The Struggle for the Pacific (1937) examines the rivalries and postures as various powers - European, the US, Japan and China - attempted to militarily, politically and economically dominate the Asia Pacific sphere.
Edward Everett Hale's The Man Without a Country is a timeless tale of patriotism, redemption, and the profound human need for connection and belonging.
Auf riskanten Wegen verhalf der junge Wiener Anwalt Willy Perl Tausenden Jüdinnen und Juden aus Zentral- und Osteuropa Ende der 1930er Jahre zu einem neuen Leben.
Economic diplomacy is a multifaceted tool that European countries, both individually and collectively through the EU, use to promote their economic interests, enhance their global standing, and address pressing global challenges.
This history of Anglo-American efforts to overturn Ireland's neutrality policy during the Second World War adds complexity to the grand narrative of the Western Alliance against the Axis Powers, exploring relatively unexamined emotional, personalised, and gendered politics that underlay policymaking and alliance relations.
Exiting war explores a particular 1918-20 'moment' in the British Empire's history, between the First World War's armistices of 1918, and the peace treaties of 1919 and 1920.
In this valuable resource, over 1,000 annotated sources from Great Britain, France, and Germany offer a historiographical reference for study of the British army at the beginning and in the first battles of World War I.
During the Great War, books and stories for young men were frequently used as unofficial propaganda for recruitment and to sell the war to British youth as a moral crusade.
Executive editor: Ingo Loose; English-language edition prepared by: Elizabeth Harvey, Russell Alt-Haaker, Johannes Gamm, Georg Felix Harsch, Dorothy Mas, and Caroline Pearce By 1941, most of the Jews in the Polish territories annexed to the Reich - Danzig-West Prussia, the Wartheland, District Bialystok, Zichenau (Ciechanow) and eastern Upper Silesia - were incarcerated in ghettos and camps: the largest ghettos were Litzmannstadt and Bialystok.
This volume, grounded in the Diary of a Young Girl and its continued appeal to readers of all ages, sees both promise in the relevance of Anne Frank's story in the twenty first century, and potential for new ways of teaching her story and those of other genocides and human right violations.
This volume, grounded in the Diary of a Young Girl and its continued appeal to readers of all ages, sees both promise in the relevance of Anne Frank's story in the twenty first century, and potential for new ways of teaching her story and those of other genocides and human right violations.
Während des Zweiten Weltkriegs geriet die Schweiz in eine einzigartige Position: Umgeben von kriegsführenden Mächten war das Land gezwungen, seine Neutralität unter schwierigsten Bedingungen zu wahren.
Recorrido grafico y narrativo por los anos de la presidencia de Salvador Allende en Chile, desde la perspectiva de John Nitsch, un periodista estadounidense que llego a Chile en 1970 con el encargo de reportar acerca del proceso electoral de aquel ano.
In Disputing Disaster, Perry Anderson picks out from the highly charged historiography on the First World War one leading historian from each of the major powers that survived the conflagration: Fritz Fischer, famous historian of German war guilt; Pierre Renouvin, a disabled serviceman and preeminent authority on the conflict in France; Luigi Albertini, the Italian newspaper tycoon who, unique among scholars of the Great War, played a part in pitching his country into it; Paul W.
