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A chance encounter in a fish-'n'-chip shop set Brendan Murray on the trail of a mystery. Had a gay man been secretly murdered on HMAS Australia during the Second World War? The veteran he spoke to was certain. 'I knew about it,' he said. 'We all did.' But was the story true? If so, who was the dead man? And why was it so hard to find out?

"... gathered together all the surviving diaries written by Russian children during the Second World War that it has been possible to find, and now, for the first time in seventy years, the [sic] these diaries have been brought together in a single volume ... more than half of the thirty-five diaries included in this collection are published here for the first time"--Back cover

Origins of the movement for self-government. Nationalism in Jamaica before 1936 -- Origins of the Jamaica Progressive Leave -- History and influence of the Jamaica Progressive League. Founding and first reactions -- Stretching out: A local branch in Kingston -- Implementing demands for self-government -- Alternative strategies for self-government during the second world war -- Reassuming the struggle for independence in Jamaica -- Opposing the West Indies Federation.

The Soviet Union shaped the 20thcentury like no other nation except the United States. In the 1960s and 70s, it was justifiably viewed as the second world superpower. M. Hildermeier reviews the most important developmental phases, inflection points, and disruptions in Soviet history. An updated research section includes Stalinism, Brezhnev's 'developed socialism,' and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Manfred Hildermeier, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Land of the pioneers: Mendota's roots, 1891-1919 -- King cotton: beginning of Mexican immigration, 1920-1940 -- The Second World War: advent of agribusiness, 1941-1949 -- Mendota at midcentury: the wonder years, 1950-1959 -- The Civil Rights decades: fight for equality, 1960-1975 -- Winds of change: economic diversification and municipal reform, 1976-1991 -- Pain and promise: the twenty-first century dawns, 1992-2012 -- Epilogue

Through compelling analysis of popular culture, high culture and elite designs in the years following the end of the Second World War, this book explores how Britain and its people have come to terms with the loss of prestige stemming from the decline of the British Empire. The result is a volume that offers new ideas on what it is to be 'British'.

In Poland during the Second World War, the German judicial system was part of the National Socialist occupation machine from the outset and became a key element in the policy of 'Germanization,' Germany's principal objective for the annexed portions of Poland. The courts systematically discriminated against Poles, and between September 1939 and the beginning of 1945, imposed thousands of death sentences. Maximilian Becker, München.

"Memorialization in Germany since 1945 provides a wide-ranging discussion of contemporary Germany's rich memorial landscape. It discusses the many memorials to German losses during the Second World War, to the victims of national socialism, and to those of GDR socialism. With up-to-date coverage of many less well-known memorials as well as the most publicised ones"--Provided by publisher

"The increased participation of women in the labour force was one of the most significant changes to Canadian social life during the quarter century after the close of the Second World War. Transforming Labour offers one of the first critical assessments of women's paid labour in this era, a period when more and more women, particularly those with families, were going 'out to work'.

Reflections on pre-colonial Zimbabwe, c. 850-1880s Gerald Chikozho Mazarire -- Mapping cultural and colonial encounters, 1880s-1930s Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni -- From the Second World War to UDI, 1940-1965 A.S. Mlambo -- Social and economic developments during the UDI period Joseph Mtisi, Munyaredzi Nyakudye and Teresa Barnes -- From buoyancy to crisis, 1980-1997 James Muzondidya -- The Crisis in Zimbabwe, 1998-2008 Brian Raftopoulos

The civil-military dynamic : a relationship adrift -- Excesses and over-corrections in US civil-military relations since the Second World War and the return of Donald Rumsfeld in 2001 -- The search for role models -- Normative theory in civil-military relations during the Cold War : the objective control and subjective control models -- The search for new normative theory in the Post-Cold War Era -- A Madisonian approach for civil-military relations

On establishment, travail, and destruction of royal Yugoslavia -- In the Second World War -- New Yugoslavia -- The chain reaction of Yugoslav self-determinations -- Minorities -- Minority rights, yes! Minority status, no! -- Bosnia, unlucky and timeless -- Helping Bosnia survive -- The Muslim nation of Bosnia -- Yugoslavs' main duty : confronting nationalist self-love -- To intervene or not to intervene : the Kosovo War paradigm -- Preventing and repressing all massacres.

Democratic vistas -- - Goat song : unanswered questions before, during, after 9/11 -- - Menandering toward Armageddon -- - Three lies to rule by -- - Japanese intentions in the Second World War -- - How we missed the Saturday dance -- - The last empire -- - In the lair of the octopus -- - Mickey Mouse, historian -- - With extreme prejudice -- - The union of the state -- - The last defender of the American republic? : an interview with Gore Vidal.

This book is about power in a changing world economy. Though power is ubiquitous in the study of International Political Economy, the concept is underdeveloped in formal theoretical terms. This collection of essays analyses recent experience in East Asia to advance our theoretic understanding of state power in IPE. Over the last quarter century, no other region of the world has had a greater impact on the global distribution of economic resources and capabilities. China, with its ""peaceful rise, "" now stands as the second largest national economy on the face of the earth; South Korea and Taiw.

I’ve used here before the snippet from older books that in the decades before the Second World War it was generally accepted that New Zealand had the highest value of foreign trade per capita of any country.  Estimates of historical GDP per capita suggest we also had among the very highest levels of real GDP … Continue reading Once were a trading nation