Was passiert, wenn ein verheerendes Erdbeben genau zu dem Zeitpunkt eine Metropole trifft, an dem Millionen Menschen offene Holzkohlefeuer entzunden, um ihr Mittagessen zu kochen?
Interest in race and ethnicity research in Wales has grown apace in the last decade, opening up wider debates about the nature, focus and content of what collectively is called Welsh Studies.
This book offers a rigorous and historically grounded analysis of Black women’s political thought, activism, and institutional engagement across six decades.
This book offers a rigorous and historically grounded analysis of Black women’s political thought, activism, and institutional engagement across six decades.
This extraordinary first-hand account of Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop's experiences as senior medical officer in the infamous prisoner-of-war camps in Java and on the Burma-Thailand Railway, is not only an account of great historical significance but also a testament to the ability of the human spirit to overcome the most unbearably cruel conditions.
Als im Jahr 1833 das erste Schiff mit neuenglischem Natureis im Hafen von Kalkutta einlief, stand eine Menge britischer Kolonialbeamter am Kai - nicht aus Neugier, sondern aus Durst nach dem, was ihnen ein ertraglicheres Leben in der Tropen versprach.
In the early hours of 26th June 1942, six airmen from 102 Squadron return from Bremen in their Halifax, Q for Queenie, having taken part in the third Thousand Bomber Raid.
Mississippi's Mess: Political Inequality, Stratification Economics, and Inadequate Economic Development challenges readers to question the status quo of economic development and the foundation of inequality that economic development efforts are built upon.
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject History - Asia, grade: B+ (2), The American Central University (Department of History), course: Russian Revolutions, language: English, abstract: In the summer of 1927, the government and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union fell victim to an acute war panic, which became known as "e;the War Scare"e;.
For thirty years the war in Vietnam consumed everything it touched: a French empire, an American presidency and then another, three million Vietnamese lives by the highest estimates, and 58,220 American ones — along with America's certainty about itself.
Monstrous textuality emerges when Gothic narratives like Frankenstein reflect the monstrous in their narrative structure to create narratives of resistance.
This book sets out the options available to local housing authorities and housing associations, primarily by reference to England, in seeking to detect and act upon housing fraud.
The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War has long been understood in a global context, but Jeremy Friedmans Shadow Cold War delves deeper into the era to examine the competition between the Soviet Union and the Peoples Republic of China for the leadership of the world revolution.
The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War has long been understood in a global context, but Jeremy Friedmans Shadow Cold War delves deeper into the era to examine the competition between the Soviet Union and the Peoples Republic of China for the leadership of the world revolution.
Monstrous textuality emerges when Gothic narratives like Frankenstein reflect the monstrous in their narrative structure to create narratives of resistance, and allows writers to meta-narratively reflect their own poetics and textual production, and reclaim authority over their work under circumstances of systemic cultural oppression and Othering.
This book develops the concept of Asian Commons as a conceptual and methodological tool to engage with Asia, both in its incredible heterogeneity and its important historical resonance.
This book develops the concept of Asian Commons as a conceptual and methodological tool to engage with Asia, both in its incredible heterogeneity and its important historical resonance.
This book sets out the options available to local housing authorities and housing associations, primarily by reference to England, in seeking to detect and act upon housing fraud.
This volume presents eight scholarly contributions that provide a systematic and interdisciplinary analysis of the Persian Gulf and its islands from historical and political economy perspectives.
This accessible, narrative account follows Indian history over its 9,000 year trajectory, from the ancient Harappans to today, emphasizing events and issues of the 20th and 21st centuries.
This volume presents eight scholarly contributions that provide a systematic and interdisciplinary analysis of the Persian Gulf and its islands from historical and political economy perspectives.
Subversions of the American Century: Filipino Literature in Spanish and the Transpacific Transformation of the United States argues that the moment the United States became an overseas colonial power in 1898, American national identity was redefined across a global matrix.
Subversions of the American Century: Filipino Literature in Spanish and the Transpacific Transformation of the United States argues that the moment the United States became an overseas colonial power in 1898, American national identity was redefined across a global matrix.
Following the end of World War II in 1945, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) spent the next three decades carrying out agrarian reform among nearly one-third of the world's peasants.
Following the end of World War II in 1945, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) spent the next three decades carrying out agrarian reform among nearly one-third of the world's peasants.
Balinese Art is the first comprehensive survey of Balinese painting from its origins in the traditional Balinese village to its present position at the forefront of the high-priced Asian art scene.
Literature Review from the year 2009 in the subject History - Asia, grade: 85, Ben Gurion University (Middle Eastern Studies), course: Milestones in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, language: English, abstract: "e;Who controls the past controls the future.
Balinese Art is the first comprehensive survey of Balinese painting from its origins in the traditional Balinese village to its present position at the forefront of the high-priced Asian art scene.
