As downward mobility continues to be an international issue, Robin Brooks offers a timely intervention between the humanities and social sciences by examining how Black women's cultural production engages debates about the growth in income and wealth gaps in global society during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Operation Market Garden – the Allied airborne invasion of German-occupied Holland in September 1944 – is one of the most famous and controversial Allied failures of the Second World War.
Le Grand Tour, périple continental destiné à parfaire l'éducation des fils de bonne famille, devient au cours du XVIIIe siècle un véritable phénomène culturel au Royaume Uni et attire de nouveaux participants, ainsi que des participantes.
Tajikistan is a key state in Central Asia, and will become crucial to the regional power balance as it transitions away from Soviet government systems and responds to the rise of Chinese financial power alongside the continuing presence of Russian military might and instability in neighboring Afghanistan.
In this inspirational book of values, former ambassador Dick Capen presents a refreshing balance of optimism and realism to remind us that it's never too soon, never too late, to "e;finish strong.
Au travers d'une diversité de disciplines et de travaux empiriques basés sur des terrains variés, ce numéro illustre l'actualité de la pensée de Colette Guillaumin.
In the early morning of 10 May 1940, the sky literally fell on the heads of the defenders of Fort Eben-Emael, considered to be Belgium's most powerful fortress.
An essential guide for Black Americans to understanding the criminal justice system, and why it continues to see Black men as targets and as dollar signs.
A fictionalized World War I memoir by RAF pilot John Everard Gurdon, “an evocative picture of the daily life of the squadron and its characters” (Western Front Association).
Mary Wollstonecraft fut une figure importante du XVIIIe siècle en Angleterre, grâce à son ouvrage A vindication of the rights of woman, publié en 1972.
As Europe lurched towards war during the 1930s, many people in Britain, with the memories of the horrors of the First World War painfully fresh, set out to build groups opposed to the idea of a future war.
En 1940, Brazzaville abrita un camp de la France libre, qui dispensa une formation de base d'officier d'infanterie à deux-cent-quatre-vingts jeunes volontaires européens, qui furent immédiatement projetés dans les différents théâtres d'opérations de la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
In Indigenous Peoples in International Law, James Anaya explores the development and contours of international law as it concerns the world's indigenous peoples, culturally distinctive groups that are descended from the original inhabitants of lands now dominated by others.
In his quest for the historical Muhammad, Zeitlin's chief aim is to catch glimpses of the birth of Islam and the role played by its extraordinary founder.
Ce livre présente un condensé de la situation actuelle et planétaire d'asservissement de la moitié de l'humanité sexuée femelle par l'autre moitié sexuée mâle.
In the light of the escalation of sectarian tensions during and after Mubarak's reign, the predicament of the Arab world's largest religious minority, the Copts, has come to the forefront.
All major western countries today contain groups that differ in their religious beliefs, customary practices or ideas about the right way in which to live.
Jean Paul Pallud, author of the highly acclaimed The Battle of the Bulge Then and Now, presents - for the first time through comparison 'then and now' photographs - a detailed account of the Battle of France: the forty-five traumatic days from May 10 to June 24, 1940 that resulted in one of the most remarkable military victories of modern times.
Cet ouvrage soutient une thèse fondamentale : du point de vue idéologique et législatif, tout en Hongrie était prêt afin que le génocide des juifs de province puisse s'accomplir en quelques semaines, après l'occupation du pays par les Allemands en mars 1944.
Les relations entre les femmes et l'histoire ont donné lieu de la part de nombreuses historiennes et écrivaines à une réflexion féconde et à des études qui ont permis d'ouvrir le champ épistémologique de l'histoire et remis en question l'historiographie officielle et son orientation masculine.
