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  • Ruin and Renewal

    Civilizing Europe After World War II

    by Paul Betts ...
    Winner of the American Philosophical Society’s 2021 Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural HistoryFrom an award-winning historian, a panoramic account of Europe after the depravity of World War II.In 1945, Europe lay in ruins. Some fifty million people were dead, and millions more languished in physical and moral disarray. The devastation of World War II was unprecedented in character as well as in ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Science, Religion and Communism in Cold War Europe

    Edited by Paul Betts, Stephen A. Smith ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Religion and science were fundamental aspects of Eastern European communist political culture from the very beginning, and remained in uneasy tension across the region over the decades. While both topics have long attracted a great deal of scholarly attention, they almost invariably have been studied discretely as separate stories. Religion, Science and Communism in Cold War Europe is the first ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Critiquing Evidence-Based Policing in Britain

    A Genealogy

    by Paul Betts ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    Evidence Based Policing (EBP) exerts significant influence on how actors think, act and speak about UK policing to the point that it is becoming institutionalised. Inspired by the insights of Michel Foucault into power-knowledge, governmentality and institutional reform over time, this book provides a comprehensive account of the emergence of EBP in Britain as well as original discourse analysis ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Rethinking Socialist Space in the Twentieth Century

    Edited by Marcus Colla, Paul Betts ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This edited collection explores the problem of space under socialist regimes in the twentieth century. Bringing together contributions from international scholars with expertise in the architectural, urban, social, and cultural history of twentieth-century socialism, the book includes examples from China, Africa, Mongolia, Eastern Europe and the USSR. The volume reflects on how developments in the ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • Socialism Goes Global

    The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Age of Decolonisation

    Edited by James Mark, Paul Betts ...
    This collectively written monograph is the first work to provide a broad history of the relationship between Eastern Europe and the decolonising world. It ranges from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century, but at its core is the dynamic of the post-1945 period, when socialism's importance as a globalising force accelerated and drew together what contemporaries called the 'Second' and ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • Between Mass Death and Individual Loss

    The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany

    Edited by Alon Confino, Paul Betts, Dirk Schumann ...
    Series Book 7 - Studies in German History
    Recent years have witnessed growing scholarly interest in the history of death. Increasing academic attention toward death as a historical subject in its own right is very much linked to its pre-eminent place in 20th-century history, and Germany, predictably, occupies a special place in these inquiries. This collection of essays explores how German mourning changed over the 20th century in ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Ethics of Seeing

    Photography and Twentieth-Century German History

    Edited by Jennifer Evans, Paul Betts, Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann ...
    Series Book 21 - Studies in German History
    Throughout Germany’s tumultuous twentieth century, photography was an indispensable form of documentation. Whether acting as artists, witnesses, or reformers, both professional and amateur photographers chronicled social worlds through successive periods of radical upheaval. The Ethics of Seeing brings together an international group of scholars to explore the complex relationship between the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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    The New Histories

    Edited by Nikolaus Wachsmann, Jane Caplan ...
    The notorious concentration camp system was a central pillar of the Third Reich, supporting the Nazi war against political, racial and social outsiders whilst also intimidating the population at large. Established during the first months of the Nazi dictatorship in 1933, several million men, women and children of many nationalities had been incarcerated in the camps by the end of the Second World ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Red Flag

    A History of Communism

    by David Priestland ...
    "The best and the most accessible one-volume history of communism now available . . . A far-reaching, vividly written account." — Foreign AffairsIn The Red Flag, Oxford professor David Priestland tells the epic story of a movement that has taken root in dozens of countries across two hundred years, from its birth after the French Revolution to its ideological maturity in nineteenth-century Germany ... Read more

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  • Beyond Totalitarianism

    Stalinism and Nazism Compared

    Edited by Michael Geyer, Sheila Fitzpatrick ...
    In essays written jointly by specialists on Soviet and German history, the contributors to this book rethink and rework the nature of Stalinism and Nazism and establish a new methodology for viewing their histories that goes well beyond the now-outdated twentieth-century models of totalitarianism, ideology, and personality. Doing the labor of comparison gives us the means to ascertain the ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Europe's Troubled Peace

    1945 to the Present

    by Tom Buchanan ...
    Series Book 15 - Blackwell History of Europe
    This revised second edition now extends to the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century, covering the financial crisis and the related crisis in European integration, the impact of the “War on Terror” on Europe, and the redefinition of Europe following EU enlargement.Thoroughly revised and expanded, this integrated history of Europe now covers the end of the Second World War up to the ... Read more

    $45.00 USD

  • Nazism and German Society, 1933-1945

    Edited by David Crew ...
    Series series Rewriting Histories
    The image of the Third Reich as a monolithic state presiding over the brainwashed, fanatical masses, retains a tenacious grip on the general public's imagination. However, a growing body of research on the social history of the Nazi years has revealed the variety and complexity of the relationships between the Nazi regime and the German people. This volume makes this new research accessible to ... Read more

    $64.99 USD