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Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945

From the Subprime Crisis to the Great Recession - A Financial History of the United States 2006-2009 (Hardcover): Jerry W... From the Subprime Crisis to the Great Recession - A Financial History of the United States 2006-2009 (Hardcover)
Jerry W Markham
R5,128 Discovery Miles 51 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 2010, this book covers the development of the mortgage market, the residential housing boom and bust that led to the subprime crisis, and the effect of this crisis on financial institutions as well as the stock market panic of 2008. It details the massive government interventions that sought to prevent another Great Depression.

Understanding Contemporary Latin America (Paperback, 5th Revised edition): Henry Understanding Contemporary Latin America (Paperback, 5th Revised edition)
Henry
R838 Discovery Miles 8 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This new edition of Understanding Contemporary Latin America, the first under the editorship of Henry (Chip) Carey, reflects the many changes that have occurred in the region in the decade since the previous edition was published. An entirely new chapter on crime and security, along with new treatments of such classic subjects as geography, history, politics, economics, international relations, and more, make for an unparallelled introduction to the complexities of Latin America today.

Elizabeth - The No 1 Sunday Times bestseller from the writer who knew her and her family for over fifty years (Paperback):... Elizabeth - The No 1 Sunday Times bestseller from the writer who knew her and her family for over fifty years (Paperback)
Gyles Brandreth
R395 R316 Discovery Miles 3 160 Save R79 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A personal account of the life and character of Britain's longest-reigning monarch __________ This intimate, personal biography of Queen Elizabeth II tells the story of her remarkable life, reign and times, from a perspective unlike any other. Gyles Brandreth writes the Queen's tale candidly with grace and sensitivity from the view of someone who met her, talked with her and kept a record of those conversations. Brandreth knew the Queen's husband well and knows the new King and Queen Consort. Told with authority, a refreshing dose of humour and moving honesty from a totally unique viewpoint, Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait is the must-have biography of the longest-serving monarch in English history, of a woman who represented not only her people but stood as an emblem of fortitude and resilience worldwide throughout her long life. Elizabeth II - what was she really like? What made her the person she was? By GYLES BRANDRETH: 'The writer who got closest to the human truth about our long-serving senior royals.' Libby Purves, THE TIMES __________

The Shortest History of the Soviet Union (Hardcover): Sheila Fitzpatrick The Shortest History of the Soviet Union (Hardcover)
Sheila Fitzpatrick
R405 R332 Discovery Miles 3 320 Save R73 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Science, Technology and the Cultural Cold War in Asia - From Atoms for Peace to Space Flight (Hardcover): Yuka Moriguchi... Science, Technology and the Cultural Cold War in Asia - From Atoms for Peace to Space Flight (Hardcover)
Yuka Moriguchi Tsuchiya
R4,068 Discovery Miles 40 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Tsuchiya presents a new insight into the political roles of science and technology during the Cold War era in Asia. The Cold War was not only a battle of conflicting ideologies and economic systems, but also a competition of cultures and lifestyles, and a battle to win the hearts and minds of people in developing countries. Tsuchiya argues that science and technology were an integral part of how culture was deployed strategically. She discusses the 1950s and early 1960s: the Eisenhower and Kennedy presidencies in the U.S., and the decolonization and nation-building efforts in Japan, South Vietnam, Burma, and Indonesia. She also sheds light on the way U.S. technological aid programs such as Foreign Atoms for Peace, and the overseas information program were received by Asian leaders, technocrats, and scientists. Provides valuable insight for scholars of Cold War History in Asia and US Foreign Policy.

Unsteady Crowns - Why the World's Monarchies are Struggling for Survival (Paperback, 2nd edition): A.W. Purdue Unsteady Crowns - Why the World's Monarchies are Struggling for Survival (Paperback, 2nd edition)
A.W. Purdue
R380 Discovery Miles 3 800 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

War and austerity, unrest and revolution: the institution of monarchy has remained stalwart through every challenge levelled at it, but just what is its role and how secure is its future in our modern society? At the beginning of the twentieth century, monarchy was by far the most common form of government: emperors sat on the thrones of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Persia, Japan, China, Russia and the Ottoman Empire, while there were kings of Bulgaria, Serbia, Italy, Romania, Greece, Korea and Cambodia. After he lost his throne in 1952, King Farouk of Egypt predicted that by the end of the century there would be only five kings: the kings of hearts, aces, clubs and spades, and the King of England. That prediction has not come true, for there remain monarchs across the globe. The number of monarchies has appreciably diminished, yet the idea continues to have allure. In Unsteady Crowns, historian A.W. Purdue explores the important role played by monarchies as agents of continuity, guarding and representing the national ethos, and brings the story up to date in a fully revised second edition, exploring the roles of celebrity, rivalry, and much more in monarchies worldwide.

First in His Class: Bill Clinton (Paperback, Touchstone ed): David Maraniss First in His Class: Bill Clinton (Paperback, Touchstone ed)
David Maraniss
R554 R475 Discovery Miles 4 750 Save R79 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Who exactly is Bill Clinton, and why was he, of all the brilliant and ambitious men in his generation, the first in his class to reach the White House? Drawing on hundreds of letters, documents, and interviews, David Maraniss explores the evolution of the personality of our forty-second president from his youth in Arkansas to his 1991 announcement that he would run for the nation's highest office. In this richly textured and balanced biography, Maraniss reveals a complex man full of great flaws and great talents. First in His Class is the definitive book on Bill Clinton.

The Beautiful Fall - Fashion, Genius and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris (Paperback): Alicia Drake The Beautiful Fall - Fashion, Genius and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris (Paperback)
Alicia Drake 2
R519 R423 Discovery Miles 4 230 Save R96 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

In 1950s Paris, Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld were friends, the rising stars of the fashion world. But by the late sixties, the city was invaded by a new mood of liberation and hedonism, and dominated by intrigue, infidelities, addiction and parties. Each designer created his own mesmerizing world, so vivid and seductive that people were drawn to the power, charisma and fame, and it was to make them bitter rivals. "The Beautiful Fall" is a dazzling expose of an era and the story of the two men who were its essence and who remain its most singular survivors.

Sinology during the Cold War (Hardcover): Antonina Luszczykiewicz, Michael Brose Sinology during the Cold War (Hardcover)
Antonina Luszczykiewicz, Michael Brose
R3,926 Discovery Miles 39 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume provides the first study of the history of sinology (aka China studies) as charted across several communist states during the Cold War. The People's Republic of China was created in the first years of the Cold War, with its early history and foreign policy intimately bound up in that larger geopolitical fight. All the seismic changes in China's geopolitical landscape-from its emergence and close relationship with the Soviet Union, to the Sino-Soviet split and the eventual rapprochement with the United States-resulted in a great deal of interest by journalists, politicians, and scholars. Yet, although scholars across the Soviet Bloc produced an impressive body of work on a range of sinological studies, with rare exceptions most of those scholars and their work remains unknown outside their own intellectual circles. This book redresses this dearth of knowledge of sinological scholarship, providing invaluable and unique glimpses of Soviet Bloc sinologists and their work during the Cold War, including cutting-edge research on lesser-studied communist states such as Poland, Hungary, Mongolia, and others. International in scope, this book is ideal for scholars and researchers of modern history, Chinese studies, sinology, and the Cold War.

China-Swiss Relations during the Cold War, 1949-1989 - Between Soft Power and Propaganda (Hardcover): Cyril Cordoba China-Swiss Relations during the Cold War, 1949-1989 - Between Soft Power and Propaganda (Hardcover)
Cyril Cordoba
R4,072 Discovery Miles 40 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

During the Cold War, Switzerland functioned as a hub for Chinese propaganda networks. Despite its fierce anti-communism, the Swiss Confederation was one of the first capitalist countries to recognise the People's Republic of China (PRC). As a neutral country and as the home base for many international organisations, Switzerland represented a strategic centre for the spread of Maoism throughout the world. Focusing on cultural diplomacy and questioning the notion of soft power, this book explores how the PRC developed its influence and its prestige abroad through its Embassy in Bern, the most important in Western Europe. The book also discusses how China's approach in Switzerland, bypassing traditional diplomatic structures, and relying on contacts with individual people - "foreign friends" - was then used, and continues to be used, in many other countries, including the United States, France, and Japan.

Testimony - France, Europe and the World in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback): Nicolas Sarkozy Testimony - France, Europe and the World in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
Nicolas Sarkozy
R460 R385 Discovery Miles 3 850 Save R75 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This work brings together material from three books Sarkozy has already published in France. "Testimony: France in the Twenty First Century" (Pantheon), combined material from the first two of these three books. These two volumes are entitled "Libre" (Free in French), an autobiographical account of Sarkozy's rise to power within the French political system, and "Temoignage" (Testimony in French), a book setting forth Sarkozy's ideas for a new domestic as well as foreign policy for France.This book includes this material, but updated, as well as additional material from the third book, "Ensemble" (Together), a manifesto of principle and policy that Sarkozy published in France just before the election this spring. None of these three books has appeared in its entirety in English translation. Our book also includes material drawn from a major foreign policy speech, an update post-election of all chapters, and a new preface - 3,000 to 4,000 words long-to be based on an original interview with Sarkozy by Philip H. Gordon, the translator and editor. "Testimony" focuses on such questions as what Sarkozy's pro-American stance will mean for France's traditionally independent foreign policy, how his own vision for Europe will affect other members of the European Union, and the ways in which he proposes to reform French society.Two elements in the book are notable. The first is Sarkozy's stated admiration for the United States, which is unorthodox for a French leader. The second is his unusual candor about France's failings. Over the past quarter century, he argues, France has become a stagnant society that has destroyed the value of work and deluded itself into thinking that its welfare system is sustainable. While the rest of Europe has tried to adapt to globalization, France has denied it, hiding behind a damaging credo of anti-liberalism. Sarkozy promises to reinvent France's social model in order to revive economic growth. Optimistic about France, he insists that the country is impatient, exasperated by delays, and eager for profound change.

General Ike - A Personal Reminiscence (Paperback, New edition): John Eisenhower General Ike - A Personal Reminiscence (Paperback, New edition)
John Eisenhower
R449 R374 Discovery Miles 3 740 Save R75 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Dwight D. Eisenhower had two careers: before he was one of America's most popular presidents, he was its greatest military commander. His military career lasted much longer, and (according to John) it was far more important to him personally. Nobody is in a better position to tell the story of General Ike than John, who was by his side for much of it, and who rose to the rank of Brigadier General before retiring to write seminal and bestselling works of military history. GENERAL IKE is a definitive, revealing, and brilliantly crafted study of the right stuff of leadership. Great leaders bring out the best in the people around them, and Ike was no exception. Drawing on scenes witnessed by few others, and comments given him in private by his father, John Eisenhower shows how his father's keen mind, great sense of the strengths of others, and perseverance in the face of all duties combined to bring America to victory.

How to Write About the Holocaust - The Postmodern Theory of History in Praxis (Hardcover): Theodor Pelekanidis How to Write About the Holocaust - The Postmodern Theory of History in Praxis (Hardcover)
Theodor Pelekanidis
R3,914 Discovery Miles 39 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

How to Write About the Holocaust is a contribution to ongoing debates in historiography and Holocaust studies. More specifically, it combines the theoretical framework that has developed in historiography in the last half a century with the demands of Holocaust representation. The first part of the book analyzes the newest trends in theory of history, focusing especially on postmodernism, starting from the works of the American historian and theorist Hayden White and tracing the genealogy of the postmodern influence in history both from an epistemological and from a political perspective. The second part continues by incorporating these theoretical developments into specific written examples on the Holocaust. By analyzing major works about it, including Saul Friedlander's and Dan Stone's histories of the Holocaust, the book attempts to answer questions like: what is the most appropriate way to write about the Holocaust and what can theory teach us about the practice of history? To conclude, the volume explores the connection between history and literature and asks if the distinction between fact and fiction has become outdated.

Multimodal Approaches to Media Discourses - Reconstructing the Age of Austerity in the United Kingdom (Paperback): Tim Griebel,... Multimodal Approaches to Media Discourses - Reconstructing the Age of Austerity in the United Kingdom (Paperback)
Tim Griebel, Stefan Evert, Philipp Heinrich
R1,236 Discovery Miles 12 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Multimodal Approaches to Media Discourses brings together contributions from an interdisciplinary group of scholars on corpus-assisted analyses of multimodal data on austerity discourses in the United Kingdom, which extend and expand on the understanding of austerity but also of the methodologies used to analyse multimodal corpora. The volume demonstrates how the austerity measures introduced in response to global economic and financial crises in recent years can be viewed as being more complexly layered than they appear, not simply reduced to their connections to spending cuts and fiscal debt. The book employs an innovative methodological approach, in which established and emerging scholars from linguistics and computational and social sciences critically reflect on the exact same set of data - multimodal texts and articles from The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph from 2010 to 2016. This framework allows for the exploration of the role of the media in mediating the public's assessment of austerity and the ideas, actors, emotions, geographies and broader material context which contribute to such perceptions. In so doing, the volume also offers unique insights into systematic analyses to multimodal data which may be applied to other topics and connected with other disciplines. Enhancing our awareness and assessment of austerity in public discourse and of the methodologies to study it, this book is key reading for students and researchers in discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, multimodality, and those working at the intersection of these fields.

The Grand Strategies of Great Powers (Paperback): Tudor A. Onea The Grand Strategies of Great Powers (Paperback)
Tudor A. Onea
R1,239 Discovery Miles 12 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

What is grand strategy and what is it good for? What are great powers, and which states are great powers today? What are the grand strategies available to great powers? What are the conditions under which a certain strategy is suitable and when should it be rejected? What are the factors affecting the success or failure of a given grand strategy? The present volume provides answers to these questions by introducing a typology of great power grand strategies, as strategies of rising, status quo, and declining powers, as well as through historical illustrations of each type. The reader is thus exposed to strategies such as divide and conquer, biding your time, opportunity strike, primacy, semi-detachment, concert, and appeasement through the experiences of leaders such as Bismarck, Peter the Great, Metternich, Deng Xiaoping, Neville Chamberlain, and Stalin. This analysis is then brought to bear on present developments in the grand strategies of the United States, China, and Russia. The volume should be of interest to both the academic and foreign policy-making communities, and in particular to students of international relations, diplomacy, history, and current international affairs.

Embassies in Crisis - Studies of Diplomatic Missions in Testing Situations (Paperback): Rogelia Pastor-Castro, Martin Thomas Embassies in Crisis - Studies of Diplomatic Missions in Testing Situations (Paperback)
Rogelia Pastor-Castro, Martin Thomas
R1,234 Discovery Miles 12 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Embassies are integral to international diplomacy, their staff instrumental to inter-governmental dialogue, strategic partnerships, trading relationships and cultural exchange. But Embassies are also discreet political spaces. Notionally sovereign territory 'immune' from local jurisdiction, in moments of crisis Embassies have often been targets of protest and sites of confrontation. It is this aspect of Embassy experience that this collection of essays explores and Embassies in Crisis revisits flashpoints in the recent lives of Embassies overseas at times of acute political crisis. Ranging across multiple British and other embassy crises, unusually, this book offers equal insights to international historians and members of the diplomatic community.

Find the Helpers (Hardcover): Fred Guttenberg Find the Helpers (Hardcover)
Fred Guttenberg; Contributions by Bradley Whitford
R533 R444 Discovery Miles 4 440 Save R89 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

How a Parkland Dad and 9/11 Brother Faced Tragedy "Don't tell me there's no such thing as gun violence. It happened in Parkland." Fred Guttenberg 2020 Nautilus Silver Winner 2021 Chanticleer Hearten Awards First Place Winner Life changed forever on Valentine's Day 2018 for Fred Guttenberg and his family. What should have been a day of love turned into a nightmare. Seventeen people died at Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Fourteen-year-old Jaime Guttenberg was the second to last victim. "Fred Guttenberg is a hero." Lawrence O'Donnell. That Jaime and so many of her fellow students were struck down in cold blood galvanized many to action, including Jaime's father Fred now a gun safety activist dedicated to passing common sense gun safety legislation. Fred was already struggling with deep personal loss. Four months earlier his brother Michael died of 9/11 induced pancreatic cancer. He had been exposed to too much dust and chemicals at Ground Zero. Michael battled heroically for nearly five years and then died at age fifty. Find the Helpers has a special meaning to the Guttenberg's. It was a beloved family wisdom learned from watching Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. In the midst of tragedy, "always look for the helpers. There will always be helpers. Because if you look for the helpers, you'll know there's hope." Fred Rogers, 1999 Healing from grief. Discover the story of Fred Guttenberg's activist's journey since Jaime's death and how he has been able to get through the worst of times thanks to the kindness and compassion of others. Good things happen to good people at the hands of other good people and the world is filled with them. They include everyone from amazing gun violence survivors Fred has met to former VP Joe Biden, who spent time talking to him about finding mission and purpose in learning to grieve. If you enjoyed Eyes to the Wind, Haben, or The Beauty in Breaking, you'll love Find the Helpers!

Austerity Britain, 1945-1951 (Paperback): David Kynaston Austerity Britain, 1945-1951 (Paperback)
David Kynaston
R530 R435 Discovery Miles 4 350 Save R95 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

For the first time, the Sunday Times bestseller Austerity Britain is available in one complete paperback volume. Coursing through Austerity Britain is an astonishing variety of voices - vivid, unselfconscious, and unaware of what the future holds. A Chingford housewife endures the tribulations of rationing; a retired schoolteacher observes during a royal visit how well-fed the Queen looks; a pernickety civil servant in Bristol is oblivious to anyone's troubles but his own. An array of working-class witnesses describe how life in post-war Britain is, with little regard for liberal niceties or the feelings of their 'betters'. Many of these voices will stay with the reader in future volumes, jostling alongside well-known figures like John Arlott (here making his first radio broadcast, still in police uniform), Glenda Jackson (taking the 11+) and Doris Lessing, newly arrived from Africa, struck by the levelling poverty of postwar Britain. David Kynaston weaves a sophisticated narrative of how the victorious 1945 Labour government shaped the political, economic and social landscape for the next three decades.Deeply researched, often amusing and always intensely entertaining and readable, the first volume of David Kynaston's ambitious history offers an entirely fresh perspective on Britain during those six momentous years.

The Global 1980s - People, Power and Profit (Paperback): 1955- Jonathan Davis The Global 1980s - People, Power and Profit (Paperback)
1955- Jonathan Davis
R1,239 Discovery Miles 12 390 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The Global 1980s takes an international perspective on the upheaval across the world during the long 1980s (1979-1991) with the end of the Cold War, a move towards a free-market economic system, and the increasing connectedness of the world. The 1980s was a decade of unimaginable change. At its start, dictatorships across the world appeared stable, the state was still seen as having a role to play in ensuring people's well-being, and the Cold War seemed set to continue long into the future. By the end of the decade, dictatorships had fallen, globalisation was on the march and the opening of the Berlin Wall paved the way for the end of the Cold War. Divided into four chronological parts, sixteen chapters on themes including domestic politics, the global spread of democracy, international relations and global concerns including AIDS, acid rain and nuclear war, explore how world-wide change was initiated both from above and below. The book covers such topics as ideological changes in the liberal democratic west and socialist east, protests against nuclear weapons and for democratic governance, global environmental worries, and the end of apartheid in South Africa. Offering an overview of a decade in transition, as the global order established after 1945 broke down and a new, globalised world order emerged, and supported by case studies from across the world, this truly global book is an essential resource for students and scholars of the long 1980s and the twentieth century more generally.

South Korea's Origins and Early Relations with the United States - The Lynchpin of Hegemonic Power (Hardcover): Hyeonji... South Korea's Origins and Early Relations with the United States - The Lynchpin of Hegemonic Power (Hardcover)
Hyeonji Cha, Hyunjin Kim
R3,898 Discovery Miles 38 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

WHY PUBLISH: - Professor Kim is one of the most prominent historians in Australia, and in recognition of this has been granted status as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. - The content of the book is global, and will be of particular interest to scholars in the Asia Pacific region, as well as those in the US. - The book includes original, contemporary source material which has not been explored before in book format.

State-Private Networks and Intelligence Theory - From Cold War Liberalism to Neoconservatism (Hardcover): Tom Griffin State-Private Networks and Intelligence Theory - From Cold War Liberalism to Neoconservatism (Hardcover)
Tom Griffin
R4,057 Discovery Miles 40 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book examines the United States neoconservative movement, arguing that its support for the 2003 invasion of Iraq was rooted in an intelligence theory shaped by the policy struggles of the Cold War. The origins of neoconservative engagement with intelligence theory are traced to a tradition of labour anti-communism that emerged in the early 20th century and subsequently provided the Central Intelligence Agency with key allies in the state-private networks of the Cold War era. Reflecting on the break-up of Cold War liberalism and the challenge to state-private networks in the 1970s, the book maps the neoconservative response that influenced developments in United States intelligence policy, counterintelligence and covert action. With the labour roots of neoconservatism widely acknowledged but rarely systematically pursued, this new approach deploys the neoconservative literature of intelligence as evidence of a tradition rooted in the labour anti-communist self-image as allies rather than agents of the American state. This book will be of great interest to all students of intelligence studies, Cold War history, United States foreign policy and international relations.

Women in Fifties Britain - A New Look (Paperback): Penny Tinkler, Stephanie Spencer, Claire Langhamer Women in Fifties Britain - A New Look (Paperback)
Penny Tinkler, Stephanie Spencer, Claire Langhamer
R1,236 Discovery Miles 12 360 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Contented housewives, glamorous women, jive-mad teenagers - all are common figures in popular perceptions of 1950s Britain. But what more did it mean to be a girl or woman in the fifties? And what are the implications of this history for understanding post-war Britain? Women in Fifties Britain explores the lived experience of girls and women, and the way in which their story has been told. Crossing boundaries - disciplinary, conceptual and thematic - and drawing creatively on new and established sources, it extends and enriches the terrain of women's history. Diverse groups of women come into view, including farmer's wives, university-educated women, activist housewives, working mothers, Jewish refugees, girls 'at risk' and private secretaries. Revealing that their private, public and professional lives were central to reshaping society, the collection engages with the legacy of World War II, and with questions about the distinctiveness of the 1950s. Embracing emotion, labour, gender, class, race, sociability, sexuality and much more, the authors offer penetrating exploration of established and new categories of historical analysis. Placing the politics of gender at the heart of Britain's reconstruction, this engaging and important collection re-visions 1950s Britain and the women that made it. This book was originally published as a special issue of Women's History Review.

The Kennedy-Johnson Tax Cut - A Revisionist History (Hardcover): Martin F.J. Prachowny The Kennedy-Johnson Tax Cut - A Revisionist History (Hardcover)
Martin F.J. Prachowny
R3,245 Discovery Miles 32 450 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The 1964 Kennedy-Johnson tax cut is often cited as the single most successful application of Keynesian stabilization policy. The author challenges this orthodox historical view by exposing the haphazard planning, simplistic economic theorizing, irreconcilable numerical projections, and partisan political influences on the Council of Economic Advisers. The focus of the book is on the decisions, advice and actions of the three Chairmen of the Council during the 1960s: Walter Heller, Gardner Ackley and Arthur Okun. They were the authors of the ambitious and optimistic new economics that attempted to manipulate aggregate demand in the US economy to reach potential output. By 1965 this goal was achieved, but when Vietnam War spending and Great Society programs were added to the tax cut, the subsequent policy paralysis in the face of a surging economy clearly indicated a lack of symmetry in fiscal policy implementation. Much of the evidence for this revisionist view comes from the participants own statements in the form of White House memoranda and confidential reports as well as from counter-factual exercises that allow alternative policies or swifter responses. This book will be of great interest to macroeconomists as well as to scholars and students interested in economic history and in the formulation and implementation of economic policy.

Image, History and Memory - Central and Eastern Europe in a Comparative Perspective (Hardcover): Michal Haake, Piotr Juszkiewicz Image, History and Memory - Central and Eastern Europe in a Comparative Perspective (Hardcover)
Michal Haake, Piotr Juszkiewicz
R3,939 Discovery Miles 39 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book discusses the active relationship among the mechanics of memory, visual practices, and historical narratives. Reflection on memory and its ties with historical narratives cannot be separated from reflection on the visual and the image as its points of reference which function in time. This volume addresses precisely that temporal aspect of the image, without reducing it to a neutral trace of the past, a mnemotechnical support of memory. As a commemorative device, the image fixes, structures, and crystalizes memory, turning the view of the past into myth. It may, however, also stimulate, transform, and update memory, functioning as a matrix of interpretation and understanding the past. The book questions whether the functioning of the visual matrices of memory can be related to a particular historical and geographical scope, that is, to Central and Eastern Europe, and whether it is possible to find their origin and decide if they are just local and regional or perhaps also Western European and universal. It focuses on the artistic reflection on time and history, in the reconstructions of memory due to change of frontiers and political regimes, as well as endeavours to impose some specific political structure on territories which were complex and mixed in terms of national identity, religion and social composition. The volume is ideal for students and scholars of memory studies, history and visual studies.

Tracing the Atom - Nuclear Legacies in Russia and Central Asia (Hardcover): Susanne Bauer, Tanja Penter Tracing the Atom - Nuclear Legacies in Russia and Central Asia (Hardcover)
Susanne Bauer, Tanja Penter
R3,918 Discovery Miles 39 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is about nuclear legacies in Russia and Central Asia, focusing on selected sites of the Soviet atomic program, many of which have remained understudied. Nuclear operations, for energy or military purposes, demanded a vast infrastructure of production and supply chains that have transformed entire regions. In following the material traces of the atomic programs, contributors pay particular attention to memory practices and memorialization concerning nuclear legacies. Tracing the Atom foregrounds historical and contemporary engagements with nuclear politics: how have institutions and governments responded to the legacies of the atomic era? How do communities and artists articulate concerns over radioactive matters? What was the role of radiation expertise in a broader Soviet and international context of the Cold War? Examining nuclear legacies together with past atomic futures and post-Soviet memorialization and nuclear heritage shines light on how modes of knowing intersect with livelihoods, compensation policies, and historiography. Bringing together a range of disciplines - history, science and technology studies, social anthropology, literary studies, and art history - this volume offers insights that broaden our understanding of twentieth-century atomic programs and their long aftermaths.

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