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Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds
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Stephen Kinzer
Drawing on its unique geography, history, and politics, this study of Turkey considers its prospects for democratic rule and its place among nations in the 21st century. Kinzer travels across the land, interviews its many peoples, and considers the key issues confronting Turkey: the role of its military; the secular and religious traditions; and ...
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Cuban Bread Crumbs
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Jack Espinosa
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Ethnic Bargaining: The Paradox of Minority Empowerment
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Erin K Jenne
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Sorrowful Shores: Violence, Ethnicity, and the End of the Ottoman Empire 1912-1923
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Ryan Gingeras
The Turkish Republic was formed out of immense bloodshed and carnage. During the decade leading up to the end of the Ottoman Empire and the ascendancy of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, virtually every town and village throughout Anatolia was wracked by intercommunal violence. Sorrowful Shores presents a unique, on-the-ground history of these bloody years ...
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Re-Imagining Rwanda: Conflict, Survival and Disinformation in the Late Twentieth Century
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Johan Pottier
The tragic conflict in Rwanda and the Great Lakes in 1994-1996 attracted the horrified attention of the world's media. Journalists, diplomats and aid workers struggled to find a way to make sense of the bloodshed. Johan Pottier's troubling study shows that the post-genocide regime in Rwanda was able to impose a simple yet persuasive account of ...
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Documents on Ukrainian-Jewish Identity and Emigration, 1944-1990
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Vladimir Khanin
This volume provides a unique perspective on the social, cultural and political situation of the Jewish population in postwar Soviet Ukraine. It is based on declassified collections of documents from the Ukrainian central and regional archives. The sources, which have been carefully selected and annotated, provide insight on two levels: they ...
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A New Language, A New World: Italian Immigrants in the United States, 1890-1945
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Nancy C Carnevale
An examination of Italian immigrants and their children in the early twentieth century, "A New Language, A New World" is the first full-length historical case study of one immigrant group's experience with language in America. Incorporating the interdisciplinary literature on language within a historical framework, Nancy C. Carnevale illustrates ...
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Armenian Organization and Ideology Under Ottoman Rule: 1908-1914
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Dikran Mesrob Kaligian
This book provides a more complete picture of Armeno-Turkish relations for the brief period of Ottoman Constitutional rule between 1908 and 1914. Kaligian integrates internal documents of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, and existing research on the last years of the empire, as well as the archives of the British, American, and German ...
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Genocide in Rwanda
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Frank Spalding
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Victims of Stalin and Hitler: The Exodus of Poles and Balts to Britain
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Thomas Lane, CM
There are a number of publications which describe the experiences of deportees in the Soviet Union, and a number which consider the culture and role of refugees from the Nazis in this country. There are none which connect the two. None, that is to say, which examine the experiences of the victims of Stalin and Hitler from the onset of the Second ...
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Confronting the Yugoslav Controversies: A Scholars' Initiative
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Charles W Ingrao (Editor), Thomas A Emmert (Editor)
This book will present the findings of an international research initiative of over 160 leading historians, social scientists and jurists that will bring together in one volume key evidence presented by all sides in the recent Yugoslav conflicts. It represents a direct assault on the proprietary interpretations that nationalist politicians and ...
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Guardians of the Nation: Activists on the Language Frontiers of Imperial Austria
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Pieter M Judson
In the decades leading up to World War I, nationalist activists in imperial Austria laboured to transform linguistically mixed rural regions into politically charged language frontiers. They hoped to remake local populations into polarized peoples and their villages into focal points of the political conflict that dominated the Habsburg Empire. ...
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Rasse Und Klasse: Nachforschungen Zum Deutschen Wesen
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Gotz Aly
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Nationalizing the Russian Empire: The Campaign Against Enemy Aliens During World War I
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Eric Lohr
In this study of the treatment of "enemy" minorities in the Russian Empire during World War I, Eric Lohr uncovers a dramatic story of mass deportations, purges, expropriations and popular violence. An imperial campaign initially aimed at restricting foreign citizens rapidly spun out of control, sweeping up Russian subjects of German, Jewish and ...
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Pinnick Kinnick: An American Story
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Gavin W Gonzalez, Mark Brazaitis (Editor), Daniel F Ferreras (Translator)
Pinnick Kinnick Hill, An American Story is a lightly fictionalized memoir by Gain Gonzalez, a first generation American whose parents emigrated from Spain. Gonzalez's story recounts the lives of his parents and their fellow immigrants who settled in Harrison County, West Virginia in the early twentieth century. According to Suronda Gonzalez (no ...
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The Jewish Legion and the First World War
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Martin Watts
In the autumn of 1917, the British government established three batallions of infantry for the reception of non-nationalized Russian Jews. Known colloquially as the Jewish Legion, the batallions served in Egypt and Palestine, before their eventual disbandment in the late spring of 1921. By drawing on the testimonies of over 600 veterans, this ...
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Settler Colonialism in the Twentieth Century: Projects, Practices, Legacies
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Caroline Elkins
An invaluable addition to the growing literature in the field, this powerful and thought-provoking study presents a compelling new interpretation of twentieth-century imperialism. Compiled of selected essays, historians of Japan, Europe, Africa and the Middle East show how settler communities have shaped landholding policies, laws and race ...
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The Final Solution: A Genocide
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Donald Bloxham
The Holocaust is frequently depicted in isolation by its historians. Some of them believe that to place it in any kind of comparative context risks diminishing its uniqueness and even detracts from the enormity of the Nazi crime. In reality, such a restricted understanding of 'uniqueness' has pulled the Holocaust apart from history and set up ...
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Murder Without Hatred: Estonians and the Holocaust
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Anton Weiss-Wendt
In this detailed study of Estonians' role in the Holocaust, Anton Weiss-Wendt casts light on a largely unexplored subject. A country known for its benevolent treatment of ethnic minorities, Estonia had a small number of indigenous Jews, and anti-Semitism existed on a relatively limited scale. However, many ethnic Estonians, acting as auxiliary ...
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Kristallnacht 1938
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Alan E Steinweis
On November 7, 1938, a Jewish teenager, Herschel Grynspan, fatally shot a German diplomat in Paris. Within three days anti-Jewish violence erupted throughout Germany, initially incited by local Nazi officials, and ultimately sanctioned by the decisions of Hitler and Goebbels at the pinnacle of the Third Reich. As synagogues burned and Jews were ...
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Keeping the Campfires Going: Native Women's Activism in Urban Communities
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Susan Applegate Krouse (Editor), Heather Howard (Editor)
The essays in this groundbreaking anthology, "Keeping the Campfires Going", highlight the accomplishments of and challenges confronting Native women activists in American and Canadian cities. Since World War II, Indigenous women from many communities have stepped forward through organizations, in their families, or by themselves to take action on ...
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Resistance to the Persecution of Ethnic Minorities in Croatia and Bosnia World War II
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Lisa Adeli
During World War II, the Croatian ultra-nationalist Ustaa persecuted nearly two million Serbs, Jews, and Roma in the Independent State of Croatia (present-day Croatia and Bosnia). Political analysts often cite this genocide as proof that ethnic violence within the region is inevitable. However, an equally important reality is that within just four ...
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The Warsaw Ghetto Oyneg Shabes--Ringelblum Archive: Catalog and Guide
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Ringelblum-Archiv, Tadeusz Epsztein (Editor), Robert Moses Shapiro (Editor)
Retrieved after World War II from metal boxes and milk cans buried beneath the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto, the "Oyneg Shabes-Ringelblum Archive" was clandestinely compiled between 1940 and 1942 under the leadership of historian Emanuel Ringelblum. Members of the secret Oyneg Shabes organization gathered thousands of testimonies from natives of ...
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