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Fearless Women in the Mexican Revolution and the Spanish Civil War (Electronic book text): Tabea Alexa Linhard Fearless Women in the Mexican Revolution and the Spanish Civil War (Electronic book text)
Tabea Alexa Linhard
R1,396 Discovery Miles 13 960 Out of stock
English Captain (Paperback, Main): Thomas Wintringham English Captain (Paperback, Main)
Thomas Wintringham
R395 Discovery Miles 3 950 Out of stock

'Barcelona is colour, noise, heat, dust, violent traffic and quick-moving people. Many of the men carry rifles slung on their backs...' Tom Wintringham (1898-1949) was a pioneer of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, and commander of the British Battalion in the bloody Battle of Jarama in February 1937, at which he was wounded. English Captain is Wintringham's own startling account of his service to the cause of the Spanish republic. '[Wintringham] was a remarkable man of ideas; the foremost Marxist expert on warfare, a published poet, a brilliant propagandist... He was also a man of action who believed that few things in life could be achieved unless you were prepared to fight for them.' Hugh Purcell, History Today

The Vatican and Italian Fascism, 1929-32 - A Study in Conflict (Hardcover): Pollard John F. Pollard The Vatican and Italian Fascism, 1929-32 - A Study in Conflict (Hardcover)
Pollard John F. Pollard
R1,106 Discovery Miles 11 060 Out of stock

This book examines the relations between the Vatican and the Fascist regime in Italy, 1929-1932.

The Short March - Communist Takeover of Power in Czechoslovakia, 1945-48 (Hardcover): Karel Kaplan The Short March - Communist Takeover of Power in Czechoslovakia, 1945-48 (Hardcover)
Karel Kaplan
R891 R843 Discovery Miles 8 430 Save R48 (5%) Out of stock
The International Context of the Spanish Civil War (Hardcover, Unabridged edition): Gaynor Johnson The International Context of the Spanish Civil War (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
Gaynor Johnson
R1,460 Discovery Miles 14 600 Out of stock

This book, which consists of essays by leading scholars in the field of twentieth century international history, examines the wider context of one of the most bitter and bloody civil wars in European history - the Spanish Civil War. The chapters discuss all of the major debates that surround the ideological and political context of the war, including the extent to which it could be regarded as a 'dress rehearsal' for the Second World War. The book also debates the nature of civil war in the twentieth century and as such will be of interest to military and international historians as well as to historians of the history of ideas.

Guns and Rubles - The Defense Industry in the Stalinist State (Hardcover): Mark Harrison Guns and Rubles - The Defense Industry in the Stalinist State (Hardcover)
Mark Harrison
R1,111 Discovery Miles 11 110 Out of stock

For this book a distinguished team of economists and historians--R. W. Davies, Paul R. Gregory, Andrei Markevich, Mikhail Mukhin, Andrei Sokolov, and Mark Harrison--scoured formerly closed Soviet archives to discover how Stalin used rubles to make guns. Focusing on various aspects of the defense industry, a top-secret branch of the Soviet economy, the volume's contributors uncover new information on the inner workings of Stalin's dictatorship, military and economic planning, and the industrial organization of the Soviet economy. Previously unknown details about Stalin's command system come to light, as do fascinating insights into the relations between Soviet public and private interests. The authors show that defense was at the core of Stalin's system of rule; single-minded management of the defense sector helped him keep his grip on power.

Scientists in the Classroom - The Cold War Reconstruction of American Science Education (Hardcover): John L. Rudolph Scientists in the Classroom - The Cold War Reconstruction of American Science Education (Hardcover)
John L. Rudolph
R2,386 Discovery Miles 23 860 Out of stock

In response to Soviet advances in science and engineering education, the country’s top scientists with the support of the federal government in 1956 launched an unprecedented program to reform pre-college science education in the United States. Drawing on a wide range of archival material, John Rudolph traces the origins of two of the leading projects in this movement in high school physics and biology. Rudolph describes how the scientists directing these projects drew on their wartime experiences in weapons development and defense consultation to guide their foray into the field of education and he reveals how the broader social and political conditions of the 1950s Cold War America fundamentally shaped the nature of the course materials they eventually produced.

Red Guards and Workers' Militias in the Russian Revolution (Hardcover): Rex A. Wade Red Guards and Workers' Militias in the Russian Revolution (Hardcover)
Rex A. Wade
R1,270 R924 Discovery Miles 9 240 Save R346 (27%) Out of stock
Other Germans - Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender, and Memory in the Third Reich (Paperback, New edition): Tina... Other Germans - Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender, and Memory in the Third Reich (Paperback, New edition)
Tina Campt
R849 Discovery Miles 8 490 Out of stock

It's hard to imagine an issue or image more riveting than Black Germans during the Third Reich. Yet accounts of their lives are virtually nonexistent, despite the fact that they lived through a regime dedicated to racial purity. Tina Campt's Other Germans tells the story of this largely forgotten group of individuals, with Important distinctions from other accounts. Most strikingly, Campt centers her arguments on race, rather than anti-Semitism. She also provides an oral history as background for her study, interviewing two Black German subjects for her book. In the end the author comes face to face with an inevitable question: Is there a relationship between the history of Black Germans and those of other black communities? The answers to Campt's questions make Other Germans essential reading in the emerging study of what it means to be black and German in the context of a society that looked at anyone with non-German blood as raclally impure at best.

Nationalism in Late and Post-Communist Europe - Volume 1 - The Failed Nationalism of the Multinational and Partial National... Nationalism in Late and Post-Communist Europe - Volume 1 - The Failed Nationalism of the Multinational and Partial National States (Paperback)
Egbert Jahn
R1,710 R710 Discovery Miles 7 100 Save R1,000 (58%) Out of stock

The age of nationalism has often been declared a bygone era. But it is by far not at its end. In the years 1990-1993, more nation states than ever before came into being within a short period of time 15 hybrid ethno-national states and three fragile states of federated nations. Since then, of the latter, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia fell apart and the other two are imperiled by ethno-national movements. State and ethnic nationalism have combined in each country in curious forms, allowing for a gradual national consciousness, which aims at multinational federalism or national autonomy as an alternative to national secession. In this volume, authors from the East and the West discuss the results of many years of research on nationalism, as well as the new approaches to the understanding of a nation. In addition, the failure of the multinational states the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, the partial national state German Democratic Republic, and presumably also Bosnia and Herzegovina are analyzed. After the breakdown of the multinational states and the polyethnic empires some decades ago, the question is raised: Will an integrated European Union succeed in finding an adequate answer to nationalism and the nationalities problem?

German Dis/Continuities (Paperback): Martin Morris German Dis/Continuities (Paperback)
Martin Morris; M. Morris
R400 Discovery Miles 4 000 Out of stock

The twentieth-century history of few countries has been so profoundly marked by breaks, discontinuities, and ruptures as has Germany's--the radical breaks between the Wilhelmine empire, the Weimar Republic, and the National Socialist period; the "end of history" in 1945 and the dual reconstruction from "Year Zero," followed by the reunification of post-1989 German. This special issue of "South Atlantic Quarterly" focuses on the many dimensions of these discontinuities--social, political, cultural, aesthetic, psychological, and physical--as well as the continuities that are equally, if less apparently, implied by them.
The contributions presented here include Fredric Jameson's "Ramblings in Old Berlin," Gunter Grass's "Lonesome Capitalism," and Peter Weiss's "Aesthetics of Resistance." Among the topics discussed in the volume are the debate over Holocaust memorials in Germany and the significance of their connections to the German past, the problematic continuity that identifies the new unified Germany with the former Federal Republic; the dangers to women posed by the neoliberal project; the legacy of the avant-garde in today's media theory; "Ars nova" and "Doktor Faustus;" nostalgia for the old German Democratic Republic; and reflections on traumatic memory and history as trauma.
"Contributors. "Ulrich Baer, Michael Geyer, Gunter Grass, Frigga Haug, Julia Hell, Fredric Jameson, Juliet Koss, Andreas Michel, Martin Morris, Arkady Plotnitsky, Pierra Vidal-Naquet, Peter Weiss, James E. Young

Aleksandra Kollontai - Socialism, Feminism and the Bolshevik Revolution (Hardcover): Beatrice Farnsworth Aleksandra Kollontai - Socialism, Feminism and the Bolshevik Revolution (Hardcover)
Beatrice Farnsworth
R1,580 R1,138 Discovery Miles 11 380 Save R442 (28%) Out of stock
Revolutionary Hamburg - Labour Politics in the Early Weimar Republic (Hardcover): R.A. Comfort Revolutionary Hamburg - Labour Politics in the Early Weimar Republic (Hardcover)
R.A. Comfort
R1,228 Discovery Miles 12 280 Out of stock
Stresemann and the Revision of Versailles (Hardcover): Henry L. Bretton Stresemann and the Revision of Versailles (Hardcover)
Henry L. Bretton
R1,042 R838 Discovery Miles 8 380 Save R204 (20%) Out of stock
A Mission to Civilize - Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930 (Hardcover): Alice L. Conklin A Mission to Civilize - Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930 (Hardcover)
Alice L. Conklin
R2,046 Discovery Miles 20 460 Out of stock

This work addresses a central but often ignored question in the history of modern France and modern colonialism: how did the Third Republic, highly regarded for its professed democratic values, allow itself to be seduced by the insidious and persistent appeal of a civilizing ideology with distinct racist overtones? By focusing on a particular group of colonial officials in a specific setting the governors general of French West Africa from 1895 to 1930 the author argues that the ideal of a special civilizing mission had a decisive impact on colonial policymaking and on the evolution of modern French republicanism generally. French ideas of civilization simultaneously republican, racist, and modern encouraged the governors general in the 1890 s to attack such feudal African institutions as aristocratic rule and slavery in ways that referred back to France s own experience of revolutionary change. Ironically, local administrators in the 1920 s also invoked these same ideas to justify such reactionary policies as the reintroduction of forced labor, arguing that coercion, which inculcated a work ethic in the lazy African, legitimized his loss of freedom. By constantly invoking the ideas of civilization, colonial policy makers in Dakar and Paris managed to obscure the fundamental contradictions between the rights of man guaranteed in a republican democracy and the forcible acquisition of an empire that violates those rights.

French Fascism - The Second Wave, 1933-1939 (Hardcover): Robert Soucy French Fascism - The Second Wave, 1933-1939 (Hardcover)
Robert Soucy
R2,417 Discovery Miles 24 170 Out of stock

Did Fascism have a significant following in France in the 1930s? Were its supporters predominantly from the political right or left? This book, in conjunction with its predecessor, "French Fascism: The First Wave, 1924-33", argues the notion that Fascism never took hold in France. Robert Soucy argues that France has a long-standing Fascist tradition, one that arose more from counter-revolutionary forces on the right than from forces on the left. Analyzing Fascist "double-talk", Soucy underscores the social and economic conservatism of such mass movements as Francisme, the Solidarite Francaise, the Parti Populaire Francais, and the Croix de Feu - as well as the ideological and membership crossovers between them. Examining police reports of the era, he penetrates beneath the "socialist" rhetoric of these movements and describes their financial backing from the steel and electricity industries and the middle- and lower-middle-class constituencies (rather than workers) who provided most of their recruits. Soucy investigates why thousands of French men and women found Fascist ideas attractive during this period and what fuelled the more authoritarian and brutal aspects of French Fascism. According to Soucy, these tendencies (seen most recently in the right-wing activity of Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front) periodically emerge from perceived threats from "alien" elements in French society - whether they be communists, socialists, immigrants, Jews, feminists, hedonists, democrats or liberals "soft" on Marxism and secularism.

Ho Sempre Detto Noi - Lucia Sanchez Saornil, Femminista E Anarchica Nella Spagna Della Guerra Civile (Italian, Paperback):... Ho Sempre Detto Noi - Lucia Sanchez Saornil, Femminista E Anarchica Nella Spagna Della Guerra Civile (Italian, Paperback)
Michela Cimbalo
R1,267 Discovery Miles 12 670 Out of stock
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