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“…This book examines three recent Chinese documentary television series which present the officially sanctioned view of the rise of the modern West, the reasons for the end of the Soviet Union, and the legitimisation of the present-day Chinese government via a specific reading of modern Chinese history to argue for a "Chinese rise" in the future. …”
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“…Jesminder es una chica de dieciocho años que vive con su familia en West London, el barrio más hindú de la ciudad. Sus padres quieren que sea educada y aleccionada para ser la perfecta esposa india, pero ella no tiene tiempo para pensar en esas cosas porque sólo le interesa jugar la fútbol con sus amigos y besar la foto de su ídolo favorito, David Beckham, la estrella del Manchester United. …”

“…This is a political biography of the French industrialist and political activist Jacques Lemaigre Dubreuil (1894-1955), president of the Taxpayers' Federation in the 1930s, entrepreneur in wartime France and Africa, organizer of the 'Group of Five' in Algiers which prepared for the Allied landings in North Africa (November 1942), 'inventor' of General Henri Giraud as a candidate for the leadership of liberated North and West Africa, negotiator of the Murphy-Giraud Agreements and the Anfa Memorandum with President Roosevelt (1942 and 1943), political writer on the postwar future of France in Mo…”

“…Frequent reports of honor killings, disfigurement, and sensational abuse have given rise to a consensus in the West, a message propagated by human rights groups and the media: Muslim women need to be rescued. …”
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“…Due to the simplicity and flexibility of network trade the Hansards could bridge the huge gap in economic development between the West and the East. In the changing economic conditions around 1500, however, exactly these characteristics proved to be a serious limit to further retain their trade monopoly…”

“…The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria has been the subject of intense scrutiny in the West. Considered by many to be the most dangerous terrorist organisation in the world, it has become shrouded in numerous myths and narratives, many emanating from the US, which often fail to grasp its true nature. …”

“…Trotz aller Anstrengungen bei den INF-Verhandlungen in Genf und massiver Proteste der Friedensbewegung wurde im Herbst die "Nachrüstung" vollzogen. 397 hier erstmals veröffentlichte Dokumente zeigen, wie sich vor dem Hintergrund einer verschärften Blockkonfrontation, die sich u.a. im Abschuss eines südkoreanischen Passagierflugzeugs durch die UdSSR manifestierte, die Bundesregierung bemühte, den Ost-West-Dialog und den Prozess der europäischen Einigung nicht abreißen zu lassen. …”

“…Angesichts der deutschen Teilung und vor dem Hintergrund des ungarischen Aufstandes von 1956 war die SED in besonderem Maße auf die Loyalität der Armeeführung angewiesen; eine deutsch-deutsche Konfrontation im Rahmen des Ost-West-Konflikts und die Niederschlagung innerer Unruhen waren die wahrscheinlichsten Szenarien für den Einsatz der NVA. …”

“…While the margins for Dutch foreign policy are limited, fate had it that the Netherlands occupied the European presidency during the second half of 1991, when the recognition issue divided the West and the parameters for the subsequent international intervention in the Balkans were set. …”

“…Moving north to south from northern Peninsular Malaysia to Timor and west to east from Sumatra to the Moluccas, Bellwood describes human prehistory from initial hominid settlement more than one million years ago to the eve of historical Hindu-Buddhist and Islamic cultures of the region. …”

“…The outcomes of attempts at intercultural understanding are examined by educational researchers from high- and low-income countries, from the east and the west, and from both northern and southern hemispheres. …”

“…The geo-civil war afflicting the Muslim world from Lebanon through Iraq and Afghanistan to Pakistan confronts the West with the need to articulate anew what its political ideas and ideals actually are. …”

“…Ever since Europeans made contact with the West, a series of global circumstances including the genocide of the indigenous people of the Americas, the enslavement and global subjugation of Africans, and the emergence of Western concepts of trade dominance and capitalism, have led to deleterious impacts on the global biogeochemical cycles. …”