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Nazism and German Society 1933-1945by David Crew
Routledge 1994; US$ 40.95A growing body of research on the social history of the Nazi years has revealed the variety and complexity of the relationships between the Nazi regime and the German people. This volume makes this new research available to undergraduates. more...
Local Communities and Post-Communist Transformationby Simon Smith
RoutledgeCurzon 2003; US$ 175.00This book, based on extensive original research, examines the changes resulting from transformation at the local level in the former Czechoslovakia. more...
Social Movements in Franceby Dr Sarah Waters; Robert Elgie
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2003; US$ 130.00Contemporary France has witnessed a rise of new forms of social movement, mobilising around new causes and articulating changing demands. Sarah Waters examines the new generation of movements in the last decade, from anti-racism and the movement of the unemployed to solidarity or the associations of the 'Sans' . She argues that emerging movements share a profoundly civic dimension: these are movements about rights and are concerned with who has rights and what those rights are. They manifest a desire to reinvent citizenship in the present day in relation to a new set of social struggles and conflicts. more...
Protest Movements in 1960s West Germanyby Nick Thomas
Berg Publishers 2003; US$ 109.95This social history of protest movements in 1960s Germany departs from the limited and often politically biased reports of participants by placing the protests within the wider contexts of social change and international events. Thomas makes extensiv e use of archival material, much of which has never been used before, to reconstruct an historical narrative that begins with the peace and anti-nuclear campaigns of the 1950s and moves seamlessly on to the defining events of the 1960s -the Vietnam W ar, university reform, and the womens movement.Through this original reconstruction, Thomas expertly shows how the protest movements both reflected and influenced fundamental social and political change in post-war Germany. He documents their role... more...
Communication and Compromise in the GDRby Jeannette Madarasz
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2003; US$ 135.00This empirical analysis of the GDR challenges current historical interpretations of GDR history. It focuses on four social groups - youth, women, writers and Christians - to highlight the stability of this socialist society. more...
Authority and Sexuality in Early Modern Burgundy (1550-1730)by James R. Farr
Oxford University Press 1995; US$ 125.00This study argues that, in the aftermath of the French religious wars, French authorities sought to create a new order in which prescriptions and the disposition of the body worked to discipline and kept individuals confined within a variety of institutions, from the church to the family. more...
Ethnicity and Equalityby Azouz Begag
University of Nebraska Press 2007; US$ 14.95In the fall of 2005 the streets of France were rocked by civil disturbances on a scale unseen for decades. Only months earlier Azouz Begag, France?s first minister for equal opportunities and first-ever cabinet minister of North African immigrant origin, wrote an essay laying bare the festering social and ethnic injustices that, as can now be seen in hindsight, led to the riots. more...
Germany's New Right as Culture and Politicsby Roger Woods
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2007; US$ 100.00Reveals the problems that arise when a political movement seeks to embrace culture as the foundation for a political programme. This book examines the often contradictory motives that feed into New Right political pronouncements and explores the cultural thinking that feeds into political commitment. more...
The Extreme Right in Franceby James Shields
Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 49.95As well as providing a detailed biography of Le Pen, the leader of the National Front in France, this book also explores the wider development of the extreme right as a significant intellectual and political force within France. more...
Fin de Millénaire Budapestby Judit Bodnár
University of Minnesota Press 2000; US$ 35.00Fin de Millénaire Budapest combines historical narratives and ethnographic accounts with quantitative evidence to create a richly detailed picture of a city subjected to the forces of great local and global change. more...