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"Marx's Theory of Price and its Modern Rivals "provides an original
look at how Marx understood the role of money, extending his theory
to consider how prices move over the course of business cycles. Key
modern theories of price are also analyzed; Neoclassical, Post
Keynesian and Sraffian theories are contrasted with Marxian
thought.
Stephen R. Bradley was a Revolutionary War commander and U.S.
Senator credited with writing the Twelfth Amendment and advocating
a banning of the slave trade. This collection of Bradley's letters
and personal papers provides a range of rare and significant
material. This previously unpublished correspondence with
presidents and the country's founders reflect Bradley's influence
and diversity of interests as well as the political and cultural
climate of the era. The book features transcriptions of 550
letters, 25 illustrations, and a catalog of Bradley's documents.
Since 1969, Ethan Allen has been the subject of three biographical
studies, all of which indulge in sustaining and revitalizing the
image of Allen as a physically imposing Vermont yeoman, a defender
of the rights of Americans, an eloquent military hero, and a master
of many guises, from rough frontiersman to gentleman philosopher.
Seeking the authentic Ethan Allen, the authors of this volume ask:
How did that Ethan Allen secure his place in popular culture? As
they observe, this spectacular persona leaves little room for a
more accurate assessment of Allen as a self-interested land
speculator, rebellious mob leader, inexperienced militia officer,
and truth-challenged man who would steer Vermont into the British
Empire.
Drawing extensively from the correspondence in Ethan Allen and his
Kin and a wide range of historical, political, and cultural
sources, Duffy and Muller analyze the factors that led to Ethan
Allen's two-hundred-year-old status as the most famous figure in
Vermont's past. Placing facts against myths, the authors reveal how
Allen acquired and retained his iconic image, how the much-repeated
legends composed after his death coincide with his life, why
recollections of him are synonymous with the story of Vermont, and
why some Vermonters still assign to Allen their own cherished and
idealized values.
Marx's Theory of Price and its Modern Rivals provides an original
look at how Marx understood the role of money, extending his
theory to consider how prices move over the course of business
cycles. Key modern theories of price are also analysed;
Neoclassical, Post Keynesian and Sraffian theories are contrasted
with Marxian thought.
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
The cast of characters includes Hitler and Goering, Gertrude Stein and Marc Chagall--not to mention works by artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso. And the story told in this superbly researched and suspenseful book is that of the Third Reich's war on European culture and the Allies' desperate effort to preserve it.
From the Nazi purges of "Degenerate Art" and Goering's shopping sprees in occupied Paris to the perilous journey of the Mona Lisa from Paris and the painstaking reclamation of the priceless treasures of liberated Italy, The Rape of Europa is a sweeping narrative of greed, philistinism, and heroism that combines superlative scholarship with a compelling drama.
"Nicholas knows the art world as well as any military historian knows his battlefield.... Her work deserves the widest reading."--New York Times Book Review
To be a child in mid-twentieth-century Europe was to be not a
person but an object, available for use in the service of the
totalitarian state. Very soon after Adolf Hitler came to power,
policies of eugenic selection and euthanasia began to weed ill or
disabled children out of the New Order by poison, gas, and
starvation. Defect-free "good blood" children were subjected to an
"education" based on racism, propaganda, and the glorification of
the Fuhrer, and were deliberately deprived of free time that would
allow independent thought or action.
Once the war began, "Nordic"-looking children were kidnapped from
families in the conquered lands and subjected to "Germanization."
Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of "bad blood" children--Jews,
Gypsies, Poles, Ukrainians, Russians(were separated from their
families and condemned to forced migration, slave labor, sadistic
experiments, starvation, and mass execution. At the end of the war,
uprooted children of every origin wandered the bombed-out cities
and countryside, some having been taken from home at such a young
age that they did not know where they had come from or even their
own names. Millions surged into and out of DP camps, exploited by
political and religious groups, while the Allies and the fledgling
United Nations tried mightily to put families back together and to
find new homes for the orphans.
All the riveting narrative skill and impeccable scholarship that
distinguished Lynn Nicholas's first book, "The Rape of Europa
(winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction),
are present in her study of these terrible crimes against humanity.
To research this story she has delved into the governmental and
militaryarchives of many nations, and has interviewed countless
individuals. She shows the relationship of the deadly Nazi policies
to the brutal tactics used in the USSR in the 1930s and to their
rehearsal in the Spanish Civil War, and vividly describes the
abject failure of Hitler's campaign to plant Germanizing colonies
in the conquered nations. She gives us the stories of survivors of
ghastly war-spawned famines(in Greece and Russia in the 1940s,
Holland in the "Hunger Winter" of 1945, and Berlin in the Airlift
year of 1949(and of British, French, and Dutch children who were
evacuated to the countryside; boys and girls sent alone from Europe
to England on the Kindertransports; the teenaged soldiers of the
Reich; the small veterans of the quarries, the factories, and the
camps as well as those who survived in lonely hiding.
In "Cruel World Lynn Nicholas shows us clearly, and with passionate
empathy for the innocent victims, the crimes against children that
inevitably result when ideology overwhelms humanity. This powerful
book, as it recounts the waking nightmare that enmeshed the lives
of Europe's boys and girls, bears witness to our own responsibility
to the children of the twenty-first century.
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