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Book Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office

Download or read book Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office written by United States. Patent Office and published by . This book was released on 1955-07 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Postwar

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tony Judt
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2006-09-05
  • ISBN : 1440624763
  • Pages : 993 pages

Download or read book Postwar written by Tony Judt and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-09-05 with total page 993 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award • One of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of the Year “Impressive . . . Mr. Judt writes with enormous authority.” —The Wall Street Journal “Magisterial . . . It is, without a doubt, the most comprehensive, authoritative, and yes, readable postwar history.” —The Boston Globe Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of the world's most esteemed historians and intellectuals is a singular achievement. Postwar is the first modern history that covers all of Europe, both east and west, drawing on research in six languages to sweep readers through thirty-four nations and sixty years of political and cultural change-all in one integrated, enthralling narrative. Both intellectually ambitious and compelling to read, thrilling in its scope and delightful in its small details, Postwar is a rare joy. Judt's book, Ill Fares the Land, republished in 2021 featuring a new preface by bestselling author of Between the World and Me and The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Book Stalin s American Spy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tony Sharp
  • Publisher : Hurst
  • Release : 2014-05-15
  • ISBN : 184904497X
  • Pages : 425 pages

Download or read book Stalin s American Spy written by Tony Sharp and published by Hurst. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stalin's American Spy tells the remarkable story of Noel Field, a Soviet agent in the US State Department in the mid-1930s. Lured to Prague in May 1949, he was kidnapped and handed over to the Hungarian secret police. Tortured by them and interrogated too by their Soviet superiors, Field's forced 'confessions' were manipulated by Stalin and his East European satraps to launch a devastating series of show-trials that led to the imprisonment and judicial murder of numerous Czechoslovak, German, Polish and Hungarian party members. Yet there were other events in his very strange career that could give rise to the suspicion that Field was an American spy who had infiltrated the Communist movement at the behest of Allen Dulles, the wartime OSS chief in Switzerland who later headed the CIA. Never tried, Field and his wife were imprisoned in Budapest until 1954, then granted political asylum in Hungary, where they lived out their sterile last years. This new biography takes a fresh look at Field's relationship with Dulles, and his role in the Alger Hiss affair. It sheds fresh light upon Soviet espionage in the United States and Field's relationship with Hede Massing, Ignace Reiss and Walter Krivitsky. It also reassesses how the increasingly anti-Semitic East European show-trials were staged and dissects the 'lessons? which Stalin sought to convey through them.

Book Disarmament and Security

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1956
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1068 pages

Download or read book Disarmament and Security written by United States. Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 1068 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reinventing Politics

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  • Author : Vladimir Tismaneanu
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2000-10-06
  • ISBN : 1439105952
  • Pages : 617 pages

Download or read book Reinventing Politics written by Vladimir Tismaneanu and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000-10-06 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reinventing Politics gives an account of East European politics from the time of Soviet domination to the 1989-90 revolutions, and considers the effect of tyranny on East European culture and politics, the chances for successful and harmonious development in the region, and its relationship with the rest of Europe. “Using primary materials from Eastern European democratic movements, Tismaneanu shows how dissident enclaves, grassroots political groups, independent unions and underground initiatives spearheaded the spontaneous outbursts of discontent that led to the nonviolent collapse of communist dictatorships…In an illuminating, exciting comparative analysis of the breakup of the Soviet Union's outer empire, Tismaneanu …identifies bureaucratic inertia, renascent authoritarian tendencies and the lure of populist adventurers as key obstacles to democracy.” —Publishers Weekly

Book Queer Japan from the Pacific War to the Internet Age

Download or read book Queer Japan from the Pacific War to the Internet Age written by Mark McLelland and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2005-03-25 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholarship on Japan has recently broadened to include minority perspectives on communities from marginal workers to those whose sexuality has long been overlooked. This volume, with its combination of fieldwork in the gay and lesbian communities and the use of historical sources such as journals and documents, breaks important new ground in this field. It examines gay life in the Japanese Pacific War, addresses transgender and lesbian as well as gay issues, examines the interface of queer society with the U.S. occupation and the international community, contests major interpretations of contemporary queer society, and introduces readers to the development of lesbian, transgender, and gay communities in postwar Japan.Queer Japan from the Pacific Age to the Internet Age provides a historical outline of the development of sexual-minority identity categories and community formation through a detailed analysis of both niche and mainstream publications, including magazines, newspapers, biographies, memoirs, and Internet sites. The material is also augmented with interview data from individuals who have had a long association with Japan's queer cultures.Including a wealth of images from the "perverse press," this book will appeal to students and general readers interested in modern and contemporary Japan and in gender studies and sexuality.

Book American Catholicism

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Tracy Ellis
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 1969-06-15
  • ISBN : 0226205568
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book American Catholicism written by John Tracy Ellis and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1969-06-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Catholic Church remains one of the oldest institutions of Western civilization. It continues to withstand attack from without and defection from within. In his revision of American Catholicism, Monsignor Ellis has added a new chapter on the history of the Church since 1956. Here he deals with developments in Catholic education, with the changing relations of the Church to its own members and to society in general, and especially with arguments for and against the ecumenical movement brought about by Vatican Council II. The author gives an updated historical account of the part played by Catholics in both the American Revolution and the Civil War, and of the difficulties within the Church that came with the clash of national interests among Irish, French, and Germans in the nineteenth century. He regards immigration as the key to the increasingly important role of American Catholicism in the nation after 1820. For contemporary America, the author counts among the signs of the mature Church an increase in Church membership, the presence of nine Americans in the College of Cardinals in May, 1967, and the expansion of American effort in Catholic missions throughout the world.

Book The Road to Disillusion  From Critical Marxism to Post communism in Eastern Europe

Download or read book The Road to Disillusion From Critical Marxism to Post communism in Eastern Europe written by Raymond C. Taras and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of reform movements in postwar Eastern Europe is ultimately ironic, inasmuch as the reformers' successes and defeats alike served to discredit and demoralize the regimes they sought to redeem. The essays in this volume examine the historic and present-day role of the internal critics who, whatever their intentions, used Marxism as critique to demolish Marxism as ideocracy, but did not succeed in replacing it. Included here are essays by James P. Scanlan on the USSR, Ferenc Feher on Hungary, Leslie Holmes on the German Democratic Republic, Raymond Taras on Poland, James Satterwhite on Czechoslovakia, Vladimir Tismaneanu on Romania, Mark Baskin on Bulgaria, and Oskar Gruenwald on Yugoslavia. In concert, the contributors provide a comprehensive intellectual history and a veritable Who's Who of revisionist Marxism in Eastern Europe.

Book Hearings

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  • Author : United States. Congress. House
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1960
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 2632 pages

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 2632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1961

Download or read book Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1961 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1961

Download or read book Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1961 written by United States. Congress. House. Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 1580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hearings

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  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1956
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1826 pages

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 1826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ayub Khan

Download or read book Ayub Khan written by Altaf Gauhar and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ayub Khan: Pakistan's First Military Ruler, is a candid account of Ayub's rule. The much-publicized Decade of Reforms, the inner story of Ayub's election struggle against his chief contender, Miss Jinnah, and the story behind the Tashkent Declaration and the Agartala Conspiracy, are all under scrutiny. This analyses the 'two pleas' sent by Nehru to Kennedy and the resulting correspondence, and throws light on subjects that were previously unknown or shrouded in mystery.

Book The Sixth Man

Download or read book The Sixth Man written by James McNeish and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paddy Costello was a scholar, a soldier, a diplomat, a maverick, an exemplary father, a lover of good wine. But this fascinating biography also asks was he a spy? Auckland. Cambridge. Moscow. Paris. New Zealand’s 'most brilliant linguist and ablest foreign envoy'. The man who alerted the West to Soviet possession of the atom bomb. The first Allied diplomat to enter and report on the Nazi death camps at the end of the war. General Freyberg’s favourite Intelligence officer. This masterful biography explores the truth behind the rumours and reveals a fascinating man.

Book Commission of Fine Arts  Federal Coal Mine Safety Board of Review Forest Service  Historical and Memorial Commissions  Indian Claims Commission  National Capital Planning Commission  Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission  Smithsonian Institution  Transitional Grants to Alaska

Download or read book Commission of Fine Arts Federal Coal Mine Safety Board of Review Forest Service Historical and Memorial Commissions Indian Claims Commission National Capital Planning Commission Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission Smithsonian Institution Transitional Grants to Alaska written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Recent Advances in Medicine and Surgery

Download or read book Recent Advances in Medicine and Surgery written by Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Making of a Sugar Giant

Download or read book The Making of a Sugar Giant written by Philippe Chalmin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1990 with total page 1136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.