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  • - A Holocaust Odyssey
    af Bonnie M. Harris
    949,95 kr.

    Between 1938 and 1941, the Philippine Commonwealth provided safe asylum to more than 1,300 German Jews. In highlighting the efforts by Philippine president Manual Quezon and High Commissioner Paul V. McNutt, Bonnie Harris offers fuller implications for our understanding of the Roosevelt administration's response to the Holocaust.

  • - Sofia Panina and the Fate of Revolutionary Russia
    af Adele Lindenmeyr
    602,95 kr.

    Based on detailed research in archival collections, this book establishes Sofia Panina as an astute eyewitness to and passionate participant in the historical events that shaped her life. Her experiences shed light on the evolution of the European nobility, women's emancipation and political influence, and the fate of Russian liberalism.

  • - Science, Sorcery, and Spirit in the Lower Congo
    af John M. Janzen
    1.195,95 kr.

    Based on extensive field research in the Manianga region of the Lower Congo, Health in a Fragile State is an anthropological account of public health and health care after the collapse of the Congolese state in the 1980s and 1990s.

  • - Memory and Reuse in Ancient Athens
    af Sarah A. Rous
    1.205,95 kr.

    Ancient Athenians were known to reuse stone artifacts, architectural blocks, and public statuary in the creation of new buildings and monuments. These construction decisions were often a visible mechanism for shaping communal memory. Sarah Rous develops the concept of upcycling to refer to this meaningful reclamation.

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    456,95 kr.

    Speaking to the critical pedagogical need to teach civil rights history accurately and effectively, this volume goes beyond the usual focus on iconic leaders of the 1950s and 1960s to examine the broadly configured origins, evolution, and outcomes of African Americans' struggle for freedom.

  • - Nationalism and Protest in Post-Soviet Russia
    af Fabrizio Fenghi
    1.000,95 kr.

    The National Bolshevik Party, founded in the mid-1990s by Eduard Limonov and Aleksandr Dugin, began as an attempt to combine radically different ideologies. In the years that followed, Limonov, Dugin, and the movements they led underwent dramatic shifts. Fabrizio Fenghi examines the public pronouncements and aesthetics of this influential movement.

  • - Revolutionary Terrorism and Russian Literary Culture, 1861-1881
    af Lynn Ellen Patyk
    298,95 kr.

    Offers a fundamentally new interpretation of the emergence of modern terrorism, arguing that it formed in the Russian literary imagination well before any shot was fired or bomb exploded. Lynn Ellen Patyk contends that the prototype for the terrorist was the Russian writer, whose seditious word was interpreted as an audacious deed - and a violent assault on autocratic authority.

  • - A Memoir
    af Maureen Seaton
    235,95 kr.

    A memoir that chronicles the outward antics of a woman on an inward journey to self through the routes of religion, sex, sobriety, and kids.

  • af Aldo Leopold
    377,95 kr.

    A collection of 59 essays aiming to demonstrate the thinking and development of Aldo Leopold, who propelled the US conservation movement from garden to government agencies. He was one of the first to recognize the importance of ecology while it was emerging as a new scientific discipline.

  • af Jorge Amado
    340,95 kr.

    Banished for promiscuity, Tieta returns to the seaside village of Agreste after 26 years. Thinking she is now a rich, respectable widow, her mercenary family welcomes her with open arms. But Tieta is forced to reveal her true identity to save the town's beautiful beaches from ugly development.

  • af Tsagaris
    198,95 kr.

    This book seeks to explore how Barbara Pym subverts the discourse of the romance novel through her use of food, clothes, heroine and hero characterizations, and marriage customs.

  • - Detective Fiction from Page to Screen
    af Smith
    248,95 kr.

  • - The Autobiography of Cornell Woolrich
    af Cornell George Hopley Woolrich
    228,95 kr.

    Essential reading for those interested in the suspense novelist Cornell Woolrich, author of Rear Window. His autobiography includes accounts of his working methods, Victorian family and home, memories of childhood, college experience, sexual initiation, and philosophy of life.

  • - Crime Fiction in America
    af LeRoy Lad Panek
    208,95 kr.

    American crime fiction has developed into writing that has a commitment to democracy and the democratic way of life, a compassion and empathy and a style which has created a significant branch of American literature.

  • - The Ascetic Revolution in Russian Orthodox Thought, 1814-1914
    af Patrick Lally Michelson
    931,95 kr.

    Patrick Lally Michelson's intellectual history of asceticism in Russian Orthodox thought traces the development of competing arguments from the early nineteenth century to the early months of World War I. He demonstrates that this discourse was an imaginative interpretation of lived Orthodoxy, primarily meant to satisfy the ideological needs of Russian thinkers and Orthodox intellectuals.

  • af Matt Waters
    913,95 kr.

    The Persica is an extensive history of Assyria and Persia written by the Greek historian Ctesias around 400 BCE. Written for a Greek readership, the Persica influenced the development of both historiographic and literary traditions in Greece. It also, contends Matt Waters, is an essential but often misunderstood source for the history of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.

  • - Gender, Sex, and Revolution in the Philippines
    af Alfred W. Mccoy & Vina A. Lanzona
    373,95 kr.

  • - The Forced Relocation of Poland's Ukrainians after World War II
    af Diana Howansky Reilly
    289,94 kr.

    Following World War II, the communist government of Poland forcibly relocated the country's Ukrainian minority by means of a Soviet-Polish population exchange and then a secretly planned action code-named Operation Vistula. In Scattered, Diana Howansky Reilly recounts these events through the experiences of three siblings caught up in the conflict, during a turbulent period when compulsory resettlement was a common political tactic used against national minorities to create homogenous states. Born in the Lemko region of southeastern Poland, Petro, Melania, and Hania Pyrtej survived World War II only to be separated by political decisions over which they had no control. Petro relocated with his wife to Soviet Ukraine during the population exchange of 1944-46, while his sisters Melania and Hania were resettled to western Poland through Operation Vistula in 1947. As the Ukrainian Insurgent Army fought resettlement, the Polish government meanwhile imprisoned suspected sympathizers within the Jaworzno concentration camp. Melania, Reilly's maternal grandmother, eventually found her way to the United States during Poland's period of liberalization in the 1960s. Drawing on oral interviews and archival research, Reilly tells a fascinating, true story that provides a bottom-up perspective and illustrates the impact of extraordinary historical events on the lives of ordinary people. Tracing the story to the present, she describes survivors' efforts to receive compensation for the destruction of their homes and communities.

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