Cold War Perceptions
This book investigates Romania’s early 1960s policy change towards the Soviet Union. Drawing on declassified archives, it argues the change was triggered by leaders’ perceptions of Soviet threats, focusing on CMEA reform and the Sino-Soviet dispute.
This collection of essays provides insights into the culturally conditioned structure of Asian societies, questioning Eurocentric views of modernity that assume that Confucianism would have to be abandoned if East Asia wanted to develop a dynamic, modern society.
Legacies of the U.S. Occupation of Japan
The consequences of the US occupation of Japan transcended its formal duration. Rich with fresh analyses on mutual influence, memory, and international perspectives, this book provides a greater understanding of the lasting legacies of this crucial 20th-century event.
Ever since the courtroom doors closed in 1919, the tragic Charlotte Streetcar Strike has haunted the collective memory of the Carolina Piedmont region. This monograph represents the result of over ten years’ worth of primary research about the strike.
The Archbishops of Cyprus in the Modern Age
Cypriot archbishops have long wielded political power. Most remember the nationalist politician and first President, Archbishop Makarios III. But were they all like him? This unique study explores the role of the archbishop-ethnarch.
Networks of Global Governance
This book analyses the relationship between the United Nations and European integration from 1945 to the present. It describes how the dynamic evolved: from UN bodies shaping the integration process to the EU impacting the UN, to today’s complex partnership.
Resistance is a historical constant, not simply irrational behaviour. Fifteen authors from diverse disciplines, including physics, biology, and political science, explore concepts of ‘resistance’ and examine the potential of a general ‘resistology’.
‘Christ’s Sinful Flesh’
This book shows that 19th-century preacher Edward Irving’s theological views formed a coherent system focused on his doctrine of Christ. Irving believed Christ took on a fully human nature, including the propensity to sin, to become the true reconciler of God and humanity.
This book is both an introductory synthesis of Modern Portugal and a collection of studies on state formation. It creates a narrative of a country struggling for modernization, making the Portuguese case a useful tool for wider debates on modernity.
This volume is a political, social, and economic history of Zimbabwe from 1890 to 2008. Including topics such as women’s and human rights, this study brings the history of Zimbabwe almost up to the present day, superseding older volumes.
The Holocaust and World War II
This interdisciplinary volume explores the connection between World War II and the Holocaust in history and memory. Nineteen articles from prominent scholars, including acclaimed historian Gerhard L. Weinberg, examine presidential decisions, racial hatred, and more.
Ali Mazrui synthesizes Africa’s political and social thought in this original interpretation of timeless relevance. It covers themes from liberation movements to the convergence of African, Islamic, and Western thought, and the role of religion in politics.
Activating the Past
Activating the Past explores how memories of the slave trade in the Black Atlantic retreat into ritual. Though rarely acknowledged, these repressed histories are activated during public festivals and spirit possession in West Africa and the Americas.
Common Ground
Today’s environmental problems have their origins in how we have lived. This book forges a connection between social and environmental history, exploring how the daily activities of ordinary people shaped our relationship with nature to inform our future.
With God on Our Side
This book uses Christian reactions to the Spanish Civil War to analyse the importance of Christianity in interwar Britain. Framed as a Holy War, the conflict exposed and increased pre-existing tensions between British Protestants and Catholics.
The world’s first Northern Lights observatory is the focus of this account about everyday life and the epoch-making pioneering of geophysical research on Haldde Mountain in Finnmark, Norway. The book builds on private letters and memoirs about daily life and research.
Neither Good Nor Bad
Why do individuals and even entire nations commit violent acts, convinced they are fighting for a just cause? This study explores the motivations for human behavior, revealing the extent to which we live in socially-constructed realities that can fall apart in a crisis.
In Permanent Transit
In Permanent Transit offers interdisciplinary approaches to migrations, globalisation, and the intercultural experience. This book finds the potential for change at peripheries marked by hybridity, where the ‘excluded’ use subversion to undermine the powerful.
Shining Humanity
This collection tells the tale of eleven ordinary Bosnian women peace builders who bore witness to horror but chose to live in hope. In the darkness of war, they showed genuine humanity and dared to imagine a life beyond violence and fear.
Less than Nations
After World War I redefined the map of Central-Eastern Europe, states and nations rarely coincided. The minority question emerged as a troublesome issue, affecting international relations and becoming an integral part of the League of Nations system.
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