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• Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-429) and index.
• A Nation Disintegrates — Waiting for Hitler — Minuet (1940-1941) — City Without a Face-The Occupier’s Lament — Narrowed Lives — The Dilemmas of Resistance — The Most Narrowed Lives-The Hunt for Jews — How Much Longer? (1942-1944) — Liberation-A Whodunit — Angry Aftermath-Back on Paris Time — Is Paris Still Occupied? — Appendix: De Gaulle’s Speech on the Liberation of Paris.
• Describes what life was like in Paris after June 1940, when the Nazis occupied France, juxtaposing the eerie sense of normalcy felt by many Parisians with the passion of the strong resistance movement that rose around Charles de Gaulle.
• On June 14, 1940, German tanks entered a silent and nearly deserted Paris. Eight days later, France accepted a humiliating defeat and foreign occupation. Subsequently, an eerie sense of normalcy settled over the City of Light. Many Parisians keenly adapted themselves to the situation-even allied themselves with their Nazi overlords. At the same time, amidst this darkening gloom of German ruthlessness, shortages, and curfews, a resistance arose. Parisians of all stripes, Jews, immigrants, adolescents, communists, rightists, cultural icons such as Colette, de Beauvoir, Camus and Sartre, as well as police officers, teachers, students, and store owners-rallied around a little known French military officer, Charles de Gaulle. When Paris Went Dark evokes with stunning precision the detail of daily life in a city under occupation, and the brave people who fought against the darkness. Relying on a range of resources–memoirs, diaries, letters, archives, interviews, personal histories, flyers and posters, fiction, photographs, film and historical studies, Rosbottom has forged a groundbreaking book that will forever influence how we understand those dark years in the City of Light.

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• France — History — German occupation, 1940-1945.
• Paris (France) — History — 1940-1944.

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• How should historians speak truth to power- and why does it matter? Why is five hundred years better than five months or five years as a planning horizon? And why is history- especially long-term history- so essential to understanding the multiple pasts which gave rise to our conflicted present? The History Manifesto is a call to arms to historians and everyone interested in the role of history in contemporary society — from cover.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introduction: The Bonfire of the Humanities? — Going Forward by Looking Back : the Rise of the Longue Durée — The Short Past : or, The Retreat of the Longue Durée — The Long and the Short : Climate Change, Governance and Inequality since the 1970s — Big Questions, Big Data — Conclusion: The Public Future of the Past.
• How should historians speak truth to power–and why does it matter? Why is five hundred years better than five months or five years as a planning horizon? And why is history–especially long-term history–so essential to understanding the multiple pasts which gave rise to our conflicted present? The History Manifesto is a call to arms to historians and everyone interested in the role of history in contemporary society. Leading historians David Armitage and Jo Guldi identify a recent shift back to longer-term narratives, following many decades of increasing specialization, which they argue is vital for the future of historical scholarship and how it is communicated. This provocative and thoughtful book makes an important intervention in the debate about the role of history and the humanities in a digital age. It will provoke discussion among policymakers, activists and entrepreneurs as well as ordinary listeners, viewers, readers, students and teachers — Provided by publisher.

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• History — Philosophy.
• Historiography — Philosophy.
• Historiography — Political aspects.
• Historiography — Social aspects.
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory. bisacsh

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• A sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe, Out of Ashes tells the story of an era of unparalleled violence and barbarity yet also of humanity, prosperity, and promise. Konrad Jarausch describes how the European nations emerged from the nineteenth century with high hopes for continued material progress and proud of their imperial command over the globe, only to become embroiled in the bloodshed of World War I, which brought an end to their optimism and gave rise to competing democratic, communist, and fascist ideologies. He shows how the 1920s witnessed renewed hope and a flourishing of modernist art and literature, but how the decade ended in economic collapse and gave rise to a second, more devastating world war and genocide on an unprecedented scale. Jarausch further explores how Western Europe surprisingly recovered due to American help and political integration. Finally, he examines how the Cold War pushed the divided continent to the brink of nuclear annihilation, and how the unforeseen triumph of liberal capitalism came to be threatened by Islamic fundamentalism, global economic crisis, and an uncertain future. A stunning achievement, Out of Ashes explores the paradox of the European encounter with modernity in the twentieth century, shedding new light on why it led to cataclysm, inhumanity, and self-destruction, but also social justice, democracy, and peace — Provided by publisher.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introduction: The European Paradox — Part I: Promise of Progress, 1900-1929 — 1. Global Domination — 2. Breakdown of Peace — 3. Waging Total War — 4. Bolshevik Revolution — 5. Democratic Hopes — 6. Fascist Alternative — 7. Modernist Provocations — Part II: Descent into Self-destruction, 1929-45 — 8. Devastating Depression — 9. Stalinist Modernization — 10. Hitler’s Volksgemeinschaft — 11. Unleashing World War II — 12. Axis Conquest — 13. Nazi Holocaust — 14. Bitter Victory — Part III: Surprising Recovery, 1945-73 — 15. Democratic Renewal — 16. Dictating Communism — 17. Cold War Crises — 18. Disappointing Decolonization — 19. Economic Integration — 20. Pop and Prosperity — 21. Planning Social Reform — Part IV: Confronting Globalization, 1973-2000 — 22. Revolt against Modernity — 23. Post-Industrial Transition — 24. Return to Detente — 25. Peaceful Revolution — 26. Transforming the East — 27. Global Challenges — 28. Prospects for the Twenty-First Century — Postscript: A Chastened Europe.

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• Europe — History — 20th century.
• Europe — Politics and government — 20th century.
• Europe — Social conditions — 20th century.
• Social change — Europe — History — 20th century.

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-458) and index.
• A revolution and three wars, 1908-1913 — The peace before the Great War — A global call to arms — Opening salvos : Basra, Aden, Egypt, and the Eastern Mediterranean — Launching jihad : Ottoman campaigns in the Caucasus and the Sinai — The assault on the Dardanelles — The annihilation of the Armenians — The Ottoman triumph at Gallipoli — The invasion of Mesopotamia — The siege of Kut — The Arab revolt — Losing ground : the fall of Baghdad, the Sinai, and Jerusalem — From armistice to armistice — The fall of the Ottomans.

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• World War, 1914-1918 — Campaigns — Middle East.
• World War, 1914-1918 — Turkey.
• World War, 1914-1918 — Campaigns — Turkey — Gallipoli Peninsula.
• Turkey — History — Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.

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Part of the series Modern war studies;Modern war studies.
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• Includes bibliographical references(pages 259-272) and index.
• Introduction: Sherman was right — The great adventure — Gimme da gun — Wooden weapons — Across the pond — The supreme test — Would not take anything for it — Conclusion: If it has to come I am here — Appendix A. Unpacking the source — Appendix B. Biographies.
• The majority of soldiers from the American Expeditionary Forces returned from Europe in 1919. Where many were simply asked for basic data, veterans from four states–Utah, Minnesota, Connecticut, and Virginia–were given questionnaires soliciting additional information and ‘remarks.’ Drawing on these questionnaires, completed while memories were still fresh, this book presents a chorus of soldiers’ voices speaking directly of the expectations, motivations, and experiences as infantrymen on the Western Front in World War I. What was it like to kill or maim German soldiers? To see friends killed or maimed by the enemy? To return home after experiencing such violence? Again and again, soldiers wrestle with questions like these, putting into words what only they can tell. They also reflect on why they volunteered, why they fought, what their training was, and how ill-prepared they were for what they found overseas. They describe how they interacted with the civilian populations in England and France, how they saw the rewards and frustrations of occupation duty when they desperately wanted to go home, and–perhaps most significantly–what it all added up to in the end. Together their responses create a vivid and nuanced group portrait of the soldiers who fought with the American Expeditionary Forces on the battlefields of Aisne-Marne, Argonne Forest, Belleau Wood, Chateau-Thierry, the Marne, Metz, Meuse-Argonne, St. Mihiel, Sedan, and Verdun during the First World War. –Publisher’s Web site.

Subjects:

• World War, 1914-1918 — United States.
• United States. Army — History — World War, 1914-1918.
• Soldiers — United States — Attitudes.
• United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces.
• United States. Army — Military life — History — 20th century — Sources.
• World War, 1914-1918 — United States — Sources.

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• Includes index.
• From Redfield to Washington to Ankara / Judy Barrett Litoff — pt. 1. Washington, D.C., 1936 — pt. 2. Ankara, Turkey, 1944-1946 — Epilogue / Judy Barrett Litoff — Afterword: Remembering Aunt Marge / Sally Enstrom — Appendix A: Karpitch the Magnificient — Appendix B: Karpi menu — Appendix C: Letter from Karl Mundt — Appendix D: Special Order No. 28 — Appendix E: Commendation to Marjorie Steinbach.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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• Havreberg, Marjorie, 1914-1999 — Correspondence.
• World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives, American.
• World War, 1939-1945 — Turkey — Ankara.
• Americans — Turkey — Ankara — Correspondence.
• Young women — Turkey — Ankara — Correspondence.
• Ankara (Turkey) — Social life and customs — 20th century.
• Ankara (Turkey) — Biography.
• World War, 1939-1945 — Washington (D.C.)
• Washington (D.C.) — Social life and customs — 20th century.
• Washington (D.C.) — Biography.
• Ankara. (DE-588)4002075-7 gnd
• Geschichte 1944-1946.
• Erlebnisbericht.

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• Originally produced by New Day Films in 1996.
• Holding Ground is at once a cautionary tale of urban policies gone wrong and a message of hope for all American cities. In 1985, African-American, Latino, Cape Verdean, and European-American residents in Roxbury, MA united to revitalize their community. The Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative went on to gain national recognition as residents fought to close down illegal dumps, gain unprecedented control of land from City Hall and create a comprehensive plan to rebuild the fabric of their community. Through the voices of committed residents, activists and city officials, this moving documentary shows how a Boston neighborhood was able to create and carry out its own agenda for change.

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• Dudley Street Neighbourhood Initiative.
• Community organization — Massachusetts — Boston.
• Urban renewal — Massachusetts — Boston.
• Streaming video.
• Feature films. lcgft

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Part of the series Practicing oral history series
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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-206) and index.
• Part I. Oral history — Oral history — The oral history life cycle — Part II. Oral history for public audiences — Legal standards and options — Ethical guidelines — Management — The art of interviewing — Stewardship — Part III. Oral history: step-by-step — From the idea through the plan — The interview — Preservation and access — Part IV. Reflections and resources.
• AUGSBURG COLLEGE LINDELL LIBRARY’s copy is inscribed by the author.

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• Oral history — Handbooks, manuals, etc.
• Oral history — Methodology.
• Interviewing — Handbooks, manuals, etc.
• History — Societies, etc.
• Handbooks and manuals. fast (OCoLC)fst01423877

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• Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-269) and index.
• The Blessed Abyss.

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• Herbermann, Nanda, 1903-1979.
• Ravensbruck (Concentration camp)
• Women political prisoners — Germany — Biography.

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Part of the series Spatial humanities;Spatial humanities (Indiana University Press)
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• This book explores the geographies of the Holocaust at every scale of human experience, from the European continent to the experiences of individual human bodies. Built on six innovative case studies, it brings together historians, geographers, and geographic information scientists to interrogate the places and spaces of the genocide. The cases encompass the landscapes of particular places (the killing zones in the East, deportations from sites in Italy, the camps of Auschwitz, the ghettos of Budapest) and the intimate spaces of bodies on evacuation marches. Geographies of the Holocaust puts forward models and a research agenda for different ways of visualizing and thinking about the Holocaust by examining the spaces and places where it was enacted and experienced — Provided by publisher.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Geographies of the Holocaust / Alberto Giordano, Anne Kelly Knowles, and Tim Cole — Mapping the SS concentration camps / Anne Kelly Knowles, Paul B. Jaskot, Benjamin Perry Blackshear, Michael De Groot, and Alexander Yule — Retracing the hunt for Jews : A spatio-temporal analysis of arrests during the Holocaust in Italy / Alberto Giordano and Anne Holian — Killing on the ground and in the mind : the spatialities of genocide in the East / Waitman Wade Beorn and Anne Kelly Knowles — Bringing the ghetto to the Jew : spatialities of ghettoization in Budapest / Tim Cole and Alberto Giordano — Visualizing the archive : building at Auschwitz as a geographic problem / Paul B. Jaskot, Anne Kelly Knowles, Chester Harvey, and Benjamin Perry Blackshear — From the camp to the road : representing the evacuations from Auschwitz, January 1945 / Simone Gigliotti, Marc J. Masurovsky, and Erik B. Steiner — Afterword / Paul B. Jaskot and Tim Cole.

Subjects:

• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) — History — Case studies.
• Historical geography — Case studies.
• World War, 1939-1945 — Atrocities — Case studies.
• 1939 – 1945 fast

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