Social groups: religious groups and communities

When representing the Holocaust, the slightest hint of narrative embellishment strikes contemporary audiences as somehow a violation against those who suffered under the Nazis.

An illustrated combat history of the He 111, with its distinctive glazed nose, which came to symbolise the German mastery of the skies in the early war years, especially the Russian campaign.

Wie haben evangelische Christen in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus ihre ablehnende Haltung gegen das Regime zum Ausdruck gebracht?

How do individuals, societies, and nations deal with their difficult pasts?

World War II is often seen as a confrontation of technology tanks and aircraft, artillery and engineering.

Trauma Cinema focuses on a new breed of documentary films and videos that adopt catastrophe as their subject matter and trauma as their aesthetic.

Jewish Imaginaries of the Spanish Civil War inaugurates a new field of research in literary and Jewish studies at the intersection of Jewish history and the internationalist cultural phenomenon emerging from the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), the Republican exile, and the Shoah.

During the early months of World War II, Winston Churchill maneuvered to get the U.

This volume focuses on the constitutive politics of civilizational identity, examining the practices through which notions of civilizational identity are produced and reproduced in different contexts, including the global credit regime, modernity debates, and the "e;war on terrorism"e;.

With Bibles and baptism, a movement was born.

Robert Wuthnow has been praised as one of "e;the country's best social scientists"e; by columnist David Brooks, who hails his writing as "e;tremendously valuable.

A thoughtful and provocative collection, in the vein of the intellectual spiritual classic The Weight of Glory, from N.

Joseph Smith, founding prophet and martyr of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, personally wrote, dictated, or commissioned thousands of documents.

This book, first published in 1989, combines the broad themes of diplomatic, political and military events with the human dimensions to form a major global analysis of the second world war.

What ever happened to the Virgin Mary in the modern Catholic Church?

Islam came on the scene, with a message, philosophy and code of conduct, perfect by all means, with its advent, the new faith revolutionised the contemporary world in a very short span of time.

This book explores contemporary inflections of blackness in Israel and foreground them in the historical geographies of Europe, the Middle East, and North America.

In Narrating the Law Barry Scott Wimpfheimer creates a new theoretical framework for considering the relationship between law and narrative and models a new method for studying talmudic law in particular.

Making its debut in 1935, the Browning High-Power was the world's most widely used military pistol for much of the 20th century.

Now a global and transnational phenomenon, hip hop culture continues to affect and be affected by the institutional, cultural, religious, social, economic and political landscape of American society and beyond.

What did Britain look like to the Muslims who visited and lived in the country in increasing numbers from the late eighteenth century onwards?

Willi Geismeier thought he'd faced the worst of humanity on the battlefield in World WarI, but when he returns to Munich he is drawn into an investigation that proves to be just as chilling.

After Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt, claiming a never documented military necessity, ordered the removal and incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II solely because of their ancestry.

For the Jewish world and the Yishuv in particular, the 1930s was a time of escalating crises?

This book examines the fundamentals of Jewish demography and sociology around the world.

The Power of Godliness is a key work to understand Mormon conceptions of priesthood, authority, and gender.

Colour photography was a rare thing in the 1930s.

The final part in a three-book series on the Battle of Stalingrad, examining the Soviet encirclement, German relief efforts, and the final surrender of Paulus' 6.

Before the twentieth century ships when relied upon visual signaling, vessels beyond range of sight or a cannon shot, were blind, deaf, and dumb in the dark, making night battles at sea rare, and near always accidental.

Creation conjures emotion and thereby shapes how we think and act.

NATO - The First 50 Years offers the first comprehensive study of the institution's activities and development over the past five decades.

In Sacred High City, Sacred Low City, Steven Heine argues that lived religion in Japan functions as an integral part of daily life; any apparent lack of interest masks a fundamental commitment to participating regularly in diverse, though diffused, religious practices.

Jews and Muslims in the Arab World highlights the effects of historical memory on the Arab-Israel conflict, demonstrating that both Jews and Arabs use stories of distant pasts to create their identities and shape their politics.

This first study of faith-based development NGOs' (FBOs) political roles focuses on how U.

A compelling account of the men who worked and fought for Nazi terror organization, the SS, during the Second World War.

As a Slavic-speaking religious and ethnic Other living just a stone s throw from the symbolic heart of the continent, the Muslims of Bosnia and Herzegovina have long occupied a liminal space in the European imagination.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE RUSI DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORY 2022'This is a superb book.

Das Buch schildert die Geschichte der Wiener Häfen, bevor der Ausbau Alberns zum Getreidehafen ab 1938 beleuchtet wird.

During Germany's occupation of France in WWII, French regional languages became a way for people to assert their local identities.

Jewish life and welfare The development and collapse of the Jewish community is described using the example of its welfare and social activities in Breslau/Wroczaw.

This book examines the role played by the international circulation of literature in constructing cultural memories of the Second World War.

This book argues that multiculturalism remains a relevant and vital framework through which to understand and construct inclusive forms of citizenship.

The Mahabharata preserves powerful journeys of women recognized as the feminine divine and the feminine heroic in the larger culture of India.

From 1928 to 1943, Erich Raeder led the German navy during the last turbulent years of the Weimar Republic, the rise of Hitler, and through World War II, yet until now there has not been a full-length biography written about him.

This book examines the role played by the international circulation of literature in constructing cultural memories of the Second World War.

Wie wird man in einer der dunkelsten Stunden der Menschheitsgeschichte zum moralischen Kompass einer globalen Gemeinschaft?