This dissertation tells the story of Sarajevo during the Second World War. Beginning with a sketch of the city on the eve of war—when Muslims, Catholics, Orthodox Serbs, and Jews lived and worked together—it traces how these communities interacted with one another through variou…
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This dissertation examines U.S. foreign policy in the Persian Gulf since World War II. It posits that contingent imperialism can explain American involvement. Three variants of contingent imperialism are applied to this case study: alliance, proxy, and unilateral. The case study…
This dissertation examines the roles of American women in the development of America's gendered ideas about Asia in the period between the 1870s and WWII. It investigates the gender politics that operated in the discourses about Japan and China in three areas of cultural product…
"Convinced before the onset of Operation "Barbarossa" in June 1941 of both the ease, with which the Red Army would be defeated and the likelihood that the Soviet Union would collapse, the Nazi regime envisaged a radical and far-reaching occupation policy which would result in th…
This volume presents a comprehensive, multifaceted picture both of the destructive dynamic of the Nazi leadership and of the attitudes and behavior of ordinary Germans as the persecution of the Jews spiraled into total genocide.
This volume presents a comprehensive, multifaceted picture both of the destructive dynamic of the Nazi leadership and of the attitudes and behavior of ordinary Germans as the persecution of the Jews spiraled into total genocide.
Viele jüdische Partisanen kämpften zwischen 1943 und 1945 in der italienischen Resistenza, einer der größten Widerstandsbewegungen in Europa. Unterschieden sich die Motivationen dieser Kämpfer von denen der anderen Partisanen? Wurde ihr Verhalten von ihren spezifischen Erfahrung…
"This book reprints 'Human Guinea Pigs', by Kenneth Mellanby, a seminal work in the history of medical ethics and human subject research that has been nearly unavailable for over 40 years. Detailing the use of World War II conscientious objectors who volunteered for experimentat…
