Author: Andrew Gordon
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: history, japan, postwar
Number of Pages: 563
Published: 1993-10-20
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0520074750
ISBN-13: 9780520074750

Japan’s catapult to world economic power has inspired many studies by social scientists, but few have looked at the 45 years of postwar Japan through the lens of history. The contributors to this book seek to offer such a view. As they examine three related themes of postwar history, the authors describe an ongoing historical process marked by unexpected changes, such as Japan’s extraordinary economic growth, and unanticipated continuities, such as the endurance of conservative rule. A provocative set of interpretative essays by eminent scholars, this book will appeal to anyone int

Author: Czeslaw Milosz
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: poetry, polish, postwar
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 1983-07-08
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0520044762
ISBN-13: 9780520044760

This expanded edition of Postwar Polish Poetry (which was originally published in 1965) presents 125 poems by 25 poets, including Czeslaw Milosz and other Polish poets living outside Poland. The stress of the anthology is on poetry written after 1956, the year when the lifting of censorship and the berakdown of doctrines provoked and explosion of new schools and talents. The victory of Solidarity in August 1980 once again opened new vistas for a short time; the coup of December closed that chapter. It is too early yet to predict the impact these events will have on the future of Polish poetry.

Author: David Rosenthal
Publisher: Bucknell Univ Pr
Keywords: poetry, catalan, postwar
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1991-03
List price: $29.50
ISBN-10: 0838751784
ISBN-13: 9780838751787

Author: Roy Jerome
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Keywords: masculinity, german, postwar, conceptions
Number of Pages: 338
Published: 2001-05
List price: $59.50
ISBN-10: 0791449378
ISBN-13: 9780791449370

Examines masculinity in German culture, society, and literature from 1945 to the present.

Author: Tony Judt
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Keywords: europe, history, postwar
Number of Pages: 896
Published: 2005-10-06
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1594200653
ISBN-13: 9781594200656

Tony Judt’s Postwar makes one lament the overuse of the word "groundbreaking." It is an unprecedented accomplishment: the first truly European history of contemporary Europe, from Lisbon to Leningrad, based on research in six languages, covering thirty-four countries across sixty years in a single integrated narrative, using a great deal of material from newly available sources. Tony Judt has drawn on forty years of reading and writing about modern Europe to create a fully rounded, deep account of the continent’s recent past. The book integrates international relations, domestic po

Author: Tony Judt
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: europe, history, postwar
Number of Pages: 960
Published: 2006-09-05
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0143037757
ISBN-13: 9780143037750

Named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by the New York Times Book Review Almost a decade in the making , this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of the world’s most esteemed historians and intellectuals is a singular achievement. Postwar is the first modern history that covers all of Europe, both east and west, drawing on research in six languages to sweep readers through thirty-four nations and sixty years of political and cultural change—all in one integrated, enthralling narrative. Both intellectually ambitious and compelling to read, thrilli

Author: Dale W. Jorgenson
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: growth, economics, postwar, vol, productivity
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 1995-01-04
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0262100495
ISBN-13: 9780262100496

These two volumes present empirical studies that have permanently altered professional debates over investment and productivity as sources of postwar economic growth in industrialized countries. The distinctive feature of investment is that returns can be internalized by the investor. The most straightforward application of this idea is to investments that create property rights, but these volumes broaden the meaning of capital formation to include investments in education and training. Postwar U.S. Economic Growth traces the outstanding postwar performance of the U.S. economy to inves