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Author: Anna Lawton
Publisher : Unknown
ISBN : 9780974493435
This book incorporates into an organic whole the realities of the 1990s in Russia, focusing on film production, the films themselves, and the socio-political-cultural context. It aims to provide a picture of Russia (with Moscow in the foreground) as the big stage on which the drama unfolded. The author discusses some eighty films made between 1990 and 2000. Many reflect the reality of the present
Author: Michael C. Adams
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN : 9780253301369
In 1914 Europe descended into a slaughter unlike anything that had been seen before. Yet, far from seeing the conflict as a tragedy, many men welcomed it as a healthy development for society, a relief from peace. The Great Adventure explores the intellectual trends that made war seem a natural and high expression of social values. This is not a book about the specific causes of World War I, but a
Author: Getzler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN : 9780521526029
This is the first biography of Martov, the founder and leader of Menshevism. It records his revolutionary apprenticeship in Vilno and St Petersburg in 1893-6; his early friendship and partnership with Lenin in Siberian exile and on the revolutionary newspaper Iskra in Munich and London; the dramatic break-up of that partnership at the Second Congress of Russian Social Democrats in 1903 and the div
Author: Griffis, William Elliot
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9781436641449
Written as a history lesson on the impact of the Dutch on the culture and pedigree of the United Kingdom and America, Brave Little Holland offers more than just the names and dates of a typical history exercise. This is a must-read for anyone lured by the tale of how the Dutch crusaders wended their way across the British Isles and into America, but Griffis intended his work to satisfy a wider rea
Author: Owen Platt
Publisher : Unknown
ISBN : 9780595287833
At the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, the British government, alarmed at the Duke and Duchess of Windsor''s association with the Nazis and the possibility that they would remove themselves to the United States to preach their pacifist (and slightly pro-German) credo, decided that a job had to be found for the ex-King Edward VIII. and his wife, the American, Wallis Simpson. He was appoin
Author: Szanton, David L. (EDT)
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN : 9780520245365
The usefulness and political implications of Area Studies programs are currently debated within the Academy and the Administration, where they are often treated as one homogenous and stagnant domain of scholarship. The essays in this volume document the various fields' distinctive character and internal heterogeneity as well as the dynamism resulting from their evolving engagements with funders, U
Author: Marshall, Logan
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN : 9781437823554
Author: Marshall, Logan
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN : 9781437823622
Author: Koebel, W. H.
Publisher : Dodo Press
ISBN : 9781406529395
The history of a great continent. Full of detailed illustrations.
Author: C. J. S. Thompson
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9780766186064
1928. Contents: Mysterious Deaths in Ancient Times; Did Henry I Die from the Effects of Eating Lampreys?; The Mysterious Death of King John; Was the Duke of Clarence Drowned in Malmsey Wine?; Mysterious Deaths in French History; The Mystery of Cumnor Place; The Death of Queen Mary, Was King James I Poisoned?; The Strange Mystery of the Duchess Anne; A Gallant Prince of Wales; The Strange Exploits
Author: Taras Kuzio;Robert Kravchuk;Paul D'Anieri
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN : 9780813335384
With NATO expanding into central Europe, Ukraine has become a pivotal state for the future of European stability, yet it is a country about which little is known in the west. Politics and Society in Ukraine fills that gap, providing the first comprehensive and detailed study of the contemporary Ukrainian political system. Beginning with a discussion of the legacy of the Soviet Union, the authors i
Author: Hendrik Van Loon
Publisher : Unknown
ISBN : 9781596051782
History is the mighty Tower of Experience, which Time has built amidst the endless fields of bygone ages. It is no easy task to reach the top of this ancient structure and get the benefit of the full view. There is no elevator, but young fe -Hendrik Van Loon, in the Foreword to The Story of Mankind It was intended for children, and of course much of the science is hopelessly out of date, but this
Author: Wells, Colin
Publisher : Tantor Media
ISBN : 9781400152858
A gripping intellectual adventure story, Sailing from Byzantium sweeps you from the deserts of Arabia to the dark forests of northern Russia, from the colorful towns of Renaissance Italy to the final moments of a millennial city under siege....The story of Byzantium is a real-life adventure of electrifying ideas, high drama, colorful characters, and inspiring feats of daring. In Sailing from Byzan
Author: Buhler, Johann Georg
Publisher : Blatter Press
ISBN : 9781408647196
Author: William Crooker
Publisher : Unknown
ISBN : 9781551095134
In the seventeenth, eighteenth, and even nineteenth centuries, the North Atlantic Ocean was an extremely attractive place to pirates. In these waters, pirate crews could ambush Spanish ships filled with gold and Newfoundland ships filled with salted fish and hide fugitive ships in isolated coves, such as in the Annapolis Valley. In an easy-to-read literary style, William Crooker brings together fo
Author: Tarif Khalidi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN : 9780521465540
Thinking and writing about the past has always been of critical importance to the way that any culture or civilization views itself and its role in the world. In a work which surveys an entire tradition of historical thought and writing across a span of eight hundred years, Tarif Khalidi examines how Arabic-Islamic culture of the pre-modern period viewed the past, how it recorded it, and how it so
Author: Smith, Bruce
Publisher : Cosimo
ISBN : 9781602060388
The only major study and defense of Adam Smith-style liberalism in Australia, this 1887 work, a long-forgotten classic once again entering the spotlight, is, in the words of author BRUCE SMITH (1851-1937), an Australian lawyer and politician, a protest against the growing tendency toward undue interference by the state, with individual liberty, private enterprise and the rights of property. Now co
Author: Shuckford, Samuel
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9781430478423
In Four Volumes. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issu
Author: Allen, Reginald C.
Publisher : Cosimo
ISBN : 9781596055247
It was written three-quarters of a century ago, in 1934, in the depths of the Great Depression and with a sense of the peril looming in Europe, but this treatise on how to realign British civic culture along more compassionate and democratic lines is startlingly relevant today, as many of the dangers it addressed loom once against across Western societies. British pacifist REGINALD CLIFFORD ALLEN,
Author: Andrew Bell-Fialkoff
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN : 9780312223366
Ethnic cleansing has become one of the key terms of the fin-de-siecle. In the former territory of Yugoslavia, along the fringes of the old Soviet Empire, and in Africa whole populations are being murdered or forced from lands they have lived on for centuries. Andrew Bell-Fialkoff explains the history of this obscene practice, tracing it from antiquity to the present and shows how, in different tim
Imaging Russia 2000: Film and Facts
Author: Anna LawtonPublisher : Unknown
ISBN : 9780974493435
This book incorporates into an organic whole the realities of the 1990s in Russia, focusing on film production, the films themselves, and the socio-political-cultural context. It aims to provide a picture of Russia (with Moscow in the foreground) as the big stage on which the drama unfolded. The author discusses some eighty films made between 1990 and 2000. Many reflect the reality of the present
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The Great Adventure: Male Desire and the Coming of World War I
Author: Michael C. AdamsPublisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN : 9780253301369
In 1914 Europe descended into a slaughter unlike anything that had been seen before. Yet, far from seeing the conflict as a tragedy, many men welcomed it as a healthy development for society, a relief from peace. The Great Adventure explores the intellectual trends that made war seem a natural and high expression of social values. This is not a book about the specific causes of World War I, but a
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Martov: A Political Biography of a Russian Social Democrat
Author: GetzlerPublisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN : 9780521526029
This is the first biography of Martov, the founder and leader of Menshevism. It records his revolutionary apprenticeship in Vilno and St Petersburg in 1893-6; his early friendship and partnership with Lenin in Siberian exile and on the revolutionary newspaper Iskra in Munich and London; the dramatic break-up of that partnership at the Second Congress of Russian Social Democrats in 1903 and the div
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Brave Little Holland and What She Taught Us (1922)
Author: Griffis, William Elliot Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9781436641449
Written as a history lesson on the impact of the Dutch on the culture and pedigree of the United Kingdom and America, Brave Little Holland offers more than just the names and dates of a typical history exercise. This is a must-read for anyone lured by the tale of how the Dutch crusaders wended their way across the British Isles and into America, but Griffis intended his work to satisfy a wider rea
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The Royal Governor.....and the Duchess: The Duke and Duchess of Windsor in the Bahamas 1940-1945
Author: Owen PlattPublisher : Unknown
ISBN : 9780595287833
At the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, the British government, alarmed at the Duke and Duchess of Windsor''s association with the Nazis and the possibility that they would remove themselves to the United States to preach their pacifist (and slightly pro-German) credo, decided that a job had to be found for the ex-King Edward VIII. and his wife, the American, Wallis Simpson. He was appoin
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The Politics Of Knowledge
Author: Szanton, David L. (EDT)Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN : 9780520245365
The usefulness and political implications of Area Studies programs are currently debated within the Academy and the Administration, where they are often treated as one homogenous and stagnant domain of scholarship. The essays in this volume document the various fields' distinctive character and internal heterogeneity as well as the dynamism resulting from their evolving engagements with funders, U
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A History of the Nations and Empires
Author: Marshall, Logan Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN : 9781437823554
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A History of the Nations and Empires
Author: Marshall, Logan Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN : 9781437823622
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South America (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)
Author: Koebel, W. H. Publisher : Dodo Press
ISBN : 9781406529395
The history of a great continent. Full of detailed illustrations.
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Mysteries of History with Accounts of Some Remarkable Characters and Charlatans
Author: C. J. S. ThompsonPublisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9780766186064
1928. Contents: Mysterious Deaths in Ancient Times; Did Henry I Die from the Effects of Eating Lampreys?; The Mysterious Death of King John; Was the Duke of Clarence Drowned in Malmsey Wine?; Mysterious Deaths in French History; The Mystery of Cumnor Place; The Death of Queen Mary, Was King James I Poisoned?; The Strange Mystery of the Duchess Anne; A Gallant Prince of Wales; The Strange Exploits
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Politics & Society in Ukraine
Author: Taras Kuzio;Robert Kravchuk;Paul D'AnieriPublisher : Westview Press
ISBN : 9780813335384
With NATO expanding into central Europe, Ukraine has become a pivotal state for the future of European stability, yet it is a country about which little is known in the west. Politics and Society in Ukraine fills that gap, providing the first comprehensive and detailed study of the contemporary Ukrainian political system. Beginning with a discussion of the legacy of the Soviet Union, the authors i
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The Story of Mankind
Author: Hendrik Van LoonPublisher : Unknown
ISBN : 9781596051782
History is the mighty Tower of Experience, which Time has built amidst the endless fields of bygone ages. It is no easy task to reach the top of this ancient structure and get the benefit of the full view. There is no elevator, but young fe -Hendrik Van Loon, in the Foreword to The Story of Mankind It was intended for children, and of course much of the science is hopelessly out of date, but this
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Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World
Author: Wells, Colin Publisher : Tantor Media
ISBN : 9781400152858
A gripping intellectual adventure story, Sailing from Byzantium sweeps you from the deserts of Arabia to the dark forests of northern Russia, from the colorful towns of Renaissance Italy to the final moments of a millennial city under siege....The story of Byzantium is a real-life adventure of electrifying ideas, high drama, colorful characters, and inspiring feats of daring. In Sailing from Byzan
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On the Indian Sect of the Jainas
Author: Buhler, Johann Georg Publisher : Blatter Press
ISBN : 9781408647196
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Pirates of the North Atlantic
Author: William CrookerPublisher : Unknown
ISBN : 9781551095134
In the seventeenth, eighteenth, and even nineteenth centuries, the North Atlantic Ocean was an extremely attractive place to pirates. In these waters, pirate crews could ambush Spanish ships filled with gold and Newfoundland ships filled with salted fish and hide fugitive ships in isolated coves, such as in the Annapolis Valley. In an easy-to-read literary style, William Crooker brings together fo
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Arabic Historical Thought in the Classical Period
Author: Tarif KhalidiPublisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN : 9780521465540
Thinking and writing about the past has always been of critical importance to the way that any culture or civilization views itself and its role in the world. In a work which surveys an entire tradition of historical thought and writing across a span of eight hundred years, Tarif Khalidi examines how Arabic-Islamic culture of the pre-modern period viewed the past, how it recorded it, and how it so
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Liberty & Liberalism: A Protest Against the Growing Tendency Toward Undue Interference by the State, with Individual Liberty, Private Enterp
Author: Smith, Bruce Publisher : Cosimo
ISBN : 9781602060388
The only major study and defense of Adam Smith-style liberalism in Australia, this 1887 work, a long-forgotten classic once again entering the spotlight, is, in the words of author BRUCE SMITH (1851-1937), an Australian lawyer and politician, a protest against the growing tendency toward undue interference by the state, with individual liberty, private enterprise and the rights of property. Now co
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The Sacred and Profane History of the World Connected
Author: Shuckford, Samuel Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9781430478423
In Four Volumes. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issu
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Britain's Political Future: A Plea for Liberty and Leadership
Author: Allen, Reginald C. Publisher : Cosimo
ISBN : 9781596055247
It was written three-quarters of a century ago, in 1934, in the depths of the Great Depression and with a sense of the peril looming in Europe, but this treatise on how to realign British civic culture along more compassionate and democratic lines is startlingly relevant today, as many of the dangers it addressed loom once against across Western societies. British pacifist REGINALD CLIFFORD ALLEN,
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Ethnic Cleansing
Author: Andrew Bell-FialkoffPublisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN : 9780312223366
Ethnic cleansing has become one of the key terms of the fin-de-siecle. In the former territory of Yugoslavia, along the fringes of the old Soviet Empire, and in Africa whole populations are being murdered or forced from lands they have lived on for centuries. Andrew Bell-Fialkoff explains the history of this obscene practice, tracing it from antiquity to the present and shows how, in different tim
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