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Ther provides needed perspective on today's refugee crisis, demonstrating how Europe has taken in far greater numbers of refugees in earlier periods of its history, in wartime as well as peacetime. His sweeping narrative crosses the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, taking readers ...from the Middle East to the shores of America.
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The fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries were truly an Age of Secrecy in Europe, when arcane knowledge was widely believed to be positive knowledge that extended into all areas of daily life, from the economic, scientific, and political spheres to the general activities of ...ordinary people. So asserts Daniel Jutte in this engrossing, vivid, and award-winning work. He maintains that the widespread acceptance and even reverence for this "economy of secrets" in premodern Europe created a highly complex and sometimes perilous space for mutual contact between Jews and Christians. Surveying the interactions between the two religious groups in a wide array of secret sciences and practices-including alchemy, cryptography, medical arcana, technological and military secrets, and intelligence-the author relates true stories of colorful "professors of secrets" and clandestine encounters. In the process Jutte examines how our current notion of secrecy is radically different in this era of WikiLeaks, Snowden, et al., as opposed to centuries earlier when the truest, most important knowledge was generally considered to be secret by definition.
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In this concise history, Heinz D. Kurz selects major moments in the development of economic ideas to portray the growth of the field and how economic insights are acquired, lost, and reborn. His timeline focuses on the dynamic individuals who give old ideas new life and the histo...rical events that provoke the combination and recombination of different approaches and theories.
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Original title Der lange Schatten der Revolution: Juden und Antisemiten in Hitlers Meunchen, 1918-1923 published by Jeudischer Verlag im Suhrkamp Verlag, 2019--Publisher.
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In this concise history, Heinz D. Kurz selects major moments in the development of economic ideas to portray the growth of the field and how economic insights are acquired, lost, and reborn. His timeline focuses on the dynamic individuals who give old ideas new life and the histo...rical events that provoke the combination and recombination of different approaches and theories.
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The description for this book, Decolonization: A Short History, will be forthcoming.
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A concise and accessible history of decolonization in the twentieth century The end of colonial rule in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean was one of the most important and dramatic developments of the twentieth century. In the decades after World War II, dozens of new states emerge...d as actors in global politics. Imperial regimes collapsed, some mo
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Having identified a shadow war being perpetrated by Hitler's Germany, President Franklin Roosevelt authorized the formation of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to organize and oversee covert operations. Based on an analysis of OSS records, this book presents the story of Am...erica's far-flung secret intelligence apparatus during World War II.
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Having identified a shadow war being perpetrated by Hitler's Germany, President Franklin Roosevelt authorized the formation of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to organize and oversee covert operations. Based on an analysis of OSS records, this book presents the story of Am...erica's far-flung secret intelligence apparatus during World War II.
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Tells the story of the Jewish people. This book takes readers from the mythic wanderings of Moses to the atrocities of the Holocaust; from the Babylonian exile to the founding of the modern state of Israel; and, from the Sephardic communities under medieval Islam to the shtetls o...f eastern Europe and the Hasidic enclaves of modern-day Brooklyn.
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