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The trials of victory : France, Britain and disarmament after the Great War -- Allies of yesterday : Britain in 1929 -- Security is the guardian of peace : France in 1929 -- An opening clash : reparations and the Rhineland -- Alternative paths : European union, international arbitration and general disarmament at the League Assembly -- The battle of London : the continuing pursuit of naval disarmament -- The problems of 1930 : the Rhineland, arbitration and European union -- Enfin désarmement : the Preparatory Commission concludes -- Annus terribilis : 1931 as a year of crisis -- Missed opportunity : preparing for the World Disarmament Conference -- Collapsing centre : the World Disarmament Conference, 1932-33.

Introduction: Collective memory -- The origin of Hmong entanglement in the Vietnam War -- The road to pilot training -- Learning to fly -- Long cheng air -- Widowhood -- Grief and remembrance -- Escape -- Starting over -- Reassessing war -- Conclusion: the legacy of war -- Narrator biographies -- Appendix: Hmong special air operation in Military Region II participants.

Eighteenth-century Britain is often understood as a time of commercial success, economic growth, and improving living standards. Yet during this period, tens of thousands of men and women were imprisoned for failing to pay their debts. The Poverty of Disaster tells their stories, focusing on the experiences of the middle classes who enjoyed opportunities for success on one hand, but who also faced the prospect of downward social mobility. Tawny Paul examines the role that debt insecurity played within society and the fragility of the credit relations that underpinned commercial activity, livelihood, and social status. She demonstrates how, for the middle classes, insecurity took economic, social, and embodied forms. It shaped the work that people did, their social status, their sense of self, their bodily autonomy, and their relationships with others. In an era of growing debt and the squeeze of the middle class, The Poverty of Disaster offers a new history of capitalism and takes a long view of the financial insecurities that plague our own uncertain times.

The 'Mediterranean' through Arab eyes in the early modern period : from "Rūmī" to the "white in-between" sea / Nabil Matar -- The Mediterranean of the Barbary coasts : gone missing / Julia Clancy-Smith -- The Mediterranean of modernity : the longue durée perspective / Edmund Burke, III -- Piracy and captivity of the Ottoman Mediterranean : slave laundering and subjecthood / Joshua M. White -- Piracy in the Eighteenth-century Mediterranean : navigating laws and legal practices / Judith E. Tucker -- The Mediterranean in Saint-Simonian imagination : the 'nuptial bed' / Osama Abi-Mershed -- The Mediterranean in colonial North African literature : contesting views / William Granara.

Gabriel N. Finder and Alexander V. Prusin examine Poland's role in prosecuting Nazi German criminals during the first decade and a half of the postwar era. Finder and Prusin contend that the Polish trials of Nazi war criminals were a pragmatic political response to postwar Polish society and Poles' cravings for vengeance against German Nazis. Although characterized by numerous inconsistencies, Poland's prosecutions of Nazis exhibited a fair degree of due process and resembled similar proceedings in Western democratic counties. The authors examine reactions to the trials among Poles and Jews. Although Polish-Jewish relations were uneasy in the wake of the extremely brutal German wartime occupation of Poland, postwar Polish prosecutions of German Nazis placed emphasis on the fate of Jews during the Holocaust. Justice Behind the Iron Curtain is the first work to approach communist Poland's judicial postwar confrontation with the legacy of the Nazi occupation.