Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738169996
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 899
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738169996
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 899
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of European History, 1914-1945
Author: Nicholas DoumanisPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199695660
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 673
Book Description
The period spanning the two World Wars was unquestionably the most catastrophic in Europe's history. Despite such undeniably progressive developments as the radical expansion of women's suffrage and rising health standards, the era was dominated by political violence and chronic instability. Its symbols were Verdun, Guernica, and Auschwitz. By the end of this dark period, tens of millions of Europeans had been killed and more still had been displaced and permanently traumatized. If the nineteenth century gave Europeans cause to regard the future with a sense of optimism, the early twentieth century had them anticipating the destruction of civilization. The fact that so many revolutions, regime changes, dictatorships, mass killings, and civil wars took place within such a compressed time frame suggests that Europe experienced a general crisis. The Oxford Handbook of European History, 1914-1945 reconsiders the most significant features of this calamitous age from a transnational perspective. It demonstrates the degree to which national experiences were intertwined with those of other nations, and how each crisis was implicated in wider regional, continental, and global developments. Readers will find innovative and stimulating chapters on various political, social, and economic subjects by some of the leading scholars working on modern European history today.
Troisième Conférence Internationale d’Histoire Économique / Third International Conference of Economic History. Volume 3
Author: International Conference of Economic History 3 : 1965, MünchenPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111416917
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
No detailed description available for "TROIS. CONF. INT. H. EC. V. 3 ( EVERSLEY) CONGCOL 10 E-BOOK".
Securing Land Rights in Africa
Author: Tor A. BenjaminsenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136346244
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
This collection of research papers from across the African continent illustrates the complex and ever-changing rules of the land tenure game, and how government legislation and reform (formalization) interact with local innovations (informalization) to form land tenure systems.
Review of Nations
Author: Félix VályiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Includes the section "Recent Publications".
The Manorial Economy in Early-Modern East-Central Europe
Author: Jerzy TopolskiPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040237177
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
This book is concerned with one of the fundamental problems in the economic and social history of Europe in the early modern period, namely with the bifurcation in its development: in Western Europe, the development of capitalism; in East-Central Europe, the rise of the manorial-serf economy which hampered the development of capitalism. The main motif linking together the studies in this volume is the endeavour to explain this separation. the author evaluates the different theories explaining this, and also provides further analysis of economic life, dealing with the commercial activity, economic regression, especially in Poland.
Making Land Rights More Secure
Author: Publisher: IIED
ISBN: 1843692619
Category : Land tenure
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
Annales
Author: Université d'AbidjanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
French Peasant Fascism
Author: Robert O. PaxtonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195354745
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
French Peasant Fascism is the first account of the Greenshirts, a militant right-wing peasant movement in 1930s France that sought to transform the Republic into an authoritarian, agrarian state. Author Robert Paxton examines the Greenshirts in five case studies, throwing new light on French rural society and institutions during the Depression and on the emergence of a new rural leadership of authentic farmers. Paxton points out that fascism remained weak in the French countryside because the French state protected landowners more effectively than did those of Weimar Germany and Italy, and because French rural notables were so firmly embedded in social and economic power. Although the Greenshirts disappeared with the Third Republic, they left a double legacy: a tradition of peasant direct action, which is still exercised today; and the idea of France as a peasant nation, whose identity and virtues rest upon the persistence of a large peasant sector. That self-image continues to influence French policy choices today, long after the social structure on which it rested has disappeared.
Reordering of Culture
Author: Alvina Roberta RuprechtPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0886292697
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Political, economic and social barriers among Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada are giving way to global forces and the "global dreams" they inspire. This collection of original articles and essays examines popular culture, literature, theatre, belief systems, indigenous practices and questions of identity, exile and alienation. The interconnectedness and distinction of cultural production throughout the Americas, "transplanted" interests, the mediation of African and European influences, and the expression of shifting identities, all reflect the development of a new American neighbourhood.