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Author : David Harvey
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ISBN 13 :
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Book Rating : 4.:/5 (594 download)
Download or read book Monuments to Courage written by David Harvey and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Harvey
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
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Download or read book Monuments to Courage: 1917-1982 written by David Harvey and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Carr
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317002407
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Veteran MPs and Conservative Politics in the Aftermath of the Great War written by Richard Carr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1918 and 1939, 448 men who performed uniformed service in the First World War became Conservative MPs. This relatively high-profile cohort have been under-explored as a distinct body, yet a study of their experiences of the war and the ways in which they - and the Conservative Party - represented those experiences to the voting public reveals much about the political culture of Interwar Britain and the use of the Great War as political capital. Radicalised ex-servicemen have, thus far, been considered a rather continental phenomenon historiographically. And whilst attitudes to Hitler and Mussolini form part of this analysis, the study also explores why there were fewer such types in Britain. The Conservative Party, it will be shown, played a crucial part in such a process - with British politics serving as a contested space for survivors' interpretations of what the war should mean.
Author : Ilija Šutalo
Publisher : Wakefield Press
ISBN 13 : 9781862546516
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (465 download)
Download or read book Croatians in Australia written by Ilija Šutalo and published by Wakefield Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ilija Sutalo has given us a detailed and fascinating insight into Croatian settlers from the 1800s to the present, the likes of which has never before been attempted. Yet Croatians have been here for 150 years, and, by the 1930s, were well organised and conscious of their heritage. A people without whom Australia could not have developed and grown.
Author : Kristina Dunn Johnson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614232822
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book No Holier Spot of Ground written by Kristina Dunn Johnson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04-06 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The monuments of South Carolina bear on their weathered faces and cracked tablets a history of honor and of memory embodied in stone. Whether revealing the lost graves of Southern sons, unveiling the history of the only national cemetery to inter Confederate soldiers alongside the Union fallen during wartime or recording the simple obelisks that reach for heaven throughout the Palmetto State, this volume is a story of remembrance and of mourning. Kristina Dunn Johnson, curator of history with the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum, shares with us the powerful stories of memory and acceptance that are the legacy of the Confederacy, as varied as those who lie beneath the Southern soil.
Author : Judith Dupré
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Monuments written by Judith Dupré and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning, bestselling author of Skyscrapers, Churches, and Bridges comes a stunning visual history that serves as a tribute to classic American landmarks.
Author : Gerald Gliddon
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752487469
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book VCS Somme 1916 written by Gerald Gliddon and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of the Somme, which lasted from 1 July to 18 November 1916, is remembered as one of the most horrific and tragic battles of the First World War. On the first day alone nearly 19,000 British troops were killed – the greatest one-day loss in the history of the British Army. By November the death toll from the armies of Britain, France and Germany had risen to over a million. This book tells the stories of fifty-one soldiers from the Commonwealth and Empire armies whose bravery on the battlefield was rewarded by the Victoria Cross, the highest military honour – men like Private Billy McFadzean, who was blown up by two grenades which he smothered in order to save the lives of his comrades, and Private ‘Todger’ Jones, who single-handedly rounded up 102 German soldiers. Not only do we learn of heroic endeavours of these men at the height of battle, but we also read of their lives before 1914, ranging from the backstreets of Glasgow to a country house in Cheshire, and of what life was like after the war for the thirty-three survivors.
Author : William Wilbanks
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Forgotten Heroes written by William Wilbanks and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1996 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rob Morris
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1499461623
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (994 download)
Download or read book The Battle of Gettysburg Close Up written by Rob Morris and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary Battle of Gettysburg still resonates in American history. Readers are guided through Gettysburg's tranquil beginnings as a Pennsylvania crossroads to the action-packed battle that is known as one of the most crucial in the country's storied past. This resource takes the reader step by step through the days leading up to the battle, with first-person accounts of experiences on and off the battlefield, original photographs, and informative maps. These primary sources tell an exciting story fraught with tension and conflict that readers are unlikely to forget.
Author : Gavin Stamp
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847650600
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)
Download or read book The Memorial to the Missing of the Somme written by Gavin Stamp and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-08-06 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edwin Lutyens' Memorial to the Missing of the Somme at Thiepval in Northern France, visited annually by tens of thousands of tourists, is arguably the finest structure erected by any British architect in the twentieth century. It is the principal, tangible expression of the defining event in Britain's experience and memory of the Great War, the first day of the Battle of the Somme on 1 July 1916, and it bears the names of 73,000 soldiers whose bodies were never found at the end of that bloody and futile campaign. This brilliant study by an acclaimed architectural historian tells the origin of the memorial in the context of commemorating the war dead; it considers the giant classical brick arch in architectural terms, and also explores its wider historical significance and its resonances today. So much of the meaning of the twentieth century is concentrated here; the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing casts a shadow into the future, a shadow which extends beyond the dead of the Holocaust, to the Gulag, to the 'disappeared' of South America and of Tianenmen. Reissued in a beautiful and striking new edition for the centenary of the Somme.
Author : Jonathan F. Vance
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774842318
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book Death So Noble written by Jonathan F. Vance and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Canada's collective memory of the First World War through the 1920s and 1930s. It is a cultural history, considering art, music, and literature. Thematically organized into such subjects as the symbolism of the soldier, the implications of war memory for Canadian nationalism, and the idea of a just war, the book draws on military records, memoirs, war memorials, newspaper reports, fiction, popular songs, and films. It takes an unorthodox view of the Canadian war experience as a cultural and philosophical force rather than as a political and military event.
Author : Anne Cipriano Venzon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135684537
Total Pages : 862 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)
Download or read book The United States in the First World War written by Anne Cipriano Venzon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1999. Includes six maps.
Author : Kirk A. Denton
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824840062
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Exhibiting the Past written by Kirk A. Denton and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Mao era, China’s museums served an explicit and uniform propaganda function, underlining official Party history, eulogizing revolutionary heroes, and contributing to nation building and socialist construction. With the implementation of the post-Mao modernization program in the late 1970s and 1980s and the advent of globalization and market reforms in the 1990s, China underwent a radical social and economic transformation that has led to a vastly more heterogeneous culture and polity. Yet China is dominated by a single Leninist party that continues to rely heavily on its revolutionary heritage to generate political legitimacy. With its messages of collectivism, self-sacrifice, and class struggle, that heritage is increasingly at odds with Chinese society and with the state’s own neoliberal ideology of rapid-paced development, glorification of the market, and entrepreneurship. In this ambiguous political environment, museums and their curators must negotiate between revolutionary ideology and new kinds of historical narratives that reflect and highlight a neoliberal present. In Exhibiting the Past, Kirk Denton analyzes types of museums and exhibitionary spaces, from revolutionary history museums, military museums, and memorials to martyrs to museums dedicated to literature, ethnic minorities, and local history. He discusses red tourism—a state sponsored program developed in 2003 as a new form of patriotic education designed to make revolutionary history come alive—and urban planning exhibition halls, which project utopian visions of China’s future that are rooted in new conceptions of the past. Denton’s method is narratological in the sense that he analyzes the stories museums tell about the past and the political and ideological implications of those stories. Focusing on “official” exhibitionary culture rather than alternative or counter memory, Denton reinserts the state back into the discussion of postsocialist culture because of its centrality to that culture and to show that state discourse in China is neither monolithic nor unchanging. The book considers the variety of ways state museums are responding to the dramatic social, technological, and cultural changes China has experienced over the past three decades.
Author : Jeanette M. L. den Toonder
Publisher : Barkhuis
ISBN 13 : 9491431056
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Re-exploring Canadian Space written by Jeanette M. L. den Toonder and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on 2012 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A variety of productions and representations of Canadian identities are the central theme that runs through this book. The different contributions explore imagined spaces by considering Canadian music, poetry and novels; they engage with political space by addressing various ways in which the people of Canada have made claims to different regions in the distant and recent past; and they address lived spaces, and their actual and symbolic meanings. It is an unusual book as it encompasses the writings by those studying the arts and literature as well as writings by social scientists, and it includes both English and French-speaking scholars. The richness that can be found in this multitude of perspectives and approaches to exploring Canadian space is characteristic of the way in which Canadian Studies is practiced nowadays. It is therefore an appropriate volume to celebrate 20 years of Canadian Studies in the Netherlands.
Author : Colin MacMillan Coates
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802083302
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (833 download)
Download or read book Heroines and History written by Colin MacMillan Coates and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a fascinating comparison of the histories of Ontario and Quebec as seen through the handling of their best-known heroines. Most Canadians are familiar with stories of Madeleine de Vercheres defending Montreal against the Iroquois in 1692 and of Laura Secord and her cow bravely crossing the American lines to warn the British during the War of 1812.
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Author : Jack S. Blocker Jr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1576078345
Total Pages : 805 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Alcohol and Temperance in Modern History [2 volumes] written by Jack S. Blocker Jr. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-12-17 with total page 805 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive encyclopedia on all aspects of the production, consumption, and social impact of alcohol. Alcohol and Temperance in Modern History: An International Encyclopedia spans the history of alcohol production and consumption from the development of distilled spirits and modern manufacturing and distribution methods to the present. Authoritative and unbiased, it brings together the work of hundreds of experts from a variety of disciplines with an emphasis on the extraordinary wealth of scholarship developed in the past several decades. Its nearly 500 alphabetically organized entries range beyond the principal alcoholic beverages and major producers and retailers to explore attitudes toward alcohol in various countries and religions, traditional drinking occasions and rituals, and images of drinking and temperance in art, painting, literature, and drama. Other entries describe international treaties and organizations related to alcohol production and distribution, global consumption patterns, and research and treatment institutions, as well as temperance, prohibition, and antiprohibitionist efforts worldwide.
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Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book American Military History, Volume II written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Publisher: This latest edition of an official U.S. Government military history classic provides an authoritative historical survey of the organization and accomplishments of the United States Army. This scholarly yet readable book is designed to inculcate an awareness of our nation's military past and to demonstrate that the study of military history is an essential ingredient in leadership development. It is also an essential addition to any personal military history library.
