This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship ......
How does a political system rebuild after a cataclysmic military defeat? How can a society, and its political infrastructure, resurrects itself or, in the case of Germany after World War II, be resurrected in such a way as to ensure long-term political stability? Politics After Hitler is the first book to demonstrate the importance of America, ......
Stalin's Forced Labour System in the Light of the Archives
Throughout the Stalin era and after, the Gulag system of forced labor blighted the Soviet Union. Millions were incarcerated in its camps, some to be eventually released, many to die imprisoned and faceless. For decades, histories of the camp system have relied on the experiences of those who suffered within them for their main source of ......
Representations of Domestic Crime in England, 1550-1700
Looking back at images of violence in the popular culture of early modern England, we find that the specter of the murderer loomed most vividly not in the stranger, but in the familiar; and not in the master, husband, or father, but in the servant, wife, or mother. A gripping exploration of seventeenth-century accounts of domestic murder in fact ......
The last five years have brought such extraordinary changes to Germany and Europe as to make the previous forty years of Cold War existence seem deceptively placid and well- ordered by comparison. The collapse of communist rule in East Germany in the midst of massive demonstrations against the Honecker regime in late 1989 were only the beginning. ......
Files of the Provincial Secretary of New York During the Administrationof Sir Edmund Andros 1674-1680
This volume, part of the New York Historical Manuscripts series, presents the early years of the administration of New York's first governorship under Sir Edmund Andros, who, as a loyal supporter of King Charles II, was awarded succeeding governorships of most of the English North American colonies, beginning with New York.
Part of a two-volume set examining the machinations of 18th-century Irish parliamentary politics, this first volume deals with the generation of Irish Protestant politicians who participated in and facilitated the Williamite revolution in Ireland.
Part of a two-volume set examining the machinations of 18th-century Irish parliamentary politics, this second volume reconstructs the events that led to the extraordinary degree of autonomy the Parliament achieved from the Lord Lieutenant and the English ministry.
A critical examination of the labour government and trades Union Congress in the immediate postwar period, this book argues that the Cold War was not just a traditional conflict between states but also an attempt to contain the growth of radical working-class movements at home and abroad. These radical movements, stimulated by the Second World War ......
