Archives Of War

Author : DEBRA. RAMSAY
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367776103

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Archives of War by DEBRA. RAMSAY Pdf

This book offers a comparative analysis of British Army Unit War Diaries in the two World Wars, to reveal the role played by previously unnoticed technologies in shaping the archival records of war. Despite thriving scholarship on the history of war, the history of Operational Record Keeping in the British Army remains unexplored. Since World War I, the British Army has maintained daily records of its operations. These records, Unit War Diaries, are the first official draft of events on the battlefield. They are vital for the army's operational effectiveness and fundamental to the histories of British conflict, yet the material history of their own production and development has been widely ignored. This book is the first to consider Unit War Diaries as mediated, material artefacts with their own history. Through a unique comparative analysis of the Unit War Diaries of the First and Second World Wars, this book uncovers the mediated processes involved in the practice of operational reporting and reveals how hidden technologies and ideologies have shaped the official record of warfare. Tracking the records into The National Archives in Kew, where they are now held, the book interrogates how they are re-presented and re-interpreted through the archive. It investigates how the individuals, institutions and technologies involved in the production and uses of unit diaries from battlefield to archive have influenced how modern war is understood and, more importantly, waged. This book will be of much interest to students of media and communication studies, military history, archive studies and British history.

Author : United States. Navy Department. Office of Information
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113784560

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State Summary of War Casualties, West Virginia by United States. Navy Department. Office of Information Pdf

Author : National Archives (U.S.),National Archives Establishment (U.S.),Pūrṇendu Basu,Seymour J. Pomrenze,United States. National Archives and Records Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Archival resources
ISBN : OSU:32435053889325

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Materials in the National Archives Relating to World War II. by National Archives (U.S.),National Archives Establishment (U.S.),Pūrṇendu Basu,Seymour J. Pomrenze,United States. National Archives and Records Service Pdf

Author : Laurier Centre for Military, Strategic and Disarmament Studies,National Archives of Canada
Publisher : Laurier Centre for Military, Strategic and Disarmament Studies
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018396189

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Canada at War, 1939-1945 by Laurier Centre for Military, Strategic and Disarmament Studies,National Archives of Canada Pdf

Author : Canada. Department of Militia and Defence
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Canada
ISBN : HARVARD:HN66YP

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Statement Showing the Name, Age and Residence of Militiamen of 1812-15 by Canada. Department of Militia and Defence Pdf

Author : Smedley Butler
Publisher : Jovian Press
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781537820798

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War is a Racket by Smedley Butler Pdf

War Is a Racket is a speech and a 1935 short book, by Smedley D. Butler, a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient. Based on his career military experience, Butler frankly discusses how business interests commercially benefit (including war profiteering) from warfare. He had been appointed commanding officer of the Gendarmerie during the United States occupation of Haiti, which lasted from 1915 to 1934.

Author : Rosie Bsheer
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781503612587

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Archive Wars by Rosie Bsheer Pdf

A study of the Saudi Arabian monarchy’s efforts to construct and disseminate a historical narrative to legitimize its rule. The production of history is premised on the selective erasure of certain pasts and the artifacts that stand witness to them. From the elision of archival documents to the demolition of sacred and secular spaces, each act of destruction is also an act of state building. Following the 1991 Gulf War, political elites in Saudi Arabia pursued these dual projects of historical commemoration and state formation with greater fervor to enforce their postwar vision for state, nation, and economy. Seeing Islamist movements as the leading threat to state power, they sought to de-center religion from educational, cultural, and spatial policies. With this book, Rosie Bsheer explores the increasing secularization of the postwar Saudi state and how it manifested in assembling a national archive and reordering urban space in Riyadh and Mecca. The elites’ project was rife with ironies: in Riyadh, they employed world-renowned experts to fashion an imagined history, while at the same time in Mecca they were overseeing the obliteration of a thousand-year-old topography and its replacement with commercial megaprojects. Archive Wars shows how the Saudi state’s response to the challenges of the Gulf War served to historicize a national space, territorialize a national history, and ultimately refract both through new modes of capital accumulation. Praise for Archive Wars “An instant classic. With incredible insight, creativity, and courage, Rosie Bsheer peels away the political and institutional barriers that have so long mystified others seeking to understand Saudi Arabia. Bsheer tells us remarkable new things about the exercise and meaning of power in today’s Saudi Arabia.” —Toby Jones, Rutgers University, author of Desert Kingdom: How Oil and Water Forged Modern Saudi Arabia “There are now two distinct eras in the writing of Saudi Arabian history: before Rosie Bsheer’s Archive Wars and after.” —Robert Vitalis, University of Pennsylvania, author of Oilcraft “Archive Wars explores with conceptual brilliance and historical aplomb the various forms of historical erasure central not just to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia but to all modern states. In a finely-grained analysis, Rosie Bsheer rethinks the significance of archives, historicism, capital accumulation, and the remaking of the built environment. A must-read for all historians concerned with the materiality of modern state formation.” —Omnia El Shakry, University of California, Davis, author of The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt

Author : Allen Feldman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226277332

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Archives of the Insensible by Allen Feldman Pdf

In "Archives of the Insensible" anthropologist Allen Feldman presents a genealogical critique of the sensibilities and insensibilities of contemporary warfare. Feldman subjects the law to a strip search, interrogating diverse trials and revealing the intersecting forms of bodily and psychic subjugation that they display. Throughout, ethnographic specificities are treated philosophically and political philosophy is treated ethnographically through deconstructive description. Among the cases he examines are the interrogation of Ashraf Salim at the Combatant Status Review Tribunal at Guantanamo; the kangaroo court of American soldiers who murdered Gul Mudin, an Afghani noncombatant; Gerhard Richter s forensic paintings of the disputable suicides of a Red Brigade cell in Stammheim prison; Radovan Karadzic s forensic allegations against the corpses attributed to his shelling of a market in Sarajevo; the trial of the police officers who beat Rodney G. King and the latter s judicial lynching by video montage; Jean Luc Godard s film class at Sarajevo where visual facts are indicted for no longer speaking for themselves; and Jacques Derrida standing naked before his cat while awaiting apocalyptic judgment. Through his analysis of these and several other cases, Feldman shows how state power arises "ex nihilo "in the chasm between violent events themselves and the space where political meaning is made. He aims to reverse sovereign logic, the whole task of which is to transform what Foucault called the enigmatic dispersion of human events into certified facts on which state violence is grounded. In contrast, Feldman relies on the disorientation that arises from micrological description as theory in an attempt to retard the hyperaccelerated time of war and media."

Author : United States. National Archives and Records Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Prisoners of war
ISBN : UVA:X005025292

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Records Relating to Personal Participation in World War II by United States. National Archives and Records Administration Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Giles
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 1904832911

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Discovering the Civil War by Anonim Pdf

Peels back years of accumulated analysis, interpretation, and opinion to reveal the human face of history.

Author : Gerhard L. Weinberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0521558794

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A World at Arms by Gerhard L. Weinberg Pdf

Provides an overview of the entire war from a global perspective, looking at diplomatic actions, military strategy, economic developments, and pressures from the home front

Author : Hilary Jenkinson (Sir )
Publisher : War College Series
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1298026865

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A Manual of Archive Administration Including the Problems of War Archives and Archive Making - War College Series by Hilary Jenkinson (Sir ) Pdf

This is a curated and comprehensive collection of the most important works covering matters related to national security, diplomacy, defense, war, strategy, and tactics. The collection spans centuries of thought and experience, and includes the latest analysis of international threats, both conventional and asymmetric. It also includes riveting first person accounts of historic battles and wars.Some of the books in this Series are reproductions of historical works preserved by some of the leading libraries in the world. As with any reproduction of a historical artifact, some of these books contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. We believe these books are essential to this collection and the study of war, and have therefore brought them back into print, despite these imperfections.We hope you enjoy the unmatched breadth and depth of this collection, from the historical to the just-published works.

Author : Pierre Blet
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0809105039

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Pius XII and the Second World War by Pierre Blet Pdf

The first one-volume history, based on the Vatican archives, of Pope Pius XII and his dealings with the contesting powers and with the Jews during World War II.

Author : George William Ellis,John Emery Morris
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9783849652494

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King Philip's War by George William Ellis,John Emery Morris Pdf

The period of the Indian war of 1676, known as King Philip's war, is one of the most interesting in the early history of the New England colonies. It was the first great test to which the New England Commonwealths were subjected, and it enforced upon them in blood and fire the necessity of a mutual policy and active cooperation. The lesson that union is strength was learned at that time and was never forgotten. New England, after the war, free from fear of any Indian attacks, was able to turn her attention to her own peaceful industrial and political development undisturbed.

Author : National Archives Establishment (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Archives
ISBN : SRLF:A0012143244

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Materials in the National Archives Relating to World War II. by National Archives Establishment (U.S.) Pdf