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One Week in America is a day-by-day narrative of the 1968 Notre Dame Sophomore Literary Festival and the national events that grabbed the spotlight. Dealing with the anti-Vietnam War movement, Lyndon B. Johnson's decision not to seek re-election, and the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., author Patrick Parr takes readers back to one chaotic week on the South Bend campus, when college students, talented authors, and presidential candidates grappled...
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Fifty years after the war Dagmar Ostermann, a former prisoner at Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Hans Wilhelm Münch, former Nazi and SS physician, talk face to face.
In this rare interview Münch- the only SS member acquitted during the 1947 Cracow war crimes trial refers to himself as a "victim," claiming that because he had to follow orders he was "no less a victim than his prisoners."
The Meeting grew out of a documentary film in which Münch was first...
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William Appleman Williams, who died in 1990, was arguably the most influential and controversial historian of his generation. His revisionist writings, especially in American diplomatic history, forced historians and others to abandon old clichés and confront disturbing questions about America's behavior in the world. Williams defined America's social, moral, constitutional, and economic development in uncompromising, iconoclastic, and original terms....
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Margot Lee Shetterly's Hidden Figures by Instaread Preview: Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly is a history of black women who were mathematicians and engineers in twentieth-century aeronautics and space programs. It focuses particularly on black women who served as human computers as they performed calculations...
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The description for this book, The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980, will be forthcoming. "As the twenty-first century approaches, a new generation of scholars is providing fresh historical perspectives on the twentieth. The contributors to The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order move beyond both the self-congratulation of traditional liberals and the hostility of New Left radicals. This collection of ten essays, written mainly by scholars...
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The Dutch in Wartime: Survivors Remember is a series of books with wartime memories of Dutch immigrants to North America, who survived the Nazi occupation of The Netherlands.
In Witnessing the Holocaust, sixteen writers tell us how Dutch Jews were dragged from their homes to be murdered in Nazi death camps. We read first-hand accounts of friends disappearing, of betrayal and its dreadful consequences and of the torment of life in Nazi concentration...
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From the mid-1960s to the early 1970s, revolutions in theory, politics, and cultural experimentation swept around the world. These changes had as great a transformative impact on the right as on the left. A touchstone for activists, artists, and theorists of all stripes, the year 1968 has taken on new significance for the present moment, which bears certain uncanny resemblances to that time. The Long 1968 explores the wide-ranging impact of the year...
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Tirol ganz nah: unter vier Augen neu erlebt!
Fünf bekannte Tiroler Persönlichkeiten, fünf faszinierende Leben, fünf Erzählungen ganz persönlicher Momentaufnahmen, die man nicht vergisst: der 210-fache-Formel-1-Starter Gerhard Berger berichtet von seinen Ambitionen, einem Leben auf der Überholspur – auf dem glühenden Asphalt und fern davon; Geschäftsführerin, Unternehmerin und Sprecherin der Tiroler Adler Runde, Ingeborg Freudenthaler...
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Three million Polish Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, wiping out nearly 98 percent of the Jewish population who had lived and thrived there for generations. Night Without End tells the stories of their resistance, suffering, and death in unflinching, horrific detail. Based on meticulous research from across Poland, it concludes that those who were responsible for so many deaths included a not insignificant number of Polish villagers and townspeople...
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The lively essays collected here explore colonial history, culture, and thought as it intersects with Jewish studies. Connecting the Jewish experience with colonialism to mobility and exchange, diaspora, internationalism, racial discrimination, and Zionism, the volume presents the work of Jewish historians who recognize the challenge that colonialism brings to their work and sheds light on the diverse topics that reflect the myriad ways that Jews...
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Este libro es fruto del congreso internacional 'Les élites in Italia e in Spagna (1850-1922)', que tuvo lugar en la Universidad de Verona en marzo de 2006 y que reunió a destacados especialistas en el campo de la historia política. A modo de trazos transversales, las contribuciones que se reúnen en esta obra ofrecen perspectivas complementarias sobre el poder político y económico durante la consolidación y crisis del liberalismo en la Europa...
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How did the academy react to the rise, dominance, and ultimate fall of Germany's Third Reich? Did German professors of the humanities have to tell themselves lies about their regime's activities or its victims to sleep at night? Or did they look the other way, whether out of deliberate denial or out of fear for their own personal safety? The Betrayal of the Humanities: The University during the Third Reich is a collection of groundbreaking essays...
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Reflexión sobre el problema del imperialismo norteamericano y las relaciones que este estableció con América Latina, desde final del siglo XIX hasta principios del XXI. La primera parte reúne artículos que giran en torno la exploración de los orígenes del expansionismo territorial estadounidense, y el análisis de algunas de las respuestas que surgieron en América Latina al avance del coloso yanqui dando lugar a los movimientos críticos del...
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Partition-the physical division of territory along ethno-religious lines into separate nation-states-is often presented as a successful political "solution" to ethnic conflict. In the twentieth century, at least three new political entities-the Irish Free State, the Dominions (later Republics) of India and Pakistan, and the State of Israel-emerged as results of partition. This volume offers the first collective history of the concept of partition,...
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This updated edition of Witness, which includes a new Afterword with an address by Steven Spielberg, commemorates the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II and the liberation of Europe from the Nazis. For over 25 years, the March of the Living has organized visits for adults and students from all over the world to Poland, where millions of Jews were enslaved and murdered by Nazi Germany. The organization's goal is not only to remember and bear...
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La correspondencia entre Manuel Azaña y Carlos Esplá desvela la evolución política y las relaciones de dos personajes de gran relevancia en la historia de España de los años veinte, treinta y cuarenta del pasado siglo: Azaña, monárquico liberal en sus comienzos, y Esplá, criado en los ambientes republicanos de la ciudad de Alicante, coincidieron plenamente en su proyecto político desde que se conocieron en 1930. Los autores de la introducción...
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A lo largo del siglo xx la configuración del Estado español y la acomodación de la diversidad de las identidades colectivas nacionales ha resultado un problema abierto, una «cuestión» permanentemente por resolver que el debate actual en Cataluña no ha hecho sino volver a poner de manifiesto. El modelo de Estado español que surgió del siglo XX se caracterizó por su fuerte centralismo y por la ausencia absoluta de reconocimiento político...
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A Full Life by Jimmy Carter | Summary & Analysis Preview: As he was turning 90, Jimmy Carter decided it was a good time to write a book about his life. He has written previous books about specific times or events, from life on his childhood farm to his four years as president. This latest memoir spans his youth, his naval career, his years as an agricultural businessman, as a local and national politician, and, finally, his later life as a peace activist...
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Richard Lukas's book, encompassing the wartime recollections of sixty "ordinary" Poles under Nazi occupation, constitutes a valuable contribution to a new perspective on World War II. Lukas presents gripping first-person accounts of the years 1939—1945 by Polish Christians from diverse social and economic backgrounds. Their narratives, from both oral and written sources, contribute enormously to our understanding of the totality of the Holocaust....
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A Powerful, Life-Affirming New Perspective on the Holocaust
Almost ninety children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors-theologians, scholars, spiritual leaders, authors, artists, political and community leaders and media personalities-from sixteen countries on six continents reflect on how the memories transmitted to them have affected their lives. Profoundly personal stories explore faith, identity and legacy in the aftermath of the Holocaust...
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