadas, en una perspectiva global única y necesaria para abarcar un panorama tan complejo en conflictos, descubrimientos científicos, guerras y cambios sociales. Contenido Prólogo Corea, la gran batalla de...
This list has been checked by a moderator. Labor, 2008. — 326 págs. Una completa Historia Gráfica del Siglo XX que muestra, con las mejores imágenes y reseñas, todos los acontecimientos de la centuria divididos por décadas, en una perspectiva global única y necesaria para abarcar un panorama tan complejo en conflictos, descubrimientos científicos, guerras y cambios sociales....
Labor, 2008. — 307 págs. Una completa Historia Gráfica del Siglo XX que muestra, con las mejores imágenes y reseñas, todos los acontecimientos de la centuria divididos por décadas, en una perspectiva global única y necesaria para abarcar un panorama tan complejo en conflictos, descubrimientos científicos, guerras y cambios sociales. Sumario Prólogo La aventura de la OLP Del...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 510 p. This book is designed to be a companion to the study of 20th-century world history. It follows the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme history course for first teaching in September 2008 and first examinations in 2010. This volume covers the Route 2, 20th-century world history higher and standard level core syllabus. Written by...
San Francisco: City lights books, 1997. — 187 p. Rational fascism. Let us now praise revolution. Left anticommunism. Communism in Wonderland. Stalin`s fingers. The free-market paradise goes East. The End of Marxism? Anything but class - avoiding the c-word.
Princeton University Press, 1953. — 385 p. Negotiating a text for postwar sermon A period of frustration Progress in financial planning for the long run International control of raw material Planning to reduce trade barriers Drafting proposals in international trade A model approach to planning Food relief planning Planning for international relief The problems of transition...
Nhà xuất bản Sự Thật, 1979, 35 trang Cuốn sách Sự thật về quan hệ Việt Nam-Trung Quốc trong 30 năm qua là một văn kiện quan trọng của Bộ Ngoại giao nước Cộng hoà xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam được công bố ngày 4 tháng 10 năm 1979 nhằm vạch trần bộ mặt phản động của bọn bành trướng Bắc Kinh đối với nước ta trong suốt một thời gian dài. Cuốn sách này gồm toàn văn bản văn kiện nói trên.
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2017. — 480 p. — ISBN10: 0316303593; ISBN13: 978-0316303590 For over 100 years, at least one concentration camp has existed somewhere on Earth. First used as battlefield strategy, camps have evolved with each passing decade, in the scope of their effects and the savage practicality with which governments have employed them. Even in the...
Alabama, Ludwig von Mises, 2010. — 246 p. The great historian of classical liberalism strips away the veneer of exalted leaders and beloved wars. Professor Ralph Raico shows them to be wolves in sheep's clothing and their wars as attacks on human liberty and human rights. In the backdrop of this blistering and deeply insightful and scholarly history is the whitewashing of...
Ivy Press, 2015. — 160 p. — ISBN10: 1848318421, ISBN13: 9781848318427 You probably know, or think you know, quite a bit about what happened in the 20th century – chances are, if you’re reading this, you lived through at least some of it – and you may have referenced the Cuban Missile Crisis, the double helix, or the Wall Street Crash in conversation. But even for people who...
Westport: Praeger Publishers, 1997. — XII+194 p. An interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, cross-historical analysis of three 20th-century non-Western revolutionary societies — China, Mexico, and Iran — that were profoundly impinged upon by European and American imperialism. The study explores the role of apocalyptic beliefs in radical movements bent on sociopolitical...
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017. — 253 p. Reveals the true nature of relations between the US and the UK during the Carter presidency Thomas K. Robb draws upon a wealth of previously classified documents to reveal that relations between Britain and the United States of America during Carter's presidency were riven with antagonism and disagreement. Contrary to...
New York: Viking Adult — 1999 — 906 p. — ISBN10: 0670884561; ISBN13: 978-0670884568. Joining the many eminent historians who have tried to summarize the 20th century, Roberts (A History of Europe, etc.) takes as his framework the compelling argument that ""in many ways, the world... was centered on Europe when the twentieth century began"" and ""much of that century's story is...
The University of Chicago Press, 2002. — 250 p. The Police Conception of History Sociology and the Police Matraquage Algerian France Forms and Practices The Critique of Specialization “Vietnam Is in Our Factories” Entering the Tiger’s Lair The Illusions of Representation Different Windows, Same Faces Reprisals and Trials Anti-Third-Worldism and Human Rights Philosophers on...
Oxford University Press, 2000. — 351 p. The Interwar Background World War II The Communists Come to Power The Dialectics of Stalinism and Titoism The Revenge of the Repressed: East Central Europe Reasserts Itself A Precarious Stalemate The Various Endgames The Postcommunist Decade Suggested Readings
Princeton University Press, 2012. — 200 p. Combining literary, cultural, and political history, and based on extensive archival research, including previously unseen FBI and CIA documents, Archives of Authority argues that cultural politics--specifically America's often covert patronage of the arts--played a highly important role in the transfer of imperial authority from...
M.E. Sharpe, 2006. — 617 p. The only available Historical A-Z Dictionary devoted exclusively to the 1940s, this book offers readers a ready-reference portrait of one of the twentieth century's most tumultuous decades. In nearly 600 concise entries, the volume quickly defines a historical figure, institution, or event, and then points readers to three sources that treat the...
London: Routledge, 2014. — 238 p. — ISBN10: 1138785741; ISBN13: 978-1138785748. This volume brings together a number of international scholars to offer an original analysis of far-right movements and politics, challenging the existing literature through a very different methodological and theoretical perspective. The approach offered here is that of ‘longue durée’ analysis,...
Scarecrow Press, 2010. — 397 p. One of the most pervasive phenomena that distinguish the early 21st century is the prevalence of international organizations (IOs). There are IOs in virtually every sector: political, economic, trade, social, educational, scientific, defense, and so forth. Some IOs are restricted to clearly defined activities and closely controlled by their...
London, U.K.: Routledge, 2016. — xix, 562 p., ills. — (Routledge Worlds Series). The Postcolonial World presents an overview of the field and extends critical debate in exciting new directions. It provides an important and timely reappraisal of postcolonialism as an aesthetic, political, and historical movement, and of postcolonial studies as a multidisciplinary, transcultural...
New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2017. — 423 p. "Cold war" was a term coined in 1945 by left-leaning British writer George Orwell to predict how powers made unconquerable by having nuclear weapons would conduct future relations. It was popularized in 1947 by American journalist Walter Lippmann amid mounting tensions between the erstwhile World War II Allies - the...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014 — 672 p. — ISBN10: 0199602050; ISBN13: 978-0199602056. The impact of Communism on the twentieth century was massive, equal to that of the two world wars. Until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, historians knew relatively little about the secretive world of communist states and parties. Since then, the opening of state, party, and...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 264 p. — ISBN10: 052171396X; ISBN13: 978-0521713962. A 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. Russia and China, though very...
Indiana University Press, 2018. — 312 p. Generation Stalin traces Joseph Stalin’s rise as a dominant figure in French political culture from the 1930s through the 1950s. Andrew Sobanet brings to light the crucial role French writers played in building Stalin’s cult of personality and in disseminating Stalinist propaganda in the international Communist sphere, including within...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 796 p. The postwar period is no longer current affairs but is becoming the recent past. As such, it is increasingly attracting the attentions of historians. Whilst the Cold War has long been a mainstay of political science and contemporary history, recent research approaches postwar Europe in many different ways, all of which are represented in...
Conway, 2015. — 560 p. — ISBN: 1844862356. In this comprehensive book, David Stone describes and analyses every aspect of the German Army as it existed under Kaiser Wilhelm II, encompassing its development and antecedents, organisation, personnel, weapons and equipment, its inherent strengths and weaknesses, and its victories and defeats as it fought on many fronts throughout...
HarperCollins Publishers, 2011. — 148 p. Development is a multidimensional process characterized by economic growth, investment and technological progress, transformation of natural resources, demographic change, advances in health and education, and evolution of social and political institutions. The results of development should be measurable by increases in output,...
Washington: The Washington Post, 2019. — 736 p. The only book with exclusive analysis by the Pulitzer Prize–winning staff of The Washington Post, and the most complete and authoritative available. This edition from The Washington Post/Scribner contains: The long-awaited report An introduction by The Washington Post titled "A President, a Prosecutor, and the Protection of...
Pimlico, 2006. — 258 p. A popular science publication about the history of the house, which is located on the banks of the river. The Thames in London and the people who lived in it. In which we find the House. London's other town. Of Winchecter Geese, Bird's-eye Views and Show Business. Of Water, Fire and the Great Rebuilding Genteel Houses and a Glamorous Trade. Of Bonds,...
Routledge, 2019. — 274 p. Throughout Eastern Europe, the unexpected and irrevocable fall of communism that began in the late 1980s presented enormous challenges in the spheres of politics and society, as well as at the level of individual experience. Excitement, uncertainty, and fear predicated the shaping of a new order, the outcome of which was anything but predetermined....
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997 — 656 p. — ISBN10: 0804731640; ISBN13: 978-0804731645. The aim of this book is to carefully reconstruct Marx and Engels's theory of freedom, to highlight its centrality for their vision of the communist society of the future, to trace its development in the history of Marxist thought, including Marxism-Leninism, and to explain how...
Trans-Atlantic Publications, 2014. — 337 p. — (History in Focus). — ISBN10: 1444164422. — ISBN13: 978-1444164428. Complete support for the 20th Century section of the IGCSE History syllabus with best-selling books and digital resources from an author you can really trust. This new edition of Ben Walsh's best-selling GCSE Modern World History provides a comprehensive textbook...
London: Routledge — 1999 — 288 p. — ISBN10: 041521582X; ISBN13: 978-0415215824 — 2nd edition. Modern European History brings together a unique selection of documents covering the period from 1871 to 2000. The collection is organised by topic, and a clear historical context and chronological chart provide background for each section. This second edition brings the book up to...
New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. — 286 p. The Cartel Ideal The Context of Antitrust Reform versus Mobilization Making the World Safe for Competition Among Unbelievers: Antitrust in Germany and Japan The New Order in Practice: The Cases of Oil and Steel Essay on Sources
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2018. — 208 p. This book examines Polish-Belarusian relations, which, according to the Polish historian Marcel Kosman, were "very close, though not always idyllic" (Kosman, 1979, p. 6), or, as the Belarusian author Piotra Rudkouski puts it, "Historically and culturally, Belarus and Poland are Siamese twins" (Rudkouski, 2007, p. 185). According to the...
Williamson Murray, Peter R. Mansoor. Hybrid Warfare: Fighting Complex Opponents from the Ancient World to the Present - Cambridge University Press, 2012 - 321 p. Hybrid warfare has been an integral part of the historical landscape since the ancient world, but only recently have analysts - incorrectly - categorized these conflicts as unique. Great powers throughout history have...
New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2006 — 272 p. — ISBN10: 0300126026; ISBN13: 978-0300126020. In the wake of the monstrous projects of Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and others in the twentieth century, the idea of utopia has been discredited. Yet, historian Jay Winter suggests, alongside the “major utopians” who murdered millions in their attempts to transform the world were...
San Diego: ReferencePoint Press, Inc., 2014. — 96 p. — (History’s great structures). — ISBN: 978-1-60152-544-4 New York City's World Trade Center, which included the buildings known as the Twin Towers, was one of the citys most familiar structures. But its legacy rests on one of the modern worlds greatest tragedies: the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, in which hijacked...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1962. — 479 p. What happens if the two most powerful partners in the Communist world cannot agree on basic issues of principle and policy? Donald S. Zagoria, who was from 1951 to 1961 an analyst of Communist Bloc politics for the U.S. Government, traces the development of serious conflict between the U.S.S.R. and China from the 20th Party...
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