Political ideologies and movements

Of the countless stories of resistance, ingenuity, and personal risk to emerge in the years following the Holocaust, among the most remarkable, yet largely overlooked, are those of the hundreds of Jewish deportees who escaped from moving trains bound for the extermination camps.

Marble is one of the great veins through the architectural tradition and fundamental building block of the Mediterranean world, from the Parthenon of mid-fifth century Athens, which was constructed of pentelic marble, to Justinian's Hagia Sophia in Constantinople and the Renaissance and Baroque basilica of St.

An Active Service' traces a young Sid Dowland from civilian life into the tough environment of the Guards Depot in the 1930's and then on to a Guards service Battalion in London and prewar Egypt.

The story of the elite Japanese Army Air force (JAAF) aces that flew the Kawasaki Ki-61 Hien (Swallow), and the Ki-100 Goshikisen in the Pacific Theatre of World War 2.

--A revised and expanded edition of this acclaimed introduction to political thought--'Reliable and fair.

This riveting overview of the Boston Tea Party examines the significance of the events that took place before, during, and after the incident and examines the historical, political, and sociological impact on America today.

Archival photos detailing the US Army division's efforts during WWII, featuring accounts of the T-26 Pershing tank and its first use in combat.

This book places the current wave of religion-based terrorism in a historical perspective, explaining why religion is associated with terrorism, comparing religion-based terrorism to other forms of terrorism, and documenting how religion-based terrorism is a product of powerful political, socioeconomic, and psychological forces.

Much has been written of the titanic clashes between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army at Stalingrad.

* Shortlisted for the Academy of British Cover Design Awards, 2015*Greece's recent political turmoil captured the imagination of the left across Europe.

Political scientists have always accorded interest organizations a prominent place in European Union (EU) policy-making because they connect the EU institutions to citizens, provide important information to EU policy-makers, and control resources that impact on the problem-solving capacity of EU policies.

This book is a dialectic and multi-perspective examination of classed traumas in late modernity.

Schon die Radikalisierung der „ersten Generation“ der deutschen Linksterroristen seit 1967 lässt sich nicht ohne wechselseitige Beeinflussung durch die europäischen Gesinnungsgenossen, vor allem in Italien, denken.

Communism in Indiaoffers an in-depth exploration of the Communist Party of India (CPI) and its influence on Indian politics and global communism.

From concussion doctors pushing ';science' that benefits their hidden business interests to lawyers clamoring for billion-dollar settlements in scam litigation, America's game has become so big that everybody wants a cut.

This book addresses the adaptation of nationalism to the sharing of sovereignty with other nations in supranational arrangements beyond the state or with nations and nationalities within the state.

The Germans were a very substantial minority in Russia, and many leading figures, including the Empress Catherine the Great, were German.

A new collection of philosophical biographies of key figures in Black Southern American social and political thoughtFrederick Douglass, Booker Washington and Ida Wells.

A leading figure in the American conservative movement for over 40 years, Mickey Edwards was a prominent Republican congressman, a former national chairman of the American Conservative Union, and a founding trustee of the Heritage Foundation.

In the first half of the twentieth century, many writers and artists turnedto the art and received example of the Elizabethans as a means ofarticulating an emphatic (and anti-Victorian) modernity.

A 2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleJapan's challenges and opportunities in a new era of uncertaintyHenry Kissinger wrote a few years ago that Japan has been for seven decades ?

A deep dive into the events and decisions that led to the Axis powers going to war against America, using German, Japanese and Italian sources.

PMH Bell's famous book is a comprehensive study of the period and debates surrounding the European origins of the Second World War.

A comparative account of the roots of Communist revolution in Russia and China.

This volume, a collection of eleven original essays by many of the foremost U.

While the resounding American victory at Midway in June 1942 blunted Japanese momentum to a great extent, it left the opposing forces precariously balanced, particularly in the South Pacific.

During World War II, as the United States called on its citizens to serve in unprecedented numbers, the presence of gay Americans in the armed forces increasingly conflicted with the expanding antihomosexual policies and procedures of the military.

Existing literature maintains that the U.

Applying a legal pluralist framework, this study examines the complex interrelationships between religion, law and politics in contemporary Ghana, a professedly secular State characterised by high levels of religiosity.

In America, the long 1950s were marked by an intense skepticism toward utopian alternatives to the existing capitalist order.

Islamic powers in secular countries have presented a challenge for states around the world, including Indonesia, home to the largest Muslim population as well as the third largest democracy in the world.

Culture and the arts played a central role in the ideology and propaganda of National Socialism from the early years of the movement until the last months of the Third Reich in 1945.

Can an election be stolen?

Why do people work for other people?

This book is a sequel to Richard Griffiths's two highly successful previous books on the British pro-Nazi Right, Fellow Travellers of the Right: British Enthusiasts for Nazi Germany 1933-39 and Patriotism Perverted: Captain Ramsay, the Right Club and British Anti-Semitism 1939-1940.

The post-Cold War has witnessed enormous levels of western peacekeeping, peacemaking and reconstruction intervention in societies emerging from war.

David Van Turnhout and Dirk Verhofstadt traced the story of David's Jewish grandfather, Ide Leib Kartuz.

Drawing on archival sources and eyewitness accounts, this book explores Soviet Russians'' experience of Nazi rule in German-occupied northwest Russia.

Yeshayahu Ben-Aharon zeigt in den vorliegenden Vorträgen auf, dass die Michael-Bewegung auf der Suche nach kreativen, mutigen und enthusiastischen Seelen ist, um eine starke Gemeinschaft zu fördern, die sich von einem Jahrzehnt zum nächsten als ein lebendiger Organismus entwickelt.

Dans quelle mesure un ministère technique tel que l'Agriculture a-t-il adhéré à la politique antisémite de Vichy ?

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, Get In is the definitive behind-the-scenes account of Labour s brutal reinvention and dramatic return to power.

A detailed history and analysis of the most controversial amphibious operation in the Pacific during WWII: the Battle for Peleliu.

Hugh Warren West was drafted into the U.

This book analyzes the stance of international communism towards nationality, anti-colonialism, and racial equality as defined by the Communist International (Comintern) during the interwar period.

"e;An intensely detailed historical account and counterfactual analysis of the strategic dilemmas faced by German and Allied forces at Narvik.

This volume shows how and why legal empowerment is important for those exercising their religious rights under various jurisdictions, in conditions of legal pluralism.