فشل جيل في التكيّف مع التغييرات الهائلة التي أحدثتها الحرب العالمية الأولى، مما أدى إلى اندلاع الكساد الكبير، ككارثة عالمية كان من الممكن توقعها وكانت بالفعل متوقعة. في هذا الكتاب، يقوم المؤلف بشرح كيف أن دور الولايات المتحدة الجديد الذي لعبته في

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"In the years following the founding of the State of Israel, close to a million Jews became refugees fleeing their ancestral homelands in the Middle East, North Africa, and Iran. State-sanctioned discrimination, violence, and political unrest brought an abrupt end to these once vibrant communities, scattering their members to the four corners of the earth. Their stories are mostly untold. Sephardi Voices: The Forgotten Exodus of the Arab Jews is a...

"This documentary uncovers hidden gems, guided by an experienced London Black Taxi driver and respected "Knowledge of London" tutor and a youthful Londoner seeking to learn more about her city. The hosts talk to local historians and find quirky restaurants, bars, cafes, and hotels. They delve into some of the lesser known attractions and shed new light on some of it's more popular destinations. With almost every London street having a story behind...

Narration (Rhetoric) -- History and criticism. ; Discourse analysis, Narrative.

"Diving deeply into the tables and statistics, specimens, skull collections, reports, questionnaires, and surveys that make up the recently organized and newly available records of the United States Sanitary Commission, Leslie A. Schwalm reveals the racial project of the Civil War as it unfolded in Northern white medical and scientific organizations. Despite the Civil War's importance as a watershed moment in the country's history of anti-Blackness,...

"In 1876, Joshua Chamberlain (hero of the Civil War, governor of Maine, and president of Bowdoin College) delivered a long speech at Philadelphia's Centennial Exposition. It is a wide-ranging history of the development of Maine before and after statehood"--

"A timely history of digital consent told through the mundane yet highly contested web cookie: confronting cookies is an everyday experience for weary internet travelers, who click through and dodge cookie notifications each day. As part of an "arrangement" wherein services are exchanged for data, the use of cookies has been justified by notification practices like privacy policies and terms of service, and individuals "agree" to the arrangement by...

"It is November 25, 1960, and three sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their deaths as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of the dictatorship of General Rafael Leónidas Trujillo. It doesn't have to. Everybody knows of Las Mariposas--the...