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The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler (Hardcover): Robert Payne The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler (Hardcover)
Robert Payne
R1,758 R1,410 Discovery Miles 14 100 Save R348 (20%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Juvenile Offenders - From Big Wheels to the Big House (Hardcover): Rosemary Jenkins Juvenile Offenders - From Big Wheels to the Big House (Hardcover)
Rosemary Jenkins; Foreword by Congresswoman Barbara Lee; Introduction by Rosemary Jenkins
R801 Discovery Miles 8 010 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Prohibition on the Gold Coast of Long Island (Hardcover): Jacqueline Singer Prohibition on the Gold Coast of Long Island (Hardcover)
Jacqueline Singer
R1,131 Discovery Miles 11 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
In Their Merit - Australian Jewry and WWI (Hardcover): Rodney Gouttman In Their Merit - Australian Jewry and WWI (Hardcover)
Rodney Gouttman
R894 Discovery Miles 8 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Hidden History of Franklin County, Vermont (Hardcover): Jason Barney Hidden History of Franklin County, Vermont (Hardcover)
Jason Barney
R653 Discovery Miles 6 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Black Magic - What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph (Paperback): Chad Sanders Black Magic - What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph (Paperback)
Chad Sanders
R404 R376 Discovery Miles 3 760 Save R28 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Memoirs of Naim Bey - Turkish Official Documents Relating to the Deportations and Massacres of Armenians (Hardcover): Aram... The Memoirs of Naim Bey - Turkish Official Documents Relating to the Deportations and Massacres of Armenians (Hardcover)
Aram Andonian; Contributions by Naim Bey; Introduction by Viscount Gladstone
R510 Discovery Miles 5 100 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
La Mirada - A Brief History (Hardcover): Raymond Fernandez, Glen Cantrell La Mirada - A Brief History (Hardcover)
Raymond Fernandez, Glen Cantrell
R684 Discovery Miles 6 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sears Crosstown in Memphis - From Catalogues to a Concourse (Hardcover): Bill Haltom Sears Crosstown in Memphis - From Catalogues to a Concourse (Hardcover)
Bill Haltom
R684 Discovery Miles 6 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Gunship Pilot - An Attack Helicopter Warrior Remembers Vietnam (Hardcover): Robert F. Hartley Gunship Pilot - An Attack Helicopter Warrior Remembers Vietnam (Hardcover)
Robert F. Hartley
R975 Discovery Miles 9 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Industrial Revolution - History, Documents, and Key Questions (Hardcover): Jeff Horn The Industrial Revolution - History, Documents, and Key Questions (Hardcover)
Jeff Horn
R2,257 R2,052 Discovery Miles 20 520 Save R205 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Through this book's roughly 50 reference entries, readers will gain a better appreciation of what life during the Industrial Revolution was like and see how the United States and Europe rapidly changed as societies transitioned from an agrarian economy to one based on machines and mass production. The Industrial Revolution remains one of the most transformative events in world history. It forever changed the economic landscape and gave birth to the modern world as we know it. The content and primary documents within The Industrial Revolution: History, Documents, and Key Questions provide key historical background of the Industrial Revolution in Europe and the United States, enable students to gain unique insights into life during the period, and allow readers to perceive the similarities to developments in society today with ongoing advances in current science and technology. Roughly 50 reference entries provide essential information about the most important people and developments related to the Industrial Revolution, including Richard Arkwright, coal, colonialism, cotton, the factory system, pollution, railroads, and the steam engine. Each entry provides information that gives readers a sense of the importance of the topic within a historical and societal perspective. For example, the coverage of movements during the Industrial Revolution explains the origin of each, including when it was established, and by whom; its significance; and the social context in which the movement was formed. Each entry cites works for further reading to help users learn more about specific topics. Provides entries on a wide range of ideas, individuals, events, places, movements, organizations, and objects and artifacts of the Industrial Revolution that allow readers to better grasp the lasting significance of the period Offers a historical overview essay that presents a narrative summary of the causes of the Industrial Revolution and a timeline of the most important events related to the Industrial Revolution Includes primary sources-each introduced by a headnote-that supply contemporary perspectives on vital elements of social history, especially the actions and conditions of laborers during the Industrial Revolution, providing insights into people's actions and motivations during this time of transition

Blending Nation And Region - Essays in Honour of Late Professor Amalendu Guha (Hardcover): Sajal Nag, Ishrat Alam Blending Nation And Region - Essays in Honour of Late Professor Amalendu Guha (Hardcover)
Sajal Nag, Ishrat Alam
R1,877 Discovery Miles 18 770 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Footpaths & Fishing Boats - Growing Up in Nipper's Harbour (Hardcover): Audrey Starkes Footpaths & Fishing Boats - Growing Up in Nipper's Harbour (Hardcover)
Audrey Starkes; Contributions by Ted Stuckless
R747 R517 Discovery Miles 5 170 Save R230 (31%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Marilyn - A Woman In Charge (Hardcover): Dick Martin Marilyn - A Woman In Charge (Hardcover)
Dick Martin
R851 Discovery Miles 8 510 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Debt of Honour - Winchester City's First World War Dead (Hardcover): Debt of Honour - Winchester City's First World War Dead (Hardcover)
R704 Discovery Miles 7 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Seeking Imperialism's Embrace - National Identity, Decolonization, and Assimilation in the French Caribbean (Hardcover):... Seeking Imperialism's Embrace - National Identity, Decolonization, and Assimilation in the French Caribbean (Hardcover)
Kristen Stromberg Childers
R2,732 Discovery Miles 27 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In 1946, at a time when other French colonies were just beginning to break free of French imperial control after World War II, the people of the French Antilles-the Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe-voted to join the French nation as departments (Departments d'outre mer, or DOMs). For Antilleans, eschewing independence in favor of complete integration with the metropole was the natural culmination of a centuries-long quest for equality with France and a means of overcoming the entrenched political and economic power of the white minority on the islands, the Bekes. Disappointment with departmentalization set in quickly, however, as the equality promised was slow in coming and Antillean contributions to the war effort went unrecognized. In analyzing the complex considerations surrounding the integration of the French Antilleans, Seeking Imperialism's Embrace explores how the major developments of post-WWII history-economic recovery, great power politics, global population dynamics, the creation of pluralistic societies in the West, and the process of decolonization-played out in the microcosm of the French Caribbean. As the French government struggled to stem unrest among a growing population in the Antilles through economic development, tourism, and immigration to the metropole where labor was in short supply, those who had championed departmentalization, such as Aime Cesaire, argued that the "race-blind" Republic was far from universal and egalitarian. Antilleans fought against the racial and gender stereotypes imposed on them and sought both to stem the tide of white metropolitan workers arriving in the Antilles and also to make better lives for their families in France. Kristen Stromberg Childers argues that while departmentalization is often criticized as a weak alternative to national independence, the overwhelmingly popular vote among Antilleans should not be dismissed as ill-conceived. The disappointment that followed, she contends, reflects more on the broken promises of assimilation rather than the misguided nature of the vote itself.

The Nazi Menace - Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Road to War (Paperback): Benjamin Carter Hett The Nazi Menace - Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Road to War (Paperback)
Benjamin Carter Hett
R638 R572 Discovery Miles 5 720 Save R66 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

A panoramic narrative of the years leading up to the Second World War--a tale of democratic crisis, racial conflict, and a belated recognition of evil, with profound resonance for our own time. Berlin, November 1937. Adolf Hitler meets with his military commanders to impress upon them the urgent necessity for a war of aggression in eastern Europe. Some generals are unnerved by the Fuhrer's grandiose plan, but these dissenters are silenced one by one, setting in motion events that will culminate in the most calamitous war in history. Benjamin Carter Hett takes us behind the scenes in Berlin, London, Moscow, and Washington, revealing the unsettled politics within each country in the wake of the German dictator's growing provocations. He reveals the fitful path by which anti-Nazi forces inside and outside Germany came to understand Hitler's true menace to European civilization and learned to oppose him, painting a sweeping portrait of governments under siege, as larger-than-life figures struggled to turn events to their advantage. As in The Death of Democracy, his acclaimed history of the fall of the Weimar Republic, Hett draws on original sources and newly released documents to show how these long-ago conflicts have unexpected resonances in our own time. To read The Nazi Menace is to see past and present in a new and unnerving light.

Iconic Summer Camps Around Jacksonville (Hardcover): Dorothy K. Fletcher Iconic Summer Camps Around Jacksonville (Hardcover)
Dorothy K. Fletcher
R683 Discovery Miles 6 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Holocaust Angst - The Federal Republic of Germany and American Holocaust Memory since the 1970s (Hardcover): Jacob S. Eder Holocaust Angst - The Federal Republic of Germany and American Holocaust Memory since the 1970s (Hardcover)
Jacob S. Eder
R1,319 Discovery Miles 13 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the face of an outpouring of research on Holocaust history, Holocaust Angst takes an innovative approach. It explores how Germans perceived and reacted to how Americans publicly commemorated the Holocaust. It argues that a network of mostly conservative West German officials and their associates in private organizations and foundations, with Chancellor Kohl located at its center, perceived themselves as the "victims" of the afterlife of the Holocaust in America. They were concerned that public manifestations of Holocaust memory, such as museums, monuments, and movies, could severely damage the Federal Republic's reputation and even cause Americans to question the Federal Republic's status as an ally. From their perspective, American Holocaust memorial culture constituted a stumbling block for (West) German-American relations since the late 1970s. Providing the first comprehensive, archival study of German efforts to cope with the Nazi past vis-a-vis the United States up to the 1990s, this book uncovers the fears of German officials - some of whom were former Nazis or World War II veterans - about the impact of Holocaust memory on the reputation of the Federal Republic and reveals their at times negative perceptions of American Jews. Focusing on a variety of fields of interaction, ranging from the diplomatic to the scholarly and public spheres, the book unearths the complicated and often contradictory process of managing the legacies of genocide on an international stage. West German decision makers realized that American Holocaust memory was not an "anti-German plot" by American Jews and acknowledged that they could not significantly change American Holocaust discourse. In the end, German confrontation with American Holocaust memory contributed to a more open engagement on the part of the West German government with this memory and eventually rendered it a "positive resource" for German self-representation abroad. Holocaust Angst offers new perspectives on postwar Germany's place in the world system as well as the Holocaust culture in the United States and the role of transnational organizations.

The Caribbean Front in World War II - The Untold Story of U-Boats, Spies, and Economic Warfare (Paperback): Jose L Bolivar... The Caribbean Front in World War II - The Untold Story of U-Boats, Spies, and Economic Warfare (Paperback)
Jose L Bolivar Fresneda
R683 Discovery Miles 6 830 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The United States during World War II was unprepared for one of Germany's most destructive war efforts: a U-boat assault on Allied ships in the Caribbean that sank about 400 tankers and merchant ships, with few losses to the German submarine fleet. The Germans had set up a network of spies and had the secret support of some dictators, including the Dominican Republic's Rafael Trujillo, supplying their U-boats with fuel.The Caribbean was of crucial strategic importance to the Allies. Roughly 95 percent of the oil sustaining the East Coast of the United States came from the region, along with bauxite, required to manufacture airplanes. The United States invested billions of dollars to build bases, landing strips, roads, and other military infrastructure on the Puerto Rico and secured a 99-year lease on all the British bases located in the Caribbean. The United States also struck an agreement with neutral Vichy France to keep the French Navy in the harbor of Martinique, preventing it from being turned over to the Germans, in exchange for a food supply for the island. Elsewhere, however, the German blockade was taking a dire human toll. All of the islands experienced a drastic food shortage. The US military buildup created jobs and income, but locals were paid a third as much as continental workers. The military also brought its segregationist policies to the islands, creating further tensions and resentment. The sacrifice of the Caribbean people was bitter, but their participation in the war effort was also decisive: The U-boat menace more or less disappeared from the region in late 1943, thanks to their work building up the US military operation.

The Battle of Aleppo - The History of the Ongoing Siege at the Center of the Syrian Civil War (Paperback): Charles River Editors The Battle of Aleppo - The History of the Ongoing Siege at the Center of the Syrian Civil War (Paperback)
Charles River Editors
R280 Discovery Miles 2 800 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Into That Darkness - An Examination of Conscience (Paperback, 1st Vintage Books ed): Gitta Sereny Into That Darkness - An Examination of Conscience (Paperback, 1st Vintage Books ed)
Gitta Sereny
R428 R406 Discovery Miles 4 060 Save R22 (5%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Based on 70 hours of interviews with Franz Stangl, commandant of Treblinka (the largest of the extermination camps), this book bares the soul of a man who continually found ways to rationalize his role in Hitler's final soulution.

Organizing the 20th-Century World - International Organizations and the Emergence of International Public Administration,... Organizing the 20th-Century World - International Organizations and the Emergence of International Public Administration, 1920-1960s (Hardcover)
Karen Gram-Skjoldager, Haakon Andreas Ikonomou, Torsten Kahlert
R3,676 Discovery Miles 36 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

International Organizations play a pivotal role on the modern global stage and have done, this book argues, since the beginning of the 20th century. This volume offers the first historical exploration into the formative years of international public administrations, covering the birth of the League of Nations and the emergence of the second generation that still shape international politics today such as the UN, NATO and OECD. Centring on Europe, where the multilaterization of international relations played out more intensely in the mid-20th century than in other parts of the world, it demonstrates a broad range of historiographical and methodological approaches to institutions in international history. The book argues that after several 'turns' (cultural, linguistic, material, transnational), international history is now better equipped to restate its core questions of policy and power with a view to their institutional dimensions. Making use of new approaches in the field, this book develops an understanding of the specific powers and roles of IO-administrations by delving into their institutional make-up.

Vietnam Helicopter Crew Member Stories - Volume III (Hardcover): H.D. Graham Vietnam Helicopter Crew Member Stories - Volume III (Hardcover)
H.D. Graham
R712 Discovery Miles 7 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Prince Henry's - A School at War (Hardcover): Graham Shutt Prince Henry's - A School at War (Hardcover)
Graham Shutt
R1,291 Discovery Miles 12 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

To mark the end of the war in Europe the flag was hoisted in front of the School, and on 8 May and 9 May 1945 there was a holiday to celebrate VE Day. On 10 May there was a short ceremony at Morning Assembly to celebrate the Allied victory. This book is not only about those 463 ex-pupils and staff who were in the Armed Forces, forty-one of whom were killed in the War, or about those who were wounded, or those who were prisoners of war in German, Italian or Japanese hands. It is also about the life of the school in the years 1939 - 1945 and the 998 pupils who were there at the time, forty-one of whom were at Prince Henry's for the length of the war. It is dedicated to everybody associated with Prince Henry's Grammar School before and during the Second World War. Lest we forget.

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