In 1945, Europeans confronted a legacy of mass destruction and death: millions of families had lost their homes and livelihoods; millions of men in uniform had lost their lives; and millions more had been displaced by the war s destruction, and the genocidal policies of the Nazi regime.
This book provides a history of Nikkeiren (the Japanese Federation of Managers' Organisations) and an account of post-war capitalist development in Japan.
This volume investigates how international students in and from the Middle East are constructed by nations, institutions, other students, and themselves.
After 70 years after independence, the tragic reality of Indian schools is that who we are, where we live, how much we earn and our gender influences the kind of education we will get.
Forty years after becoming an independent state, Israel is still involved in deadly strife with many of its Arab neighbors and with the Palestinians under its military control.
Using the comparative historical method, this book looks at the experience of indigenous peoples, specifically the Native Hawaiians, showing how a nation can express culture and citizenship while seeking ways to attain greater sovereignty over territory, culture, and politics.
Drawing on a wealth of eyewitness accounts, contemporary reports, and declassified intelligence documents, some never published before, The Mafia at War reconstructs the relationships between the Mafia and Allied intelligence organizations.
This book maps the increasing convergence of US domestic and international security regimes, analyzing the trend towards global pacification in the name of 'security'.
Dieser Band dokumentiert die Judenverfolgung im Protektorat Böhmen und Mähren seit März 1939 und im Deutschen Reich vom Beginn des Zweiten Weltkriegs bis zum September 1941.
The traditional Islamic boarding schools known as pesantren are crucial centres of Muslim learning and culture within Indonesia, but their cultural significance has been underexplored.
In recent years, Islam whether via the derivatives of 'Political Islam' or 'Islamism' has come to be seen as an 'activist' force in social and political spheres worldwide.
This book explores the impact of finance on urban spaces as well as cities' role in the social constitution and dissemination of financial logistics and techniques.
The China-EC/EU relationship, started in 1975, is a highly institutionalized, multidimensional and complex, but to some extent controversial international partnership.
This book formulates a new pedagogy of death with regard to Northeast India and shows how this pedagogy offers an understanding of alternative knowledge systems and epistemes.
While the history of food on the home front in wartime Britain has mostly focused on rationing, this book reveals the importance and scale of nation-wide communal dining schemes during this era.
Michael Wedekind legt hiermit erstmals eine Studie zum bislang wenig erforschten Einsatz österreichischer und deutscher Archäologen und Frühhistoriker im Alpen-Adria-Raum während der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus vor.
The importance of reclaiming the scholarly language of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict cannot be overstated as entire disciplines, including Middle Eastern Studies, Women and Gender Studies, and Ethnic Studies have come under the spell of these politicised fads with the attendant perversion of standards of evidence and open inquiry.
Contemporary discussions of Africa's recent growth have largely interpreted such growth in terms of structural transformation, based mainly on national- and sectoral-level data.
This book explores why Japan, despite being a world leader in many high technology industries such as automobiles and consumer electronics, is only a minor player in the global pharmaceutical industry.
This book examines how the young in Northeast Asia engage with the political, especially in terms of the production, reformulation, or contestation of their national identities.
This book draws on a range of theoretical foundations, approaches and management practices that are culturally and jurisdictionally appropriate in several Muslim countries.
Als Trude Klumak 2005 in Zürich stirbt, findet ihre Tochter Sibylle Elam mehrere Bündel Briefe, darunter die Briefe, die Trudes Großeltern in den Jahren zwischen 1937 und 1942 aus Heilbronn an ihre Enkelin schickten.
Donald Trump, a thrice-married, no-need-of-forgiveness, blustery billionaire who rarely goes to church, won more Evangelical Christian votes than any candidate in history on his way to winning the 2016 US presidential election.
This book investigates the ways in which the humanitarian system is secular and understands religious beliefs and practices when responding to disasters.
This volume examines the evolution of Central European product liability systems, with particular reference to the effect of the implementation of the Product Liability Directive in the context of the recent enlargement of the EU.
This book breaks new ground by providing a structured and cohesive set of contributions on the actions, developments, problems and theories of corporate social responsibility (CSR).
This is the first book to explore women's judo in all aspects, from the history and governance of the sport to cutting-edge sport science perspectives.
This book examines the complexities of women's lives in Africa and the transnational spaces of Europe and North America through the literary works of key African women writers.
This book covers all aspects of the economics and management of geotourism, an increasingly important sector of nature tourism that focuses on the geology and landscape of different territories, providing a pleasurable and educational tourist experience.
