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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

    The New Deal and War

    af Michael Heale ...
    Serier serie Lancaster Pamphlets
    This compact study assesses the personality, political and economic policies in war and peace, of America's longest-serving president and one of the most important political figures of the twentieth century, Franklin. D. Roosevelt. Also providing an overview of the America over which Roosevelt presided, the book offers a concise survey of both domestic and foreign affairs. ... Læs mere

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    John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order

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    When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for 'a new Bretton Woods' to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict. The name of the remote New Hampshire town where representatives of forty-four nations gathered in July 1944, in the midst of the century's second great war, has become shorthand for enlightened globalization. The ... Læs mere

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  • Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century

    "Magisterial history...one of the most comprehensive histories of modern capitalism yet written." —Michael Hirsh, New York Times Book ReviewIn 1900 international trade reached unprecedented levels and the world's economies were more open to one another than ever before. Then as now, many people considered globalization to be inevitable and irreversible. Yet the entire edifice collapsed in a few ... Læs mere

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  • The Summit

    The Biggest Battle of the Second World War - fought behind closed doors

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    The idea of world leaders gathering in the midst of economic crisis has become all-too familiar. But the summit at Bretton Woods in 1944 was the only time countries from around the world have agreed to overhaul the structure of the international monetary system. And, what's more, they were successful - it was the closest to perfection the world's economy has ever been, and arguably the demise of ... Læs mere

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  • The Money Makers

    How Roosevelt and Keynes Ended the Depression, Defeated Fascism, and Secured a Prosperous Peace

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    Shortly after arriving in the White House in early 1933, Franklin Roosevelt took the United States off the gold standard. His opponents thought his decision unwise at best, and ruinous at worst. But they could not have been more wrong.With The Money Makers, Eric Rauchway tells the absorbing story of how FDR and his advisors pulled the levers of monetary policy to save the domestic economy and ... Læs mere

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  • Comparing Liberal Democracies

    The United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, and the European Union

    In this age of a globalism, understanding the governments and politics of other countries is important in understanding the world around us. In Comparing Liberal Democracies, author Arthur B. Gunlicks contributes to this understanding in a discussion of the institutional structures and backgrounds of four liberal or Western democracies: the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, and the ... Læs mere

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  • European Integration

    A Political History

    af Mark Gilbert ...
    Now in a fully revised and updated edition, this book remains the standard for concise histories of the European Union. Mark Gilbert offers a clear and balanced narrative of European integration since its inception to the present, set in the wider history of the post-war period. Gilbert concludes by considering the Union’s future in light of the mood of crisis that has taken hold in the EU in the ... Læs mere

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  • Verwoerd

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  • The Parliament of Man

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  • Greatness

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    The incredible unexplored connections between two of history’s greatest leadersRonald Reagan and Winston Churchill were true giants of the twentieth century, but somehow historians have failed to notice the many similarities between these extraordinary leaders. Until now.In Greatness, Steven F. Hayward—who has written acclaimed studies of both Reagan and Churchill—goes beneath the superficial ... Læs mere

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  • People's War

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    More than 25 years have passed since South Africans were being shot or hacked or burned to death in political violence, and the memory of the trauma has faded. Nevertheless, some 20 500 people were killed between 1984 and 1994. Conventional wisdom has it that most died as a result of the ANC's people's war.Many books have been written on South Africa's political transition, but none has dealt ... Læs mere

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