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Berek era un giovane studente di odontoiatria quando, nel 1941, fu deportato dalla Polonia e costretto a trascorrere cinque anni nei campi di sterminio nazisti. Il ragazzo non sa che quei pochi strumenti odontoiatrici utilizzati nel suo primo anno di formazione universitaria gli salveranno la vita. Costretto ad esercitare la professione dentistica su prigionieri e ufficiali‒nonostante la sua poca esperienza‒sarà lui ad estrarre i denti d’oro dei cadaveri appena usciti dalle camere a gas.

A majestic work of intellectual and cultural history, The Secular Enlightenment demonstrates how secular values and pursuits took hold of 18th-century Europe, spilled into the American colonies, and left their lasting imprint on the Western world for generations to come.

America Last is a guide for the perplexed, identifying and tracing a persuasion—or the "illiberal imagination"—that has animated conservative politics for a century now. Since the 1940s, the Right has railed against communist fellow travelers in America. Heilbrunn finally corrects the record, showing that dictator worship is a longstanding tradition within modern American conservatism that cannot be ignored—and what it means for us today.

After two government bailouts of the US economy in less than twenty years, free market ideology is due for serious reappraisal. In Free Market, Jacob Soll details how we got to this current crisis, and how we can find our way out by looking to earlier iterations of free market thought. Tracing the intellectual evolution of the free market from Cicero to Milton Friedman, Soll argues that we need to go back to the origins of free market ideology in order to truly understand it—and to develop new economic concepts to face today’s challenges.

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. With the passing of Nelson Mandela, ‘the father of the nation’, comes the end of an era, and the moment to look back on his remarkable saving, and remaking, of South Africa. After years of oppression and racial inequality, concentrated...

Den 28. juni 1914 blev den østrigske prins Franz Ferdinand skudt af Gavrilo Princip i byen Sarajevo i Serbien. I dag siger man, at det skud startede 1. verdenskrig. 1. verdenskrig varede fra 1914 til 1918, og omkring 9 millioner mennesker blev dræbt. De største slag blev udkæmpet i skyttegravene i Europa. Under krigen blev en række helt nye våben taget i brug. Det gjaldt blandt andet kampvogne, fly, maskingeværer og giftgas. Lyt med, og få et overblik over krigens forløb, fra den startede i 1914, til den sluttede i 1918. Søren Elmerdahl Hemmingsen (f. 1966) er cand.mag. i historie og da