World
epub |eng | 2018-08-30 | Author:Adam Hochschild [Hochschild, Adam]
* * * * As with many Indian cities, in recent years its name has been restored to its original form in the local language, Thiruvananthapuram. THIRTEEN The Brick Master ...
( Category:
Essays
January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Thomas Wright [Wright, Thomas]
THE CASE OF CRIMEA As we saw in Chapter 2, Russia’s annexation of Crimea—the first unilateral territorial expansion in Europe since 1945—and its subsequent support for separatists in eastern Ukraine ...
( Category:
Russian & Former Soviet Union
January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:R. J. B. Bosworth [Bosworth, R. J. B.]
6 THE WINTER OF A PATRIARCH AND HIS DUCESSA On 29 August 1943 Il Messaggero carried a banner headline: ‘Filmed: a life as it was lived.’ A subheading added ‘The ...
( Category:
U.S. Presidents
January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Dieter Helm [Helm, Dieter]
China’s economic model An export-led growth strategy requires others to have a corresponding demand for imports. The Chinese transformation just happened to coincide with the great late-twentieth-century boom in the ...
( Category:
Russian & Former Soviet Union
January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-03 | Author:Robert Lerner [Lerner, Robert]
CHAPTER 14 Flight ERNST KANTOROWICZ LOST HIS “LEISURE WITH DIGNITY” painfully in 1938. Upon his return from Paris his passport was taken away from him, meaning that he could no ...
( Category:
United States
January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter [Slaughter, Anne-Marie]
THE POWER OF NETWORKS Defining and measuring the power of a network is another way of asking what networks are good for as foreign policy tools. What attributes do networks ...
( Category:
History & Theory
January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Jacobs, Alan;
What lies at the heart of this “affinity”? “Both seek knowledge for the sake of power (in Bacon’s words, as ‘a spouse for fruit,’ not a ‘curtesan for pleasure’), both ...
( Category:
Modern
January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Lila Banks Cockrell [Cockrell, Lila Banks]
Lady Bird Johnson, the First Lady (center), visited San Antonio in 1966 to celebrate our Cleanest City award. After several rounds of telephone calls and correspondence, the schedule was approved, ...
( Category:
United States
January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Stephen D. King [King, Stephen D.]
BEYOND WINDRUSH Across Europe, different approaches to immigration were adopted after the Second World War. But for the most part, they had a common aim: with millions of working-age men ...
( Category:
Nationalism
January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:James C. Scott [Scott, James C.]
Figure 12. Prisoners in neck fetters. Photo courtesy of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad, Dr. Ahmed Kamel A curious confirmation of the conditions of slave and enslaved debtors in Ur III ...
( Category:
Assyria, Babylonia & Sumer
January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-15 | Author:Paul Dibb [Dibb, Paul]
CHAPTER 6 Predicting the Soviet collapse I now turn to why the Western intelligence community did not foresee the collapse of the Soviet Union well in advance. It was plain ...
( Category:
World
January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Marie-Janine Calic
12. The 1960s: Transition to an Industrial Society At no other time in its history did Yugoslavia change as much as it did in the twenty years following 1945. The ...
( Category:
Communism & Socialism
January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-08 | Author:Jones CBE, Colin;
D’Argenson, who was a noble and had served as royal minister, was also a stern critic of court politics, and he was evidently almost as shocked as the tooth-puller at ...
( Category:
World
January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-01 | Author:Lisa Greenwald
“I Myself Am the Material of My Struggles” Antoinette Fouque’s work also belongs to the category of “women’s writing,” but Fouque is a case apart for a few reasons, among ...
( Category:
Women in History
January 19,2020 )
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