Search Results - "Cold War"

Loyalty and liberty : American countersubversion from World War I to the McCarthy era / by Goodall, Alex (Alexis Vere)

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Girlhood a global history /

Table of Contents: “…Ossian -- Holy girl power locally and globally : the Marian visions of Garabandal, Spain / Jessamy Harvey -- Rebels, robots, and all-American girls : the ideological use of images of girl gymnasts during the Cold War / Ann Kordas -- Palestinian girls and the British missionary enterprise, 1847-1948 / Nancy L. …”
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The end and the beginning the revolutions of 1989 and the resurgence of history /

Table of Contents: “…/ Cornel Ban -- Moving away from the Cold War. The demise of the Soviet bloc / Mark Kramer ; Gorbachev and the road to 1989 / Vladislav Zubok ; Success was not an orphan: the battle of the Euromissiles in 1983 and the events of 1989 - 1991 / Jeffrey Herf ; "No one is afraid to talk to us anymore": Radio Free Europe in 1989 / A. …”
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Defying victimhood women and post-conflict peacebuilding /

Table of Contents: “…Kadende-Kaiser -- Women and children : essential partnership of survival and peace -- Women and children in the post-cold war balkans : concerns and responses / Constantine P. …”
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Loyalty and liberty : American countersubversion from World War I to the McCarthy era / by Goodall, Alex (Alexis Vere)

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Becoming East Germans : socialist structures and sensibilities after Hitler /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction. the banalities of East German historiography / Andrew Port -- East Germans in a post-Nazi state : communities of experience, connection, and identification / Mary Fulbrook -- Divisive unity : the politics of cultural nationalism during the first German Writers' Congress of October 1947 / Andreas Agocs -- Communicating history : the archived letters and memories of "the Red Orchestra" / Joanne Sayner -- Remembered change and changes of remembrance : East German narratives of antifascist conversion / Christiane Wienand -- Perceptions of health after World War II : heart disease and risk factors in East and West Germany, 1945-75 / Jeannette Madarasz -- Socialism fights the proletarian disease : East German efforts to overcome tuberculosis in a Cold War context / Donna Harsch -- The slim imperative : discourses and cultures of dieting in the German Democratic Republic, 1949-1990 / Neula Kerr-Boyle -- Luxury dining in the later years of the German Democratic Republic / Paul Freedman -- Expectations, predispositions, and the paradox of working-class behavior in Nazi Germany and the German Democratic Republic / Andrew Port -- Israel as friend and foe : shaping East German society through Freund- and Feindbilder / David Tompkins -- Humiliation as a weapon within the party : fictional and personal accounts / Phil Leask -- Playing the game : football and everyday life in the Honecker era / Alan McDougall -- Afterword : structures and subjectivities in GDR history / Mary Fulbrook.…”
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Art beyond Borders : Artistic Exchange in Communist Europe (1945-1989) /

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World Beats / by Fazzino, Jimmy, 1981-

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Imagining Afghanistan : Global Fiction and Film of the 9/11 Wars / by Ivanchikova, Alla, 1977-

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Broken Records / by Žabić, Snežana, 1974-

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The United Nations Security Council and war the evolution of thought and practice since 1945 /

Table of Contents: “…Lopez, and Linda Gerber-Stellingwerf -- The Security Council's authorization of regional arrangements to use force : the case of NATO / Dan Sarooshi -- The Security Council in the post-Cold War world / Jeremy Greenstock -- The United Nations, the Security Council, and the Korean War / William Stueck -- The Suez crisis and the British dilemma at the United Nations / Wm. …”
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Sociology in America a history /

Table of Contents: “…DeVault -- Pragmatism, phenomenology, and twentieth-century American sociology / Neil Gross -- On edge : sociology during the Great Depression and the New Deal / Charles Camic -- Hot war, Cold War : the structures of sociological action, 1940-1955 / Andrew Abbott & James T. …”
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Becoming East Germans : socialist structures and sensibilities after Hitler /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction. the banalities of East German historiography / Andrew Port -- East Germans in a post-Nazi state : communities of experience, connection, and identification / Mary Fulbrook -- Divisive unity : the politics of cultural nationalism during the first German Writers' Congress of October 1947 / Andreas Agocs -- Communicating history : the archived letters and memories of "the Red Orchestra" / Joanne Sayner -- Remembered change and changes of remembrance : East German narratives of antifascist conversion / Christiane Wienand -- Perceptions of health after World War II : heart disease and risk factors in East and West Germany, 1945-75 / Jeannette Madarasz -- Socialism fights the proletarian disease : East German efforts to overcome tuberculosis in a Cold War context / Donna Harsch -- The slim imperative : discourses and cultures of dieting in the German Democratic Republic, 1949-1990 / Neula Kerr-Boyle -- Luxury dining in the later years of the German Democratic Republic / Paul Freedman -- Expectations, predispositions, and the paradox of working-class behavior in Nazi Germany and the German Democratic Republic / Andrew Port -- Israel as friend and foe : shaping East German society through Freund- and Feindbilder / David Tompkins -- Humiliation as a weapon within the party : fictional and personal accounts / Phil Leask -- Playing the game : football and everyday life in the Honecker era / Alan McDougall -- Afterword : structures and subjectivities in GDR history / Mary Fulbrook.…”
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Art beyond Borders : Artistic Exchange in Communist Europe (1945-1989) /

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World Beats / by Fazzino, Jimmy, 1981-

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Imagining Afghanistan : Global Fiction and Film of the 9/11 Wars / by Ivanchikova, Alla, 1977-

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Broken Records / by Žabić, Snežana, 1974-

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Castles, battles, & bombs how economics explains military history / by Brauer, Jurgen, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Economics -- Economics -- Principle I: Opportunity cost -- Principle II: Expected marginal costs and benefits -- Principle III: Substitution -- Principle IV: Diminishing marginal returns -- Principle V: asymmetric information and hidden characteristics -- Principle VI: Hidden actions and incentive alignments -- Conclusion: economics--and military history -- The high Middle Ages, 1000-1300: The case of the medieval castle and the opportunity cost of warfare -- Opportunity cost and warfare -- The ubiquity of castles -- The cost of castling -- The advantages of castles -- The cost of armies -- Castle building and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The Renaissance, 1300-1600: the case of the condottieri and the military labor market -- The principal-agent problem -- Demand, supply, and recruitment -- Contracts and pay -- Control and contract evolution -- The development of permanent armies -- Condottieri and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The age of battle, 1618-1815: the case of costs, benefits, and the decision to offer battle -- Expected marginal costs and benefits of battle -- The 1600s: Gustavus Adolphus and Raimondo de Montecuccoli -- The 1700s: Marlborough, de Saxe, and Frederick the Great -- Napoleonic warfare -- The age of battle and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The age of revolution, 1789-1914: the case of the American Civil War and the economics of information asymmetry -- Information and warfare -- North, South, and the search for information -- Major Eastern campaigns through Gettysburg -- Grant in Virginia -- The American Civil War and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The age of the world wars, 1914-1945: the case of diminishing marginal returns to the strategic bombing of Germany in World War II -- A strategic bombing production function -- Bombing German war production -- Bombing the supply chain and the civilian economy -- Bombing German morale -- Assessing the effect of strategic bombing -- Strategic bombing and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The age of the Cold War, 1945-1991: the case of capital-labor substitution and France's Force de Frappe -- History of the Force de Frappe -- The force post-De Gaulle -- Justifying the force -- The force's effect on France's conventional arms -- Substituting nuclear for conventional forces -- The Force de Frappe and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- Economics and military history in the twenty-first century -- Economics of terrorism -- Economics of military manpower -- Economics of private military companies -- Economics, historiography, and military history -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.…”
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The Greater Middle East in global politics social science perspectives on the changing geography of the world politics /

Table of Contents: “…Eisenstadt -- Iranian foreign policy since the Iranian Islamic Revolution : 1979-2006 / Eva Patricia Rakel -- The Middle East's democracy decit in comparative perspective / Mehran Kamrava -- The challenges of modernity : the case of political Islam / Mehdi Parvizi Amineh -- The Turkish political economy : globalization and regionalism / Nilgun Onder -- The Maghreb : social, political, and economic developments / Louisa Dris-Ait-Hamadouche and Yahia Zoubir -- From Soviet Republics to independent countries : challenges of transition in Central Asia / Mirzohid Rahimov -- Central Asia since the dissolution of the Soviet Union : economic reforms and their impact on state-society relations / Richard Pomfret -- New twists, more intricate congurations : the changing Israel-Palestinian regional security complex / Fred Lawson -- The politics of oil and major power rivalry in the post-cold war Greater Middle East. Global energy security and its geopolitical impediments : the case of the Caspian Region / Mehdi Parvizi Amineh and Henk Houweling -- China and the Greater Middle East : globalization no longer equals westernization / Kurt W. …”
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Gameplay mode war, simulation, and technoculture / by Crogan, Patrick

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