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Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Series Introduction -- 1 Introduction -- Fascination -- Material culture -- Authenticity and the aura -- Aesthetics -- Value -- Gift exchange -- Collecting (an economic focus) -- Oral history -- Structure -- 2 From Weimar to the Third Reich -- Imperial legacy in Weimar -- The NSDAP and the deployment of symbols -- The efficacy of symbols -- Co-ordination (gleichschaltung) -- Nazi kitsch -- The brooch of fear: the NSDAP membership badge -- Conclusion -- 3 The materiality of the people's community -- Human cogs? -- Strength through Joy ( kraft durch freude) (KdF) -- The Nürnberg rallies -- The Winter Help Program (winterhilfswerk) (WHW) -- Conclusion -- 4 Pre-war awards: more than just Eagles and swastikas -- The Hindenburg cross -- Rewarding sinister service -- The German National Prize for Arts and Sciences -- American recipients of the German Eagle Order -- Conclusion -- 5 Medals for babies: the Honour Cross of the German Mother (ehrenkreuz der deutschen mutter) -- A racist form of pro-natalism -- Iconography and symbolic value -- Patriarchal propaganda -- From 'dearest wish' (sehnlichster wunsch ) to rejection -- Medal as agency -- Comparative perspective -- Efficacy -- Collectors -- Conclusion -- 6 Wartime awards: all ironed out -- An icon of iron -- The weapon badges -- Limbs for medals -- Himmler's Bandit badge -- Conclusion -- 7 Nazi objects as texts and trade -- Collectors' literature as artefacts -- Collecting and the market -- Conclusion -- 8 Trash or treasure: how do you solve a problem like Nazi memorabilia? -- To preserve or destroy -- The moral dimension -- The legalities of Nazi memorabilia -- Private versus public ownership and possession of Nazi memorabilia -- Never mind the swastikas -- Conclusion.

Attention is given to the way in which Methodist scholars and ministers, ranging from A.S. Peake to Leslie Weatherhead and Donald Soper to Kenneth Greet, have sought to relate questions of war and peace to broader considerations of Christian faith and practice. Chapters focus on responses within British Methodism to the Boer War and its aftermath, the First World War, the inter-war years and the rise of fascism, the Second World War, the Cold War, debates about the relationship between economic justice and conflict in the post-1945 period, and the international situation since the end of the Cold War.Looking at official Conference documents and 'grass roots' material, the author shows how Methodists, alongside other Christians, have wrestled with questions such as whether it can ever be right for Christians to take up arms or support their country in times of war? Does the state have the right to conscript its citizens to fight in times of war, and should individuals have the right to object to military service on grounds of conscience? Is it ever morally acceptable to possess weapons of mass destructions or to target civilians in times of war? Is it possible to identify new ways of promoting global economic justice in order to reduce the incidence of war and conflict (debt relief, new trading patterns, etc.)?

This book examines the careers of the men who served as British foreign secretary between 1919 and 1939, focusing in particular on the ways in which they sought to mould foreign policy.

Journal of the Indian Wars, or JIW was a quarterly publication on the study of the American Indian Wars. Before JIW, no periodical dedicated exclusively to this fascinating topic was available. JIW's focus was on warfare in the United States, Canada, and the Spanish borderlands from 1492 to 1890. Published articles also include personalities, policy, and military technologies. JIW was designed to satisfy both professional and lay readers with original articles of lasting value and a variety of columns of interest, plus book reviews, all enhanced with maps and illustrations. JIW's lengthy essay.