Revolution In The City Of Heroes

Author : Suhario Padmodiwiryo
Publisher : Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789814722148

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Revolution in the City of Heroes by Suhario Padmodiwiryo Pdf

Newly liberated from nearly four brutal years under Japanese control the people of Indonesia faced great uncertainty in October 1945. As the British Army attempted to take control of the city of Surabaya maintain order and deal with surrendered Japanese personnel their actions were interpreted by the young residents of Surabaya as a plan to restore Dutch colonial rule. In response the youth of the city seized Japanese arms and repelled the force sent to occupy the city. They then held off British reinforcements for two weeks battling tanks and heavy artillery with little more than light weapons and sheer audacity. Though eventually defeated Surabaya's defenders had set the stage for Indonesia's national revolution.

Author : Suhario Padmodiwiryo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9813250216

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Revolution in the City of Heroes by Suhario Padmodiwiryo Pdf

Author : Suhario Padmodiwiryo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 152523028X

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Revolution in the City of Heroes by Suhario Padmodiwiryo Pdf

Author : John Frost
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : United States
ISBN : PRNC:32101031487638

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Lives of the Heroes of the American Revolution by John Frost Pdf

Author : John Frost
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : United States
ISBN : HARVARD:32044011583333

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Lives of the Heroes of the American Revolution ... Also Embracing the Declaration of Independence and Signers' Names; the Constitution of the United States and Amendments; Together with the Inaugural, First Annual and Farewell Addresses of Washington ... by John Frost Pdf

Author : Susan Casey
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781613745861

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Women Heroes of the American Revolution by Susan Casey Pdf

When you think of the American Revolution, perhaps you envision the Boston Tea Party, Paul Revere's infamous ride, or George Washington crossing the Delaware River. But there are many other, lesser-known stories of the war that engulfed women's lives as it did the lives of their fathers, husbands, and sons. Some women served as spies, nurses, and water carriers; some helped as fundraisers, writers, and couriers; and still others functioned as resistors, rescuers, and—surprisingly—even soldiers. Most often, their names did not make it into history books. In Women Heroes of the American Revolution, these fascinating women step into the spotlight they deserve. You'll learn about such brave rebels as Martha Bratton, who blew up a supply of gunpowder to keep it out of the hands of approaching British troops and boldly claimed, "It was I who did it!"; 16-year-old Sybil Ludington, who rode her horse Star twice as far as the legendary Paul revere did in order to help her father, Colonel Ludington, muster his scattered troops to fight the British; and Deborah Sampson Gannett, who bound her chest, dressed as a man, enlisted in the Continental Army as Robert Shurtliff, and served undetected for three years alongside her fellow soldiers. These and 17 other inspiring stories of women and girls contributing to our nation's independence are recounted through energetic narrative and revealing letters and documents that allow us to hear the voices of the women themselves and those who knew and admired them.

Author : Andre Schmid
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520392861

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North Korea’s Mundane Revolution by Andre Schmid Pdf

When the crucial years after the Korean War are remembered today, histories about North Korea largely recount a grand epic of revolution centering on the ascent of Kim Il Sung to absolute power. Often overshadowed in this storyline, however, are the myriad ways the Korean population participated in party-state projects to rebuild their lives and country after the devastation of the war. North Korea's Mundane Revolution traces the origins of the country's long-term durability in the questions that Korean women and men raised about the modern individual, housing, family life, and consumption. Using a wide range of overlooked sources, Andre Schmid examines the formation of a gendered socialist lifestyle in North Korea by focusing on the localized processes of socioeconomic and cultural change. This style of "New Living" replaced radical definitions of gender and class revolution with the politics of individual self-reform and cultural elevation, leading to a depoliticization of the country's political culture in the very years that Kim Il Sung rose to power.

Author : Lan Yang
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1998-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789622094673

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Chinese Fiction of the Cultural Revolution by Lan Yang Pdf

The book covers the choice of subject matter, authorship and readership of Cultural Revolution fiction. It analyses the characterization of heroes promoted in the literary and artistic field during this period. By comparing Cultural Revolution fiction with the fiction of the preceding period, with Soviet fiction, and with some traditional Chinese and Western fiction, this analysis emphasizes the ideological and cultural significance of the characteristics shown in the heroes personal background and their physical, temperamental and behavioural qualities, etc. This book will be of significant benefit to both students and scholars of Chinese literature, language and society.

Author : Henry Whittemore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Long Island, Battle of, New York, N.Y., 1776
ISBN : WISC:89058649377

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The Heroes of the American Revolution and Their Descendants by Henry Whittemore Pdf

Author : Sudie Doggett Wike
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476671963

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Women in the American Revolution by Sudie Doggett Wike Pdf

Without the support of American women, victory in the Revolutionary War would not have been possible. They followed the Continental Army, handling a range of jobs that were usually performed by men. On the orders of General Washington, some were hired as nurses for $2 per month and one full ration per day--disease was rampant and nurse mortality was high. A few served with artillery units or masqueraded as men to fight in the ranks. The author focuses on the many key roles women filled in the struggle for independence, from farming to making saltpeter to spying.

Author : Roy F. Sullivan
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781468523409

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The Texas Revolution: Tejano Heroes by Roy F. Sullivan Pdf

Most Americans are aware that Texas gained its independence from Santa Annas Mexico in the 1840s. Mention of the Alamo evokes the familiar names of heroes like Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie and William Travis. All too often another group of heroes, heroines and patriots who fought and died for the independence of Texas is overlooked. The sacrifices, bravery and valor of that group--the Tejanos, Texans of Hispanic ancestry--are the focus of The Texas Revolution: Tejano Heroes. It was not just at famous battles such as Agua Dulce, Bexar, Goliad, the Alamo and San Jacinto that Tejanos made their mark on Texas history, often giving their lives and fortunes. Long before the arrival of Stephen F. Austin and settlers from the east, Tejanos were fighting for the independence of Tejas or Texas. The first declaration of Texas independence from Spain was issued in April 1813 by Bernardo Guiterrez de Lara. The first, and bloodiest, battle for Texas independence was fought at the battle of the Medina in August 1813. The first formal list of grievances against the Mexican government was issued by several Tejanos, including Juan Seguin and Gaspar Abrego de Flores, in October 1834. Recognition of the courage, abilities and endurance of Tejanos as major emancipators in the Texas Revolution is long overdue, hence this book.

Author : Gerald Cipriani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317496519

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Chinese Environmental Aesthetics by Gerald Cipriani Pdf

China is currently afflicted by enormous environmental problems. This book, drawing on ancient and modern Chinese environmental thinking, considers what it is that makes an environment a desirable place for living. The book emphasises ideas of beauty, and discusses how these ideas can be applied in natural, agricultural and urban environments in order to produce desirable environments. The book argues that environment is both a product of nature and of human beings, and as such is potentially alterable by culture. The book explores the three aspects of environmental beauty whereby such alteration might be beneficially made: integrated and holistic; ecological and man-made; and authentic and everyday. This book addresses environmental issues by distinctively suggesting that an aesthetic approach inspired from ancient Chinese tradition could help us overcome the many problems that human beings have created at local and global levels. Although its main focus is the traditional and current contexts of the People’s Republic of China, the book transcends national borders. A typical example is the ancient Chinese thought system and cultural practice of Feng Shui (風水) that sought to negotiate how the natural environment and human constructions can cohabit without destructing each other. The author evokes that sought-after harmony through the powerful image of gardens of life whose environmental beauty can be found in traditional Chinese gardens and palaces as well as historically and culturally preserved cities.

Author : Tao Dongfeng,Rosemary Roberts,Yang Xiaobin
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443810371

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Chinese Revolution and Chinese Literature by Tao Dongfeng,Rosemary Roberts,Yang Xiaobin Pdf

This volume has brought together essays to explore, analyse and interpret the revolutionary tradition in modern Chinese literature over the past century from various angles. The authors examines the bodily or carnal dimension, especially the hidden implication of sexual passion, in revolutionary literature, formulate feminist critiques of the conception of women in literary expressions of revolution, explore the function of revolution as historical discourse and in historiographical representation, and discuss the reworking of “revolutionary classics” in recent literary and artistic endeavours. Here, revolution (in history and in literature) is conceptualized neither as an unquestionably progressive and creative force for a new world, nor an absolutely pejorative concept that necessarily leads to sociopolitical turmoil and tragedy. Insofar as “postrevolutionary writings” cannot but reappropriate the revolutionary spirit as their unavoidable and inseparable traumatic kernel, studies in revolutionary literature and culture, too, go through the zigzag experience of revolution in order to scrutinize its complex implications.

Author : Mark R. Beissinger
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691224763

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The Revolutionary City by Mark R. Beissinger Pdf

List of illustrations -- List of tables -- Preface -- Introduction: revolution and the city -- A spatial theory of revolution -- The growth and urbanization of revolution -- The urban civic revolutionary moment -- The repression-disruption trade-off and the shifting odds of success -- Revolutionary contingency and the city -- Public space and urban revolution -- The individual and collective action in urban civic revolution -- The pacification of revolution -- The evolving impact of revolution -- The city and the future of revolution -- Appendix 1. construction of cross-national data on revolutionary episodes -- Appendix 2. revolutionary episodes, 1900-2014 -- Appendix 3. data sources used in statistical analyses -- Appendix 4. choices of statistical models.

Author : Max Parra
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292774162

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Writing Pancho Villa's Revolution by Max Parra Pdf

The 1910 Mexican Revolution saw Francisco "Pancho" Villa grow from social bandit to famed revolutionary leader. Although his rise to national prominence was short-lived, he and his followers (the villistas) inspired deep feelings of pride and power amongst the rural poor. After the Revolution (and Villa's ultimate defeat and death), the new ruling elite, resentful of his enormous popularity, marginalized and discounted him and his followers as uncivilized savages. Hence, it was in the realm of culture rather than politics that his true legacy would be debated and shaped. Mexican literature following the Revolution created an enduring image of Villa and his followers. Writing Pancho Villa's Revolution focuses on the novels, chronicles, and testimonials written from 1925 to 1940 that narrated Villa's grassroots insurgency and celebrated—or condemned—his charismatic leadership. By focusing on works by urban writers Mariano Azuela (Los de abajo) and Martín Luis Guzmán (El águila y la serpiente), as well as works closer to the violent tradition of northern Mexican frontier life by Nellie Campobello (Cartucho), Celia Herrera (Villa ante la historia), and Rafael F. Muñoz (¡Vámonos con Pancho Villa!), this book examines the alternative views of the revolution and of the villistas. Max Parra studies how these works articulate different and at times competing views about class and the cultural "otherness" of the rebellious masses. This unique revisionist study of the villista novel also offers a deeper look into the process of how a nation's collective identity is formed.