Contemporary History 1945-

Teaching History with Film provides a fresh, engaging, and clear overview of teaching with film to effectively enhance social studies instruction...

Using cases of experienced teachers to illustrate accomplished history teaching through movies, this text provides ideas for implementing film-based lessons and offers an understanding of issues involved in using film to teach. The new edition is completely revised including two new case studies and..

This book provides the only thouroughly worldwide modern history of the Jews of the Diaspora. Wistrich has drawn together a collection of authors from the US, Europe & Israel to analyse the immense changes that have happened since 1945...

Guy Liddell, MI5's Director of Counter-Espionage, kept a daily diary of events throughout the Second World War, which provide a unique insight into the work of the Security Service...

After the Second World War the international migration regime in Europe took a course different from migration regimes in other regions of the world. On the basis of national and international archives, this book explains how German geopolitical and geo-economic strategies during the Cold War shaped..

The book offers a highly original interpretation of how the climax of transfers of power in the British Empire were lubricated by the imagery, codification and subsequent ‘memory’ of Independence celebrations. _x000D_ This book was published as a special issue of The Round Table...

This book provides new research on Zhiqing, the first generation brought up after the establishment of the People’s Republic of China and regarded as a lost generation during the Cultural Revolution. Presenting a remembrance of their tortuous life trajectories, the book investigates their distinctiv..

The Marshall Plan: A New Deal for Europe examines the aid program and its ideological origins, and explores how ideas about an Americanized world order inspired and influenced the Marshall Plan’s creation and execution...

Based on rigorous analysis of the propaganda of five Western European separatist parties, this book provides in-depth examination of the ‘nationalism of the rich’, defined as a type of nationalist discourse that seeks to end the economic ‘exploitation’ suffered by a group of people represented as a ..

This highly-regarded history gives a balanced and judicious introduction to this immensely complex and controversial subject, weaving different strands of the story into a single coherent narrative, thus making it essential reading for all students studying conflict in the Middle East. Of all the tr..

This highly-regarded history gives a balanced and judicious introduction to this immensely complex and controversial subject, weaving different strands of the story into a single coherent narrative, thus making it essential reading for all students studying conflict in the Middle East. Of all the tr..

This book is a comparative study of political ideas on democracy postwar Western Europe, arguing that until the end of the 1970s, political actors were deeply divided in their conceptions of democracy. In this way, the book traces the historical roots of the contemporary sentiment of democratic cris..