This book explores European soldiers’ encounters with their continent’s exotic frontiers from the French Revolution to the First World War. In numerous military expeditions to Italy, Spain, Russia, Greece and the ‘Levant’ they found wild landscapes and strange societies inhabited by peoples who needed to be ‘civilized.’ Yet often they also discovered founding sites of Europe’s own ‘civilization’ (Rome, Jerusalem) or decaying reminders of ancient grandeur. The resulting encounters proved seminal in forging a military version of the ‘civilizing mission’ that shaped Europe’s image of itself as well as its relations with its own periphery during the long nineteenth century.
Автор: Flint, Dr. Colin Название: Geopolitical constructs ISBN: 1442266678 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442266674 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 18797.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Using unknown archival material to give voice to those who made the Mulberry Harbours to supply the military advance after D-Day and implemented a global military strategy in World War Two, this book brings the "big picture" back to geopolitics, showing how the everyday actions of individuals made, and were made by, geopolitical settings.
Название: Transnational encounters between germany and japan ISBN: 1349579440 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349579440 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 11179.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Showcasing moments of convergence between the German and Japanese cultures towards common points of interest over the last one hundred fifty years, the chapters in this book cover such topics as culture, diplomacy, geography, history, law, literature, philosophy, politics, and sports.
Описание: A literary, cultural history that examines imperial Russian tourism`s entanglement in the vexed issue of cosmopolitanism understood as receptiveness to the foreign and pitted against provinciality and nationalist anxiety about the allure and the influence of Western Europe.
Автор: Biggs David Andrew, Sutter Paul S. Название: Footprints of War: Militarized Landscapes in Vietnam ISBN: 0295749733 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780295749730 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3762.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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When American forces arrived in Vietnam, they found themselves embedded in historical village and frontier spaces already shaped by past conflicts. American bases and bombing targets followed spatial and political logics influenced by the footprints of previous wars in central Vietnam, and these militarized landscapes continue to shape postwar land-use politics.
Footprints of War traces the long history of conflict-produced spaces in Vietnam, beginning with early modern wars and the French colonial invasion in 1885 and continuing through the collapse of the Saigon government in 1975. Drawing on extensive archival research and years of interviews and fieldwork in the hills and villages around the city of Hu?, David Biggs integrates historical geographic information system (GIS) data and uses aerial, high-altitude, and satellite imagery to render otherwise inscrutable sites as living, multidimensional spaces. This personal and multilayered approach yields an innovative history of the lasting traces of war in Vietnam and a model for understanding other militarized landscapes.
Автор: Joanne Miyang Cho; Lee Roberts; Christian W. Spang Название: Transnational Encounters between Germany and Japan ISBN: 1137573902 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137573902 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 11878.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This volume brings together an international group of scholars in German-Asian Studies in a survey of German-Japanese relations from 1860 to 2000. By rejecting traditional dichotomies between East and West, it highlights the intimate ways in which Germans and Japanese have cooperated and negotiated the challenges of modernity.
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