A challenging examination of Japanese war crimes during World War II offers a fresh perspective on the Pacific War-and a better understanding of reasons for the wartime use of extreme mass violence.The 1937 Rape of Nanjing has become a symbol of Japanese violence during the Second World War, but it was not the only event during which the Japanese used extreme force. This thought-provoking book analyzes Japan's actions during the war, without blaming Japan, helping ...

Migration und Nationalismus sind zwei Phänomene, die sich häufig gegenseitig zu bedingen scheinen. Dabei versteifen sich die Argumente vielfach auf Fragen von Herkunft und Identität, Zugehörigkeit und Integrationswillen. Unüberbrückbare Differenzen werden inszeniert. Gerade populistische Argumentationsmuster verweisen dabei auf die Probleme, die mit intensiven Migrationsbewegungen einhergehen, und bedienen dabei nationalistische Denkweisen und Ressentiments. Frank Jacob unterzieht die Verf...

Die verborgene Macht der Geheimgesellschaften hat die Phantasie der Menschen seit jeher beschäftigt und fasziniert. Als reales historisches Phänomen treten Geheimgesellschaften zu allen Zeiten und an vielen Orten der Weltgeschichte auf. Das Buch liefert erhellende Einblicke, indem es seinen Gegenstand aus dem Reich der Legenden ins helle LIcht historischer Wissenschaft rückt. Die Ursachen, die Ziele, die Mitglieder, die Agitation und schließlich der Einfluss der Geheimgesellschaften werden...

The Russo-Japanese War was in essence a colonial conflict between the expanding interests of Russia and Japan in East Asia. However, while appearing regional, the war itself in fact had a major global impact. The conflict and Japanese victory stimulated the Russian revolutionary movement in 1905 and hence the Russian Revolution of 1917. In addition, the Peace Treaty of Portsmouth created a tension between the United States and Japan that would establish the starting point for the road dire...

Immortals walk among us. Two stories in the paranormal series "filled with mesmerizing, breathtaking, scorching sex—[and] unforgettable characters" (Christine Feehan, #1 New York Times –bestselling author).Falling out of a window is one way to meet your destiny, though it's not something Isabella Ross would have chosen for herself. The shy librarian is irresistibly drawn to the striking man on the dark street outside of h...

Since time began, there have been Nightwalkers - the races of the night who live in the shadows of the moonlight. Love with humans is absolutely forbidden, and one man makes certain to uphold this ancient law: Jacob, the Enforcer . . .Jacob knows the excuses his people give when the madness overtakes them and they fall prey to their lust for humans. He's heard every one and still brings the trespassers to justice. Immune to forbidden desires, uncontrollable hungers, or the curse of...

Since time began, there have been Nightwalkers—the races of the night who live in the shadows of the moonlight. Love with humans is absolutely forbidden, and one man makes certain to uphold this ancient law: Jacob, the Enforcer.For 700 years, he has resisted temptation. But not tonight...Jacob knows the excuses his people give when the madness overtakes them and they fall prey to their lust for humans. He's heard every one and still brought the trespassers to justice. Immun...

This book challenges the premise that a ‘military revolution’ prompted the major European powers to enter into an era of global hegemony during the early modern period, and suggests that this theory is not supported if we closely examine contemporary historical events. The conquests of Mexico and Peru, arguably the two most important colonial acquisitions by a European power during that era, were accomplished without the technology or tactics that are usually associated with the ‘military ...

This book, as the first volume of a multiple volume endeavor to analyze several revolutions of the “long” nineteenth and “short” twentieth century to show how revolutionary processes evolved, takes a closer look at the Atlantic Revolutions, that is, the American, the French, and the Haitian Revolution. It will therefore use a comparative ten-step model to emphasize similarities with regard to the revolutionary developments in different parts of the world. The book consequently aims at prov...

The Yearbook of Transnational History is dedicated to disseminating pioneering research in the field of transnational history. This fourth volume is focused to the theme of exile. Authors from across the historical discipline provide insights into central aspects of research into the phenomenon of exile in the nineteenth and twentieth century. Both centuries have seen large numbers of people fleeing revolutions, oppression, persecution, and extermination. This volume is the first publicati...

Often considered peculiarly American, lynching in fact takes place around the world. In the first book of a two-volume study, Michael J. Pfeifer collects essays that look at lynching and related forms of collective violence in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Understanding lynching as a transnational phenomenon rooted in political and cultural flux, the writers probe important issues from Indonesia--where a long history of public violence now twines with the Internet--to South Africa, wi...

Hur vet man att man är kär? Kan man hitta tillbaka till varandra efter ett svek?Frank och Amie lever sambolivet i New York. De har dejtat i ett halvår, Frank har karriärsklättrat och hans föräldrar är på besök från Sverige för att träffa Amie för första gången. Dessutom ska Frank ge ut sin debutroman. Allt borde vara fantastiskt! Borde vara.Patrics förflutna har kommit i kapp honom och Super-Patric, barndomshjälten som hjälpte Frank när han hade det som tuffast ett år tidig...