After the Event : the Transmission of Grievous Loss in Germany, China and Taiwan.
Two of the most destructive moments of state violence in the twentieth century occurred in Europe between 1933 and 1945 and in China between 1959 and 1961 (the Great Leap famine). This is the first book to bring the two histories together in order to examine their differences and to understand if th...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books, Inc.,
2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Two of the most destructive moments of state violence in the twentieth century occurred in Europe between 1933 and 1945 and in China between 1959 and 1961 (the Great Leap famine). This is the first book to bring the two histories together in order to examine their differences and to understand if there are any similar processes of transmission at work. The author expertly ties in the Taiwanese civil war between Nationalists and Communists, which included the White Terror from 1947 to 1987, a less well-known but equally revealing part of twentieth-century history. Personal and family stories ar. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (246 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780857450876 0857450875 0857450867 9780857450869 |