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Nearly the New World: The British West Indies and the Flight from Nazism, 1933-1945 - Paperback

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by Joanna Newman (Author) "In this rich and resonant study, Joanna Newman recounts the little-known story of this Jewish exodus to the British West Indies..."--Times Higher Education In the years leading up to the Second World War, increasingly desperate European Jews looked to far-flung destinations such as Barbados, Trinidad, and Jamaica in search of refuge from the horrors of Hitler's Europe. Nearly the New World tells the extraordinary story of Jewish refugees who overcame persecution a...

Nazism, the Holocaust, and the Middle East: Arab and Turkish Responses - Paperback

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by Francis R. Nicosia (Editor), Boğaç A. Ergene (Editor) Given their geographical separation from Europe, ethno-religious and cultural diversity, and subordinate status within the Nazi racial hierarchy, Middle Eastern societies were both hospitable as well as hostile to National Socialist ideology during the 1930s and 1940s. By focusing on Arab and Turkish reactions to German anti-Semitism and the persecution and mass-murder of European Jews during this period, this expansive collection surve...

Let Them Not Return: Sayfo - The Genocide Against the Assyrian, Syriac, and Chaldean Christians in the Ottoman Empire - Paperback

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by David Gaunt (Editor), Naures Atto (Editor), Soner O. Barthoma (Editor) The mass killing of Ottoman Armenians is today widely recognized, both within and outside scholarly circles, as an act of genocide. What is less well known, however, is that it took place within a broader context of Ottoman violence against minority groups during and after the First World War. Among those populations decimated were the indigenous Christian Assyrians (also known as Syriacs or Chaldeans) who lived in the ...

The Phoney Victory: The World War II Illusion - Hardcover

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by Peter Hitchens (Author)Was World War II really the Good War'? In the years since the declaration of peace in 1945 many myths have sprung up around the conflict in the victorious nations. In this book, Peter Hitchens deconstructs the many fables which have become associated with the narrative of the Good War'. Whilst not criticising or doubting the need for war against Nazi Germany at some stage, Hitchens does query whether September 1939 was the right moment, or the independence of Polan...

Redrawing the Middle East: Sir Mark Sykes, Imperialism and the Sykes-Picot Agreement - Hardcover

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by Michael D. Berdine (Author)The Sykes-Picot Agreement was one of the defining moments in the history of the modern Middle East. Yet its co-creator, Sir Mark Sykes, had far more involvement in British Middle East strategy during World War I than the Agreement for which he is now most remembered. Between 1915 and 1916, Sykes was Lord Kitchener's agent at home and abroad, operating out of the War Office until the war secretary's death at sea in 1916. Following that, from 1916 to 1919 he worked...

Terrorism in Pakistan: The Tehreek-E-Taliban Pakistan (Ttp) and the Challenge to Security - Hardcover

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by N. Elahi (Author)Since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, Pakistan has faced the threat of terrorism in different forms and shapes. Yet in recent years the threat has taken on a new dimension. After 9/11 the US campaign against Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan led to a surge in unrest and violence in Pakistan. Al-Qaeda gained a foothold in tribal regions of Pakistan via their local supporters, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), currently led by Mullah Fa...

A Modern History of the Balkans: Nationalism and Identity in Southeast Europe - Hardcover

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by Thanos Veremis (Author)Author BiographyThanos Veremis is Professor of Political history at the University of Athens and also a Member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP); Director General of the International Center for Black Sea Studies (ICBSS); President of the National Council of Education; and on the Advisory Board of the European History Quarterly. He gained his PhD at Trinity College, Oxford and has been Visiting Professor at...

The Last Man: A British Genocide in Tasmania - Hardcover

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by Tom Lawson (Author)Little more than seventy years after the British settled Van Diemen's Land (later Tasmania) in 1803, the indigenous community had been virtually wiped out. Yet this genocide at the hands of the British is virtually forgotten today. The Last Man is the first book specifically to explore the role of the British government and wider British society in this genocide. It positions the destruction as a consequence of British policy, and ideology in the region. Tom Lawson shows...

Everyday Revolutions: Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina - Paperback

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by Marina A. Sitrin (Author)In the wake of the global financial crisis, new forms of social organization are beginning to take shape. Disparate groups of people are coming together in order to resist corporate globalization and seek a more positive way forward. These movements are not based on hierarchy; rather than looking to those in power to solve their problems, participants are looking to one another. In certain countries in the West, this has been demonstrated by the recent and remarkab...

Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War?: Perceptions, Prescriptions, Problems in the Congo and Beyond - Paperback

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by Maria Eriksson Baaz (Author), Professor Maria Stern (Author)All too often in conflict situations, rape is referred to as a 'weapon of war', a term presented as self-explanatory through its implied storyline of gender and warring. In this provocative but much-needed book, Eriksson Baaz and Stern challenge the dominant understandings of sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict settings. Reading with and against feminist analyses of the interconnections between gender, warring, violence ...

Intertwined: Women, Nature, and Climate Justice - Hardcover

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by Rebecca Kormos (Author)A powerful argument that greater inclusion of women in conservation and climate science is key to the future of the planet Women are disproportionately impacted by climate change--floods, droughts, and extreme temperatures overwhelmingly affect women in the short and long term. In some cases, women make up almost 90 percent of casualties during dangerous climate events, and the majority of those displaced in the aftermath are women. Despite this disparity, women are...

A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State - Paperback

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by John W. Whitehead (Author) Number of Pages: 320 Dimensions: 0.9 x 8.9 x 6 IN Publication Date: May 22, 2018

The Subject of Film and Race: Retheorizing Politics, Ideology, and Cinema - Paperback

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by Gerald Sim (Author)The Subject of Film and Race is the first comprehensive intervention into how film critics and scholars have sought to understand cinema's relationship to racial ideology. In attempting to do more than merely identify harmful stereotypes, research on 'films and race' appropriates ideas from post-structuralist theory. But on those platforms, the field takes intellectual and political positions that place its anti-racist efforts at an impasse. While presenting theoretical ...

How Nonviolence Protects the State - Paperback

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by Peter Gelderloos (Author)Since the civil rights era, the doctrine of nonviolence has enjoyed near-universal acceptance by the US Left. Today protest is often shaped by cooperation with state authorities--even organizers of rallies against police brutality apply for police permits, and anti-imperialists usually stop short of supporting self-defense and armed resistance. How Nonviolence Protects the State challenges the belief that nonviolence is the only way to fight for a better world. In ...

Interdisciplinary Environmental Solutions: Using Geospatial Technologies for Bridging Disciplines, Scale and Data - Hardcover

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by Barnali Dixon (Author)Back JacketThis textbook presents a clear and accessible argument for sustainable planning and development. The book discusses multiple environmental issues and examines how potential solutions can and should be addressed in the context of space and place. The book also offers an invaluable discussion on the need for a framework for system-based thinking where various disciplines should work together to find innovative solutions. Students are provided with an apprecia...

Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love - Hardcover

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by Lida Maxwell (Author)How Silent Spring stands as a monument to a unique, loving relationship between Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, and how such love underpins a new environmental politics After the success of her first bestseller, The Sea Around Us, Rachel Carson settled in Southport, Maine. The married couple Dorothy and Stanley Freeman had a cottage nearby, and the trio quickly became friends. Their extensive and evocative correspondence shows that Dorothy and Rachel did something m...

A Savage Republic: Inside the Plot to Destroy America - Hardcover

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by Michael Savage (Author)From New York Times Bestselling Author and Host of the Michael Savage Podcast A Warning to All Freedom-Loving Americans Michael Savage predicted the chaos that is Biden's legacy. Now he tells us whether the destruction can be stopped! The prophetic author of bestsellers including Stop Mass Hysteria, A Savage Life, and Our Fight for America, Dr. Michael Savage is back with his most urgent and important work. Listeners of Dr. Savage's top-rated podcast, The Michael...

Che Guevara Presente: Una Antología Mínima - Paperback

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by David Deutschmann (Editor), Maria del Carmen Ari Garcia (Editor)Textos seleccionados --discursos, ensayos y cartas-- de uno de los guerrilleros, teóricos y organizadores políticos más reconocidos, Che Guevara. Ampliamente venerado como un verdadero revolucionario, esta colección de textos de Ernesto "Che" Guevara resalta sus principios políticos y praxis en la lucha contra el capitalismo y el imperialismo estadounidense. Discursos incisivos, ensayos críticos, y cartas personales no solo si...

Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care - Paperback

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by Mariame Kaba (Author), Kelly Hayes (Author), Maya Schenwar (Foreword by)What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe.Longtime organizers and movement educators Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes examine some of the political lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the convergence of mass prote...

Life Imprisonment and Human Rights - Paperback

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by Dirk Van Zyl Smit (Editor), Catherine Appleton (Editor)In many jurisdictions today, life imprisonment is the most severe penalty that can be imposed. Despite this, it is a relatively under-researched form of punishment and no meaningful attempt has been made to understand its full human rights implications. This important collection fills that gap by addressing these two key questions: what is life imprisonment and what human rights are relevant to it? These questions are explored from the...

Robust Governance in Turbulent Times - Hardcover

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by Christopher Ansell (Author), Eva Sørensen (Author), Jacob Torfing (Author)This Element aims to build, promote, and consolidate a new social science research agenda by defining and exploring the concepts of turbulence and robustness, and subsequently demonstrating the need for robust governance in turbulent times. Turbulence refers to the unpredictable dynamics that public governance is currently facing in the wake of the financial crisis, the refugee crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, the infl...

The Second Long March: Struggling Against the Chinese Communists Under the Republic of China (Taiwan) Constitution - Paperback

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by Peter Kien-Hong Yu (Author), Peter Kien-Hong Yu (Author)This work, written by an expert in the politics of Mainland China and Taiwan, looks at the role the Constitution of the Republic of China has played in the development of Taiwan since 1949 and its potential influence on the People's Republic of China. The Chinese Communists conducted the first long march for the sake of the majority of Chinese people, with the victory of MAO Zedong. In the second long march, CHIANG Kai-shek and his su...

Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Patricia Sullivan (Author)An epic narrative of the struggle against injustice, hailed as "the definitive history of the NAACP" by Henry Louis Gates Jr.A "civil rights Hall of Fame" (Kirkus) that was published to remarkable praise in conjunction with the NAACP's Centennial Celebration, Lift Every Voice is a momentous history of the struggle for civil rights told through the stories of men and women who fought inescapable racial barriers in the North as well as t...

The Infernal Machine: A History of Terrorism - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Matthew Carr (Author)A highly accessible account of the history of terrorism that places 9/11 and al-Qaeda in historical context. Today, political violence has become the scourge of our world and terrorism is routinely described as a uniquely modern evil. Yet however unprecedented in scope the new terrorist organizations might appear, Matthew Carr argues in this definitive history of terrorism that they are merely offshoots of a spectacular bombing in 1881: the...

New Order in the Gulf: The Rise of the UAE - Hardcover

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by Dina Esfandiary (Author)For over a decade now, thinking on regional relations in the Gulf has focused on the competition for regional hegemony between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Today, this perspective is outdated. The smaller Gulf Arab states, led by the United Arab Emirates, are calling for their own goals and interests to be considered and a new regional order has emerged. This book assesses the UAE's increasing power and the future challenges to regional security it could pose. It is a con...

Threads of Resilience: Weaving the Human Spirit Through Poetry - Hardcover

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by William Davis (Author)More than just a book of poetry, Threads of Resilience is an invitation to "come and see" the realities that migrants face at the Southern Border. Through a first-hand account, the author hopes to change the narrative that is told of asylum seekers and amplify the voice of the sojourner. These poems capture the tenacity of the human spirit and inspire dignity, not just for the migrant, but for the reader as well. They provoke the reader to empathize with strangers, we...

Common Sense for the 21st Century: A Call to Reinvest in American Democracy - Paperback

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by Paul J. McKenney (Author)The state of affairs for America in 1776 was a divided public regarding how to move forward with respect to Great Britain. Many colonists wanted to stay loyal to King George and work things out, even though they had experienced many insults to their dignity. A growing number of colonists believed that independence was a necessity. In Common Sense, Thomas Paine argued that independence was the only way to gain true freedom and escape the subservient position to the...

Twilight Prisoners: The Rise of the Hindu Right and the Fall of India - Hardcover

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by Siddhartha Deb (Author)An incisive, lyrical, and deeply reported account of India's descent into authoritarianism.Traveling across India, interviewing Hindu zealots, armed insurgents, jailed dissidents, and politicians and thinkers from across the political spectrum, Siddhartha Deb reveals a country in which forces old and new have aligned to endanger democracy. The result is an absorbing--and disturbing--portrait. India has become a religious fundamentalist dystopia, one depicted here wit...

Through the Morgue Door: One Woman's Story of Survival and Saving Children in German-Occupied Paris - Hardcover

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by Colette Brull-Ulmann (Author), Anne Landau (Translator), Margaret Sinclair (Translator)In 1934, at the age of fourteen, Colette Brull-Ulmann knew that she wanted to become a pediatrician. By the age of twenty-one, she was in her second year of studying medicine. By 1942, Brull-Ulman and her family had become registered Jews under the ever-increasing statutes against them enacted by Petain's government. Her father had been arrested and interned at the Drancy detention camp and Brull-Ulman h...

The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War - Paperback

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by Fred Kaplan (Author)From the author of the classic The Wizards of Armageddon and Pulitzer Prize finalist comes the definitive history of American policy on nuclear war--and Presidents' actions in nuclear crises--from Truman to Trump.Fred Kaplan, hailed by The New York Times as "a rare combination of defense intellectual and pugnacious reporter," takes us into the White House Situation Room, the Joint Chiefs of Staff's "Tank" in the Pentagon, and the vast chambers of Strategic Command to br...

Comparative Grand Strategy: A Framework and Cases - Paperback

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by Thierry Balzacq (Editor), Peter Dombrowski (Editor), Simon Reich (Editor)This book develops a new approach in explaining how a nation's Grand Strategy is constituted, how to assess its merits, and how grand strategies may be comparatively evaluated within a broader framework. The volume responds to three key problems common to both academia and policymaking. First, the literature on the concept of grand strategy generally focuses on the United States, offering no framework for comparative ...

Guerrilla Warfare: Authoritative, Revised, New Edition - Paperback

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by Ernesto Che Guevara (Author), Harry Pombo Villegas (Foreword by)Che Guevara's classic text on revolutionary tactics and strategy. Since Guerrilla Warfare was first published in 1961, it has joined the canon of classic military literature, consulted by revolutionaries and counterrevolutionaries alike. In this book, Che Guevara outlines the lessons he learned as a guerrilla soldier in the Cuban revolution and explains how a small group of dedicated fighters grew in strength with the support ...