Cold wars and proxy conflicts

This book offers new methodological approaches that contextualize the lives of German First World War aviators through the iconography that created their image, the act of killing and rituals of death in aerial combat, and the collapsing perceptions of space and time created by the world's first aerial conflict.

This book examines Italy's colonial history from the turn of the twentieth century to the outbreak of the First World War.

Drawing upon Vietnamese, Chinese, former Soviet, and American sources, Ang Cheng Guan provides an updated and concise account of the Vietnam War (1954-1975) from the Vietnamese communists' perspective.

This book challenges conventional wisdom about labor migration during the Cold War era, revealing a complex landscape of mobility that transcended the supposed rigid boundaries between socialist and capitalist worlds.

Drawing upon Vietnamese, Chinese, former Soviet, and American sources, Ang Cheng Guan provides an updated and concise account of the Vietnam War (1954-1975) from the Vietnamese communists' perspective.

By the end of the Second World War, Germany was in ruins and its Jewish population so gravely diminished that a rich cultural life seemed unthinkable.

The year 1922 marks a major turning point in Eastern Mediterranean history, with the abolition of the Ottoman Sultanate concluding a long period of upheaval known as the "e;Eastern Question.

This handbook is an innovative recasting and reinterpretation of modern Turkish history centered on war and society.

This book challenges conventional wisdom about labor migration during the Cold War era, revealing a complex landscape of mobility that transcended the supposed rigid boundaries between socialist and capitalist worlds.

The year 1922 marks a major turning point in Eastern Mediterranean history, with the abolition of the Ottoman Sultanate concluding a long period of upheaval known as the "e;Eastern Question.

This book examines Italy's colonial history from the turn of the twentieth century to the outbreak of the First World War.

En 1966, en plena Guerra Fria, la historiadora Sheila Fitzpatrick, por entonces una estudiante de doctorado en Oxford, se instala en Moscu para consultar archivos oficiales nunca antes explorados.

This handbook is an innovative recasting and reinterpretation of modern Turkish history centered on war and society.

Focusing on the impact of the Savannah River Plant (SRP) on the communities it created, rejuvenated, or displaced, this book explores the parallel militarization and modernization of the Cold War-era South.

The book presents the history of Polish architecture and architects in the years 1944-1989, focusing on selected issues, including both the development of architecture itself and the conditions of practicing architecture in the socialist country.

This book provides a comprehensive historical account of agricultural development in independent India.

In Brutal Fantasies, Christine Kim examines how Western cultural representations of North Korea depend on fantasies of the inhuman.

Im Herbst 1956 besuchten BND-Mitarbeiter auf Einladung der CIA die USA.

The 1980s was a decade of enormous global change.

This study focuses on how Russian history textbooks published between 1992 and 2021 dealt with the topic of the Soviet period (1917-1991).

The 1980s was a decade of enormous global change.

'If you loved The Twilight Zone, this is for you.

Wie war das eigentlich, als die ersten westdeutschen Korrespondenten begannen, aus der Sowjetunion zu berichten?

This book offers the first in-depth account of the United Kingdom's contribution to the rapprochement between East and West that culminated in the successful negotiation of the Helsinki Final Act of 1975.

This book uncovers the extent to which the Gehlen Organization, the intelligence organization created by the United States at the end of World War Two, recruited and used controversial individuals who had been heavily involved in the atrocities committed by the Nazis.

This study focuses on how Russian history textbooks published between 1992 and 2021 dealt with the topic of the Soviet period (1917-1991).

Covering the sweep of Russian history from empire to Soviet Union to post-Soviet state, this new edition of Russia's Long Twentieth Century is an accessible textbook that encourages students to start a lively conversation with Russia's storied past.

What can the lived experiences of Czechoslovak Cold War refugee children tell us about the lifetime impact of childhood forced migration?

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Britain has a rich Cold War heritage and here its significant historical and cultural aspects are explored.

Bereits in der späten Zarenzeit entwickelte sich Russland durch den Aufbau einer modernen Erdölindustrie im Kaukasus zu einem der weltweit führenden Erdölproduzenten und baute diese Position in der Sowjetzeit weiter aus.

Japan at War, 1914-1952 is a synthetic and interpretive history that highlights the centrality of war to the modern Japanese experience.

Introducing Yugoslavia (1954) looks at the racial and historic chequer-board of 1950s Yugoslavia, providing a fascinating insight into the social and cultural aspects of a land that few Westerners visited at the time.

The Red Pencil (1989) examines the many ways in which Soviet censorship interfered in the creative process - in the words of those who experienced it first hand.

The 1979 Iranian Revolution brought Islamists to power, dashed generations of hope for democracy, and forever changed the course of history throughout the region.

'Entertaining and vivid.

First published in 1988, Science, Politics and the Cold War is a history of the cold-war era that demonstrates the extent to which science and scientists have been implicated in every aspect of the political process.

The Making of the Soviet Citizen (1987) examines the distinctive feature of Soviet education - the crucial importance it gives to the formation of a new type of person, the model socialist citizen.

Wer war Nadeschda Krupskaja, die Frau an Lenins Seite?