20 століття (до 1945)

“Fast-paced history . . . full of haunting, unforgettable wartime images.” —David M. Shribman,  Boston Globe March 1917 is a riveting history of the month that transformed the world’s greatest n …

The Man with Two Left Feet and Other Stories is a collection of short stories written by British author P. G. Wodehouse. It was originally released in the US on February 1, 1933, by A. L. Burt and Co …

The Politics of Love explores the entanglement of emotions, social movements, and science in reconfiguring human and nonhuman relations. As Darwin’s evolutionary theory informed the development of se …

Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan were the two most consequential and successful Presidents of the 20th Century. Most casual observers today think of them as polar opposites in their views on gove …

In recent decades, Tokyo, London, and New York have been the sites of credit bubbles of historically unprecedented magnitude. Central bankers have enjoyed almost unparalleled power and autonomy. They …

The association of Nazism with the symbol of ultimate evil – the devil – can be found in the works of Klaus and Thomas Mann, Else Lasker-Schüler, and Rolf Hochhuth. He appears either as Satan of the …

A sweeping study of political murder in Latin America. This expansive history depicts Latin America’s pan-regional culture of political murder. Unlike typical studies of the region, which often focus …

How did liberationist Christianity develop in Argentina between the 1930s and early 1970s? And how did it respond to state terrorism during the Dirty War? Understanding the movement to be dynamic and …

Tracking the Jews analyses the beliefs, ideas, concepts, arguments and policies of an unprecedented conversionary initiative during the years immediately before, during and after the Holocaust. From …

How radical free-market ideas achieved mainstream dominance in postwar America and Britain Based on archival research and interviews with leading participants in the movement, Masters of the Universe …