Combining discourse and comparative historical methods of analysis, this book explores how colonialists and anti-colonialists renegotiated transnational power relationships within the debates on decolonization in the United Nations from 1946–1960.
This book is a comparative study of political ideas on democracy postwar Western Europe, arguing that until the end of the 1970s, political actors wer..
This book questions the presupposition voiced by many historians and political scientists that political experiences in Europe continue to be interpre..
This book explores social, political, legal, and cultural facets of the movement for the recovery of historical memory and the growing demands for acc..
The yearning for historical justice has become one of the defining features of our age. Governments, international bodies and civil society organisati..
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 ..
This ground-breaking work has been fully updated in detailing the painting, sculpture and photography of gay or lesbian artists. Set in the context of..
This book breaks new ground in claiming photo- graphs as valid documentary sources for the historian. Brothers applies her argument with special refer..
An important revisionist study of China's recent past that takes into account the historical shape of the century, local perspectives on national hist..
A fascinating study of expansionist visions of Hitler and Mussolini which enlightens our understanding of the dynamics and evolution of the fascist po..
War in the Modern World since 1815 addresses war as a cultural phenomenon, discusses its meaning in different socities and explores the various contex..