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  • The Complete Book of Enoch: Standard English Version

    by Jay Winter ...
    This eBook includes the complete book of Enoch which has been translated from the Ethiopic. The Book of Noah, Testament of Solomon, Book of Giants, and a few other extras are also included in this third ePUB edition. The introduction by David Chariot is perhaps the best short form explanation of the book for those who are familiar with the book and those who are just discovering it. Enoch has been ... Read more

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  • War beyond Words

    Languages of Remembrance from the Great War to the Present

    by Jay Winter ...
    What we know of war is always mediated knowledge and feeling. We need lenses to filter out some of its blinding, terrifying light. These lenses are not fixed; they change over time, and Jay Winter's panoramic history of war and memory offers an unprecedented study of transformations in our imaginings of war, from 1914 to the present. He reveals the ways in which different creative arts have framed ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Day the Great War Ended, 24 July 1923

    The Civilianization of War

    by Jay Winter ...
    Series series The Greater War
    On 24 July 1923 the last Treaty ending hostilities in the Great War was signed at Lausanne in Switzerland. That Treaty closed a decade of violence. Jay Winter tells the story of what happened on that day. On the shores of Lake Geneva, diplomats, statesmen, and soldiers came from Ankara and Athens, from London, Paris, and Rome, and from other capital cities to affirm that war was over. The Treaty ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • The Cultural History of War in the Twentieth Century and After

    by Jay Winter ...
    Series series Elements in Modern Wars
    This Element is a user's guide to the cultural history of warfare since 1914. It provides summaries of the basic questions historians have posed in what is now a truly global field of research. It is divided into three parts. The first provides an introduction to the cultural history of the state, focusing on the institutions of violence, both political and military, as well as introducing the key ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning

    The Great War in European Cultural History

    by Jay Winter ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    Jay Winter's powerful study of the 'collective remembrance' of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in the cultural history of the twentieth century. Dr Winter looks anew at the culture of commemoration and the ways in which communities endeavoured to find collective solace after 1918. Taking issue with the prevailing 'modernist' interpretation of the European ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning

    The Great War in European Cultural History

    by Jay Winter ...
    Series series Canto
    Jay Winter's powerful 1998 study of the 'collective remembrance' of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in the cultural history of the twentieth century. Dr Winter looks anew at the culture of commemoration and the ways in which communities endeavoured to find collective solace after 1918. Taking issue with the prevailing 'modernist' interpretation of the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Toxic Demography

    Ideology and the Politics of Population

    by Jennifer D. Sciubba, Michael S. Teitelbaum, Jay Winter ...
    Population politics has taken many forms throughout history. Political leaders from both democracies and non-democracies commonly place population issues at the center of their political programs, manufacturing alarm over changing demographic distributions. From fears of existential decline to debates over migration and fertility, demographic issues are often distorted by political ideologies that ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Dreams of Peace and Freedom

    Utopian Moments in the Twentieth Century

    by Professor Jay Winter ...
    In the wake of the monstrous projects of Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and others in the twentieth century, the idea of utopia has been discredited. Yet, historian Jay Winter suggests, alongside the major utopians” who murdered millions in their attempts to transform the world were disparate groups of people trying in their own separate ways to imagine a radically better world. This original book focuses ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Performing the Past

    Memory, History, and Identity in Modern Europe

    by Jay Winter, Karin Tilmans, Frank van Vree ...
    Performing the Past is an investigation of the multiple social and culture practices through which Europeans have negotiated the space between their history and their memory over the past 200 years. In museums, in opera houses, in the streets, in the schools, in theatres, in films, on the internet and beyond, narratives about the past circulate today at a dizzying speed. Producing and selling them ... Read more

    $83.99 USD

  • The Great War in History

    Debates and Controversies, 1914 to the Present

    by Jay Winter, Antoine Prost ...
    Series Book 21 - Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
    Since the Armistice, a vast literature has been produced on the First World War and its repercussions. In this 2005 book, two leading historians from the United States and France have produced a fully comparative analysis of the ways in which this history has been written and interpreted. The book identifies three generations of historians, literary scholars, film directors and writers who have ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Global Spread of Fertility Decline

    Population, Fear, and Uncertainty

    by Professor Jay Winter, Prof. Michael Teitelbaum ...
    The world's population has grown by five billion people over the past century, an astounding 300 percent increase. Yet it is actually the decline in family size and population growth that is the issue attracting greatest concern in many countries. This eye-opening book looks at demographic trends in Europe, North America, and Asia—areas that now have low fertility rates—and argues that there is an ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • René Cassin and Human Rights

    From the Great War to the Universal Declaration

    by Jay Winter, Antoine Prost ...
    Series series Human Rights in History
    Through the life of one extraordinary man, this biography reveals what the term human rights meant to the men and women who endured two world wars, and how this major political and intellectual movement ultimately inspired and enshrined the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. René Cassin was a man of his generation, committed to moving from war to peace through international law, and whose work ... Read more

    $27.99 USD