Search Results - "World war"

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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Government versus markets the changing economic role of the state / by Tanzi, Vito

Table of Contents: “…The role of the state in the pre World War Two period; 3. Forces that changed the role of the state; 4. …”
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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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Government versus markets the changing economic role of the state / by Tanzi, Vito

Table of Contents: “…The role of the state in the pre World War Two period; 3. Forces that changed the role of the state; 4. …”
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The unfinished war Korea / by Lee, Bong

Table of Contents: “…Thus it began: Korea, the hermit kingdom ; Korean nationalists -- The Lee family under Japanese occupation: out of the frying pan, into the fire, World War II --The Russians are coming: Kim Il Sung makes an entrance -- Americans in South Korea -- North Koreans discover communism -- Chaos in South Korea: MacArthur in Japan -- Prelude to a hot war -- On a rainy Sunday across the 38th parallel: reactions of Washington -- The ROK army on the brink of disintegration: MacArthur in Suwon ; Tactical errors all around -- An ugly war -- The first hundred days -- Mao's thought in Beijing -- The Inchon landing and its aftermath -- Chinese traps -- A brand new ball game --Refugee stories: the plight of refugees and massacres of innocent civilians -- An old soldier just fades away, a new one steps in -- The way we survived the war -- A talking war -- The tortuous path to armistice agreement -- South Korea after the ceasefire: two schoolgirls -- North Korea now -- Old war, new crisis: the nuclear weapons developement program ; the sunshine policy ; military provocations ; what next.…”
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Republic of words The Atlantic monthly and its writers, 1857-1925 / by Goodman, Susan, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Du Bois -- Progressive politics under Walter Hines page -- From sea to shining sea -- A state of uncertainty -- Ellery Sedgwick: politics and poets -- A window on the war: Atlantic writers and World War I -- America's War -- The turbulent Twenties, I -- -- The turbulent Twenties, II -- Across the decades.…”
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A poet's revolution the life of Denise Levertov / by Hollenberg, Donna Krolik

Table of Contents: “…"The walls of the garden, the first light": beginnings (1923-1933); "When Anna screamed": Levertov's response to Nazi oppression (1933-1939); The double image: apprenticeship during World War Two (1939-1946); "Recoveries": abortion, adventure, and marriage (1947- 48) -- A common ground (1949-1966). …”
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The unfinished war Korea / by Lee, Bong

Table of Contents: “…Thus it began: Korea, the hermit kingdom ; Korean nationalists -- The Lee family under Japanese occupation: out of the frying pan, into the fire, World War II --The Russians are coming: Kim Il Sung makes an entrance -- Americans in South Korea -- North Koreans discover communism -- Chaos in South Korea: MacArthur in Japan -- Prelude to a hot war -- On a rainy Sunday across the 38th parallel: reactions of Washington -- The ROK army on the brink of disintegration: MacArthur in Suwon ; Tactical errors all around -- An ugly war -- The first hundred days -- Mao's thought in Beijing -- The Inchon landing and its aftermath -- Chinese traps -- A brand new ball game --Refugee stories: the plight of refugees and massacres of innocent civilians -- An old soldier just fades away, a new one steps in -- The way we survived the war -- A talking war -- The tortuous path to armistice agreement -- South Korea after the ceasefire: two schoolgirls -- North Korea now -- Old war, new crisis: the nuclear weapons developement program ; the sunshine policy ; military provocations ; what next.…”
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Republic of words The Atlantic monthly and its writers, 1857-1925 / by Goodman, Susan, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Du Bois -- Progressive politics under Walter Hines page -- From sea to shining sea -- A state of uncertainty -- Ellery Sedgwick: politics and poets -- A window on the war: Atlantic writers and World War I -- America's War -- The turbulent Twenties, I -- -- The turbulent Twenties, II -- Across the decades.…”
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A poet's revolution the life of Denise Levertov / by Hollenberg, Donna Krolik

Table of Contents: “…"The walls of the garden, the first light": beginnings (1923-1933); "When Anna screamed": Levertov's response to Nazi oppression (1933-1939); The double image: apprenticeship during World War Two (1939-1946); "Recoveries": abortion, adventure, and marriage (1947- 48) -- A common ground (1949-1966). …”
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Security/Mobility : Politics of Movement /

Table of Contents: “…A discourse view on the European Community and the abolition of border controls in the second half of the 1980s -- Part III: Circumscribing movement -- 9 Gender (in)securities: surveillance and transgender bodies in a post- 9/11 era of neoliberalism -- 10 One thing left on the checklist: ontological coordination and the assessment of consistency in asylum requests -- 11 Modelling the self, creating the other: French denaturalisation law on the brink of World War II -- Epilogue -- 12 Unpacking the new mobilities paradigm: lessons for critical security studies?…”
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The Funambulist Pamphlets 11: Cinema /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the cinema papers -- La Haine: Banlieue and police -- Paris is burning: gender, sexuality, and race's performativity -- Coriolanus: state of exception -- World War Z: the zombie is a human you have the right to kill -- The act of killing: what constitutes the act of killing? …”
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Security/Mobility : Politics of Movement /

Table of Contents: “…A discourse view on the European Community and the abolition of border controls in the second half of the 1980s -- Part III: Circumscribing movement -- 9 Gender (in)securities: surveillance and transgender bodies in a post- 9/11 era of neoliberalism -- 10 One thing left on the checklist: ontological coordination and the assessment of consistency in asylum requests -- 11 Modelling the self, creating the other: French denaturalisation law on the brink of World War II -- Epilogue -- 12 Unpacking the new mobilities paradigm: lessons for critical security studies?…”
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The Funambulist Pamphlets 11: Cinema /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the cinema papers -- La Haine: Banlieue and police -- Paris is burning: gender, sexuality, and race's performativity -- Coriolanus: state of exception -- World War Z: the zombie is a human you have the right to kill -- The act of killing: what constitutes the act of killing? …”
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The American way of peace an interpretation / by Prybyla, Jan S.

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The American way of peace an interpretation / by Prybyla, Jan S.

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