Political ideologies and movements

The Holocaust - the murder of approximately six million Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators in World War Two - is the gravest crime in recorded history, committed on a human and geographical scale which is almost unimaginable.

This book aims to reinvigorate the Marxist project and the role it might play in illuminating the way beyond capitalism.

Ce livre présente en détail la Ligue des filles allemandes (Bund Deutscher Mädel, BDM), son histoire, ses rouages, ses liens avec les Jeunesses hitlériennes dont elle était sous la tutelle, avec l’État nazi dans son ensemble, ainsi que la place des jeunes filles allemandes dans le Service du Travail du Reich, dans le Generalplan Ost et le Lebensborn.

For more than half a century, Saudi Arabia--through both official and non-governmental channels--has poured billions of dollars into funding and sponsoring religious activities and Islamic causes around the world.

This handbook is the most comprehensive and up-to-date single volume on the history and memory of the Holocaust in Britain.

Despite its avowed commitment to liberalism and democracy internationally, the United States has frequently chosen to back repressive or authoritarian regimes in parts of the world.

Victory at Stalingrad tells the gripping strategic and military story of that battle.

Jocelyne Cesari investigates the relationship between modernization, politics, and Islam in Muslim-majority countries such as Egypt, Iraq, Pakistan, Tunisia, and Turkey.

Some blame the violence and unrest in the Muslim world on Islam itself, arguing that the religion and its history is inherently bloody.

This book intends to reflect the variety and diversity of the musical responses that arose in favour of the Republic and against fascism during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), encompassing a wide range of music (classical music, film music, popular music), geographies (the US, the URSS, Britain, Germany) and individuals (from well-known figures such as Paul Robeson and Dimitri Shostakovich, to unknown men and women).

Collective memory carries the past into the present.

Based on two years of ethnographic research in the southern suburbs of Beirut, An Enchanted Modern demonstrates that Islam and modernity are not merely compatible, but actually go hand-in-hand.

A series of perspectives on the everyday experience of Europeans in the ''age of fascism''.

Many Americans wish to believe that the United States, founded in religious tolerance, has gradually and naturally established a secular public sphere that is equally tolerant of all religions--or none.

This volume advances the research agenda of one of the most remarkable political thinkers of our time: Jon Elster.

In this passionate, provocative book, Peter Beinart offers a bold new vision and sounds the call for liberals to revive the spirit that once swept America and inspired the world.

A highly illustrated account of the hunt for the Bismarck.

This book clarifies and verifies the role sport has as an alternative marker in understanding and mapping memory in Japan, by applying the concept of lieux de memoire (realms of memory) to sport in Japan.

Genocide murders innocents in a society, and it leaves behind moral corruption and societal twistedness.

By both its supporters and detractors, neoliberalism is usually considered an economic policy agenda.

We'll Always Have the Movies explores how movies made in Hollywood during World War II were vehicles for helping Americans understand the war.

This book details the exploits of the highly skilled Naval Aviators charged with achieving air supremacy over New Guinea in their A6M2/3 Zero-sens.

Sources for Studying the Holocaust provides a pathway for readers to engage with questions about what sources can be used to study the Holocaust.

This book offers a fully up-to-date and comprehensive guide to religion in Britain since 1945.

Shared water resources in Israel and Palestine are often the site of political, economic, historical, legal and ethical contestation.

Drafted while events were fresh in his mind in 1942-1943, Alabama-born American diplomat George Platt Waller's memoir chronicles his war-time experience in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

This book, first published in 1999, analyses the history and major economic features of the Vietnamese reform process.

Exploring how Shusaku Endo, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Thomas Merton, Marilynne Robinson, Cormac McCarthy, and Octavia E.

Kenneth Estes studies the 100,000 West Europeans who fought against Russia as volunteers for the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS.

In this companion volume to The French Army 1939-45 (1), Ian Sumner and Fran ois Vauvillier examine the history, uniforms and insignia of the Free French, Fighting French and the Army of Liberation.

"In der Tat gab es wohl wenig Menschen, die auf ein so wildbewegtes und abenteuerliches Leben zurückblicken konnten.

This book is an urgent and compelling account of the Occupy movements: from the M15 movement in Spain, to the wave of Occupations flooding across cities in American, Europe and Australia, to the harsh reality of evictions as corporations and governments attempted to reassert exclusive control over public space.

Sheehan argues that Madison''s vision for the new nation was informed by the idea of republican self-government.

This volume examines the contributions to International Law of individual members of the Advisory Committee of Jurists in the League of Nations, and the broader national and discursive legal traditions of which they were representative.

In this provocative book, Peter Gries directly challenges the widely held view that partisan elites on Capitol Hill are out of touch with a moderate American public.

The First World War had seen the mechanization of warfare.

Louis Lowy (1920-1991), an international social worker and gerontologist, rarely spoke publicly about the Holocaust.

The major contribution made by Coastal Forces to the Allied war effort has had surprisingly little coverage in the literature of the Second World War.

Dies ist die Geschichte Tibor Wohls, der 1942 als Achtzehnjähriger von Theresienstadt nach Auschwitz transportiert wurde und dort überlebte.

This book uses Karl Barth's Der Romerbrief (1922) as a prism through which to explore the role of religion and its interactions with cultural and political thought in the turbulent interwar period in Europe.

Rabindranath Tagore and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi constitute the key pillars of Indian nationalist thought.

"e;This is the story of my experiences with the medium bomber designated by the Army as a B-26 and named by the British the Marauder.

In the wake of health and economic crises across the world, solidarity is emerging as both a moral imperative and urgent social goal.

This book examines, for the first time, the role of Britain's Empire in far right thought between 1920 and 1980.

First published in 1985, this book provides a comprehensive reappraisal of the diverse Communist development strategies that shaped the twentieth century.