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"Whilst Soviet communism and its relationship with modernity has been widely studied to date, the agrarian experiment in Eastern Europe has been relegated to the margins of historical analysis. In this comparative study, Alex Toshkov uncovers the history of agrarianism after the First World War and explores its place as an alternative modernity to liberal democracy and capitalism. "
Agriculture --- History --- E-books --- History. --- Twentieth-Century History (History) --- Social History (History) --- European History (History)
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When asked to compare the practice of medicine today to that of a hundred years ago, most people will respond with a story of therapeutic revolution: Back then we had few effective remedies, but now we have more (and more powerful) tools to fight disease, from antibiotics to psychotropics to steroids to anticancer agents. This collection challenges the historical accuracy of this revolutionary narrative and offers instead a more nuanced account of the process of therapeutic innovation and the relationships between the development of medicines and social change. These assembled histories and ethnographies span three continents and use the lived experiences of physicians and patients, consumers and providers, and marketers and regulators to reveal the tensions between universal claims of therapeutic knowledge and the actual ways these claims have been used and understood in specific sites, from postwar West Germany pharmacies to twenty-first century Nigerian street markets. By asking us to rethink a story we thought we knew, Therapeutic Revolutions offers invaluable insights to historians, anthropologists, and social scientists of medicine.
Pharmaceutical industry --- Therapeutics --- Social aspects. --- biomedicine. --- consumer history. --- history of medicine. --- history of science. --- medical anthropology. --- modern medicine. --- pharmaceutical industry. --- prescription drugs. --- therapeutic revolution. --- twentieth century history.
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The story of how African farmers, African-American scientists, and British businessmen struggled to turn colonial Africa into a major cotton exporter.
Cotton trade --- History. --- British Cotton Growing Association --- African American history. --- African American studies. --- capitalism. --- colonial Africa. --- cotton industry. --- cotton. --- economics. --- globalization. --- history. --- power. --- racism. --- slavery. --- twentieth century history.
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"Kenkoku University and the Experience of Pan-Asianism makes a fresh contribution to the recent effort to re-examine the Japanese wartime ideology of Pan-Asianism by focusing on the experiences of students at Kenkoku University or "Nation-Building University," abbreviated as Kendai (1938-1945). Located in the northeastern provinces of China commonly designated Manchuria, the university proclaimed to realize the goal of minzoku kyowa ("ethnic harmony"). It recruited students of Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Taiwanese, Mongolian and Russian backgrounds and aimed to foster a generation of leaders for the state of Manchukuo. Distinguishing itself from other colonial schools within the Japanese Empire, Kendai promised ethnic equality to its diverse student body, while at the same time imposing Japanese customs and beliefs on all students."
Imperialism. --- Universities and colleges --- Japanese --- Twentieth-Century History (History) --- Asian History (History) --- Imperial and Colonial History (History) --- History --- Jian guo da xue (Manchoukuo) --- History. --- Japan --- Foreign relations
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"The English folk revival cannot be understood when divorced from the history of post-war England, yet the existing scholarship fails to fully engage with its role in the social and political fabric of the nation. Postwar Politics, Society and the Folk Revival in England is the first study to interweave the story of a gentrifying folk revival with the socio-political tensions inherent in England's postwar transition from austerity to affluence"
Folk music --- Popular music --- Twentieth-Century History (History) --- Social History (History) --- Folk Music --- British History (History) --- History --- Political History (History) --- History and criticism. --- Great Britain --- Politics and government
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The story of how African farmers, African-American scientists, and British businessmen struggled to turn colonial Africa into a major cotton exporter.
Cotton trade --- History. --- British Cotton Growing Association --- African American history. --- African American studies. --- capitalism. --- colonial Africa. --- cotton industry. --- cotton. --- economics. --- globalization. --- history. --- power. --- racism. --- slavery. --- twentieth century history.
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Lviv's Uncertain Destination examines the city's tumultuous twentieth-century history through the lens of its main railway terminal. Whereas most existing studies of eastern European cities centre their stories on discrete ethnic groups, milestone political events, and economic changes, this book's narrative is woven around an important site within the city's complex spatial matrix. Combining architectural, economic, social, and everyday life history, Andriy Zayarnyuk shows how different political regimes created dissimilar social spaces even on the same streets and in the same buildings. His narrative leads us to rethink how the late imperial Habsburg and Romanov, Stalinist and post-Stalinist Soviet, interwar Polish, and Nazi German regimes produced, structured, and controlled urban space. Focusing on railway workers, the book also draws attention to the history of Lviv's wage earners, who constituted the majority of the city's adult population.
Brezhnev. --- Franz Joseph I. --- Lviv. --- Polish and Nazi regimes. --- Stalinist and post-Stalinist. --- history of railway workers. --- interwar. --- late imperial Habsburg and Romanov. --- railway terminal. --- twentieth-century history. --- 1900-1999 --- Lʹviv (Ukraine) --- History --- Brezhnev --- Franz Joseph I --- Lviv --- Polish and Nazi regimes --- Stalinist and post-Stalinist --- History of railway workers --- Interwar --- Late imperial Habsburg and Romanov --- Railway terminal --- Twentieth-century history
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Revolutions --- Twentieth century --- Insurgency --- Guerrillas --- History --- Revolutions - History - 20th century - Pictorial works. --- Twentieth century - History - Pictorial works. --- Insurgency - History - 20th century - Pictorial works. --- Guerrillas - History - 20th century - Pictorial works.
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"Catholics and Communists in Twentieth-Century Italy explores the critical moments in the relationship between the Catholic world and the Italian left, providing unmatched insight into one of the most significant dynamics in political and religious history in Italy in the last hundred years.The book covers the Catholic Communist movement in Rome (1937-45), the experience of the Resistenza, the governmental collaboration between the Catholic Party (DC) and the Italian Communist Party (PCI) until 1947, and the dialogue between some of the key figures in both spheres in the tensest years of the Cold War. Daniela Saresella even goes on to consider the legacy that these interactions have left in Italy in the 21st century."
Communism and Christianity --- Catholics --- Communists --- Twentieth-Century History (History) --- Social History (History) --- European History (History) --- History of Religion (Rel Studies) --- History --- Political History (History) --- Catholic Church. --- Italy --- Politics and government
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"Catholics and Communists in Twentieth-Century Italy explores the critical moments in the relationship between the Catholic world and the Italian left, providing unmatched insight into one of the most significant dynamics in political and religious history in Italy in the last hundred years.The book covers the Catholic Communist movement in Rome (1937-45), the experience of the Resistenza, the governmental collaboration between the Catholic Party (DC) and the Italian Communist Party (PCI) until 1947, and the dialogue between some of the key figures in both spheres in the tensest years of the Cold War. Daniela Saresella even goes on to consider the legacy that these interactions have left in Italy in the 21st century."
Communism and Christianity --- Catholics --- Communists --- Twentieth-Century History (History) --- Social History (History) --- European History (History) --- History of Religion (Rel Studies) --- History --- Political History (History) --- Catholic Church --- Italy --- Politics and government
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