Search Results - "World war"

Norman Thomas the great dissenter / by Gregory, Raymond F., 1927-

Table of Contents: “…The Thomas and Mattoon families -- Working in the slum areas of New York City -- Pacifism and socialism -- Civil liberties in time of war -- Running for elective office -- Running for President -- The Depression years -- The 1932 presidential election and the New Deal -- Arkansas sharecroppers -- The sharecropper problem and the Roosevelt administration -- The decline of the Socialist Party -- Between elections -- Opposing a United States President and a New Jersey mayor -- Fascism, communism and pacifism -- Opposing United States' entry into World War II -- The internment of Japanese-Americans and other wartime civil rights violations -- Taking stock -- The final run for the presidency -- Opposing nuclear testing, supporting disarmament -- Reevaluating socialism -- Confronting racism, the Vietnam War, and injustice -- The great dissenter -- Declining health -- Summing up.…”
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Dialogues on justice European perspectives on law and humanities /

Table of Contents: “…Law and humanities : the road ahead / Greta Olson -- De-Americanizing law and literature narratives : opening up the story / Jeanne Gaakeer -- European law and literature : forever young, the nomad concurs -- History, memory, and human rights / Jay Winter -- Human rights and the second World War / Mattias Kumm -- The idea of thick constitutional patriotism and its implications for the role and structure of European legal history -- Forgiveness and law / Svend Erik Larsen -- Forgiveness as a challenge to the law : a literary perspective / Hans Petter Graver -- Measure for measure : on law and forgiveness -- Justice, culture, and copyright / Mia Rendix -- Copyright as moral strategy of reclaiming the past : the return of the Icelandic sagas / Fiona MacMillan -- Rights, culture, property : in search of a new design for intellectual space / Helle porsdam.…”
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Twentieth-century Europe : a brief history, 1900 to the present / by Richards, Michael D.

Table of Contents: “…Overview: 1939-1967 -- Armageddon : Europe in World War II, 1939-1945 -- Cold War and Decolonization, 1945-1961 -- Out of the Ashes : From Stunde Null (zero hour) to a New Golden Age, 1945-1967 -- Part 4. …”
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Secret histories : reading twentieth-century American literature / by Wyatt, David, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…The body and the corporation: Norris, Chambers -- Double consciousness: Johnson, Chesnutt, Du Bois, Washington -- Pioneering women: Austin, Eaton, Stein, Eliot, Williams, Cather -- Performing maleness: Hemingway -- Colored me: Toomer, Hurston -- The rumor of race: Faulkner -- The depression: Dreiser, Fitzgerald, Yesierska, Di Donato, Himes, Farrell, Steinbeck -- The second World War: Mori, Vonnegut, Pynchon, Silko, Hersey -- Civil rights: Wright, Gaines, Baldwin, Walker, King, Clark -- Love and separateness: Welty, Petry, Douglas, Mary Mccarthy, Friedan, Steinbeck -- Revolt and reaction: Mailer, Didion -- The postmodern: Shepard, Beattie, Carver, Delillo, Gaddis -- Studying war: Cormac Mccarthy, Herr -- Slavery and memory: Morrison -- Pa not pa: Kingston, Walker, Ellison, Lee, Rodriguez -- After innocence: Roth.…”
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Workers' Struggles, Past and Present : A "Radical America" Reader /

Table of Contents: “…Philip Randolph and the foundations of black American socialism -- Organizing against sexual harassment -- Defending the no-strike pledge: CIO politics during World War II -- Holding the line: Miners' militancy and the strike of 1978.…”
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The Workers' Health Fund in Eretz Israel : Kupat Holim, 1911-1937 / by Shvarts, Shifra

Table of Contents: “…Health Funds in the First World War -- 4. The Health System Under British Military Government -- 5. …”
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Women in Cleveland : An Illustrated History / by Morton, Marian J., 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Meeting the Challenges: The Depression and World War II, 1930-1950 -- 9. Opening Doors: Professions, Politics, and Protest, 1950-1980 -- Epilogue: Toward the Third Century, 1980-1996.…”
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Women in Cleveland : An Illustrated History / by Morton, Marian J., 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Meeting the Challenges: The Depression and World War II, 1930-1950 -- 9. Opening Doors: Professions, Politics, and Protest, 1950-1980 -- Epilogue: Toward the Third Century, 1980-1996.…”
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Workers' Struggles, Past and Present : A "Radical America" Reader /

Table of Contents: “…Philip Randolph and the foundations of black American socialism -- Organizing against sexual harassment -- Defending the no-strike pledge: CIO politics during World War II -- Holding the line: Miners' militancy and the strike of 1978.…”
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The Workers' Health Fund in Eretz Israel : Kupat Holim, 1911-1937 / by Shvarts, Shifra

Table of Contents: “…Health Funds in the First World War -- 4. The Health System Under British Military Government -- 5. …”
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Hyphenated histories articulations of Central European Bildung and Slavic studies in the contemporary academy /

Table of Contents: “…: constructing the 'Ukrainian labour emigrant' in Ukraine / Natalia Khanenko Friesen -- The politics of language and popular culture in Dziga Vertov's "Man with a movie camera" / Andriy Zayarnyuk -- Inverted perspective and Serbian peasants : antiquities and the Byzantine revival in Serbia / Marko Zivkovic -- Spectacles of pain : Susan Sontag and Russian World War II photography / Elena Siemens -- Imagining a Soviet nation : cultural representations of the Ukrainian past at the twilight of the Stalin era / Serhy Yekelchyk.…”
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American Jewish identity politics

Table of Contents: “…When Jews were GIs: how World War II changed a generation and remade American Jewry / Deborah Dash Moore -- The Americanization of the Holocaust / Alvin H. …”
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Seeking inalienable rights Texans and their quests for justice /

Table of Contents: “…Reid -- Fighting on the home front: the rhetoric of woman suffrage in World War I / James Seymour -- Contrasts in neglect: progressive municipal reform in Dallas and San Antonio / Patricia E. …”
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The wounds of nations horror cinema, historical trauma and national identity / by Blake, Linnie

Table of Contents: “…German and Japanese horror : the traumatic legacy of the Second World War. The horror of the Nazi past in the reunification present : Jörg Buttgereit's Nekromantiks ; Nihonjinron, women, horror : post-war national identity and the spirit of subaltern vengeance in Ringu and The ring -- The traumatised 1970s and the threat of apocalypse now. …”
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American Jewish identity politics

Table of Contents: “…When Jews were GIs: how World War II changed a generation and remade American Jewry / Deborah Dash Moore -- The Americanization of the Holocaust / Alvin H. …”
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Seeking inalienable rights Texans and their quests for justice /

Table of Contents: “…Reid -- Fighting on the home front: the rhetoric of woman suffrage in World War I / James Seymour -- Contrasts in neglect: progressive municipal reform in Dallas and San Antonio / Patricia E. …”
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The wounds of nations horror cinema, historical trauma and national identity / by Blake, Linnie

Table of Contents: “…German and Japanese horror : the traumatic legacy of the Second World War. The horror of the Nazi past in the reunification present : Jörg Buttgereit's Nekromantiks ; Nihonjinron, women, horror : post-war national identity and the spirit of subaltern vengeance in Ringu and The ring -- The traumatised 1970s and the threat of apocalypse now. …”
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Hyphenated histories articulations of Central European Bildung and Slavic studies in the contemporary academy /

Table of Contents: “…: constructing the 'Ukrainian labour emigrant' in Ukraine / Natalia Khanenko Friesen -- The politics of language and popular culture in Dziga Vertov's "Man with a movie camera" / Andriy Zayarnyuk -- Inverted perspective and Serbian peasants : antiquities and the Byzantine revival in Serbia / Marko Zivkovic -- Spectacles of pain : Susan Sontag and Russian World War II photography / Elena Siemens -- Imagining a Soviet nation : cultural representations of the Ukrainian past at the twilight of the Stalin era / Serhy Yekelchyk.…”
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The CIA in Ecuador / by Becker, Marc (Professor of history)

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The CIA in Ecuador / by Becker, Marc (Professor of history)

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