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Mao's Last Revolution - Roderick MacFarquhar, Michael Schoenhals - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=mCKPmUzKeZUC&pg=PA402
The Cultural Revolution was a watershed event in the history of the Peopleâe(tm)s Republic of China, the defining decade of half a century of communist rule. Before 1966, China was a typical communist state, with a command economy and a powerful party able…
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Night Flight to Dungavel: Rudolf Hess, Winston Churchill, and the Real ... - Peter Padfield - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=4Q2dAwAAQBAJ&pg=140
Until now there has been no satisfactory answer to the question of why, in May of 1941, Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess flew a German fighter plane across the channel to Scotland, crashing at night in a muddy field near Dungavel House. Though Hess had been one…
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Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=GBWdMEWfdEsC&pg=PA55
Imperial Debris redirects critical focus from ruins as evidence of the past to "ruination" as the processes through which imperial power occupies the present. Ann Laura Stoler's introduction is a manifesto, a compelling call for postcolonial studies to…
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Shipbuilders of the Venetian Arsenal: Workers and Workplace in the ... - Robert C. Davis - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=wp6o6fKC7dcC&pg=PT2
The master ship builders of seventeenth-century Venice formed part of what was arguably the greatest manufacturing complex in early modern Europe. As many as three thousand masters, apprentices, and laborers regularly worked in the city's enormous…
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The Last Great Senate: Courage and Statesmanship in Times of Crisis - Ira Shapiro - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=6UdODwAAQBAJ&pg=PA18
The Last Great Senate tells the story of the final four years of the progressive Senate of the 1960s and 1970s which compiled a record of accomplishment unmatched in our country’s history. It is a narrative history of the statesman who, working with an…
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After the Red Army Faction: Gender, Culture, and Militancy - Charity Scribner - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=_E4xBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA44
Masterminded by women, the Red Army Faction (RAF) terrorized West Germany from the 1970s to the 1990s. Afterimages of its leaders persist in the works of pivotal artists and writers, including Gerhard Richter, Elfriede Jelinek, and Slavoj i ek. Why were…
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Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=GBWdMEWfdEsC&pg=PA65&lpg=PA65
Imperial Debris redirects critical focus from ruins as evidence of the past to "ruination" as the processes through which imperial power occupies the present. Ann Laura Stoler's introduction is a manifesto, a compelling call for postcolonial studies to…
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Courtroom to Revolutionary Stage: Performance and Ideology in Weimar ... - Henning Grunwald - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=8U3ey7mHEHEC&pg=PA169&dq=Engels
What role did the courts play in the demise of Germany's first democracy and Hitler's rise to power? Courtroom to Revolutionary Stage challenges the orthodox interpretation of Weimar political justice. Henning Grunwald argues that an exclusive focus on…
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Korea’s K21 KNIFV
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/Koreas-K21-KNIFV-05345/
South Korea is steadily becoming a force to be reckoned with in the global defense market. Its world-leading shipyards are successfully building and and delivering vessels that include KDX-III AEGIS destroyers and Dokdo Class LHD amphibious assault
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The Last Great Senate: Courage and Statesmanship in Times of Crisis - Ira Shapiro - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=6UdODwAAQBAJ&pg=PA351
The Last Great Senate tells the story of the final four years of the progressive Senate of the 1960s and 1970s which compiled a record of accomplishment unmatched in our country’s history. It is a narrative history of the statesman who, working with an…