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Nazi Looting
Author: Gerard Aalders
Published: January 2004
ISBN:   HB 1 85973 722 6   PB 1 85973 727 7
Subject: history
  • Translated by Arnold Pomerans with Erica PomeransThe Nazi looting machine was notoriously efficient during the Second World War. In the Netherlands, 8.5 million citizens suffered losses estimated at 3.6 billion guilders.

    • Radicals Against Race: Black Activism and Cultural Politics
    Author: Brian Alleyne
    Published: March 2002
    ISBN:   HB 1 85973 522 3   PB 1 85973 527 4
    Subject: politics;history;sociology;
  • This book interrogates the ideas and practices of the New Beacon Circle's activists as relatively stable elements in the fast-changing scene of contemporary radical politics.

    • Exporting Fascism: Italian Fascists and Britain's Italians in the 193s
    Author: Claudia Baldoli
    Published: September 2003
    ISBN:   HB 1 85973 756 0   PB 1 85973 761 7
    Subject: history;politics;
  • How did Italians living in Britain respond to Mussolini's fascism? What links did ex-pat fascists forge with the British Right? To what extent did Italophilia exist in Britain during the Mussolini years? Exporting Fascism addresses these questions.

    • A POW's Memoir of the First World War: The Other Ordeal
    Author: Georges Connes
    Published: May 2004
    ISBN:   HB 1 85973 783 8   PB 1 85973 788 9
    Subject: history
  • Translated by Marie-Claire Connes Wrage and edited by Lois Davis Vines This lyrical memoir offers a fresh look inside the trauma of war and captivity during the First World War, with resonance for today's world.

    • A Nation in Barracks: Modern Germany, Military Conscription and Civil Society
    Author: Ute Frevert
    Published: September 2004
    ISBN:   HB 1 85973 881 8   PB 1 85973 886 9
    Subject: history;politics;sociology;
  • German militarism' has long been understood to be a central element of German society. Considering the role of militarism, this book investigates how conscription has contributed to instilling a strong sense of military commitment in Germany

    • Mussolini in the First World War: The Journalist, the Soldier, the Fascist
    Author: Paul O'Brien
    Published: November 2004
    ISBN:   HB 1 84520 051 9   PB 1 84520 052 7
    Subject: history;politics;
  • How did Benito Mussolini come to fascism? Standard accounts of the dictator have failed to explain satisfactorily the transition from his pre-World War I 'socialism' to his post-war fascism.

    • The State of U.S. History
    Author: Edited by Melvyn Stokes
    Published: March 2003
    ISBN:   HB 1 85973 596 7   PB 1 85973 502 9
    Subject: history;
  • Historians are very much aware of the variety of national and international trends that have shaped historical inquiry in recent decades. Americanists, in particular, have been conscious of the growing importance of gender issues.

    • Protest Movements in 1960s West Germany: A Social History of Dissent and Democracy
    Author: Nick Thomas
    Published: February 2003
    ISBN:   HB 1 85973 645 9   PB 1 85973 650 5
    Subject: history;politics;
  • This social history of protest movements in 1960s Germany departs from the limited and often politically biased reports of participants by placing the protests within the wider contexts of social change and international events.

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