wyszukanych pozycji: 4
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Picking Up the Pieces from Portugal to Palestine: Quaker Refugee Relief in World War II
ISBN: 9780761827979 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. As a conscientious objector prior to World War II, author Howard Wriggins joined the American Friends Service Committee, a non-governmental organization that, with its British counterpart, would receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1947 for their many years of refugee relief work. A young idealist who left his graduate studies in political science to assist refugees fleeing Hitler's madness, Wriggins batted out daily letters on an ancient Underwood portable to describe the cruel events he witnessed. He shares his experiences as he came to know numberless refugees and prisoners in Portugal,...
As a conscientious objector prior to World War II, author Howard Wriggins joined the American Friends Service Committee, a non-governmental organizati...
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323,25 |
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Ceylon: Dilemmas of a New Nation
ISBN: 9780691626147 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The fate of the newly independent nation is absorbing the attention of statesmen and scholars. This comprehensive study of Ceylon since its independence in 1947 provides a case study of the fundamental issues in these new Asian and African nations. Mr. Wriggins, who spent two years in Ceylon, presents the full historic, economic, political, and social background. He discusses the current political situation in Ceylon, the effect of universal franchise, the increasing communal disorders, the resulting dilemma of representative government, the search for an adequate foreign policy. His... The fate of the newly independent nation is absorbing the attention of statesmen and scholars. This comprehensive study of Ceylon since its indepen... |
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352,63 |
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Dynamics of Regional Politics: Four Systems on the Indian Ocean Rim
ISBN: 9780231078610 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Dynamics of Regional Politics explores the patterns of international conflict and cooperation in four geographical subsystems: the Horn of Africa, the Persian/Arabian Gulf, the South Asian subcontinent, and Southeast Asia. Wriggins's book argues that to understand how the end of the Cold War will affect these areas, it is necessary to look closely at their individual dynamics over time, to differentiate characteristics that are intrinsic to the regions from those caused by the Cold War involvement of the United States and the Soviet Union.
Dynamics of Regional Politics explores the patterns of international conflict and cooperation in four geographical subsystems: the Horn of Africa, the...
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144,35 |
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Ceylon: Dilemmas of a New Nation
ISBN: 9780691652467 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The fate of the newly independent nation is absorbing the attention of statesmen and scholars. This comprehensive study of Ceylon since its independence in 1947 provides a case study of the fundamental issues in these new Asian and African nations. Mr. Wriggins, who spent two years in Ceylon, presents the full historic, economic, political, and social background. He discusses the current political situation in Ceylon, the effect of universal franchise, the increasing communal disorders, the resulting dilemma of representative government, the search for an adequate foreign policy. His... The fate of the newly independent nation is absorbing the attention of statesmen and scholars. This comprehensive study of Ceylon since its indepen... |
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1023,62 |