An Exploration of the Dynamics of Collaboration and Non-resistance
An Exploration of the Dynamics of Collaboration and Non-resistance

Author: Stephen Gilliatt

Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13:

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A study of the world-view of the wartime collaborator. Collaboration with coercive power is generally viewed as a supreme example of cynical betrayal. And yet the collaborator can make a claim to virtue in being governed by concern for others: not wanting to risk the security and well-being of family and community by seeking freedom at all costs. Gilliatt (political science, U. of Northumbria) focuses less on the reasons behind the use of coercion and more on interpretation and acceptance by those who attempt to adapt and cope with it. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.

To Walk with the Devil
To Walk with the Devil

Author: Gregor J. Kranjc

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2013-02-22

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1442660538

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In the spring of 1941, when Slovenia was invaded by Germany, Italy, and Hungary, Slovenes faced at best assimilation, and at worst deportation or extermination. Still, a significant number of Slovenes would eventually collaborate with the Axis powers. Why were they so ready to work with their invaders, and why did the occupiers permit this collaboration? Gregor Joseph Kranjc investigates these questions in To Walk with the Devil, the first English-language book-length account of Slovene-Axis collaboration during the Second World War. Examining archival material and post-war scholarly and popular literature, Kranjc describes the often sharp divide between Communist-era interpretations of collaboration and those of their émigré anti-Communist opponents. Kranjc situates this divide in the vicious civil war that engulfed Slovenia during its occupation – a conflict that witnessed at its bloody climax the execution of over 10,000 Slovene collaborators and opponents of the new Communist Yugoslav regime in the wake of liberation. To Walk with the Devil makes clear how these grisly events continue to ripple through Slovene society today.

French Rule in the States of Parma, 1796-1814
French Rule in the States of Parma, 1796-1814

Author: Doina Pasca Harsanyi

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-04-28

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 3030973409

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This book addresses the interplay between collaboration and resistance during the Revolutionary/Napoleonic era in the Duchies of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla, renamed States of Parma in 1802 and Department of Taro in 1808. Considered no more than a docile backwater in 1796, the country exploded in violent rebellion at the end of 1805, to the astonishment of the French imperial establishment and of Napoleon himself. Yet, the insurgency – duly suppressed by the French military – did not beget further confrontation. French administrators determined to demonstrate that the empire was a force for good and local citizens compelled to reassess their circumstances realistically settled for cooperation in the form of protracted give and take arrangements. In recounting the events, this book highlights local agency and the myriad ways Parma’s population harnessed the power of empire to shape what eventually became the Napoleonic legacy in the region.

Popular Resistance in the French Wars
Popular Resistance in the French Wars

Author: Charles Esdaile

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2004-12-14

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 0230522998

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In the Napoleonic period warfare ceased to be a matter for armies alone, but also became an affair of the people. So, at least, runs the usual claim. In Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany and Russia outraged peasants and townsfolk rose against the French armies and fell upon them without mercy. From these insurrections we get the modern word 'guerrilla', but did armed civilians really play an important a role in the struggle? In this collection of essays a group of specialists on the Napoleonic epoch tease out the question, and arrive at some startling conclusions.

The Dynamics of Middle East Nuclear Proliferation
The Dynamics of Middle East Nuclear Proliferation

Author: Steven L. Spiegel

Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 9780773479593

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This study examines the political process of nuclear decision-making and explores attitudes toward nuclear proliferation in the Middle East and how they impact the peace process..

Life Writing and Politics of Memory in Eastern Europe
Life Writing and Politics of Memory in Eastern Europe

Author: Simona Mitroiu

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-08-25

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 1137485523

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This volume addresses the issues of remembering and performing the past in Eastern European ex-communist states in the context of multiplication of the voices of the past. The book analyzes the various ways in which memory and remembrance operate; it does so by using different methods of recollecting the past, from oral history to cultural and historical institutions, and by drawing on various political and cultural theories and concepts. Through well-documented case studies the volume showcases the plurality of approaches available for analyzing the relationship between memory and narrative from an interdisciplinary and international perspective.

Discrimination Among Oppressed Populations
Discrimination Among Oppressed Populations

Author: Ronald E. Hall

Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13:

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Though the notion of white supremacy that spread throughout the world with European colonization is discredited in modern society, Hall (Michigan State U.) finds that a strict sense of hierarchy by skin color has been internalized by members of the very populations that were oppressed by it for centuries, and argues that it must be ended before social justice can be achieved. He reports on color discrimination among and between African, Asia, Hispanic, and native Americans; feminists; and gays and lesbians. He also explores dark skin and the media, psychological colonization, and racism in the new millennium. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

The Scientific Fallacy and Political Misuse of the Concept of Race
The Scientific Fallacy and Political Misuse of the Concept of Race

Author: Ronald E. Hall

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13:

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Hall (Michigan State U.) describes the various definitions of race, and how it has been affected by questionable science and pernicious politics over time. He explores the racial issues behind the Atlantic slave trade, the fears behind the designations of quadroons, octoroons, and mulattoes, the particular racism directed at African-American men,