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Author : S. B. Spies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781868421039
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Methods of Barbarism? written by S. B. Spies and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : S. B. Spies
Publisher : Human & Rosseau
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Methods of Barbarism? written by S. B. Spies and published by Human & Rosseau. This book was released on 1977 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward M. Spiers
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719026591
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (265 download)
Download or read book The Late Victorian Army, 1868-1902 written by Edward M. Spiers and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : André Wessels
Publisher : UJ Press
ISBN 13 : 192038216X
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (23 download)
Download or read book A Century of Postgraduate Anglo Boer War (1988-1902) Studies written by André Wessels and published by UJ Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides students, historians, other academics and scholars, as well as other researchers and anyone interested in the history of the Anglo-Boer War, with as comprehensive a list as possible of all postgraduate studies completed on any conceivable aspect of the war, as well as any other postgraduate studies which refer, to some extent, to the conflict.
Author : Isabel V. Hull
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801467098
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Absolute Destruction written by Isabel V. Hull and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-14 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a book that is at once a major contribution to modern European history and a cautionary tale for today, Isabel V. Hull argues that the routines and practices of the Imperial German Army, unchecked by effective civilian institutions, increasingly sought the absolute destruction of its enemies as the only guarantee of the nation's security. So deeply embedded were the assumptions and procedures of this distinctively German military culture that the Army, in its drive to annihilate the enemy military, did not shrink from the utter destruction of civilian property and lives. Carried to its extreme, the logic of "military necessity" found real security only in extremities of destruction, in the "silence of the graveyard." Hull begins with a dramatic account, based on fresh archival work, of the German Army's slide from administrative murder to genocide in German Southwest Africa (1904-7). The author then moves back to 1870 and the war that inaugurated the Imperial era in German history, and analyzes the genesis and nature of this specifically German military culture and its operations in colonial warfare. In the First World War the routines perfected in the colonies were visited upon European populations. Hull focuses on one set of cases (Belgium and northern France) in which the transition to total destruction was checked (if barely) and on another (Armenia) in which "military necessity" caused Germany to accept its ally's genocidal policies even after these became militarily counterproductive. She then turns to the Endkampf (1918), the German General Staff's plan to achieve victory in the Great War even if the homeland were destroyed in the process-a seemingly insane campaign that completes the logic of this deeply institutionalized set of military routines and practices. Hull concludes by speculating on the role of this distinctive military culture in National Socialism's military and racial policies. Absolute Destruction has serious implications for the nature of warmaking in any modern power. At its heart is a warning about the blindness of bureaucratic routines, especially when those bureaucracies command the instruments of mass death.
Author : Stephen Heathorn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131712412X
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Haig and Kitchener in Twentieth-Century Britain written by Stephen Heathorn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord Kitchener and Lord Haig are two monumental figures of the First World War. Their reputations, both in their lifetimes and after their deaths, have been attacked and defended, scrutinized and contested. They have been depicted in film, print and public memorials in Britain and the wider world, and new biographies of both men appear to this day. The material representations of Haig and Kitchener were shaped, used and manipulated for official and popular ends by a variety of groups at different times during the twentieth century. The purpose of this study is not to discover the real individual, nor to attack or defend their reputations, rather it is an exploration of how both men have been depicted since their deaths and to consider what this tells us about the nature and meaning of First World War commemoration. While Haig's representation was more contested before the Second World War than was Kitchener's, with several constituencies trying to fashion and use Haig's memory - the Government, the British Legion, ex-servicemen themselves, and bereaved families - it was probably less contested, but overwhelmingly more negative, than Kitchener's after the Second World War. The book sheds light on the notion of 'heroic' masculinity - questioning, in particular, the degree to which the image of the common soldier replaced that of the high commander in the popular imagination - and explores how the military heritage in the twentieth century came into collision with the culture of modernity. It also contributes to ongoing debates in British historiography and to the larger debates over the social construction of memory, the problematic relation between what is considered 'heritage' and 'history', and the need for historians to be sensitive and attentive to the interconnections between heritage and history and their contexts.
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Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458718093
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)
Download or read book Diamonds, Gold, and War (Volume 2 of 2) (EasyRead Comfort Edition) written by and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jane Elizabeth Waterston
Publisher : Van Riebeeck Society, The
ISBN 13 : 9780620073752
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (737 download)
Download or read book The Letters of Jane Elizabeth Waterston, 1866-1905 written by Jane Elizabeth Waterston and published by Van Riebeeck Society, The. This book was released on 1983 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin F. Auger
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774841532
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book Prisoners of the Home Front written by Martin F. Auger and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the middle of the most destructive conflict in human history, the Second World War, almost 40,000 Germans civilians and prisoners of war were detained in internment and work camps across Canada. Prisoners of the Home Front details the organization and day-to-day affairs of these internment camps and reveals the experience of their inmates. Auger concludes that Canada abided by the Geneva Convention; its treatment of German prisoners was humane. This book sheds light on life behind barbed wire, filling an important void in our knowledge of the Canadian home front during the Second World War.
Author : John Boje
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252097653
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book An Imperfect Occupation written by John Boje and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The South African War (1899–1902), also called the Boer War and Anglo-Boer War, began as a conventional conflict. It escalated into a savage irregular war fought between the two Boer republics and a British imperial force that adopted a scorched-earth policy and used concentration camps to break the will of Afrikaner patriots and Boer guerrillas. In An Imperfect Occupation , John Boje delves into the agonizing choices faced by Winburg district residents during the British occupation. Afrikaner men fought or evaded combat or collaborated; Afrikaner women fled over the veld or submitted to life in the camps; and black Africans weighed the life or death consequences of taking sides. Boje's sensitive analysis showcases the motives, actions, and reactions of Boers and Africans alike as initial British accommodation gave way to ruthlessness. Challenging notions of Boer unity and homogeneity, Boje illustrates the precarious tightrope of resistance, neutrality, and collaboration walked by people on all sides. He also reveals how the repercussions of the war's transformative effect on Afrikaner identity plays out in today's South Africa. Readable and compassionate, An Imperfect Occupation provides a dramatic account of the often overlooked aspects of one of the first "modern" wars.
Author : Marouf Hasian, Jr.
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137437111
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)
Download or read book Restorative Justice, Humanitarian Rhetorics, and Public Memories of Colonial Camp Cultures written by Marouf Hasian, Jr. and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concentrations camps that existed in the colonised world at the turn of the 20th Century are a vivid reminder of the atrocities committed by imperial powers on indigenous populations. This study explores British, American and Spanish camp cultures, analysing debates over their legitimacy and current discussions on retributive justice.
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Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458719138
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)
Download or read book Diamonds, Gold, and War (Volume 3 of 3) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition) written by and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Spiers
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1784991805
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)
Download or read book Engines for empire written by Edward Spiers and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engines for Empire examines the use of the railway by the British army from the 1830s to 1914, a period of domestic political strife and unprecedented imperial expansion. The book uses a wide array of sources and images to demonstrate how the Victorian army embraced this new technology, how it monitored foreign wars, and how it came to use the railway in both support and operational roles. The British army's innovation is also revealed, through its design and use of armoured trains, the restructuring of hospital trains, and in its capacity to build and repair railway track, bridges, and signals under field conditions. This volume provides insights on the role of railways in imperial development, as a focus of social interaction between adversaries, and as a means of projecting imperial power. It will make fascinating reading for students, academics and enthusiasts in military and imperial history, Victorian studies, railway history and colonial warfare.
Author : Alex J. Bellamy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191624535
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Massacres and Morality written by Alex J. Bellamy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most cultural and legal codes agree that the intentional killing of civilians, whether in peacetime or war, is prohibited. This is the norm of civilian immunity, widely considered to be a fundamental moral and legal principle. Yet despite this fact, the deliberate killing of large numbers of civilians remains a persistent feature of global political life. What is more, the perpetrators have often avoided criticism and punishment. Examining dozens of episodes of mass killing perpetrated by states since the French Revolution late eighteenth century, this book attempts to explain this paradox. It studies the role that civilian immunity has played in shaping the behaviour of perpetrators and how international society has responded to mass killing. The book argues that although the world has made impressive progress in legislating against the intentional killing of civilians and in constructing institutions to give meaning to that prohibition, the norm's history in practice suggests that the ascendancy of civilian immunity is both more recent and more fragile than might otherwise be thought. In practice, decisions to violate a norm are shaped by factors relating to the norm and the situation at hand, so too is the manner in which international society and individual states respond to norm violations. Responses to norm violations are not simply matters of normative obligation or calculations of self-interest but are instead guided by a combination of these logics as well as perceptions about the situation at hand, existing relations with the actors involved, and power relations between actors holding different accounts of the situation. Thus, whilst civilian immunity has for the time being prevailed over 'anti-civilian ideologies' which seek to justify mass killing, it remains challenged by these ideologies and its implementation shaped by individual circumstances. As a result, whilst it has become much more difficult for states to get away with mass murder, it is still not entirely impossible for them to do so.
Author : Matthew Hughes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134920458
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book British Ways of Counter-insurgency written by Matthew Hughes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection examines the British ‘way’ in counter-insurgency. It brings together and consolidates new scholarship on the counter-insurgency associated with the end of empire, foregrounding a dark and violent history of British imperial rule, one that stretched back to the nineteenth century and continued until the final collapse of the British Empire in the 1960s. The essays gathered in the collection cover the period from the late nineteenth century to the 1960s; they are both empirical and conceptual in tone. This edited collection pivots on the theme of the nature of the force used by Britain against colonial insurgents. It argues that the violence employed by British security forces in counter-insurgency to maintain imperial rule is best seen from a maximal perspective, contra traditional arguments that the British used minimum force to defeat colonial rebellions. Case studies are drawn from across the British Empire, covering a period of some hundred years, but they concentrate on the savage wars of decolonisation after 1945. The collection includes a historiographical essay and one on the ‘lost’ Hanslope archive by the scholar chosen by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to manage the release of the papers held. This book was published as a special issue of Small Wars and Insurgencies.
Author : Niall Ferguson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780465023295
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (232 download)
Download or read book Empire written by Niall Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 2004-04-14 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This grand narrative history of the world's first experiment in globalization offers lessons for an ever-expanding American Empire--from England's most talented young historian.
Author : Daniel Whittingham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108480071
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Charles E. Callwell and the British Way in Warfare written by Daniel Whittingham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the first full-length study of one of Britain's most important military thinkers, Major-General Sir Charles E. Callwell.
