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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...
Bombing Civilians
New Press, The 2010; US$ 19.95Bombing Civilians examines a crucial question: why did military planning in the early twentieth century shift its focus from bombing military targets to bombing civilians? From the British bombing of Iraq in the early 1920s to the most recent policies in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Lebanon, Bombing Civilians analyzes in detail the history of... more...
We Were There
Profile 2010; US$ 15.98What was it like to be there at the very moment when great events took place; when great figures strode onto the world stage; when the wonderful, the terrible, the diverting and the just plain curious happened? In this acclaimed collection of eyewitness reportage, Robert Fox brings together accounts from soldiers, journalists, poets, scientists, adventurers,... more...
War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 27.00Collaborative volume examining how wars have been remembered in Europe, America and the Middle East. more...
Conversations with Power
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 15.99Fresh out of college, and frustrated with own generation?s political apathy, Brian Till set out to interview the former world leaders he most admired. To his surprise, they were eager to talk, and he soon found himself discussing everything from energy to terrorism to nuclear disarmament with the greatest leaders of the last twenty-five years.... more...
Ritueel burgerschap
Amsterdam University Press 2009; US$ 36.00Nederland is in de ban van cultuur. Meer dan ooit worden culturele verschillen tussen bevolkingsgroepen benadrukt. Maar een diepgravende antropologische analyse van wat er in Nederland gaande is, ontbreekt tot dusver. Dit boek vult dat gat.Ritueel burgerschap is deels een etnografie van gemeentelijke inburgeringsrituelen. Hoe ziet dat geritualiseerde... more...
Victorious Insurgencies
The University Press of Kentucky 2010; US$ 40.00Insurgencies, especially in the form of guerrilla warfare, continue to erupt across many parts of the globe. Most of these rebellions fail, but Four Rebellions that Shaped Our World analyzes four twentieth-century conflicts in which the success of the insurgents permanently altered the global political arena: the Maoists in China against Chiang Kai-shek... more...
Auf dem Weg nach Europa
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2010; US$ 54.34Hauptbeschreibung Europa ist in der öffentlichen Diskussion präsent wie nie zuvor. Dabei schwingt immer auch die Frage mit, was dieses Europa denn eigentlich sei. Auch die Geschichtswissenschaft hat sich des Themas Europa in den vergangenen Jahren verstärkt angenommen, doch die Forschung zu den einzelnen europäischen Ländern ist einer integrativen... more...
Beating Goliath
Potomac Books Inc. 2007; US$ 17.95An urgently needed analysis of why great powers lose asymmetrical wars more...
Civilians and War in Europe 1618-1815
Liverpool University Press 2012; US$ 72.50This interdisciplinary volume examines the relationship between civilians and war in Europe in the period 1615 to 1815, challenging familiar narratives of the rise of modern war and the nature of early modern warfare. more...









