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This book aims not only to offer new insights into Gandhi's experience and legacy, but to prove how Gandhian values are relevant to the present and can provide explanations and solutions for present challenges.

Class War or Race War is more than an anti-thesis of the master-narrative regarding the Soviet state antisemitism. Kende not only refutes the originally anti-Communist myth of the systemic nature of (state) socialism, but tries to re-, and deconstruct the origins of this myth.

This is the first book on the regimes of citizenship in the Italian colonies. It focuses on the construction of special forms of citizenship, racism, policies of repression/cooptation, and the answers of the local populations in terms of resistance, negotiation, and construction of social identity.

This bookpresents the most comprehensive mapping and analysis of women's football in Oceania and is the first to examine the game's historical development alongside social, political and cultural issues, weaving origin stories with players' day-to-day challenges.

This book analyzes violence involving Catholics in the nineteenth-century world - revealing the motives for violence, showing the link between religious and secular grievances, and illuminating Catholic pluralism.

By paying attention to Algerian Independence, this book reconstructs the action of the Catholic Church regarding the issues of the spread of Islam in colonies, to Arab nationalism, Marxist propaganda in non-European countries, and the effects of the Algerian crisis upon the French political system.

This book provides a comparative and transnational examination of the complex and multifaceted experiences of anti-labour mobilization, from the bitter social conflicts of the pre-war period, through the epochal tremors of war and revolution, and the violent spasms of the 1920s and 1930s.

Starting from the assumption that the age of revolution was one of dictators too, this book aims at exploring how this new type of rulers whose authority was no longer based on dynastic succession or religious consecration sought legitimacy.

This volume will help students and others understand the long arc of the Helsinki process, its place in European history and its continuing relevance today. Drawing on the first-hand experience of the author and other sources, the book corrects common errors and identifies some of the key people involved.

Reenactment Case Studies: Global Perspectives on Experiential History examines reenactment's challenge to traditional modes of understanding the past, asking how experience-based historical knowledge-making relates to memory-making and politics.

This book compares processes of pacification leading to the end of tribal warfare in seven societies from all over the world between the 19th and 21st centuries. It shows that pacification needs to be approached as the result of specific interactions between state actors and non-state local groups.

This multi-disciplinary anthology provides new perspectives on the journalist's role in knowledge generation in the newspaper age - covering diverse topics from fake news to new technologies.

Encompassing five continents and twenty centuries, this book puts ruler personality cults on the crossroads of disciplines rarely, if ever, juxtaposed before: among its authors are historians, linguists, media scholars, political scientists and communication sociologists from Europe, the United States and New Zealand.

This book revisits the central issue of how propaganda was understood within China's Communist Party system. The contributions to this volume capture the sweep of propaganda and its systematic continuities and discontinuities from the perspective of policymakers, bureaucratic functionaries, and artists.

Jewish Self-Defense in South America charts the ways in which Jewish youth in Argentina and Uruguay organized self-defense groups in the wake of an anti-Semitic wave that swept the Southern Cone in the 1960s.

This is the first book on the regimes of citizenship in the Italian colonies. It focuses on the construction of special forms of citizenship, racism, policies of repression/cooptation, and the answers of the local populations in terms of resistance, negotiation, and construction of social identity.

Bringing a fresh perspective to an understudied area, this book offers a critical, source-based examination and assessment of the roles of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (KPG) and the United States during WW2 in the rebirth of Korea as a nation state.

This book aims not only to offer new insights into Gandhi¿s experience and legacy, but to prove how Gandhian values are relevant to the present and can provide explanations and solutions for present challenges.

This volume provides the first study of the history of Sinology (aka China Studies) as charted across other Communist states during the Cold War.