From Theodore Roosevelt to FDR in the Century of American Power, 1901-19
A lively tour of the United States in the first half of the twentieth century, this book traces the development of America's industrial power and its commercial deployment, at home and abroad. It sets the American story within the dramatic context of the rise and fall of political empires in Europe and Asia and two devastating world wars.
Chronicling the last five months of Hitler's Thousand Year Reich from the viewpoints of those who were there, a detailed narrative draws on interviews, letters, and eyewitness accounts of Allied and Axis soldiers and citizens.
Features a selection of Hall's love letters to Evguenia Souline, a White Russian emigre with whom Hall fell in love in the summer of 1934. These letters detail Hall's growing obsession, the pain to her life partner Una Troubridge of this betrayal, and the poignant hopelessness of a happy resolution for any of the three women.
Philosophical, Psychological, and Historical Perspectives on Altruism
All but buried for most of the twentieth century, the concept of altruism has re-emerged in this last quarter as a focus of intense scholarly inquiry and general public interest. In the wake of increased consciousness of the human potential for destructiveness, both scholars and the general public are seeking interventions which will not only ......
These essays discuss members of the other New York Jewish Intellectuals, men and women who lived in New York during the 1930s and 40s, and who wrote and worked in a different intellectual circle from the one inhabited by those known as the New York Jewish Intellectuals.
These essays discuss members of the other New York Jewish Intellectuals, men and women who lived in New York during the 1930s and 40s, and who wrote and worked in a different intellectual circle from the one inhabited by those known as the New York Jewish Intellectuals.
Describes and analyses the relationship between the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from the Bretton Woods conference in 1944 to the present. Jacques J. Polak focuses primarily on this period from the 1970s when both the Fund and the Bank strove to meet developing countries' pressing needs for macroeconomic stabilization and ......
This textual study attempts to subject the works of the Anglo-Irish writer, Elizabeth Bowen, to a poststructuralist re-reading from a lesbian feminist perspective. Hoogland's current research is preoccupied with configurations of lesbian sexuality in novels of female development in the 50s.
