Historical Collections Division. Wartime Statues: Instruments of Soviet Control

TAMU Press, 2002 - 294 p. ISBN10: 1585442135 ISBN13: 9781585442133 (eng) As US troops marched into vanquished Austria at the end of World War II, they faced the dual tasks of destroying the remnants of Nazi power and establishing a new democratic nation. The American military forces were adept at the first task they were woefully unprepared for the second. Their halting efforts, complicated by the difficulties of managing the occupation along wi...

Pocket Essentials, 2007 - 160 p. ISBN10: 1842432125 ISBN13: 9781842432129 (eng) In this historical work, the events that led to war and the naval arms race between Britain and Germany are examined. It details the significant arena of war: the battle for control of the sea. At the beginning of the war in 1914, Britain's maritime supremacy had remained unchallenged for 100 years, but advances in technology saw a very different kind of warfare with...

Palgrave Macmillan. - 2000. - 485 p. This is a major new contribution to the historiography of the First World War. It examines the lively battle of ideas which helped destroy Austria-Hungary. It also assesses, for the first time, the weapon of "front propaganda" as used by and against the Empire on the Italian and Eastern Fronts. Based on material in eight languages, the work challenges accepted views about Britain's primacy in the field of prop...

London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 1994. - 184 p. The idea of teaching history by a series of maps was new to me until Martin Gilbert’s historical atlas of British history had come my way. I was at once intensely interested and later studied those of other countries and nations which he published. Such visual pictures of historical facts cannot fail to be of real value to students in schools and universities; they would look through...

Rodopi, 2011 - 342 p. ISBN10: 9042033150 ISBN13: 9789042033153 The years from 1918 to 1945 remain central to European History. It was a breath-taking time during which the very best and very worst attributes of Mankind were on display. In the euphoria of peace which followed the end of the First World War, the Baltic States emerged as independent forces on the world stage, participating in thrilling experiments in national and transnational gove...

Cambridge University Press, 1983 - 476 p. ISBN10: 0521274591 ISBN13: 9780521274593 (eng) This volume concentrates on the Balkan wars and World War II, which both had their origins in the desire of nationalist circles to complete the territorial unification of their states. A substantial part of this book deals with the wartime experience, the establishment of the postwar regimes and their internal development to 1980 and the divergent paths foll...

Cambridge University Press, 2010. - 620 pp. This volume examines the evolution of the Cold War from the Helsinki Conference of 1975 until the Soviet collapse in 1991. Leading scholars analyze the economic, social, cultural, religious, technological, and geopolitical factors that shaped the policies that ended the Cold War, looking at the personalities and policies of Carter and Reagan, Brezhnev and Gorbachev, Thatcher, Kohl, and Deng Xiaoping. T...

Books in Focus, 1981. - 354 p. In this book, Professor Quigley discusses how Cecil Rhodes, Alfred Milner, and others set up Rhodes secret society for the purpose of bringing the english speaking countries back under the control of British financial interests. Quigley details the start of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, and its branches in other countries, including the Council on Foreign Relations based in the United States. Thes...

Cambridge University Press, 1977. - 750 p. Table of Contents: Frontmatter The Historical Study of Economic Growth and Decline in Early Modern History by C. H. Wilson Agriculture in the Vital Revolution by B. H. Slicher van Bath The European Fisheries in Early Modern History by A. R. Michell The Changing Patterns of Trade by Kristof Glamann Monetary, Credit and Banking Systems by Herman van der Wee The Nature of Enterprise by Barry Supple The Or...

Checkmark Books, 2006. - 368 pages. A comprehensive reference work discussing more than 150 Indian tribes of all North America, as well as prehistoric peoples & civilizations. Organized alphabetically by tribe, the informative but accessible text summarizes the historical record -- locations, migrations, contacts with whites, wars, etc. Also covers Indian lifeways, including language families, means of subsistence, houses, boats, tools, clot...