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"During the peak of the German expansion in World War II, more than 230 million people from Norway to Greece and from France to various regions inside the former Soviet Union lived under German occupation. This edited collection of primary sources for the first time gives an insight into the experiences of these ordinary people under German occupation, their everyday life and how this quickly became ...

"Britain's role and performance in the two World Wars continues to generate considerable debate but the wars are rarely considered together. Leading military historian Brian Bond here challenges the popular view of the First World War as catastrophic and futile in contrast to the Second World War as a well-conducted and victorious moral crusade. He focuses on the key issues which have caused controversy ...

Pt. 1. Authoritarianisms and oppositions. Protesting in authoritarian situations : Egypt and Morocco in comparative perspective / Frédéric Vairel. - Leaving Islamic activism behind : ambiguous disengagement in Saudi Arabia / Pascal Menoret. - Egyptian leftist intellectuals' activism from the margins : overcoming the mobilization / demobilization dichotomy / Marie Duboc. - pt. 2. Mobilizing for rights. ...

"Nazi Germany and Japan occupied huge areas at least for some period during World War II, and those territories became integral parts of their war economies. The book focuses on the policies of World War II aggressors in occupied countries. The unbalanced economic and financial relations were defined by administrative control, the implementation of institutions and a variety of military exploitation ...

"Why did Vietnam invade and occupy Cambodia in 1978? And why did it eventually change its approach, shifting from military confrontation to economic reform and reconciliation with China in the late 1980s? Drawing on rarely accessed archival documents, Kosal Path explores this major change in Vietnamese leaders' objectives and strategies. Unlike most studies, which attribute the invasion to political ...

"Race relations" are a controversial topic in today's Germany. Have Germans learned from the past? How far back must one go to understand the tensions, prejudices, and strategies that have marked race relations in the recently unified nation? The Imperialist Imagination explores the German preoccupation with racial and ethnic differences throughout the past two centuries, in a colonial and "postcolonial" ...

In Making and Unmaking Nations, Scott Straus seeks to explain why and how genocide takes place--and, perhaps more important, how it has been avoided in places where it may have seemed likely or even inevitable. To solve that puzzle, he examines postcolonial Africa, analyzing countries in which genocide occurred and where it could have but did not. Why have there not been other Rwandas-- Straus finds ...

Poëziebundel 'Ondergrondsche borrelingskes'. Deze bundel maakt deel uit van de clandestiene en verzetsliteratuur. Beide hielden het ideaal van de vrijheid in het algemeen en die van de Nederlandse letterkunde hoog. Clandestiene literatuur was ‘normale’ literatuur van auteurs en uitgevers, die zich niet onderwierpen aan de door de bezetter gestelde voorwaarden, zoals het lidmaatschap van de cultuurkamer ...

Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasing Hitler's Germany has been widely condemned. However, historians (and politicians) have been divided about the viability of alternative courses of action. Andrew David Stedman here charts the origins, development and viability of the various alternatives to Chamberlain's policy of appeasement. Using a wide range of sources, many previously unpublished, he provides ...