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  • Refugee Crises, 1945-2000

    Political and Societal Responses in International Comparison

    Edited by Simone Lässig, Jan C. Jansen ...
    Series series Publications of the German Historical Institute
    This timely study examines responses to mass refugee movements by a range of actors, from local communities to supranational organizations. Bringing together ten case studies from around the world, encompassing the global North and South alike, Refugee Crises 1945–2000 explores a broad spectrum of types of migration and of international and domestic contexts. Whilst the driving forces and numbers ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • History Education and Post-Conflict Reconciliation

    Reconsidering Joint Textbook Projects

    Edited by Simone Lässig, Karina Korostelina ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
    This book analyses the role of history education in conflict and post-conflict societies, describing common history textbook projects in Europe, the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Far East and the Middle East.Ever since the emergence of the modern school system and the implementation of compulsory education, textbooks have been seen as privileged media. The knowledge they convey is relatively ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Conflict and History Education in the Post-Cold War Era

    Edited by Luigi Cajani, Simone Lässig, Maria Repoussi ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This Handbook provides a systematic and analytical approach to the various dimensions of international, ethnic and domestic conflict over the uses of national history in education since the end of the Cold War. With an upsurge in political, social and cultural upheaval, particularly since the fall of state socialism in Europe, the importance of history textbooks and curricula as tools for ... Read more

    $215.99 USD

  • Space and Spatiality in Modern German-Jewish History

    Edited by Simone Lässig, Miriam Rürup ...
    Series Book 8 - New German Historical Perspectives
    What makes a space Jewish? This wide-ranging volume revisits literal as well as metaphorical spaces in modern German history to examine the ways in which Jewishness has been attributed to them both within and outside of Jewish communities, and what the implications have been across different eras and social contexts. Working from an expansive concept of “the spatial,” these contributions look not ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The World of Children

    Foreign Cultures in Nineteenth-Century German Education and Entertainment

    Edited by Simone Lässig, Andreas Weiß ...
    Series Book 24 - Studies in German History
    In an era of rapidly increasing technological advances and international exchange, how did young people come to understand the world beyond their doorsteps? Focusing on Germany through the lens of the history of knowledge, this collection explores various media for children—from textbooks, adventure stories, and other literature to board games, museums, and cultural events—to probe what they aimed ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The World of Children

    Foreign Cultures in Nineteenth-Century German Education and Entertainment

    Edited by Andreas Weiß, Simone Lässig ...
    Series Book 24 - Studies in German History
    In an era of rapidly increasing technological advances and international exchange, how did young people come to understand the world beyond their doorsteps? Focusing on Germany through the lens of the history of knowledge, this collection explores various media for children—from textbooks, adventure stories, and other literature to board games, museums, and cultural events—to probe what they aimed ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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    Edited by Sir Adam Roberts, Timothy Garton Ash ...
    This widely-praised book identified peaceful struggle as a key phenomenon in international politics a year before the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt confirmed its central argument. Civil resistance - non-violent action against such challenges as dictatorial rule, racial discrimination and foreign military occupation - is a significant but inadequately understood feature of world politics. ... Read more

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  • Genocide and International Relations

    Changing Patterns in the Transitions of the Late Modern World

    by Martin Shaw ...
    Genocide and International Relations lays the foundations for a new perspective on genocide in the modern world. Genocide studies have been influenced, negatively as well as positively, by the political and cultural context in which the field has developed. In particular, a narrow vision of comparative studies has been influential in which genocide is viewed mainly as a 'domestic' phenomenon of ... Read more

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  • Memories of Mass Repression

    Narrating Life Stories in the Aftermath of Atrocity

    Edited by Selma Leydesdorff ...
    Memories of Mass Repression presents the results of researchers working with the voices of witnesses. Its stories include the witnesses, victims, and survivors; it also reflects the subjective experience of the study of such narratives. The work contributes to the development of the field of oral history, where the creation of the narrative is considered an interaction between the text of the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Return of History

    Conflict, Migration, and Geopolitics in the Twenty-First Century

    by Jennifer Welsh ...
    Series Book 2016 - The CBC Massey Lectures
    In the 2016 CBC Massey Lectures, former Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General and international relations specialist Jennifer Welsh delivers a timely, intelligent, and fascinating analysis of twenty-first-century geopolitics.In 1989, as the Berlin Wall crumbled and the Cold War dissipated, the American political commentator Francis Fukuyama wrote a famous essay, entitled “The End of History, ... Read more

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  • Demanding the Impossible

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Where are we today and what is to be done? Slavoj Zizek ponders these questions in this unique and timely book. Based on live interviews, the book captures Zizek at his irrepressible best, elucidating such topics as the uprisings of the Arab Spring, the global financial crisis, populism in Latin America, the rise of China and even the riddle of North Korea. Zizek dazzles readers with his analyses ... Read more

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    What would the world look like if America were to reduce its role as a global leader in order to focus all its energies on solving its problems at home? And is America really in decline? Robert Kagan, New York Times best-selling author and one of the country’s most influential strategic thinkers, paints a vivid, alarming picture of what the world might look like if the United States were truly to ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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