Raised in the rural Appalachian town of Erwin, Tennessee, John David Goodin was a tank commander in one of the most notorious and prestigious regiments in World War II, the 3rd Armored "e;Spearhead"e; Division, the 32nd Armored Regiment.
Noor Inayat Khan, descendante d’un sultan hindou, élevée en banlieue parisienne, puis vivant à Londres, fut rattrapée par les aléas de l’histoire au moment où sa carrière littéraire commençait à s’affirmer.
Domestic violence legislation is a key response to the entrenched social problem of intimate partner violence across the globe, yet little is known about the legal players who implement these laws in terms of their perceptions of intimate partner violence and femicide.
Recent years have seen renewed interest in elites around the world, and their interconnection with power, privilege, social stratification, and social change.
The second in a two-volume series that explores the interplay between social transformation and visual culture in contemporary China, this book examines the profound changes in the cityscapes, visual regimes, and visual technologies that shape the aestheticization of everyday life.
This book introduces readers to the rich and diverse experiences of women across the African continent, covering their socio-cultural, political, and economic realities from the precolonial era right up to the modern day.
Als eine der herausragenden, aber weithin unbekannten Gestalten der Reformation prägte Ambrosius Blarer von Giersberg den religiösen Wandel Südwestdeutschlands wie kaum ein anderer seiner Zeit.
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.
In this allegorical novel of the Holocaust, Polish author Bogdan Rutha presents a tale in which the protagonist, a young Pole, is drawn into the nightmare world that is the Jewish ghetto in the city of N.
This book redefines modern Indian literature from a cosmopolitan comparative perspective inclusive of literature in English from India and the diaspora, in native languages, and works by non-Indians.
This study evaluates how the ideology of Socialist Realism, developed by the Soviets in policies and the practices of art, has been influential in the Asia-Pacific region from 1917 until today.
This book examines the understudied role of the interfaith movement in institutionalizing religious pluralism in the public life of contemporary societies through the case study of Interfaith Scotland.
This book examines the everyday state from the perspective of the lived experiences of peripheralized Indigenous tribal peoples in contemporary Tripura, Northeast India.
India Korea Connections in the Indo Pacific presents multidimensional aspects of the Special Strategic Relationship between the Republic of Korea (ROK) and India, ranging from security, diplomacy, trade and FDI, and people to people exchanges.
India Korea Connections in the Indo Pacific presents multidimensional aspects of the Special Strategic Relationship between the Republic of Korea (ROK) and India, ranging from security, diplomacy, trade and FDI, and people to people exchanges.
This book investigates the radical transformation of the relationship between Germany and France, neighbors whose border constituted one of the deepest fault lines of European history.
On 8 February 1945, over 50,000 British and Canadian soldiers moved forward to attack German defensive positions centred on the vast Reichswald Forest, in what proved to be one of the last and bloodiest battles of the whole of the Second World War in Europe.
The book expounds on the functioning of rural development as well as the practical problems encountered in the formulation of rural development policies and programmes.
This book analyses the opportunities enabled for Armenia by China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in the framework of economic cooperation, policy diversification, social inclusion and regional cohesion.
This book aims to extend existing historical, literary and media knowledge of neglected written voices as a form of print participation in the Second World War.
This book explores the aesthetic consciousness of the Shang Dynasty and its influence on Chinese aesthetic development and contemporary aesthetic creation.
