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"A leading expert reexamines history to offer a stunningly original portrait of Hitler as a competent military commander and strategist. After Germany's humiliating World War II defeat, numerous German generals published memoirs claiming that their country's brilliant military leadership had been undermined by the Führer's erratic decision making. The author of three highly acclaimed books on the era, Stephen Fritz upends this characterization of Hitler as an ill-informed fantasist and demonstrates the ways in which his strategy was coherent and even competent. That Hitler saw World War II as the only way to retrieve Germany's fortunes and build an expansionist Thousand-Year Reich is uncontroversial. But while his generals did sometimes object to Hitler's tactics and operational direction, they often made the same errors in judgment and were in agreement regarding larger strategic and political goals. A necessary volume for understanding the influence of World War I on Hitler's thinking, this work is also an eye-opening reappraisal of major events like the invasion of Russia and the battle for Normandy"--

"In recent years, researchers and practitioners in global health and development have shown a renewed interest in religion. In many instances, their interest has focused on ways to ensure that the contributions and capacities of faith-based organizations are maximized in achieving global health and development objectives. There are, however, other critical questions to be asked in regard to religion's influence on global health and development. This book offers a sustained social and political history that helps to illuminate some of those questions. Christianity's Role in United States Global Health and Development Policy: To Transfer the Empire of the World examines the role of American Protestantism in making possible the first examples of global health initiatives carried out through medical missions and in influencing the idea that America has both the responsibility and the authority to intervene in other parts of the world for the good of the people there. Beginning in the colonial era of the nation and continuing up to the present, this book surveys three hundred years of social, political, and religious movements through the lens of global health and development. This book is not an apologetics for this distinctly American form of Christianity but a critical history of Christianity in America that demonstrates both the benefits and costs of religion in these fields"--

In 1914, sport was not widely practiced in France. On the contrary, gymnastics, shooting and military preparation societies were very numerous. Their main purpose was to train healthy young men and good soldiers. The goal was also to offer "healthy" leisure activities, creating republican structures of control between school time and army. At the same time, Catholics developed their own militarised associative network. More than 6000 associations were approved by the government on the eve of the First World War. "Conscriptive practices", according to Pierre Arnaud's expression, were also present in schools. The "preparatory" movement did not disappear in the inter-war period, despite the growth of sports. At least 3,000 associations were actively involved in military training in the late 1930s.This thesis aims to complete the rich historiography about those activities, by offering a national level study, on the whole period of the Third Republic. The "Union des sociétés de préparation militaire de France" directed by Adolphe Chéron is specifically analysed. The specific study of military preparation policy underlines how the growing institutionalisation of training practices largely influenced early sports policies. But the careful observation of the daily life in the societies, looked at mainly from associative sources, also shows the porosity between conscriptive practices and sports until the 1930s. This study, carried out in several geographical areas, revisits the history of physical and sporting activities in interwar France. Finally, an outline of comparisons taking place at the European level situates this French dynamic in a broader perspective.The history of these associations also provides a contribution to the First World War history, thanks to a chronological shift. 50,000 young men received the "brevet de préparation militaire", introduced in 1908. Teachers were also part of this preparatory movement. Despite the small numerical importance of the movement, it suggests a militarisation of society, ...

Throughout history, every musical culture grew and developed under a specific set of influences, whether political, philosophical, or geographical. Varying sets of influences created likewise varying types of music. Spanish music, in particular, enjoyed an especially unique array of influences during the fifteenth century. My presentation explores these influences. How did the interaction of Spain's three major religions—Christianity, Islam, and Judaism—affect musical development? How did the newly unified government, ruled by Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile, influence the musical culture? How did Spain's discovery and conquest of the New World facilitate the spread of Spanish music beyond its borders? These three factors made Spain distinct from other Western nations during the fifteenth century. In my presentation, I first describe the interaction of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. This synergy created a rich, collaborative community of shared musical ideas, prompting the development of both sacred and secular genres. Next, I address the influence that Spain's unified government exerted on the musical culture. Historically, politics have played a substantial role in the development of music. Spain is distinctive in this respect because most other nations during this time were not unified under one ruler, whereas Spain was. This unique governmental structure in turn affected the musical culture. Lastly, I will explain how the spread of Spanish music and its interaction with native tribes in America impacted its development, both within and outside Spain's borders. Spain was particularly poised to both exert their influence and be influenced by the different people groups they encountered in the New World. These three factors would create a uniquely Spanish music culture.

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"In Assessing Multiculturalism in Global Comparative Perspective a group of leading scholars come together in a multidisciplinary collection to assess multiculturalism through an international comparative perspective. Multiculturalism today faces challenges like never before, through the concurrent rise of populism and white supremacist groups, and contemporary social movements mobilizing around alternative ideas of decolonization, anti-racism, and national self-determination Taking these challenges head on, and with the backdrop that the term multiculturalism originated in Canada before going global, this collection of chapters presents a global comparative view of multiculturalism, through both empirical and normative perspectives, with the overarching aim of comprehending multiculturalism's promise, limitations, contemporary challenges, trajectory and possible futures. Collectively, the chapters provide the basis for a critical assessment of multiculturalism's first fifty years, as well as vital insight into whether multiculturalism is best equipped to meet the distinct challenges characterizing this juncture of the 21st century. With coverage including the Americas, Europe, Oceania, Africa and Asia, and thematic coverage of citizenship, religion, security, gender, Black Lives Matter and the post-pandemic order, Assessing Multiculturalism in Global Comparative Perspective presents a comprehensively global collection that is indispensable reading for scholars and students of diversity in the twenty-first century"--

Prologue / by Ruta Vanagaite -- Why this book? -- People had a choice -- Germany's trauma -- Lithuania's trauma -- The Jew is the devil -- Small and radical -- Plans for mass murder -- "Blitzkrieg" : local helpers needed! -- Lithuania's dream of independence -- An easy occupation -- Controversies of the uprising -- Enter the SS -- Jews in panic -- Lithuanian border strip : the first shootings -- Pogroms -- The first mass shooting of Jews in Kaunas -- The road to Ponar -- Vigilante Lithuanian courts -- Ghettoization in the provinces -- Robbing the living -- Lithuanian fascists take over -- "Kill them all" -- The "final solution" in the provinces -- The oral orders -- The Lithuanian road killers -- 100,000 trapped city Jews -- Life in the ghettos : hunger, poetry, death -- Choiceless choices -- The accidental death of European Jews -- Forgotten victims : prisoners of war -- Forgotten victims : Soviet evacuees -- Slavery -- No to the SS legion -- To die as free fighters -- The Jewish partisans : survival and terror -- The end : Vilnius -- The end : Šiauliai -- The end : Kaunas -- The murdered "others" -- Burning the bodies -- To save a Jew -- The silence of the church -- The brief story of Lithuanian resistance.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Building a Reputation, 1956-1967 -- 2 Kimilsungism beyond North Korean Borders, 1968-1971 -- 3 Kim Il Sung's "Korea First" Policy, 1972-1979 -- 4 Kim Jong Il's World and Revolutionary Violence, 1980-1983 -- 5 Survival by Any Means Necessary, 1984-1989 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

This volume offers two important contributions to the literature on sovereign debt. First, it provides a unique genealogy of debt collection practices in terms of their availability, acceptability and efficacy. We argue that creditors' tactics and methods to enforce debt repayment emerged and solidified to a large extent in relation to the threads of colonial history, from the building of empires to the decolonisation era. Second, this volume reflects critically on the relevance of neo-colonial interpretations in recent cases of sovereign debt disputes