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  • Minorities and the First World War

    From War to Peace

    Edición de Hannah Ewence, Tim Grady ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book examines the particular experience of ethnic, religious and national minorities who participated in the First World War as members of the main belligerent powers: Britain, France, Germany and Russia. Individual chapters explore themes including contested loyalties, internment, refugees, racial violence, genocide and disputed memories from 1914 through into the interwar years to explore ... Leer más

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  • The Alien Jew in the British Imagination, 1881–1905

    Space, Mobility and Territoriality

    de Hannah Ewence ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book explores how fin de siècle Britain and Britons displaced spatially-charged apprehensions about imperial decline, urban decay and unpoliced borders onto Jews from Eastern Europe migrating westwards. The myriad of representations of the ‘alien Jew’ that emerged were the product of, but also a catalyst for, a decisive moment in Britain’s legal history: the fight for the 1905 Aliens Act. ... Leer más

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  • Visualizing Jews Through the Ages

    Literary and Material Representations of Jewishness and Judaism

    Edición de Hannah Ewence, Helen Spurling ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    This volume explores literary and material representations of Jews, Jewishness and Judaism from antiquity to the twenty-first century. Gathering leading scholars from within the field of Jewish Studies, it investigates how the debates surrounding literary and material images within Judaism and in Jewish life are part of an on-going strategy of image management - the urge to shape, direct, ... Leer más

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  • The Abyss

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    Excerpted from Niall Ferguson’s sprawling bestseller The War of the World, The Abyss now stands on its own as one of the most thrilling short histories of World War I ever written. This is not a conventional military history about battles and generals. Rather, The Abyss examines how World War I saw the birth of total war—fought between societies as much as armies—and must therefore be understood ... Leer más

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  • The Long Shadow

    The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century

    **Winner of the 2014 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for the Best Work of History"Brilliant…the most challenging and intelligent book on the Great War and our perceptions of it that any of us will read." —John Charley, The Times [London]**One of the most violent conflicts in the history of civilization, World War I has been strangely forgotten in American culture. It has become a ghostly war fought in a ... Leer más

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  • The Diplomat

    Lester Pearson and the Suez Crisis

    Shortlisted, John W. Dafoe Book PrizeSaturday, November 3, 1956The United Nations, New York City about 10 p.m.Lester Pearson, Canada's foreign minister (and future prime minister) stands before the United Nations General Assembly. He is about to speak, reading from a proposal composed of seventy-eight painstakingly chosen words. These words, shaped by caution and hope, are a last-ditch attempt to ... Leer más

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    The World from the Twenties to the Nineties

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  • Political Violence in Twentieth-Century Europe

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  • The Legacy of the Great War

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