After Hitler's death, several posthumous books were published which purported to be the verbatim words of the Nazi leader - two of the most important of these documents were Hitler's Table Talk and The Testament of Adolf Hitler. This ground-breaking book provides the first in-depth analysis and critical study of Hitler's so-called table talks and their history, provenance, translation, receptio…
This book examines how Rwandan elites within the government, private sector and civil society perceive the nation’s political and economic relationship with the international community. Using testimonies and interviews of Rwandan political, military and economic leaders, and bureaucrats, this book examines the intersubjective beliefs that formulate how Rwanda engages with the international co…
The driving force of the dynamic development of world legal history in the past few centuries, with the dominance of the West, was clearly the demands of modernization - transforming existing reality into what is seen as modern. The need for modernization, determining the development of modern law, however, clashed with the need to preserve cultural identity rooted in national traditions. With …
History on Film/Film on History has established itself as a classic treatise on the historical film and its role in bringing the past to life. In the third edition of this widely acclaimed text, Robert A. Rosenstone argues that to leave history films out of the discussion of the meaning of the past is to ignore a major means of understanding historical events. This book examines what history…
Journalism and the American Experience offers a comprehensive examination of the critical role journalism has played in the struggle over America’s democratic institutions and culture. Journalism is central to the story of the nation’s founding and has continued to influence and shape debates over public policy, American exceptionalism, and the meaning and significance of the United States …
Perang Uhud menerbitkan kepedihan mendalam di dada Rasulullah dan kaum muslimin. Banyak kaum muslimin yang gugur dalam perang ini, singa Allah, serta para sahabat. Buku ini menuturkan berbagai kisah dan peristiwa yang berlangsung di Madinah, sebelum, selama, dan sesudah Perang Uhud. Bahasa yang menarik membuat pembaca seolah dapat menyelami suasana perang pada masa tersebut.
Hukum tidak akan berarti tanpa jiwa moralitas. Oleh karena itu kualitas hukum harus selalu diukur dengan norma moral. Dalam konteks ketatanegaraan Indonesia dewasa ini, pengambilan keputusan hukum membutuhkan moral. Kualitas hukum terletak pada bobot moral yang menjiwainya. Buku ini membahas tentang hukum pada umumnya, perihal kaidah hukum, pengembangan dan penegakan hukum, kebijakan publik mul…
buku seri kedua dari buku pengantar hukum media ini, memfokuskan pada pembahasan hukum media massa. dimana secara garis besar semua penggunaan media massa atau media yang bersentuhan dan/atau bersinggungan dengan masyarakat luas atau khalayak ramai, akan berdampak terhadap hukum positif. Oleh karena itu, penggunaan media konvensional maupun new media dengan berbasis digital, selama penyampaian …
WNI Keturunan Tionghoa dalam Stabilitas Ekonomi & Politik Indonesia Buku ini berusaha memotret kehidupan WNI keturunan Tionghoa secara objektif dan apa peranan mereka dalam kehidupan berbangsa dan bernegara sehingga bermanfaat bagi proses persatuan dan kesatuan yang lebih kokoh bagi Indonesia yang menjunjung tinggi pluralisme, asas Bhineka Tunggal Ika, dan falsafah negara kita yang berdasarkan …
Dunia politik selalu sarat intrik dan skandal. Perebutan kekuasaan selalu menjadi jerat yang saling bertautan dan membelenggu. Menyerang atau diserang, hukum rimbalah yang berlaku bisa menjadi bisnis yang sangat kotor—dengan memanfaatkan posisi politiknya, seorang tokoh atau elite politik bisa melakukan apa saja untuk kepentingan politik kekuasaannya, lmemakan' atau `dimakanl Walaupun skandal…
Mengapa militer Turki yang dikenal sering melakukan kudeta, kali ini lebih memilih jalan damai? Benarkah militer telah mengendorkan sikapnya yang ketat terhadap Kemalisme-Sekuler? Buku ini mengulas rumitnya dinamika politik di Turki yang tak sekadar ditandai rumitnya interaksi militer dan elite berkuasa, tetapi juga di ranah pergumulan elite-elite sosial-politiknya. Pengalaman sejarahnya yang p…
Adaptasi grafis salah satu buku sejarah populer paling berpengaruh di dunia, Sapiens. Bagaimana cara Homo sapiens berkembang menjadi penguasa planet Bumi, mampu melakukan berbagai hal luar biasa seperti membelah atom, terbang ke Bulan, dan merekayasa genetika kehidupan? Untuk mengetahuinya, kita harus melihat gambaran besar: keseluruhan sejarah spesies manusia. Ahli sejarah Yuval Noah Harari be…
Ditengah langkanya buku ilmiah yang membahas propaganda dan psywar,terbitlah buku ini.Salah satu bahasannya,menjelaskan betapa perkasanya propaganda sebagai bentuk khusus kegiatan komunikasi.Memenangkan pasar dengan propaganda.Sekutu meme- nangkan pertempuran pada PD II adalah sebuah keniscayaan.Berkat kehebatan propaganda yang dilakukan Sekutu mampu melemahkan mental prajurit Nazi di garis dep…
Buku ini memberikan infomasi mengenai penjelasan bangsa Indonesia dalam pandangan Tan Malaka. Dia melihat kemajuan umat manusia harus melalui tiga tahap: dari logika mustika, lewat filsafat ke ilmu pengetahuan, dan masing-masing penjelasan nasionalis.
Napoleon Bonaparte pernah berujar, “China adalah raksasa yang sedang tidur. Biarkan terus lelap, karena bila terbangun, dia akan mengguncang dunia”. Faktanya di dataran yang luas, di belah sungai Kuning dan Sungai Panjang (Chang Jiang atau Yang Tze), Cina tak pernah tidur, Ia terus bergolak dan berevolusi. China adalah laboratorium sosial sekaligus perpustakaan besar yang memuat sejarah per…
Perang salib meruopakan periode sejarah paling dahsyat karena melibatkan dua kekuatan ideologi untuk mempertahankan dominasi mereka di kawasan Mediterania, yaitu antara Islam dan Kristen. Buku ini memaparkan perang salib secara objektif dengan menyajikan kronologi tiap perang salib yang terjadi antara tahun 1096-1354. Perang salib terjadi di dua belahan dunia yaitu Yerusalem (disebut perang sal…
This "brief history" presents the essential story of the subordination of African Americans in the U.S., captured in a 1968 cartoon by Pulitzer-prize-winning cartoonist John Fischetti. The drawing is of a black man handcuffed to a wall with cuffs labeled "White Racism." The caption reads, "Why don’t they lift themselves up by their own bootstraps like we did?" Bootstraps shows just how little…
Beginning with the American Revolution and spanning over two hundred years of American journalism, A Narrative History of the American Press provides an overview of the events, institutions, and people who have shaped the press, from the creation of the First Amendment to today. Gregory A. Borchard’s introductory text helps readers develop an understanding of the role of the press in both the…
Expertly steering readers through the often tumultuous and exhilarating history of the United States, from its early modern Native American roots to twenty-first-century neoliberalism and the shifting political climate of the past decade, this highly readable textbook provides a compelling overview of American development over the last five centuries. This book avoids either celebratory or c…
Hitler and Nazi Germany: A History is a brief but comprehensive survey of the Third Reich based on current research findings that provides a balanced approach to the study of Hitler’s role in the history of the Third Reich. The book considers the economic, social, and political forces that made possible the rise and development of Nazism; the institutional, cultural, and social life of the T…
This book surveys the labyrinthine relationship between Stephen King and American History. By depicting American History as a doomed cycle of greed and violence, King poses a number of important questions: who gets to make history, what gets left out, how one understands one's role within it, and how one might avoid repeating mistakes of the past. This volume examines King's relationship to Ame…
A History of Thailand offers a lively and accessible account of Thailand's political, economic, social and cultural history. This book explores how a world of mandarin nobles and unfree peasants was transformed and examines how the monarchy managed the foundation of a new nation-state at the turn of the twentieth century. The authors capture the clashes between various groups in their attempts …
The Atlantic in Global History is a collection of original essays by leading authors that both introduce the main themes of Atlantic history and expand the category of the Atlantic chronologically, spatially, and methodologically. Moving away from the nation-state focused model of Atlantic history, this book emphasizes the comparisons among national experiences of the Atlantic. Meanwhile, by e…
A Chronology of Medieval British History 1307–1485 is a year-by-year guide to political, military, religious and cultural developments in the states within the British Isles from 1307-1485.
After the War presents a panoramic view of social, political, and economic change in post-Civil War America by examining its journalism, from coverage of politics and Reconstruction to sensational reporting and images of the American people. The changes in America during this time were so dramatic that they transformed the social structure of the country and the nature of journalism. By the 187…
A Cultural History of Early Modern Europe examines the relationships that developed in cities from the time of the late Renaissance through to the Napoleonic period, exploring culture in the broadest sense by selecting a variety of sources not commonly used in history books, such as plays, popular songs, sketches, and documents created by ordinary people. Extending from 1480 to 1820, the book …