Klich-Kluczewska Barbara Klich-Kluczewska 
Family, Taboo and Communism in Poland, 1956-1989 [PDF ebook] 

In Search of the City on a Hill challenges the widespread assumption that Americans have always used this potent metaphor to define their national identity. It demonstrates that America”s ”red …

Why, from the eighteenth century onwards, did some countries embark on a path of sustained economic growth, while others stagnated? This text looks at the kind of institutions that are required in or …

This work sets forth the guidelines for an Afrocentric literary theory and goes on to apply that theory to three novels: Invisible Man , Song of Solomon and The Chaneysville Incident . …

Taking as his point of departure the authors, the audience, and the texts of Victorian writings on sex in general and of Victorian pornography in particular, Steven Marcus offers a startling and revo …

In this fascinating story of colonial competition around Lake Rudolf, a remote body of water in northern Kenya, Pascal James Imperato examines the political and diplomatic aspects of colonial competi …

Pictures of Cold War: Marshall Plan, Korean War, Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Suez Crisis, Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, 1967 Arab—lsraeli War, Vietnam War (1955—75), Soviet war in Afghanistan, Sovi …

First published in 1998. The result of five years of research, this is the final volume in the 6-volume set titled Health Care Policy in the United States. The purpose of this book is to examine the …

Between 1940 and 1945, Britain”s Special Operations Executive (SOE) carried out sabotage and organised resistance across occupied Europe. Over 5 years, SOE sent over 500 agents into Norway to carry …

Originally published in 1964, this volume focuses on the history of England”s relations with the Near East from the death of Canning until the day when Disraeli brought back ”peace with honour” fr …

Manchuria is a historical region, which roughly corresponds to Northeast China. The Manchu people, who established the last dynasty of Imperial China (the Qing, 1644–1911) originated there, and it ha …