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Author : Yitzhak Arad
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253034472

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The Operation Reinhard Death Camps, Revised and Expanded Edition by Yitzhak Arad Pdf

Under the code name Operation Reinhard, more than one and a half million Jews were murdered between 1942 and 1943 in the concentration camps of Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka, located in Nazi-occupied Poland. Unlike more well-known camps, which were used both for slave labor and extermination, these camps existed purely to murder Jews. Few victims survived to tell their stories, and the camps were largely forgotten after they were dismantled in 1943. The Operation Reinhard Death Camps bears eloquent witness to this horrific tragedy. This newly revised and expanded edition includes new material on the history of the Jews under German occupation in Poland; the execution and timing of Operation Reinhard; information about the ghettos in Lublin, Warsaw, Krakow, Radom, and Galicia; and updated numbers of the victims who were murdered during deportations. In addition to documenting the horror of the camps, Yitzhak Arad recounts the stories of those courageous enough to struggle against the Nazis and their "final solution." Arad's work retrieves the experiences of Operation Reinhard's victims and survivors from obscurity and exposes a terrible chapter in humanity's history.

Author : Michael Pearson
Publisher : Fontana Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Revolutionaries
ISBN : IND:30000022286334

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The Sealed Train by Michael Pearson Pdf

Author : Neil Cornwell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1991-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349116423

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Daniil Kharms and the Poetics of the Absurd by Neil Cornwell Pdf

This volume of essays and other materials offers an assessment of the short prose, verse and drama of Daniil Kharms, Leningrad absurdist of the 1920s and 1930s, who was one of the last representatives of the Russian literary avante-garde.

Author : George C. Denniston,Marilyn Fayre Milos
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781475726794

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Sexual Mutilations by George C. Denniston,Marilyn Fayre Milos Pdf

Sexual mutilation is a global problem that affects 15. 3 million children and young adults annually. In terms of gender, 13. 3 million boys and 2 million girls are involuntarily subjected to sexual mutilation every year. While it is tempting to quantify and compare the amount of tissue removed from either gender, no ethical justification can be made for removing any amount of flesh from the body of another person. The violation of human rights implicit in sexual mutilation is identical for any gender. The violation occurs with the first cut into another person 's body. Although mutilation is a strong term, it precisely and accurately describes a condi tion denoting "any disfigurement or injury by removal or destruction of any conspicuous or essential part of the body. " While such terms as "circumcision" and "genital cutting" are less threatening to our sensitivities, they ultimately do a disservice by masking the fact of what is actually being done to babies and children. Although the courageous example of the survivors of sexual mutilation indicates that humans can certainly live and even re produce without all of their external sexualorgans, this biological phenomenon does not, however, justify subjecting a person to sexual mutilation. The remarkable resilience of the human body is a testament to the importance nature places on reproduction rather than a vindication for surgical practices that compromise this function.

Author : Pamela Kyle Crossley,Helen F. Siu,Donald S. Sutton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520927537

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Empire at the Margins by Pamela Kyle Crossley,Helen F. Siu,Donald S. Sutton Pdf

Focusing on the Ming (1368-1644) and (especially) the Qing (1364-1912) eras, this book analyzes crucial moments in the formation of cultural, regional, and religious identities. The contributors examine the role of the state in a variety of environments on China's "peripheries," paying attention to shifts in law, trade, social stratification, and cultural dialogue. They find that local communities were critical participants in the shaping of their own identities and consciousness as well as the character and behavior of the state. At certain times the state was institutionally definitive, but it could also be symbolic and contingent. They demonstrate how the imperial discourse is many-faceted, rather than a monolithic agent of cultural assimilation.

Author : R. Markwick,E. Charon Cardona,Euridice Charon Cardona
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230362543

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Soviet Women on the Frontline in the Second World War by R. Markwick,E. Charon Cardona,Euridice Charon Cardona Pdf

This is the first comprehensive study in English of Soviet women who fought against the genocidal, misogynist, Nazi enemy on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. Drawing on a vast array of original archival, memoir, and published sources, this book captures the everyday experiences of Soviet women fighting, living and dying on the front.

Author : David Vital
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0199246815

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A People Apart by David Vital Pdf

This history of the Jews in Europe examines the role played by the Jews themselves, across the whole of Europe, during the century and a half leading up to the birth of the nation of Israel, and the state-sponsored genocide of the Holocaust.

Author : Brenda Meehan-Waters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015008644927

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Autocracy & Aristocracy, the Russian Service Elite of 1730 by Brenda Meehan-Waters Pdf

Author : James Reardon-Anderson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0804751676

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Reluctant Pioneers by James Reardon-Anderson Pdf

Reluctant Pioneers describes the migration of Chinese to Manchuria, their settlement there, and the incorporation of Manchuria into an expanding China, from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. The expansion of Chinese state and society from the agrarian and urban core of China proper to the territories north and west of the Great Wall doubled the size of the empire, forming the "China" now so prominent on the map of Asia. The movement and settlement of people, clearing and cultivation of land, invasions of soldiers, circulation of merchants, and establishment of government offices extended the boundaries of China at the same time that the American expansion westward and the Russian expansion eastward created the other great landed empires that dominated the twentieth century and persist today. The chief purpose of this book is to describe the Chinese experience and what it tells us about the expansion of states and societies, drawing comparisons with Russia and America, and reflecting on the nature of what scholars since Frederick Jackson Turner have called "frontiers" and what Turner's critics now call "borderlands" or "middle ground." In addition, the book touches on several other issues central to our understanding of modern China, such as the development of the Chinese economy and the nature of Chinese migration.

Author : Jasper Becker
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195309973

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City of Heavenly Tranquility by Jasper Becker Pdf

A tour de force by journalist Becker, this book explores how and why the Chinese buried their history and destroyed one of the world's most fabled cities, virtually extinguishing the culture of one of the greatest and oldest civilizations within the span of a single lifetime.

Author : Touraj Atabaki,Elisabetta Bini,Kaveh Ehsani
Publisher : Springer
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319564456

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Working for Oil by Touraj Atabaki,Elisabetta Bini,Kaveh Ehsani Pdf

This volume examines the social history of oil workers and investigates how labor relations have shaped the global oil industry during the twentieth century and today. It brings together the work of scholars from a range of disciplines, approaching the social, political, economic and cultural dimensions of oil. The contributors analyze a number of key oil producing regions, including the Americas, the Middle East, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Europe and Africa.

Author : Jeffrey Burds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023158269

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Peasant Dreams & Market Politics by Jeffrey Burds Pdf

This volume examines how peasant labour migration between village and town transformed rural life in the two generations before the Bolshevik revolution. He reconstructs the Russian village milieu to demonstrate the ways in which peasants exploited and suborned Russian institutions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1560 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015064551552

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Arts & Humanities Citation Index by Anonim Pdf

A multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It fully covers 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and it indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.

Author : Peter Burke,Brian Harrison,Paul Slack
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2000-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191542671

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Civil Histories by Peter Burke,Brian Harrison,Paul Slack Pdf

Sir Keith Thomas is one of the most innovative and influential of English historians, and a scholar of unusual range. These essays, presented to him on his retirement as President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, concentrate on one of the broad themes illuminated by his work - changing notions of civility in the past. From the sixteenth century onwards, civility was a term applied to modes of behaviour as well as to cultural and civic attributes. Its influence extended from styles of language and sexual mores to funeral ceremonies and commercial morality. It was used to distinguish the civil from the barbarous and the English from the Irish and Welsh, and to banish superstition and justify imperialism. The contributors - distinguished historians who have been Keith Thomas's pupils - illustrate the many implications of civility in the early modern period and its shifts of meaning down to the twentieth century.

Author : Norman M. Naimark
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674975828

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Fires of Hatred by Norman M. Naimark Pdf

Of all the horrors of the last century--perhaps the bloodiest century of the past millennium--ethnic cleansing ranks among the worst. The term burst forth in public discourse in the spring of 1992 as a way to describe Serbian attacks on the Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina, but as this landmark book attests, ethnic cleansing is neither new nor likely to cease in our time.