“…In 1937 and 1938 her journals give an interesting view of the networks between museums, art dealers, art scholars and artists just before the outbreak of World War II…”

“…These questions can be applied to Waffen-SS recruitment during World War II and refracted as if through a prism. This study explains the intentions and scope of action of the occupational forces, political elites, and individuals in six states."-- Publisher's website Members of up to fifteen nations served in them. …”

“…This book provides a hitherto untold chapter of the Holocaust by exploring a prequel to the gas chambers: the face-to-face mass murder of Jews in Galicia by bullets.The summer of 1941 ushered in a chain of events that had no precedent in the rapidly unfolding history of World War II and the Holocaust. In six weeks, more than twenty thousand Hungarian Jews were forcefully deported to Galicia and summarily executed. …”

“…For five years during World War II, Denmark was occupied by Germany. While the Danish reaction to this period of its history has been extensively discussed in Danish-language publications, it has not until now received a thorough treatment in English. …”

“…Like their peers across western Europe, Australia and the Americas, large segments of the British public and a significant proportion of Britain's medical establishment have enthusiastically promoted medical screening (and de facto medical selection) of would-be migrants since World War II. Politically, such medicalised controls have been relatively uncontroversial both domestically and internationally, and across Europe have arguably provided 'objective' scientific cover for efforts in fact directed towards controlling the entry of migrants from specific ethnic groups and countries of origin. …”

“…Since then, following World War II, Japan adopted its current Constitution, the Japanese Constitution of 1946. …”

“…The codebreakers at Bletchley Park, the most successful World War II intelligence agency, were completely unaware that their predecessors in earlier moments of national crisis had broken the codes of Napoleon during the Napoleonic wars and those of Spain before the Spanish Armada. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…A history of African diaspora in Germany -- The beginning and end of the first African diaspora (1880-1945) -- African colonial subjects in Germany after World War I - the emergence of formal organisations -- People of African descent under the Nazi regime (1933-1945) -- African diaspora in West and East Germany (1945-1980) -- African migration and diaspora organisation in Germany since the 1950s -- American influences in Germany after World War II -- US military occupation after World War II -- The Civil Rights movement in Germany -- Afrodiasporic organisations and representation in Germany up to the turn of the millennium -- Conclusion -- 3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Unlocking the Social World of International Organizations -- Torsten Kahlert , Aarhus University, Denmark -- Part II: Learning and Norms -- Chapter 5: -- The Influence of the United States on the Rise of Global Governance in -- Education: The OEEC and UNESCO in the Post-World War II Period, -- Maren Elfert, King's College London, UK & Christian Ydesen, Aalborg University, Denmark -- Chapter 6: Learning Across Institutions - the Officials of the ECSC High Authority and EEC Commission, Katja Seidel , University of Westminster, UK -- Chapter 7: Food and Nutrition - Expertise Across International Epistemic Communities and Organizations, 1919-1960, Amy Sayward , Middle Tennessee State University, USA -- Part III: Legitimacy and Legimization -- Chapter 8: Legitimizing International Bureaucracy - Press and Information Work from the League of Nations to the UN, Emil Seidenfaden , Aarhus University, Denmark -- Chapter 9: The Avant-Garde of the League: The International Federation of League of Nations Societies and their Part in Governing the World, Anne Isabel Richard , Leiden University, The Netherlands -- Chapter 10 An Uneasy Relationship ? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Preface -- Economics -- Economics -- Principle I: Opportunity cost -- Principle II: Expected marginal costs and benefits -- Principle III: Substitution -- Principle IV: Diminishing marginal returns -- Principle V: asymmetric information and hidden characteristics -- Principle VI: Hidden actions and incentive alignments -- Conclusion: economics--and military history -- The high Middle Ages, 1000-1300: The case of the medieval castle and the opportunity cost of warfare -- Opportunity cost and warfare -- The ubiquity of castles -- The cost of castling -- The advantages of castles -- The cost of armies -- Castle building and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The Renaissance, 1300-1600: the case of the condottieri and the military labor market -- The principal-agent problem -- Demand, supply, and recruitment -- Contracts and pay -- Control and contract evolution -- The development of permanent armies -- Condottieri and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The age of battle, 1618-1815: the case of costs, benefits, and the decision to offer battle -- Expected marginal costs and benefits of battle -- The 1600s: Gustavus Adolphus and Raimondo de Montecuccoli -- The 1700s: Marlborough, de Saxe, and Frederick the Great -- Napoleonic warfare -- The age of battle and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The age of revolution, 1789-1914: the case of the American Civil War and the economics of information asymmetry -- Information and warfare -- North, South, and the search for information -- Major Eastern campaigns through Gettysburg -- Grant in Virginia -- The American Civil War and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The age of the world wars, 1914-1945: the case of diminishing marginal returns to the strategic bombing of Germany in World War II -- A strategic bombing production function -- Bombing German war production -- Bombing the supply chain and the civilian economy -- Bombing German morale -- Assessing the effect of strategic bombing -- Strategic bombing and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The age of the Cold War, 1945-1991: the case of capital-labor substitution and France's Force de Frappe -- History of the Force de Frappe -- The force post-De Gaulle -- Justifying the force -- The force's effect on France's conventional arms -- Substituting nuclear for conventional forces -- The Force de Frappe and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- Economics and military history in the twenty-first century -- Economics of terrorism -- Economics of military manpower -- Economics of private military companies -- Economics, historiography, and military history -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index…”

“…By the end of World War II, the very concept of landing blind therefore had disappeared from the trade literature, a victim of human limitations…”

“…The study assesses seven cases of nation-building operations following major conflicts: Germany and Japan immediately after World War II; Somalia, Haiti, and Kosovo in the 1990's; and Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001. …”

“…A history of the Fourth International during World War II, develops a historical analysis of the political perspective carried out by the Fourth International in Europe during World War II through the comparative study of the French, North American, Belgian and British sections. …”

“…Folklore and Nationalism in Modern Finland traces the crucial impact of folklore studies on three periods in Finnish history: the era of Swedish and Russian rule; the tense decades between the winning of Finnish independence and the end of World War II; and the postwar period. By studying the increasingly propagandistic application of folklore by both the political right and left and by showing how respected folklore scholars allowed themselves to be swayed by political issues, Wilson raises important questions about the proper use of folklore—and indeed of all the humanities…”

“…It focuses on the growth of Purdue University from the post-World War II years through the tumultuous times of the late 1960s and Hovde’s own comments on those periods…”

“…This book explores the linkages between Southern Europe and South America in the post-World War II period, through organized migration and development policies. …”

“…However, ecological design harks as far back as Ernst Haeckel’s definition of the field of ecology and Henry David Thoreau’s manual for self-reliance. Since World War II, contrary to the position of ecological design as a call to fit harmoniously within the natural world, there has been a growing interest in a form of synthetic naturalism, where the laws of nature and metabolism are displaced from the domain of wilderness to the domain of cities, buildings, and objects. …”

“…Max Weber is a fresh look at the life and work of one of the greatest social and political thinkers of the modern era, and the first book to focus on Weber from an American perspective.Ever since World War II, Max Weber has been regarded as a monument to the most conservative and conventional orthodoxies of the social science establishment. …”

“…Moor reveals how the visual imagery of the films of World War II question current cinematic styles and how post-war films like The Red Shoes and The Tales of Hoffman--in their highly expressive use of design, music and dance--are international in character…”
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“…A common narrative of the post-World War II economists was that the State is indispensable for guiding investment and fostering innovation. …”