Hollywood S South Seas And The Pacific War

Author : S. Brawley,C. Dixon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137090676

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Hollywood’s South Seas and the Pacific War by S. Brawley,C. Dixon Pdf

This book explores the expectations, experiences, and reactions of Allied servicemen and women who served in the wartime Pacific and viewed the South Pacific through the lens of Hollywood's South Seas. Based on extensive archival research, it explores the intersections between military experiences and cultural history.

Author : Sean Brawley,Chris Dixon
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739193365

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The South Seas by Sean Brawley,Chris Dixon Pdf

The South Seas charts the idea of the South Seas in popular cultural productions of the English-speaking world, from the beginnings of the Western enterprise in the Pacific until the eve of the Pacific War. Building on the notion that the influences on the creation of a text, and the ways in which its audience receives the text, are essential for understanding the historical significance of particular productions, Sean Brawley and Chris Dixon explore the ways in which authors’ and producers’ ideas about the South Seas were “haunted” by others who had written on the subject, and how they in turn influenced future generations of knowledge producers. The South Seas is unique in its examination of an array of cultural texts. Along with the foundational literary texts that established and perpetuated the South Seas tradition in written form, the authorsexplore diverse cultural forms such as art, music, theater, film, fairs, platform speakers, surfing culture, and tourism.

Author : Ian W. Toll
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393083170

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Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 (Vol. 1) (The Pacific War Trilogy) by Ian W. Toll Pdf

Winner of the Northern California Book Award for Nonfiction "Both a serious work of history…and a marvelously readable dramatic narrative." —San Francisco Chronicle On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent into the abyss, a blow that destroyed the offensive power of their fleet. Pacific Crucible—through a dramatic narrative relying predominantly on primary sources and eyewitness accounts of heroism and sacrifice from both navies—tells the epic tale of these first searing months of the Pacific war, when the U.S. Navy shook off the worst defeat in American military history to seize the strategic initiative.

Author : Sean Brawley,Chris Dixon,Beatrice Trefalt
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000123131504

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Competing Voices from the Pacific War by Sean Brawley,Chris Dixon,Beatrice Trefalt Pdf

Key decisions and events of the Pacific War are explored in this work by juxtaposing Allied and Japanese accounts, giving voice to both sides in this epic confrontation. Competing Voices from the Pacific War: Fighting Words covers the period from July 1937 to September 1945, touching briefly on the post-war Allied occupation of Japan. Although it emphasizes American and Japanese accounts, it also includes perspectives from other nations. Materials covering political and strategic issues, the experiences of combatants and prisoners of war, the experiences of civilians caught up in the various war zones, and the impact of the war on the various home fronts, are also included. By including a range of primary sources representing the experiences and views of participants and commentators of all sides and setting them in their historical contexts, this unique anthology promotes an understanding of the Pacific War, the events that led up to it, and its legacies. Alongside sources that reflect traditional military history, material that considers the war from the perspective of the "new military history" is also included.

Author : John B Lundstrom
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612513522

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The First South Pacific Campaign by John B Lundstrom Pdf

On May 7 and 8, 1942, fast carrier task forces from the United States and Imperial Japanese met in combat for the first time in the Battle of the Coral Sea. A strategic victory for the U.S. despite the loss of the carrier Lexington, the battle blunted the Japanese drive on Port Moresby, a valuable Allied air base on the island of New Guinea. Lundstrom offers a detailed analysis of the fundamental strategies employed by Japan and the U.S. in the South Pacific from January to June 1942, the efforts of Adm. Ernest J. King to reinforce the area in spite of Roosevelt’s Europe First grand strategy and Adm.Chester Nimitz's aggressive plans to fight in the Coral Sea. Now in paperback, The First Pacific Campaign provides a superb overview of the crucial first six months of the naval war in the South Pacific.

Author : Gordon L. Rottman,Duncan Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 0013028960

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Japanese Army in World War II by Gordon L. Rottman,Duncan Anderson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Battles
ISBN : OCLC:1232311449

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Battle of the Pacific by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Oceania
ISBN : UOM:39015069819749

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Pacific Islands Monthly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2460 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015046789346

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Subject Guide to Books in Print by Anonim Pdf

Author : Henry Robinson Luce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1100 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : American periodicals
ISBN : IND:30000154182541

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Life by Henry Robinson Luce Pdf

Author : Alasco Delancey Brigham,Henry Rogers Hayden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1444 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1944-07
Category : Insurance
ISBN : UOM:35128001772571

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The Weekly Underwriter by Alasco Delancey Brigham,Henry Rogers Hayden Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1350 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : OSU:32435066477183

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Box Office by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 906 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Music
ISBN : UVA:X002164490

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Schwann Long Playing Record Catalog by Anonim Pdf

Author : Patty O'Brien
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0295986093

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The Pacific Muse by Patty O'Brien Pdf

"While examining colonial culture in its many manifestations, from art, literature, and film to the journals of explorers and missionaries, O'Brien rereads not only the canonical texts of Pacific imperialism, but also lesser-known remnants of this cultural heritage with an eye to what they reveal about gender, sexuality, race, and femininity. Over its long history - from the famous (and much romanticized) settlement of Tahitian women and mutineers from the Bounty on Pitcairn Island in 1789 to the South Seas romantic tradition, Gauguin, and beach culture - notions of female primitivism changed in response to the ideological watersheds of Christianity, Enlightenment science, and race theories, as well as the development of democratic nation-states, modernity, and colonialism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1162 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
ISBN : UVA:X030511109

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Antiquarian Bookman by Anonim Pdf