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Author : Anthony Barker,Maria Eugénia Pereira,Maria Teresa Cortez,Paulo Alexandre Pereira,Otília Martins
Publisher : Springer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319668512

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Personal Narratives, Peripheral Theatres: Essays on the Great War (1914–18) by Anthony Barker,Maria Eugénia Pereira,Maria Teresa Cortez,Paulo Alexandre Pereira,Otília Martins Pdf

This book is a collection of essays on neglected aspects of the Great War. It begins by asking what exactly was so "Great" about it, before turning to individual studies of various aspects of the war. These fall broadly into two categories. Firstly personal, micro-narratives that deal directly with the experience of war, often derived from contemporary interest in diaries and oral histories. Presenting both a close-up view of the viscerality, and the tedium and powerlessness of personal situations, these same narratives also address the effects of the war on hitherto under-regarded groups such as children and animals. Secondly, the authors look at the impact of the course of the war on theatres, often left out in reflections on the main European combatants and therefore not part of the regular iconography of the trenches in places such as Denmark, Canada, India, the Levant, Greece and East Africa.

Author : Anna Branach-Kallas,Piotr Sadkowski
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004364783

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Comparing Grief in French, British and Canadian Great War Fiction (1977-2014) by Anna Branach-Kallas,Piotr Sadkowski Pdf

This study of historical, sociological, philosophical and literary sources, shows how, by both consolidating and contesting national myths, fiction continues to construct the 1914-1918 conflict as a cultural trauma, illuminating at the same time some of our most recent ethical concerns.

Author : Tomasz Pudłocki,Kamil Ruszała
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000455717

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Postwar Continuity and New Challenges in Central Europe, 1918–1923 by Tomasz Pudłocki,Kamil Ruszała Pdf

This book presents a multi-layered analysis of the situation in Central Europe after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The new geopolitics emerging from the Versailles order, and at the same time ongoing fights for borders, considerable war damage, social and economic problems and replacement of administrative staff as well as leaders, all contributed to the fact that unlike Western Europe, Central Europe faced challenges and dilemmas on an unprecedented scale. The editors of this book have invited authors from over a dozen academic institutions to answer the question of to what extent the solutions applied in the Habsburg Monarchy were still practiced in the newly created nation states, and to what extent these new political organisms went their own ways. It offers a closer look at Central Europe with its multiple problems typical of that region after 1918 (organizing the post-imperial space, a new political discourse and attempts to create new national memories, the role of national minorities, solving social problems, and verbal and physical violence expressed in public space). Particular chapters concern post-1918 Central Europe on the local, state and international levels, providing a comprehensive view of this sub-region between 1918 and 1923.

Author : Nicolas de Warren
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108530361

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German Philosophy and the First World War by Nicolas de Warren Pdf

How did the First World War, the so-called 'Great War' - widely seen on all sides as 'the war to end all wars' - impact the development of German philosophy? Combining history and biography with astute philosophical and textual analysis, Nicolas de Warren addresses here the intellectual trajectories of ten significant wartime philosophers: Ernst Bloch, Martin Buber, Ernst Cassirer, Hermann Cohen, György Lukács, Martin Heidegger, Edmund Husserl, Franz Rosenzweig, Max Scheler and Georg Simmel. In exploring their individual works written during and after the War, the author reveals how philosophical concepts and new forms of thinking were forged in response to this unprecedented catastrophe. In reassessing standardized narratives of German thought, the book deepens and enhances our understanding of the intimate and complex relationship between philosophy and violence by demonstrating how the 1914-18 conflict was a crucible for ways of thinking that still define us today.

Author : Mårten Björk
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350228245

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The Politics of Immortality in Rosenzweig, Barth and Goldberg by Mårten Björk Pdf

Highlighting the central importance of theological configurations of immortality and eternal life from 1914-1945, Mårten Björk explores the key writings of Franz Rosenzweig, Karl Barth and Oskar Goldberg to situate their ideas in relation to the political turmoil of the period, including the rise of social Darwinism, nationalism and fascism. The conversations happening among Christian and Jewish theologians and philosophers on the nature of immortality and eternal life during the period constitute what Björk calls a 'politics of immortality'. The speculative question of eternal life became a way to address the meaning of 'a good life' in a period when millions of lives were lost to war, camps and prisons. This book shows how theology was related to central political concepts and ideas of the era, revealing how the question of immortality pursued by Rosenzweig, Barth and Goldberg became a way to resist the reduction of life to race, blood and soil. By situating the exact political consequences of theological and metaphysical theories of immortality and eternal life, Björk's discussion of Rosenzweig, Barth and Goldberg confronts the perennial question on the relation between life and death and exposes the important connections between political theology and philosophical posthumanism.

Author : Andrew Davies
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781119381563

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Geographies of Anticolonialism by Andrew Davies Pdf

A fresh approach to scholarship on the diverse nature of Indian anticolonial processes. Brings together a varied selection of literature to explore Indian anticolonialism in new ways Offers a different perspective to geographers seeking to understand political resistance to colonialism Addresses contemporary studies that argue nationalism was joined by other political processes, such as revolutionary and anarchist ideologies, to shape the Indian independence movement Includes a focus on a specific anticolonial group, the “Pondicherry Gang,” and investigates their significant impact which went beyond South India Helps readers understand the diverse nature of anticolonialism, which in turn prompts thinking about the various geographies produced through anticolonial activity

Author : Tim Harper
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781846145636

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Underground Asia by Tim Harper Pdf

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2021 AN ECONOMIST AND HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 'Compelling and highly original ... The Asia that we see today is the product of the 'underground' which Harper describes with skill and empathy in this monumental work' Rana Mitter, Literary Review The story of the hidden struggle waged by secret networks around the world to destroy European imperialism The end of Europe's empires has so often been seen as a story of high politics and warfare. In Tim Harper's remarkable new book the narrative is very different: it shows how empires were fundamentally undermined from below. Using the new technology of cheap printing presses, global travel and the widespread use of French and English, young radicals from across Asia were able to communicate in ways simply not available before. These clandestine networks stretched to the heart of the imperial metropolises: to London, to Paris, to the Americas, but also increasingly to Moscow. They created a secret global network which was for decades engaged in bitter fighting with imperial police forces. They gathered in the great hubs of Asia - Calcutta, Singapore, Batavia, Hanoi, Tokyo, Shanghai, Canton and Hong Kong - and plotted with ceaseless ingenuity, both through persuasion and terrorism, the end of the colonial regimes. Many were caught and killed or imprisoned, but others would go on to rule their newly independent countries. Drawing on an amazing array of new sources, Underground Asia turns upside-down our understanding of twentieth-century empire. The reader enters an extraordinary world of stowaways, false identities, secret codes, cheap firearms, assassinations and conspiracies, as young Asians made their own plans for their future. 'Magnificent - it reads like a thriller and was difficult to put down' Peter Frankopan, History Today

Author : R J Q Adams
Publisher : Springer
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1990-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349114542

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The Great War, 1914–18 by R J Q Adams Pdf

The Great War is a collection of seven original essays and three critical comments by senior scholars dealing with the greatest conflict in modern history to its time - the 1914-18 World War. The Great War is edited by the distinguished historian of the First World War, R.J.Q.Adams.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Canada
ISBN : UOM:39015065460738

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America, History and Life by Anonim Pdf

Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from over 2,000 journals published worldwide.

Author : Christoph Cornelissen,Arndt Weinrich
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800737273

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The Historiography of World War I from 1918 to the Present by Christoph Cornelissen,Arndt Weinrich Pdf

From the Treaty of Versailles to the 2018 centenary and beyond, the history of the First World War has been continually written and rewritten, studied and contested, producing a rich historiography shaped by the social and cultural circumstances of its creation. Writing the Great War provides a groundbreaking survey of this vast body of work, assembling contributions on a variety of national and regional historiographies from some of the most prominent scholars in the field. By analyzing perceptions of the war in contexts ranging from Nazi Germany to India’s struggle for independence, this is an illuminating collective study of the complex interplay of memory and history.

Author : Albert James Diaz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1220 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Editions
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025899233

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Guide to Reprints by Albert James Diaz Pdf

Author : Larry Wolff
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0804774293

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The Idea of Galicia by Larry Wolff Pdf

Galicia was created at the first partition of Poland in 1772 and disappeared in 1918. Yet, in slightly over a century, the idea of Galicia came to have meaning for both the peoples who lived there and the Habsburg government that ruled it. Indeed, its memory continues to exercise a powerful fascination for those who live in its former territories and for the descendants of those who emigrated out of Galicia. The idea of Galicia was largely produced by the cultures of two cities, Lviv and Cracow. Making use of travelers' accounts, newspaper reports, and literary works, Wolff engages such figures as Emperor Joseph II, Metternich, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Ivan Franko, Stanisław Wyspiański, Tadeusz "Boy" Żeleński, Isaac Babel, Martin Buber, and Bruno Schulz. He shows the exceptional importance of provincial space as a site for the evolution of cultural meanings and identities, and analyzes the province as the framework for non-national and multi-national understandings of empire in European history.

Author : Jacek Mianowski,Michał Borodo,Paweł Schreiber
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030125905

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Memory, Identity and Cognition: Explorations in Culture and Communication by Jacek Mianowski,Michał Borodo,Paweł Schreiber Pdf

The book analyses a variety of topics and current issues in linguistics and literary studies, focusing especially on such aspects as memory, identity and cognition. Firstly, it discusses the notion of memory and the idea of reimagining, as well as coming to terms with the past. Secondly, it studies the relationship between perception, cognition and language use. It then investigates a variety of practices of language users, language learners and translators, such as the use of borrowings from hip-hop and slang. The book is intended for researchers in the fields of linguistics and literary studies, lecturers teaching undergraduate and master’s students on courses in language and literature.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : UOM:39015073568282

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Historical Abstracts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Vincent Sherry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139826983

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The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the First World War by Vincent Sherry Pdf

The Great War of 1914–1918 marks a turning point in modern history and culture. This Companion offers critical overviews of the major literary genres and social contexts that define the study of the literatures produced by the First World War. The volume comprises original essays by distinguished scholars of international reputation, who examine the impact of the war on various national literatures, principally Great Britain, Germany, France and the United States, before addressing the way the war affected Modernism, the European avant-garde, film, women's writing, memoirs, and of course the war poets. It concludes by addressing the legacy of the war for twentieth-century literature. The Companion offers readers a chronology of key events and publication dates covering the years leading up to and including the war, and ends with a current bibliography of further reading organised by chapter topics.