Archiv für Oktober 2012

Where Have All the Files Gone? Lost in Action Points Every One?

Government files and the system that preceded their introduction have been eclipsed by the introduction of electronic record keeping systems. This has been accompanied both by a marked deterioration in record keeping practices and the use of record ke…

Panikos Panayi and Pippa Virdee (eds), Refugees and the End of Empire: Imperial Collapse and Forced Migration in the Twentieth Century

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Work, Consumption and Subjectivity in Postwar France: Moulinex and the Meanings of Domestic Appliances 1950s-70s

This article responds to some of the limitations of the historiography of consumption in contemporary Europe, notably its tendency to divorce consumer culture from production and to subscribe, in some cases at least, to a rather schematic model of &ls…

Elizabeth Roberts, Freedom, Faction, Fame and Blood: British Soldiers of Conscience in Greece, Spain and Finland

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Britain and the Decline of the International Control of Small Arms in the Twentieth Century

The article examines the peak and decline in interest in international small arms control during the trans-First World War period. It traces this process from the 1908 Brussels Conference, through the 1919 St-Germain Convention to the 1925 Geneva Conv…

Nicholas Khoo, Collateral Damage: Sino-Soviet Rivalry and the Termination of the Sino-Vietnamese Alliance

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Activating the ‚Apparatchik‘: Brigade Deployment in the SED Central Committee and Performative Communist Party Rule

The Communist ruling parties of East Central and Eastern Europe in the post-1956 era developed ‘softer’ methods of staying in power, both vis-a-vis the societies they ruled as well as within the Party itself, methods which proved more effe…

Carroll P. Kakel, III, The American West and the Nazi East: A Comparative and Interpretive Perspective

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Upheaval in Savannah: The Protest Cycle of a ‚Short‘ Civil Rights Movement

Both the ‘long civil rights movement’ and resource mobilization schools have proposed a long trajectory of civil rights activism stretching from the 1930s and with legacies in the 1960s and beyond. The visible sit-ins of the 1960s were pos…

Theodora Dragostinova, Between Two Motherlands: Nationality and Emigration among the Greeks of Bulgaria: 1900-1949,

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