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Shatterzone of Empires

Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands

by Larry Wolfe, Gregor Thum, Dan Diner, Theodore R. Weeks, Gary B. Cohen, Pieter M. Judson, Frithjof Benjamin Schenk, Elke Hartmann, Patrice M. Dabrowski, Robert Nemes, Yaroslav Hrytsak, Tomas Balkelis, Taner Akçam, Eyal Ginio, Keith Brown, David Gaunt, Peter Holquist, Alexander V. Prusin, John-Paul Himka, Pamela Ballinger, Myroslav Shkandrij, Paul Robert Magocsi, Kai Struve, Philipp Ther ...

Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
"Anyone who studies nationalism, genocide, mass violence, or war in these regions, from the Enlightenment through the mid-20th century, needs to read [this]."— Central European HistoryShatterzone of Empires is a comprehensive analysis of interethnic relations, coexistence, and violence in Europe's eastern borderlands over the past two centuries.In this vast territory, extending from the Baltic to ... Read more

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"Anyone who studies nationalism, genocide, mass violence, or war in these regions, from the Enlightenment through the mid-20th century, needs to read [this]."— Central European HistoryShatterzone of Empires is a comprehensive analysis of interethnic relations, coexistence, and violence in Europe's eastern borderlands over the past two centuries.In this vast territory, extending from the Baltic to
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Romania and the Holocaust

Events – Contexts – Aftermath

by Simon Geissbühler, Diana Dumitru, Henry Eaton, Tuvia Friling, Tibon Gali, Mariana Hausleitner, Witold Medykowski, Alti B. Rodal, Michael Shafir, Kai Struve0, Sarah Rosen1 ...

From summer 1941 onwards, Romania actively pursued at its own initiative the mass killing of Jews in the territories it controlled. 1941 saw 13,000 Jewish residents of the Romanian city of Iai killed, the extermination of thousands of Jews in Northern Bukovina and Bessarabia by Romanian armed forces and local people, large-scale deportations of Jews to the camps and ghettos of Transnistria, and ... Read more

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From summer 1941 onwards, Romania actively pursued at its own initiative the mass killing of Jews in the territories it controlled. 1941 saw 13,000 Jewish residents of the Romanian city of Iai killed, the extermination of thousands of Jews in Northern Bukovina and Bessarabia by Romanian armed forces and local people, large-scale deportations of Jews to the camps and ghettos of Transnistria, and
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Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

2020/1

by Andreas Umland, Rory Finnin, Ivan Kozachenko, Miljan Goran, Tomislav Dulic0, Yuliya Yurchuk2, Taras Koznarsky3, Myroslav Shkandrij4, Laada Bilaniuk5, Vitaly Chernetsky6, Iryna Shuvalova7, Olenka Bilash8, Alina Zubkovych9, Kai Struve0, Yuri Radchenko1 ...

Series Book 6.1 - Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
SPECIAL SECTION: MULTILINGUALISM IN UKRAINE Introduction: Ukraine’s Multilingualism RORY FINNIN and IVAN KOZACHENKO The Languages and Tongues of Mykola Markevych TARAS KOZNARSKY Channel Switching: Language Change and the Conversion Trope in Modern Ukrainian Literature MYROSLAV SHKANDRIJ Linguistic Conversion in Ukraine: Nation‐Building on the Self LAADA BILANIUK Ukrainian Cinema and the Challenges ... Read more

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SPECIAL SECTION: MULTILINGUALISM IN UKRAINE Introduction: Ukraine’s Multilingualism RORY FINNIN and IVAN KOZACHENKO The Languages and Tongues of Mykola Markevych TARAS KOZNARSKY Channel Switching: Language Change and the Conversion Trope in Modern Ukrainian Literature MYROSLAV SHKANDRIJ Linguistic Conversion in Ukraine: Nation‐Building on the Self LAADA BILANIUK Ukrainian Cinema and the Challenges
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Thomas Cromwell

The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant

by Tracy Borman ...

"An exceptional and compelling biography about one of the Tudor Age's most complex and controversial figures." —Alison WeirThomas Cromwell has long been reviled as a Machiavellian schemer who stopped at nothing in his quest for power. As King Henry VIII's right-hand man, Cromwell was the architect of the English Reformation; secured Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and plotted the downfall ... Read more

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"An exceptional and compelling biography about one of the Tudor Age's most complex and controversial figures." —Alison WeirThomas Cromwell has long been reviled as a Machiavellian schemer who stopped at nothing in his quest for power. As King Henry VIII's right-hand man, Cromwell was the architect of the English Reformation; secured Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and plotted the downfall
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Nixon Agonistes

The Crisis of the Self-Made Man

by Garry Wills ...

With a new preface: A "stunning" analysis of the troubled Republican president by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg ( The New York Times Book Review).In this acclaimed biography that earned him a spot on Nixon's infamous "enemies list," Garry Wills takes a thoughtful, in-depth, and often "very amusing" look at the thirty-seventh US president, and draws some surprising ... Read more

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With a new preface: A "stunning" analysis of the troubled Republican president by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg ( The New York Times Book Review).In this acclaimed biography that earned him a spot on Nixon's infamous "enemies list," Garry Wills takes a thoughtful, in-depth, and often "very amusing" look at the thirty-seventh US president, and draws some surprising
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The Definitive FDR

Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox (1882–1940) and Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom (1940–1945)

by James MacGregor Burns ...

Series series Roosevelt
A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian's dramatic biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, US president during the Depression and WWII.Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the longest serving president in US history, reshaping the country during the crises of the Great Depression and World War II. James MacGregor Burns's magisterial two-volume biography tells the complete life story of the fascinating ... Read more

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A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian's dramatic biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, US president during the Depression and WWII.Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the longest serving president in US history, reshaping the country during the crises of the Great Depression and World War II. James MacGregor Burns's magisterial two-volume biography tells the complete life story of the fascinating
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John Keats

Poetry, Life & Landscapes

by Suzie Grogan ...

"This is a celebratory meld of memoir, biography and travelogue, intensely personal and all the better for it." —Eleanor Fitzsimons, author of Wilde's WomenJohn Keats is one of Britain's best-known and most-loved poets. Despite dying in Rome in 1821, at the age of just twenty-five, his poems continue to inspire generations who reinterpret and reinvent the ways in which we consume his work.Apart ... Read more

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"This is a celebratory meld of memoir, biography and travelogue, intensely personal and all the better for it." —Eleanor Fitzsimons, author of Wilde's WomenJohn Keats is one of Britain's best-known and most-loved poets. Despite dying in Rome in 1821, at the age of just twenty-five, his poems continue to inspire generations who reinterpret and reinvent the ways in which we consume his work.Apart
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D-Day Through French Eyes

Normandy 1944

by Mary Louise Roberts ...

"A moving examination of how French civilians experienced the fighting" at Normandy during WWII from the acclaimed author of What Soldiers Do ( Telegraph, UK)."Like big black umbrellas, they rain down on the fields across the way, and then disappear behind the black line of the hedges." Silent parachutes dotting the night sky—that's how one Normandy woman learned that the D-Day invasion was under ... Read more

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"A moving examination of how French civilians experienced the fighting" at Normandy during WWII from the acclaimed author of What Soldiers Do ( Telegraph, UK)."Like big black umbrellas, they rain down on the fields across the way, and then disappear behind the black line of the hedges." Silent parachutes dotting the night sky—that's how one Normandy woman learned that the D-Day invasion was under
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Constantine's Sword

The Church and the Jews, A History

by James Carroll ...

The "monumental" New York Times bestseller in which a Catholic explores the problem of anti-Semitism through Church history ( The Washington Post).A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable BookIn this "masterly history" ( Time), National Book Award-winning author James Carroll maps the profoundly troubling two-thousand-year course of the Church's battle against Judaism ... Read more

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The "monumental" New York Times bestseller in which a Catholic explores the problem of anti-Semitism through Church history ( The Washington Post).A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable BookIn this "masterly history" ( Time), National Book Award-winning author James Carroll maps the profoundly troubling two-thousand-year course of the Church's battle against Judaism
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The Chrysanthemum and the Sword

Patterns of Japanese Culture

by Ruth Benedict ...

"One of the best books ever about Japanese society…[A] thoughtful, nuanced study of the Japanese character." —U.S. News & World Report"A classic of Japanese cultural studies…debunks the stereotype of the Japanese as hopelessly rigid and incapable of change." —The New York TimesFirst published in 1946, The Chrysanthemum and the Sword is renowned for its insights into Japanese culture—examining ... Read more

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"One of the best books ever about Japanese society…[A] thoughtful, nuanced study of the Japanese character." —U.S. News & World Report"A classic of Japanese cultural studies…debunks the stereotype of the Japanese as hopelessly rigid and incapable of change." —The New York TimesFirst published in 1946, The Chrysanthemum and the Sword is renowned for its insights into Japanese culture—examining
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Voices of Our Republic

Exploring the Constitution with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Alan Dershowitz, Sandra Day O'Connor, Ron Chernow, and Many More

Edited by Douglas H. Ginsburg ...

This inspiring coffee table book serves as a companion to thethree-part 2020 PBS series A More or Less Perfect Union, A Personal Exploration by Judge Douglas Ginsburg, which delves into past, present, and future struggles for liberty through the lens of the US Constitution. Voices of Our Republic features thoughts about the Constitution from personalities, dignitaries, and everyday heroes, ... Read more

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This inspiring coffee table book serves as a companion to thethree-part 2020 PBS series A More or Less Perfect Union, A Personal Exploration by Judge Douglas Ginsburg, which delves into past, present, and future struggles for liberty through the lens of the US Constitution. Voices of Our Republic features thoughts about the Constitution from personalities, dignitaries, and everyday heroes,
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The Beginning Or the End

How Hollywood—and America—Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

by Greg Mitchell ...

The shocking and significant story of how the White House and Pentagon scuttled an epic Hollywood production.Soon after atomic bombs exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, MGM set out to make a movie studio chief Louis B. Mayer called “the most important story” he would ever film: a big budget dramatization of the Manhattan Project and the invention and use of the revolutionary new weapon ... Read more

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The shocking and significant story of how the White House and Pentagon scuttled an epic Hollywood production.Soon after atomic bombs exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, MGM set out to make a movie studio chief Louis B. Mayer called “the most important story” he would ever film: a big budget dramatization of the Manhattan Project and the invention and use of the revolutionary new weapon
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