http://www.lybrary.com/index.php?cPath=807 Copyright © 2010 Lybrary.comIn examining one of the defining events of the 20th century, Doris Bergen situates the Holocaust in its historical, political, social, cultural, and military contexts. Unlike many other treatments of the Holocaust, this revised, second edition discusses not only the persecution of the Jews, but also other segments of society victimized by the Nazis: Gypsies, homosexuals, Poles, Soviet POWs, the handicapped, and other groups deemed undesirable. With clear and eloquent prose, Bergen explores the two interconnected goals that drove the Nazi German program of conquest and genocide-purification of the so-called Aryan race and expansion of its living space-and discusses how these goals affected the course of World War II. Including firsthand accounts from perpetrators, victims, and eyewitnesses, the book is immediate, human, and eminently readable. New to the Second Edition: --Enhanced illustrations program with new photographs and expanded captions --More personal accounts from members of specific groups targeted for destruction in Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe --Incorporation of new scholarship on key points, such as the work of Raffael Scheck on the German killing of thousands of French African soldiers in 1940 --Updated bibliography at theend of the texthttp://www.lybrary.com/genocide-concise-history-holocaust-p-78091.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/genocide-concise-history-holocaust-p-78091.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT Dro (Drastamat Kanayan), the valiant, selfless fedayee for the survival of the Armenian nation. Among his exploits: the assassination of Nakashidze, the viceroy of the tsar in the Caucasus. Victories in battles against the Turks, specially in Bash Aparan, during the battle of Sartarapat, which prevented the total destruction of Armenia in the aftermath of WWI. His Machiavellian 'collaboration with nazism' to save the Soviet Armenian POWs and the civilian Armenian population of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe and Russia from certain annihilation, even as he cautioned his compatriots in Soviet Armenia against any untimely uprising against Soviet rule.http://www.lybrary.com/drastamat-kanayan-armenias-first-defense-minister-modern-p-36784.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/drastamat-kanayan-armenias-first-defense-minister-modern-p-36784.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT The Albanian Journal of Politics (AJP) is a peer reviewed academic publication of the Albanian Political Science Association (ALPSA). The purpose of the Journal is to provide a publication venue and an academic forum for the study of Albanian politics and society. This volume includes contributions from: Antonia Young, Aleksandra Djajic-Horváth, Nicola Nixon, and Arbnora Dushi on intertwining of gender, history, politics and migration in Albanian society; Adrian Brisku on European identity of Albanians; Raim Beluli on Southeastern Europe as a historical region, as well as review essays by Besnik Pula, Gëzim Alpion, Blendi Kajsiu and Renis Prifthttp://www.lybrary.com/albanian-journal-politics-2006-p-33955.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/albanian-journal-politics-2006-p-33955.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT Stephen Kotkin is Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Princeton University, with a joint appointment as Professor of International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School. He is the author of the enormously influential books <i>Magnetic Mountain:Stalinism as a Civilization and Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse 1970—2000</i> and contributes regularly to <i>The New York Times, The New Republic</i>,<i> </i>and the BBC.<p>Jan T. Gross a native of Poland, also teaches at Princeton, where he is the Norman B. Tomlinson '16 and '48 Professor of War and Society. He was a 2001 National Book Award nominee for his widely acclaimed <i>Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland.</i> His most recent book, <i>Fear:Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz</i>, was named one of the best books of the year by <i>The Washington Post</i>.<p>http://www.lybrary.com/uncivil-society-p-30703.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/uncivil-society-p-30703.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire straddled three continents and encompassed extraordinary ethnic and cultural diversity among the estimated thirty million people living within its borders. It was perhaps the most cosmopolitan state in the world--and possibly the most volatile. A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire now gives scholars and general readers a concise history of the late empire between 1789 and 1918, turbulent years marked by incredible social change. Moving past standard treatments of the subject, M. Sükrü Hanioglu emphasizes broad historical trends and processes more than single events. He examines the imperial struggle to centralize amid powerful opposition from local rulers, nationalist and other groups, and foreign powers. He looks closely at the socioeconomic changes this struggle wrought and addresses the Ottoman response to the challenges of modernity. Hanioglu shows how this history is not only essential to comprehending modern Turkey, but is integral to the histories of Europe and the world. He brings Ottoman society marvelously to life in all its facets--cultural, diplomatic, intellectual, literary, military, and political--and he mines imperial archives and other documents from the period to describe it as it actually was, not as it has been portrayed in postimperial nationalist narratives. A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the legacy left in this empire's ruins--a legacy the world still grapples with tohttp://www.lybrary.com/brief-history-late-ottoman-empire-p-26981.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/brief-history-late-ottoman-empire-p-26981.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT Neighbors--Jan Gross's stunning account of the brutal mass murder of the Jews of Jedwabne by their Polish neighbors--was met with international critical acclaim and was a finalist for the National Book Award in the United States. It has also been, from the moment of its publication, the occasion of intense controversy and painful reckoning. This book captures some of the most important voices in the ensuing debate, including those of residents of Jedwabne itself as well as those of journalists, intellectuals, politicians, Catholic clergy, and historians both within and well beyond Poland's borders.
<p>Antony Polonsky and Joanna Michlic introduce the debate, focusing particularly on how Neighbors rubbed against difficult old and new issues of Polish social memory and national identity. The editors then present a variety of Polish voices grappling with the role of the massacre and of Polish-Jewish relations in Polish history. They include samples of the various strategies used by Polish intellectuals and political elites as they have attempted to deal with their country's dark past, to overcome the legacy of the Holocaust, and to respond to Gross's book.
<p>The Neighbors Respond makes the debate over Neighbors available to an English-speaking audience--and is an excellent tool for bringing the discussion into the classroom. It constitutes an engrossing contribution to modern Jewish history, to our understanding of Polish modern history and identity, and to our bank of Holocaust memory.http://www.lybrary.com/neighbors-respond-controversy-over-jedwabne-massacre-poland-p-26798.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/neighbors-respond-controversy-over-jedwabne-massacre-poland-p-26798.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT Richard Hall examines the origins, the enactment and the resolution of the Balkan Wars, during which the Ottoman Empire fought a Balkan coalition of Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro and Serbia, that collapsed in 1913.
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Based on archival as well as published diplomatic and military sources, this ebook provides the first comprehensive perspective on the diplomatic and military aspects of the Balkan Wars. It demonstrates that, because of the diplomatic problems raised and the military strategies and tactics pursued to resolve those problems, the Balkan Wars were the first phase of the greater and wider conflict of the First World War.http://www.lybrary.com/balkan-wars-19121913-prelude-first-world-p-3119.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/balkan-wars-19121913-prelude-first-world-p-3119.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT If you are a lover of old times and places, you should see this. For the people initiated in French architecture, who see images from Bucharest, the capital of Romania, this could only be in France, or maybe Belgium. From the 1870s until the late 1920s the city began its most beautiful metamorphosis from a giant village with muddy streets to the most attractive destination of Eastern Europe. The extravagant architecture and cosmopolitan high culture of this period won Bucharest the nickname of Little Paris.
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This photo album is a walk in time, on the streets and boulevards of this beautiful town, from the beginning of the nineteenth century, until the middle of twentieth century, trying to revive the atmosphere of that epoch.
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It is a wonderful collection of over 150 high quality pictures from old Bucharest, even from seventeenth century, until 1949. The images are reproductions from publications of that time, engravings, lithographies, postcards and photos and each has an explication label attached.
A brief history of Bucharest is also included and a chronological list of civic events as well.
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This ebook is a bilingual edition (English / Romanian) and has 175 pages, from which 154 contain pictures that you may copy or print.http://www.lybrary.com/little-paris-historical-photo-album-bucharest-p-2139.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/little-paris-historical-photo-album-bucharest-p-2139.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT If you are a lover of old times and places, you should see this. Craiova is one of the biggest cities of Romania that mostly preserved the specific atmosphere between the end of 19th century and the middle of 20th century, in which Romania was becoming an European country with high-level culture and civilization. This is the period in which Bucharest won the nickname of "Little Paris".
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This photo album is a walk in time, on the streets and boulevards of the beautiful town of Craiova, from the beginning of the nineteenth century, until the middle of twentieth century, trying to make revive the atmosphere of that epoch.
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It is a great collection of over 100 high quality pictures from old Craiova, even from eighteenth century, until 1940. The images are reproductions from publications of that time, engravings, postcards and photos and each has an explication label attached. The album also contains a personal photo collection of the most representative old houses from Craiova, which still stand today. A brief history of Craiova is also included.
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This ebook is a bilingual edition (English / Romanian) and has 118 pages, from which 104 contain pictures that you may copy or print.http://www.lybrary.com/craiova-historical-photo-album-p-2138.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/craiova-historical-photo-album-p-2138.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT