Educating the Enemy. Teaching Nazis and Mexicans in the Cold War Borderlands, Hardback - Jonna Perrillo

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Jonna PerrilloIllustration(s): 15 halftonesNumber of pages: 216Publication date: 2022Dimension...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Jonna PerrilloIllustration(s): 15 halftonesNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimension...

Reducere. DescriptionJoining the U.S.' war effort in 1942, Mexican President Manuel vila Camacho ordered the dislocation of Japanese Mexican communities and ...

Amid the Cold War and global student protests, transnational forces significantly shaped the modernization of educational systems in Spain and Lati...

DescriptionAn important investigation of the sociocultural fallout of America's work on the atomic bombIn The Nuclear Borderlands, Joseph Masco off...

When nothing seemed able to contain the German advance, France, Great Britain and the USSR developed several programs of emergency fighters, as did...

Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest s...

My Friends, The Enemy is the only first-hand account of the Falklands War written by somebody involved in the military intelligence operation. It t...

Publisher: Independent BooksAuthor(s): Harry VerlanderIllustration(s): 82 black & white illustrationsNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2010Dime...

The first full account of the crucial work done at Fort Hunt, Virginia during World War II, where the highest-level German prisoners were interroga...

This is the story of the USAF Tactical Air Command units that were resident in the United Kingdom during the Cold War from 1952 to 1992. An extensi...

An acclaimed journalist and novelist makes history personal, painting a rich and vivid portrait of the time when America become modern by tracing t...

Successfully cover Unit Group 2 with the right amount of depth and pace. This bespoke series from the leading History publisher follows our proven ...

Reducere. For nearly a half century, from 1945 to 1991, the United States and the Soviet Union maneuvered to achieve global hegemony. Each forged political a...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Michael NapierIllustration(s): Fully illustrated throughout in colour and black and whiteNumber of p...

With the end of the Second World War Britain needed time to recover; it could not face another war, but the new threat of Soviet hegemony put paid ...

This intellectual biography of Nikolai N. Bolkhovitinov (1930-2008), the prominent Russian historian who was a leading scholar of US history and Ru...

A compulsive page-turner about the battle for Berlin and control of the Western world in the aftermath of the Second World War from 'the master of ...

Through an analysis of Cold War Era films including Border Incident , Where Danger Lives , and Touch of Evil , Stephanie Fuller illustrates how cin...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Jussi M. (Professor of International History and Politics, Professor of International History and ...

Investigates the intertwining of fiction, documentary and memory in filmPublisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Maurizio CinquegraniIllustr...

In this ground-breaking and fascinating book, Duncan White illuminates a period in history in which literature became one of the most potent of wea...

A major new history of the Cold War: exploring the conflict through the minds of the people who lived it.Publisher: Profile Books LtdAuthor(s): Mar...

Focusses on the McDonnell Douglas F4 Phantom's role as an air defence fighter.

The first major study of Alan Bush, this book provides new perspectives on music and communism in twentieth-century Britain and the Communist Bloc....

Reducere. In 1959, the Bolshoi Ballet arrived in New York for its first ever performances in the United States. The tour was part of the Soviet-American cult...

Reducere. Illusions of Empire adopts a multinational view of North American borderlands, examining the ways in which Mexico's North overlapped with the U.S. ...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): James D. HornfischerIllustration(s): Three 16-PP photo inserts; mapsNumber of pages: 640Publication date:...

This book historicises Anglo-American queer theory by excavating a rival epistemology that advanced a communist sexuality during the Cold War. It p...

Reducere. Still the least-understood theater of the Civil War, the Southwest Borderlands saw not only Union and Confederate forces clashing but Indians, Hisp...

Daniela L. Caglioti shows how states at war, when faced with real or alleged security threats, redrew the boundaries between members and non-member...

Publisher: Sussex Academic PressIllustration(s): colour illusNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 235 x 158 x 16Cover type: Hardba...

How Kim Philby, master-spy and double agent, became the mentor of CIA boss James Angleton, then his mortal enemy, in the Second World War and Cold War

In 1952, John T. "Jack" Downey, a twenty-three-year-old CIA officer, was shot down over Manchuria. He was captured by the Chinese and held for the ...

Reducere. After the end of World War II, General George Patton declared that artillery had won the war. Yet howitzers did not achieve victory on their own. C...

In the Cold War era, the confrontation between capitalism and communism played out not only in military, diplomatic, and political contexts, but al...

A new take on Latin American literature that analyzes secret police reports on writers and advances readings of their novels, short stories, and po...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Covering the development of the atomic bomb during the Second World War, the origins and early course of the Cold War, and the advent of the hydrog...

After decades of bloodshed and political terror, many lament the rise of the left in Latin America. With Guatemala as the case study, this title ar...

Reducere. A personal journey through some of the darkest moments of the cold war and the early days of television newsMarvin Kalb, the award-winning journali...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Radio technology and broadcasting played a central role in the formation of colonial Portuguese Southern Africa and the postcolonial nation-state, ...

This study demonstrates how the social consequences of mass immigration became intertwined with the ideological battles of Cold War Germany and how...

Presents a social analysis of new music dissemination at the Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music, one of the most important ...

This biography of Beatriz Allende - revolutionary doctor and daughter of Salvador Allende - portrays what it means to live, love, and fight for cha...

Building on the concepts of professional competence that he introduced in his classic The Reflective Practitioner, Schon offers an approach for edu...

This new book traces the histories of navies and ships of the defeated powers from the months leading up to the relevant armistices or surrenders t...

Reducere. The 1960s represented a revolutionary moment around the globe. In rural Mexico, several guerrilla groups organized to fight against the ruling Inst...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Paschalis (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) PechlivanisNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 2020Dime...