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Belarus: Trodden Underfoot: Peaceful Protest In Belarus
written by Amnesty International (London, England: Amnesty International, 2002),
Source: www.amnesty.org
Source: www.amnesty.org
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written by Amnesty International (London, England: Amnesty International, 2002),
Source: www.amnesty.org
Source: www.amnesty.org
Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Government/institutional document
Author / Creator
Amnesty International
Date Published / Released
2002-05-09, 2002
Publisher
Amnesty International
Topic / Theme
Revolution and Protest context, Political prisoners, Political demonstrations, Censorship, Politics & Policy, Belarusan, 21st Century in World History (2001– )
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Between Containment and Rollback
written by Christian Ostermann (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021), 416 page(s)
In the aftermath of World War II, American policymakers turned to the task of rebuilding Europe while keeping communism at bay. In Germany, formally divided since 1949,the United States prioritized the political, economic, and, eventually, military integration of the fledgling Federal Republic with the West. The e...
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written by Christian Ostermann (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021), 416 page(s)
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In the aftermath of World War II, American policymakers turned to the task of rebuilding Europe while keeping communism at bay. In Germany, formally divided since 1949,the United States prioritized the political, economic, and, eventually, military integration of the fledgling Federal Republic with the West. The extraordinary success story of forging this alliance has dominated our historical under-standing of the American-German relationship. La...
In the aftermath of World War II, American policymakers turned to the task of rebuilding Europe while keeping communism at bay. In Germany, formally divided since 1949,the United States prioritized the political, economic, and, eventually, military integration of the fledgling Federal Republic with the West. The extraordinary success story of forging this alliance has dominated our historical under-standing of the American-German relationship. Largely left out of the grand narrative of U.S.–German relations were most East Germans who found themselves caught under Soviet and then communist control by the post-1945 geo-political fallout of the war that Nazi Germany had launched. They were the ones who most dearly paid the price for the country's division. This book writes the East Germans—both leadership and general populace—back into that history as objects of American policy and as historical agents in their own rightBased on recently declassified documents from American, Russian, and German archives, this book demonstrates that U.S. efforts from1945 to 1953 went beyond building a prosperous democracy in western Germany and "containing" Soviet-Communist power to the east. Under the Truman and then the Eisenhower administrations, American policy also included efforts to undermine and "roll back" Soviet and German communist control in the eastern part of the country. This story sheds light on a dark-er side to the American Cold War in Germany: propaganda, covert operations, economic pressure, and psychological warfare. Christian F. Ostermann takes an international history approach, capturing Soviet and East German responses and actions, and drawing a rich and complex picture of the early East–West confrontation in the heart of Europe.
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Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
Christian Ostermann
Date Published / Released
2021
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Topic / Theme
General Context: Security Issues, Economic policy, Postwar reconstruction, International relations, Cold War, 1945-1989, Politics & Policy, Diplomacy, Germans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © 2021 Stanford University Press
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Beyond Fear
directed by Michael Perlman, fl. 2003; produced by Michael Perlman, fl. 2003, World2be (Pompton Plains, NJ: Bayview Entertainment, 2008), 54 mins
Badgro (20), a Buddhist monk and Nawang (13), a Buddhist nun lead freedom demonstrations against Chinese repression in Tibet. They are imprisoned and tortured but through the power of positive thinking, find the strength to move beyond fear. When a world wide movement culminates in their release, they find a way t...
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directed by Michael Perlman, fl. 2003; produced by Michael Perlman, fl. 2003, World2be (Pompton Plains, NJ: Bayview Entertainment, 2008), 54 mins
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Badgro (20), a Buddhist monk and Nawang (13), a Buddhist nun lead freedom demonstrations against Chinese repression in Tibet. They are imprisoned and tortured but through the power of positive thinking, find the strength to move beyond fear. When a world wide movement culminates in their release, they find a way to forgive their former torturers as they continue the struggle to free prisons of conscience they left behind.
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Michael Perlman, fl. 2003, World2be
Author / Creator
Michael Perlman, fl. 2003
Date Published / Released
2008
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Speaker / Narrator
Ngawang Sangdrol, 1977-, Tenzin Bagdro, 1968-
Person Discussed
Ngawang Sangdrol, 1977-, Tenzin Bagdro, 1968-, Dalai Lama, XIV, 1935-, Mao Zedong, 1893-1976
Topic / Theme
Monasteries, Buddhism, Political demonstrations, Religious movements, Social movements, Political prisoners, Emotions and feelings, Tibetan, Chinese
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Copyright © 2008 Bayview Entertainment
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Bhagat Singh
written by Marxists Internet Archive (California: Marxists Internet Archive),
Source: www.marxists.org
Source: www.marxists.org
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written by Marxists Internet Archive (California: Marxists Internet Archive),
Source: www.marxists.org
Source: www.marxists.org
Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
General reference website
Author / Creator
Marxists Internet Archive
Publisher
Marxists Internet Archive
Person Discussed
Bhagat Singh, 1907-1931
Topic / Theme
India Civil Disobedience and Independence Movement, 1930-1947, Revolutionaries, Assassination plots and attempts, History, Politics & Policy, Indians (Asian), Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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(2021), 31 page(s)
Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
General reference book
Date Published / Released
2021
Topic / Theme
Music and Social Change, Social movements, Political demonstrations, Music, Politics & Policy, Sociology, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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1 REVOLUTION HAS COME TO BROOKLYN
written by Brian Purnell, fl. 2010; edited by Trevor Griffey, fl. 2011 and David Goldberg, fl. 2006; in Black Power at Work: Community Control, Affirmative Action and the Construction of Industry (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010, originally published 2010), 23-47
Black Power at Work chronicles the history of direct action campaigns to open up the construction industry to black workers in the 1960s and 1970s. The book's case studies of local movements in Brooklyn, Newark, the Bay Area, Detroit, Chicago, and Seattle show how struggles against racism in the construction indus...
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written by Brian Purnell, fl. 2010; edited by Trevor Griffey, fl. 2011 and David Goldberg, fl. 2006; in Black Power at Work: Community Control, Affirmative Action and the Construction of Industry (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010, originally published 2010), 23-47
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Black Power at Work chronicles the history of direct action campaigns to open up the construction industry to black workers in the 1960s and 1970s. The book's case studies of local movements in Brooklyn, Newark, the Bay Area, Detroit, Chicago, and Seattle show how struggles against racism in the construction industry shaped the emergence of Black Power politics outside the U.S. South. In the process, "community control" of the construction indust...
Black Power at Work chronicles the history of direct action campaigns to open up the construction industry to black workers in the 1960s and 1970s. The book's case studies of local movements in Brooklyn, Newark, the Bay Area, Detroit, Chicago, and Seattle show how struggles against racism in the construction industry shaped the emergence of Black Power politics outside the U.S. South. In the process, "community control" of the construction industry—especially government War on Poverty and post-rebellion urban reconstruction projects— became central to community organizing for black economic self-determination and political autonomy.The history of Black Power's community organizing tradition shines a light on more recent debates about job training and placement for unemployed, underemployed, and underrepresented workers. Politicians responded to Black Power protests at federal construction projects by creating modern affirmative action and minority set-aside programs in the late 1960s and early 1970s, but these programs relied on "voluntary" compliance by contractors and unions, government enforcement was inadequate, and they were not connected to jobs programs. Forty years later, the struggle to have construction jobs serve as a pathway out of poverty for inner city residents remains an unfinished part of the struggle for racial justice and labor union reform in the United States.Contributors: Erik S. Gellman, Roosevelt University; David Goldberg, Wayne State University; Trevor Griffey, University of Washington; Brian Purnell, Fordham University; Julia Rabig, Boston University; John J. Rosen, University of Illinois at Chicago
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Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Chapter
Contributor
Trevor Griffey, fl. 2011, David Goldberg, fl. 2006
Author / Creator
Brian Purnell, fl. 2010
Date Published / Released
2010
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Topic / Theme
Long Civil Rights Movement, United States, Civil rights, Race relations, Political demonstrations, Politics & Policy, Sociology, African Americans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Part 3: The American Pacific: Chapter 9: Re-Archiving Asian Settler Colonialism in a Time of Hawaiian Decolonization, or, Two Walks Along Ka...
written by Bianca Isaki, fl. 2012; edited by Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr., fl. 2012 and Camilla Fojas, 1971-; in Transnational Crossroads: Remapping the Americas and the Pacific, Borderlands and Transcultural Studies (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2012, originally published 2012), [269]-[290]
The twentieth century was a time of unprecedented migration and interaction for Asian, Latin American, and Pacific Islander cultures in the Americas and the American Pacific. Some of these ethnic groups already had historic ties, but technology, migration, and globalization during the twentieth century brought the...
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written by Bianca Isaki, fl. 2012; edited by Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr., fl. 2012 and Camilla Fojas, 1971-; in Transnational Crossroads: Remapping the Americas and the Pacific, Borderlands and Transcultural Studies (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2012, originally published 2012), [269]-[290]
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The twentieth century was a time of unprecedented migration and interaction for Asian, Latin American, and Pacific Islander cultures in the Americas and the American Pacific. Some of these ethnic groups already had historic ties, but technology, migration, and globalization during the twentieth century brought them into even closer contact. Transnational Crossroads explores and triangulates for the first time the interactions and contacts among t...
The twentieth century was a time of unprecedented migration and interaction for Asian, Latin American, and Pacific Islander cultures in the Americas and the American Pacific. Some of these ethnic groups already had historic ties, but technology, migration, and globalization during the twentieth century brought them into even closer contact. Transnational Crossroads explores and triangulates for the first time the interactions and contacts among these three cultural groups that were brought together by the expanding American empire from 1867 to 1950.
Through a comparative framework, this volume weaves together narratives of U.S. and Spanish empire, globalization, resistance, and identity, as well as social, labor, and political movements. Contributors examine multiethnic celebrities and key figures, migratory paths, cultural productions, and social and political formations among these three groups. Engaging multiple disciplines and methodologies, these studies of Asian American, Latin American, and Pacific Islander cultural interactions explode traditional notions of ethnic studies and introduce new approaches to transnational and comparative studies of the Americas and the American Pacific.
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Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Chapter
Contributor
Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr., fl. 2012, Camilla Fojas, 1971-
Author / Creator
Bianca Isaki, fl. 2012
Date Published / Released
2012
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Series
Borderlands and Transcultural Studies
Topic / Theme
History of Trade, Transport Industry, Race relations, Colonization, Migration, Imperialism, Decolonization, Geography, Politics & Policy, History, Power Dynamics in International Trade and Finance, Industrial Transformation, Innovation, and Competition, Pacific Islanders, Asians, Hawaiians, 21st Century in World History (2001– ), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000), Industrialization and...
History of Trade, Transport Industry, Race relations, Colonization, Migration, Imperialism, Decolonization, Geography, Politics & Policy, History, Power Dynamics in International Trade and Finance, Industrial Transformation, Innovation, and Competition, Pacific Islanders, Asians, Hawaiians, 21st Century in World History (2001– ), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000), Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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Bosnia: A Wounded Land
produced by SW Pictures (London, England: SW Pictures, 2009), 1 hour
Does anyone still believe in Bosnia-Herzogovina or that three years of war (1992-1995) and the following 13 years of uneasy peace have achieved very much? Would fighting break out again if international troops left the area? This film paints a picture of a country that in many ways is still as deeply divided as wh...
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produced by SW Pictures (London, England: SW Pictures, 2009), 1 hour
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Does anyone still believe in Bosnia-Herzogovina or that three years of war (1992-1995) and the following 13 years of uneasy peace have achieved very much? Would fighting break out again if international troops left the area? This film paints a picture of a country that in many ways is still as deeply divided as when the Dayton Accords were signed in 1995. Reasons for pessimism abound. Sarajevo had a reputation as a multi-ethnic, tolerant city but...
Does anyone still believe in Bosnia-Herzogovina or that three years of war (1992-1995) and the following 13 years of uneasy peace have achieved very much? Would fighting break out again if international troops left the area? This film paints a picture of a country that in many ways is still as deeply divided as when the Dayton Accords were signed in 1995. Reasons for pessimism abound. Sarajevo had a reputation as a multi-ethnic, tolerant city but there are signs that it has fallen under the thrall of nationalist Muslims. Only the presence of foreign forces, police and advisors from the UN and the European Union has maintained the fragile balance between Bosnia’s Serb Orthodox, Croat Catholic, and Muslim communities over the dozen years since the civil war. The country has three presidents, one for each community, but the government is riven by crises – often with the same causes as those that sparked off the war.
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Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
SW Pictures
Date Published / Released
2009
Publisher
SW Pictures
Topic / Theme
Yugoslav Wars: Bosniaks, Serbs, Croats (1991-1995), Laws and legislation, Postwar reconstruction, Prisoners of war, War crimes, Gender-based violence, Ethnic conflict, Srebrenica Massacre, Bosnia, July 11-13 1995, Yugoslav Wars, 1992-1995, Bosnian War, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1992-1995, Bosnian Genocide, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1992-1995, History, Politics & Policy, Documentation of Crimes, Curren...
Yugoslav Wars: Bosniaks, Serbs, Croats (1991-1995), Laws and legislation, Postwar reconstruction, Prisoners of war, War crimes, Gender-based violence, Ethnic conflict, Srebrenica Massacre, Bosnia, July 11-13 1995, Yugoslav Wars, 1992-1995, Bosnian War, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1992-1995, Bosnian Genocide, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1992-1995, History, Politics & Policy, Documentation of Crimes, Current Affairs, Croatians, Bosnians, Serbians, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Bosnia and Croatia: The Cost of Reconstruction
written by United States. Central Intelligence Agency. DCI Interagency Balkan Task Force, in Bosnia, Intelligence, and the Clinton Presidency, of William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum (Little Rock, AR) (20 November 1995), Box 11 , 15 page(s)
Report on the cost of reconstruction in Bosnia and Croatia.
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written by United States. Central Intelligence Agency. DCI Interagency Balkan Task Force, in Bosnia, Intelligence, and the Clinton Presidency, of William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum (Little Rock, AR) (20 November 1995), Box 11 , 15 page(s)
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Report on the cost of reconstruction in Bosnia and Croatia.
Date Written / Recorded
20 November 1995, 1995
Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Research report
Author / Creator
United States. Central Intelligence Agency. DCI Interagency Balkan Task Force
Topic / Theme
Yugoslav Wars: Bosniaks, Serbs, Croats (1991-1995), Bosnian, Croatian, Economic conditions, Property damage, Postwar reconstruction, Yugoslav Wars, 1992-1995, Politics & Policy, Post Conflict Support, International Response, Bosnians, Croatians, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Boy Soldiers: The Secret War in Okinawa
directed by Hanayo Oya, 1987- and Chie Mikami, fl. 2012 (Hamden, CT: ZAKKA Films, 2018), 1 hour 55 mins
Heralding the downfall of the Japanese military regime in 1945, the Battle of Okinawa has already been the topic of various documentary and fiction films. However, the history of the guerilla war, fought by Okinawan child soldiers under the command of Japanese officers, is still regarded as taboo. With an acute se...
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directed by Hanayo Oya, 1987- and Chie Mikami, fl. 2012 (Hamden, CT: ZAKKA Films, 2018), 1 hour 55 mins
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Heralding the downfall of the Japanese military regime in 1945, the Battle of Okinawa has already been the topic of various documentary and fiction films. However, the history of the guerilla war, fought by Okinawan child soldiers under the command of Japanese officers, is still regarded as taboo. With an acute sense of urgency, this documentary depicts the inhumanity of militaristic ideologies.
Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Documentary
Author / Creator
Hanayo Oya, 1987-, Chie Mikami, fl. 2012
Date Published / Released
2018
Publisher
ZAKKA Films
Topic / Theme
Political demonstrations, War, Okinawan
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Copyright © 2018 ZAKKA Films
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