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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.

Résumé : From 1973 to 1987, Volkswagen's (VW) 140,000 hectare 'pioneer' cattle ranch on the Amazon frontier laid bare the limits of capitalist development. These limits were not only economic, with the core management of a multinational company engaged in the 'integration' of an extreme world periphery, but they were also legal and ethical, with the involvement of indentured labor and massive forest burning. Its physical limits were exposed by an unpredictable ecosystem refusing to submit to VW's technological arsenal. Antoine Acker reveals how the VW ranch, a major project supported by the Brazilian military dictatorship, was planned, negotiated, and eventually undone by the intervention of internationally connected actors and events. - Note de l'éditeur

Résumé : Cet ouvrage, uniquement en anglais, permet à travers 100 unités d'atteindre un niveau d'anglais américain B1 ; il aborde quelques règles de grammaire et de construction des phrases puis propose des listes de mot classés par grands thèmes (Topics, People, Daily life, Work, Leisure and entertainment, Communication and technology, Social concerns, Tourism, National concepts et Special Topics). Chaque unité est composée d'une page leçon et d'une page exercices. En fin d'ouvrage, vous trouverez les symboles de phonétique, quelques points de prononciation, un index et les corrections des exercices.

Résumé : Cet ouvrage, uniquement en anglais, permet à travers 100 unités d'atteindre un niveau d'anglais américain B2 ; il aborde quelques règles de construction de phrases et de grammaire, propose des listes de vocabulaire classées par grands thèmes, des expressions idiomatiques et donne des conseil d'utilisation des mots et phrases en fonction des contextes. Chaque unité est composée d'une page leçon et d'une page exercices. En fin d'ouvrage, vous trouverez des conseils de prononciation, un index et les corrections des exercices.

Résumé : Introduction: Violence and colonial order ; Part I. Ideas and Practices: 1. Colonial policing: a discursive framework ; 2. 'What did you do in the colonial police force, daddy?' ; 3. 'Paying the butcher's bill': policing British colonial protest after 1918 ; Part II. Colonial Case Studies: British, French and Belgian: 4. Communal policing, policing work, or intelligence gathering? Gendarmes at work in Morocco and Algeria after 1918 ; 5. Policing Tunisia: mineworkers, fellahs and nationalist protest ; 6. Rubber, coolies and communists: policing disorder in French Vietnam ; 7. Stuck together? Rubber production, labour regulation and policing in British Malaya ; 8. Caning the workers? Policing and violence in Jamaica's sugar industry ; 9. Oil and order: repressive violence in Trinidad's oilfields ; 10. Profits, privatization and police: the birth of Sierra Leone's diamond industry ; 11. Policing and politics in Nigeria: the political economy of indirect rule, 1929-39 ; 12. Depression and revolt: policing the Belgian Congo ; Conclusion.

Résumé : From the first contact in the 790s, this book traces the fascinating history of the Viking Age from the North American seabord in the west to the Baltic states in the east.

Résumé : 1700 synomymes classés en 315 sections, de nombreux exemples en caractères, pinyin seulement pour les synonymes étudiés.

Résumé : Analyse des différentes formes de révoltes urbaines au 17e siècle, des actions individuelles aux mouvements organisés comme le mouvement de l'Ormée à Bordeaux. La "culture de la rétribution"était une forme de politique populaire dont les racines remontent aux guerres de religion et qui préfigurent les mouvements démocratiques à venir. La violence urbaine ne se limitait pas aux collecteurs d'impôt mais aussi aux magistrats urbains, tenus pour traitres. En explorant en profondeur cette interaction des foules et des autorités locales - tiraillées entre les ordres royaux et les nécessités de la gestion locale - l'auteur apporte une contribution importante à l'étude de la monarchie absolue, des structures urbaines de pouvoir et des contestations urbaines.

Résumé : The urban energy transition represents a transformation of such magnitude that it will require a re-examination of the fundamental relationship between societies and energy resources. The potential for cities to deliver sustainable energy for their citizens requires context-specific action. One-size-fits-all approaches - which assume homogeneity across cities and economies of scale in the extension of electricity networks - have largely failed to deliver sustainable energy for all. This challenge is existential, questioning the fundamental ways in which contemporary life is organized around energy. This innovative volume argues that the urban energy transition depends on specific urban trajectories and heterogeneous urban energy landscapes, reflecting both strategic projects of urbanization and people's dwelling practices. Looking at in-depth case studies of urban energy landscapes in four major cities, it calls for citizens' active engagement with experimentation in everyday life. The book will have wide interdisciplinary appeal to researchers in energy, urban and environmental studies.

Résumé : A panoramic history of the end of Britain as a global civic idea from the Second World War to the present day. Stuart Ward uncovers the ways in which Britishness has been imagined, experienced and ultimately discarded as the British empire unravelled and the 'four nations' of the United Kingdom drew steadily apart

Résumé : Written for undergraduate students studying the politics of conflict and cooperation, Understanding War and Peace considers the roots of global conflicts and the various means used to resolve them. Edited by Dan Reiter with contributing authors who are all leading scholars in the field, it balances approachable, engaging writing with a conceptually rigorous overview of the most important ideas in conflict studies. Focusing on concepts, policy, and historical applications, the text minimizes literature reviews and technical jargon to engagingly present all major topics in international conflict, including nuclear weapons, peacekeeping, terrorism, gender, alliances, nuclear weapons, environment and conflict, civil wars, public opinion. Enriching the textbook pedagogy, each chapter concludes with a summary of a published quantitative study to introduce students with no prior quantitative training to quantitative analysis. Online resources for instructors include an instructor manual, a test bank and contemporary case studies for each chapter topic regarding the conflict in Ukraine. - Note de l'éditeur

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