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The Great Depression: A Diaryby Benjamin Roth; James Ledbetter; Daniel B. Roth
PublicAffairs 2009; US$ 15.95When the stock market crashed in 1929, Benjamin Roth was a young lawyer in Youngstown, Ohio. After he began to grasp the magnitude of what had happened to American economic life, he decided to set down his impressions in his diary. This collection of those entries reveals another side of the Great Depressionone lived through by ordinary, middle-class Americans, who on a daily basis grappled with a swiftly changing economy coupled with anxiety about the unknown future. Roth’s depiction of life in time of widespread foreclosures, a schizophrenic stock market, political unrest and mass unemployment seem to speak directly to readers today. more...
A Dictionary of Contemporary World Historyby Jan Palmowski
OUP Oxford 2008; US$ 15.00This authoritative dictionary provides in-depth coverage of major recent historical events, from 1900 to the present day. It includes country entries for every country in the world, with maps and historical summaries. Additionally, the dictionary includes biographical entries on major historical and cultural figures, political and military leaders, and the thinkers who influenced events. Subject entries cover international organizations, treaties, religious and political movements,as well as key incidents, places, and battles. The new edition has been fully revised and updated, and boasts a wealth of new material including entry-level web links updated via a companion website to ensure that they remain contemporary, extended coverage of historical... more...
From Hitler to Trujilloby Alfredo F. Vorshirm
Boson Books 2000; US$ 2.99From Hitler to Trujillo is a memoir by a Holocaust survivor Alfredo Vorshirm. His gripping story embodies the Jewish European experience during and after World War II and dramatizes the events that impelled Vorshirm to the Dominican Republic at the height of the Trujillo dictatorship. Living in Belgium rather than Germany, the country of his birth, when World War II broke out, Vorshirm and his family found themselves imprisoned by the European Allies because they were Austrian-German enemies. Then he was imprisoned by the Germans when he was caught in a raid without legal identification papers and in possession of illegal foreign currency. After being held and tortured in a Gestapo jail for nearly a year, he joined the Italian partisans where... more...
Two Red Flagsby David Childs
Routledge 1999; US$ 36.95An incisive account of the impact of socialism on the life and politics of Europe and the former Soviet bloc in the twentieth century. It covers the origins of socialism in those countries where it had most impact. more...
Challenges of Labourby Chris Wrigley
Routledge 1993; US$ 125.00Much of Europe experienced or was on the verge of revolution in 1917-20. These essays written by renowned European scholars, provide a comprehensive survey of how the forces of order and property crushed most of the socialist forces. more...
Conflict and Reconciliation in the Contemporary Worldby David J. Whittaker
Routledge 1999; US$ 29.95Conflict and Reconciliation examines the interdependent processes of conflict origins, resolutions and reconciliation, in the light of eight case studies including Yugoslavia, Israel, Northern Ireland and South Africa. more...
Fascists and Conservativesby Martin Blinkhorn
Routledge 1990; US$ 34.95What has between the `radical' and the `conservative' right in twentieth-century Europe? In Fascists and Conservatives thirteen distinguished authorities on the European right explore this major theme within Italy, Germany, Spain, Portugal, France, Britain, Austria, Romania, Greece adn the Nordic countries. more...
International History of the Twentieth Centuryby Antony Best; Jussi M. Hanhimaki; Joseph A. Maiolo; Kirsten E. Schulze
Routledge 2003; US$ 37.95A major new global history of the twentieth century, written by four prominent international historians. more...
1968by Mark Kurlansky
Random House Publishing Group 2003; US$ 13.99In this monumental new book, award-winning author Mark Kurlansky has written his most ambitious work to date: a singular and ultimately definitive look at a pivotal moment in history. With 1968 , Mark Kurlansky brings to teeming life the cultural and political history of that world-changing year of social upheaval. People think of it as the year of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Yet it was also the year of the Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy assassinations; the riots at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago; Prague Spring; the antiwar movement and the Tet Offensive; Black Power; the generation gap, avant-garde theater, the birth of the women’s movement, and the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union. From New York,... more...
Warfare and Society in Europeby Michael S. Neiberg
Routledge 2003; US$ 40.95Examines warfare in Europe from the Fashoda conflict in modern-day Sudan to the recent war in Iraq. more...









