This book examines women's experiences of motherhood in England in the years between 1945 and 2000. Based on a new body of 160 oral history interviews, the book offers the first comprehensive historical study of the experience of motherhood in the second half of the twentieth ce…
This book examines women's experiences of motherhood in England in the years between 1945 and 2000. Based on a new body of 160 oral history interviews, the book offers the first comprehensive historical study of the experience of motherhood in the second half of the twentieth ce…
This book examines women's experiences of motherhood in England in the years between 1945 and 2000. Based on a new body of 160 oral history interviews, the book offers the first comprehensive historical study of the experience of motherhood in the second half of the twentieth ce…
An overview of the trajectory of European societies, East and West, since the end of World War II. This text addresses the questions that underpin an understanding of the nature of European modernity: to what extent has the period 1945-2000 produced change and what are the areas…
In this book Göran Therborn addresses the questions that underpin an understanding of the nature of European modernity, including: To what extent is the period 1945-2000 producing fundamental change and what are the areas of continuity? Have the societies of Europe become more s…
Between the Second World War and the early 1970s, political leaders, activists, citizens, protestors. and freedom fighters triggered a human rights revolution in world affairs. Stimulated particularly by the horrors of the crimes against humanity in the 1940s, the human rights r…
Joachim-Ernst Berendt and the postwar legitimation of jazz. Jazz and the divide between serious and entertainment music ; Dance as escape? ; Jazz greetings to and from the East? ; Jazz, race, and colorblindness -- Europeanizing jazz. The blues of German jazz ; Emancipation and t…
"Jazz has had a peculiar and fascinating history in Germany. The influential but controversial German writer, broadcaster, and record producer Joachim-Ernst Berendt (1922-2000), author of the world's best-selling jazz book, labored to legitimize jazz in West Germany after its id…
