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Author : Heather Marie Stur
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Dragon Ladies, Gentle Warriors, and Girls Next Door written by Heather Marie Stur and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geoffrey W. Jensen
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574417584
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Beyond the Quagmire written by Geoffrey W. Jensen and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Beyond the Quagmire, thirteen scholars from across disciplines provide a series of provocative, important, and timely essays on the politics, combatants, and memory of the Vietnam War. Americans believed that they were supposed to win in Vietnam. As veteran and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Philip Caputo observed in A Rumor of War, “we carried, along with our packs and rifles, the implicit convictions that the Viet Cong would be quickly beaten and that we were doing something altogether noble and good.” By 1968, though, Vietnam looked less like World War II’s triumphant march and more like the brutal and costly stalemate in Korea. During that year, the United States paid dearly as nearly 17,000 perished fighting in a foreign land against an enemy that continued to frustrate them. Indeed, as Caputo noted, “We kept the packs and rifles; the convictions, we lost.” It was a time of deep introspection as questions over the legality of American involvement, political dishonesty, civil rights, counter-cultural ideas, and American overreach during the Cold War congealed in one place: Vietnam. Just as Americans fifty years ago struggled to understand the nation’s connection to Vietnam, scholars today, across disciplines, are working to come to terms with the long and bloody war—its politics, combatants, and how we remember it. The essays in Beyond the Quagmire pose new questions, offer new answers, and establish important lines of debate regarding social, political, military, and memory studies. The book is organized in three parts. Part 1 contains four chapters by scholars who explore the politics of war in the Vietnam era. In Part 2, five contributors offer chapters on Vietnam combatants with analyses of race, gender, environment, and Chinese intervention. Part 3 provides four innovative and timely essays on Vietnam in history and memory. In sum, Beyond the Quagmire pushes the interpretive boundaries of America’s involvement in Vietnam on the battlefield and off, and it will play a significant role in reshaping and reinvigorating Vietnam War historiography.
Author : Marian Moser Jones
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1421408236
Total Pages : 647 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book The American Red Cross written by Marian Moser Jones and published by Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM. This book was released on 2013-01-07 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The iconic relief organization’s activities over a half century of history, through wars, epidemics, and other disasters: “Well-researched . . . fascinating.” —Julia F. Irwin, Bulletin of the History of Medicine In dark skirts and bloodied boots, Clara Barton fearlessly ventured onto Civil War battlefields to tend to wounded soldiers. She later worked with civilians in Europe during the Franco-Prussian War, lobbied legislators to ratify the Geneva conventions, and founded and ran the American Red Cross. The American Red Cross from Clara Barton to the New Deal tells the story of the charitable organization from its start in 1881, through its humanitarian aid during wars, natural disasters, and the Depression, to its relief efforts of the 1930s. Marian Moser Jones illustrates the tension between the organization’s founding principles of humanity and neutrality and the political, economic, and moral pressures that sometimes caused it to favor one group at the expense of another. This book tells the stories of: • U.S. natural disasters such as the Jacksonville yellow fever epidemic of 1888, the Sea Islands hurricane of 1893, and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake • crises abroad, including the 1892 Russian famine and the Armenian massacres of 1895–96 • efforts to help civilians affected by the civil war in Cuba • power struggles within the American Red Cross leadership and subsequent alliances with the American government • the organization’s expansion during World War I • race riots and massacres in East St. Louis, Chicago, and Tulsa between 1917 and 1921 • help for African American and white Southerners after the Mississippi flood of 1927 • relief projects during the Dust Bowl and after the New Deal An epilogue relates the history of the American Red Cross since the beginning of World War II and illuminates the organization’s current practices and international reputation.
Author : Heather Marie Stur
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139502271
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)
Download or read book Beyond Combat written by Heather Marie Stur and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-26 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Combat investigates how the Vietnam War both reinforced and challenged the gender roles that were key components of American Cold War ideology. Refocusing attention onto women and gender paints a more complex and accurate picture of the war's far-reaching impact beyond the battlefields. Encounters between Americans and Vietnamese were shaped by a cluster of intertwined images used to make sense of and justify American intervention and use of force in Vietnam. These images included the girl next door, a wholesome reminder of why the United States was committed to defeating Communism, and the treacherous and mysterious 'dragon lady', who served as a metaphor for Vietnamese women and South Vietnam. Heather Stur also examines the ways in which ideas about masculinity shaped the American GI experience in Vietnam and, ultimately, how some American men and women returned from Vietnam to challenge homefront gender norms.
Author : Andrew Wiest
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135187762
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)
Download or read book New Perspectives on the Vietnam War written by Andrew Wiest and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vietnam War was one of the most heavily documented conflicts of the twentieth century. Although the events themselves recede further into history every year, the political and cultural changes the war brought about continue to resonate, even as a new generation of Americans grapples with its own divisive conflict. America and the Vietnam War: Re-examining the Culture and History of a Generation reconsiders the social and cultural aspects of the conflict that helped to fundamentally change the nation. With chapters written by subject area specialists, America and the Vietnam War takes on subjects such as women’s role in the war, the music and the films of the time, the Vietnamese perspective, race and the war, and veterans and post-traumatic stress disorder. Features include: chapter summaries timelines discussion questions guides to further reading a companion website with primary source documents and tools (such as music and movie playlists) for both instructors and students. Heavily illustrated and welcoming to students and scholars of this infamous and pivotal time, America and the Vietnam War is a perfect companion to any course on the Vietnam War Era.
Author : Matthew S. Muehlbauer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317533186
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book The Routledge History of Global War and Society written by Matthew S. Muehlbauer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge History of Global War and Society offers a sweeping introduction to the most significant research on the causes, experiences, and impacts of war throughout history. This collection of twenty-seven essays by leading historians demonstrates how war and society studies have dramatically expanded the chronological, geographic, and thematic breadth of the field of military history. Each chapter addresses the ways in which recent scholarship has integrated cultural, ethical, environmental, medical, and ideological factors to explain both conventional conflicts and genocide, terrorism, and other forms of mass violence. The broad scope of the collection makes it the perfect primer for scholars and students seeking to understand the complex interactions of warfare and those affecting and affected by conflict.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andy Coltart
Publisher : New Generation Publishing
ISBN 13 : 180031681X
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Dragon Warrior written by Andy Coltart and published by New Generation Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-12 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ignatius flew low over the battlefield and as he did, Kora leapt from his back with her sword drawn. The Celts saw her jump from the dragon and cheered. The whole spectacle seemed to fill the Vikings with terror.'Discovering a mysterious egg near her home would change Kora's life forever. When a dragon hatched from the egg, she and her friend Tristan raised it in secret - until one day, Kora was forced to flee her Saxon village on the dragon, Ignatius, leaving Tristan behind. Where would Kora's travels take her, and what would happen to her friendship with Tristan? Follow her adventure as she journeys from childhood to becoming a woman, and from a Saxon peasant girl to the Dragon Warrior!
Author : Vicki Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Cultures Outside the United States in Fiction written by Vicki Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students looking for a greater understanding of cultures outside the United States often turn to works of fiction. The 2,875 titles from more than 150 countries are in this reference work. Arranged by country, each entry provides author, publication data, grade designation, and a concise description. Most books have been published since 1965, though many classics are included.
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ISBN 13 : 9781414400990
Total Pages : 1516 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Video Source Book written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 1516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Lutz II
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0615156223
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (151 download)
Download or read book Quest of Brothers written by William Lutz II and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War is coming to the Realm of Firewood. The followers of Raycore have almost obtained their goal of restoring their god. The invasion is about to begin. Nothing can stop them except... George and King Various must ccmplete their quest for the Gem of Firewood if they have an hope of restoring peace. The quest will take them to a place where more questions than answers will be found. Can they complete the quest in time to save the Realm of Firewood?
Author : Surazeus Astarius
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387283103
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (872 download)
Download or read book Angeliad written by Surazeus Astarius and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-10-09 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angeliad of Surazeus - Revelation of Angela presents 136,377 lines of verse in 1,346 poems, lyrics, ballads, sonnets, dramatic monologues, eulogies, hymns, and epigrams written by Surazeus 2001 to 2005.
Author : Celia Kyle
Publisher : Summerhouse Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 845 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Dragons of Preor Volume Two written by Celia Kyle and published by Summerhouse Publishing. This book was released on with total page 845 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books 4 through 7 in the bestselling Dragons of Preor series in one volume! Rendan - Violence is never the answer… unless you’re a Preor warrior. Zadri - What’s a single, pregnant woman supposed to do when her family kicks her out? Go to Preor Choosing Station Tau and hope a dragon shapeshifting alien is her mate, of course. Hatched - Taulan joi Lana Coburn, War Master of the Preor third fleet, is finally having his wishes granted. He has a mate and will soon have two dragonlets to protect and love. But only if he can live to see them born. Or, as his Lana says, hatched. Ivoth - He has to choose—love or honor—because he can’t have both.
Author : Barry Monush
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1480329983
Total Pages : 833 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (83 download)
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors written by Barry Monush and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, Screen World has been the film professional's, as well as the film buff's, favorite and indispensable annual screen resource, full of all the necessary statistics and facts. Now Screen World editor Barry Monush has compiled another comprehensive work for every film lover's library. In the first of two volumes, this book chronicles the careers of every significant film actor, from the earliest silent screen stars – Chaplin, Pickford, Fairbanks – to the mid-1960s, when the old studio and star systems came crashing down. Each listing includes: a brief biography, photos from the famed Screen World archives, with many rare shots; vital statistics; a comprehensive filmography; and an informed, entertaining assessment of each actor's contributions – good or bad! In addition to every major player, Monush includes the legions of unjustly neglected troupers of yesteryear. The result is a rarity: an invaluable reference tool that's as much fun to read as a scandal sheet. It pulsates with all the scandal, glamour, oddity and glory that was the lifeblood of its subjects. Contains over 1 000 photos!
Author : Margaret Weis
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 9781429961219
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (612 download)
Download or read book Secret of the Dragon written by Margaret Weis and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New gods are challenging the old high god, Torval, for rulership of the world. The only way to stop these brash interlopers lies with the five Bones of the Vektia Dragons—the five primal dragons hidden away by the dragon goddess, Vindrash, during the creation of the world. Without these dragons, one of the new gods, Aelon, cannot seize power. The only hope of the Vindrasi lies in finding the dragon bones before the followers of Aelon can use them to destroy the old gods. But the Vindrasi gods have a traitor in their midst... In the land of mortals, Raegar, a Vindraisi turned Aelon warrior-priest, searches for the spirit bones. The gods have a champion of their own—Skylan Ivorson, sea-raider and high chief of the Vindrasi clans, and sworn enemy to Raegar. But Skylan is a prisoner on his own ship. The ship's dragon, Kahg, has vanished and some believe he is dead. Skylan and his people are taken as captives to Sinaria, where they must fight in a game known as the Para Dix. The fates of men and gods and are dragons are rushing headlong to destruction. Skylan can stop the calamity, but only if he discovers the secret of the dragon. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Leslie Halliwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780007167128
Total Pages : 1028 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Halliwell's Film & Video Guide 2004 written by Leslie Halliwell and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide to the film industry from the 1900s to the present day has now been updated with John Walker's critiques of the films that have been turning heads in 2002/3. It delivers all the cast and crew credits, fun trivia and behind-the-scenes information you need on thousands of movies (over 23,000) including hundreds of new ones. This perennial guide also includes plot synopses and critical evaluations, as well as video cassette, laser disc and DVD availability. Reader friendly icons denote films suitable for family viewing, Academy Award Winners and nominees, soundtrack availability and video format compatibility. The guide also contains lists of four-star and three-star films by title and year.
Author : Leslie Halliwell
Publisher : HarperCollins (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9780007190812
Total Pages : 1058 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Halliwell's Film, Video and DVD Guide written by Leslie Halliwell and published by HarperCollins (UK). This book was released on 2004 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than two decades, film enthusiasts, trivia buffs, and ordinary movie watchers alike have consulted the pages of Halliwell’s for the most comprehensive information available on their favorite films. Often imitated, but never bettered, Halliwell’s Film, Video & DVD Guide is packed with essential information, from the classics of the Silver Screen to the very latest blockbusters. Contents include plot synopses of every film, casts and credits, critical evaluations and reviews, fascinating insider gossip and facts, pithy quotes and dialogue, Academy Award-winners listed by year, and more. There are also easy-to-spot icons for family viewing suitability, video, DVD, and soundtrack availability, and Oscar awards and nominations.
