Political ideologies and movements

As a child growing up on a farm in Eastern Ontario, Henrietta listened intently to dinner table stories about her parents lives before and after WWII.

Civil war inevitably causes shifts in state boundaries, demographics, systems of rule, and the bases of legitimate authoritymany of the markers of national identity.

Henry Friedman was robbed of his adolescence by the monstrous evil that annihilated millions of European Jews and changed forever the lives of those who survived.

In the more than 140 years since his death, Abraham Lincoln has become America's most revered president.

Is there an alternative to the neoliberal globalization that is ravaging our planet?

Useful Captives: The Role of POWs in American Military Conflicts is a wide-ranging investigation of the integral role prisoners of war (POWs) have played in the economic, cultural, political, and military aspects of American warfare.

In the aftermath of Donald Trump's victory in 2016, Americans finally faced a perplexing political reality: Democrats, purported champions of working people since the New Deal, had lost the white, working-class voters of Middle America.

Choice Outstanding Academic TitleIn the face of the German onslaught in World War II, the Soviets succeeded, as Molotov later recalled, in relocating to the rear virtually an entire industrial country.

Since the late eighteenth century the ideals of political democracy and individual flourishing have become so entangled that most people no longer differentiate them.

An intellectual biography of the renowned and influential observer of the "e;era of tyrannies"e;lie Halevy (1870-1937) was one of the most respected and influential intellectuals of the French Third Republic.

Church Resistance to Nazism in Norway, 1940-1945 examines the evolution of the Lutheran state Church of Norway in response to the German occupation.

This study of religion and violence "e;forces us to reexamine some of our most cherished self-images of modern liberal democratic societies"e; (Charles Taylor).

What good will reading about Fidel Castro and his Communist Marxist Government do?

This book explores the life and thought of one of the most important but least known figures in early Zionism, Nathan Birnbaum.

A study of what western leaders knew about Adolf Hitler and Nazi ideology & policies before the outbreak of World War II.

The Unorthodox Presidency of Donald J.

Across Eastern Germany, where political allegiances are shifting to the right, the wolf is increasingly seen as a trespasser and threat to the local way of life.

This book is an account of a disaster at sea, the sinking by a German submarine of the passenger liner Athenia sailing from Liverpool to Montreal, loaded with Americans, Canadians, and Europeans, attempting to cross the Atlantic before the outbreak of war.

Fighter pilot Butch O'Hare became one of America's heroes in 1942 when he saved the carrier Lexington in what has been called the most daring single action in the history of combat aviation.

Glen Williford lends new insight into the reasons for America s relatively quick comeback from the attack on Pearl Harbor.

This book recounts how the Wake Island garrison survived nearly daily bombings and repulsed the first Japanese attempt to take the atoll.

Among the fiercest opponents of the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II was journalist James "e;Jimmie"e; Matsumoto Omura.

The Everyday Nationalism of Workers upends common notions about how European nationalism is lived and experienced by ordinary people-and the bottom-up impact these everyday expressions of nationalism exert on institutionalized nationalism writ large.

Militarization and nuclearization were the historical developments most essential to the creation of the rural New Right.

Chronicles the air war above Britain from March 1942 to June 1943 and includes in-the-cockpit accounts from German and British pilots Assesses offensive and defensive tactics Incorporates hundreds of rarely seen photos As the Battle of Britain came to a close, the Luftwaffe began arming its single-engine fighters with bombs and using them instead of bombers for many daylight raids against shipping and coastal installations, railways, fuel depots, and other military and civilian objectives.

Operation KE explores the air combat that attended the Japanese evacuation of Guadalcanal in early 1943a topic which has hitherto received very little attention.

Thanks to the PBY's daring pilots and their effective tactics, the slow outdated Catalina patrol bombers became the scourge of Japanese shipping in the South Pacific during World War II.

A remarkable book.

An enlisted radioman recalls his years of action in the Pacific with candor and humor.

In June 1944, U.

This persuasive study attacks the key myths surrounding the Battle of Britain to revise the relative status of maritime and aviation factors in the defense of Britain.

The authors were with the Japanese Naval Special Attack Force (Kamikaze Corps) from its inception in late 1944.

How has the modern conservative movement thrived in spite of the lack of harmony among its constituent members?

Political Theory with regard to weaknesses of the United States Constitution as well as the decline in public representation.

The Long Afterlife of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration reexamines the history of imprisonment of U.

Of the 7000 Jews living in the Baltic seaport of Libau (Liepaja), Latvia when the Germans invaded on June 21, 1941, only 200 remained alive when the city was liberated May 9,1945.

This is the first comprehensive examination of Leon Trotsky's view on revolutionary organizational principles, and the dynamic interplay of democratic initiative and principled centralism.

Japan's invasion of China in 1937 saw most major campaigns north of the Yangtze River, where Chinese industry was concentrated.

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Stone & Stone Editor’s ChoiceBy the summer of 1944, the war in Europe had reached a critical point.

Many today place great hope in law as a vehicle for the transformation of society and accept that law is autonomous, universal, and above all, secular.

Even casual acquaintances of the Bible know that the Truth shall set you free, but in the pursuit of that Truth in higher education--particularly in Christian or Jewish seminaries--there are often many casualties suffered along the way.

Once seen as a fringe phenomenon, populism is back.

The New York Times was once considered the gold standard in American journalism and the most trusted news organization in America.

A sailors extraordinary experiences on an American submarine in the Pacific are candidly reported in this eyewitness account of war from a torpedomans perspective.

Told here for the first time in vivid detail is the story of the defenders of Wake Island following their surrender to the Japanese on December 23, 1941.

Before America entered World War II, twenty-two U.

Calling the Combined Chiefs of Staff the glue that held the British-American alliance together in World War II, David Rigby describes the vital contributions to Allied victory made by the organization, which drew its members from the U.