20th Century

The Aldo Moro Murder Case: Richard Drake; Aldo Moro's kidnapping and violent death in 1978 had much the same effect in Italy as the assassination of President John F. Kennedy had in the United States, with both cases giving rise to endless conspiracy theories. In his thorough account of the long and anguished quest for justice in the Moro murder case, Richard Drake provides a detailed portrait of the tragedy and its aftermath as complex symbols of a turbulent age in Italian history.; Hardcover

The Alienated Academy: Wen-Hsin Yeh; The enormous changes in twentieth-century Chinese higher education up to the Sino-Japanese War are detailed in this pioneering work. Yeh examines the impact of instruction in English and of the introduction of science and engineering into the curriculum. Such innovations spurred the movement of higher education away from the gentry academies focused on classical studies and propelled it toward modern middle-class colleges with diverse programs.; Hardcover 1990 / Paperback 2000

All on a Mardi Gras Day: Reid Mitchell; With this colorful study, Reid Mitchell takes us to Mardi Gras--to a yearly ritual that sweeps the richly multicultural city of New Orleans into a frenzy of parades, pageantry, dance, drunkenness, music, sexual display, and social and political bombast. Mitchell tells us some of the most intriguing stories of Carnival since 1804 and he examines the meaning and messages of Mardi Gras.; Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1999

Avant-Garde Florence: Walter Adamson; They envisioned a brave new world, and what they got was fascism. As vibrant as its counterparts in Paris, Munich, and Milan, the avant-garde of Florence rose on a wave of artistic, political, and social idealism that swept the world with the arrival of the twentieth century. How the movement flourished in its first heady years, only to flounder in the bloody wake of World War I, is a fascinating story, told here for the first time. It is the history of a whole generation's extraordinary promise--and equally extraordinary failure.; Hardcover 1993

Berlin Cabaret: Peter Jelavich; Peter Jelavich spotlights Berlin's cabarets from the day the curtain first went up, in 1901, until the Nazi regime brought it down. Fads and fashions, sexual mores, and political ideologies--all were subject to satire and parody on the cabaret stage. This book follows the changing treatment of these themes, and the fate of cabaret itself, through the most turbulent decades of German history.; Paperback 1996 / Hardcover

The Black Book of Communism: Stéphane Courtois; Nicolas Werth; Jean-Louis Panné; Andrzej Paczkowski; Karel Bartosek; Jean-Louis Margolin; Edited by Mark Kramer; Translated by Jonathan Murphy; This international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the actual, practical accomplishments of Communism around the world: terror, torture, famine, mass deportations, and massacres. The authors systematically show how and why, wherever the millenarian ideology of Communism was established, it quickly led to crime, terror, and repression. Astonishing in the sheer detail it amasses, the book amply documents the unparalleled position and significance of Communism in the hierarchy of violence that is the history of the twentieth century.; Hardcover 1999

The Bomb: Gerard J. DeGroot; The Bomb has killed hundreds of thousands outright, condemned many more to lingering deaths, and made vast tracts of land unfit for life. For decades it dominated the psyches of millions, becoming a touchstone of popular culture, celebrated or decried in mass political movements, films, songs, and books. DeGroot traces the life of the Bomb from its birth in turn-of-the-century physics labs of Europe to a childhood in the New Mexico desert of the 1940s, from adolescence and early adulthood in Nagasaki and Bikini, Australia and Kazakhstan to maturity in test sites and missile silos around the globe.; Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2006

Building Local States: Elizabeth Remick; This book examines two eras of Chinese history that have commonly been viewed as periods of state disintegration or retreat. And they were--at the central level. When re-examined at the local level, however, both are revealed as periods of state building. In both the Nanjing decade of Guomindang rule (1927-1937) and the early post-Mao reform era (1980-1992), both national and local factors shaped local state building and created variations in local state structures and practices.; Hardcover 2004

Business, Banking, and Politics: Steven Tolliday; Hardcover 1987

China Diplomacy, 1914-1918: Madeleine Chi; Paperback 1970

China's Republican Revolution: Edward Rhoads; Hardcover 1975

China’s Local Councils in the Age of Constitutional Reform, 1898-1911: Roger Thompson; Hardcover

Chinese Elites and Political Change: R. Keith Schoppa; Schoppa divides the counties of Zhejiang Province into four zones according to level of political and economic development and scrupulously analyzes the complex processes of remolding society at the local and provincial levels. By delving beneath the heroic figures and large movements of Chinese political life in this century, he reveals the common factors that make China a part of the worldwide story of reconstruction, reform, and developmental change.; Hardcover 1982

The Chinese Red Army, 1927-1963: Edward Rhoads; Imperialism, pernicious as it was in most respects, served as the prime catalyst for social change in China throughout the turbulent period from 1895 to 1913. Starting with this premise, Rhoads traces the social, political, and economic history of the republican revolution. In his view, after the Boxer uprising, the Manchu court, usually called supine and reactionary, instituted a program of reform that was a serious, comprehensive, and often successful attempt at radical social transformation.; Hardcover 1964

Closer to the Masses: Matthew Lenoe; Matthew Lenoe traces the origins of Stalinist mass culture to newspaper journalism in the late 1920s. In examining the transformation of Soviet newspapers during the New Economic Policy and the First Five Year Plan, Lenoe tells a dramatic story of purges, political intrigues, and social upheaval. Deeply researched and lucidly written, this book is a major contribution to the literature on Soviet culture and society.; Hardcover 2004

Communism and the Dilemmas of National Liberation: James E. Mace; Hardcover 1983

Comrades!: Robert Service; Comrades! moves from Marx and Lenin to Mao and Castro and beyond to trace communism from its beginnings to the present day, offering vivid portraits of its protagonists and decisive events. Service looks not only at the high politics of communist regimes but also at the social conditions that led millions to support communism in so many countries, reaching the uncomfortable conclusion that although communism in its original form is now dying or dead, the poverty and injustice that enabled its rise are still alive.; Hardcover 2007

Constructing the Monolith: Marc J. Selverstone; This book not only explains the cold war mindset that determined global policy for much of the twentieth century, but reveals how the search to define a foreign threat can shape the ways in which that threat is actually met.; Hardcover 2009

The Culture of Love: Stephen Kern; The Culture of Love interprets the sweeping change in loving that spanned a period when scientific discoveries reduced the terrors and dangers of sex, when new laws gave married women control over their earnings and their bodies, when bold novelists and artists shook off the prudishness and hypocrisy that so paralyzed the Victorians. Kern argues that, in contrast to modern sex, Victorian sex was anatomically constricted, spatially confined, morally suspect, deadly serious, and abruptly over.; Paperback 1998 / Hardcover

Death in the Tiergarten: Benjamin Carter Hett; From Alexanderplatz, the bustling Berlin square ringed by bleak slums, to Moabit, site of the city's most feared prison, this book illuminates the culture of criminal justice in late imperial Germany. Hett explores the lawyers, judges, jurors, thieves, pimps, and murderers who inhabited this world and examines how the law reflected the broader urban culture and politics of a rapidly changing city.; Hardcover 2004

Democracy Denied, 1905-1915: Charles Kurzman; Kurzman proposes that the collective agent most directly responsible for democratization was the emerging class of modern intellectuals, a group that had gained a global identity and a near-messianic sense of mission following the Dreyfus Affair of 1898. Each chapter of this book focuses on a single angle of this story, covering all six cases by examining newspaper accounts, memoirs, and government reports.; Hardcover 2008

The Diehards: Gregory D. Phillips; Hardcover 1979

Dilemmas of Victory: Edited by Jeremy Brown; Edited by Paul G. Pickowicz; Contributions by Frederic Wakeman; Contributions by Elizabeth J. Perry; Contributions by Nara Dillon; Contributions by Jeremy Brown; Contributions by Chen Jian; Contributions by Christian A. Hess; Contributions by James Z. Gao; Contributions by Perry Link; Contributions by Sigrid Schmalzer; Contributions by Paul G. Pickowicz; Contributions by Douglas A. Stiffler; Contributions by Joseph W. Esherick; Contributions by Gail Hershatter; Contributions by Sherman Cochran; This illuminating work examines the social, cultural, political, and economic dimensions of the Communist takeover of China. Instead of dwelling on elite politics and policy-making processes, Dilemmas of Victory seeks to understand how the 1949-1953 period was experienced by various groups, including industrialists, filmmakers, ethnic minorities, educators, rural midwives, philanthropists, standup comics, and scientists.; Hardcover 2008

Early Chinese Revolutionaries: Mary Backus Rankin; Paperback

The Evolution of Labor Relations in Japan: Andrew Gordon; Hardcover 1985 / Paperback 1988

The Extraterritorial System in China: John Carter Vincent; Paperback 1970

The First Socialist Society: Geoffrey Hosking; Paperback

Flag Wars and Stone Saints: Nancy M. Wingfield; In a new perspective on the formation of national identity in Central Europe, Wingfield analyzes what many historians have treated separately--the construction of the Czech and German nations--as a larger single phenomenon. Numerous illustrations show how people absorbed, on many levels, visual clues that shaped how they identified themselves and their groups.; Hardcover 2007

The Foreign Policy of Saudi Arabia: Jacob Goldberg; Goldberg's Saudi perspective, unlike the British perspective of earlier studies, focuses on the marked changes in the years from 1902 to the disappearance of the Ottomans in 1918. By focusing on the roots of Saudi foreign policy, he highlights the distinctive characteristics that make Saudi Arabia inherently different from other Middle Eastern states.; Hardcover 1986

Forgotten Wars: Christopher Bayly; Tim Harper; Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper show how World War II never really ended in the ravaged Asian lands but continued in bloody civil wars, anti-colonial insurrections, and inter-communal massacres.Forgotten Wars, a sequel to the authors' acclaimed Forgotten Armies, is an account of the bitter wars of the end of empire. This period became the most formative in modern Asian history, as Western imperialism vied with nascent nationalist and communist revolutionaries for political control.; Hardcover 2007

From a Darkened Room: Arthur C. Inman; Edited by Daniel Aaron; Only a few of us seek immortality, and fewer still by writing. But Arthur Inman challenged the odds. He calculated that if he kept a diary and spared no thoughts or actions, was entirely honest and open, and did not care about damage or harm to himself or others, he would succeed in gaining attention beyond the grave that he could not attain in life.; Paperback 1996

The Generation of 1914: Robert Wohl; Hardcover 1979 / Paperback

Globalizing Sport: Barbara J. Keys; In this impressive book, Barbara Keys offers the first major study of the political and cultural ramifications of international sports competitions in the decades before World War II. Focusing on the United States, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union, she examines the transformation of events like the Olympic Games and the World Cup from relatively small-scale events to the expensive, political, globally popular extravaganzas familiar to us today.; Hardcover 2006

Government Control of the Press in Modern China, 1900-1949: Lee-hsia Hsu Ting; Hardcover 1975

Guernica and Total War: Ian Patterson; One of the most horrific innovations of the twentieth century was the deliberate strategy of total warfare. The first and most striking use of this measure came when the Basque hilltop town of Guernica was destroyed by the bombs of the German Condor. Patterson gives a graphic account of what happened on April 26, 1937, tracks the course of the Spanish Civil War, and explores how modern men and women respond to the threat of new warfare with new capacities for imagining aggression and death.; Hardcover 2007

The Heidelberg Myth: Steven P. Remy; In the first work to examine both nazification and denazification of a major German university, Remy offers a sobering account of the German academic community from 1933 to 1957. Deeply researched in university archives, newly opened denazification records, occupation reports, and contemporary publications, this book starkly details how extensively the university's professors were engaged with National Socialism and how effectively they frustrated postwar efforts to ascertain the truth.; Hardcover 2003

A History of Private Life, Volume V, Riddles of Identity in Modern Times: Series edited by Phillippe Ariès; Series edited by Georges Duby; Antoine Prost, Volume editor; Gerard Vincent, Volume editor; Translated by Arthur Goldhammer; Hardcover 1991 / Paperback 1998

A History of Twentieth-Century Russia: Robert Service; Russia has had an extraordinary history in the twentieth century. As the first Communist society, the USSR was both an admired model and an object of fear and hatred to the rest of the world. How are we to make sense of this past? A History of Twentieth-Century Russia treats the years from 1917 to 1991 as a single period and analyzes the peculiar mixture of political, economic, and social ingredients that made up the Soviet formula.; Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 1999

A History of Women in the West, Volume V, Toward a Cultural Identity in the Twentieth Century: Series edited by Georges Duby; Series edited by Michelle Perrot; Edited by Françoise Thébaud; Translated by Arthur Goldhammer; This fifth volume in the world-acclaimed series brings the history of women up to the present, placing it in the context of momentous events and profound social changes that have marked our time.; Paperback 1996 / Hardcover

Hitler Youth: Michael H. Kater; In modern times, the recruitment of children into a political organization and ideology reached its boldest embodiment in the Hitler Youth, founded in 1933 soon after the Nazi Party assumed power in Germany.Drawing on original reports, letters, diaries, and memoirs, Kater traces the history of the Hitler Youth, examining the means, degree, and impact of conversion, and the subsequent fate of young recruits.; Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2006

In Command of France: Robert J. Young; In Command of France combines a detailed survey of French foreign policy during the Nazi period with a careful examination of France's corresponding military planning and preparation. France was under control, the author argues, and credits the civilian and military command with more vision, more determination, more competence than hitherto recognized.; Hardcover 1978

Indonesian Destinies: Theodore Friend; "How can such a gentle people as we are be so murderous?" a prominent Indonesian asks. That question--and the mysteries of the archipelago's vast contradictions--haunt Theodore Friend's remarkable work, a narrative of Indonesia during the last half century, from the postwar revolution against Dutch imperialism to the unrest of today. Part history, part meditation on a place and a past observed firsthand, Indonesian Destinies penetrates events that gave birth to the world's fourth largest nation and assesses the continuing dangers that threaten to tear it apart.; Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2005

The Intellectual Resistance in Europe: James D. Wilkinson; Camus, Sartre, and Beauvoir in France; Eich, Richter, and Böll in Germany; Pavese, Levi, and Silone in Italy: These are among the defenders of human dignity whose lives and work are explored in this widely encompassing work. James D. Wilkinson examines for the first time the cultural impact of the anti-Fascist literary movements in Europe and the search of intellectuals for renewal--for social change through moral endeavor--during World War II and its immediate aftermath.; Hardcover 1981 / Paperback

Japanese Today: Edwin O. Reischauer; Marius B. Jansen; Japan, like the rest of the world, has undergone enormous changes in the last few years. The impact of the end of the Cold War has combined with a world-wide recession to create a fluid situation in which long-held assumptions about politics and policies no longer hold. A classic, short history of Japan, this book has been brought up to date by Marius Jansen, now our most distinguished interpreter of Japanese history. Jansen gives a lucid account and analysis of the events that have rocked Japan since 1990, taking the story through the election of Murayama as Prime Minister.; Hardcover 1988 / Paperback

Kiss and Tell: Julia A. Ericksen; Sally A. Steffen; Kiss and Tell chronicles the history of sex surveys in the United States over a century of changing social and sexual mores. Julia Ericksen and Sally Steffen reveal that the survey questions asked, more than the answers elicited, expose and shape the popular image of appropriate sexuality. We can learn as much about the history and practice of sexuality by looking at surveyors' changing concerns as we can by reading the results of their surveys.; Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2001

Klaus Fuchs, Atom Spy: Robert Chadwell Williams; Hardcover 1987 / Paperback

Lipstick Traces: Greil Marcus; Greil Marcus, author of Mystery Train, widely acclaimed as the best book ever written about America as seen through its music, began work on this new book out of a fascination with the Sex Pistols: that scandalous antimusical group, invented in London in 1975 and dead within two years, which sparked the emergence of the culture called punk. "I am an antichrist!" shouted singer Johnny Rotten-where in the world of pop music did that come from? Looking for an answer, with a high sense of the drama of the journey, Marcus takes us down the dark paths of counterhistory, a route of blasphemy, adventure, and surprise.; Hardcover 1989 / Paperback 1990

Localities at the Center: Richard Belsky; Native-place lodges are often cited as an example of the particularistic ties that characterized traditional China and worked against the emergence of a modern state based on loyalty to the nation. The author argues that by fostering awareness of membership in an elite group, the native-place lodges generated a sense of belonging to a nation that furthered the reforms undertaken in the early twentieth century.; Hardcover 2006

Lost Comrades: Dan White; Hardcover

Magic Circles: Devin McKinney; Delving into concerts and interviews, films and music, outtakes and bootlegs, Devin McKinney brings to bear the insights of history, aesthetics, sociology, psychology, and mythology to account for the depth and resonance of the Beatles' impact. His book is also a uniquely multifaceted appreciation of the group's artistic achievement, exploring their music as both timeless expression and visceral response to their historical moment.; Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2004

Mao's Last Revolution: Roderick MacFarquhar; Michael Schoenhals; The Cultural Revolution was a watershed event in the history of the People's Republic of China, the defining decade of half a century of communist rule. In a masterly book, Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals explain why Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, and show his Machiavellian role in masterminding it (which Chinese publications conceal). In its invaluable critical analysis of Chairman Mao and its brilliant portrait of a culture in turmoil, Mao's Last Revolution offers the most authoritative and compelling account to date of this seminal event in Chinese history.; Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008

Ministry of Illusion: Eric Rentschler; Eric Rentschler argues that cinema in the Third Reich emanated from a Ministry of Illusion and not from a Ministry of Fear. His analysis of the sophisticated media culture of this period demonstrates in an unprecedented way the potent and destructive powers of fascination and fantasy.; Paperback 1996 / Hardcover 1996

Modern China: John King Fairbank; Kwang-Ching Liu; Hardcover

Modern Enchantments: Simon During; Magic, During suggests, has helped shape modern culture. Devoted to this deceptively simple proposition, During's superlative work, written over the course of a decade, gets at the aesthetic questions at the very heart of the study of culture. How can the most ordinary arts--and by "magic," During means not the supernatural, but the special effects and conjurings of magic shows--affect people?; Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004

Munich and Theatrical Modernism: Peter Jelavich; This is the first cultural exploration of playwriting, directing, acting, and theater architecture in fin-de-siècle Munich. Peter Jelavich examines the commercial, political, and cultural tensions that fostered modernism's artistic revolt against the classical and realistic modes of nineteenth-century drama.; Hardcover 1985 / Paperback 1996

Noble Nationalists: Eagle Glassheim; This illuminating study examines the dramatic transformation of Bohemian noble identity from the rise of mass politics in the late nineteenth century to the descent of the Iron Curtain after World War II. This book offers valuable insights on the nationalization of a conservative political elite, as well as on the national and social revolutions that recast Central Europe in the first half of the twentieth century.; Hardcover 2005

Oil Empire: Alison Fleig Frank; At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Austrian Empire ranked third among the world's oil-producing states, and accounted for five percent of global oil production. By 1918, the Central Powers did not have enough oil to maintain a modern military. How and why did the promise of oil fail Galicia (the province producing the oil) and the Empire? In a brilliantly conceived work, Alison Frank traces the interaction of technology, nationalist rhetoric, social tensions, provincial politics, and entrepreneurial vision in shaping the Galician oil industry.; Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2007

On or About December 1910: Peter Stansky; Drawing upon his historical and literary talents, Peter Stansky captures the dazzling world of early Bloomsbury. The picture he presents, with all its drama and detail, encompasses the conflicts and sureties of a changing world of politics, aesthetics, and character.; Paperback 1997 / Hardcover

On the Road to the Wolf’s Lair: Theodore S. Hamerow; In the beginning, they rallied behind Hitler in the national interest of Germany; in the end, they sacrificed their lives to assassinate him. A history of German resistance to Hitler in high places, this book offers a glimpse into one of the most intractable mysteries. Why did high-ranking army officers, civil servants, and religious leaders support Hitler? Why did they ultimately turn against him? What transformed these unlikely men, most of them elitist, militaristic, and fiercely nationalistic, into martyrs to a universal ideal?; Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1999

The People's Emperor: Kenneth J. Ruoff; Few institutions are as well suited as the monarchy to provide a window on postwar Japan. The monarchy, which is also a family, has been significant both as a political and as a cultural institution. Ruoff analyzes numerous issues, stressing the monarchy's "postwarness" rather than its traditionality.; Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2003

Popular Entertainment, Class, and Politics in Munich, 1900-1923: Robert Eben Sackett; Hardcover 1982

Power and Protest: Jeremi Suri; In a brilliantly conceived book, Suri puts the tumultuous 1960s into a truly international perspective in the first study to examine the connections between great power diplomacy and global social protest. He examines the decade through leaders and protesters on three continents, including Mao Zedong, Charles de Gaulle, Martin Luther King Jr., Daniel Cohn-Bendit, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.; Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2005

Prague in Black: Chad Bryant; Six months after the Munich Agreement delivered the Sudetenland to Germany, Hitler's troops marched unopposed into Prague and established the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, the first non-German territory to be occupied under Nazi rule. Although Czechs outnumbered Germans thirty to one, Nazi leaders were determined to make the region entirely German. Bryant explores the origins and implementation of these plans as part of a wider history of Nazi rule and its eventual consequences for the region.; Hardcover 2007

Province of Reason: Sam Bass Warner; This book is about some of the largest events of the twentieth century, but it sees those sweeping changes through the eyes of fourteen particular Bostonians, in an ambitious attempt to understand the disorienting experiences of recent history. These lives span the years from 1850 to 1980, a time when Boston, like all American cities, was being rebuilt according to the continually changing specifications of science, engineering, mass wealth, and big corporations.; Hardcover 1984 / Paperback

Provincial Patriots: Stephen R. Platt; From the Taiping Rebellion to the Chinese Communist movement, no province in China gave rise to as many reformers, military officers, and revolutionaries as did Hunan. Platt offers the first comprehensive study of why this province wielded such disproportionate influence. By putting provincial Hunan at the center of this narrative, Platt uncovers an unexpected and surprising story of modern China that sheds light on the current resurgence of regionalism in the country.; Hardcover 2007

A Question of Balance: Michael Creswell; Challenging standard interpretations of American dominance and French weakness in postwar Western Europe, Michael Creswell argues that France played a key role in shaping the cold war order. Creswell sketches the successful French challenge to the United States that ultimately resulted in security arrangements preferred by the French but acceptable to the Americans. Impressively researched and vigorously argued, A Question of Balance significantly advances our understanding of power politics and the rise of the cold war system in Western Europe.; Hardcover 2006

Race to Pearl Harbor: Stephen E. Pelz; Hardcover 1974

Reading Berlin 1900: Peter Fritzsche; The great cities at the turn of the century were mediated by words--newspapers, advertisements, signs, and schedules--by which the inhabitants lived, dreamed, and imagined their surroundings. In this original study of the classic text of urban modernism--the newspaper page--Peter Fritzsche analyzes how reading and writing dramatized Imperial Berlin and anticipated the modernist sensibility that celebrated discontinuity, instability, and transience.; Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998

Readings in Chinese Literary Thought: Stephen Owen; This dual-language compilation of seven complete major works and many shorter pieces from the Confucian period through the Ch'ing dynasty will be indispensable to students of Chinese literature as well as theorists and scholars of other languages.; Paperback 1996 / Hardcover

Reflections on Exile and Other Essays: Edward W. Said; This long-awaited collection of literary and cultural essays, the first since Harvard University Press published The World, the Text, and the Critic in 1983, reconfirms that Edward Said is the most impressive, consequential, and elegant critic of our time. Taken together, these essays-- from the famous to those that will surprise even Said's most assiduous followers--afford rare insight into the formation of a critic and the development of an intellectual vocation.; Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2002

Rise of Nationalism in Central Africa: Robert I. Rotberg; Paperback

Rulers and Victims: Geoffrey Hosking; In this illuminating book, Geoffrey Hosking explores what the Soviet experience meant for Russians. Hosking analyzes how the Soviet state molded Russian identity, beginning with the impact of the Bolshevik Revolution and civil war. At the heart of this penetrating work is the fundamental question of what happens to a people who place their nationhood at the service of empire. There is no surer guide than Geoffrey Hosking to reveal the historical forces forging Russian identity in the post-communist world.; Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008

The Sacralization of Politics in Fascist Italy: Emilio Gentile; Translated by Keith Botsford; Fascism was the first and prime instance of a modern political religion. Rereading signs, symbols, cults, and myths, Italy's leading scholar of Fascism offers a new history of Italian nationalism as a civic religion, albeit in its extreme form, and of Italian Fascism as a vital catalyst for contemporary mass politics.; Hardcover 1996

Scandinavia, rev and enlarged ed: Franklin D. Scott; North Sea oil, garden suburbs, socialized medicine, ombudsmen, economic diversification, party politics, relations with the US and the USSR--these are some of the exciting and controversial aspects of Scandinavian life in the 1970s that Scott explores in this revised and enlarged edition of The United States and Scandinavia.; Hardcover 1975

The Shanghai Capitalists and the Nationalist Government, 1927-1937, Second Edition: Parks Coble; A common generalization about the Nationalist Government in China during the 1927-1937 decade has been that Chiang Kai-shek's regime was closely allied with the capitalists in Shanghai. This book brings to light a different picture. The study documents major political conflicts between the capitalists and the government and demonstrates that the regime gradually suppressed the main organizations of the capitalists and gained control of many of their financial and industrial enterprises.; Hardcover 1980 / Paperback

A Sino-Soviet Cultural Frontier: George Moseley; Hardcover 1966

Sowing the Seeds of Democracy in China: Merle Goldman; The West's leading authority on the role of intellectuals in contemporary China presents a percipient account of the efforts at political reform in the Deng Xiaoping era.; Paperback / Hardcover

Terror and Progress-USSR: Barrington Moore, Jr; Hardcover 1954

That Neutral Island: Clair Wills; When the world descended into war in 1939, few European countries remained neutral; but of those that did, none provoked more controversy than Ireland. Where previous histories of Ireland in the war years have focused on high politics, That Neutral Island mines deeper layers of experience. Stories, letters, and diaries illuminate this small country as it suffered rationing, censorship, the threat of invasion, and a strange detachment from the war.; Hardcover 2007

Trotsky's Diary in Exile, 1935, Rev. ed: Leon Trotsky; Hardcover 1976

Turning Points in Modern Times: Karl Bracher; Translated by Thomas Dunlap; Abbott Gleason; This collection of essays focuses on events after 1917: the rise of Nazism on the Right and authoritarianism on the Left. The doyen of German political history, Karl Bracher provides an incisive framework for understanding the great ideological confrontation of this century--democracy versus totalitarianism in the forms of fascism, Nazism, and communism.; Hardcover 1995 / Paperback

Twice a Stranger: Bruce Clark; In the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire following World War I, nearly two million citizens in Turkey and Greece were expelled from homelands. In this evocative book, Bruce Clark draws on new archival research in Turkey and Greece as well as interviews with surviving participants to examine this unprecedented exercise in ethnic engineering.; Hardcover 2006

Two Years in Revolutionary China, 1925-1927: Vera Vladimirovna Vishnyakova-Akimova; Paperback 1971

The Ukraine, 1917-1921: Edited by Taras Hunczak; Hardcover 1978

Understanding Business Contracts in China, 1949-1963: Richard M. Pfeffer; Hardcover 1973

The Unmasterable Past: With a new preface; Charles S. Maier; Bringing his book up to date with reflections since its first publication a decade ago, Charles Maier writes that the historians' controversy gave Germany a chance to air the issues immediately before unification and, in effect, the controversy substituted for the constitutional debate that a united Germany never got around to holding. The premises of national community, whether formulated in terms of legal culture, inherited collective responsibilities, or patriotic habits of the heart, had already been subjects for vigorous discussion.; Paperback

The Unmasterable Past: Charles S. Maier; Hardcover 1988 / Paperback 1990

Vanguard of Nazism: Robert G. L. Waite; The newly established Weimar Republic, defenseless against the Communists, hired groups of volunteer soldiers (the Free Corps) to fight for it. When it, in fear, tried to disband them, these volunteers went underground until they reappeared in the brown shirts of the Nazis. The savage spirit, brutal acts, and perverted ideology of the men whomHermann Goering called "the first soldiers of the Third Reich" stand out in glaring relief in this record.; Hardcover 1952

What Women Want: Gayle Graham Yates; Paperback

Worker Resistance under Stalin: Jeffrey J. Rossman; Challenging the claim that workers supported Stalin's revolution "from above" as well as the assumption that working-class opposition to a workers' state was impossible, Jeffrey Rossman shows how a crucial segment of the Soviet population opposed the authorities during the critical industrializing period of the First Five-Year Plan.; Hardcover 2005

Year of the Heroic Guerrilla: Robert V. Daniels; From Paris to Peking, from Saigon to Washington, the pillars of the postwar world tottered on the brink of collapse in 1968. Year of the Heroic Guerrilla is the first global analysis of that universal upheaval, from the Tet offensive and the abdication of Lyndon Johnson to the "cultural revolution" in China and the convention and riots in Mayor Daley's Chicago.; Paperback 1996

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