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Japan Since 1945
Few historians have attempted an account of Japan since 1945 yet the country's emergence as the second largest economy in the world has been one of the most dramatic and …
Veterans, Victims, and Memory
In the vast literature on how the Second World War has been remembered in Europe, research into what happened in communist Poland, a country most affected by the war, is …
Ukrainian Nationalism in the Post-Stalin Era
It is a truism that, with only a few notable exceptions, western scholars only belatedly turned their attention to the phenomenon of minority nationalism in the USSR. In the last …
Borderland Studies Meets Child Studies
This book provides a comparative analysis of the history of borderland children during the 20th century. More than their parents, children were envisioned to play a crucial role in …
The Civil Rights Movement
This completely revised and updated edition focuses on the African-American struggle for civil rights from 1945 to 2002. William T. Martin Riches shows how the black community used …
The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire
The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire describes and explains the creation, maintenance and eventual demise of the Soviet regime across post-1945 Eastern Europe. Balancing …
Spain Since 1939
Spain since 1939 provides students with a comprehensive guide to one of the most exciting historical narratives of the twentieth century: Spain's development from poverty and …
Germany since 1945
Since its crushing military defeat in 1945, Germany has faced occupation and division, economic success amidst Cold War bitterness, the rise and spectacular fall of the Berlin Wall …
America and the World since 1945
American foreign policy is fundamental to any understanding of how the post-war world has been shaped. This insightful and wide-ranging book analyses the policies pursued by each …
Reading Monuments
This book tells the story of monuments in two cities that share a parallel and turbulent history: Strasbourg and Poznan. With the Franco-Prussian War begins the well-known story …
The Cuno Government and Reparations 1922–1923
When the First World War ended, the political and economic system of prewar Europe lay in ruins. Though Allied politicians tried at various post war conferences to create a new …
The Arab-Israeli Conflict
An analysis of the principal stages and issues of the Arab-Israeli Conflict since 1945. The Introduction sets out the origins of Arab Nationalism and Zionism, and traces their …