William R. Keylor is professor emeritus at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. He has received the Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Methodist Scholar-Teacher Award; has been a Fulbright scholar; and has been awarded fellowships by the Guggenheim Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, and the Earhart Foundation. He is an elected member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies
Bernd Ulrich schildert anschaulich und kenntnisreich Vorgeschichte und Verlauf der Schlacht von Stalingrad. Deutlich wird so ihre Bedeutung in einem Vernichtungskrieg, in dem sich zwei totalitäre Systeme gegenüberstanden. Der "Schicksalskampf an der Wolga" war indessen weder kriegsentscheidend noch die verlustreichste Schlacht des Zweiten Weltkriegs. Gerade deswegen stellt sich die Frage, wie "Stalingrad" zum Inbegriff einer Katastro
After shattering the French armies in a lightning blitzkrieg campaign, the Germans turn their attention on Gibraltar as part of their new Mediterranean or strategic policy, a concept based on overrunning Egypt, then moving east and south, capturing the Persian Gulf area, as well as all East Africa in an alliance with France. After moving their forces down through neutral Spain, they soon engage the powerful British fortress guarding the Strait of Gibraltar, long a symbol of British powe
"Defending Giants offers a compelling analysis of the Redwood Wars. It fills an important gap in the literature on American environmental politics, activism, and forest policy."—James Morton Turner, author of The Promise of Wilderness: American Environmental Politics since 1964
Marina Mogilner holds the Edward and Marianna Thaden Chair in Russian and East European Intellectual History at the University of Illinois Chicago. She is cofounder and coeditor of the international journal Ab Imperio and author of Homo Imperii: A History of Physical Anthropology in Russia and A Race for the Future: Scientific Visions of Modern Russian Jewishness.
It is hard to imagine nowadays that, for many years, France and Germany considered each other as "arch enemies." And yet, for well over a century, these two countries waged verbal and ultimately violent wars against each other. This study explores a particularly virulent phase during which each of these two nations projected certain assumptions about national character onto the other - distorted images, motivated by antipathy, fear, and envy, which contributed to the growing hostility