The Coming of the Holocaust aims to help readers understand the circumstances that made the Holocaust possible. Peter Kenez demonstrates that the occurrence of the Holocaust was not predetermined as a result of modern history but instead was the result of contingencies. He shows…
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The Coming of the Holocaust aims to help readers understand the circumstances that made the Holocaust possible. Peter Kenez demonstrates that the occurrence of the Holocaust was not predetermined as a result of modern history but instead was the result of contingencies. He shows…
"This book explores the policy objectives underlying the gift of this Order, to sixty men, on January 1, 1403. Drawing primarily on Philip's household accounts, it undertakes complementary iconographical and prosopographical analyses (of the Order insignia's form, materials, des…
"Daniel Crofts examines Unionists in three pivotal southern states--Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee--and shows why the outbreak of the war enabled the Confederacy to gain the allegiance of these essential, if ambivalent governments."--Cover.
"Apart from the book's inherent critical value deriving from the fact that it offers a new scholarly examination of Japan-US relations in the twentieth century leading to the outbreak of the Pacific War, the greater strength of the study is to be found in the author's in-depth a…
This study examines the explosion of terrorist activity that took place throughout the Russian Empire at the turn of the 20th century. Focusing on the years of the Russian Revolution, it analyzes the sudden escalation of political violence that occurred after two relatively tran…
