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Rebuilding the Postwar Order

Peace, Security and the UN-System

By: Francine McKenzie

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Rebuilding the Postwar Order

Peace, Security and the UN-System

By: Francine McKenzie

Throughout the Second World War, a wide range of people, including political leaders and government officials, experts and armchair internationalists, civil society groups and private citizens talked about and formulated plans to ensure national security and to promote individual well-being in the postwar world. Rebuilding the Postwar Order explains how civil society and governments of the wartime allies conceived of peace and traces the international negotiations and conferences that later resulted in the United Nations system. It adopts a multilateral approach, connects wartime ideas to earlier peacemaking efforts, and reveals support for, as well as resistance and alternatives to, the emerging postwar order. In chapters on the United Nations, UNRRA, the IMF, World Bank and GATT, the FAO and WHO, UNESCO, and human rights, McKenzie explores the tensions between national sovereignty and international responsibility, national security and individual well-being, principles and compromises, morality and power, privilege and justice, all of which influenced the UN system.

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265

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472534778

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9781472534774

American Paintings and Sculpture at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

By: Margaret C. Conrads,Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

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American Paintings and Sculpture at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

By: Margaret C. Conrads,Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

68 treasures of Massachusetts museum: Homer, Sargent, Cassatt, Inness, Remington in depth.

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232

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Hudson Hills

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1555950507

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9781555950507

Empire of Nations

Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union

By: Francine Hirsch

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Empire of Nations

Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union

By: Francine Hirsch

When the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917, they set themselves the task of building socialism in the vast landscape of the former Russian Empire, a territory populated by hundreds of different peoples belonging to a multitude of linguistic, religious, and ethnic groups. Before 1917, the Bolsheviks had called for the national self-determination of all peoples and had condemned all forms of colonization as exploitative. After attaining power, however, they began to express concern that it would not be possible for Soviet Russia to survive without the cotton of Turkestan and the oil of the Caucasus. In an effort to reconcile their anti-imperialist position with their desire to hold on to as much territory as possible, the Bolsheviks integrated the national idea into the administrative-territorial structure of the new Soviet state. In Empire of Nations, Francine Hirsch examines the ways in which former imperial ethnographers and local elites provided the Bolsheviks with ethnographic knowledge that shaped the very formation of the new Soviet Union. The ethnographers—who drew inspiration from the Western European colonial context—produced all-union censuses, assisted government commissions charged with delimiting the USSR's internal borders, led expeditions to study "the human being as a productive force," and created ethnographic exhibits about the "Peoples of the USSR." In the 1930s, they would lead the Soviet campaign against Nazi race theories. Hirsch illuminates the pervasive tension between the colonial-economic and ethnographic definitions of Soviet territory; this tension informed Soviet social, economic, and administrative structures. A major contribution to the history of Russia and the Soviet Union, Empire of Nations also offers new insights into the connection between ethnography and empire.

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350

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Cornell University Press

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0801455936

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9780801455933

Halving It All

How Equally Shared Parenting Works

By: Francine Deutsch

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Halving It All

How Equally Shared Parenting Works

By: Francine Deutsch

Using vivid quotations from her interviews with an array of couples, Deutsch tells the story of couples who share parenting equally and some who don't.

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348

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Harvard University Press

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0674368002

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Vichy and the Eternal Feminine

A Contribution to a Political Sociology of Gender

By: Francine Muel-Dreyfus

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Vichy and the Eternal Feminine

A Contribution to a Political Sociology of Gender

By: Francine Muel-Dreyfus

Argues that the Vichy regime used symbolic violence to reshape a liberal culture based on individual rights into one of deference to hierarchical authority.

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406

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Duke University Press

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0822327740

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9780822327745

Henrietta Szold

Hadassah and the Zionist Dream

By: Francine Klagsbrun

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Henrietta Szold

Hadassah and the Zionist Dream

By: Francine Klagsbrun

Acclaimed author Francine Klagsbrun reveals the complex life and work of Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah and a Zionist trailblazer Winner of the Summer 2024 Natan Notable Book Award, sponsored by the Jewish Book Council "Klagsbrun's biography arrives at a moment when Zionism is once again a flashpoint for protest and provocation worldwide. It's a timely reminder of Szold's vision for a land that Jews and Arabs alike could call home."--Diane Cole, Wall Street Journal Henrietta Szold (1860-1945) is renowned as the founder of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, which quickly became one of the most successful of all Zionist groups. In her work with Hadassah, Szold used a combined ethical and pragmatic approach aimed at improving the lives of both Jews and Arabs. She later moved to Mandate Palestine to help shape education, health, and social services there. The pinnacle of her career came in her seventies, when she took on the task of directing the Youth Aliyah program, which rescued thousands of young people from the Nazis and resettled them in Palestine. Using Szold's copious letters, diaries, and essays, along with other archival documents, Francine Klagsbrun traces Szold's life and legacy with an eye to uncovering the person behind the Zionist icon. She reveals Szold as a complex human being who had to cope with controversy and criticism, a workaholic with an outsized sense of duty, and an idealist who fought for her beliefs even as she questioned her own abilities. With deep insight, Klagsbrun introduces readers to this extraordinary woman, whose impact on women's lives as well as on education and health systems still resonates.

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Yale University Press

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0300247788

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9780300247787

Think Rich! Get Rich! Stay Rich!

By: Karen L Neilinger,Francine J Blum

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Think Rich! Get Rich! Stay Rich!

By: Karen L Neilinger,Francine J Blum

Think Rich! Get Rich! Stay Rich! is a witty and whimsical approach to increase your investment savvy, overcome life's financial pitfalls, and help you obtain financial freedom and empowerment. Stocks, bonds, commoditites, options, real estate, and other investments become easy to understand using our approach. Learn to anticipate, sidestep, and overcome life's difficult financial delemmas. Discover the tools, strategies, and tactics necessary to create the financial person that you wish to become. Think Rich! Get Rich! Stay Rich! a book for women of all ages, teaches the things your mother never taught you.. but should have!

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1938819276

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9781938819278

Book's by Francine J Blum

Rebuilding the Postwar Order

Rebuilding the Postwar Order

American Paintings and Sculpture at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

American Paintings and Sculpture at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

Empire of Nations

Empire of Nations

Halving It All

Halving It All

Vichy and the Eternal Feminine

Vichy and the Eternal Feminine

Henrietta Szold

Henrietta Szold

Think Rich! Get Rich! Stay Rich!

Think Rich! Get Rich! Stay Rich!

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