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"In this book, Jay Nordlinger gives a history of what the subtitle calls “the most famous and controversial prize in the world.” The Nobel Peace Prize, like the other Nobel prizes, began in 1901. So we have a neat, sweeping history of the 20th century, and about a decade beyond. The Nobel prize involves a first world war, a second world war, a cold war, a terror war, and more. It contends with many of the key issues of modern times, and of life...
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In a reinterpretation of the postwar years, historian Robert Dallek examines what drove the leaders of the most powerful nations around the globe--Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Mao, de Gaulle, and Truman--to rely on traditional power politics despite the catastrophic violence their nations had endured. The decisions of these men, for better and often for worse, had profound consequences for decades to come, influencing relations and conflicts with...
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In King Charles the Wise, Nicholas Hagger celebrated Prince Charles's humanitarian vision and foresaw the birth of a united world. In The Coronation of King Charles, he celebrates the coming Carolingian Age. The hope is that all the divisions within the UK and problems of humankind, will be resolved under a new democratic World State working to abolish war, enforce disarmament, combat famine, disease and poverty, and solve the world's environmental...
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November 1918. The Great War has left Europe in ruins, but with the end of hostilities, a radical new start seems not only possible, but essential, even unavoidable. Unorthodox ideas light up the age: new politics, new societies, new art and culture, new thinking. The struggle to determine the future has begun. Sculptor Käthe Kollwitz, whose son died in the war, is translating sorrow and loss into art. Captain Harry Truman is running a men's haberdashery...
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A vivid, original, and intimate hour-by-hour account of Armistice Day 1918, to mark its centenary this year. November 11, 2018, marks the centenary of the armistice signed between the Allies and Germany ending World War I. While the events of the war and its legacy are much discussed, this is the first book to focus solely on the day itself, examining how the people of Britain, and the wider world, reacted to the news of peace. In this rich portrait...
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"Peace on Our Terms follows dozens of remarkable women from Europe, the Middle East, North America, and Asia as they crossed oceans and continents; commanded meeting halls in Paris, Zurich, and Washington; and marched in the streets of Cairo and Beijing. Mona L. Siegel's sweeping global account of international organizing highlights how Egyptian and Chinese nationalists, Western and Japanese labor feminists, white Western suffragists, and African...
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Avant nous, le XXe siècle : les atrocités des guerres mondiales et les génocides. Et devant nous ?
Paul Leplat est un ancien Résistant et combattant volontaire de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Il porte sur le monde un regard pénétrant et sage. Aujourd'hui, il nous apporte, entre autres, ce message :
Les garants de la paix et du progrès sont l'équité et la liberté (à condition d'en faire bon usage). Or, voici de retour le sinistre cortège...
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First published in December 1919, this global bestseller attacking those who had made the peace in Paris after the First World War, sparked immediate controversy. It also made John Maynard Keynes famous overnight and soon came to define how people around the world viewed the Versailles Peace Treaty. In Germany the book, which argued against reparations, was greeted with enthusiasm, in France with dismay, and in the US as ammunition that could be (and...
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Échanges inédits entre El-Sadate et Begin
La correspondance échangée entre le président égyptien Anouar el-Sadate et le Premier ministre israélien Menahem Begin de novembre 1977 à octobre 1981, interrompue par l'assassinat de Sadate le 6 octobre 1981, couvre toute la période des négociations de paix officielles entre les deux dirigeants, avec les deux moments-clés que constituent la signature des Accords de Camp David sous la houlette...
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Few have left as lasting of a mark on the world as Martin Luther King Jr. An orator, minister, organizer, activist, and leader, King's focus on effecting change peacefully shaped everything he did. This book outlines the beliefs and influences that guided King as he helped lead the Civil Rights movement, provides information about the prejudice and racism he fought, and demonstrates his continued impact today.
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For as long as people have been working to bring peace to areas suffering long-standing, violent conflict, there have also been those working to spoil this peace. These "spoilers" work to disrupt the peace process, and often this disruption takes the form of violence on a catastrophic level. Galia Golan and Gilead Sher offer a broader perspective. They examine this phenomenon by analyzing groups who have spoiled or attempted to spoil peace efforts...
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