Der Schweizer Trotzkismus in der Nachkriegszeit bestand aus kleinen, aber beständigen politischen Gruppierungen. Diese schafften es trotz ihrer geringen Größe und entgegen dem antikommunistischen ...Klima der geistigen Landesverteidigung, für sie zentrale Themen in breiteren gesellschaftlichen Kreisen ins Gespräch zu bringen. So etwa den Widerstand gegen die atomare Bewaffnung der Schweizer Armee, die Solidarität mit der algerischen Bevölkerung während des Algerienkrieges oder Forderungen nach einem allgemeingültigen Mindestlohn. Lucas Federer untersucht das Wirken und die politischen Konzeptionen dieser einzigartigen Strömung der Arbeiter*innenbewegung und fragt nach ihrem Einfluss auf die politischen und gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungen der Schweiz im Kalten Krieg.
Throughout the Cold War, the Soviet Union deplored the treatment of African Americans by the U.S. government as proof of hypocrisy in the American promises of freedom and equality. This probing ...history examines government attempts to manipulate international perceptions of U.S. race relations during the Cold War by sending African American athletes abroad on goodwill tours and in international competitions as cultural ambassadors and visible symbols of American values._x000B__x000B_Damion L. Thomas follows the State Department's efforts from 1945 to 1968 to showcase prosperous African American athletes including Jackie Robinson, Jesse Owens, and the Harlem Globetrotters as the preeminent citizens of the African Diaspora rather than as victims of racial oppression. With athletes in baseball, track and field, and basketball, the government relied on figures whose fame carried the desired message to countries where English was little understood. However, eventually African American athletes began to provide counter-narratives to State Department claims of American exceptionalism, most notably with Tommie Smith and John Carlos's famous black power salute at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics._x000B__x000B_Exploring the geopolitical significance of racial integration in sports during the early days of the Cold War, this book looks at the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations' attempts to utilize sport to overcome hostile international responses to the violent repression of the civil rights movement in the United States. Highlighting how African American athletes responded to significant milestones in American racial justice such as the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision and the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Thomas surveys the shifting political landscape during this period as African American athletes increasingly resisted being used in State Department propaganda and began to use sports to challenge continued oppression._x000B_
La storia delle università nell'Italia repubblicana Alessandro Breccia; Simona Salustri
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Nell'ultimo decennio la storia delle università in Italia è stata segnata da un ampliamento consistente del numero degli studi che si sono occupati del periodo repubblicano. Manca però ancora una ...storia delle università di carattere regionale, in modo particolare per ciò che concerne l'immediato dopoguerra. In questo senso l'Emila Romagna si presta ad essere un interessante campo d'indagine con i suoi quattro Atenei (Bologna, Ferrara, Modena e Reggio, Parma) per mettere in evidenza peculiarità locali e aspetti ricorrenti di carattere nazionale.
L'intervista a Mauro Moretti inquadra il tema del dossier a partire dalle fonti per la storia delle università italiane nel secondo Novecento. Passa poi ad indicare alcuni tra i principali aspetti da ...indagare anche per definire al meglio una possibile cronologia
"Kevin Boyle has done a masterful job of identifying the unique contribution of the UAW, not only to American Liberalism, but also to the nation and to all people. As contemporary labor and society ...at large search for new directions, this book should be required reading."-Victor G. Reuther
Eastern European prefabricated housing blocks are often vilified as the visible manifestations of everything that was wrong with state socialism. For many inside and outside the region, the ...uniformity of these buildings became symbols of the dullness and drudgery of everyday life.Manufacturing a Socialist Modernitycomplicates this common perception. Analyzing the cultural, intellectual, and professional debates surrounding the construction of mass housing in early postwar Czechoslovakia, Zarecor shows that these housing blocks served an essential function in the planned economy and reflected an interwar aesthetic, derived from constructivism and functionalism, that carried forward into the 1950s.With a focus on prefabricated and standardized housing built from 1945 to 1960, Zarecor offers broad and innovative insights into the country's transition from capitalism to state socialism. She demonstrates that during this shift, architects and engineers consistently strove to meet the needs of Czechs and Slovaks despite challenging economic conditions, a lack of material resources, and manufacturing and technological limitations. In the process, architects were asked to put aside their individual creative aspirations and transform themselves into technicians and industrial producers.Manufacturing a Socialist Modernityis the first comprehensive history of architectural practice and the emergence of prefabricated housing in the Eastern Bloc. Through discussions of individual architects and projects, as well as building typologies, professional associations, and institutional organization, it opens a rare window into the cultural and economic life of Eastern Europe during the early postwar period.
Die Südosteuropa-Studien werden von der in München ansässigen Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft, der wichtigsten Wissenschaftsorganisation der Südosteuropa-Forschung im deutschsprachigen Raum, herausgegeben. ...Sie dienen der vertieften und interdisziplinären wissenschaftlichen Darstellung wichtiger Themen aus der Südosteuropa-Forschung. Auch Fragen zur aktuellen politischen und sozio-ökonomischen Entwicklung in der Region Südosteuropa werden aufgegriffen. Herausgeber der Einzelbände sind renommierte Repräsentanten der deutschen und internationalen Südosteuropa-Forschung.
In Nürnberg und Tokio standen nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg die Hauptrepräsentanten des Nationalsozialismus und des japanischen Ultranationalismus vor Gericht und mussten sich wegen der von beiden ...Diktaturen verübten Massenverbrechen verantworten. In der Folgezeit tat sich Japan noch schwerer damit als Westdeutschland, seine Vergangenheit zu "bewältigen". Dies lag nicht allein daran, dass die Verbrechen nur teilweise vergleichbar waren und der Tennô in Tokio nicht auf die Anklagebank kam. Vielmehr konnten die Japaner nach dem apokalyptischen Schock der Atombomben auf Hiroshima und Nagasaki einen Opferstatus für sich reklamieren, der die japanischen Verbrechen im Weltkrieg lange Zeit verdeckte, während sich den Deutschen, trotz Bombenkrieg und Vertreibung, eine solche Ausflucht nicht eröffnete. Überdies war die Insel im Fernen Osten als allein auf die USA gestütztes Bollwerk gegen den ostasiatischen Kommunismus erinnerungskulturell einem viel geringeren Außendruck ausgesetzt als die in eine internationale Wirtschafts- und Verteidigungsgemeinschaft eingebundene Bundesrepublik. Manfred Kittel untersucht ferner die Bedeutung der inneren Kräfte - der konservativen Regierung und der linken Opposition, der Medien und der Geschichtswissenschaft - im Umgang mit den Lasten der Vergangenheit: bei der Ahndung von Kriegs- und Gewaltverbrechen, bei der "Wiedergutmachung" für die Opfer und der Entwicklung der politischen Kultur in einer shintôistisch bzw. protestantisch geprägten Erinnerungslandschaft bis hin zur Studentenbewegung der 1960er Jahre.
In this powerful study Edward Baring sheds fresh light on Jacques Derrida, one of the most influential yet controversial intellectuals of the twentieth century. Reading Derrida from a historical ...perspective and drawing on new archival sources, The Young Derrida and French Philosophy shows how Derrida's thought arose in the closely contested space of post-war French intellectual life, developing in response to Sartrian existentialism, religious philosophy and the structuralism that found its base at the École Normale Supérieure. In a history of the philosophical movements and academic institutions of post-war France, Baring paints a portrait of a community caught between humanism and anti-humanism, providing a radically new interpretation of the genesis of deconstruction and of one of the most vibrant intellectual moments of modern times.
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