The romantic, nineteenth-century image of the Bedouin as fierce, independent nomads on camelback racing across an endless desert persists in the West. Yet since the era of Ottoman rule, the Mzeina Bedouin of the South Sinai desert have lived under foreign occupation. For the las…
The romantic, nineteenth-century image of the Bedouin as fierce, independent nomads on camelback racing across an endless desert persists in the West. Yet since the era of Ottoman rule, the Mzeina Bedouin of the South Sinai desert have lived under foreign occupation. For the las…
Hoofdstukken over de geschiedenis van Japan na de Tweede Wereldoorlog - periode ca. 1945-1952 -, de periode waarin Japan door de Amerikaanse "bezetting" genoodzaakt was, culturele, politieke en sociale veranderingen door te voeren.
Discusses how the defeat and American military occupation of Japan after World War II affected each level of Japanese society.
Drawing on a range of Japanese sources and illustrated with documentary photographs, this book is a history of the more than six years of American occupation which affected the various levels of Japanese society, often in ways neither side could anticipate. The author provides a…
"Historian Timothy L. Schroer's Recasting Race after World War II explores the renegotiation of race by Germans and African American GIs in post-World War II Germany. Schroer dissects the ways in which notions of blackness and whiteness became especially problematic in interacti…
"Historian Timothy L. Schroer's Recasting Race after World War II explores the renegotiation of race by Germans and African American GIs in post-World War II Germany. Schroer dissects the ways in which notions of blackness and whiteness became especially problematic in interacti…
Offers a critique of American efforts to bring democracy to Iraq, explaining how terrorism and insurgents, as well as missed opportunities, ideological blindness, and miscalculations have hampered the process.
Offers a critique of American efforts to bring democracy to Iraq, explaining how terrorism and insurgents, as well as missed opportunities, ideological blindness, and miscalculations have hampered the process.
This memoir of fourteen months as America's proconsul in Iraq is the only senior insider's perspective on the crucial period following the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime. Bremer describes negotiations with emerging Iraqi leaders as they struggle to forge the democratic inst…
This memoir of fourteen months as America's proconsul in Iraq is the only senior insider's perspective on the crucial period following the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime. Bremer describes negotiations with emerging Iraqi leaders as they struggle to forge the democratic inst…
This memoir of fourteen months as America's proconsul in Iraq is the only senior insider's perspective on the crucial period following the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime. Bremer describes negotiations with emerging Iraqi leaders as they struggle to forge the democratic inst…
The Nazis encouraged artistic and intellectual life in occupied France as a tool with which to placate those they had conquered, while French artists and intellectuals often used cultural activity as an overt or covert form of political expression. The Nazi encouragement of cult…
