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Iraq - Threat and Response (Hardcover): Gerhard Beestermoller, David Little Iraq - Threat and Response (Hardcover)
Gerhard Beestermoller, David Little
R597 Discovery Miles 5 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The publication of this collection of essays on the current crisis concerning Iraq will not be welcomed by the United States government. Although the authors - a group of German and American scholars, who are moral theologicans, policy analysts, political scientists, and a Middle East historian - write from divergent backgrounds and perspectives, all finally concur, sometimes for different reasons, in rejecting the arguments of the Bush administration in favor of unilateral U.S. military action against Iraq. These essays are uniformly free of the intemperate language and careless argumentation that characterizes some of the opposition to American policy inside and outside the United States, and is therefore easy to dismiss. Whether the authors address either the threat Saddam Hussein represents to his reagon and the world or the prospects for alternative strategies, the reasoning is generally wellinformed, sensitive to complexity, and attentive to detail. The book will help to confirm and strengthen the growing 'thoughful opposition' in the United States and abroad to the Bush policies, and as such deserves to be taken very seriously.

China's Crisis Behavior - Political Survival and Foreign Policy after the Cold War (Hardcover): Kai He China's Crisis Behavior - Political Survival and Foreign Policy after the Cold War (Hardcover)
Kai He
R2,814 Discovery Miles 28 140 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Since the end of the Cold War, China has experienced several notable interstate crises: the 1999 'embassy bombing' incident, the 2001 EP-3 mid-air collision with a United States aircraft, and the Diaoyu/Senkaku dispute with Japan. China's response to each incident, however, has varied considerably. Drawing from a wealth of primary sources and interviews, this book offers a systematic analysis of China's crisis behavior in order to identify the factors which determine when Chinese leaders decide to escalate or scale down their response to crises. Inspired by prospect theory - a Nobel Prize-winning behavioral psychology theory - Kai He proposes a 'political survival prospect' model as a means to understand the disparities in China's behavior. He argues that China's response depends on a combination of three factors that shape leaders' views on the prospects for their 'political survival status', including the severity of the crisis, leaders' domestic authority, and international pressure.

U-Boats Off the Outer Banks - Shadows in the Moonlight (Paperback): Jim Bunch U-Boats Off the Outer Banks - Shadows in the Moonlight (Paperback)
Jim Bunch
R619 R568 Discovery Miles 5 680 Save R51 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Opposition, Repression, and Cold War - The Case of the 1956 Student Movement in Timisoara (Hardcover): Corina Snitar Opposition, Repression, and Cold War - The Case of the 1956 Student Movement in Timisoara (Hardcover)
Corina Snitar
R2,291 Discovery Miles 22 910 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Corina Snitar examines the student protests in Timisoara in 1956 following the Hungarian uprising of the same year. Snitar analyzes the students' demands regarding Soviet occupation, the situation in Hungary, and insufficient student accommodations. This book shows how the Hungarian revolt was the catalyst for opposition during a time of social duress. Snitar examines the methods of repression against real and imaginary opposition to the Communist rule and shows how the fates of students were tied to the political goals of the Romanian leadership.

The Codex Fori Mussolini - A Latin Text of Italian Fascism (Hardcover): Han Lamers, Bettina Reitz-Joosse The Codex Fori Mussolini - A Latin Text of Italian Fascism (Hardcover)
Han Lamers, Bettina Reitz-Joosse
R4,228 Discovery Miles 42 280 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The year is 1932. In Rome, the Fascist leader Benito Mussolini unveils a giant obelisk of white marble, bearing the Latin inscription MVSSOLINI DVX. Invisible to the cheering crowds, a metal box lies immured in the obelisk's base. It contains a few gold coins and, written on a piece of parchment, a Latin text: the Codex fori Mussolini. What does this text say? Why was it buried there? And why was it written in Latin? The Codex, composed by the classical scholar Aurelio Giuseppe Amatucci (1867-1960), presents a carefully constructed account of the rise of Italian Fascism and its leader, Benito Mussolini. Though written in the language of Roman antiquity, the Codex was supposed to reach audiences in the distant future. Placed under the obelisk with future excavation and rediscovery in mind, the Latin text was an attempt at directing the future reception of Italian Fascism. This book renders the Codex accessible to scholars and students of different disciplines, offering a thorough and wide-ranging introduction, a clear translation, and a commentary elucidating the text's rhetorical strategies, historical background, and specifics of phrasing and reference. As the first detailed study of a Fascist Latin text, it also throws new light on the important role of the Latin language in Italian Fascist culture.

The Gay Girl in Damascus Hoax - Progressive Orientalism and the Arab Spring (Hardcover): Andrew Orr The Gay Girl in Damascus Hoax - Progressive Orientalism and the Arab Spring (Hardcover)
Andrew Orr
R2,525 Discovery Miles 25 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Gay Girl in Damascus Hoax explores the vulnerability of educated and politically engaged Westerners to Progressive Orientalism, a form of Orientalism embedded within otherwise egalitarian and anti-imperialist Western thought. Early in the Arab Spring, the Gay Girl in Damascus blog appeared. Its author claimed to be Amina Arraf, a Syrian American lesbian Muslim woman living in Damascus. After the blog's went viral in April 2011, Western journalists electronically interviewed Amina, magnifying the blog's claim that the Syrian uprising was an ethnically and religiously pluralist movement anchored in an expansive sense of social solidarity. However, after a post announced that the secret police had kidnapped Amina, journalists and activists belatedly realized that Amina did not exists and Thomas "Tom" MacMaster, a forty-year-old straight white American man and peace activist living and studying medieval history in Scotland was the blog's true author. MacMaster's hoax succeeded by melding his and his audience's shared political and cultural beliefs into a falsified version of the Syrian Revolution that validated their views of themselves as anti-racist and anti-imperialist progressives by erasing real Syrians.

The Second Pearl Harbor - The West Loch Disaster, May 21, 1944 (Hardcover): Gene Eric Salecker The Second Pearl Harbor - The West Loch Disaster, May 21, 1944 (Hardcover)
Gene Eric Salecker
R1,009 Discovery Miles 10 090 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


In May 1944, with American forces closing in on the Japanese mainland, the Fifth Fleet Amphibious Force was preparing to invade Saipan. Control of this island would put enemy cities squarely within range of the B-29 bomber. The navy had assembled a fleet of landing ship tanks (LSTs) in the West Loch section of Pearl Harbor. On May 21, an explosion tore through the calm afternoon sky, spreading fire and chaos through the ordnance-packed vessels. When the fires had been brought under control, six LSTs had been lost, many others were badly damaged, and more than 500 military personnel had been killed or injured. To ensure the success of those still able to depart for the invasion--miraculously, only one day late--the navy at once issued a censorship order, which has kept this disaster from public scrutiny for seventy years.
"The Second Pearl Harbor" is the first book to tell the full story of what happened on that fateful day. Military historian Gene Salecker recounts the events and conditions leading up to the explosion, then re-creates the drama directly afterward: men swimming through flaming oil, small craft desperately trying to rescue the injured, and subsequent explosions throwing flaming debris everywhere. With meticulous attention to detail the author explains why he and other historians believe that the official explanation for the cause of the explosion, that a mortar shell was accidentally detonated, is wrong.
This in-depth account of a little-known incident adds to our understanding of the dangers during World War II, even far from the front, and restores a missing chapter to history.

Lost Jefferson City (Hardcover): Michelle Brooks Lost Jefferson City (Hardcover)
Michelle Brooks
R749 Discovery Miles 7 490 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Sustainable Development of Denmark in the World, 1970-2020 - A Critical Introduction (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Bo Fritzboger Sustainable Development of Denmark in the World, 1970-2020 - A Critical Introduction (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Bo Fritzboger
R3,908 Discovery Miles 39 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book provides a holistic overview of the history of sustainable development in Denmark over the last fifty years, covering a host of issues central to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): ending poverty; ensuring inclusive and equitable education; reducing inequality; making cities and settlements inclusive, safe and resilient; and fostering responsible production and consumption patterns, to name a few. It argues for a new framework of sustainability history, one that is truly global in outlook. As such, it explores what truly global sustainable development would look like. It considers how economic growth has been the driver for prosperity in the global north, and considers whether sustainable development and continued economic growth are irreconcilable, and what the future of sustainable development initiatives in Denmark might look like.

US Public Opinion since the 1930s - Galluping through History (Hardcover): Richard Seltzer US Public Opinion since the 1930s - Galluping through History (Hardcover)
Richard Seltzer
R2,510 Discovery Miles 25 100 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is both a history book and a book on public opinion. George Gallup, who pioneered survey sampling methods and whose name in fact became synonymous with public opinion polls, conducted his first survey in 1936. The main part of this book starts there as well. Dedicating a chapter to each decade from the 1930s to the present, Seltzer discusses historical events of the period and what the U.S. public thought of those events according to Gallup polls and other public opinion surveys. Each chapter is divided into the following categories: world events; U.S. politics; race; sex and gender; the economy; science, technology and the environment; and popular trends. Within each chapter, approximately 40 survey questions were chosen for more extended analysis: breaking down the results by race, age, gender, education, region, and political party.

Missouri in World War I (Hardcover): Jeremy Paul Amick Missouri in World War I (Hardcover)
Jeremy Paul Amick
R772 Discovery Miles 7 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Why Can't I (Hardcover): John Barry Why Can't I (Hardcover)
John Barry
R977 Discovery Miles 9 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Mobilizing Woman-Power (Hardcover): Harriot Stanton Blatch Mobilizing Woman-Power (Hardcover)
Harriot Stanton Blatch
R741 R685 Discovery Miles 6 850 Save R56 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Army. the Evacuation of North Russia 1919 - Presented to Parliament by Command of His Majesty (Hardcover): Anon Army. the Evacuation of North Russia 1919 - Presented to Parliament by Command of His Majesty (Hardcover)
Anon
R1,043 Discovery Miles 10 430 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Langworthys of Dubuque - The Key City's First Family (Hardcover): Susan Miller Hellert Langworthys of Dubuque - The Key City's First Family (Hardcover)
Susan Miller Hellert
R718 Discovery Miles 7 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Understanding and Teaching the Cold War (Hardcover): Matthew Masur Understanding and Teaching the Cold War (Hardcover)
Matthew Masur
R971 Discovery Miles 9 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For nearly a half century, from 1945 to 1991, the United States and the Soviet Union maneuvered to achieve global hegemony. Each forged political alliances, doled out foreign aid, mounted cultural campaigns, and launched covert operations. The Cold War also deeply affected the domestic politics, cultures, and economic policies of the two superpowers, their client states, and other nations throughout the world. Teaching the Cold War is both necessary and challenging. Understanding and Teaching the Cold War is designed to help collegiate and high school teachers navigate the complexity of the topic, integrate up-to-date research and concepts into their classes, and use strategies and tools that make this important history meaningful to students. The volume opens with Matthew Masur's overview of models for approaching the subject, whether in survey courses or seminars. Two prominent historians, Carole Fink and Warren Cohen, offer accounts of their experience as long-time scholars and teachers of the Cold War from European and Asian perspectives. Sixteen essays dig into themes including the origins and end of the conflict, nuclear weapons, diplomacy, propaganda, fear, popular culture, and civil rights, as well as the Cold War in Eastern Europe, Western Europe, East Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the nonaligned nations. A final section provides practical advice for using relevant, accessible primary sources to implement the teaching ideas suggested in this book.

The Space Race - A Captivating Guide to the Cold War Competition Between the United States and Soviet Union to Reach the Moon... The Space Race - A Captivating Guide to the Cold War Competition Between the United States and Soviet Union to Reach the Moon (Hardcover)
Captivating History
R679 R606 Discovery Miles 6 060 Save R73 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Kristina - A young SS guard in WWII faces the horrors of war as Germany is torn apart by her enemies. (Hardcover): Peter... Kristina - A young SS guard in WWII faces the horrors of war as Germany is torn apart by her enemies. (Hardcover)
Peter Loughran
R810 Discovery Miles 8 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Slavs in Post-Nazi Austria - Carinthian Slovenes and the Politics of Assimilation, 1945-1960 (Hardcover): Robert Knight Slavs in Post-Nazi Austria - Carinthian Slovenes and the Politics of Assimilation, 1945-1960 (Hardcover)
Robert Knight
R4,584 Discovery Miles 45 840 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Robert Knight's book examines how the 60,000 strong Slovene community in the Austrian borderland province of Carinthia continued to suffer in the wake of Nazism's fall. It explores how and why Nazi values continued to be influential in a post-Nazi era in postwar Central Europe and provides valuable insights into the Cold War as a point of interaction of local, national and international politics. Though Austria was re-established in 1945 as Hitler's 'first victim', many Austrians continued to share principles which had underpinned the Third Reich. Long treated as both inferior and threatening prior to the rise of Hitler and then persecuted during his time in power, the Slovenes of Carinthia were prevented from equality of schooling by local Nazis in the years that followed World War Two, behavior that was tolerated in Vienna and largely ignored by the rest of the world. Slavs in Post-Nazi Austria uses this vital case study to discuss wider issues relating to the stubborn legacy of Nazism in postwar Europe and to instill a deeper understanding of the interplay between collective and individual (liberal) rights in Central Europe. This is a fascinating study for anyone interested in knowing more about the disturbing imprint that Nazism left in some parts of Europe in the postwar years.

Kennedy & Nixon - The Rivalry that Shaped Postwar America (Paperback): Chris Matthews Kennedy & Nixon - The Rivalry that Shaped Postwar America (Paperback)
Chris Matthews
R577 R531 Discovery Miles 5 310 Save R46 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

First friends, then bitter enemies, John Kennedy and Richard Nixon shared a rivalry that had a dramatic impact on American history. One would become the most dashing figure of the post-World War II era, the other would live into his eighties, haunted and consumed by the rivalry. In Kennedy and Nixon, Christopher Matthews offers a surprising look at these two political giants, offering a stunning portrait that will change the way we think about both of them. Starting as congressmen in the class of 1946, the two men developed a friendship and admiration for each other that would last for more than a decade. But what drove history was the enmity between these two towering figures whose 1960 presidential contest would set the nation's bitter course for years to come. Matthews shows how the early fondness between the two men (Kennedy told a trusted friend that if he didn't receive the Democratic nomination in 1960, he would vote for Nixon) degenerated into distrust and paranoia, the same emotions that, in the early 1970's, ravaged the nation. Christopher Mattew's revealing book sheds light on this complicated relationship and the role that it played in shaping America's history.

I'll Be Back When Summer's in the Meadow - A World War II Chronicle Volume II 1944 (Hardcover): Melanie A. Ippolito I'll Be Back When Summer's in the Meadow - A World War II Chronicle Volume II 1944 (Hardcover)
Melanie A. Ippolito
R1,165 Discovery Miles 11 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Food Guide for War Service at Home (Hardcover): Katharine Blunt Food Guide for War Service at Home (Hardcover)
Katharine Blunt
R682 R635 Discovery Miles 6 350 Save R47 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Pax Americana - How and Why US Elites Turned Global Primacy into a Silent Empire (Hardcover): Manuel Lopez-Linares Pax Americana - How and Why US Elites Turned Global Primacy into a Silent Empire (Hardcover)
Manuel Lopez-Linares
R593 R541 Discovery Miles 5 410 Save R52 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ostkrieg - Hitler's War of Extermination in the East (Paperback): Stephen G. Fritz Ostkrieg - Hitler's War of Extermination in the East (Paperback)
Stephen G. Fritz
R1,331 Discovery Miles 13 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

On June 22, 1941, Germany launched the greatest land assault in history on the Soviet Union, an attack that Adolf Hitler deemed crucial to ensure German economic and political survival. As the key theater of the war for the Germans, the eastern front consumed enormous levels of resources and accounted for 75 percent of all German casualties. Despite the significance of this campaign to Germany and to the war as a whole, few English-language publications of the last thirty-five years have addressed these pivotal events. In Ostkrieg: Hitler's War of Extermination in the East, Stephen G. Fritz bridges the gap in scholarship by incorporating historical research from the last several decades into an accessible, comprehensive, and coherent narrative. His analysis of the Russo-German War from a German perspective covers all aspects of the eastern front, demonstrating the interrelation of military events, economic policy, resource exploitation, and racial policy that first motivated the invasion. This in-depth account challenges accepted notions about World War II and promotes greater understanding of a topic that has been neglected by historians.

Atlas and Plat Book of Lenawee County Michigan (Hardcover): Iowa) Kenyon Company (Des Moines, Adrian Daily Telegram (Firm) Atlas and Plat Book of Lenawee County Michigan (Hardcover)
Iowa) Kenyon Company (Des Moines, Adrian Daily Telegram (Firm)
R821 Discovery Miles 8 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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