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The Woman from Hamburg: and Other True Stories

Hanna Krall - History - 2012 - 268 pages
In twelve nonfiction tales, Hanna Krall reveals how the lives of World War II survivors are shaped in surprising ways by the twists and turns of historical events. A paralytic ...
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Gottland: Mostly True Stories from Half of Czechoslovakia

Mariusz Szczygiel - History - 2014 - 218 pages
Winner of the Europe Book Prize One of Europe’s most preeminent investigative journalists travels to the Czech Republic—the Czech half of the former Czechoslovakia, the land ...
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Cold War Crossings: International Travel and Exchange across the Soviet Bloc ...

Patryk Babiracki, Kenyon Zimmer - History - 2014 - 242 pages
Approaching the early decades of the “Iron Curtain” with new questions and perspectives, this important book examines the political and cultural implications of the communists ...
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Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli ...

Tony Kushner, Alisa Solomon - History - 2003 - 400 pages
Kushner and Solomon bring together prominent poets, essayists, journalists, activists, academics, novelists and playwrights representing the diversity of opinion in the ...
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The Politics of History: With a New Introduction

Howard Zinn - History - 1990 - 412 pages
A series of case studies and essays arguing for a radical approach to history and providing a revisionist interpretation of the historian's role. In a new introduction to this ...
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An Essay on the History of Civil Society, 1767

Adam Ferguson - Social Science - 1980 - 368 pages
A subtle critique of declining communal virtues, arguing instead for active citizenship. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
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Southern History Across the Color Line

Nell Irvin Painter - History - 2002 - 268 pages
This work reaches across the colour line to examine how race, gender, class and individual subjectivity shaped the lives of black and white women in the 19th- and 20th-century ...
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Rome, the Greek World, and the East, Volume 2

Fergus Millar - History - 2002 - 508 pages
Rome, the Greek World, and the East: Volume 2: Government, Society, and Culture in the Roman Empire
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