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Memory, Trauma and World Politics
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 30.00Memory, Trauma and World Politics focuses on the effect that the memory of traumatic episodes (especially war and genocide) has on shaping contemporary political identities. Theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich, this book is an incisive treatment of the ways in which the study of social memory can inform global politics analysis. more...
Tyrants
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 15.99Today more than ever, international headlines are dominated by dispatches from the many dictatorships that still dot the globe. Although Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has been deposed, North Korea's Kim Jong-il continues to attract attention on the world stage; at the same time, other dictatorships, led by royal families, military juntas, and single... more...
Peculiar Liaisons in War, Espionage, and Terrorism of the Twentieth Century
Algora Publishing 2007; US$ 29.95Presenting famous and infamous individuals and events that have shaped the current Western civilization, this book illustrates how America has arrived at our present dilemma of a unique war on terror.John Craig details the unusual and often profound con more...
International History of the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 45.95This major global history of the twentieth century is written by four prominent international historians for first-year undergraduate level and upward. Using their thematic and regional expertise, the authors cover events in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas from the last century and beyond. Among the areas this book covers are:... more...
In Europe
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 21.00From the First World War to the waning days of the Cold War, a poignant exploration on what it means to be European at the end of the twentieth-century. Geert Mak crisscrosses Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Srebrenica in search of evidence and witnesses of the last hundred years of Europe. Using his skills as an acclaimed journalist,... more...
Political Economy and Grand Strategy
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 145.00This book examines traditional balance of power theory from a political-economic perspective, using historical examples, to draw out distinctions between the liberal and realist approach and how this affects grand strategy. The realist view of the balance of power theory includes implicit assumptions that economic assets can be turned quickly into... more...
World News Digest Yearbook 2007
Infobase Publishing 2008; US$ 144.00Presents a permanent archive of key events and trends that can stand as a historical record of the past year. This title includes the "Annual Index". It also features handy cross-references that point researchers directly from one week's news story to exactly the background they need in earlier issues. more...
The Great Depression: A Diary
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... more...
Modern Guerrilla Insurgency
ABC-CLIO 1992; US$ 94.00This study argues that guerrilla insurgencies will be a major feature of the post-Cold War international scene, and that the advisability of intervention in some of them will become a serious issue in American politics. Americans therefore need to refine their understanding of insurgency. Anthony James Joes analyzes several major insurgencies of this... more...
A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
OUP Oxford 2008; US$ 15.99This 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,... more...









