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The world is changing, and so is the unquestioning belief that development policies are always right. Instead of focusing on the rather limited notion of poverty, this book aims to deepen our understanding of the broad issue of development. What are the drivers of development? What new issues have arisen due to globalization? And what kind of policies contribute to development in a world that is changing ...

"This volume traces the distinct cultural languages in which individual and collective forms of trauma are expressed in diverse variations, including oral or written narratives, literature, comic strips, photography, theatre, and cinematic images. The central argument is that traumatic memories are frequently beyond the sphere of medical, legal, or state intervention. To address these different, often ...

Places the Holocaust in its historical, political, social, cultural, and military contexts, focusing on the two goals that drove the Nazis in their persecution of Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, and other groups they deemed as undesirables. Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-241) and index. xi, 263 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

The interviews were conducted starting in 2007 as part of several oral history projects conducted by different Roma NGOs Roma NGOs such as Asociația Centrul Rromilor „Amare Rromentza” and Centrul de Cercetari Culturale si Sociale "Romane Rodimata". These Roma NGOs were quite active a few years ago, but to this day they do not have an active website.

There is a great deal of interest in the history of Armenia since its renewed independence in the 1990s and the ongoing debate about the genocide--an interest that informs the strong desire of a new generation of Armenian Americans to learn more about their heritage and has led to greater solidarity in the community. By integrating themes such as war, geopolitics, and great leaders, with the less familiar ...

Introduction. - I. CASES OF NATIONAL HISTORY CULTURES. - Representations of Victims and Guilty in Public History. The Case of the Finnish Civil War in 1918 / SIRKKA AHONEN. - The Holocaust as History Culture in Finland / TOM GULLBERG. - The Nazi Camps in the Norwegian Historical Culture / JON REITAN. - The Norwegian Fascist Monument at Stiklestad 1944-45 / TOR EINAR FAGERLAND AND TROND RISTO NILSSEN. ...

1st pbk. ed. xiv, 325 pages : map ; 22 cm.

Met lit. opg. en reg. XVI, 473 p., [16] p. ill. ; 24 cm

"This book explores the dynamic role of love in German-Jewish lives, from the birth of the German Empire in the 1870s, to the 1970s, a generation after the Shoah. During a remarkably turbulent hundred-year period when German Jews experienced five political regimes, rapid urbanization, transformations in gender relations, and war and genocide, the romantic ideals of falling in love and marrying for ...

This important collection contains testimonies of Jewish survivors, rescuers, political prisoners, war crimes trial participants, Roma survivors, … etc. about their life before, during and after the Shoah. It is a crucial source for the history of the Holocaust. On average, the interviews are about 2 hours in length. At the time of writing, the geographical keyword “Belgium” was attributed to 2136 ...