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"The twentieth century was studded with extraordinary achievements in medicine, science, technology, and space. Though for all its positive attributes, this century was the most violent in history, killing an estimated 30 million people in cold-blooded genocides, and, in wars, an estimated 187 million people. There was not a single year in the hundred-year span when there were no significant wars. In each chapter I have chosen several men and women, many not well-known, on whom I focus a bit more than other historical actors. In most cases, they reflect the spirit of their times, though generally their approaches and contributions are distinctively nuanced. Existing in a climate primed for war and violence, they, like everyone else, had to decide where their source of political identity lay and, when a decision was necessary, where their political allegiance would fall. To their own lives as individuals in a specific locality? Or to a particular nation? Or to the larger global community? Given that this allegiance factor has been much discussed during the last half of the century up through today, to what geographical level do we see world citizens committing their allegiance? That answer will be a key determinant of the future of the world. This chronological narrative also traces other crucial twentieth century developments: women and their professional and social roles, goals, successes, and setbacks; the powerful forces of race and ethnicity; the role of identity; environmental issues, including atomic energy and the sustainability of natural resources; the causes and changing nature of wars around the world; and the historical roles of contingency and memory"--

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks -- Part I: Choosing and Creating -- 1. Bad Habits and Female Agency -- Attending to Early Modern Women in the Material History of Intoxication -- Angela McShane -- 2. Setting up House -- Artisan Women's Trousseaux in Seventeenth-Century Bologna -- Joyce de Vries -- 3. Crafting Habits of Resistance -- Susan Dinan, Karen Nelson, and Michele Osherow -- Part II: Confronting Power -- 4. Confronting Women's Actions in History -- Female Crown Fief Holders in Denmark -- Grethe Jacobsen -- 5. Divisive Speech in Divided Times? -- Women and the Politics of Slander, Sedition, and Informing during the English Revolution -- Caroline Boswell -- 6. Why Political Theory is Women's Work -- How Moderata Fonte Reclaimed Liberty for Women inside and outside Marriage -- Caroline Castiglione -- 7. 'Wrestling the World from Fools' -- Teaching Historical Empathy and Critical Engagement in Traditional and Online Classrooms -- Jennifer Selwyn -- Part III: Challenging Representations -- 8. Thinking Beings and Animate Matter -- Margaret Cavendish's Challenge to the Early Modern Order of Things -- Mihoko Suzuki -- 9. The Agency of Portrayal -- The Active Portrait in the Early Modern Period -- Saskia Beranek and Sheila ffolliott -- 10. Marking Female Ocular Agency in the 'Medieval Housebook' -- Andrea Pearson -- Part IV: Forming Communities -- 11. Claude-Catherine de Clermont -- A Taste-Maker in the Continuum of Salon Society -- Julie D. Campbell -- 12. Religious Spaces in the Far East -- Women's Travel and Writing in Manila and Macao -- Sarah E. Owens -- 13. Accounting for Early Modern Women in the Arts -- Reconsidering Women's Agency, Networks, and Relationships -- Theresa Kemp, Catherine Powell, and Beth Link -- Index -- List of figures and tables.

Cover -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Part I. The Age of Illusions -- 1. The Collapse of an Empire -- 2. Turmoil and War in the "Near Abroad" -- 3. The West and the First Chechnya War -- 4. The New Architecture for Relations with the West -- 5. Ukraine: Deceptive Calm -- 6. The Turning Point: Kosovo -- Part II. From Acquiescence to Resistance -- 7. The Second Chechnya War and Islamic Radicalism -- 8. Bridges to the West -- 9. Russia and the U.S. Invasion of Iraq -- 10. Seeking Friendships -- 11. Russia in the Middle East -- 12. The West on the Offensive -- 13. Response to the Color Revolutions -- 14. Skirmishes with the West -- 15. Countdown to Collision -- 16. The Five Day War with Georgia -- 17. The Response of the West to the War -- 18. Friends in the Caucasus -- 13. Response to the Color Revolutions -- Part III. Russia Ascendant -- 19. A Foreign Ministry for a World Power -- 20. The Reset in U.S. Relations with Russia -- 21. The Reset in the Near Abroad -- 22. Growing Divergences with the West -- 23. Crisis in Ukraine -- 24. Reprisals Over Ukraine -- 25. Russia on the Offensive -- 26. The Russian Diplomatic Campaign -- 27. The Rollercoaster of U.S.-Russia Relations -- Chapter Notes -- Annotated Bibliography -- Index.

"Pardon me, I'm drunk" -- From Queen of Tarab to prima donna -- "Come on sisters, let's go hand in hand to demand our freedom" -- "If I were not a woman, I'd want to be one" -- Sarah Bernhardt of the East -- The singer, the baby, and the bey -- Star of the East -- Come on, tough guy, play the game -- Isis Films -- Madame Badia's casino -- The second revolution -- Conclusion : how to end a story.

Introduction: heritage discourse and its alterities -- Reform and revolt through the pen and the sword -- Nizwa Fort and the dalla during the Imamate -- Museum effects -- Ethics of history-making -- Nizwa, city of memories -- Nizwa's lasting legacy of slavery -- The al-Lawati as a historical category -- Conclusion: cultivating the past.

"Florida has long beckoned retirees seeking to spend their golden years in the sun, but, for many, the American dream of owning a home there was financially impossible. That changed in the 1950s, when the so-called 'installment land sales industry' appeared out of nowhere to hawk billions of dollars of Florida residential property, sight unseen, to retiring northerners. As Jason Vuic recounts in this raucous history, these communities allowed generations of northerners to move to Florida cheaply, but at a price: high-pressure sales tactics begat fraud; poor urban planning begat sprawl; developers cleared forests, drained wetlands, and built thousands of miles of roads in grid-like subdivisions, which, fifty years later, played an inordinate role in the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis."

Schon am Beginn des Koreakriegs verwandelte die überraschende Intervention eines chinesischen Heeres den siegesgewissen Vorstoß der UN-Truppen unter US-amerikanischer Führung in eine schwere Niederlage. Der Befehlshaber General MacArthur hatte geplant, mit seinen hauptsächlich aus amerikanischen, britischen und südkoreanischen Verbänden bestehenden UN-Einheiten in einer großen Offensive bis zur Grenze der Mandschurei vorzudringen, um dem Koreakrieg ein rasches Ende zu bereiten. Doch die Schlacht am Cheongcheon vereitelte dieses Vorhaben. Sie wurde zu einem Wendepunkt der Kämpfe und einem Schlüsselereignis des Kalten Krieges. Oliver Heyn analysiert die taktischen Entscheidungen der Generale ebenso wie die Erfahrungen der Soldaten, die in extremer Kälte um jedes Stück Boden rangen. Am Ende steht die Einsicht, dass trotz überlegener Technik und Material der Faktor Mensch die entscheidende Komponente auf dem Schlachtfeld bleibt

Intro -- Foreword -- "We Will Never Be Slaves!" -- The Three Goodbyes -- For Whom the Bell Tolls -- Reconfiguring Europe's Mental Map -- Euromaidan. Flashback -- Pandora's Box of Evils -- Crimea, Donbas and the USSR 2.0 -- Ukraine-Russia. What Went Wrong -- From Dusk Till Dawn -- Going Against the Flow -- Battle for Europe. Battle for the Soul -- Why Nationalism Can't Be the Idea of a European Ukraine -- Ukraine, the Church and the Post-Truth World -- The Strasbourg Betrayal -- Surkov and Emptiness -- Notes on the Margin of (Yet Another) Apocalypse -- What Will Bring Peace to Ukraine's Soul? -- Epilogue.

"This book grew out of the conviction that the original concepts of the Poznań School of Legal Theory are still perfectly suited for application in the era of moral pluralism and multicentric legal systems. Moreover, the legal-theoretical proposals put forward by the circle of Poznań legal theorists, and supported by firm methodological foundations, have not, by any means, lost their value. Although each of the authors tackles issues from different perspectives, there is a discernible unity in their approaches, expressed in the conviction that modest analysis makes more sense than ambitious analysis of the concept of law or the nature of law. The Poznań School has made several valuable contributions to contemporary legal theory: Its works have drawn from Polish philosophy of language and therefore embedded its theoretical and legal considerations in the Polish philosophical culture; it created an original model method which consists of considering ideal situations in which dependencies are not disturbed by the influence of other factors; and it treats the human being as a rational person, and thus as a cognizing subject and a rational agent"--

"This handbook presents a comprehensive, concise and accessible overview of the field of Historical International Relations (HIR). It summarizes and synthesizes existing contributions to the field while presenting central themes, approaches and methodologies that have driven the development of HIR, providing the reader with a sense of the diversity and research dynamics that are at the heart of this field of study. The wide range of topics covered are grouped under the following headings: Traditions: Demonstrates the wide variety of approaches to HIR. Thinking International Relations Historically: Different ways of thinking IR historically share some common concerns and areas for further investigation. Actors, Processes and Institutions: Explores the processes, actors, practices, and institutions that constitute the core objects of study of many HIR scholars. Situating Historical International Relations: Critically reflects about the situatedness of our objects of study. Approaches: Examines how HIR scholars conduct and reflect about their research, often in dialogue with a variety of perspectives from cognate disciplines"--