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A Reading of I Racconti by Italo Calvino
Author: Franco Ricci
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
ISBN: 9780889206342
Format: .pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2
Release: January 2006
144 pages
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The History of An English Family
Shortlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize
‘A remarkable achievement…should become a classic.’ – Margaret Drabble
‘Light writes beautifully…Common People is part memoir, part thrilling social history of the England of the Industrial Revolution, but above all a work of quiet poetry and insight into human behaviour. It is full of wisdom.’ – The Times Book of the Week
Family history is a massive phenomenon of our times but what are we after when we go in search of our ancestors? Beginning with her grandparents, Alison Light moves between the present and the past, in an extraordinary series of journeys over two centuries, across Britain and beyond.
Epic in scope and deep in feeling, Common People is a family history but also a new kind of public history, following the lives of the migrants who travelled the country looking for work. Original and eloquent, it is a timely rethinking of who the English were – but ultimately it reflects on history itself, and on our constant need to know who went before us and what we owe them.
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Author: Alison Light
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780241145913
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Release: October 2014
400 pages
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The Expropriation of Jewish-Owned Property
The Deutsche Bank, Germany’s largest financial institution, played an important role in the expropriation of Jewish-owned enterprises during the Nazi dictatorship, both in the existing territories of Germany, and in the area seized by the German army during World War II. In this 2001 book Harold James uses new and previously unavailable materials, many from the bank’s own archives, to examine policies which led to the eventual genocide of European Jews. How far did the realization of the vicious and destructive Nazi ideology depend on the acquiescence, the complicity, and the cupidity of existing economic institutions, and individuals? In response to the traditional view that business co-operation with the Nazi regime was motivated by profit, this book closely examines the behaviour of the bank and its individuals to suggest other motivations. No comparable study exists of a single company’s involvement in the economic persecution of the Jews in Nazi Germany.
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Author: Harold James
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780511032684
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Release: March 2001
282 pages
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