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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “marc trachtenberg”
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  • History and Strategy

    by Marc Trachtenberg ...
    Series series Studies in Intellectual History and the History of Philosophy
    This work is a powerful demonstration of how historical analysis can be brought to bear on the study of strategic issues, and, conversely, how strategic thinking can help drive historical research. Based largely on newly released American archives, History and Strategy focuses on the twenty years following World War II. By bridging the sizable gap between the intellectual world of historians and ... Read more

    $74.99 CAD

  • A Constructed Peace

    The Making of the European Settlement, 1945-1963

    by Marc Trachtenberg ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    People still think of the Cold War as a simple two-sided conflict, a kind of gigantic arm wrestle on a global scale," writes Marc Trachtenberg, "but this view fails to grasp the essence of what was really going on." America and Russia were both willing to live with the status quo in Europe. What then could have generated the kind of conflict that might have led to a nuclear holocaust? This is the ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD

  • The Craft of International History

    A Guide to Method

    by Marc Trachtenberg ...
    This is a practical guide to the historical study of international politics. The focus is on the nuts and bolts of historical research--that is, on how to use original sources, analyze and interpret historical works, and actually write a work of history. Two appendixes provide sources sure to be indispensable for anyone doing research in this area.The book does not simply lay down precepts. It ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • The Cold War and After

    History, Theory, and the Logic of International Politics

    by Marc Trachtenberg ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    A new way of looking at international relations from a leading expert in the fieldWhat makes for war or for a stable international system? Are there general principles that should govern foreign policy? In The Cold War and After, Marc Trachtenberg, a leading historian of international relations, explores how historical work can throw light on these questions. The essays in this book deal with ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Devil and the Jews

    The Medieval Conception of the Jew and Its Relation to Modern Anti-Semitism

    by Joshua Trachtenberg ...
    A JPS bestseller, this is the definitive work of scholarship on the medieval conception of the Jew as devil—literally and figuratively. Through documents, analysis, and illustrations, the book exposes the full spectrum of the Jew’s demonization as devil, sorcerer, and ritual murderer. The author reveals how these myths, many with origins traced to Christian Europe in the late Middle Ages, still ... Read more

    $29.39 CAD

  • Between Empire and Alliance

    America and Europe during the Cold War

    by Francis J. Gavin, Christopher Gehrz, Wolfram Kaiser, Erin Mahan, Paul Pitman, Leopoldo Nuti, Georges-Henri Soutou, Hubert Zimmerman ...
    The steadfast alliance between America and Europe represents one of the most important and complex political relationships in the modern world. But with the end of the Cold War, America and Europe seem to be drifting apart. In Between Empire and Alliance, scholars from both sides of the Atlantic examine the most intense phase of the Cold War-the quarter century from 1950 to 1974-to explore the ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

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    by Martin Luther ...
    The Ninety-Five Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences, commonly known as The Ninety-Five Theses, were written by Martin Luther in 1517 and are widely regarded as the primary catalyst for the Protestant Reformation. Luther used these theses to display his displeasure with some of the Church's clergy's abuses, most notably the sale of indulgences; this ultimately gave birth to Lutheranism. ... Read more

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  • Fatal Discord

    Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind

    by Michael Massing ...
    The "riveting" story of Erasmus, Martin Luther, and the rivalry between the reformer and the dissident: "An impressive, powerful intellectual history." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)At a time when Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael were revolutionizing Western art and culture, Erasmus of Rotterdam was helping to transform Europe's intellectual and religious life, developing a new design for ... Read more

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  • The Economic Weapon

    The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War

    by Nicholas Mulder ...
    The first international history of the emergence of economic sanctions during the interwar period and the legacy of this developmentEconomic sanctions dominate the landscape of world politics today. First developed in the early twentieth century as a way of exploiting the flows of globalization to defend liberal internationalism, their appeal is that they function as an alternative to war. This ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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  • The Atheist's Bible

    The Most Dangerous Book That Never Existed

    by Georges Minois ...
    Translated by Lys Ann Weiss ...
    This intellectual history of a rumored book of heresy reveals a persistent undercurrent of atheism from the Middle Ages into the 18th century.In 1239, Pope Gregory IX accused Frederick II, the Holy Roman Emperor, of heresy. Without disclosing evidence of any kind, Gregory announced that Frederick had written a supremely blasphemous book— De tribus impostoribus, or the Treatise of the Three ... Read more

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  • The Struggle for Europe

    The Turbulent History of a Divided Continent 1945 to the Present

    by William I. Hitchcock ...
    From the ashes of World War II to the conflict over Iraq, William Hitchcock examines the miraculous transformation of Europe from a deeply fractured land to a continent striving for stability, tolerance, democracy, and prosperity. Exploring the role of Cold War politics in Europe’s peace settlement and the half century that followed, Hitchcock reveals how leaders such as Charles de Gaulle, Willy ... Read more

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  • A Most Dangerous Book

    Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich

    by Christopher B. B. Krebs ...
    The riveting story of the Germania and its incarnations and exploitations through the ages.The pope wanted it, Montesquieu used it, and the Nazis pilfered an Italian noble's villa to get it: the Germania, by the Roman historian Tacitus, took on a life of its own as both an object and an ideology. When Tacitus wrote a not-very-flattering little book about the ancient Germans in 98 CE, at the height ... Read more

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