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Defeating Japan
The Joint Chiefs of Staff and Strategy in the Pacific War, 1943–1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
This book argues that American strategists in the Joint Chiefs of Staff were keenly aware of the inseparability of political and military aspects of strategy in the fight against Japan in World War II. They understood that war not only has political sources, it also has political purposes that establish...
How Can a Pigeon Be a War Hero? And Other Very Important Questions and Answers About the First World War
Published in Association with Imperial War Museums
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Why did the First World War start? Who was fighting who? Did soldiers still fight with swords? Had aeroplanes been invented yet? What was it like to be inside the first tank sent to war? How could a shaving brush help you escape being captured? Did animals fight in the war? How can a pigeon be a war...
The Holocaust, Fascism and Memory
Essays in the History of Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
From interpretations of the Holocaust to fascist thought and anti-fascists' responses, this book tackles topics which are rarely studied in conjunction. This is a unique collection of essays on a wide variety of subjects, which contributes to understanding the roots and consequences of mid-twentieth-century Europe's great catastrophe.
Abandoning American Neutrality
Woodrow Wilson and the Beginning of the Great War, August 1914 – December 1915
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
During the first 18 months of World War I, Woodrow Wilson sought to maintain American neutrality, but as this carefully argued study shows, it was ultimately an unsustainable stance. The tension between Wilson's idealism and pragmatism ultimately drove him to abandon neutrality, paving the way for America's entrance into the war in 1917.
by Anna Winterbottom
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Hybrid Knowledge in the Early East India Company World presents a new interpretation of the development of the English East India Company between 1660 and 1720. The book explores the connections between scholarship, patronage, diplomacy, trade, and colonial settlement in the early modern world. Links...
The Victorian Empire and Britain's Maritime World, 1837-1901
The Sea and Global History
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
A wide-ranging new survey of the role of the sea in Britain's global presence in the 19th century. Mostly at peace, but sometimes at war, Britain grew as a maritime empire in the Victorian era. This collection looks at British sea-power as a strategic, moral and cultural force.
The British Abroad Since the Eighteenth Century, Volume 2
Experiencing Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
This is a collection of twelve interdisciplinary essays from international scholars concerned with examining the British experience of Empire since the eighteenth century. It considers themes such as national identity, modernity, culture, social class, diplomacy, consumerism, gender, postcolonialism, and perceptions of Britain's place in the world.
Hunting Africa
British Sport, African Knowledge and the Nature of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
This book recovers the multiplicity of meanings embedded in colonial hunting and the power it symbolized by examining both the incorporation and representation of British women hunters in the sport and how African people leveraged British hunters' dependence on their labor and knowledge to direct the impact and experience of hunting.
George L. Mosse's Italy
Interpretation, Reception, and Intellectual Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Twelve years have gone by since the passing of George L. Mosse, yet his work still provides essential tools for historical analysis and influences contemporary research. This volume provides a re-examination of his historiographical production and an analysis of his influence in the context of Italian history.
by Jay Corwin
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
This Readers Guide offers a lively and accessible introduction to the essential criticism surrounding the fiction of Gabriel García Márquez. Jay Corwin explores major critical responses to Márquez's key works, from early and short fiction, to One Hundred Years of Solitude, through to Of Love and Other Demons.
Screening the Unwatchable
Spaces of Negation in Post-Millennial Art Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2011
Tracing the rise of extreme art cinema across films from Lars von Trier's The Idiots to Michael Haneke's Caché, Asbjørn Grønstad revives the debate about the role of negation and aesthetics, and reframes the concept of spectatorship in ethical terms.
The Move Beyond Form
Creative Undoing in Literature and the Arts since 1960
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Fictional narratives of the late twentieth century often cross boundaries. This study argues that the undoing of structure in postmodern art form demands a different way of thinking and represents a commentary on the material and social conditions of the late twentieth century and beyond.
by Philip Cooke
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
This book adds to this growing body of scholarship on the Italian Resistance by analysing, for the first time, how the 'three wars' are represented over the broad spectrum of Resistance culture from 1945 to the present day. Furthermore, it makes this contribution to scholarship by bridging the gap...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Exciting new critical perspectives on popular Italian cinema including melodrama, poliziesco, the mondo film, the sex comedy, missionary cinema and the musical. The book interrogates the very meaning of popular cinema in Italy to give a sense of its complexity and specificity in Italian cinema, from early to contemporary cinema.