Political ideologies and movements

Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.

A fascinating re-examination of the battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval encounter in history and probably the most decisive naval battle of the entire Pacific War, and one that saw the Imperial Japanese Navy eliminated as an effective fighting force and forced to resort to suicide tactics.

North Carolina did more than its part during World War II.

Transgender activists are all about speaking upunless you regret your ';transition' and have made the journey back.

Tucked away in the archives of the Museum for Transport and Technology in Berlin is an old photograph of a Hawker Hurricane on public display.

This book relates a chapter of American military history which many people would rather forget.

This book sheds new light on the ongoing fight to end prostitution through a historical study of its emotional communities.

Half a century before the 'flying wing' B-2 stealth bomber entered service, John K.

Loren Lomasky is a leading advocate of a rights-based libertarian approach to political and social issues.

Anarchism & Sexuality aims to bring the rich and diverse traditions of anarchist thought and practice into contact with contemporary questions about the politics and lived experience of sexuality.

This book explains why science and politics collide, why this is an especially critical problem at this precise time in U.

The Shield of Nationality examines multinational corporations'' relations with governments in developing countries and why governments can sometimes expropriate foreign-owned property.

The Sherman Crab Flail tank was the powerful culmination of a series of mine-clearing flail tanks developed during World War II.

Originally published in 1994, This Working-Day World is lively collection of essays presenting a social, political and cultural view of British women's lives in the period 1914-45.

African Nationalism offers an innovative perspective on the creation of nations and nationalism, and the role of race in nationalism overall, by bringing together a compilation of debates on African nationalism, from Pan-Africanism up to the present day.

Shifting from the idea that our current 'environmental question' arises from the history of metaphysics and its focus on 'Being' over 'Life'-and the attendant explorations of the thought of Heidegger and Heraclitus-this book unfolds a philosophical and sociological proposal for transitioning toward the sustainability of life.

In February 1900 a group of men representing trade unionists, socialists, Fabians and Marxists gathered in London to make another attempt at establishing an organisation capable of getting working-class men elected to Parliament.

Why is the search for democratic renewal so elusive?

Über die kleineren der insgesamt 342 Ghettos im Generalgouvernement Polen ist wenig bekannt – weder über die Dauer ihrer Existenz noch über die Anzahl der in ihnen eingesperrten Jüdinnen und Juden.

Catastrophe and Utopia studies the biographical trajectories, intellectual agendas, and major accomplishments of select Jewish intellectuals during the age of Nazism, and the partly simultaneous, partly subsequent period of incipient Stalinization.

The volumes trace the factors responsible for generating National Awakening among Indians.

Over the past century, democracy spread around the world in turbulent bursts of change, sweeping across national borders in dramatic cascades of revolution and reform.

This book offers an in-depth study of right-wing politics in India by analysing the shifting ideologies of Hindu nationalism and its evolution in the late nineteenth century through to twenty-first century.

Although World War II began as a war in Europe, many in the United States, foreseeing the inevitable, began to prepare for war, putting no faith in the Neutrality Act.

In Wedded to the Land?

In settler societies, some conflicts have roots that are both ethnic and colonial in nature.

Bill Yenne brings to life the untold story of Lidiya Vladimirovna, Russia's World War II flying ace, who lit up the skies over Germany and Russia while flying 66 combat missionsOf all the major air forces that were engaged in the war, only the Red Air Force had units comprised specifically of women.

Hava (Eva) Bromberg and Ephraim Sokal were Jewish teenagers in Poland when the Nazis invaded in 1939.

This book analyses the evolving nature of democratic threats and identifies strategies necessary to safeguard democratic governance in an increasingly turbulent political environment.

What role do legal trials have in collective processes of coming to terms with a history of mass violence?

York has often been overlooked when it comes to Britain's wartime experience.

Marione Ingram grew up in Hamburg, Germany, in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

During the Second World War, as the Soviet Red Army was locked in brutal combat against the Nazis, Joseph Stalin ended the state's violent, decades-long persecution of religion.

A modern conservative classic.

Defined by deliberation about the difference between right and wrong, encouragement not to be indifferent toward that difference, resistance against what is wrong, and action in support of what is right, ethics is civilization's keystone.

'The Reckoning is vivid history, the tragic Eastern Front brought to life through the widest range of Russian and German sources I've ever read.

On December 8, 1941, Japanese troops methodically took over the U.

The beginning of World War I saw thousands of army and navy aviators who needed specialized clothing that could not be purchased off-the-shelf.

Filled with fine-scale drawings of British armored vehicles, including:*; Stuart I Light Tank*; Crusader III*; Tank*; Humber Scout Car*; Valentine Bridgelayer*; Cromwell IV Tank Daimler Armored Car*; And dozens more .

Explains why political Islam, which has been part of Turkish politics since the 1970s, has now achieved governing power.

This volume deals specifically with escape and evasion in the Netherlands, Belgium and France, an operation in which the author himself was directly involved, and discusses the role which these lines of escape played in the lives of airmen who were forced to bail out over enemy territory.

The nail-biting story of when the hardhats of downtown Manhattan beat scores of hippies bloody in May 1970, four days after Kent State, and how the nation reacted.

Is it ever right to target civilians in a time of war?

In To Be an Actress, Nava Shean tells about her life on the stage: from childrens theater in Prague to traveling theater in the Czech countryside, to performances of prisoners in Terezin concentration camp, to Israels national theater, Munich State theater, and her one-woman shows.

Autocracies not only resist the global spread of democracy but are sources of autocratic influence and pressure.

The life story of Will Crooks has a Dickensian resonance.

Maria Todorova's book is devoted to the 'golden age' of the socialist idea, broadly surveying the period in and around the time of the Second International.

The UK's Brexit vote in 2016 and the inconclusive general election just 12months later have unleashed a wave of chaos and uncertainty - on the eveof formal negotiations with the EU.