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Nothing connects people more powerfully than well-told stories. Humans have been telling each other stories since long before they could write them down. Sharing stories is a critical part of building trust with others, and that trust is essential to creating meaningful connections with people. Great stories have structure and purpose; they appeal to our deepest emotions and are most compelling when they challenge or change our perceptions of reality. There are rules to the methods and techniques that create great stories. This article explores the benefits and challenges of applying successful storytelling techniques to designing wargame narratives that balance creative ambitions with achievable timelines. Wargames that incorporate such techniques will surface new trends and better inform future conflict planning.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Three Generations of Women in Central Europe -- 2. Gender Regimes East and West -- 3. From ''K und K'' to ''Communism versus Capitalism'': The Social Worlds of Austria and Hungary -- 4. Exclusion versus Limited Inclusion -- 5. Mechanisms of Exclusion -- 6. Conditions of Inclusion: Examining State Policies in Austria and Hungary, 1945–1995 -- 7. Difference at Work: A Case Study of Hungary -- 8. Convergence in the Twenty-First Century? -- Appendix A. Data Sets, Samples, and Definition of Variables -- Appendix B. Chronology of Legislation Targeting or Affecting Women -- Notes -- References -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Maps and Figures -- Acknowledgments and Dedication -- Contexts: An Introductory Note to Readers -- 1. Worlds in Motion, Cultures in Contact -- PART I The Judeo-Christian-Islamic Mediterranean and Eurasian Worlds to the 1500s -- 2. Antecedents: Migration and Population Changes in the Mediterranean-Asian Worlds -- 3. Continuities: Mobility and Migration from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Century -- 4. The End of Intercivilizational Contact and the Economics of Religious Expulsions -- 5. Ottoman Society, Europe, and the Beginnings of Colonial Contact -- PART II Other Worlds and European Colonialism to the Eighteenth Century -- 6. Africa and the Slave Migration Systems -- 7. Trade-Posts and Colonies in the World of the Indian Ocean -- 8. Latin America: Population Collapse and Resettlement -- 9. Fur Empires and Colonies of Agricultural Settlement -- 10. Forced Labor Migration in and to the Americas -- 11. Migration and Conversion: Worldviews, Material Culture, Racial Hierarchies -- PART III Intercontinental Migration Systems to the Nineteenth Century -- 12. Europe: Internal Migrations from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century -- 13. The Russo-Siberian Migration System -- 14. The Proletarian Mass Migrations in the Atlantic Economies -- 15. The Asian Contract Labor System (1830s to 1920s) and Transpacific Migration -- 16 Imperial Interest Groups and Subaltern Cultural Assertion -- PART IV Twentieth-Century Changes -- 17 Forced Labor and Refugees in the Northern Hemisphere to the 1950s -- 18 Between the Old and the New, 1920s to 1950s -- 19 New Migration Systems since the 1960s -- 20 Intercultural Strategies and Closed Doors in the 1990s -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Sources for Maps and Figures -- Index

AbstractThis article introduces the present Special Theme on the global reception and appropriation of E.P. Thompson'sThe Making of the English Working Class(1963). It aims to interrogate Thompson's legacy and potential vitality at a moment of renewed social and intellectual upheavals. It emphasizes the need for an interdisciplinary and global reflection on Thompson's work and impact for understanding how class, nation, and "the people" as subjects of historical inquiry have been repeatedly recast since the 1960s. Examining the course of Thompson's ideas in Japan and West Germany, South Africa and Argentina, as well as Czechoslovakia and Poland, each of the following five articles in the Special Theme is situated in specific and different locations in the global historiographical matrix. Read as a whole, they show how national historiographies have been products of local processes of state and class formation on the one hand, and transnational transfers of intellectual and historiographical ideas, on the other. They highlight the remarkable ability of Thompsonian social history to inspire new lives in varying national contexts shaped by different formations of race, class, and state.