Total Mobilization

Author : Roy Scranton
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226637457

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Total Mobilization by Roy Scranton Pdf

Since World War II, the story of the trauma hero—the noble white man psychologically wounded by his encounter with violence—has become omnipresent in America’s narratives of war, an imaginary solution to the contradictions of American political hegemony. In Total Mobilization, Roy Scranton cuts through the fog of trauma that obscures World War II, uncovering a lost history and reframing the way we talk about war today. Considering often overlooked works by James Jones, Wallace Stevens, Martha Gellhorn, and others, alongside cartoons and films, Scranton investigates the role of the hero in industrial wartime, showing how such writers struggled to make sense of problems that continue to plague us today: the limits of American power, the dangers of political polarization, and the conflicts between nationalism and liberalism. By turning our attention to the ways we make war meaningful—and by excavating the politics implicit within the myth of the traumatized hero—Total Mobilization revises the way we understand not only World War II, but all of postwar American culture.

Author : N.F. Dreisziger
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780889208261

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Mobilization for Total War by N.F. Dreisziger Pdf

The two World Wars placed unprecedented demands on their participants and had a profound impact on many aspects of national life. The mobilization of human and material resources for total war by three nations in the twentieth century was discussed at the Seventh Royal Military College Military History Symposium in March 1980. In this volume of essays from the Symposium, Arthur Marwick offers a general overview of the problems and consequences of organizing society for total war, while other contributors examine such specific themes as mobilizing international finance for the First World WTar (Kathleen Burk), organizing Canadian war production in World War I and World War II (Michael Bliss and Robert Bothwell, respectively), the political implications of organizing American society for war from 1917 to 1945 (Robert Cuff), and the establishment and expansion of wartime British intelligence services in the two World Wars (Christopher Andrew). The essays will be of interest to historians, political scientists, professional soldiers, and readers interested in the story of the two World Wars and the social and cultural aspects of those conflicts.

Author : John Horne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1997-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0521561124

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State, Society and Mobilization in Europe during the First World War by John Horne Pdf

This is a volume of comparative essays on the First World War that focuses on one central feature: the political and cultural "mobilization" of the populations of the main belligerent countries in Europe behind the war. It explores how and why they supported the war for so long (as soldiers and civilians), why that support weakened in the face of the devastation of trench warfare, and why states with a stronger degree of political support and national integration (such as Britain and France) were ultimately successful.

Author : Roy Scranton
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226637310

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Total Mobilization by Roy Scranton Pdf

Since World War II, the story of the trauma hero—the noble white man psychologically wounded by his encounter with violence—has become omnipresent in America’s narratives of war, an imaginary solution to the contradictions of American political hegemony. In Total Mobilization, Roy Scranton cuts through the fog of trauma that obscures World War II, uncovering a lost history and reframing the way we talk about war today. Considering often overlooked works by James Jones, Wallace Stevens, Martha Gellhorn, and others, alongside cartoons and films, Scranton investigates the role of the hero in industrial wartime, showing how such writers struggled to make sense of problems that continue to plague us today: the limits of American power, the dangers of political polarization, and the conflicts between nationalism and liberalism. By turning our attention to the ways we make war meaningful—and by excavating the politics implicit within the myth of the traumatized hero—Total Mobilization revises the way we understand not only World War II, but all of postwar American culture.

Author : Alec Holcombe
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824884475

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Mass Mobilization in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 1945–1960 by Alec Holcombe Pdf

Immediately after its founding by Hồ Chí Minh in September 1945, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) faced challenges from rival Vietnamese political organizations and from a France determined to rebuild her empire after the humiliations of WWII. Hồ, with strategic genius, courageous maneuver, and good fortune, was able to delay full-scale war with France for sixteen months in the northern half of the country. This was enough time for his Communist Party, under the cover of its Vietminh front organization, to neutralize domestic rivals and install the rough framework of an independent state. That fledgling state became a weapon of war when the DRV and France finally came to blows in Hanoi during December of 1946, marking the official beginning of the First Indochina War. With few economic resources at their disposal, Hồ and his comrades needed to mobilize an enormous and free contribution in manpower and rice from DRV-controlled regions. Extracting that contribution during the war’s early days was primarily a matter of patriotic exhortation. By the early 1950s, however, the infusion of weapons from the United States, the Soviet Union, and China had turned the Indochina conflict into a “total war.” Hunger, exhaustion, and violence, along with the conflict’s growing political complexity, challenged the DRV leaders’ mobilization efforts, forcing patriotic appeals to be supplemented with coercion and terror. This trend reached its revolutionary climax in late 1952 when Hồ, under strong pressure from Stalin and Mao, agreed to carry out radical land reform in DRV-controlled areas of northern Vietnam. The regime’s 1954 victory over the French at Điện Biên Phủ, the return of peace, and the division of the country into North and South did not slow this process of socialist transformation. Over the next six years (1954–1960), the DRV’s Communist leaders raced through land reform and agricultural collectivization with a relentless sense of urgency. Mass Mobilization in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 1945–1960 explores the way the exigencies of war, the dreams of Marxist-Leninist ideology, and the pressures of the Cold War environment combined with pride and patriotism to drive totalitarian state formation in northern Vietnam.

Author : Roger Chickering,Stig Förster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0521773520

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Great War, Total War by Roger Chickering,Stig Förster Pdf

World War I was the first large-scale industrialized military conflict, and it led to the concept of total war. The essays in this volume analyze the experience of the war in light of this concept's implications, in particular the erosion of distinctions between the military and civilian spheres.

Author : Rachel Marlena Stevens
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 5 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-28
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9781535864916

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Gale Researcher Guide for: Total Mobilization by Rachel Marlena Stevens Pdf

Gale Researcher Guide for: Total Mobilization is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.

Author : Seth Klein
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781773055916

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A Good War by Seth Klein Pdf

“This is the roadmap out of climate crisis that Canadians have been waiting for.” — Naomi Klein, activist and New York Times bestselling author of This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine • One of Canada’s top policy analysts provides the first full-scale blueprint for meeting our climate change commitments • Contains the results of a national poll on Canadians’ attitudes to the climate crisis • Shows that radical transformative climate action can be done, while producing jobs and reducing inequality as we retool how we live and work. • Deeply researched and targeted specifically to Canada and Canadians while providing a model that other countries could follow Canada needs to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 50% to prevent a catastrophic 1.5 degree increase in the earth’s average temperature — assumed by many scientists to be a critical “danger line” for the planet and human life as we know it. It’s 2020, and Canada is not on track to meet our targets. To do so, we’ll need radical systemic change to how we live and work—and fast. How can we ever achieve this? Top policy analyst and author Seth Klein reveals we can do it now because we’ve done it before. During the Second World War, Canadian citizens and government remade the economy by retooling factories, transforming their workforce, and making the war effort a common cause for all Canadians to contribute to. Klein demonstrates how wartime thinking and community efforts can be repurposed today for Canada’s own Green New Deal. He shares how we can create jobs and reduce inequality while tackling our climate obligations for a climate neutral—or even climate zero—future. From enlisting broad public support for new economic models, to job creation through investment in green infrastructure, Klein shows us a bold, practical policy plan for Canada’s sustainable future. More than this: A Good War offers a remarkably hopeful message for how we can meet the defining challenge of our lives. COVID-19 has brought a previously unthinkable pace of change to the world—one which demonstrates our ability to adapt rapidly when we’re at risk. Many recent changes are what Klein proposes in these very pages. The world can, actually, turn on a dime if necessary. This is the blueprint for how to do it.

Author : Beth A. Simmons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521885102

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Mobilizing for Human Rights by Beth A. Simmons Pdf

Beth Simmons demonstrates through a combination of statistical analysis and case studies that the ratification of treaties generally leads to better human rights practices. She argues that international human rights law should get more practical and rhetorical support from the international community as a supplement to broader efforts to address conflict, development, and democratization.

Author : Jóhanna Kristín Birnir,Nil Seda Şatana
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108419840

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Alternatives in Mobilization by Jóhanna Kristín Birnir,Nil Seda Şatana Pdf

This book examines underexplored features of identity and their influence on group mobilization in violent and non-violent political settings. It contains improved empirical descriptions of what the tapestry of ethnicity and religion in the world looks like and offers new explanations for how religion leads to conflict within cultural traditions.

Author : United States. Office of Defense Mobilization. National Labor-Management Manpower Policy Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Industrial mobilization
ISBN : UIUC:30112101585302

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A Manpower Program for Full Mobilization by United States. Office of Defense Mobilization. National Labor-Management Manpower Policy Committee Pdf

Author : George Edward Sullivan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : United States
ISBN : UGA:32108001288466

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Political Pamphlets and Leaflets: Total mobilization monster by George Edward Sullivan Pdf

Author : Edward G. Rapp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Armed Forces
ISBN : UIUC:30112041826709

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Construction Support for Mobilization by Edward G. Rapp Pdf

Author : Edward Aspinall,Meredith L. Weiss,Allen Hicken,Paul D. Hutchcroft
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009084147

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Mobilizing for Elections by Edward Aspinall,Meredith L. Weiss,Allen Hicken,Paul D. Hutchcroft Pdf

This book compares patronage politics in Southeast Asia, examining the sources and implications of cross-national and sub-national differences. It will be useful for scholars and students interested in comparative and Southeast Asian politics, electoral politics, clientelism and patronage, and the historical development of political institutions.

Author : George Edward Sullivan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Service, Compulsory non-military
ISBN : OCLC:23856933

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Total Mobilization Monster by George Edward Sullivan Pdf