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World War One in Global History 1914 to 1924 - A Brief Calendar of State Practice (Hardcover): Peter Macalister-Smith, Joachim... World War One in Global History 1914 to 1924 - A Brief Calendar of State Practice (Hardcover)
Peter Macalister-Smith, Joachim Schwietzke
R2,537 Discovery Miles 25 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
James Whitey Bulger - The Last Interviews (Hardcover): James 'Whitey' Bulger James Whitey Bulger - The Last Interviews (Hardcover)
James 'Whitey' Bulger; Michael Esslinger
R1,100 R935 Discovery Miles 9 350 Save R165 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Swans of Ypres (Hardcover): Jeff Hatwell, Elspeth Langford The Swans of Ypres (Hardcover)
Jeff Hatwell, Elspeth Langford; Illustrated by Catherine Gordon
R693 Discovery Miles 6 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Franklin Roosevelt - A Captivating Guide to the Life of FDR (Hardcover): Captivating History Franklin Roosevelt - A Captivating Guide to the Life of FDR (Hardcover)
Captivating History
R722 R610 Discovery Miles 6 100 Save R112 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Playback - A Genealogy of 1980s British Videogames (Hardcover): Alex Wade Playback - A Genealogy of 1980s British Videogames (Hardcover)
Alex Wade
R4,128 Discovery Miles 41 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Through interviews with developers, gamers, and journalists examining the phenomena of bedroom coding, arcade gaming, and format wars, mapped onto enquiry into the seminal genres of the time including driving, shooting, and maze chase, Playback: A Genealogy of 1980s British Videogames examines how 1980s Britain has become the culture of work in the 21st century and considers its meaning to contemporary society. This crucial and timely work fills a lacuna for students and researchers of sociology, media, and games studies and will be of interest to employees of the videogames and media industries. Research into videogames have never been greater, but exploration of their historic drivers is as elided as the technology is influential, giving rise to a range of questions. What were the social and economic conditions that gave rise to a billion dollar industry? What were the motivations of the early 'bedroom coders'? What are the legacies of the seminal videogames of the 1980s and how do they inform the current social, political and cultural landscape? With a focus on the characteristics of the UK videogame industry in the 1980s, Wade explores these questions from perspectives of consumption, production and leisure, outlining the construction of a habitus unique to this time.

Over the Canadian Battlefields - Notes of a Little Journey in France, in March, 1919 (Hardcover): John W Dafoe Over the Canadian Battlefields - Notes of a Little Journey in France, in March, 1919 (Hardcover)
John W Dafoe
R678 R606 Discovery Miles 6 060 Save R72 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Hoot in Hell's Island - The Heroic Story of World War II Dive Bomber Lt. Cmdr. Robert D. Hoot Gibson (Hardcover): Ret )... A Hoot in Hell's Island - The Heroic Story of World War II Dive Bomber Lt. Cmdr. Robert D. Hoot Gibson (Hardcover)
Ret ) Col Kirk Warner (USA, Robert D Gibson
R571 Discovery Miles 5 710 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Luckiest Guerrilla - A True Tale of Love, War and the Army (Hardcover): Patricia Murphy Minch The Luckiest Guerrilla - A True Tale of Love, War and the Army (Hardcover)
Patricia Murphy Minch
R833 Discovery Miles 8 330 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Rough Road [microform] (Hardcover): William J 1863-1930 Locke The Rough Road [microform] (Hardcover)
William J 1863-1930 Locke
R906 Discovery Miles 9 060 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
War to War - A Bloodline Continues (Hardcover): Clint Goodwin War to War - A Bloodline Continues (Hardcover)
Clint Goodwin
R969 Discovery Miles 9 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
No Neighbors' Lands in Postwar Europe - Vanishing Others (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023): Anna Wylegala, Sabine Rutar,... No Neighbors' Lands in Postwar Europe - Vanishing Others (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
Anna Wylegala, Sabine Rutar, Malgorzata Lukianow
R3,700 Discovery Miles 37 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book focuses on the social voids that were the result of occupation, genocide, mass killings, and population movements in Europe during and after the Second World War. Historians, sociologists, and anthropologists adopt comparative perspectives on those who now lived in 'cleansed' borderlands. Its contributors explore local subjectivities of social change through the concept of 'No Neighbors' Lands': How does it feel to wear the dress of your murdered neighbor? How does one get used to friends, colleagues, and neighbors no longer being part of everyday life? How is moral, social, and legal order reinstated after one part of the community participated in the ethnic cleansing of another? How is order restored psychologically in the wake of neighbors watching others being slaughtered by external enemies? This book sheds light on how destroyed European communities, once multi-ethnic and multi-religious, experienced postwar reconstruction, attempted to come to terms with what had happened, and negotiated remembrance.

Servants and Servitude in Colonial America (Hardcover): Russell M. Lawson Servants and Servitude in Colonial America (Hardcover)
Russell M. Lawson
R1,669 Discovery Miles 16 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The dispossessed people of Colonial America included thousands of servants who either voluntarily or involuntarily ended up serving as agricultural, domestic, skilled, and unskilled laborers in the northern, middle, and southern British American colonies as well as British Caribbean colonies. Thousands of people arrived in the British-American colonies as indentured servants, transported felons, and kidnapped children forced into bound labor. Others already in America, such as Indians, freedmen, and poor whites, placed themselves into the service of others for food, clothing, shelter, and security; poverty in colonial America was relentless, and servitude was the voluntary and involuntary means by which the poor adapted, or tried to adapt, to miserable conditions. From the 1600s to the 1700s, Blacks, Indians, Europeans, Englishmen, children, and adults alike were indentured, apprenticed, transported as felons, kidnapped, or served as redemptioners. Though servitude was more multiracial and multicultural than slavery, involving people from numerous racial and ethnic backgrounds, far fewer books have been written about it. This fascinating new study of servitude in colonial America provides the first complete overview of the varied lives of the dispossessed in 17th- and 18th-century America, examining colonial American servitude in all of its forms. Illustrates how a majority of residents in Colonial America at any given time from 1607 to 1776 were dispossessed of basic freedoms Explains how the dispossessed Colonial American, deprived of basic rights, generated principles of freedom and equality that resulted in the American Revolution Shows that the basic rights of children were ignored in Stuart and Georgian England, which resulted in their transportation to America Describes how thousands of inhabitants of Colonial America were felons reprieved of the death penalty and prisoners of war

Southern Music Icons of Hendersonville, Tennessee (Hardcover): Jennifer Bruce, Tena Lee Southern Music Icons of Hendersonville, Tennessee (Hardcover)
Jennifer Bruce, Tena Lee; Foreword by Foreword Jamie Clary
R711 Discovery Miles 7 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Life and Times in Nazi Germany (Hardcover): Lisa Pine Life and Times in Nazi Germany (Hardcover)
Lisa Pine
R4,144 Discovery Miles 41 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Lisa Pine assembles an impressive array of influential scholars in Life and Times in Nazi Germany to explore the variety and complexity of life in Germany under Hitler's totalitarian regime. The book is a thematic collection of essays that examine the extent to which social and cultural life in Germany was permeated by Nazi aims and ambitions. Each essay deals with a different theme of daily German life in the Nazi era, with topics including food, fashion, health, sport, art, tourism and religion all covered in chapters based on original and expert scholarship. Life and Times in Nazi Germany, which also includes 24 images and helpful end-of-chapter select bibliographies, provides a new lens through which to observe life in Nazi Germany - one that highlights the everyday experience of Germans under Hitler's rule. It illuminates aspects of life under Nazi control that are less well-known and examines the contradictions and paradoxes that characterised daily life in Nazi Germany in order to enhance and sophisticate our understanding of this period in the nation's history. This is a crucial volume for all students of Nazi Germany and the history of Germany in the 20th century.

George Pitt-Rivers and the Nazis (Hardcover): Bradley W Hart George Pitt-Rivers and the Nazis (Hardcover)
Bradley W Hart
R4,136 Discovery Miles 41 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

George Pitt-Rivers began his career as one of Britain's most promising young anthropologists, conducting research in the South Pacific and publishing articles in the country's leading academic journals. With a museum in Oxford bearing his family name, Pitt-Rivers appeared to be on track for a sterling academic career that might even have matched that of his grandfather, one of the most prominent archaeologists of his day. By the early 1930s, however, Pitt-Rivers had turned from his academic work to politics. Writing a series of books attacking international communism and praising the ideas of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, Pitt-Rivers fell into the circles of the anti-Semitic far right. In 1937 he attended the Nuremberg Rally and personally met Adolf Hitler and other leading Nazis. With the outbreak of war in 1940 Pitt-Rivers was arrested and interned by the British government on the suspicion that he might harm the war effort by publicly sharing his views, effectively ending his academic career. This book traces the remarkable career of a man who might have been remembered as one of Britain's leading 20th century anthropologists but instead became involved in a far-right milieu that would result in his professional ruin and the relegation of most of his research to margins of scientific history. At the same time, his wider legacy would persist far beyond the academic sphere and can be found to the present day.

The Caribbean Front in World War II - The Untold Story of U-Boats, Spies, and Economic Warfare (Hardcover): Jose L Bolivar... The Caribbean Front in World War II - The Untold Story of U-Boats, Spies, and Economic Warfare (Hardcover)
Jose L Bolivar Fresneda
R1,868 Discovery Miles 18 680 Ships in 12 - 17 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.

Women and Gay Men in the Postwar Period (Hardcover): John Portmann Women and Gay Men in the Postwar Period (Hardcover)
John Portmann
R4,130 Discovery Miles 41 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Friendships between women and gay men captivated the American media in the opening decade of the 21st century. John Portmann places this curious phenomenon in its historical context, examining the changing social attitudes towards gay men in the postwar period and how their relationships with women have been portrayed in the media. As women and gay men both struggled toward social equality in the late 20th century, some women understood that defending gay men - who were often accused of effeminacy - was in their best interest. Joining forces carried both political and personal implications. Straight women used their influence with men to prevent bullying and combat homophobia. Beyond the bureaucratic fray, women found themselves in transformed roles with respect to gay men - as their mothers, sisters, daughters, caregivers, spouses, voters, employers and best friends. In the midst of social hostility to gay men during the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 1990s, a significant number of gay women volunteered to comfort the afflicted and fight reigning sexual values. Famous women such as Elizabeth Taylor and Barbra Streisand threw their support behind a detested minority, while countless ordinary women did the same across America. Portmann celebrates not only women who made the headlines but also those who did not. Looking at the links between the women's liberation and gay rights movements, and filled with concrete examples of personal and political relationships between straight women and gay men, Women and Gay Men in the Postwar Period is an engaging and accessible study which will be of interest to students and scholars of 20th- and 21st century social and gender history.

In the Midst of Civilized Europe - The 1918-1921 Pogroms in Ukraine and the Onset of the Holocaust (Paperback): Jeffrey... In the Midst of Civilized Europe - The 1918-1921 Pogroms in Ukraine and the Onset of the Holocaust (Paperback)
Jeffrey Veidlinger 1
R360 R299 Discovery Miles 2 990 Save R61 (17%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year A riveting account of a forgotten holocaust: the slaughter of over one hundred thousand Ukrainian Jews in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. In the Midst of Civilized Europe repositions the pogroms as a defining moment of the twentieth century. 'Exhaustive, clearly written, deeply researched' - The Times 'A meticulous, original and deeply affecting historical account' - Philippe Sands, author of East West Street Between 1918 and 1921, over a hundred thousand Jews were murdered in Ukraine by peasants, townsmen, and soldiers who blamed the Jews for the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. In hundreds of separate incidents, ordinary people robbed their Jewish neighbors with impunity, burned down their houses, ripped apart their Torah scrolls, sexually assaulted them, and killed them. Largely forgotten today, these pogroms - ethnic riots - dominated headlines and international affairs in their time. Aid workers warned that six million Jews were in danger of complete extermination. Twenty years later, these dire predictions would come true. Drawing upon long-neglected archival materials, including thousands of newly discovered witness testimonies, trial records, and official orders, acclaimed historian Jeffrey Veidlinger shows for the first time how this wave of genocidal violence created the conditions for the Holocaust. Through stories of survivors, perpetrators, aid workers, and governmental officials, he explains how so many different groups of people came to the same conclusion: that killing Jews was an acceptable response to their various problems.

With Our Army in Palestine (Hardcover): Antony Bluett With Our Army in Palestine (Hardcover)
Antony Bluett
R861 Discovery Miles 8 610 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Books against Tyranny - Catalan Publishers under Franco (Hardcover): Laura Vilardell Books against Tyranny - Catalan Publishers under Franco (Hardcover)
Laura Vilardell
R2,953 Discovery Miles 29 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Catalan-language publishers were under constant threat during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco (1939-1975). Both the Catalan language and the introduction of foreign ideas were banned by the regime, preoccupied as it was with creating a "one, great and free Spain." Books against Tyranny examines the period through its censorship laws and censors' accounts by means of intertextuality, an approach that aims to shed light on the evolution of Francoism's ideological thought. The documents examined here includes firsthand witness accounts, correspondence, memoirs, censorship files, newspapers, original interviews, and unpublished material housed in various Spanish archives. As such, the book opens up the field and serves as an informative tool for scholars of Franco's Spain, Catalan social movements, or censorship more generally.

Art and War; Canadian War Memorials, a Selection of the Works Executed for the Canadian War Memorials Fund to Form a Record of... Art and War; Canadian War Memorials, a Selection of the Works Executed for the Canadian War Memorials Fund to Form a Record of Canada's Part in the Great War and a Memorial to Those Canadians Who Have Made the Great Sacrifice. With an Article On War... (Hardcover)
Paul G (Paul George) 1872-1 Konody
R794 Discovery Miles 7 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Greatest Escape - A gripping story of wartime courage and adventure (Hardcover): Neil Churches The Greatest Escape - A gripping story of wartime courage and adventure (Hardcover)
Neil Churches
R611 R512 Discovery Miles 5 120 Save R99 (16%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The gripping, vividly told story of the largest POW escape in the Second World War - organized by an Australian bank clerk, a British jazz pianist and an American spy. In August 1944 the most successful POW escape of the Second World War took place - 106 Allied prisoners were freed from a camp in Maribor, in present-day Slovenia. The escape was organized not by officers, but by two ordinary soldiers: Australian Ralph Churches (a bank clerk before the war) and Londoner Les Laws (a jazz pianist by profession), with the help of intelligence officer Franklin Lindsay. The American was on a mission to work with the partisans who moved like ghosts through the Alps, ambushing and evading Nazi forces. How these three men came together - along with the partisans - to plan and execute the escape is told here for the first time. The Greatest Escape, written by Ralph Churches' son Neil, takes us from Ralph and Les's capture in Greece in 1941 and their brutal journey to Maribor, with many POWs dying along the way, to the horror of seeing Russian prisoners starved to death in the camp. The book uncovers the hidden story of Allied intelligence operations in Slovenia, and shows how Ralph became involved. We follow the escapees on a nail-biting 160-mile journey across the Alps, pursued by German soldiers, ambushed and betrayed. And yet, of the 106 men who escaped, 100 made it to safety. Thanks to research across seven countries, The Greatest Escape is no longer a secret. It is one of the most remarkable adventure stories of the last century.

Around Sherman (Hardcover): Annette Swan Around Sherman (Hardcover)
Annette Swan
R735 Discovery Miles 7 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Chernobyl and the Mortality Crisis in Eastern Europe and the Former USSR (Hardcover): Jose A Tapia Chernobyl and the Mortality Crisis in Eastern Europe and the Former USSR (Hardcover)
Jose A Tapia
R2,827 Discovery Miles 28 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the mortality crisis which affected Eastern Europe and the republics of the former USSR at the time of the transition to a market economy was arguably the major peacetime health crisis of recent decades. Chernobyl and the Mortality Crisis in Eastern Europe and the Old USSR discusses the importance of that crisis, surprisingly underplayed in the scientific literature, and presents evidence suggesting a potential role of the Chernobyl disaster among the causes contributing to it.

Two years of war - as viewed from Ottawa A Special issue of 'The Civilian' giving some Account of the War Work of the... Two years of war - as viewed from Ottawa A Special issue of 'The Civilian' giving some Account of the War Work of the Civil Service of Canada 1914-1916 (Hardcover)
R1,006 Discovery Miles 10 060 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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