Download Full eBooks in PDF
Fragments Of A Forgotten War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Fragments Of A Forgotten War book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Author : Christopher Alan Bayly,Timothy Norman Harper
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0674021533
This is a panoramic account of the bitter wars of the end of empire, seen not only through the eyes of the fighters, but also through the personal stories of ordinary people.
Author : Judith Matloff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Angola
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070769208
The author's personal account of events in Angola between 1992 and 1997.
Author : Joon Ho Hwang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : American poetry
ISBN : UCR:31210021994338
Author : James R. Brandon
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780824863210
According to a myth constructed after Japan’s surrender to the Allied Forces in 1945, kabuki was a pure, classical art form with no real place in modern Japanese society. In Kabuki’s Forgotten War, senior theater scholar James R. Brandon calls this view into question and makes a compelling case that, up to the very end of the Pacific War, kabuki was a living theater and, as an institution, an active participant in contemporary events, rising and falling in consonance with Japan’s imperial adventures. Drawing extensively from Japanese sources—books, newspapers, magazines, war reports, speeches, scripts, and diaries—Brandon shows that kabuki played an important role in Japan’s Fifteen-Year Sacred War. He reveals, for example, that kabuki stars raised funds to buy fighter and bomber aircraft for the imperial forces and that pro-ducers arranged large-scale tours for kabuki troupes to entertain soldiers stationed in Manchuria, China, and Korea. Kabuki playwrights contributed no less than 160 new plays that dramatized frontline battles or rewrote history to propagate imperial ideology. Abridged by censors, molded by the Bureau of Information, and partially incorporated into the League of Touring Theaters, kabuki reached new audiences as it expanded along with the new Japanese empire. By the end of the war, however, it had fallen from government favor and in 1944–1946 it nearly expired when Japanese government decrees banished leading kabuki companies to minor urban theaters and the countryside. Kabuki’s Forgotten War includes more than a hundred illustrations, many of which have never been published in an English-language work. It is nothing less than a com-plete revision of kabuki’s recent history and as such goes beyond correcting a significant misconception. This new study remedies a historical absence that has distorted our understanding of Japan’s imperial enterprise and its aftermath.
Author : Michael Van Wagenen
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781558499300
This title addresses the deeper questions of how remembrance of the U.S.-Mexican War has influenced the complex relationship between these former enemies now turned friends.
Author : Patrick Richard Carstens
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 683 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781456867553
Presents information about historic sites that can be visited to relive the War of 1812, including location, hours of operation and admission. Most of the sites have been visited by the authors.
Author : W. Martin James
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538111239
Angola, slowly recovering from a twenty-seven year civil war, is becoming a regional super-power in southern Africa. This rise can be attributed to oil, diamonds, a battle-tested armed forces and a political system that is dominated by one party – the Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola – MPLA). Problems remain to be solved. The vast wealth is in the control of the elite while the vast majority of the people live on less than two dollars per day. Corruption is rife, the health and education system in shambles, landmines remain a festering problem and the opposition is intimidated and split into various factions. President Eduardo dos Santos, who has ruled Angola for almost thirty-eight years, has opted not to run for re-election in the August 2017 elections. Instead his hand-picked successor João Lourenço was elected president. Interestingly, dos Santos has not surrendered his presidency of the party. This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Angola contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Angola.
Author : Joseph C. Miller,Philip J. Havik,David Birmingham
Publisher : Baywolf Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
The volume presents studies that range from slave trade in Benguela to European perceptions of colonial urban Luanda, nineteenth-century Portuguese colonial expeditions into the African interior, rubber colonialism in Garenganze/Katanga--Bié--Benguela, rubber trade in the Kongo, the dynamics of go-between societies in Portuguese Guinea, the rule of the Mozambique Company, urbanism in Lourenço Marques, the Angolan Declaration of Independence, UPA politics in northern Angola, and civilian casualties in Angola in 1975-2008. The featured contributions are by Luiz Felipe de Alencastro, Mariana P. Candido, David Birmingham, Beatrix Heintze, John K. Thornton, Jean-Luc Vellut, Jelmer Vos, William Gervase Clarence-Smith, Philip J. Havik, Rosemary E. Galli, Jeanne Marie Penvenne, Douglas L. Wheeler, Inge Brinkman, and Linda M. Heywood.
Author : Ian Hernon
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 789 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750980562
This is a collection of Ian Heron's three books, "Massacre and Retribution", "The Savage Empire" and "Blood in the Sand". Much has been written about the great British military triumphs of the 19th century, but there are many more astonishing stories which have been largely forgotten. These forgotten wars cannot hope to compete in history with the Crimean War or the Boer War, but for acts of sheer courage and endurance, they deserve to be remembered. Using the actual words of the soldiers themselves, Ian Hernon presents an account which evokes Victorian colonial warfare in all its barbarity and the self-righteous belief of the British in the rectitude of their cause.
Author : Jo Boyden,Joanna de Berry
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1845450345
This series reflects the multidisciplinary nature of the field and includes within its scope international law, anthropology, medicine, geopolitics, social psychology and economics.
Author : Mark H. Massé
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781441174727
The role of journalists in covering trauma and tragedy isn't new. Witnessing acts of violence, destruction and terror has long been the professional responsibility of countless print and broadcast reporters and photographers. But what is new is a growing awareness of the emotional consequences of such coverage on the victims, their families and loved ones, their communities, and on the journalists whose job it is to tell these stories. Trauma Journalism personalizes this movement with in-depth profiles of reporters, researchers and trauma experts engaged in an international effort to transform how the media work under the most difficult of conditions. Through biographical sketches concerning several significant traumatic events (Oklahoma City bombing, Columbine school tragedy, 9/11, Iraq War, the South Asian tsunami, Hurricane Katrina), students and working reporters will gain insights into the critical components of contemporary journalism practices affecting news judgment, news gathering techniques, as well as legal and ethical issues. Trauma Journalism calls for the creation - through ongoing education - of a culture of caring among journalists worldwide.
Author : Duncan Clarke
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 1341 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781847654557
Based on thirty years in the global oil game, intimate knowledge of African history and direct experience of over forty countries, this comprehensive book shows that Africa's flaws are not the whole story, when it comes to the continent's history. A definitive yet original account of the rush for Africa's oil, this is also a guide to the hidden face of Africa. Duncan Clarke begins by placing African oil issues in their historical context before tackling the issues of power, nationalism and different parties' strategies for control that have led to today's oil scene. This book is the ultimate reference work on oil in Africa - which is vital to everyone's future around the world.
Author : Martin Meredith
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610391320
The definitive story of African nations after they emerged from colonialism -- from Mugabe's doomed kleptocracy to Mandela's inspiring defeat of apartheid. The Fate of Africa has been hailed by reviewers as "A masterpiece....The nonfiction book of the year" (The New York Post); "a magnificent achievement" (Weekly Standard); "a joy," (Wall Street Journal) and "one of the decade's most important works on Africa" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Spanning the full breadth of the continent, from the bloody revolt in Algiers against the French to Zimbabwe's civil war, Martin Meredith's classic history focuses on the key personalities, events and themes of the independence era, and explains the myriad problems that Africa has faced in the past half-century. It covers recent events like the ongoing conflict in Sudan, the controversy over Western aid, the exploitation of Africa's resources, and the growing importance and influence of China.
Author : William Forstchen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781471108174
The legendary Starfleet Captain Lucian Murat, a contemporary of Christopher Pike, disappeared in the course of a battle against the alien Tarn. Now, generations later, while Captain Jean-Luc Picard is conducting delicate diplomatic negotiations with the Tarn, the Enterprise discovers the descendants of Murat and his crew marooned on a desolate planet, still fighting a war that ended decades ago. The human castaways face destruction as the forgotten war builds to its catastrophic conclusion, but more is at stake than these precious lives alone. Planetside, and cut off from communication with the Enterprise, Commander Riker becomes entangled with the Federation refugees and their desperate struggle, and any action he takes could break the present ceasefire. Tarn observers face the same dilemma - but some feel the Tarn would welcome a renewal of hostilities. Unless Picard can find a solution, a lost hero's legacy may ignite a new era of interstellar war!
Author : Seo-Young Chu
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674059221
In culture and scholarship, science-fictional worlds are perceived as unrealistic and altogether imaginary. Seo-Young Chu offers a bold challenge to this perception of the genre, arguing instead that science fiction is a form of “high-intensity realism” capable of representing non-imaginary objects that elude more traditional, “realist” modes of representation. Powered by lyric forces that allow it to transcend the dichotomy between the literal and the figurative, science fiction has the capacity to accommodate objects of representation that are themselves neither entirely figurative nor entirely literal in nature. Chu explores the globalized world, cyberspace, war trauma, the Korean concept of han, and the rights of robots, all as referents for which she locates science-fictional representations in poems, novels, music, films, visual pieces, and other works ranging within and without previous demarcations of the science fiction genre. In showing the divide between realism and science fiction to be illusory, Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? sheds new light on the value of science fiction as an aesthetic and philosophical resource—one that matters more and more as our everyday realities grow increasingly resistant to straightforward representation.
