Search Results - "World war"

Gone to Texas a history of the Lone Star State / by Campbell, Randolph B., 1940-

Table of Contents: “…The "Prosperity Decade" and the Great Depression, 1921-1941 360 -- 15. World War II and The Rise of Modern Texas, 1941-1971 396 -- 16. …”
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The word as scalpel a history of medical sociology / by Bloom, Samuel William, 1921-2006

Table of Contents: “…American Sociology before 1920: From Social Advocacy to -- Academic Legitimacy 23 -- 3. Between the World Wars 39 -- 4. The University of Chicago 63 -- 5. …”
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A laboratory of transnational history Ukraine and recent Ukrainian historiography /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Georgiy Kasianov and Philipp Ther -- National versus transnational history -- "Nationalized" history : past continuous, present perfect, future / Georgiy Kasianov -- Revisiting the histories of Ukraine / Mark von Hagen -- From an ethnonational to a multiethnic to a transnational Ukrainian history / Andreas Kappeler -- The transnational paradigm of historiography and its potential for Ukrainian history / Philipp Ther -- Ukrainian history rewritten -- Choice of name versus choice of path : the names of Ukrainian territories from the late sixteenth to the late seventeenth century / Natalia Yakovenko -- Fellows and travelers : thinking about Ukrainian history in the early nineteenth century / Oleksiy Tolochko -- The Latin and Cyrillic alphabets in Ukrainian national discourse and in the language policy of empires / Alexei Miller and Oksana Ostapchuk -- Victim cinema : between Hitler and Stalin : Ukraine in World War II, the untold story / John-Paul Himka -- On the relevance and irrelevance of nationalism in contemporary Ukraine / Yaroslav Hrytsak -- Making of modern Ukraine : the western dimension / Roman Szporluk.…”
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The Hebrew Bible reborn from Holy Scripture to the Book of Books : a history of biblical culture and the battles over the Bible in modern Judaism / by Shavit, Jacob

Table of Contents: “…"Back to the Bible" : the biblical revolution in the nineteenth century -- Wellhausen and his school : the Jewish response to higher criticism -- "Truth shall spring out of the earth : the initial Jewish reaction to the archaeology of the ancient Near East -- The Babel-Bibel controversy as a typological event -- Friedrich Delitzsch and a second "Tower of Babel" -- Delitzsch's three lectures on Babel and Bibel -- The controversy in the German arena : theology vs. science -- At war : within and without -- Contra Delitzsch : revelation, originality and ethics -- From Noah to the Sabbath -- After Delitzsch : the Bible and Jewish Bible study in Germany between the two world wars -- Bible criticism arrives in Eretz Israel : struggle and reception -- "Extra-academic" Bible study and Bible criticism -- Orthodox Bible criticism in Eretz Israel -- The Bible as history and biblical archaeology: "can two walk together? …”
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Americanism new perspectives on the history of an ideal /

Table of Contents: “…Ngai -- In the shadow of Vietnam : liberal nationalism and the problem of war / Gary Gerstle -- Religious diversity : the American experiment that works / Alan Wolfe -- Americanism against American empire / Alan McPherson -- Japanese intellectuals define America, from the 1920s through World War II / Jun Furuya -- The promise of freedom, the friend of authority : American culture in postwar France / Louis Menand -- French views of American modernity : from text to subtext / Rob Kroes -- Suffering sisters? …”
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The Hebrew Bible reborn from Holy Scripture to the Book of Books : a history of biblical culture and the battles over the Bible in modern Judaism / by Shavit, Jacob

Table of Contents: “…"Back to the Bible" : the biblical revolution in the nineteenth century -- Wellhausen and his school : the Jewish response to higher criticism -- "Truth shall spring out of the earth : the initial Jewish reaction to the archaeology of the ancient Near East -- The Babel-Bibel controversy as a typological event -- Friedrich Delitzsch and a second "Tower of Babel" -- Delitzsch's three lectures on Babel and Bibel -- The controversy in the German arena : theology vs. science -- At war : within and without -- Contra Delitzsch : revelation, originality and ethics -- From Noah to the Sabbath -- After Delitzsch : the Bible and Jewish Bible study in Germany between the two world wars -- Bible criticism arrives in Eretz Israel : struggle and reception -- "Extra-academic" Bible study and Bible criticism -- Orthodox Bible criticism in Eretz Israel -- The Bible as history and biblical archaeology: "can two walk together? …”
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Americanism new perspectives on the history of an ideal /

Table of Contents: “…Ngai -- In the shadow of Vietnam : liberal nationalism and the problem of war / Gary Gerstle -- Religious diversity : the American experiment that works / Alan Wolfe -- Americanism against American empire / Alan McPherson -- Japanese intellectuals define America, from the 1920s through World War II / Jun Furuya -- The promise of freedom, the friend of authority : American culture in postwar France / Louis Menand -- French views of American modernity : from text to subtext / Rob Kroes -- Suffering sisters? …”
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Cold War Anthropology : The CIA, the Pentagon, and the Growth of Dual Use Anthropology / by Price, David H., 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Cold War political-economic disciplinary formations -- Political economy and history of American Cold War intelligence -- World War II long shadow -- Rebooting professional anthropology in the postwar world -- After the shooting war: centers, committees, seminars, and other Cold War projects -- Anthropologists and state: aid, debt, and other Cold War weapons of the strong intermezzo -- Anthropologists' articulations with the National Security State -- Cold War anthropologists at the CIA: careers confirmed and suspected -- How CIA funding fronts shaped anthropological research -- Unwitting CIA anthropologist collaborators: MK-Ultra, human ecology, and buying a piece of anthropology -- Cold War fieldwork within the intelligence universe -- Cold War anthropological counterinsurgency dreams -- The AAA confronts military and intelligence uses of disciplinary knowledge -- Anthropologically informed counterinsurgency in Southeast Asia -- Anthropologists for radical political action and revolution within the AAA -- Untangling open secrets, hidden histories, outrage denied, and recurrent dual use themes.…”
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Gone to Texas a history of the Lone Star State / by Campbell, Randolph B., 1940-

Table of Contents: “…The "Prosperity Decade" and the Great Depression, 1921-1941 360 -- 15. World War II and The Rise of Modern Texas, 1941-1971 396 -- 16. …”
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The word as scalpel a history of medical sociology / by Bloom, Samuel William, 1921-2006

Table of Contents: “…American Sociology before 1920: From Social Advocacy to -- Academic Legitimacy 23 -- 3. Between the World Wars 39 -- 4. The University of Chicago 63 -- 5. …”
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A laboratory of transnational history Ukraine and recent Ukrainian historiography /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Georgiy Kasianov and Philipp Ther -- National versus transnational history -- "Nationalized" history : past continuous, present perfect, future / Georgiy Kasianov -- Revisiting the histories of Ukraine / Mark von Hagen -- From an ethnonational to a multiethnic to a transnational Ukrainian history / Andreas Kappeler -- The transnational paradigm of historiography and its potential for Ukrainian history / Philipp Ther -- Ukrainian history rewritten -- Choice of name versus choice of path : the names of Ukrainian territories from the late sixteenth to the late seventeenth century / Natalia Yakovenko -- Fellows and travelers : thinking about Ukrainian history in the early nineteenth century / Oleksiy Tolochko -- The Latin and Cyrillic alphabets in Ukrainian national discourse and in the language policy of empires / Alexei Miller and Oksana Ostapchuk -- Victim cinema : between Hitler and Stalin : Ukraine in World War II, the untold story / John-Paul Himka -- On the relevance and irrelevance of nationalism in contemporary Ukraine / Yaroslav Hrytsak -- Making of modern Ukraine : the western dimension / Roman Szporluk.…”
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Cold War Anthropology : The CIA, the Pentagon, and the Growth of Dual Use Anthropology / by Price, David H., 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Cold War political-economic disciplinary formations -- Political economy and history of American Cold War intelligence -- World War II long shadow -- Rebooting professional anthropology in the postwar world -- After the shooting war: centers, committees, seminars, and other Cold War projects -- Anthropologists and state: aid, debt, and other Cold War weapons of the strong intermezzo -- Anthropologists' articulations with the National Security State -- Cold War anthropologists at the CIA: careers confirmed and suspected -- How CIA funding fronts shaped anthropological research -- Unwitting CIA anthropologist collaborators: MK-Ultra, human ecology, and buying a piece of anthropology -- Cold War fieldwork within the intelligence universe -- Cold War anthropological counterinsurgency dreams -- The AAA confronts military and intelligence uses of disciplinary knowledge -- Anthropologically informed counterinsurgency in Southeast Asia -- Anthropologists for radical political action and revolution within the AAA -- Untangling open secrets, hidden histories, outrage denied, and recurrent dual use themes.…”
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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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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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Window on freedom race, civil rights, and foreign affairs, 1945-1988 /

Table of Contents: “…Seen from the outside : the international perspective on America's dilemma / Paul Gordon Lauren -- Race from power : U.S. foreign policy and the general crisis of white supremacy / Gerald Horne -- Brown babies : race, gender, and policy after World War II / Brenda Gayle Plummer -- Bleached souls and Red Negroes : the NAACP and Black Communists in the early Cold War, 1948-1952 / Cary Fraser -- An American dilemma : race and realpolitik in the American response to the Bandung Conference, 1955 / Cary Fraser -- Segregationists and the world : the foreign policy of the white resistance / Thomas Noer -- The unwelcome mat : African diplomats in Washington, D.C., during the Kennedy years / Michael Krenn -- Birmingham, Addis Ababa, and the image of America : international influence on U.S. civil rights politics in the Kennedy administration / Mary L. …”
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The state of sovereignty territories, laws, populations /

Table of Contents: “…Smith -- Colonial sovereignty in Manchuria and Manchukuo / David Tucker -- Alternatives to empire : France and Africa after World War II / Frederick Cooper -- The ambiguities of sovereignty : the United States and the global human rights cases of the 1940s and 1950s / Mark Philip Bradley -- What does it take to be a state? …”
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Artists and intellectuals and the requests of power

Table of Contents: “…Kühn -- East Asia -- Philosophers in Japan in the period of World War II : reflecting the philosophy of Nishida against the background of social phenomena / Hisaki Hashi -- Mao und die Intellektuellen / Harro von Senger -- Two musicians of the twentieth century -- Hans Pfitzner : ein Genie und sein Verhältnis zur Gesellschaft / J.P. …”
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Globalizing American studies

Table of Contents: “…Pease -- Bodies of knowledge: the exchange of intellectuals and intellectual exchange between Scotland and America in the post-revolutionary period / Kariann Akemi Yokota -- Ralph Ellison and the grain of internationalism / Brent Hayes Edwards -- Cold war, hot kitchen: Alice Childress, Natalya Baranskaya and the speakin place of Cold War womanhood / Kate Baldwin -- Circulating empires: colonial authority and the immoral, subversive problem of American film / Brian Larkin -- Scarlett O'Hara in Damascus: Hollywood, colonial politics, and Arab spectatorship during World War II / Elizabeth F. Thompson -- Chronotopes of a dystopic nation: cultures of dependency and border crossings in late Porfirian Mexico / Claudio Lomnitz -- Transpacific complicity and comparatist strategy: failure in decolonization and the rise of Japanese nationalism / Naoki Sakai -- War in several tongues: nations, languages, genres / Wai Chee Dimock -- Neo-orientalism / Ali Behdad and Juliet Williams -- American studies in motion: Tehran, Hyderabad, Cairo / Brian T. …”
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Middle East historiographies narrating the twentieth century /

Table of Contents: “…The historiography of World War I and the emergence of the contemporary Middle East / Charles D. …”
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Mississippi : a history / by Busbee, Westley F.

Table of Contents: “…Mississippi : the name and the place -- Two worlds collide : Spanish explorers and American indians -- French colonies -- The British period, 1763-1781 -- Spanish rule, 1781-1798 -- The territorial period, 1798-1817 -- The new state, 1817-1832 -- Antebellum politics -- Antebellum life -- Mounting sectional strife -- Secession and Civil War -- Reconstruction in Mississippi -- Bourbons and populists -- Into the twentieth century : economic and social trends -- Progressive "rednecks" -- A new era, the 1920s -- The Depression years -- A rich cultural heritage -- The World War II era -- The fifties -- Religious life -- The second Reconstruction -- Times of transition -- The social environment -- Recent political trends -- Tumultuous trends in education -- Recent economic trends -- Into the twenty-first century -- Living in the twenty-first century -- Appendix I: European rulers with relation to Mississippi during the colonial and territorial periods -- Appendix II: Members of the U.S. …”
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