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Cosmopolitan Cultures and Oceanic Thought (Paperback): Dilip M. Menon, Nishat Zaidi Cosmopolitan Cultures and Oceanic Thought (Paperback)
Dilip M. Menon, Nishat Zaidi
R1,185 Discovery Miles 11 850 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book imagines the ocean as central to understanding the world and its connections in history, literature and the social sciences. Introducing the central conceptual category of ocean as method, it analyzes the histories of movement and traversing across connected spaces of water and land sedimented in literary texts, folklore, local histories, autobiographies, music and performance. It explores the constant flow of people, material and ideologies across the waters and how they make their presence felt in a cosmopolitan thinking of the connections of the world. Going beyond violent histories of slavery and indenture that generate global connections, it tracks the movements of sailors, boatmen, religious teachers, merchants, and adventurers. The essays in this volume summon up this miscegenated history in which land and water are ever linked. A significant rethinking of world history, this volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of history, especially connected history and maritime history, literature, and Global South studies.

Ritual, Identity, and the Mayan Diaspora (Hardcover): Nancy J. Wellmeier Ritual, Identity, and the Mayan Diaspora (Hardcover)
Nancy J. Wellmeier
R3,040 Discovery Miles 30 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1998, Ritual, Identity, and the Mayan Diaspora examines the lives and the continuing ritual traditions of the Mayas in the United States. The book focuses on a predominantly Maya town in rural Florida and shows how members of this ancient Central American civilization use their religious tradition to maintain their ethnic identity in an unfamiliar environment. Bringing together studies of Mesoamerican fiesta or cargo systems, religious ritual and migration studies, this interdisciplinary work describes the religious traditions of indigenous Guatemala, the crisis migration of the 1980s, and the Mayas' daily life in the United States, including Maya women's reflections on their new challenges. The book is unique in its focus on the transfer of the fiesta cycle to the diaspora and its analysis of the behind-the-scenes aspects of ritual. The rise of leadership contested interpretations of ethnic identity, choices about symbolic representation, and maintenance of ties to villages of origin all take place in the context of organizing public ritual events. This book will be of interest to academics of anthropology, history and sociology.

The Magic Lantern at Work - Witnessing, Persuading, Experiencing and Connecting (Hardcover): Martyn Jolly, Elisa Decourcy The Magic Lantern at Work - Witnessing, Persuading, Experiencing and Connecting (Hardcover)
Martyn Jolly, Elisa Decourcy
R3,907 Discovery Miles 39 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For centuries, various new media technologies have provided individuals with a set of powerful tools to affect their audiences. Among these the magic lantern show was perhaps the most pervasive, and persuasive. Around the world audiences gathered together in darkened rooms to see a sequence of projected images transition one into another as they listened to personal stories or scripted narrations. Through the power of the magic lantern audiences, for the first time, became the direct witnesses to distant, often traumatic, political events; they visually learned new scientific and medical knowledge, virtually experienced distant places, and collectively experienced strange, often uncanny, phenomena. Although relatively neglected until recently, the apparatus of the magic lantern is now receiving the attention it deserves from historians, curators and artists. Through a set of case studies focusing on the use of the magic lantern by very different, but equally fascinating individuals, a team of international scholars analyses the emerging power of the lantern show in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries within politics, religion, travel, science, health, marketing and entertainment. The magic lantern's connections to today's multimedia environments are explored through the intertwined themes of connecting, experiencing, witnessing and persuading.

A Rage for Order - The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS (Paperback): Robert F Worth A Rage for Order - The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS (Paperback)
Robert F Worth
R438 R362 Discovery Miles 3 620 Save R76 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A History of Germany 1918-2020 - The Divided Nation, 5th Edition (Paperback, 5th Edition): M Fulbrook A History of Germany 1918-2020 - The Divided Nation, 5th Edition (Paperback, 5th Edition)
M Fulbrook
R1,277 Discovery Miles 12 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The new edition of the acclaimed textbook on modern German history, written by a leading scholar in the field Now in its fifth edition, A History of Germany 1918-2020 provides a clear and well-balanced survey of German history from the creation of the Weimar Republic to the era of Angela Merkel's Chancellorship. Guiding readers through the complex patterns of the nation's historical development using clear and compelling narrative, this classic textbook introduces readers to the key themes of modern German history while tracing the social, cultural, and political tensions that have challenged German stability and unity across more than a century. Fully updated for the next generation of readers, A History of Germany 1918-2020 extends its framework for exploring legacies of the past into the 21st century. The fifth edition includes enhanced coverage of the extremes of nationalism, military aggression, and genocide under Nazism, as well as an expanded analysis of the Berlin Republic and the changing character of Germany in the Europe of 2020. Presenting readers with a panoramic overview of the past 100 years of German history, this compelling textbook: Provides a concise yet thorough account of the turbulent history of Germany from the end of the First World War to the present Examines the character and consequences of World War II and the Holocaust Explores the development of a capitalist democracy in West Germany and a communist dictatorship in East Germany during the Cold War Covers East and West German history in equal depth from the perspectives of instability, division, and reunification Analyses the fall of Communism and the unification of an enlarged Federal Republic in 1989-90 Traces unified Germany's development as a globally respected state playing a pivotal role in Europe today A History of Germany 1918-2020: The Divided Nation, Fifth Edition remains the ideal text for undergraduate students in courses on modern German or European history, as well as for general readers with interest in the subject.

A Present Past - The Brazilian Military Dictatorship and the 1964 Coup (Paperback): Rodrigo Patto Sa Motta A Present Past - The Brazilian Military Dictatorship and the 1964 Coup (Paperback)
Rodrigo Patto Sa Motta
R1,553 Discovery Miles 15 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The events related to the 1964 coup and the military dictatorship (1964-85) have become common currency in the recent public debate in Brazil. The issue is especially strategic to the extreme right-wing groups surrounding Jair Bolsonaro, the president elected in 2018. For them, the 1964 coup is cherished and celebrated, marking defeat of the left and the beginning of a political regime oriented towards order and progress. The political project built around Bolsonaro is an attempt to impose a distorted and Manichean view of recent history, both by discourse and attempts of censorship. According to that view, 1964 was not a coup detat, but a revolution that saved Brazilians from communism. In Brazil, history is being manipulated to convince people that the military were good rulers, an image that connects to the present authoritarian (albeit elected) government supported by the Armed Forces. Right-wingers, nostalgic for the 1960s dictatorship, promote initiatives to discredit academic researchers and historians who disagree with their mind set. A Present Past offers a well-founded approach to the history of the military dictatorship. Chapters are dedicated to analysing the most controversial topics of the current debate. The primary aim is to disseminate knowledge about the prevailing dictatorship circumstances, with a firm eye on how the past military regime impacts on the present. The purpose is to prevent peddlers of fake news and the ultra-right negationists from winning over the Brazilian public with their authoritarian versions of history. In sum, this is a book committed to democracy. This commitment does not imply any disrespect for the academy, or for opposing points of view, but at its heart it defends historiography via scientific method to counter authoritarian imposition of a historical narrative that supports dictatorship in any form and its leaders, political and military, remaining in power through coercion.

Race, Nation, and Capital in the Modern World - The Nexus of Inequality (Paperback): Philip Y. Nicholson Race, Nation, and Capital in the Modern World - The Nexus of Inequality (Paperback)
Philip Y. Nicholson
R1,123 Discovery Miles 11 230 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Brings together three key concepts - race, nation and capitalism, to analyse the inequalities caused by the confluence of all three, which allows the reader to really grasp the key relationship between them across history. Useful for those studying topics on racism, race, capital, the history of inequality, and human and civil rights. Racism particularly, but also issues around nationalism and capitalism, are increasingly of interest to students thinking about how history relates to the present. Compared to other titles which only look at individual nations or one of the three themes discussed in this volume, this book is more extensive because it looks at the interrelationship of these three concepts in history.

The Imperial History of China - Being a History of the Empire as Compiled by the Chinese Historians (Paperback): J MacGowan The Imperial History of China - Being a History of the Empire as Compiled by the Chinese Historians (Paperback)
J MacGowan
R1,476 Discovery Miles 14 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This work, first published in 1897, is neither more nor less than the history of China as it has been written during successive ages by the authorized historians of the Empire. The documents on which the work is based, together with the writings of Confucius and Mencius, are the only truly authentic sources from which the story of the long-lived nation can be obtained. Commencing with the mythical and legendary periods, the work moves on through successive dynasties until that of the Ts'ing concluding its account in the early years of the twentieth century.

China's Courts and Concubines - Some People in Chinese History (Paperback): Bernard Llewellyn China's Courts and Concubines - Some People in Chinese History (Paperback)
Bernard Llewellyn
R1,030 Discovery Miles 10 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book, first published in 1956, contains the stuff of other people's memories. Thus you will read of magicians and immortals; of dragons and pills of eternal life; of generals and eunuchs; of emperors and poets; of palaces and concubines. The author has made nothing up; if there are liars along the route, they were there before he came along. The study of stories and ballads from deep in a country's past can tell a reader much about the present-day culture of a society; this is surely true with these tales from China's history.

The Routledge Companion to World Literature and World History (Paperback): May Hawas The Routledge Companion to World Literature and World History (Paperback)
May Hawas
R1,376 Discovery Miles 13 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Routledge Companion to World Literature and World History is a comprehensive and engaging volume, combining essays from historians and literary academics to create a space for productive cross-cultural encounters between the two fields. In addition to the 27 essays, the Companion includes general introductions from two of the leading scholars of history and literature, David Damrosch and Patrick Manning, as well as personal testimonies from artists working in the area, and editorials asking provocative questions. The volume includes sections on: People - with essays looking at World Literature, Intellectual Commerce, Religion, language and war, and Indigenous ethnography Networks and methods - examining maps, geography, morality and the crises of world literature Transformations - including essays on race, colonialism, and the non-human Interdisciplinary and groundbreaking, this volume brings to light various ways in which scholars of literature and history analyse, assimilate or reveal the intellectual heritage of the past, at the same moment as they try consciously to deal with an unending amount of new information and an awareness of global connections and discrepancies. Including work from leading academics in the field, as well as newer voices, the Companion is ideal for students and scholars alike.

Creating God - The Birth and Growth of Major Religions (Hardcover): Robin Derricourt Creating God - The Birth and Growth of Major Religions (Hardcover)
Robin Derricourt
R737 Discovery Miles 7 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

What do we really know about how and where religions began, and how they spread? In this bold new book, award-winning author Robin Derricourt takes us on a journey through the birth and growth of several major religions, using history and archaeology to recreate the times, places and societies that witnessed the rise of significant monotheistic faiths. Beginning with Mormonism and working backwards through Islam, Christianity and Judaism to Zoroastrianism, Creating God opens up the conditions that allowed religious movements to emerge, attract their first followers and grow. Throughout history there have been many prophets: individuals who believed they were in direct contact with the divine, with instructions to spread a religious message. While many disappeared without trace, some gained millions of followers and established a lasting religion. In Creating God, Robin Derricourt has produced a brilliant, panoramic book that offers new insights on the origins of major religions and raises essential questions about why some succeeded where others failed. -- .

Diverse Unfreedoms - The Afterlives and Transformations of Post-Transatlantic Bondages (Hardcover): Sarada Balagopalan, Cati... Diverse Unfreedoms - The Afterlives and Transformations of Post-Transatlantic Bondages (Hardcover)
Sarada Balagopalan, Cati Coe, Keith Michael Green
R4,346 Discovery Miles 43 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The legacies of plantation slavery continue to inhabit, animate, and haunt the diverse forms of unfreedom that mark our present. Diverse Unfreedoms charts a new way of thinking through these legacies of unfreedom via a more entangled and multidirectional model of what makes for historical change and continuity in practices and relationships of subjugation. This volume troubles the stark opposition between slavery and freedom by foregrounding the diversity of types of exploitation above and beyond the most extreme forms of dehumanization characterized by slavery. The chapters, from multiple disciplines and discussing diverse regions and historical periods, illustrate the significance of interdisciplinary and international perspectives in understanding diverse unfreedoms, and offer a nuanced account of historical change and continuity in systems that generate and perpetuate unfreedom. Through examining the frictions that mark certain key moments of legal, social, and institutional transition, the essays in this volume express the limits of liberal humanist projects and present a critique of the liberal notion of freedom as the necessary horizon of emancipatory imagination and labor.

1917 and the Consequences (Hardcover): Gerhard Besier, Katarzyna Stoklosa 1917 and the Consequences (Hardcover)
Gerhard Besier, Katarzyna Stoklosa
R3,907 Discovery Miles 39 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Russian Revolution of 1917 has been one of the most important events of modern history. It changed the course of the events not only in Russia but, on a wider scale, across the world while it influenced the flow of history throughout the twentieth century until the fall of the Soviet Union and, to some extent, well beyond this time. Radical change in Russia triggered social revolutions and reformations across Europe, while authoritarian systems shaped their societies according to the Russian model. This book analyses these forces, particularly at the European periphery which has been underexplored until this volume.

A Social and Cultural History of Republican Rome (Paperback): E. M. Orlin A Social and Cultural History of Republican Rome (Paperback)
E. M. Orlin
R2,200 Discovery Miles 22 000 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Provides students with a balanced understanding of the key aspects of the culture and society of the Roman Republic A Social and Cultural History of Republican Rome is the first undergraduate textbook of its kind to concentrate on the ways Roman societal structures, family dynamics, visual arts, law, religion, and other cultural and intellectual developments contributed to Roman identity between 509 BCE and 14 CE. Drawing from a diverse range of archaeological, epigraphic, and literary sources, author Eric M. Orlin provides insight into the socio-cultural and intellectual issues that shaped both the Roman Republic and the wider Mediterranean world. Thematically organized chapters address the practice of politics in the Roman Republic, explain the concept of patronage and the distinctions between patricians and plebeians, examine the impact of the army and militarism on Roman society, discuss the ties between Roman religion and the Roman state, and more. Chapters include maps, charts, images, and links to further readings in ancient sources and modern scholarship. Throughout the text, discussion of several recurring themes connects individual chapters while helping students critically engage the material. A Social and Cultural History of Republican Rome: Focuses on themes other than politics and the military, such as the position and role of women in the Roman family, the foundation of the Roman legal system, and the topography and growth of the city of Rome Introduces the basic materials available for the study of the Roman Republic, including written, architectural, and numismatic sources Features a brief narrative history of the Roman Republic and an overview of the text's methodological framework Establishes key points of discussion for students, using comparisons between Roman society and our modern-day world Encourages students to critically examine the problems and issues raised by the material Covering topics in Roman history that are frequently neglected in undergraduate classrooms, A Social and Cultural History of Republican Rome is an excellent primary or supplementary textbook for courses on the Roman Republic as well as broader Roman history classes that incorporate socio-cultural issues.

Lost Children of the Empire (Paperback): Philip Bean, Joy Melville Lost Children of the Empire (Paperback)
Philip Bean, Joy Melville
R1,022 Discovery Miles 10 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1989. The extraordinary story of Britain's child migrants is one of 350 years of shaming exploitation. Around 130,000 children, some just 3 or 4 years old, were shipped off to distant parts of the Empire, the last as recently as 1967. For Britain it was a cheap way of emptying children's homes and populating the colonies with 'good British stock'; for the colonies it was a source of cheap labour. Even after the Second World War around 10,000 children were transported to Australia - where many were subjected to at best uncaring abandonment, and at worst a regime of appalling cruelty. Lost Children of the Empire tells the remarkable story of the Child Migrants Trust, set up in 1987, to trace families and to help those involved to come to terms with what has happened. But nothing can explain away the connivance and irresponsibility of the governments and organisations involved in this inhuman chapter of British history.

The British Empire at its Zenith (Paperback): A.J. Christopher The British Empire at its Zenith (Paperback)
A.J. Christopher
R318 Discovery Miles 3 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This title, originally published in 1988, examines the network of states and the political and economic systems which bound the British Empire together. This book examines each country and how the empire made its mark in the shape of urban form, public buildings and rural land patterns. An overall assessment of the Imperial heritage is attempted as a pointer to the unity which existed between the many diverse lands for a brief period in their history.

The Pandemic Century - One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria and Hubris (Hardcover): Mark Honigsbaum The Pandemic Century - One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria and Hubris (Hardcover)
Mark Honigsbaum 1
R614 Discovery Miles 6 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet, despite a century of medical progress, viral and bacterial disasters continue to take us by surprise, inciting panic and dominating news cycles. From pneumonic plague in LA and 'parrot fever' in Argentina to the more recent AIDS, SARS and Ebola epidemics, the last 100 years have been marked by a succession of unanticipated outbreaks and scares. Like man-eating sharks, predatory pathogens are always present in nature, waiting to strike; when one is seemingly vanquished, others appear in its place. The Pandemic Century exposes the limits of science against nature, and how these crises are shaped by humans as much as microbes.

Sources of the Western Tradition - Volume I: From Ancient Times to the Enlightenment (Paperback, 9th edition): Marvin Perry Sources of the Western Tradition - Volume I: From Ancient Times to the Enlightenment (Paperback, 9th edition)
Marvin Perry
R1,511 R1,340 Discovery Miles 13 400 Save R171 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

With a collection of over 375 sources, each accompanied by an introductory essay and review questions, this two-volume primary source reader emphasizes the intellectual history and values of the Western tradition. Sources are grouped around important themes in European history--such as religion, education, and art and culture--so that readers can analyze and compare multiple documents. The ninth edition features additional sources by and about women and updates to introductions and review questions.

Settler Garrison - Debt Imperialism, Militarism, and Transpacific Imaginaries (Paperback): Jodi Kim Settler Garrison - Debt Imperialism, Militarism, and Transpacific Imaginaries (Paperback)
Jodi Kim
R687 Discovery Miles 6 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In Settler Garrison Jodi Kim theorizes how the United States extends its sovereignty across Asia and the Pacific in the post-World War II era through a militarist settler imperialism that is leveraged on debt as a manifold economic and cultural relation undergirded by asymmetries of power. Kim demonstrates that despite being the largest debtor nation in the world, the United States positions itself as an imperial creditor that imposes financial and affective indebtedness alongside a disciplinary payback temporality even as it evades repayment of its own debts. This debt imperialism is violently reproduced in juridically ambiguous spaces Kim calls the "settler garrison": a colonial archipelago of distinct yet linked military camptowns, bases, POW camps, and unincorporated territories situated across the Pacific from South Korea to Okinawa to Guam. Kim reveals this process through an analysis of how a wide array of transpacific cultural productions creates antimilitarist and decolonial imaginaries that diagnose US militarist settler imperialism while envisioning alternatives to it.

New Perspectives on Jewish Cultural History - Boundaries, Experiences, and Sensemaking (Hardcover): Maja Gildin Zuckerman,... New Perspectives on Jewish Cultural History - Boundaries, Experiences, and Sensemaking (Hardcover)
Maja Gildin Zuckerman, Jakob Egholm Feldt
R3,919 Discovery Miles 39 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book presents original studies of how a cultural concept of Jewishness and a coherent Jewish history came to make sense in the experiences of people entangled in different historical situations. Instead of searching for the inconsistencies, discontinuities, or ruptures of dominant grand historical narratives of Jewish cultural history, this book unfolds situations and events, where Jewishness and a coherent Jewish history became useful, meaningful, and acted upon as a site of causal explanations. Inspired by classical American pragmatism and more recent French pragmatism, we present a new perspective on Jewish cultural history in which the experiences, problems, and actions of people are at the center of reconstructions of historical causalities and projections of future horizons. The book shows how boundaries between Jewish and non-Jewish are not a priori given but are instead repeatedly experienced in a variety of situations and then acted upon as matters of facts. In different ways and on different scales, these studies show how people's experiences of Jewishness perpetually probe, test, and shape the boundaries between what is Jewish and non-Jewish, and that these boundaries shape the spatiotemporal linkages that we call history.

Oceans of Grain - How American Wheat Remade the World (Hardcover): Scott R. Nelson Oceans of Grain - How American Wheat Remade the World (Hardcover)
Scott R. Nelson
R783 R663 Discovery Miles 6 630 Save R120 (15%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

An "incredibly timely" global history journeys from the Ukrainian steppe to the American prairie to show how grain built and toppled the world's largest empires (Financial Times). To understand the rise and fall of empires, we must follow the paths traveled by grain--along rivers, between ports, and across seas. In Oceans of Grain, historian Scott Reynolds Nelson reveals how the struggle to dominate these routes transformed the balance of world power. Early in the nineteenth century, imperial Russia fed much of Europe through the booming port of Odessa, on the Black Sea in Ukraine. But following the US Civil War, tons of American wheat began to flood across the Atlantic, and food prices plummeted. This cheap foreign grain spurred the rise of Germany and Italy, the decline of the Habsburgs and the Ottomans, and the European scramble for empire. It was a crucial factor in the outbreak of the First World War and the Russian Revolution. A powerful new interpretation, Oceans of Grain shows that amid the great powers' rivalries, there was no greater power than control of grain.

Aboriginal Protection and Its Intermediaries in Britain's Antipodean Colonies (Hardcover): Samuel Furphy, Amanda Nettelbeck Aboriginal Protection and Its Intermediaries in Britain's Antipodean Colonies (Hardcover)
Samuel Furphy, Amanda Nettelbeck
R3,321 Discovery Miles 33 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This collection brings together world-leading and emerging scholars to explore how the concept of "protection" was applied to Indigenous peoples of Britain's antipodean colonies. Tracing evolutions in protection from the 1830s until the end of the nineteenth century, the contributors map the changes and continuities that marked it as an inherently ambivalent mode of colonial practice. In doing so, they consider the place of different historical actors who were involved in the implementation of protective policy, who served as its intermediaries on the ground, or who responded as its intended "beneficiaries." These included metropolitan and colonial administrators, Protectors or similar agents, government interpreters and church-affiliated missionaries, settlers with economic investments in the politics of conciliation, and the Indigenous peoples who were themselves subjected to colonial policies. Drawing out some of the interventions and encounters lived out in the name of protection, the book examines some of the critical roles it played in the making of colonial relations.

Migration (Paperback): Johannes Knolle, James Poskett Migration (Paperback)
Johannes Knolle, James Poskett; Contributions by David Olusoga, Chandran Kukathas, Khadija Von Zinnenburg Carroll, …
R568 Discovery Miles 5 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Migration is in the news every day. Whether it be the plight of refugees fleeing Syria, or the outbreak of the Zika virus across Latin America, the modern world is fundamentally shaped by movement across borders. Migration, arising from the 2018 Darwin College Lectures, brings together eight leading scholars across the arts, humanities, and sciences to help tackle one of the most important topics of our time. What is migration? How has it changed the world? And how will it shape the future? The authors approach these questions from a variety of perspectives, including history, politics, epidemiology, and art. Chapters related to policy, as well as those written by leading journalists and broadcasters, give perspective on how migration is understood in the media, and engage the public more widely. This interdisciplinary approach provides an original take on migration, providing new insights into the making of the modern world.

Selected Writings of Hannah More (Hardcover): Robert Hole Selected Writings of Hannah More (Hardcover)
Robert Hole
R3,489 Discovery Miles 34 890 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1996, Selected Writings of Hannah More brings together some of More's most powerful work, illustrating her views on the proper role of women in all areas of society. Hannah More was a member of the London literary scene and is known for her morally restrictive and politically reactionary views, confronting the arguments of radicals and feminists alike. The book explores a number of More's key works and includes a selection of her Letters from London in the 1770s, reflecting on the state of society. Also examined are several of More's poems and short stories. Selected Writings of Hannah More will appeal to those with an interest in social, cultural, and literary history.

A History of Postwar Russia (Hardcover): Roger Pethybridge A History of Postwar Russia (Hardcover)
Roger Pethybridge
R3,043 Discovery Miles 30 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First Published in 1966, A History of Postwar Russia covers sixteen years of Soviet history, from the closing stages of the Second World War (1945) until the Twenty-second Soviet Party Congress (1961), dealing with both domestic and foreign policy and their influence on each other. It aims at giving the overall shape of Soviet history in these years. The author argues that in Soviet society each sector of activity must be viewed in relation to the whole, so that the monolithic pattern of totalitarian politics can be appreciated. More than any other major power, the Soviet Union did not submit easily to compartmentalized study, since every branch of Soviet life was carefully trimmed to grow towards the Communist aim. This book is an essential read for scholars and researchers of Soviet history, Soviet politics, European history, Russian history, and comparative politics.

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