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A. P. Modern World History

 

 

Interwar--World War II Era

 

Politicizing the Olympics:

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The Nazi Olympics, Berlin 1936

The Nazi Olympics

The History Place - Triumph of Hitler: The Berlin Olympics

Beijing's Olympics, China's politics | openDemocracy

BOCOG: Don't mix political issues with the Olympics - The Official ..

.Beijing Olympics Are Political - HUMAN EVENTS

 

 

 

Making Sense of Historical Patterns:

Former UN Ambassador Richard Holbrooke --"The lesson of each genocide is the same: The killing really takes off only after the murderers see that the world, and especially the United States, is not going to care or react."

 

Late twentieth, early twenty first century:

 

Rwanda

Rwanda and Genocide in the Twentieth Century

Physicians for Human Rights

Human Rights Watch. Leave none to tell the story: Genocide in Rwanda

 

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Genocide in Bosnia: The Policy of Ethnic Cleansing

The Holocaust:

Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Anne Frank House

 

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Victims of the Armenian genocide
Genocide in Rwanda

Clothing of Srebrenica victims

Darfur, Sudan
Jewish women in the Holocaust

 

From JSTOR:

William B. Wood, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 26, No. 1 (2001), pp. 57-75

Ervin Staub, Political Psychology, Vol. 21, No. 2 (Jun., 2000), pp. 367-382

Philip Verwimp, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 47, No. 4 (Aug., 2003), pp. 423-442

Helen M. Hintjens, The Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 37, No. 2 (Jun., 1999), pp. 241-286

Mart Bax, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 70, No. 1 (Jan., 1997), pp. 11-19

Judith Hippler Bello, Peter H. F. Bekker, Paul C. Szasz, The American Journal of International Law, Vol. 91, No. 1 (Jan., 1997), pp. 121-126

Alisse Waterston, Antigona Kukaj, American Anthropologist, Vol. 109, No. 3 (Sep., 2007), pp. 509-518

John Hagan, Alberto Palloni, Science, New Series, Vol. 313, No. 5793 (Sep. 15, 2006), pp. 1578-1579

Scott Straus, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 84, No. 1 (Jan. - Feb., 2005), pp. 123-133

Hans V. Kaltenborn, Adolf Hitler, The Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 50, No. 4, Unpublished Documents on Nazi Germany from the Mass Communications History Center (Summer, 1967), pp. 283-290

Claude R. Foster, Jr. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 450, Reflections on the Holocaust: Historical, Philosophical, and Educational Dimensions (Jul., 1980), pp. 1-19

Erika Bourguignon, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 78, No. 1 (Winter, 2005), pp. 63-88

William I. Brustein, Ryan D. King, International Political Science Review / Revue internationale de science politique, Vol. 25, No. 1, Religion and Politics. Religion et politique (Jan., 2004), pp. 35-53

"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic"--Joseph Stalin

 

 

Art and Government:


    Kostof, Spiro.  A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.  (720.9 K)
        Includes material on the sponsorship of all great ages and styles.

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Mayan     

Mayan Art: Vase Painting and Copan Sculpture

Glyphs, Early Belize History

From Proquest:

Professor discovers oldest Mayan mural by accident; [FOREIGN Edition]

From JSTOR:
Political Themes on Mesoamerican Monuments: A Case Study (in Reports) Charles D. Cheek. American Antiquity, Vol. 40, No. 3. (Jul., 1975)


The Analysis of Chipped Stone Artifacts in Southern Mesoamerica: An Assessment (in Research Reports and Notes) Payson D. Sheets.Latin American Research Review, Vol. 12, No. 1. (1977).


Pyramids and Temple Mounds: Mesoamerican Ceremonial Architecture in Eastern North America Charles R. Wicke. American Antiquity, Vol. 30, No. 4. (Apr., 1965)

 

 

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Classical Greece -Periclean Athens


Sculpture, Painting, and Other Arts

Conti, Flavio.  The Grand Tour: the Focus on Democracy.  Boston: HBJ Press, 1978.  (720.9 C)

Italian Renaissance - Papal Patronage, Medici Patronage:


A Brief History of the Role of Patronage in the Renaissance


    See also the book    Hollingsworth, Mary.  Patronage in Renaissance Italy, from 1400 to the Early Sixteenth Century.  Baltimore:
         Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.  (707.9 H)

 

Totalitarian - National Socialist Germany or Soviet Union nazi


Art and Culture in Stalin's USSR


Nazi Architecture in Munich - Examples only


Architecture and Design in Nazi Germany


Nazi Approved Art
During WWII, Germany, the USSR, and Italy began to take control of their art and culture by eliminating art forms that were not deemed pure or nationalistic. The effect of racial and religious prejudice on the "cultural revolution," and the dictators' requirements for acceptable art are discussed.


There are two excellent articles in History Today, available on ProQuest.

 
The battle for art in the 1930s
Elliott, David. History Today. London: Nov 1995. Vol. 45, Iss. 11; p. 14 (8 pages)


Culture under the great dictators, 1930-45
Anonymous. History Today. London: Nov 1995. Vol. 45, Iss. 11; p. 23

Diego Rivera Murals for Presidential Palace rivera

Rebel without a pause: the tempestuous life of Diego Rivera ...

Revolution as Ritual: Diego Rivera's National Palace Mural

 

 

Annotated Bibliography:

Women in World War II

Women and World War II

What Did You Do in the War, Grandma? Women and World War II

Women Come to the Front

American Women's History: World War II

070.4 C   Colman, Penny. 

Where the action was: women war correspondents in World War II. 

305.4 H Hartmann, Susan M. 

The home front and beyond: American women in the 1940s. 

331.4 C Colman, Penny. 

Rosie the riveter: women working on the home front in World War II. 

940.54 G  Granger, Byrd H. 

On final approach: the women airforce service pilots of W.W. II. 

940.54 P Pennington, Reina.  Wings, women, and war: Soviet airwomen in World War II combat

 

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April, 2010