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• The tense divide
• The making of Western Europe
• The clamp
• Good times
• Culture after the catastrophe
• Challenges
• The turn
• Easterly wind of change
• Power of the people
• New beginnings
• Global exposure
• Crisis years.

"The final chapter in the Penguin History of Europe series from the acclaimed scholar and author of To Hell and Back After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the twentieth century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book as being 'to Hell and back,' the years from 1950 to 2017 brought peace and relative prosperity to most of Europe. Enormous economic improvements transformed the continent. The catastrophic era of the world wars receded into an ever more distant past, though its long shadow continued to shape mentalities. Yet Europe was now a divided continent, living under the nuclear threat in a period intermittently fraught with anxiety. There were, by most definitions, striking successes: the Soviet bloc melted away, dictatorships vanished, and Germany was successfully reunited. But accelerating globalization brought new fragilities. The interlocking crises after 2008 were the clearest warnings to Europeans that there was no guarantee of peace and stability, and, even today, the continent threatens further fracturing"-- Provided by publisher.

• "We've come to fly the Atlantic"
• "Where does France come in?"
• "The ace with the wooden leg"
• The fortune of the air
• Slim
• Giuseppe, the gypsy, and the junk man
• Revving up
• Against the prevailing winds
• Come to Earth
• Little silver plane
• Paris au printemps
• A stout heart does not fear death
• Limbo
• Hunting dragons
• We two
• "Viva l'Amérique!"
• "Lindbergh is our Elijah"
• Two more across
• The Atlantic no longer exists.

"The trans-Atlantic air race of 1927 and the flight that made Charles Lindbergh a hero. The race to make the first nonstop flight between the New York and Paris attracted some of the most famous and seasoned aviators of the day, yet it was the young and lesser known Charles Lindbergh who won the $25,000 Orteig Prize in 1927 for his history-making solo flight in the Spirit of St. Louis. Drawing on many previously overlooked sources, Bak offers a fresh look at the personalities that made up this epic air race--a deadly competition that culminated in one of the twentieth century's most thrilling personal achievements and turned Charles Lindbergh into the first international hero of the modern age... Examines the extraordinary life and cultural impact of Charles Lindbergh, one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, and his legendary trans-Atlantic flight that captured the world's imagination. Explores the romance of flying during aviation's Golden Age of the 1920s, the enduring mystique of the aviator, and rapid technological advances that made for a paradigm shift in human perception of the world. Filled with colorful characters from early aviation history, including Charles Nungesser, Igor Sikorsky, Rene Fonck, Richard Byrd, and Paul Tarascon. History and the imagination take flight in this gripping account of high-flying adventure, in which a group of courageous men tested the both limits of technology and the power of nature in pursuit of one of mankind's boldest dreams"--Provided by publisher.

Ever since Korea was first divided at the end of World War II, the tension between its northern and southern halves has riveted, and threatened to embroil, the rest of the world. In this landmark history, now thoroughly revised and updated in conjunction with Korea expert Robert Carlin, veteran journalist Don Oberdorfer grippingly describes how a historically homogenous people became locked in a perpetual struggle for supremacy, and how they might yet be reconciled.
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• IllustrationsAcknowledgementsEditor's Preface1. Young Statesman, 1897-19152. Oblivion and Redemption, 1916-19293. The Wilderness Years, 1930-19394. The Glory Years, 1939-19455. The Sunset Years, 1945-1963Appendix: The Churchill Centre and SocietiesIndex.
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A great statesmen, a masterful historian whose writings won him the Nobel Prize for literature and a war-time leader with few peers, Sir Winston Churchill is remembered perhaps most clearly today for the sheer power of his oratory: the speeches that rallied a nation in its darkest hour and steeled that nation for victory against the might of the Fascist powers. Never Give In! celebrates this oratory by gathering together Churchill's most powerful speeches from throughout his public career. Carefully selected by his grandson, this collection includes all his best known speeches - from his great war-time broadcasts to the "Iron Curtain" speech that heralded the start of the Cold War - and many lesser known but inspirational pieces. In a single volume Never Give In! provides a powerful testimony to one of the great public figures of the 20th century.
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• INTRODUCTION-- EPILOGUE.
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The Russian Revolution of 1917 transformed the face of the Russian empire, politically, economically, socially, and culturally, and also profoundly affected the course of world history for the rest of the twentieth century. Now, to mark the centenary of this epochal event, historian Steve Smith presents a panoramic account of the history of the Russian empire, from the last years of the nineteenth century, through the First World War and the revolutions of 1917 and the establishment of the Bolshevik regime, to the end of the 1920s, when Stalin simultaneously unleashed violent collectivization of agriculture and crash industrialization upon Russian society. Drawing on recent archivally-based scholarship, Russia in Revolution pays particular attention to the varying impact of the Revolution on the various groups that made up society: peasants, workers, non-Russian nationalities, the army, women and the family, young people, and the Church. In doing so, it provides a fresh way into the big, perennial questions about the Revolution and its consequences: why did the attempt by the tsarist government to implement political reform after the 1905 Revolution fail; why did the First World War bring about the collapse of the tsarist system; why did the attempt to create a democratic system after the February Revolution of 1917 not get off the ground; why did the Bolsheviks succeed in seizing and holding on to power; why did they come out victorious from a punishing civil war; why did the New Economic Policy they introduced in 1921 fail; and why did Stalin come out on top in the power struggle inside the Bolshevik party after Lenin's death in 1924. A final chapter then reflects on the larger significance of 1917 for the history of the twentieth century - and, for all its terrible flaws, what the promise of the Revolution might mean for us today.
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• Introduction
• What is Maoism?
• The Red Star: revolution by the book
• The brainwash: China and the world in the 1950s
• World revolution
• Years of living dangerously: The Indonesian connection
• Into Africa
• Mao's dominoes?: Vietnam and Cambodia
• "You are old, we are young, Mao Zedong!": Maoism in the United States and Western Europe
• Red Sun over Peru: The shining path
• China's chairman is our chairman: Maoism in India
• Nepal: Maosim in power?
• Mao-ish China
• Conclusion
• Chronology.

"Since the heyday of Mao Zedong, there has never been a more crucial time to understand Maosim. Although to Western eyes it seems that China has long abandoned the utopian turmoil of Maoism in favour of authoritarian capitalism, Mao and his ideas remain central to the People' Republic and the legitimacy of its communist government. As disagreements and conflicts between China and the West are likely to mount, the need to understand the political legacy of Mao will only become more urgent. Yet during Mao's lifetime and beyond, the power and appeal of Maoism has always extended beyond China. Across the globe, Maoism was a crucial motor of the Cold War: it shaped the course of the Vietnam War (and the international youth rebellion it triggered) and brought to power the murderous Khmer Rouge in Cambodia; it aided, and sometimes handed victory to, anti-colonial resistance movements in Africa; it inspired terrorism in Germany and Italy, and wars and insurgencies in Peru, India and Nepal, some of which are still with us today - more than forty years after the death of Mao. In this new history, acclaimed historian Julia Lovell revaluates Maoism, analysing both China's engagement with the movement and its legacy on a global canvas. It's a story that takes us from the tea plantations of north India to the sierras of the Andes, from Paris's 5th Arrondissement to the fields of Tanzania, from the rice paddies of Cambodia to the terraces of Brixton. Starting from the movement's birth in northwest China in the 1930s and unfolding right up to its present-day violent rebirth, this is the definitive history of global Maoism"-- Provided by publisher.
"The untold story of how Maoist ideology spread throughout the world during the Cold War, playing a major role in shaping politics from Asia to Africa to the American left. This revelatory new work of world history challenges our understanding of the geopolitics of the twentieth century. While the Cold War is traditionally seen as a competition between Soviet communism and American capitalism, Maoism: A Global History shows for the first time how China played a central role in the struggle. Julia Lovell takes us to the movement's birth in northwest China in the 1930s and makes clear how, across the globe, Maoism was a crucial motor of the Cold War, shaping the course of the Vietnam War (and the international youth rebellion it triggered) and bringing to power the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. Maoism also inspired anti-colonial resistance movements in Africa; terrorism in Germany and Italy, and wars and insurgencies in Peru, India, and Nepal, some of which are still with us today--more than forty years after Mao's death. Moving from the tea plantations of India to the Andes, from Paris's 5th Arrondissement to Tanzania, from the rice paddies of Cambodia and the Chicago protests of 1968 to the present-day violent rebirth of the ideology, this is the definitive history of global Maoism"-- Provided by publisher.

• Stefan Grüner und Sabine Mecking
• Wahrnehmung und Steuerung von Strukturwandel und Lebenschancen
• I. Rahmenbedingungen
• Michael Ruck
• "Zwischen Steuerungsbedarf und ordnungspolitischem Sündenfall" : sektorale "Strukturpolitik" im bundesdeutschen Planungsdiskurs
• Stefan Grüner
• Strukturpolitik als Industriepolitik : Konzeption und Praxis in Westdeutschland
• Jörg Roesler
• Strukturpolitik und Wirtschaftsplanung in der Industrie der DDR
• Sabine Mecking
• Regionale Disparitäten, Raumordnung und das Ideal der Chancengerechtigkeit in Westdeutschland
• II. Regionale und sektorale Problemfelder und Lösungsstrategien
• Stefan Goch
• Tief im Westen ist es besser, als man glaubt? : Strukturpolitik und Strukturwandel im Ruhrgebiet
• Karl Lauschke
• Unternehmerisches Handeln, Standortbedingungen und regionalpolitische Reaktionen : Hüttenwerke des Klöckner-Konzerns in Bremen, Niedersachsen und Nordrhein-Westfalen
• Karl Ditt
• "Passive Sanierung" : der Niedergang der bundesdeutschen Textilindustrie und die Reaktionen von Staat und Unternehmern am Beispiel von Bayern, Baden-Württemberg und Nordrhein-Westfalen
• Rainer Karlsch
• Industrielle Kerne in Ostdeutschland Entstehung, Erhalt und Wandel
• III. Strukturpolitische Diskurse, Wahrnehmungen und Deutungen
• III. Strukturpolitische Diskurse, Wahrnehmungen und Deutungen
• Thomas Schlemmer
• Erfolgsmodelle? : Politik und Selbstdarstellung in Bayern und Baden-Württemberg zwischen "Wirtschaftswunder" und Strukturbruch "nach dem Boom"
• Veit Damm
• Konzepte gegen die Entindustrialisierung Strukturpolitische Diskurse und die Neugestaltung des Industriestandorts Saarland
• Lu Seegers und Christoph Strupp
• Hafen- und Handelsstadt oder Stadt der Industrie? : Wirtschaftspolitik und Deutung des Strukturwandels in Hamburg
• Thorsten Harbeke
• Touristische Infrastrukturpolitik in Schleswig-Holstein : Strukturwandel und Diskussionen am Beispiel des Ferienzentrums Burgtiefe auf Fehmarn
• IV. Arbeitsgesellschaft und Unternehmen
• Christoph Bernhardt
• Müde Arbeiter in grauen Städten : Entwicklungslinien und Ambivalenzen der Urbanisierungspolitik der DDR
• Dierk Hoffmann
• Verlierer der sozialistischen Arbeitsgesellschaft : Rentner und Behinderte in der SBZ/DDR
• Sebastian Voigt
• Ausweg aus der Krise? : Die wachsende Bedeutung der Strukturpolitik in der Programmatik des Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbundes
• Susanne Hilger
• Strukturkonservativ und globalisierungsuntauglich? : Mittelständische Unternehmen in Baden-Württemberg, Bayern und Nordrhein-Westfalen im interregionalen Vergleich.

"In beiden deutschen Staaten wurden seit ihrer Gründung politische Anstrengungen unternommen, um den ökonomischen Strukturwandel in seinem Verlauf und seinen Wirkungen zu lenken. Trotz unterschiedlicher Rahmenbedingungen gestalteten sich die Problemkonstellationen ähnlich: Einseitige Branchenstrukturen und räumliche Ungleichgewichte sollten ausgeglichen, Arbeitsplätze bereitgestellt und die Infrastruktur entwickelt werden. Der Sammelband fragt nach Wahrnehmungen und Deutungen strukturpolitischer Herausforderungen sowie nach den Trägern und Mitgestaltern des strukturellen Wandels in West- und Ostdeutschland in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Dabei werden Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Steuerungsansätze sowohl im nationalen Kontext analysiert als auch mit Blick auf kollektive Akteure und Betroffene wie Länderregierungen und Kommunen, Branchen und Unternehmen, Gewerkschaften und Arbeitnehmer"--Provided by publisher.
"The authors examine structural policy in West and East Germany in the second half of the 20th century, considering institutions, instruments, and interpretations. They analyze both national contexts as well as the actors and affected persons in different federal states and regions to show the scope of the political efforts in both German states that were directed at managing structural economic change and its impacts"--Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• Photographs
• Acknowldgements.

In an expanding and socially fractious early twentieth-century Winnipeg, Lewis Benjamin Foote (1873-1957) rose to become the city's pre-eminent commercial photographer. Documenting everything from royal visits to deep poverty, from the building of the landmark Fort Garry Hotel to the turmoil of the 1919 General Strike, Foote's photographs have come to be iconic representations of early Winnipeg life. They have been used to illustrate everything from academic histories to posters for rock concerts; they have influenced the work of visual artists, writers, and musicians; and they have represented Winnipeg to the nation. But in Imagining Winnipeg, historian Esyllt W. Jones takes us beyond the iconic to reveal the complex artist behind the lens and the conflicting ways in which his photographs have been used to give credence to diverse and sometimes irreconcilable views of Winnipeg's past. Incorporating 150 stunning photographs from the more than 2,000 images in the Archives of Manitoba Foote Collection, Imagining Winnipeg challenges our understanding of visual history and the city we thought we knew.
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• Foreword by William CrononAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. The Cold War Roots of Global Warming2. Scientists, Environmentalists, and the Global Atmosphere3. Making the Global Environment
• 4. Climate, the Environment, and Scientific Activism5. The Politics of Dissent6. The IPCC and the Primacy of Science7. The Gospel of the MarketEpilogueNotesSelected BibliographyIndex.
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In 1958, Charles David Keeling began measuring the concentration of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. His project kicked off a half century of research that has expanded our knowledge of climate change. Despite more than fifty years of research, however, our global society has yet to find real solutions to the problem of global warming. Why? In Behind the Curve, Joshua Howe attempts to answer this question. He explores the history of global warming from its roots as a scientific curiosity to its place at the center of international environmental politics. The book follows the story of rising CO2-illustrated by the now famous Keeling Curve-through a number of historical contexts, highlighting the relationships among scientists, environmentalists, and politicians as those relationships changed over time. The nature of the problem itself, Howe explains, has privileged scientists as the primary spokespeople for the global climate. But while the "science first" forms of advocacy they developed to fight global warming produced more and better science, the primacy of science in global warming politics has failed to produce meaningful results. In fact, an often exclusive focus on science has left advocates for change vulnerable to political opposition and has limited much of the discussion to debates about the science itself. As a result, while we know much more about global warming than we did fifty years ago, CO2 continues to rise. In 1958, Keeling first measured CO2 at around 315 parts per million; by 2013, global CO2 had soared to 400 ppm. The problem is not getting better - it's getting worse. Behind the Curve offers a critical and levelheaded look at how we got here.
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• Introduction. Amna Khalid and Ryan Johnson
• 1. The Control of Birth: Pupil Midwives in Nineteenth Century Madras. Sean Lang
• 2. "Unscientific and Insanitary": Hereditary Sweepers and Customary Rights in the United Provinces. Amna Khalid
• 3. "Left in the Hands of Subordinates": Medicine, Language, and Power in the Colonial Medical Institutions of Egypt and India. James Mills
• 4. Surviving the Colonial Institution: Workers and Patients in the Government Hospitals of Mid Nineteenth Century Jamaica. Margaret Jones
• 5. "A Laudable Experiment": Infant Welfare Work and Medical Intermediaries in Early Twentieth Century Barbados. Juanita De Barros
• 6. Burmese Health Officers in the Transformation of Public Health in Colonial Burma in the 1920s and 1930s. Atsuko Naono
• 7. Mantsemei, Interpreters, and the Successful Eradication of Plague: The 1908 Plague Epidemic in Colonial Accra. Ryan Johnson
• 8. Medical Training, African Auxiliaries, and Social Healing in Colonial. Mwinilunga, Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), 1945-1964. Walima T. Kalusa
• 9. The Mid-Level Health Worker in South Africa: The In-Between Condition of the "Middle". Anne Digby.
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Over the last several decades, historians of public health in Britain's colonies have been primarily concerned with the process of policy making in the upper echelons of the medical and sanitary administrations. Yet it was the lower level staff that formed the backbone of public health systems in the colonies. Although they constituted the bases of many colonies' public health machinery, there is no consolidated study of these individuals to date. Public Health in the British Empire addresses this gap by bringing together historians studying intermediary and subordinate staff across the British Empire. Along with investigating the duties and responsibilities of medical and non-medical intermediary and subordinate personnel, the contributors to this volume show how the subjectivity of these agents influenced the manner in which they discharged their duties and how this in turn shaped policy. Even those working as low level assistants and aids were able to affect policy design. In this way, Public Health in the British Empire brings into sharp relief the disaggregated nature of the empire, thereby challenging the understanding of the imperial project as an enterprise conceived of and driven from the center.
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• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations Timeline Introduction PART I: 'A PEOPLE'S PEACE IN THE COLONIES', 1940-47 'The promise of a new earth to till': The ILO's Colonial Work in Exile, 1940-43 A Charter for the Colonies: The Colonies at the Philadelphia Conference, 1944 A New World With New Ideas: The ILO and the Quest for a Colonial Post-war Order, 1945-48 PART II: THE TOOLS OF PROGRESS: THE ILO, 1948-60 Principled Development: The Beginnings of the Technical Assistance Programme (TAP) At Arm's Length: The ILO and Late Colonial Social Policy Universal Rights? Standard-setting Against the Backdrop of Late Colonialism, Decolonization and the Cold War PART III: A GROWING CONFLICT: DEVELOPMENT, HUMAN RIGHTS AND DECOLONIZATION, 1960-70 A New Power: The ILO and the Growing Importance of the Developing World in the 1960s An Intellectual Fashion: Human Rights Standards as a Barrier to Development? Conclusion
• Appendix I: Selection of Important Conventions and Recommendations, 1930-70
• Appendix II: Ratification of Core Human Rights Standards by Country and Date of Ratification (Selection) Sources and Bibliography Index.
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An innovative diplomatic and intellectual history of decolonization, post-colonial nation building and international human rights and development discourses, this study of the role of the ILO during 1940-70 opens up new perspectives on the significance of international organisations as actors in the history of the 20th century.
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• Old Age
• Life and Times
• Memory
• Reading and Writing
• Six things

"The beloved and bestselling author takes an intimate look back at a life of reading and writing. "The memory that we live with is the moth-eaten version of our own past that each of us carries around, depends on. It is our ID; this is how we know who we are and where we have been." Memory and history have been Penelope Lively's terrain in fiction over a career that has spanned five decades. But she has only rarely given readers a glimpse into her influences and formative years. Dancing Fish and Ammonites traces the arc of Lively's life, stretching from her early childhood in Cairo to boarding school in England to the sweeping social changes of Britain's twentieth century. She reflects on her early love of archeology, the fragments of the ancients that have accompanied her journey-including a sherd of Egyptian ceramic depicting dancing fish and ammonites found years ago on a Dorset beach. She also writes insightfully about aging and what life looks like from where she now stands"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: The Role of Networks in Public Diplomacy Navigating from the Salzburg Seminar to EAAS Making an Exhibition of Yourself Amerika Institut - Munich The Founding of GAAS The Founding of BAAS Conclusion: Building Blocks for a Collaborative Approach to Public Diplomacy.
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During the early Cold War, the complex relationship between communities in Europe and the United States was of concern to those on both sides of the Atlantic. Using archival research and recorded interviews, this book charts the development of American Studies in Europe during that period. It demonstrates how negotiations took place through a network of relationships among the state, philanthropic foundations, and European scholars. Each interaction within this network had the potential to change the odds of a particular outcome occurring. Through analysis of these negotiations the book identifies factors which are influential in the conduct of successful collaborative public diplomacy and draws lessons for public diplomacy in an age when communities are connected through multi-hub, multi-directional networks.
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• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Chronology Part I. Anthony Part II. Ona Part III. Us Notes Bibliography.
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When Julija Sukys was a child, her paternal grandfather, Anthony, rarely smiled, and her grandmother, Ona, spoke only in her native Lithuanian. But they still taught Sukys her family's story: that of a proud people forced from their homeland when the soldiers came. In mid-June 1941, three Red Army soldiers arrested Ona, forced her onto a cattle car, and sent her east to Siberia, where she spent seventeen years separated from her children and husband, working on a collective farm. The family story maintained that it was all a mistake. Anthony, whose name was on Stalin's list of enemies of the people, was accused of being a known and decorated anti-Bolshevik and Lithuanian nationalist. Some seventy years after these events, Sukys sat down to write about her grandparents and their survival of a twenty-five-year forced separation and subsequent reunion. Piecing the story together from letters, oral histories, audio recordings, and KGB documents, her research soon revealed a Holocaust-era secret-a family connection to the killing of seven hundred Jews in a small Lithuanian border town. According to KGB documents, the man in charge when those massacres took place was Anthony, Ona's husband. In Siberian Exile Sukys weaves together the two narratives: the story of Ona, noble exile and innocent victim, and that of Anthony, accused war criminal. She examines the stories that communities tell themselves and considers what happens when the stories we've been told all our lives suddenly and irrevocably change, and how forgiveness or grace operate across generations and across the barriers of life and death.
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