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Inhaltsangabe:Im Mittelpunkt dieser empirischen Studie steht das ¿nationale Kollektiv der Hitleranhänger¿. Diese "Mehrheit der heute älteren und alten Generationen", so R. Giordano, habe es verpaßt, "sich mit der nationalsozialistischen Vergangenheit und der eigenen Rolle in ihr [...] ehrlich auseinanderzusetzen". Das nationalsozialistische Regime plante und entfesselte einen Weltkrieg, dem rund 50 Millionen Menschen zum Opfer fielen. Das Ter...

This book examines President Woodrow Wilson's policies regarding the future of the Danubian basin. Filling a gap in World War I historiography, this book reveals that American attitudes and policies towards Hungarian participation in the Dual Monarchy were substantially influenced by propaganda, the domestic American press, and the demands of diplomacy.

Unipolar Politics brings together prominent scholars in international relations to analyze the decisions that major powers have made since the Cold War to adapt to a rapidly changing economic and security environment.The book points to powerful evidence that nations around the world are "bandwagoning" with the United States in most respects, while still trying to maintain some independence of action in the event that America becomes isolationi...

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The Malcontent" is considered one of the most original and complex plays of the Elizabethan theatre. The aim of this edition is to offer answers to the various questions raised by the play and relate it to the aesthetic cross-currents flowing in the 17th century.

There are many established theories concerning political quiescence and dissent in Soviet-era eastern Europe. This book--drawing on newly accessible archival data and over one hundred interviews conducted with communists, dissidents, and by-standers in Poland and East Germany--challenges them. The author grounds her interview material in a solid knowledge of the Soviet systems which evolved in contrasting ways in the two countries. She conclud...

Amid the welter of writing on biblical prophecy, this important work by Kuyper challenges the thoughtful Christian to profoundest reverence for the message of the book of the Revelation.

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From ceramics to silversmithing, calligraphy to textiles, hot glass to bookbinding, crafts have played a rich and complex role in the social, cultural, and artistic history of twentieth-century Britain. This all-encompassing book is the first to survey the full range of individual craft disciplines and key practitioners from the pre-World War I years of the Arts and Crafts Movement to the 1990s. Tanya Harrod shows how the crafts movement emerg...

Feminist Theatre Practice: A Handbook is a helpful, practical guide to theatre-making which explores the different ways of representing gender. Best-selling author, Elaine Aston, takes the reader through the various stages of making feminist theatre- from warming up, through workshopped exploration, to performance - this volume is organised into three clear and instructive parts: * Women in the Workshop* Dramatic Texts, Feminist Contexts* Gend...

In this third edition, Filene brings his concise and forceful analysis of 20th-century gender history up to the present. He describes the new men's movements of the 1980s and 1990s, ranging from pro-feminist to anti-feminist. He expands his discussion of the gay and lesbian experience, especially in the years since AIDS. He assesses the women's movement, weighing both its achievements and the antifeminist reactions of the past quarter-century....

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This book sets out to explain the most foundational aspect of international law in international relations terms. By doing so it goes straight to the central problem of international law--that although legally speaking all States are equal, socially speaking they clearly are not. As such it is an ambitious and controversial book that will be of interest to all international relations scholars and students and practitioners of international law.

Changing Family Values offers a comprehensive introduction to contemporary debates and new research surrounding the family. It explores how we define traditional family values and how these values are perceived as being underthreat in contemporary society. Ranging across politics, social policy, law and sociology, the contributors focus on the diverse realities of contemporary family life. Issues covered include: * the recent backlash against ...

Two Italian writers, Gaetano Mosca and Antonio Gramsci, have been very influential in twentieth-century political thought, the first cast as a thoroughgoing conservative, the second as the model of a humanistic Marxist. The author of this provocative book -- the first systematic study of the connection between the two men -- maintains that they are closer to each other than is commonly supposed -- that they in fact belong to the same political...

Kleege, who has been legally blind since the age of eleven, offers a "compelling and original meditation on blindness and contemporary culture" (John Hollander) that analyzes stereotypes of the blind, and discusses how blindness is portrayed in literature.

One of the most intriguing, and disturbing, aspects of history is that most people in early modern Europe believed in the reality and dangers of witchcraft. Most historians have described the witchcraft phenomenon as one of tremendous violence. In France, dozens of books, pamphets and tracts, depicting witchcraft as the most horrible of crimes, were published and widely distributed. Yet, in his new book, The Crime of Crimes: Demonology and Pol...

Lang surveys the changing role of Parliament over the last three centuries. Combining narrative, interpretation, discussion of controversial issues and a selection of sources, this book provides an ideal study aid for students.

Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love. It tells of Shinji, a young fisherman and Hatsue, the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. Shinji is entranced at the sight of Hatsue in the twilight on the beach and they fall in love.