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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Art List -- 1.1 World's Fair, Paris, 1889 -- 1.2 Marie Curie in her laboratory -- 1.3 "Even the Walls Have Ears" (1854) -- 1.4 New York skyline, 1904 -- 1.5 Queen Victoria presents a Bible to a colonial subject -- 1.6 "The Seine at Argenteuil" (1874) -- 1.7 Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) -- 2.1 Imperial Palace, Peking -- 2.2 Saigon Cathedral, c. 1920 -- 2.3 "The Greedy Boy" (1885) -- 2.4 David Livingstone (1817-1873) -- 2.5 Colonial District Officer from an African perspective -- 2.6 Indian durbar, 1903 -- 3.1 Panama Canal, 1915 -- 3.2 Advertisement for Ivory soap (1913) -- 3.3 View of Chicago -- 3.4 Trading Company Building, Central Africa, c. 1930 -- 3.5 Migrant worker in the Great Depression, 1936 -- 3.6 German banknote from 1923 -- 3.7 Bomb destruction, England, 1940 -- 4.1 "The Storming of the Bastille, July 14, 1789" (1859) -- 4.2 Karl Marx (1818-1883) -- 4.3 "The Events of May 1870 -- 4.4 Emiliano Zapata (1879-1919) -- 4.5 Sun Yat-sen (1867-1925) -- 5.1 Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870-1924) -- 5.2 "Did You Join As Volunteers?" (c. 1920) -- 5.3 Workers on a collective farm, 1944 -- 5.4 Spanish battalion, c. 1937 118 -- 5.5 Striking workers, United States, 1934 -- 6.1 Hitler and SA troops, 1935 -- 6.2 Mussolini and Hitler, 1940 -- 6.3 Fascist party leader in Brazil, 1932 -- 6.4 Holocaust -- 6.5 Soviet poster from the World War II period -- 7.1 President Julius Nyerere (1922-1999) -- 7.2 Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948) with three women -- 7.3 Jewish settlers, 1946 -- 7.4 Governor-General's palace, Brazzaville, Congo, c. 1935 -- 7.5 Big Three at Yalta, 1945 -- 7.6 Vietnamese refugees, 1968 -- 7.7 Celebrating democracy, Windhoek, Namibia, 1990 -- 8.1 Chinese Cultural Revolution poster -- 8.2 Banana plantation, Costa Rica, 1997 -- 8.3 Fidel Castro (1926-)

"Literary Essays about the political climate in the 20th Century by The Hon. Jerahmiel S. Grafstein, Q.C., Senator."--

The suntan experienced a profound change in the last century. Considered a mark of the lower class for hundreds of years, tanning became a fad in the early 1920s and remains popular today. The tan, though, was much more than a matter of fashion,enjoying at first a boost from the medical establishment. Opinions ranging from hard science to quackery lauded the suntan as something of a panacea. Near the end of World War II, however, researchers increasingly warned against the hazards of overexposure to the sun, and a large new industry developed--sunscreen. Americans' current paradoxical obsessio

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Timeline of Major Events that Affected Families in the 20th Century -- 1. Courtship, Cohabitation, Marriage, Divorce, Remarriage, and Bereavement: Family Transitions in the 20th Century -- 2. How Families Lived -- 3. Work and Family Life -- 4. Rituals: How Families Developed and Maintained Shared Meanings -- 5. Mothers and Motherhood -- 6. Men in Families -- 7. Children and Adolescents in Families -- 8. Family Abuse and Neglect: The Dark Side of Families -- 9. Alternative Family Forms -- References -- Index.

Frontcover -- Half Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Author's note -- Chapter 1: Blunt: the Gentleman Spy -- Chapter 2: Alger Hiss: Nixon's bête noire -- Chapter 3: Boulanger: Stalin's Villain -- Chapter 4: The Red Fox -- Chapter 5: Mroz: the death of a little captain -- Chapter 6: A tunnel to Berlin -- Chapter 7: Penkovsky: Luring Cuban Missiles -- Chapter 8: Nasser's Rockets -- Chapter 9: Lotz: saved by a little piece of skin... -- Chapter 10: The Spy Who Hid Behind Another -- Chapter 11: Cohen: the Damascus Hanging -- Chapter 12: Blackmailed by a false Resistor -- Chapter 13: Frauenknecht: The Mirage thief -- Chapter 14: Gabriele Gast: West Germany's Juliet -- Chapter 15: Pham Xuan Ân: America's False Friend -- Chapter 16: The Guillaume Affair: A Conspiracy against Brandt -- Chapter 17: Espionage, Science and Conscience -- Chapter 18: Pollard: the Spy amongst friends -- Chapter 19: The Polyakov Mystery -- Chapter 20: 'Baba's' box -- Chapter 21: Yurchenko: false defector and genuine spy -- Chapter 22: Aldrich Ames: the spy who hunted spies -- Chapter 23: Hanssen: the man who never laughed -- (Endnotes)

This book presents the contributions of the 20th century to economic theory in a mathematical language and in historical sequence. General equilibrium is the focal point of the book; but also a number of macroeconomic models, especially with respect to the first half of the century, are considered. Dynamic models are extensively studied per se, and not merely as extensions of their static counterparts. The book with its extensive bibliography gives a broad view over the developments in mathematical economics and is therefore an invaluable source of information for researchers and students working in this field

An encyclopedic guide to 20th-century communism around the worldThe first book of its kind to appear since the end of the Cold War, this indispensable reference provides encyclopedic coverage of communism and its impact throughout the world in the 20th century. With the opening of archives in former communist states, scholars have found new material that has expanded and sometimes altered the understanding of communism as an ideological and political force. A Dictionary of 20th-Century Communism brings this scholarship to students, teachers, and scholars in related fields. In more than 400 concise entries, the book explains what communism was, the forms it took, and the enormous role it played in world history from the Russian Revolution through the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond.Examines the political, intellectual, and social influences of communism around the globeFeatures contributions from an international team of 160 scholarsIncludes more than 400 entries on major topics, such as:Figures: Lenin, Mao, Stalin, Ho Chi Minh, Pol Pot, Castro, GorbachevEvents: Cold War, Prague Spring, Cultural Revolution, Sandinista RevolutionIdeas and concepts: Marxism-Leninism, cult of personality, laborOrganizations and movements: KGB, Comintern, Gulag, Khmer RougeRelated topics: totalitarianism, nationalism, antifascism, anticommunism, McCarthyismGuides readers to further research through bibliographies, cross-references, and an index

This handbook contributes with new evidence and new insights to the on-going debate on the de-colonization of knowledge on urban planning in Africa.
African cities grew rapidly since the mid-20th century, in part due to rising rural migration and rapid internal demographic growth that followed the independence in most African countries. This rapid urbanization is commonly seen as a primary cause of the current urban management challenges with which African cities are confronted. This importance given to rapid urbanization prevented the due consideration of other dimensions of the current urban problems, challenges and changes in African cities. The contributions to this handbook explore these other dimensions, looking in particular to the nature and capacity of local self-government and to the role of urban governance and urban planning in the poor urban conditions found in most African cities. It deals with current and contemporary urban challenges and urban policy responses, but also offers an historical overview of local governance and urban policies during the colonial period in the late 19th and 20th centuries, offering ample evidence of common features, and divergent features as well, on a number of facets, from intra-urban racial segregation solutions to the relationships between the colonial power and the natives, to the assimilation policy, as practiced by the French and Portuguese and the Indirect Rule put in place by Britain in some or in part of its colonies.
Using innovative approaches to the challenges confronting the governance of African cities, this handbook is an essential read for students and scholars of Urban Africa, urban planning in Africa and African Development.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Plates -- Prologue to this Edition: Cosmopolitanism Revisited -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Citizenship -- One Celtic Twilight: The Eastern Journey of James Cousins -- Two Utopian Longings and the French Connection: Paul Richard and the Politics of Friendship -- Three Yoga for a New World: Dilip Kumar Roy and Sri Aurobindo -- Four 'The World in a Nest': The Cosmopolitanism of Rabindranath Tagore -- Five Cosmopolitanism through the Arts: The Art Criticism of Ananda Coomaraswamy and Sri Aurobindo -- Six The Revolutionary as the Cosmopolitan: The Many Lives of Taraknath Das -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the last 100 years in the Middle East from the perspective of social history. It is apt to date the beginning of the modern Middle East to the industrialization era, while it extends its reach into the present. Taking its lead from modernization theory, this book illustrates past expectations of the present and helps to understand everyday occurrences rather than sensational events. It adopts a multi-disciplinary perspective and concentrates on t