Contact Zones Of The First World War

Author : Anna Maguire
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108833875

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Contact Zones of the First World War by Anna Maguire Pdf

This is the first in-depth and comparative study of the experience of colonial encounters for troops from the British Empire during the First World War. Drawing on a rich variety of textual and visual material, Anna Maguire explores new contact zones that materialised beyond the battlefield, on troopships, in ports, in military camps and hospitals, in cafes and city streets. She reveals how the colonial mobilisation of troops during the conflict prompted the emergence of spaces for interactions, fleeting moments or ongoing relationships. Through their personal experiences, she uncovers how men from New Zealand, South Africa and the West Indies viewed themselves and their identities during a time of global conflict, simultaneously asserting the strength of the existing colonial order and challenging its enactment, through contact, conflict and collaboration. In spaces away from the frontlines, Maguire uses these cultural encounters of colonial troops to offer a more intricate understanding of imperial power relations.

Author : Merle Schatz,Laura De Giorgi,Peter Ludes
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110663426

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Contact Zones in China by Merle Schatz,Laura De Giorgi,Peter Ludes Pdf

The local experiences of foreigners in China in the 19th and early 20th centuries exemplify the often latent or tacit patterns of social encounters, individually or in groups, with certain cultural boundedness, stability, and homogeneity. This book takes into account virtual, mediated, imaginative contact zones and looks back at much slower and delimited times and focuses primarily on some selective experiences by Italians and Germans. In doing so it accounts for trajectories from individual and small groups with local, territorial, physical and fully sensual interfaces to fully programmed and highly steered contact zones in the 21st century.

Author : Mandy Link
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031493256

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New Perspectives on the First World War by Mandy Link Pdf

Author : Anna Branach-Kallas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781040013472

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Decolonizing the Memory of the First World War by Anna Branach-Kallas Pdf

Decolonizing the Memory of the First World War contributes to the imperial turn in First World War studies. This book provides an exploration of the ways in which war memory can be appropriated, neglected and disabled, but also “unlearned” and “decolonized”. The book offers an analysis of the experience of soldiers of colour in five novels published at the centenary of the First World War by David Diop, Raphaël Confiant, Fred Khumalo, Kamila Shamsie and Abdulrazak Gurnah, examining the poetics and the politics of the conflict’s commemoration. It explores continuities between WWI and earlier and later eruptions of violence, thus highlighting the long-lasting sequels of the first global conflict in the former French, British and German empires. It thereby asks important questions about the decolonization of the memory of the First World War, its tools, critical potential and limitations. The book will appeal to academics and postgraduate students working in postcolonial literatures, postcolonial and decolonial studies, First World War studies, colonial history, human and political geography, as well as readers interested in cultural memory and overlapping legacies of violence.

Author : Ana Paula Pires,María Inés Tato,Jan Schmidt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000377552

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The Global First World War by Ana Paula Pires,María Inés Tato,Jan Schmidt Pdf

This volume deals with the multiple impacts of the First World War on societies from South Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa, usually largely overlooked by the historiography on the conflict. Due to the lesser intensity of their military involvement in the war (neutrals or latecomers), these countries or regions were considered "peripheral" as a topic of research. However, in the last two decades, the advances of global history recovered their importance as active wartime actors and that of their experiences. This book will reconstruct some experiences and representations of the war that these societies built during and after the conflict from the prism of mediators between the war fought in the battlefields and their homes, as well as the local appropriations and resignifications of their experiences and testimonies.

Author : Mark Mukherjee Campbell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780429829215

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Architecture and Urbanism in a Contact Zone by Mark Mukherjee Campbell Pdf

This book explores how histories of migration, cultural encounter and transculturation have shaped formations of urban space, domestic architecture and cultural modernity in Kolkata from the early colonial period to the beginning of the era of India’s economic liberalization. It charts how these themes were manifest in what was an important ‘contact zone’ in the history of globalization and the modern city. Drawing on a wide range of resources and representations, from urban plans and architectural drawings to European travel journals and Bengali literature and cinema, the book investigates the history of Kolkata through an examination of key urban and architectural spaces across the colonial and postcolonial epochs. Through illustrated chapters, it sheds new light on questions of difference and segregation, cultural hybridity, migration, and entanglements of tradition and modernity in the city, analyzing spaces inhabited by a diverse range of cultures, including several neglected in previous studies. Architecture and Urbanism in a Contact Zone offers an instructive contribution to the fields of global architectural history and theory, urban studies and postcolonial cultural studies for scholars, researchers and students alike.

Author : Alex Mayhew
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009168755

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Making Sense of the Great War by Alex Mayhew Pdf

This interdisciplinary account explores how English infantrymen in Belgium and France experienced and coped with war between 1914 and 1918.

Author : Santanu Das,Anna Maguire,Daniel Steinbach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351622738

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Colonial Encounters in a Time of Global Conflict, 1914–1918 by Santanu Das,Anna Maguire,Daniel Steinbach Pdf

This volume gathers an international cast of scholars to examine the unprecedented range of colonial encounters during the First World War. More than four million men of color, and an even greater number of white Europeans and Americans, crisscrossed the globe. Others, in occupied areas, behind the warzone or in neutral countries, were nonetheless swept into the maelstrom. From local encounters in New Zealand, Britain and East Africa to army camps and hospitals in France and Mesopotamia, from cafes and clubs in Salonika and London, to anticolonial networks in Germany, the USA and the Dutch East Indies, this volume examines the actions and experiences of a varied company of soldiers, medics, writers, photographers, and revolutionaries to reconceptualize this conflict as a turning point in the history of global encounters. How did people interact across uneven intersections of nationality, race, gender, class, religion and language? How did encounters – direct and mediated, forced and unforced – shape issues from cross-racial intimacy and identity formation to anti-colonial networks, civil rights movements and visions of a post-war future? The twelve chapters delve into spaces and processes of encounter to explore how the conjoined realities of war, race and empire were experienced, recorded and instrumentalized.

Author : Dominiek Dendooven
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781399067737

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The British West Indies Regiment by Dominiek Dendooven Pdf

This is a military-political history with a vital and all-pervading cultural and social theme which shapes the narrative - race, color and prejudice. But despite this, there is an extraordinary underlying theme of empire loyalty among serving soldiers - NCOs and private soldiers - and a growing grasp of political ideas and liberal democracy. And the loyalty to the British crown as an agent of the ending of slavery will be amazing to some readers. War experience was a powerful catalyst and contributed to a 'West Indianess' and desire for political advance. But even here the desire was for independence within the empire - a 'West Indian Dominion' as with 'elder sisters' of empire, the Dominions of Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa. The political and economic status of the islands was a potent reason for the 'colored contingents' enlisting - work was scarce - but a major impetus was the cultural concept of 'manliness' and empire-status - shared by George V, who insisted, against government pressure, on allowing West Indians to serve with white British soldiers. But all were volunteers and not enlisted men. The West Indies Regiment was small and its contribution in action limited, and restricted largely to Egypt and Mesopotamia, and with limited service on the Western Front. But it shows vividly the ingrained racialism and color prejudice of British society and the British Army and above all, in the insensitive omission of the West Indies Regiment at the Victory Parade in 1919.

Author : Ghassan Moazzin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781316517031

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Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China by Ghassan Moazzin Pdf

Explores how foreign banks financially connected modern China to international capital markets and the global economy.

Author : Andrew Denning,Heidi J.S. Tworek
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 735 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000919486

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The Interwar World by Andrew Denning,Heidi J.S. Tworek Pdf

The Interwar World collects an international group of over 50 contributors to discuss, analyze, and interpret this crucial period in twentieth-century history. A comprehensive understanding of the interwar era has been limited by Euro-American approaches and strict adherence to the temporal limits of the world wars. The volume’s contributors challenge the era’s accepted temporal and geographic framings by privileging global processes and interactions. Each contribution takes a global, thematic approach, integrating world regions into a shared narrative. Three central questions frame the chapters. First, when was the interwar? Viewed globally, the years 1918 and 1939 are arbitrary limits, and the volume explicitly engages with the artificiality of the temporal framework while closely examining the specific dynamics of the 1920s and 1930s. Second, where was the interwar? Contributors use global history methodologies and training in varied world regions to decenter Euro-American frameworks, engaging directly with the usefulness of the interwar as both an era and an analytical category. Third, how global was the interwar? Authors trace accelerating connections in areas such as public health and mass culture counterbalanced by processes of economic protectionism, exclusive nationalism, and limits to migration. By approaching the era thematically, the volume disaggregates and interrogates the meaning of the ‘global’ in this era. As a comprehensive guide, this volume offers overviews of key themes of the interwar period for undergraduates, while offering up-to-date historiographical insights for postgraduates and scholars interested in this pivotal period in global history.

Author : Justin Carville,Sigrid Lien
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9789462702523

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Contact Zones by Justin Carville,Sigrid Lien Pdf

Since the mid-nineteenth century photography has played a central role in cultural encounters within and between migrant communities in the United States. Migrant histories have been mediated through the photographic image, and the cultural practices of photography have themselves been transformed as migrant communities mobilise the photographic image to navigate experiences of cultural dislocation and the forging of new identities. Exploring photographic images and the cultural practices of photography as ‘contact zones’ through which cultural exchange and transformation takes place, this volume addresses the role of photography in migrant histories in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century to today. Taking as its focal point photography’s role in shaping migrant experiences of cultural transformation, and how migrant experiences have re-configured culturally differentiated practices of photography, case studies on migration from Europe, Central America, and North America position photography as entwined with cultural histories of migration and cultural transformation in the United States.

Author : Diya Gupta
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197754702

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India in the Second World War by Diya Gupta Pdf

In 1940s India, revolutionary and nationalistic feeling surged against colonial subjecthood and imperial war. Two-and-a-half million men from undivided India served the British during the Second World War, while 3 million civilians were killed by the war-induced Bengal Famine, and Indian National Army soldiers fought against the British for Indian independence. This captivating new history shines a spotlight on emotions as a way of unearthing these troubled and contested experiences, exposing the personal as political. Diya Gupta draws upon photographs, letters, memoirs, novels, poetry and philosophical essays, in both English and Bengali languages, to weave a compelling tapestry of emotions felt by Indians in service and at home during the war. She brings to life an unknown sepoy in the Middle East yearning for home, and anti-fascist activist Tara Ali Baig; a disillusioned doctor on the Burma frontline, and Sukanta Bhattacharya's modernist poetry of hunger; Mulk Raj Anand's revolutionary home front, and Rabindranath Tagore's critique of civilisation. This vivid book recovers a truly global history of the Second World War, revealing the crucial importance of cultural approaches in challenging a traditional focus on the wartime experiences of European populations. Seen through Indian eyes, this conflict is no longer the 'good' war.

Author : Petra Eckhard,Klaus Rieser-Wohlfarter,Silvia Schultermandl
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783643504340

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Contact Spaces of American Culture by Petra Eckhard,Klaus Rieser-Wohlfarter,Silvia Schultermandl Pdf

What do tent cities, basketball courts, slave ships, and Facebook have in common? They are spaces of American culture where an idea of 'Americanness' emerges through a concrete form of contact on the one hand and through its mediated representation on the other. This collection of essays examines these contact spaces - and their myriad and complex configurations of culture - along a spatial axis, highlighting the interconnectedness of the local and the global in concrete spaces of American culture, both inside and outside the US, and from the world wide web. One line of inquiry studies metaphors of contact, the other one reads media texts as contact spaces and investigates the role of mediation. (Series: American Studies in Austria - Vol. 12)

Author : Michelle Tusan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009371087

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The Last Treaty by Michelle Tusan Pdf

Major new account of Europe's extended war with the Ottoman Empire through to the signing of Lausanne in 1923.