The Politics of the First World War

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The Outbreak of the First World War: Structure, Politics, and Decision-Making - Jack S. Levy, John A. Vasquez

Reducere. This work provides an account of the West Indian soldiers in World War I. It focuses on the processes and politics surrounding the participation of...

DescriptionAfrica finds itself at the centre stage of world politics in the twenty-first century. To truly determine its rising influence and role ...

This book provides a concise set of thirteen essays looking at various aspects of the British left, movements of protest and the cumulative impact ...

Description1917 saw one of the most dramatic revolutions in world history when the workers of Russia united to throw out their tsar and aristocracy...

This work provides an account of the West Indian soldiers in World War I. It focuses on the processes and politics surrounding the participation of...

DescriptionThe First World War is often credited as being the event that gave Canada its own identity, distinct from that of Britain, France, and t...

The First World War marked the end point of a process of German globalization that began in the 1870s, well before Germany acquired a colonial empi...

This book examines the relationship between social science and public policy in left-wing politics. It focuses on the time period between the end o...

New Pandemics, Old Politics explores how the modern world adopted a martial script to deal with epidemic disease threats, and how this has failed -...

Reducere. Bush at War reveals in stunning detail how an untested president with a sweeping vision for remaking the world and war cabinet members often at odd...

Makiya first gives us the stories of Khalil, Abu Haydar, Omar, Mustafa, and Taimour--the Arab and Kurdish heroes of this book. Their testimony, rev...

Reducere. From World War II until the 1980s, the United States reigned supreme as both the economic and the military leader of the world. The major shifts in...

Reducere. She was the lonely dissenter, committed to following the dictates of her conscience no matter the consequences. Jeannette Rankin, an early leader f...

Gregory Gause's masterful book is the first to offer a comprehensive account of the international politics in the Persian Gulf across nearly four d...

Reducere. This is the definitive narrative history of the people, politics, and events of the Second World War - the epic conflict that shaped the modern wor...

DescriptionHistory textbooks typically list 1945-1990 as the Cold War years, but it is clear that tensions from that period are still influencing w...

Modernist Nowheres explores connections in the Anglo-American sphere between early literary modernist cultures, politics, and utopia. Foregrounding...

The collection explores the various, often conflicting representations of the war offered by US writers, artists, intellectuals, and political figu...

Reducere. This is a major new account of the role and performance of the Italian army during the First World War. Drawing from original, archival research, i...

Reducere. An argument against war crime trials by a distinguished member of the war cabinets of Lloyd George and Chamberlain.Maurice Hankey 1877-1963], 1st B...

Reducere. The presidential election of 1944, which unfolded against the backdrop of the World War II, was the first since 1864--and one of only a few in all ...

Reducere. "Professor Lasswell has made a most important contribution to the study of war. Basing his essay upon the thesis that modern war must be fought on ...

"This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues - its narrative power, its fin...

Reducere. It was the first war we could not win. At no other time since World War II have two superpowers met in battle. Now Max Hastings, preeminent militar...

Reducere. Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definiti...

When the world held its breath ... It is 25 years since the end of the Cold War, now a generation old. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944--long be...

Reducere. Moving from poison and treachery to war and witchcraft, Sam Hawke's Poison Wars continue with Hollow Empire, a fabulous epic fantasy adventure perf...

Reducere. Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917), by Vladimir Lenin, describes the function of financial capital in generating profits from impe...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Samuel MoynIn Christian Human Rights, Samuel Moyn asserts that the rise of human rights after World War II was prefigured a...

Reducere. J. B. S. Haldane's life was rich and strange, never short on genius or drama--from his boyhood apprenticeship to his scientist father, who first in...

DescriptionCardinal D sir -Joseph Mercier, Archbishop of Malines, was the incarnation of the Belgian resistance against the German occupation durin...

Description*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Though both nations...

DescriptionBased on a rich array of sources that capture the voices of both political leaders and ordinary Americans, Uncle Sam Wants You offers a ...

A secret history of MI6, from the Cold War to the present day. Shrouded in myth since their creation a hundred years ago, this offers a unique and ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe most complete portrait ever drawn of the complex emotional connection between two of history's towering leaders Franklin Roosevelt a...

From the fall of the Ottoman Empire through the Arab Spring, this completely revised and updated edition of Mehran Kamrava's classic treatise on th...

Reducere. Who were The Originals? Experienced women pilots - the first to fly for the U.S. military 28 women who dared to challenge 1940s barriers of gender,...

Reducere. Psychological Warfare was first published in 1948, and it became the authoritative text on the subject for decades. Even today, it explains the bas...

Reducere. Vienna, located at the heart of Europe was the city of choice for American, British, German and Russian spymasters in their merciless trade, to plo...

From a renowned foreign-policy expert, a new paradigm for strategy in the twenty-first century In 1961, Thomas Schelling’s The Strategy of Conflict...

Reducere. The Japanese experience of war from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century presents a stunning example of the meteoric rise and shatterin...

Reducere. The first full-scale biography of John Hay since 1934: From secretary to Abraham Lincoln to secretary of state for Theodore Roosevelt, Hay was an e...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a British secret service, formed in 1940 to encourage underground resistance to Hitler's Germ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe first volume of Donald Kagan's acclaimed four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War offers a new evaluation of the origins and cau...

DescriptionThe first volume of Donald Kagan's acclaimed four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War offers a new evaluation of the origins and cau...

Reducere. DescriptionAsia is at a dangerous moment. China is rising fast. Young, reckless North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is engaging in territorial spats ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Isa BlumiSince March 2015, a Saudi-led international coalition of forces--supported by Britain and the United States--has w...

Reducere. DescriptionIn The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, Jeremy Yellen exposes the history, politics, and intrigue that characterized the era when...

This study serves as a corrective to the myths surrounding a controversial and poorly understood episode in Mexican history, demonstrating how Mexi...

Whether victorious or not, Central European states faced fundamental challenges after the First World War as they struggled to contain ongoing viol...

Reducere. The decades of the 1960's and 1970's were turbulent years in the history of the California Department of Corrections. During these years prisons al...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: John PradosFrom its founding in the aftermath of World War II, the Central Intelligence Agency has been discovered in the m...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Holocaust is usually understood as a European story. Yet, this pivotal episode unfolded across North Africa and reverberated through...

Reducere. SHOSHANA HOLDS NOTHING BACK in this harrowing account of an ordinary woman caught in extraordinary circumstances. She reveals decisions made by cha...

The world is on the brink of war. Fisk and Shoe - mercenaries, very much not wanting to get caught in the middle of a political whirlwind - must de...

The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness, first published in 1944, is considered one of the most profound and relevant works by the influ...

Reducere. U.S. wars are getting repetitive. Always the same old scenario. The mainstream media alert public opinion to the latest "villain" supposedly threat...

Reducere. "Louis was an agent of conspiracy, a 'people trafficker, ' helping the captive and the helpless negotiate a precarious avenue to freedom. He was, I...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the same manner as he critiqued Italian Fascism in Fascism Viewed from the Right, in this volume Evola analyses the German National S...

Reducere. DescriptionBorn from necessity, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has always seemed on the verge of collapse. Even now, some seventy ye...

The history of the Garden State is filled with well-known events and forgotten happenings. German Americans opened the nation's first kindergarten ...

Reducere. The exhortation to "Go West " has always sparked the American imagination. But for gays, lesbians, and transgendered people, the City of Angels pro...

Reducere. In this groundbreaking history of Ireland, Neil Hegarty presents a fresh perspective on Ireland's past. Comprehensive and engaging, The Story of Ir...

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the invasion and occupation written by Japanese and Chinese officers and civilians *Includes online resour...

Reducere. The first in the epic series of war and legendsGreece is in turmoil, divided by feuding kingdoms desiring wealth, power... and revenge.When Eperitu...

With crucial insights and indispensable information concerning modern-day political upheavals, Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements provides a r...

Reducere. DescriptionSavitri Devi (1905-1982) became known as the high priestess of "esoteric Hitlerism" for her unique synthesis of National Socialism, Hind...

DescriptionThis innovative text explores the unprecedented changes in the realms of politics, demography, economics, culture, knowledge, and kinshi...