The Logic of Violence in Civil War: List of Tables and Figures

A Consumer's Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America

We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History

For this new edition, Dallek has added an Afterword to his classic, Bancroft Prize-winning study of Franklin Roosevelt's diplomacy, which was first published in 1981. He answers recent critics who have attacked Roosevelt for producing Pearl Harbor, for 'giving away' Eastern Europe to Stalin at Yalta, and for abandoning European Jews during the Holocaust. Dallek reaffirms the strength and effectiveness of Roosevelt's diplomacy and wartime leadership.

The Making of a Realpolitiker@@@Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945.

The way in which people address one another is crucial to expressing social relationships and is closely linked with cultural values. In English we call some people by their first names and others 'Mr'or 'Ms', followed by their surname In some other languages there are different ways of saying 'you' depending on the degree of social distance. Exploring practices in the family, school, university, workplace and in letters, this book reveals patterns in the varied ways people choose to address one another, from pronouns to first names, from honorifics to titles and last names. Examples are taken from contemporary English, French, German and Swedish, using rich data from focus group research, interviews, chat groups and participant observation.

Language and Human Relations: Styles of Address in Contemporary Language

"[the book] offers a meticulouos and appropriately dispassionate account of the French events of May 1968. Contributing to a more complete picture of what occurred, the book would be worthwhile reading in courses on comparative experiences of the 1960s." * Journal of Modern History "All and all, this is a terrific book written in a lively narrative. Seidman provides us with a breadth and depth of knowledge and a balanced analysis that make his version of May 1968 usable for scholarly study as well as for the classroom." * H-France Review The events of 1968 have been seen as a decisive turning point in the Western world of even mythical significance. The author takes a critical look at "May 1968" and questions whether the events were in fact as "revolutionary" as French and foreign commentators have indicated. His conclusions are rather more ambivalent: culturally, he argues, the student movement changed little that had not already been challenged and altered in the late fifties and early sixties. The workers' strikes led to fewer working hours and higher wages, but these reforms reflected the secular demands of the French labor movement. "May 1968" was remarkable not because of the actual transformations it wrought but rather by virtue of the revolutionary power that much of the media and most scholars have attributed to it and which turned it into a symbol of a youthful, renewed, and freer society in France and beyond. Michael Seidman received his Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of Workers against Work: Labor in Barcelona and Paris during the Popular Fronts, (1991) (Japanese translation, 1998) and of Republic of Egos: A Social History of the Spanish Civil War, (2002) (Spanish translation, 2003. He currently teaches at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington.

The Imaginary Revolution: Parisian Students and Workers in 1968

El giro cultural

Antifascism has received little attention compared to its enemy. No historian or social scientist has previously attempted to define its nature and history - yet antifascism became perhaps the most powerful ideology of the twentieth century. Michael Seidman fills this gap by providing the first comprehensive study of antifascisms in Spain, France, the UK, and USA, with new interpretations of the Spanish Civil War, French Popular Front, and Second World War. He shows how two types of antifascism - revolutionary and counterrevolutionary - developed from 1936 to 1945. Revolutionary antifascism dominated the Spanish Republic during its civil war and re-emerged in Eastern Europe at the end of World War II. By contrast, counterrevolutionary antifascists were hegemonic in France, Britain, and the USA. In Western Europe, they restored conservative republics or constitutional monarchies based on Enlightenment principles. This innovative examination of antifascism will interest a wide range of scholars and students of twentieth-century history.

Transatlantic Antifascisms : From the Spanish Civil War to the End of World War II

Most histories of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) have examined major leaders or well-established political and social groups to explore class, gender and ideological struggles The war in Spain was marked by momentous conflicts between democracy and dictatorship, communism and fascism, anarchism and authoritarianism, and catholicism and anticlericalism that still provoke our fascination In this title, Michael Seidman focuses instead on the personal and individual experiences of the common men and women who were actors in a struggle that defined a generation and helped to shape our world By examining the roles of anonymous individuals, families and small groups who fought for their own interest and survival - and not necessarily for an abstract or revolutionary cause - the author reveals a powerful but rarely considered pressure on the outcome of history He shows how price controls and inflation in the Republican Zone encouraged peasant hoarding, black marketing and unrest among urban workers Soldiers of the Republican Army responded to material shortages by looting, deserting and fraternizing with the enemy Seidman's focus on average, seemingly nonpolitical individuals provides a new vision of both the experience and outcome of the war

Republic of Egos: A Social History of the Spanish Civil War

Your Children Will Be Next: Bombing and Propaganda in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939Mentiras necesarias: La batalla por la opinión británica durante la Guerra Civil

Michael Seidman

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The Imaginary Revolution: Parisian Students and Workers in 1968

El giro cultural

Transatlantic Antifascisms : From the Spanish Civil War to the End of World War II

Republic of Egos: A Social History of the Spanish Civil War

Your Children Will Be Next: Bombing and Propaganda in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939Mentiras necesarias: La batalla por la opinión británica durante la Guerra Civil