Search Results - "World War I"

Hungary in World War II caught in the cauldron / by Cornelius, Deborah S.

Table of Contents: “…The legacy of World War I -- Hungary between the wars -- The last year of European peace -- Clinging to neutrality -- Hungary enters the war -- Disaster at the Don -- Efforts to exit the war -- German occupation -- From arrow cross rule to Soviet occupation -- Postwar Hungary.…”
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Hungary in World War II caught in the cauldron / by Cornelius, Deborah S.

Table of Contents: “…The legacy of World War I -- Hungary between the wars -- The last year of European peace -- Clinging to neutrality -- Hungary enters the war -- Disaster at the Don -- Efforts to exit the war -- German occupation -- From arrow cross rule to Soviet occupation -- Postwar Hungary.…”
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Belonging and genocide Hitler's community, 1918-1945 / by Kühne, Thomas, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Craving community : World War I and the myth of comradeship -- Fabricating the male bond : the racial nation as a training camp -- Performing genocidal ethics : togetherness in Himmler's elite -- Spreading complicity : pleasure and qualms in the cynical army -- Watching terror : women in the community of crime.…”
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American railroad labor and the genesis of the New Deal, 1919-1935 by Huibregtse, Jon R.

Table of Contents: “…Railroading prior to World War I -- The Great War and its aftermath -- Grassroots political organization -- The road to political power, 1922-1924 -- The Railroad Labor Act -- Strengthening the Railroad Labor Act -- Railroad retirement and social security -- Railroad unions and labor banks.…”
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Belonging and genocide Hitler's community, 1918-1945 / by Kühne, Thomas, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Craving community : World War I and the myth of comradeship -- Fabricating the male bond : the racial nation as a training camp -- Performing genocidal ethics : togetherness in Himmler's elite -- Spreading complicity : pleasure and qualms in the cynical army -- Watching terror : women in the community of crime.…”
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American railroad labor and the genesis of the New Deal, 1919-1935 by Huibregtse, Jon R.

Table of Contents: “…Railroading prior to World War I -- The Great War and its aftermath -- Grassroots political organization -- The road to political power, 1922-1924 -- The Railroad Labor Act -- Strengthening the Railroad Labor Act -- Railroad retirement and social security -- Railroad unions and labor banks.…”
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A different shade of colonialism Egypt, Great Britain, and the mastery of the Sudan / by Powell, Eve Troutt

Table of Contents: “…Journeys from the fantastic to the colonial -- Black servants and saviors : the domestic empire of Egypt -- The lived experience of contradiction : Ibrahīm Fawzī's narrative of the Sudan -- The tools of the master : slavery, family, and the unity of the Nile Valley -- Egyptians in blackface : revolution and popular culture, World War I to 1925.…”
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Japan and the League of Nations Empire and world order, 1914-1938 / by Burkman, Thomas W.

Table of Contents: “…The World War I experience -- The idea of a league -- The great debate -- Making the covenant palatable at Paris -- The Geneva years -- The Japanese face at Geneva: Nitobe Inazō and Ishii Kikujirō -- Crisis over Manchuria -- Japan as an outsider -- Epliogue: internationalism and international organization in interwar Japan.…”
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Japan and the League of Nations Empire and world order, 1914-1938 / by Burkman, Thomas W.

Table of Contents: “…The World War I experience -- The idea of a league -- The great debate -- Making the covenant palatable at Paris -- The Geneva years -- The Japanese face at Geneva: Nitobe Inazō and Ishii Kikujirō -- Crisis over Manchuria -- Japan as an outsider -- Epliogue: internationalism and international organization in interwar Japan.…”
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A different shade of colonialism Egypt, Great Britain, and the mastery of the Sudan / by Powell, Eve Troutt

Table of Contents: “…Journeys from the fantastic to the colonial -- Black servants and saviors : the domestic empire of Egypt -- The lived experience of contradiction : Ibrahīm Fawzī's narrative of the Sudan -- The tools of the master : slavery, family, and the unity of the Nile Valley -- Egyptians in blackface : revolution and popular culture, World War I to 1925.…”
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Neutral ground a political history of espionage fiction / by Woods, Brett F.

Table of Contents: “…The roots of espionage fiction -- Evolution of the genre -- World War I : empire and espionage -- The interwar years : toward a darker morality -- Post-world War II : reality, conspiracy, and plot development -- The Cold War era : refinement of the genre -- Beyond the Berlin Wall : variations on the theme.…”
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Seeing Sarah Bernhardt : performance and silent film / by Duckett, Victoria

Table of Contents: “…Nullius in verba: acting on silent film -- Hamlet: a short film, 1900 -- Camille: the ladies of the camellias -- Queen Elizabeth: a moving picture, 1912 -- Sarah Bernhardt at home: cinema and the home, ca. 1915 -- Mothers of France: World War I, film, and propaganda -- Conclusion.…”
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Neutral ground a political history of espionage fiction / by Woods, Brett F.

Table of Contents: “…The roots of espionage fiction -- Evolution of the genre -- World War I : empire and espionage -- The interwar years : toward a darker morality -- Post-world War II : reality, conspiracy, and plot development -- The Cold War era : refinement of the genre -- Beyond the Berlin Wall : variations on the theme.…”
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Seeing Sarah Bernhardt : performance and silent film / by Duckett, Victoria

Table of Contents: “…Nullius in verba: acting on silent film -- Hamlet: a short film, 1900 -- Camille: the ladies of the camellias -- Queen Elizabeth: a moving picture, 1912 -- Sarah Bernhardt at home: cinema and the home, ca. 1915 -- Mothers of France: World War I, film, and propaganda -- Conclusion.…”
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How New York became American, 1890-1924 by Blake, Angela M.

Table of Contents: “…Reforming New York's image in the 1890s -- Tourism and New York's image in the 1890s -- Architecture, Americanism, and a "new" New York, 1900-1919 -- New York is not America : immigrants and tourists in post-World War I New York -- Brand New York : making midtown in the 1920s.…”
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Spies and holy wars the Middle East in 20th-century crime fiction / by Simon, Reeva S.

Table of Contents: “…Crime fiction as political metaphor -- Spies and holy war : jihad and World War I -- Holy war and empire : Fu Manchu in Cairo -- The publishing explosion and James Bond -- Secular jihad : international terrorism and economic destabilization -- The American crusade against terror -- Jihad, the apocalypse, and back again.…”
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Spies and holy wars the Middle East in 20th-century crime fiction / by Simon, Reeva S.

Table of Contents: “…Crime fiction as political metaphor -- Spies and holy war : jihad and World War I -- Holy war and empire : Fu Manchu in Cairo -- The publishing explosion and James Bond -- Secular jihad : international terrorism and economic destabilization -- The American crusade against terror -- Jihad, the apocalypse, and back again.…”
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How New York became American, 1890-1924 by Blake, Angela M.

Table of Contents: “…Reforming New York's image in the 1890s -- Tourism and New York's image in the 1890s -- Architecture, Americanism, and a "new" New York, 1900-1919 -- New York is not America : immigrants and tourists in post-World War I New York -- Brand New York : making midtown in the 1920s.…”
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Creating the welfare state in France, 1880-1940 by Smith, Timothy B. (Timothy Beresford)

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The French social service landscape prior to World War I : localism vs. centralization -- The crucible of war -- Building mini-welfare states, 1920-1940 -- The decline of traditional charitable medicine, the emergence of limited national health insurance -- Unemployment policy, 1914-1940 : from the local to the national.…”
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Creating the welfare state in France, 1880-1940 by Smith, Timothy B. (Timothy Beresford)

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The French social service landscape prior to World War I : localism vs. centralization -- The crucible of war -- Building mini-welfare states, 1920-1940 -- The decline of traditional charitable medicine, the emergence of limited national health insurance -- Unemployment policy, 1914-1940 : from the local to the national.…”
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