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Mark Thompson - The White War; Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919 (2009).jpg
Hundreds of thousands of men are fed into a meat grinder in futile charges against entrenched positions; opposing armies are forging a weird sense of camaraderie as they fraternize during lulls in the slaughter; and rows of rotting corpses are scattered over a bleak, ...
Richard J. Evans - The Third Reich in Power (2006).jpg
The second work in a planned three-volume series (after 2004's Coming of the Third Reich) this book starts with the Nazis' complete assumption of power and creation of a one-party state in 1933, and goes to September 1939 and the beginning of World War II. In sharp detail, ...
Richard J. Evans - The Third Reich at War (2010).jpg
Describing the Third Reich from the height of its power to its collapse, Evans concludes the masterful trilogy that began with The Coming of the Third Reich and The Third Reich in Power. As in those works, Evans demonstrates a fluent style and a sweeping grasp of the Third ...
Rieko Kage - Civic Engagement in Postwar Japan; The Revival of a Defeated Society (2010).jpg
Despite reduced incomes, diminished opportunities for education, and the psychological trauma of defeat, Japan experienced a rapid rise in civic engagement in the immediate aftermath of World War II. Why? Civic Engagement in Postwar Japan answers this question with a ...
Alexander Diener - Borderlines and Borderlands; Political Oddities at the Edge of the Nation-State (2010).jpg
Focusing on unusual international border shapes, this fascinating book highlights the important truth that all borders, even those that appear _natural,_ were created by people. The unique and compelling histories of some of the world's oddest borders provide an ideal ...
Natan M. Meir - Kiev.jpg
Populated by urbane Jewish merchants and professionals as well as new arrivals from the shtetl, imperial Kiev was acclaimed for its opportunities for education, culture, employment, and entrepreneurship but cursed for the often pitiless persecution of its Jews. Kiev, ...
Claude Doumet-Serhal - Sidon during Bronze Age; Burials.jpg
Thanks to the initiative of the Lebanese Directorate General of Antiquities, the College Site in downtown Saida (Sidon) has remained open for excavation since 1998. These excavations have allowed archaeologists to follow a sequence of development in Sidon from the ...
Michel Foucault - Madness and civilization; A history of insanity in the age of reason (1988).jpg
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, by Michel Foucault, is an examination of the ideas, practices, institutions, art and literature relating to madness in Western history. It is the abridged English edition of Histoire de la folie à l'âge ...
Virginia Smith - Clean; A History of Personal Hygiene and Purity (2007).jpg
The first television commercial was for soap, claims Virginia Smith in her thoroughly researched albeit occasionally sluggish new book. She doesn't supply the dirty details about the commercial, but it's easy to imagine that she is right. After all, such ads, along with ...
Marcia A. Kupfer - The Art of Healing; Painting for the Sick and the Sinner in a Medieval Town (2003).jpg
"This work represents a new benchmark in contextualizing a major Romanesque monument within the complex fabric of society that created and transformed it according to changing needs over time. The author is to be commended for being simultaneously attentive to the visual ...
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Ethnoarchaeology in Action is the first and only comprehensive study of ethnoarchaeology, the ethnographic study of living cultures from archaeological perspectives, and is designed for senior undergraduates and above in archaeology and anthropology. Its ...
Ayse Zarakol - After Defeat; How the East Learned to Live with the West (2011).jpg
Not being of the West; being behind the West; not being modern enough; not being developed or industrialized, secular, civilized, Christian, transparent, or democratic - these descriptions have all served to stigmatize certain states through history. Drawing on ...
Gillian Gill - We Two.jpg
It was the most influential marriage of the nineteenth century–and one of history’s most enduring love stories. Traditional biographies tell us that Queen Victoria inherited the throne as a naïve teenager, when the British Empire was at the height of its power, and ...
Edwin A. Lyon - A New Deal for Southeastern Archaeology (1996).jpg
Recipient of the 1994 Anne B. and James B. McMillan PrizeThis comprehensive study provides a history of New Deal archaeology in the Southeast in the 1930s and early 1940s and focuses on the projects of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, the Civil Works ...
Matthew Stewart - The Courtier and the Heretic; Leibniz.jpg
A mere footnote for most historians, the meeting in 1676 between Leibniz and Spinoza opens to a discerning eye the intellectual forces destined to reshape the entire Western world. Stewart supplies that discerning eye as he chronicles the events and arguments linking the ...
Jon Balchin - Quantum leaps; 100 Scientists Who Changed The World (2003).jpg
Introduces 100 of the giants of science and examines their achievements: the men and women who, often in the fact of extreme scepticism or worse, have striven and succeeded in pushing back the boundaries of human knowledge.
Danielle De Vooght - Royal Taste; Food.jpg
The explicit association between food and status was, academically speaking, first acknowledged on the food production level. He who owned the land, possessed the grain, he who owned the mill, had the flour, he who owned the oven, sold the bread. However, this ...
Hans Busch - Verdi's Aida; The History of an Opera in Letters and Documents (1978).jpg
Verdi's Aida was first published in 1978. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
Martin J. S. Rudwick - Bursting the Limits of Time; The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Revolution (2005).jpg
In 1650, Archbishop James Ussher of Armagh joined the long-running theological debate on the age of the earth by famously announcing that creation had occurred on October 23, 4004 B.C. Although widely challenged during the Enlightenment, this belief in a ...
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If you wanted to buy a top-quality condom in prewar Germany, you bought Fromms Act, the first brand name condom and still a leading brand in the German market. The man behind this "pure German quality product" was Julius Fromm, a Jewish entrepreneur who had immigrated from ...