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Elizabeth Wiskemann

Author : GEOFFREY. FIELD
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192870629
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Elizabeth Wiskemann written by GEOFFREY. FIELD and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-05 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography examines the life and career of scholar-journalist Elizabeth Wiskemann (1899-1971) from her youth and student years at Cambridge to her death by suicide. Disappointed in her hopes for an academic career, she reinvented herself as a journalist in Berlin, covering the overthrow of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Nazism for The New Statesman, Nation, and numerous other newspapers and periodicals. Expelled from Germany, she settled in Prague and funded by Chatham House wrote the most important account of the Czech-German conflict and the Sudeten crisis, still a classic, followed by a detailed analysis of Nazi political and economic destabilization of the countries of eastern Europe. Her journalistic skills served her well in the war years when she worked as a secret agent in Switzerland, gathering intelligence, running agents into Axis-controlled Europe, and working closely with Allen Dulles, the O.S.S. chief in Bern. Postwar, Wiskemann returned to freelance journalism, focusing especially on Italy and Germany, while also writing several books, including the first scholarly study of the Hitler-Mussolini relationship and the first major account of the expulsion of 12 million ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe. Although a prolific writer and highly regarded as a commentator on international affairs, she remained on the fringes of academia until 1958 when she was appointed Professor of International Relations at Edinburgh (the first woman to receive a Chair there in any discipline); she later became one of the first faculty recruited by the new Sussex University. In her later years she published several works of contemporary history, including Europe of the Dictators, 1919-45, widely used in schools and universities. Blinded in one eye by a botched surgery and increasingly anxious as her other eye deteriorated, she became terrified of going completely blind and ended her life. Aside from its intrinsic interest, Wiskemann's biography is illustrative of a whole cohort of women - graduates in the 1920s and 30s - who found ways to pursue their interests in international affairs and contemporary history. In this sense the book foregrounds the gendered experience of these pioneers whose professional lives often intersected through journalism, Chatham House, and service in the propaganda and intelligence agencies of the wartime state.

Europe of the Dictators, 1919-1945

Author : Elizabeth Wiskemann
Publisher : Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Europe of the Dictators, 1919-1945 written by Elizabeth Wiskemann and published by Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Rome-Berlin Axis

Author : Elizabeth Wiskemann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781494103118
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Rome-Berlin Axis written by Elizabeth Wiskemann and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1949 edition.

Women's International Thought: A New History

Author : Patricia Owens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108494692
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Women's International Thought: A New History written by Patricia Owens and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first cross-disciplinary history of women's international thought, analysing leading international thinkers of the twentieth century.

Elizabeth Wiskemann

Author : Geoffrey Field
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191966927
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Elizabeth Wiskemann written by Geoffrey Field and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first biography of Elizabeth Wiskemann (1899-1971), journalist, historian, and distinguished commentator on European affairs. Based upon new archival sources, including Foreign Office and OSS files and private papers, as well as Wiskemann's many publications, it examines her life from her youth and student years at Cambridge to her suicide. Disappointed in her hopes for an academic career, she reinvented herself as a foreign correspondent in Berlin, reporting on the final years of the Weimar Republic, Hitler's ascent to power, and Nazism's expansionist drive in Eastern Europe. Expelled from Germany by the Gestapo, she moved to Prague and in 1938 published a classic account of the Czech-German conflict over the Sudetenland. With the outbreak of the war that she had long foretold, Wiskemann put her investigative skills to good use as a secret agent in Switzerland, working closely with Allen Dulles, the OSS chief in Bern, and running agents into Axis-controlled Europe. She returned to journalism after the war, living for a time in Rome and focusing especially on the political birth of the Italian Republic and Adenauer's West Germany. For Chatham House she also wrote the first (and for many years the only) English-language study of the expulsion of 12 million Germans from Eastern Europe in 1945-47. Aside from the intrinsic interest of Wiskemann's career, the book situates her within a cohort of British women, pioneers in international affairs, whose careers were strongly influenced by Chatham House and war service in the intelligence and propaganda agencies. By the 1960s their expertise was widely recognized and some, like Wiskemann, gained positions in universities where degree programs in IR and contemporary history were slowly spreading and achieving legitimacy. Wiskemann got her first real academic job when she was fifty-nine years old as Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at Edinburgh. In her different roles she enjoyed a great deal of success but in none of the realms in which she operated-journalism, government service, and academia-did she enjoy the same opportunities as men, and she encountered barriers and sometimes outright obstruction. Blinded in one eye by a botched surgery, she became increasingly fearful of going completely blind; terrified of losing her autonomy and independence, she took her own life.

The Politics of Humiliation

Author : Ute Frevert
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198820313
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Humiliation written by Ute Frevert and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a brilliant procession through the last 250 years, Ute Frevert looks at the role that public humiliation has played in modern society, showing how humiliation - and the feeling of shame that it engenders - has been used as a means of coercion and control, from the worlds of politics and international diplomacy through to the education of children and the administration of justice. We learn the stories of the French women whose hair was compulsorily shaven as a punishment for alleged relations with German soldiers during the occupation of France, and of the transgressors in the USA who are made to carry a sign announcing their presence when walking down busy streets. Bringing the story right up to the present, we see how the internet and social media pillorying have made public shaming a ubiquitous phenomenon. Using a multitude of both historical and contemporary examples, Ute Frevert shows how humiliation has been used as a tool over the last 250 years (and how it still is today), a story that reveals remarkable similarities across different times and places. And we see how the art of humiliation is in no way a thing of the past but has been re-invented for the 21st century, in a world where such humiliation is inflicted not from above by the political powers that be but by our social peers.

Orphic Paris

Author : Henri Cole
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681372185
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Orphic Paris written by Henri Cole and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poetic portrait of Paris that combines prose poetry, diary, and memoir by award-winning writer and poet Henri Cole. Henri Cole’s Orphic Paris combines autobiography, diary, essay, and poetry with photographs to create a new form of elegiac memoir. With Paris as a backdrop, Cole, an award-winning American poet, explores with fresh and penetrating insight the nature of friendship and family, poetry and solitude, the self and freedom. Cole writes of Paris, “For a time, I lived here, where the call of life is so strong. My soul was colored by it. Instead of worshiping a creator or man, I cared fully for myself, and felt no guilt and confessed nothing, and in this place I wrote, I was nourished, and I grew.” Written under the tutelary spirit of Orpheus—mystic, oracular, entrancing—Orphic Paris is an intimate Paris journal and a literary commonplace book that is a touching, original, brilliant account of the city and of the artists, writers, and luminaries, including Cole himself, who have been moved by it to create.

Czechs and Germans

Author : Elizabeth Wiskemann
Publisher : Wiskemann Press
ISBN 13 : 1443729817
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (437 download)

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Download or read book Czechs and Germans written by Elizabeth Wiskemann and published by Wiskemann Press. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ... (6) Columns for Discount on Purchases and Discount on Notes on the same side of the Cash Book; (c) Columns for Discount on Sales and Cash Sales on the debit side of the Cash Book; (d) Departmental columns in the Sales Book and in the Purchase Book. Controlling Accounts.--The addition of special columns in books of original entry makes possible the keeping of Controlling Accounts. The most common examples of such accounts are Accounts Receivable account and Accounts Payable account. These summary accounts, respectively, displace individual customers' and creditors' accounts in the Ledger. The customers' accounts are then segregated in another book called the Sales Ledger or Customers' Ledger, while the creditors' accounts are kept in the Purchase or Creditors' Ledger. The original Ledger, now much reduced in size, is called the General Ledger. The Trial Balance now refers to the accounts in the General Ledger. It is evident that the task of taking a Trial Balance is greatly simplified because so many fewer accounts are involved. A Schedule of Accounts Receivable is then prepared, consisting of the balances found in the Sales Ledger, and its total must agree with the balance of the Accounts Receivable account shown in the Trial Balance. A similar Schedule of Accounts Payable, made up of all the balances in the Purchase Ledger, is prepared, and it must agree with the balance of the Accounts Payable account of the General Ledger." The Balance Sheet.--In the more elementary part of the text, the student learned how to prepare a Statement of Assets and Liabilities for the purpose of disclosing the net capital of an enterprise. In the present chapter he was shown how to prepare a similar statement, the Balance Sheet. For all practical...

Europe of the Dictators

Author : Elizabeth Wiskemann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780006324218
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (242 download)

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Download or read book Europe of the Dictators written by Elizabeth Wiskemann and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Norse America

Author : Gordon Campbell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198861559
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Norse America written by Gordon Campbell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Vikings in North America as both fact and fiction, from the westward expansion of the Norse across the North Atlantic in the tenth and eleventh centuries to the myths and fabrications about their presence there that have developed in recent centuries. Tracking the saga of the Norse across the North Atlantic to America, Norse America sets the record straight about the idea that the Vikings 'discovered' America. The journey described is a continuum, with evidence-based history and archaeology at one end, and fake history and outright fraud at the other. In between there lies a huge expanse of uncertainty: sagas that may contain shards of truth, characters that may be partly historical, real archaeology that may be interpreted through the fictions of saga, and fragmentary evidence open to responsible and irresponsible interpretation. Norse America is a book that tells two stories. The first is the westward expansion of the Norse across the North Atlantic in the tenth and eleventh centuries, ending (but not culminating) in a fleeting and ill-documented presence on the shores of the North American mainland. The second is the appropriation and enhancement of the westward narrative by Canadians and Americans who want America to have had white North European origins, who therefore want the Vikings to have 'discovered' America, and who in the advancement of that thesis have been willing to twist and manufacture evidence in support of claims grounded in an ideology of racial superiority.

Rebel women between the wars

Author : Sarah Lonsdale
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526137127
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Rebel women between the wars written by Sarah Lonsdale and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did it mean to be a ‘rebel woman’ in the interwar years? Taking the form of a multiple biography, this book traces the struggles, passions and achievements of a set of ‘fearlessly determined’ women who stopped at nothing to make their mark in the traditionally masculine environments of mountaineering, politics, engineering and journalism. From the motorist Claudia Parsons to the ‘star’ reporter Margaret Lane, the mountaineer Dorothy Pilley and the journalist Shiela Grant Duff, the women charted in this book challenged the status quo in all walks of life, alongside writing vivid, eye-witness accounts of their adventures. Recovering their voices across a range of texts including novels, poems, journalism and diaries, Rebel women between the wars reveals their inch by inch gains won through courageous and sometimes controversial and dangerous actions.

Shakespeare’s Body Language

Author : Miranda Fay Thomas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350035483
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare’s Body Language written by Miranda Fay Thomas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do the Capulets bite their thumbs at the Montagues? Why do the Venetians spit upon Shylock's Jewish gaberdine? What is it about Volumnia's act of kneeling that convinces Coriolanus not to assault the city of Rome? Shakespeare's Body Language is a ground-breaking new study of Shakespearean drama, revealing the previously unseen history of social tensions found within the performance of gestures – and how such gestures are used to shame those within the body politic of early modern England. The first full study of shaming gestures in Shakespearean drama, this book establishes how shame is often rooted in the gendered expectations of the Renaissance era. Exploring how the performance of gestures such as figging, the cuckold's horns, and even the in-action of stillness created shaming spectacles on the early modern stage and its wider society, Shakespeare's Body Language argues that gestures are embodied social metaphors which epitomise the personal as political. It reveals the tensions of everyday life as key motivators behind the actions of Shakespeare's characters, and considers how honour and its opposite, shame, are constructed in terms of gender norms. Featuring in-depth analyses of plays across Shakespeare's career, this book explores how the playwright's understanding of shame and humiliation is rooted in performance anxiety and gender politics, explaining how theatrical gestures can create dramatic tension in a way that words alone cannot. It offers both rich insights into the early modern context of Shakespeare's drama and confirms the startling relevance of his work to modern audiences.

Fascism in Italy

Author : Elizabeth Wiskemann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780333015742
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book Fascism in Italy written by Elizabeth Wiskemann and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Czechs and Germans

Author : Elizabeth Wiskemann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Czechs and Germans written by Elizabeth Wiskemann and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Churchill Who Saved Blenheim

Author : Michael Waterhouse
Publisher : Unicorn
ISBN 13 : 9781912690220
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Churchill Who Saved Blenheim written by Michael Waterhouse and published by Unicorn. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History has not been kind to Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough, or "Sunny," as he was known. This is because, as Michael Waterhouse and Karen Wiseman reveal, it was largely written by his first wife, the "dollar princess" Consuelo Vanderbilt. Not an easy man, their marriage was indeed an unhappy one. However, he was not entirely to blame for the unhappiness of his marriage to Consuelo; in fact, it would be fair to say that he was sinned against more than sinned. His second wife, Gladys Deacon, proved far too unstable to be the love and companion of his life. Though he needed love, he never found a woman who loved him enough. In The Churchill Who Saved Blenheim, Waterhouse and Wiseman give us the life of a man who lived through a time of great change and felt the responsibility of preserving his home, Blenheim Palace, and the way of life he knew. He was a quiet, well-educated, introverted man who took his role as head of a great estate most seriously. He cared for his tenants and his servants. To those he loved, he was loyal, generous, unfailingly helpful, and courteous, and when necessary, he was also that rare and valuable thing: a critical friend. He left Blenheim in a far better state than he found it. This was his greatest achievement. And this is his story.

Rethinking Party Reform

Author : Fabio Wolkenstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019884994X
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Party Reform written by Fabio Wolkenstein and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-01-13 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The functioning of representative democracy crucially depends on political parties that mediate between citizens and the state. It is widely doubted, however, that contemporary parties can still perform this connective role. Taking seriously the ensuing challenges for representative democracy, Rethinking Party Reform advances a normative account of party reform, drawing on both democratic theory and political science scholarship on parties. Moving beyond purely descriptive or causal-analytical perspectives on party reform, the book clarifies on theoretical grounds why party reform is centrally important for the sustainability of established democracies, and what effective party reforms could look like in an age where most citizens look to parties with scepticism and distrust. In doing so, this book underlines in distinctive fashion why scholars and citizens should care about re-inventing and transforming political parties, resisting widespread tendencies of either declaring parties unreformable or theorising them out of the picture.

England from a Side-Saddle

Author : Derek J. Taylor
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750998210
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book England from a Side-Saddle written by Derek J. Taylor and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2021-07-16 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1697, a 34-year-old woman mounted her horse and set off on a 3,000-mile journey which over two summers would take her to every county in England. Her name was Celia Fiennes. It was a time when women didn't do such things. It could be gruelling, unhealthy and dangerous. As she discovered, most roads were unsigned, marshy tracks, lodgings could be filthy and vermin-ridden, and highwaymen lay in wait for the unwary. Luckily for us, Celia Fiennes kept a detailed diary about the places she saw and the people she met. She reports on the brutal justice system and political shenanigans of the time, and is fascinated by industry and commerce – workshops, shipping and especially coal-pits and tin mines. What she tells us is significant as the Industrial Revolution would soon change England forever. Yet this remarkable woman and her story have, until now, been largely neglected. In England From a Side-Saddle, historian and journalist Derek J. Taylor seeks to put that right. As we follow the route Celia Fiennes took, we see through her eyes an England of 320 years ago, and learn of the courage, determination and curiosity of one woman who was centuries ahead of her time.