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  • Decolonization

    A Short History

    by Jan C. Jansen, Jürgen Osterhammel ...
    Translated by Jeremiah Riemer ...
    A concise and accessible history of decolonization in the twentieth centuryThe end of colonial rule in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean was one of the most important and dramatic developments of the twentieth century. In the decades after World War II, dozens of new states emerged as actors in global politics. Long-established imperial regimes collapsed, some more or less peacefully, others amid ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Mobility and Coercion in an Age of Wars and Revolutions

    A Global History, c. 1750–1830

    Edited by Jan C. Jansen, Kirsten McKenzie ...
    Series series Publications of the German Historical Institute
    The political upheavals and military confrontations that rocked the world during the decades around 1800 saw forced migrations on a massive scale. This global history brings this explosion into full view. Rather than describing coerced mobilities as an aberration in a period usually identified with quests for liberty and political participation, this book recognizes them as a crucial but hitherto ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • The Fraternal Atlantic, 1770–1930

    Race, Revolution, and Transnationalism in the Worlds of Freemasonry

    Edited by Jessica L. Harland-Jacobs, Jan C. Jansen, Elizabeth Mancke ...
    This book examines Freemasonry in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Atlantic world. Drawing on fresh empirical evidence, the chapters position fraternalism as a critical component of Atlantic history.Fraternalism was a key strategy for people swept up in the dislocations of imperialism, large-scale migrations, and the socio-political upheavals of revolution. Ranging from confraternities to ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Refugee Crises, 1945-2000

    Political and Societal Responses in International Comparison

    Edited by Simone Lässig, Jan C. Jansen ...
    Series series Publications of the German Historical Institute
    This timely study examines responses to mass refugee movements by a range of actors, from local communities to supranational organizations. Bringing together ten case studies from around the world, encompassing the global North and South alike, Refugee Crises 1945–2000 explores a broad spectrum of types of migration and of international and domestic contexts. Whilst the driving forces and numbers ... Read more

    $93.49 USD

  • Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar Germany and France

    Comparative Perspectives

    Edited by Jan C. Jansen, Manuel Borutta ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This volume compares one of the largest instances of 'ethnic cleansing' – the German expellees from the East (Vertriebene) – with the most important case of decolonization migration – the French repatriates of Algeria (pieds-noirs). ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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