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Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe
written by Gérard Prunier, fl. 1984 (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2009, originally published 2009), 570 page(s)
The Rwandan genocide sparked a horrific bloodbath that swept across sub-Saharan Africa, ultimately leading to the deaths of some four million people. In this extraordinary history of the recent wars in Central Africa, Gerard Prunier offers a gripping account of how one grisly episode laid the groundwork for a swee...
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written by Gérard Prunier, fl. 1984 (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2009, originally published 2009), 570 page(s)
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The Rwandan genocide sparked a horrific bloodbath that swept across sub-Saharan Africa, ultimately leading to the deaths of some four million people. In this extraordinary history of the recent wars in Central Africa, Gerard Prunier offers a gripping account of how one grisly episode laid the groundwork for a sweeping and disastrous upheaval.
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
Gérard Prunier, fl. 1984
Date Published / Released
2009
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Topic / Theme
Rwanda, Tutsi Genocide (1994), Genocide, Politics, International relations, Refugees, Economic conditions, War, Post Genocide Rwanda, 1994-, Rwandan Civil War and Genocide, April 7–July 15, 1994, Diplomacy, Politics & Policy, History, International Response, Origins, Congolese, Rwandans, 21st Century in World History (2001– ), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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After Insurgency: Revolution and Electoral Politics in El Salvador
written by Ralph Sprenkels (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2018), 484 page(s)
El Salvador’s 2009 presidential elections marked a historical feat: Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) became the first former Latin American guerrilla movement to win the ballot after failing to take power by means of armed struggle. In 2014, former comandante Salvador Sánchez Cerén b...
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written by Ralph Sprenkels (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2018), 484 page(s)
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El Salvador’s 2009 presidential elections marked a historical feat: Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) became the first former Latin American guerrilla movement to win the ballot after failing to take power by means of armed struggle. In 2014, former comandante Salvador Sánchez Cerén became the country’s second FMLN president. After Insurgency focuses on the development of El Salvador’s FMLN from armed insurgency...
El Salvador’s 2009 presidential elections marked a historical feat: Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) became the first former Latin American guerrilla movement to win the ballot after failing to take power by means of armed struggle. In 2014, former comandante Salvador Sánchez Cerén became the country’s second FMLN president. After Insurgency focuses on the development of El Salvador’s FMLN from armed insurgency to a competitive political party. At the end of the war in 1992, the historical ties between insurgent veterans enabled the FMLN to reconvert into a relatively effective electoral machine. However, these same ties also fueled factional dispute and clientelism. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic fieldwork, Ralph Sprenkels examines El Salvador’s revolutionary movement as a social field, developing an innovative theoretical and methodological approach to the study of insurgent movements in general and their aftermath in particular, while weaving in the personal stories of former revolutionaries with a larger historical study of the civil war and of the transformation process of wartime forces into postwar political contenders. This allows Sprenkels to shed new light on insurgency’s persistent legacies, both for those involved as well as for Salvadoran politics at large. In documenting the shift from armed struggle to electoral politics, the book adds to ongoing debates about contemporary Latin America politics, the “pink tide,” and post-neoliberal electoralism. It also charts new avenues in the study of insurgency and its aftermath.
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Global Issues
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Book
Author / Creator
Ralph Sprenkels
Date Published / Released
2018
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Topic / Theme
Revolution and Protest context, Elections, Revolutions, Insurgency, Politics & Policy, History, 21st Century in World History (2001– ), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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The Alien Invasion
written by W. H. Wilkins, 1860-1905 (London, England: Methuen and Company, 1892, originally published 1892), 227 page(s)
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written by W. H. Wilkins, 1860-1905 (London, England: Methuen and Company, 1892, originally published 1892), 227 page(s)
Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
W. H. Wilkins, 1860-1905
Date Published / Released
1892
Publisher
Methuen and Company
Topic / Theme
EU and its Borders, Internal and External, Poverty, Immigration laws, Immigrant populations, History, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag
written by Kang Chʻŏr-hwan, 1968- and Pierre Rigoulot, 1944- (New York, NY: Basic Books, 2001, originally published 2000), 265 page(s)
North Korea is today one of the last bastions of hard-line Communism. Its leaders have kept a tight grasp on their one-party regime, quashing any nascent opposition movements and sending all suspected dissidents to its brutal concentration camps for 're-education.' Kang Chol-hwan is the first survivor of one of th...
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written by Kang Chʻŏr-hwan, 1968- and Pierre Rigoulot, 1944- (New York, NY: Basic Books, 2001, originally published 2000), 265 page(s)
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North Korea is today one of the last bastions of hard-line Communism. Its leaders have kept a tight grasp on their one-party regime, quashing any nascent opposition movements and sending all suspected dissidents to its brutal concentration camps for 're-education.' Kang Chol-hwan is the first survivor of one of these camps to escape and tell his story to the world, documenting the extreme conditions in these gulags and providing a personal insigh...
North Korea is today one of the last bastions of hard-line Communism. Its leaders have kept a tight grasp on their one-party regime, quashing any nascent opposition movements and sending all suspected dissidents to its brutal concentration camps for 're-education.' Kang Chol-hwan is the first survivor of one of these camps to escape and tell his story to the world, documenting the extreme conditions in these gulags and providing a personal insight into life in North Korea. Part horror story, part historical document, part memoir, part political tract, this record of one man's suffering gives eyewitness proof to an ongoing sorrowful chapter of modern history.
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Global Issues
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Book
Contributor
Yair Reiner, fl. 2001
Author / Creator
Kang Chʻŏr-hwan, 1968-, Pierre Rigoulot, 1944-
Date Published / Released
2000, 2001
Publisher
Basic Books
Topic / Theme
Korea and its Borders, Social conflict, Internment camps, Political prisoners, Politics & Policy, North Koreans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © 2005 by Perseus Book Group
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Baseball on the Border: A Tale of Two Laredos
written by Alan M. Klein, 1946- (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997), 317 page(s)
From 1985 to 1994 there existed a significant but unheralded experiment in professional baseball. For ten seasons, the Tecolotes de los Dos Laredos (The Owls of the Two Laredos) were the only team in professional sports to represent two nations. Playing in the storied Mexican League (an AAA affiliate of major leag...
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written by Alan M. Klein, 1946- (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997), 317 page(s)
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From 1985 to 1994 there existed a significant but unheralded experiment in professional baseball. For ten seasons, the Tecolotes de los Dos Laredos (The Owls of the Two Laredos) were the only team in professional sports to represent two nations. Playing in the storied Mexican League (an AAA affiliate of major league baseball), the "Tecos" had home parks on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, in Laredo, Texas and in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. In...
From 1985 to 1994 there existed a significant but unheralded experiment in professional baseball. For ten seasons, the Tecolotes de los Dos Laredos (The Owls of the Two Laredos) were the only team in professional sports to represent two nations. Playing in the storied Mexican League (an AAA affiliate of major league baseball), the "Tecos" had home parks on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, in Laredo, Texas and in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. In true border fashion, Mexican and American national anthems were played before each game, and the Tecos were operated by interests in both cities. Baseball on the Border is the story of the rise and unexpected demise of this surprising team. For Alan Klein, a cultural anthropologist specializing in sport, "the border" is almost a nation of its own. Having formed teams of players from both sides of the Rio Grande for almost a century, organizers and followers of the "Border Birds" often join forces but just as frequently squabble with each other in a chronic border tension. Throughout the book, Klein includes firsthand observations of the team and descriptions of its players. Readers will meet Dan Firova, the Tecos' beleaguered manager, a border-region native who nevertheless finds himself a target of the Mexican media. The "Ugly American," Willie Waite, is a young pitcher whose stunning success does nothing to diminish the disdain he has for his Mexican teammates. Ernesto Barraza, "The Trickster," once threw a no-hitter on only seventy-three pitches (on April Fool's Day, appropriately enough), but occasionally shows up at the park missing part of his uniform. And then there is Andres Mora, an aged slugger who, despite three seasons in major league baseball and a life of personal excesses, came within a few home runs of setting the all-time Mexican League record. This is just part of the roster of the Tecos and only a fraction of the lineup of Baseball on the Border. Anyone with an interest in baseball will be enlightened and entertained by this informative book.
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Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
Alan M. Klein, 1946-
Date Published / Released
1997
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Topic / Theme
Mexico and the United States Border, International relations, Cultural identity, Sociology, Americans, Mexicans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © 1997 by Princeton University Press
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Beyond la Frontera: the History of Mexico-U.S. Migration
edited by Mark Overmyer-Velazquez, fl. 2011 (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2011, originally published 2011), 400 page(s)
Providing a comprehensive and up-to-date historical overview of Mexican migration to the U.S., Beyond la Frontera: The History of Mexico-U.S. Migration examines the transnational and historical impact of migratory trends as they developed in Mexico and the U.S. from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. F...
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edited by Mark Overmyer-Velazquez, fl. 2011 (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2011, originally published 2011), 400 page(s)
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Providing a comprehensive and up-to-date historical overview of Mexican migration to the U.S., Beyond la Frontera: The History of Mexico-U.S. Migration examines the transnational and historical impact of migratory trends as they developed in Mexico and the U.S. from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Featuring essays by leading authors in the field, the book utilizes both a chronological and thematic structure, referencing mutually in...
Providing a comprehensive and up-to-date historical overview of Mexican migration to the U.S., Beyond la Frontera: The History of Mexico-U.S. Migration examines the transnational and historical impact of migratory trends as they developed in Mexico and the U.S. from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Featuring essays by leading authors in the field, the book utilizes both a chronological and thematic structure, referencing mutually influential periods in Mexican and Mexican-American history. Taking into consideration the bi-national historical factors and narrative constructions of Mexican migration, Beyond la Frontera also describes how we may better understand the persistent legislative debates surrounding migrant rights and national sovereignty.
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Field of Study
Global Issues
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Book
Contributor
Mark Overmyer-Velazquez, fl. 2011
Date Published / Released
2011, 01 July 2011
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Topic / Theme
Mexico and the United States Border, Migrant life, Immigration and emigration, Crossing borders, Geography, Mexicans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Beyond the Border: The German-Jewish Legacy Abroad
written by Steven E. Aschheim, 1942- (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007), 209 page(s)
The modern German-Jewish experience through the rise of Nazism in 1933 was characterized by an explosion of cultural and intellectual creativity. Yet well after that history has ended, the influence of Weimar German-Jewish intellectuals has become ever greater. Hannah Arendt, Gershom Scholem, Theodor Adorno, Walte...
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written by Steven E. Aschheim, 1942- (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007), 209 page(s)
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The modern German-Jewish experience through the rise of Nazism in 1933 was characterized by an explosion of cultural and intellectual creativity. Yet well after that history has ended, the influence of Weimar German-Jewish intellectuals has become ever greater. Hannah Arendt, Gershom Scholem, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Franz Rosenzweig, and Leo Strauss have become household names and possess a continuing resonance. Beyond the Border seeks...
The modern German-Jewish experience through the rise of Nazism in 1933 was characterized by an explosion of cultural and intellectual creativity. Yet well after that history has ended, the influence of Weimar German-Jewish intellectuals has become ever greater. Hannah Arendt, Gershom Scholem, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Franz Rosenzweig, and Leo Strauss have become household names and possess a continuing resonance. Beyond the Border seeks to explain this phenomenon and analyze how the German-Jewish legacy has continuingly permeated wider modes of Western thought and sensibility, and why these émigrés occupy an increasingly iconic place in contemporary society. Steven Aschheim traces the odyssey of a fascinating group of German-speaking Zionists--among them Martin Buber and Hans Kohn--who recognized the moral dilemmas of Jewish settlement in pre-Israel Palestine and sought a binationalist solution to the Arab-Israel conflict. He explores how German-Jewish émigré historians like Fritz Stern and George Mosse created a new kind of cultural history written against the background of their exile from Nazi Germany and in implicit tension with postwar German social historians. And finally, he examines the reasons behind the remarkable contemporary canonization of these Weimar intellectuals--from Arendt to Strauss--within Western academic and cultural life. Beyond the Border is about more than the physical act of departure. It also points to the pioneering ways these émigrés questioned normative cognitive boundaries and have continued to play a vital role in addressing the predicaments that engage and perplex us today.
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Global Issues
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Book
Author / Creator
Steven E. Aschheim, 1942-
Date Published / Released
2007
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Topic / Theme
Germany and its Borders, Cultural identity, Immigration and emigration, Holocaust, 1939-1945, World War II, 1939-1945, Politics & Policy, Sociology, Germans, Jews, Israelis, Jewish Americans, 21st Century in World History (2001– ), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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The Holocaust and its Religious Impact: A Critical Assessment and Annotated Bibliography
written by Susan M. Ortmann, fl. 2004 and Jack R. Fischel, fl. 1998, in Bibliographies and Indexes in Religious Studies, Number 54 (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2004, originally published 2004), 354 page(s)
This annotated bibliography provides a comprehensive survey of writings about the Holocaust. The authors present an overview of topics including Christian anti-judentum, anti-semitism, the moral and religious response to the Nazi persecution and genocide of the Jews, and post-World War II responses to the Holocaus...
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written by Susan M. Ortmann, fl. 2004 and Jack R. Fischel, fl. 1998, in Bibliographies and Indexes in Religious Studies, Number 54 (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2004, originally published 2004), 354 page(s)
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This annotated bibliography provides a comprehensive survey of writings about the Holocaust. The authors present an overview of topics including Christian anti-judentum, anti-semitism, the moral and religious response to the Nazi persecution and genocide of the Jews, and post-World War II responses to the Holocaust as they have appeared in the thousands of books and articles published on the Holocaust. The bibliography is divided into four topics...
This annotated bibliography provides a comprehensive survey of writings about the Holocaust. The authors present an overview of topics including Christian anti-judentum, anti-semitism, the moral and religious response to the Nazi persecution and genocide of the Jews, and post-World War II responses to the Holocaust as they have appeared in the thousands of books and articles published on the Holocaust. The bibliography is divided into four topics with introductory comments that frame the theories put forward in the materials cited. A broad array of past and recent scholarship from a variety of venues and points of view are represented.
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Global Issues
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Susan M. Ortmann, fl. 2004, Jack R. Fischel, fl. 1998
Date Published / Released
2004
Publisher
Praeger Publishers
Series
Bibliographies and Indexes in Religious Studies
Topic / Theme
Holocaust (1933-1945), European Jewish, Religious persecution, Nazism, Genocide victims, Genocide, Religion, World War II, 1939-1945, Holocaust, 1939-1945, Sociology, History, Origins, International Response, Jews, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © 20054 by Jack R. Fischel and Susan M. Ortmann
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A Biography of No Place
written by Kate Brown, fl. 2004 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005, originally published 2004), 322 page(s)
This is a biography of a borderland between Russia and Poland, a region where, in 1925, people identified as Poles, Germans, Jews, Ukrainians, and Russians lived side by side. Over the next three decades, this mosaic of cultures was modernized and homogenized out of existence by the ruling might of the Soviet Unio...
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written by Kate Brown, fl. 2004 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005, originally published 2004), 322 page(s)
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This is a biography of a borderland between Russia and Poland, a region where, in 1925, people identified as Poles, Germans, Jews, Ukrainians, and Russians lived side by side. Over the next three decades, this mosaic of cultures was modernized and homogenized out of existence by the ruling might of the Soviet Union, then Nazi Germany, and finally, Polish and Ukrainian nationalism. By the 1950s, this "no place" emerged as a Ukrainian heartland, an...
This is a biography of a borderland between Russia and Poland, a region where, in 1925, people identified as Poles, Germans, Jews, Ukrainians, and Russians lived side by side. Over the next three decades, this mosaic of cultures was modernized and homogenized out of existence by the ruling might of the Soviet Union, then Nazi Germany, and finally, Polish and Ukrainian nationalism. By the 1950s, this "no place" emerged as a Ukrainian heartland, and the fertile mix of peoples that defined the region was destroyed.Kate Brown’s study is grounded in the life of the village and shtetl, in the personalities and small histories of everyday life in this area. In impressive detail, she documents how these regimes, bureaucratically and then violently, separated, named, and regimented this intricate community into distinct ethnic groups.Drawing on recently opened archives, ethnography, and oral interviews that were unavailable a decade ago, A Biography of No Place reveals Stalinist and Nazi history from the perspective of the remote borderlands, thus bringing the periphery to the center of history. We are given, in short, an intimate portrait of the ethnic purification that has marked all of Europe, as well as a glimpse at the margins of twentieth-century “progress.”
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Field of Study
World History
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Author / Creator
Kate Brown, fl. 2004
Date Published / Released
2004, 2005
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Topic / Theme
Eastern European Borders, Cultural identity, Nationalism, Genocide, Ethnic relations, Stalin's Great Purge, 1936-1938, Holocaust, 1939-1945, World War II, 1939-1945, Geography, Politics & Policy, History, Jews, Ukrainians, Polish, Germans, Russians, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Border Identities: Nation and State at International Frontiers
edited by Hastings Donnan, 1953- and Thomas M. Wilson, fl. 1999 (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2004, originally published 1998), 314 page(s)
This book offers fresh insights into the complex and various ways in which international frontiers influence cultural identities. Ten anthropological case studies describe specific international borders in Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America, and bring out the importance, and diverse forms, of boundary politic...
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edited by Hastings Donnan, 1953- and Thomas M. Wilson, fl. 1999 (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2004, originally published 1998), 314 page(s)
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This book offers fresh insights into the complex and various ways in which international frontiers influence cultural identities. Ten anthropological case studies describe specific international borders in Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America, and bring out the importance, and diverse forms, of boundary politics.
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Book
Contributor
Hastings Donnan, 1953-, Thomas M. Wilson, fl. 1999
Date Published / Released
1998, 2004
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Topic / Theme
Border Events and Areas Context, Immigrant populations, Political boundaries, Cultural identity, Anthropology, Geography, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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