The Patriotic Consensus

Author : Jody Perrun
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887554629

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The Patriotic Consensus by Jody Perrun Pdf

When the Second World War broke out, Winnipeg was Canada’s fourth-largest city, home to strong class and ethnic divisions, and marked by a vibrant tradition of political protest. Citizens demonstrated their support for the war effort through their wide commitment to initiatives such as Victory Loan campaigns or calls for voluntary community service. But given Winnipeg’s diversity, was the Second World War a unifying event for Winnipeg residents? In The Patriotic Consensus, Jody Perrun explores the wartime experience of ordinary Winnipeggers through their responses to recruiting, the treatment of minorities, and the adjustments made necessary by family separation.

Author : Russell B. Olwell
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1572333243

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At Work in the Atomic City by Russell B. Olwell Pdf

Founded during World War II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was a vital link in the U.S. military's atomic bomb assembly line-the site where scientists worked at a breakneck pace to turn tons of uranium into a few grams of the artificial element plutonium. At Work in the Atomic City explores the world of those workers and their efforts to form unions, create a community, and gain political rights over their city.

Author : Jay M. Smith
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501717987

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Nobility Reimagined by Jay M. Smith Pdf

The mature nationalism that fueled the French Revolution grew from patriotic sensibilities fostered over the course of a century or more. Jay M. Smith proposes that the French thought their way to nationhood through a process of psychic adjustment premised on the reimagining of nobility, a social category and moral concept that had long dominated the cultural horizons of the old regime. Nobility Reimagined follows the elaboration of French patriotism across the eighteenth century and highlights the accentuation of key, and conflicting, features of patriotic thought at defining moments in the history of the monarchy. By enabling the articulation of different futures for nobility and nation, the patriotic awakening that marked the old regime helped to create both the quest for patriotic unity and the fierce constitutional battles that flowered at the time of the Revolution. Smith argues that the attempt to redefine and restore French nobility brought forth competing visions of patriotism with correlating models of the social and political order. Although the terms of public debate have changed, the same basic challenge continues to animate contemporary politics: how to reconcile inspiring and unifying nationalist ideals—honor, virtue, patriotism—with persistent social frictions rooted in class, ideology, ethnicity, or gender.

Author : Bob Harris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317315308

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The Scottish People and the French Revolution by Bob Harris Pdf

Presents a study of the political culture of Scotland in the 1790s. This book compares the emergence of 'the people' as a political force, with popular political movements in England and Ireland. It analyses Scottish responses to the French Revolution across the political spectrum; explaining Loyalist as well as Radical opinions and organisations.

Author : Tom Casier,Katlijn Malfliet
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9061869064

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Is Russia a European Power? by Tom Casier,Katlijn Malfliet Pdf

What place Russia will take in the new Europe. Will Russia act as a full-fledged European partner? Or is there a risk that Russia might be isolated?

Author : Geoff Eley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199878772

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Forging Democracy by Geoff Eley Pdf

Democracy in Europe has been a recent phenomenon. Only in the wake of World War II were democratic frameworks secured, and, even then, it was decades before democracy truly blanketed the continent. Neither given nor granted, democracy requires conflict, often violent confrontations, and challenges to the established political order. In Europe, Geoff Eley convincingly shows, democracy did not evolve organically out of a natural consensus, the achievement of prosperity, or the negative cement of the Cold War. Rather, it was painstakingly crafted, continually expanded, and doggedly defended by varying constellations of socialist, feminist, Communist, and other radical movements that originally blossomed in the later nineteenth century. Parties of the Left championed democracy in the revolutionary crisis after World War I, salvaged it against the threat of fascism, and renewed its growth after 1945. They organized civil societies rooted in egalitarian ideals which came to form the very fiber of Europe's current democratic traditions. The trajectories of European democracy and the history of the European Left are thus inextricably bound together. Geoff Eley has given us the first truly comprehensive history of the European Left--its successes and failures; its high watermarks and its low tides; its accomplishments, insufficiencies, and excesses; and, most importantly, its formative, lasting influence on the European political landscape. At a time when the Left's influence and legitimacy are frequently called into question, Forging Democracy passionately upholds its vital contribution.

Author : Dennis Pilon
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442613508

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Wrestling with Democracy by Dennis Pilon Pdf

Though sharing broadly similar processes of economic and political development from the mid-to-late nineteenth century onward, western countries have diverged greatly in their choice of voting systems: most of Europe shifted to proportional voting around the First World War, while Anglo-American countries have stuck with relative majority or majority voting rules. Using a comparative historical approach, Wrestling with Democracy examines why voting systems have (or have not) changed in western industrialized countries over the past century. In this first single-volume study of voting system reform covering all western industrialized countries, Dennis Pilon reviews national efforts in this area over four timespans: the nineteenth century, the period around the First World War, the Cold War, and the 1990s. Pilon provocatively argues that voting system reform has been a part of larger struggles over defining democracy itself, highlighting previously overlooked episodes of reform and challenging widely held assumptions about institutional change.

Author : Aviel Roshwald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108846158

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Occupied by Aviel Roshwald Pdf

For most of the population of Europe and East and Southeast Asia, the most persistent and significant aspect of their experience of the Second World War was that of occupation by one or more of the Axis powers. In this ambitious and wide-ranging study, Aviel Roshwald brings us the first single-authored, comparative treatment of European and Asian responses to German and Japanese occupation during the war. He illustrates how patriotic, ethno-national, and internationalist identities were manipulated, exploited, reconstructed and reinvented as a result of the wholesale dismantling of states and redrawing of borders. Using eleven case studies from across the two continents, he examines how behavioral choices around collaboration and resistance were conditioned by existing identities or loyalties as well as by short-term cost–benefit calculations, opportunism, or coercion.

Author : C. A. Davids,Karel Davids,Greta Devos,Patrick Pasture
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9052013659

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Changing Liaisons by C. A. Davids,Karel Davids,Greta Devos,Patrick Pasture Pdf

Furthering our understanding of concrete and topical developments in the growth of social partnership economies, this text discusses the impact of potential triggers, such as wars and economic crises, on the development of consultative arrangements.

Author : Richard Weight
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 741 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781447207559

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Patriots by Richard Weight Pdf

Who are the British today? For nearly three hundred years British national identity was a unifying force in times of glory and despair. It has now virtually disappeared. In Patriots, Richard Weight explores the decline of Britishness and the rise of powerful new identities in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Based on a wealth of original research, it is scholarly in depth and scope, yet never departs from a thoroughly readable and entertaining style. 'Here are the themes of Orwell's The Lion and the Unicorn stretched over the subsequent sixty years and widened to embrace the whole United Kingdom. Brimming with zest and feel this is politico-cultural history at its best.' Peter Hennessy'Wide-ranging, intelligent, sensible and important.' Max Hastings, Sunday Telegraph 'A marvellously rich, ambitious and at times iconoclastic study by a young historian of how, in the broadest sense, national identity in Britain has changed in the last 60 or so years' David Kynaston, Financial Times 'A major work: the fruit of long research, wide reading and hard thinking, engagingly written, bubbling with fresh ideas' Stephen Howe, Independent

Author : Geoff Eley
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0472081322

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Reshaping the German Right by Geoff Eley Pdf

Examines the conditions under which a particular right-wing ideology was generated

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Communism
ISBN : WISC:89093917680

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Berichte Des Bundesinstituts Für Ostwissenschaftliche und Internationale Studien by Anonim Pdf

Author : Holger Afflerbach
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110435993

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The Purpose of the First World War by Holger Afflerbach Pdf

Nearly fourteen million people died during the First World War. But why, and for what reason? Already many contemporaries saw the Great War as a "pointless carnage" (Pope Benedict XV, 1917). Was there a point, at least in the eyes of the political and military decision makers? How did they justify the losses, and why did they not try to end the war earlier? In this volume twelve international specialists analyses and compares the hopes and expectations of the political and military leaders of the main belligerent countries and of their respective societies. It shows that the war aims adopted during the First World War were not, for the most part, the cause of the conflict, but a reaction to it, an attempt to give the tragedy a purpose - even if the consequence was to oblige the belligerents to go on fighting until victory. The volume tries to explain why - and for what - the contemporaries thought that they had to fight the Great War.

Author : Philip Yale Nicholson
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1592132391

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Labor's Story in the United States by Philip Yale Nicholson Pdf

In this, the first broad historical overview of labor in the United States in twenty years, Philip Nicholson examines anew the questions, the villains, the heroes, and the issues of work in America. Unlike recent books that have covered labor in the twentieth century,Labor's Story in the United Stateslooks at the broad landscape of labor since before the Revolution. In clear, unpretentious language, Philip Yale Nicholson considers American labor history from the perspective of institutions and people: the rise of unions, the struggles over slavery, wages, and child labor, public and private responses to union organizing. Throughout, the book focuses on the integral relationship between the strength of labor and the growth of democracy, painting a vivid picture of the strength of labor movements and how they helped make the United States what it is today.Labor's Story in the United Stateswill become an indispensable source for scholars and students. Author note:Philip Yale Nicholsonis Professor of History at Nassau Community College and Adjunct Professor at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Long Island Extension. He is the author ofWho Do We Think We Are? Race and Nation in the Modern World.

Author : John P. Diggins
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300082371

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On Hallowed Ground by John P. Diggins Pdf

Contests the validity of Marxist and poststructuralist theory in a review of the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln.