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Résumé : "L'auteur étudie les conséquences de la Grande Guerre sur les combattants, et les états impliqués, une fois les combats terminés. Il traite plus spécifiquement de la Yougoslavie de l'entre-deux guerres et de la «nouvelle Europe» créée à la fin du conflit, mais aussi l'Europe dans son ensemble. La fin de la Première Guerre mondiale et les Accords de Paris ont établi un moment bref et sans précédent d'unité apparente en Europe. Pour la première fois, l'Europe de l'Est et de l'Ouest se ressemblaient, en commençant une ère éphémère d'États-nations gouvernés par des institutions politiques libérales. Les démocraties d'Europe occidentale comme la Grande-Bretagne et la France ont fourni un modèle d'émulation pour les états comme la Tchécoslovaquie, la Roumanie, la Pologne et la Yougoslavie.Ainsi de nombreux vétérans de guerre qui avaient servi ou combattu dans des armées rivales pendant la guerre sont devenus après 1918 les sujets d'un même État, bien qu'ils aient insufflé dans cette paix les les divisions des guerres passées . John Paul Newman raconte leur histoire, montrant comment l'état Slave du sud a été incapable d'échapper à l'ombre jetée par la Première Guerre mondiale. Newman révèle comment la fracture profonde laissée par la guerre a traversé les états fragiles de la «Nouvelle Europe» dans l'entre-deux-guerres, aggravant leurs nombreux problèmes politiques et sociaux et amenant la région dans un nouveau conflit à la fin de l'entre-deux guerres.

Résumé : Economic arguments favoring increased immigration restrictions suggest that immigrants undermine the culture, institutions, and productivity of destination countries. But is this actually true? Nowrasteh and Powell systematically analyze cross-country evidence of potential negative effects caused by immigration relating to economic freedom, corruption, culture, and terrorism. They analyze case studies of mass immigration to the United States, Israel, and Jordan. Their evidence does not support the idea that immigration destroys the institutions responsible for prosperity in the modern world. This nonideological volume makes a qualified case for free immigration and the accompanying prosperity.

Résumé : "How did women contribute to the rise of the Mongol Empire while Mongol men were conquering Eurasia? This book positions women in their rightful place in the otherwise well-known story of Chinggis Khan (commonly known as Genghis Khan) and his conquests and empire. Examining the best known women of Mongol society, such as Chinggis Khan's mother, Ho'elun, and senior wife, Borte, as well as those who were less famous but equally influential, including his daughters and his conquered wives, we see the systematic and essential participation of women in empire, politics and war. Anne F. Broadbridge also proposes a new vision of Chinggis Khan's well-known atomized army by situating his daughters and their husbands at the heart of his army reforms, looks at women's key roles in Mongol politics and succession, and charts the ways the descendants of Chinggis Khan's daughters dominated the Khanates that emerged after the breakup of the Empire in the 1260s"--

Résumé : "Why did weeds matter in the Carolingian empire? What was their special significance for writers in eighth- and ninth-century Europe and how was this connected with the growth of real weeds? In early medieval Europe, unwanted plants that persistently appeared among crops created extra work, reduced productivity, and challenged theologians who believed God had made all vegetation good. For the first time, in this book weeds emerge as protagonists in early medieval European history, driving human farming strategies and coloring people's imagination. Early medieval Europeans' effort to create agroecosystems that satisfied their needs and cosmologies that confirmed Christian accounts of vegetable creation both had to come to terms with unruly plants. Using diverse kinds of texts, fresh archaeobotanical data, and even mosaics, this interdisciplinary study reveals how early medieval Europeans interacted with their environments."

Résumé : Wassily Leontief (1905–1999) was the founding father of input-output economics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1973. This book offers a collection of papers in memory of Leontief by his students and close colleagues. The first part, 'Reflections on Input-Output Economics', focuses upon Leontief as a person and scholar as well as his personal contributions to economics. It includes contributions by Nobel Laureate Paul A. Samuelson who shares his memories of a young Professor Leontief at Harvard and ends with the last joint interview with Wassily and his wife, to date previously unpublished. The second part, 'Perspectives of Input-Output Economics', includes theoretical and empirical research inspired by Leontief's work and offers a wide-ranging sample of the state of interindustry economics, a field Leontief founded. This is a strong collection likely to appeal to a wide range of professionals in universities, government, industry and international organizations.

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