When my grandfather retired, he immersed himself in two tasks: raising money for his alma mater, Caltech, and writing three volumes of memoirs. His life was typical for a businessman during the ...
OUT OF THE ASHES: A NEW HISTORY OF EUROPE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY By Konrad H. Jarausch Princeton University Press, $39.50, 867 pages If you were to read only one book about the history of Europe in ...
This provocative book argues that Europe is the global beacon of progressive politics today. Among global powers, Europe alone espouses a model of the future that is politically legitimate, socially ...
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At 6 p.m. on January 27, 1942, Konrad Jarausch, a staff sergeant in the German army, died in a hospital near the Russian city of Smolensk. The cause was typhoid fever. He was 41. Two weeks earlier, ...
“In 1900,” explains novelist and essayist Dasgupta (Capital) in this brilliant study, “only about 25 per cent of the world’s population lived in a recognizably ‘national’ Continue reading » Sex and ...
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