History - Other Areas
History - Other Areas 20C History (General) NEW IN PAPERBACK
Austrian Banks in the Period of National Socialism Gerald D. Feldman | University of California, Berkeley
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This book gives a detailed account of how two major banks - the Creditanstalt-Wiener Bankverein and the Länderbank Wien - profited from their service to the Nazi regime. It traces their involvement in the dispossession of Jewish business owners and in financing industrial firms vital to the Third Reich’s war effort. • Written by a pre-eminent, prolific historian • This is the first time this text has appeared in English translation • Bolstered by a new introduction for this English edition Publications of the German Historical Institute 591pp March 2020 9781108799263 Paperback GBP 32.99 / USD 42.99 December 2015 9781107001657 Hardback GBP 93.00 / USD 144.00 eISBN 9781139051569
Christianity and Human Rights Reconsidered Sarah Shortall | University of Notre Dame, Indiana
This volume showcases the work of a new generation of scholars interested in the historical connection between religion and human rights in the twentieth century, offering a truly global perspective on the internal diversity, theological roots, and political implications of Christian human rights theory. • Highlights the global turn in the history of human rights. • Showcases a range of interdisciplinary work on the relationship between religion and human rights. • Transforms our understanding of both human rights theory and the history of Christianity. Human Rights in History 300pp September 2020 9781108424707 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108341356
Decolonization, SelfDetermination, and the Rise of Global Human Rights Politics A. Dirk Moses | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
This is the first global history of human rights politics in the age of decolonization. Leading scholars demonstrate how human rights were embraced and deployed by a diverse collection of actors, including both nationalists and imperialists, activists and diplomats, in contesting self-determination and national independence. • Challenges orthodox historical narratives to provide a deeper, and multi-polar, examination of the origins and use of human rights across numerous sites of struggle • Features a variety of case studies, spanning much of the globe, each investigating human rights claims as reality, not abstraction • Provides an insight into what constituted ‘human rights’ for particular peoples, places, and circumstances to allow for a greater appreciation of the diversity of causes, struggles, and movements which embraced human rights Human Rights in History 450pp July 2020 9781108479356 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108783170
Humanitarianism and Human Rights A World of Differences? Michael N. Barnett | George Washington University, Washington DC
Human rights and humanitarianism are two totems of global ethics and politics in today’s world, but they have a complicated relationship that is not always understood or appreciated. To capture that past, present, and future, this volume explores what each hopes to attain and how those ambitions converge or diverge. • Unpacks and interrogates the relationship between human rights and humanitarianism • Explores different notions of humanity and the tensions and conflicts that this can create • Provides a philosophical and practical consideration of global ethics Human Rights in History 340pp November 2020 9781108836791 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 November 2020 9781108819206 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108872485
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The Cambridge History of Communism Volume 1 World Revolution and Socialism in One Country 1917–1941 Silvio Pons | Università degli Studi di Roma ‘Tor Vergata’
Volume One of The Cambridge History of Communism deals with the tumultuous events from the Russian Revolution of 1917 to the Second World War, analyzing the roots, impact, and development of communism, historical personalities such as Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky, and the development of the movement on a global scale. • Charts the rise of communism as a global force from the Russian Revolution and Civil War to the Spanish Civil War and the outbreak of the Second World War • Situates Communist history in the context of the aftermath of the First World War, the crisis of empires, the Great Depression, and the rise of Fascism in Europe • Written by a team of leading international contributors from a range of disciplines The Cambridge History of Communism 676pp April 2020 9781107467361 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 September 2017 9781107092846 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 150.00 eISBN 9781316137024
