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"Translated from the German by Norbert Guterman." 205 pages ; 21 cm

Passabe is a subdistrict of the Oecussi-Ambeno district of East Timor, which is an enclave surrounded by Indonesian West Timor. It was the site of a massacre of East Timorese by pro-Indonesia militias in the follow-up to the 1999 referendum for East Timor's independence. The film documents the lives of several Passabe residents five years after the violence, including the life of one admitted former-militia ...

"Today Vietnam is one of America's strongest international partners, with a thriving economy and a population that welcomes American visitors. How that relationship was formed is a twenty-year story of daring diplomacy and a careful thawing of tensions between the two countries after a lengthy war that cost nearly 60,000 American and more than two million Vietnamese lives. Ted Osius, former ambassador ...

Uitgegeven door de Vereeniging voor Volkenbond en Vrede. 195 p. ; 25 cm.

Volume II of a series under the general title: America faces the air age. x, 157 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

David Weinberg's multi-national study, focusing on France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, offers a wide lens through which to view post-war efforts to help Jewish communal life recover its voice and its raison d'être. By underscoring the similarities in the situation facing Jews across borders, he demonstrates how the three communities with the aid of international Jewish organizations utilized unprecedented ...

"A project of the International Peace Academy." xiv, 285 pages : map ; 24 cm

"Archival Silences demonstrates emphatically that archival absences exist all over the globe. The book questions whether benign 'silence' is an appropriate label for the variety of destructions, concealment and absences that can be identified within archival collections. Including contributions from archivists and scholars working around the world, this truly international collection examines archives ...

Following the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, the Chinese government spent a decade attempting to promote an international coalition against Tokyo. The rationale for this policy was that as Japan's attempts to establish hegemony over East Asia inevitably threatened British, American, and Soviet interests, it could only be a matter of time before these powers recognised the need to intervene ...

With The Silent War, Frank Füredi traces the history of western colonial racist ideology and its role in the subjugation of the peoples of the non-west. Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-272) and index. 282 pages ; 22 cm