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 ......
At the end of October 1969, 5,000 North Vietnamese Army regulars surrounded a force of 150 American soldiers and their South Vietnamese allies at a firebase in a far-flung corner of Vietnam. The situation was desperate and, despite initial attempts to resupply the base, soon became untenable.
The third and final volume of McDiarmid's previously uncollected prose covers the decades from 1937 to 1978. This text includes assessments of the contemporary political and literary scene, articles on Lewis Grassic Gibbon, a tribute to James Joyce, and a criticism of Billy Graham.
The campaign for the restitution of Jewish property stolen during the Holocaust has led to more than 40 European commissions set up to ascertain how the property was dealt with after the war ended. This book examines the major cases concerning restitution, covering issues such as Nazi gold.
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.
How the United States helped restore a Europe battered by World War II and created the foundation for the postwar international order Seventy years ago, in the wake of World War II, the United States did something almost unprecedented in world history: It launched and paid for an economic aid plan to restore a continent reeling from war. The ......
Twenty Five Years of Supreme Court Decisions on Race and Remedies
This text provides a comprehensive chronicle of the evolution of the Supreme Court's involvement with the racial affirmative action issue. Each Supreme Court affirmative action decision is examined, showing how the controversy has persisted from the 1970s.
