Famous Battles And How They Shaped The Modern World 1558 1943
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Famous Battles and How They Shaped the Modern World 1588 1943
Author | : Beatrice Heuser,Athena S. Leoussi |
Publsiher | : Casemate Publishers |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2018-11-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781526727428 |
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Why are some battles remembered more than others? Surprisingly, it is not just size that matters, nor the number of dead, the decisiveness of battles or their effects on communities and civilisations. It is their political afterlife the multiple meanings and political uses attributed to them that determines their fame. This ground-breaking series goes well beyond military history by exploring the transformation of battles into sites of memory and meaning. Cast into epic myths of the fight of Good against Evil, of punishment for decadence or reward for virtue, of the birth of a nation or the collective assertion against a tyrant, the defense of Civilisation against the Barbarians, Christendom against the Infidel, particular battles have acquired fame beyond their immediate contemporaneous relevance.The great battles of modern history examined in this second volume range from the defeat of the Armada and the relief of Vienna, to Chatham, Culloden, Waterloo, Gettysburg, the Somme and Stalingrad. In each chapter, the historical events surrounding a battle form the backdrop for multiple later interpretations, which, consciously or unconsciously, carry political agendas, some for further bloodshed and sacrifice, but others for the more recent and laudable phenomenon of reconciliation over the graves of the dead.
Famous Battles and how They Shaped the Modern World 1558 1943
Author | : D. Beatrice G. Heuser,Athena S. Leoussi |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526727412 |
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Why are some battles remembered more than others? Surprisingly, it is not just size that matters, nor the number of dead, the 'decisiveness' of battles or their effects on communities and civilisations. It is their political afterlife - the multiple meanings and political uses attributed to them - that determines their fame. This ground-breaking series goes well beyond military history by exploring the transformation of battles into sites of memory and meaning. Cast into epic myths of the fight of Good against Evil, of punishment for decadence or reward for virtue, of the birth of a nation or the collective assertion against a tyrant, the defense of Civilisation against the Barbarians, Christendom against the Infidel, particular battles have acquired fame beyond their immediate contemporaneous relevance. The great battles of modern history examined in this second volume range from the defeat of the Armada and the relief of Vienna, to Chatham, Culloden, Waterloo, Gettysburg, the Somme and Stalingrad. In each chapter, the historical events surrounding a battle form the backdrop for multiple later interpretations, which, consciously or unconsciously, carry political agendas, some for further bloodshed and sacrifice, but others for the more recent and laudable phenomenon of reconciliation over the graves of the dead.
Articulating British Classicism
Author | : Elizabeth McKellar |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781351575317 |
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Whereas the past decades have seen a profound reconsideration of eighteenth-century visual culture, the architecture of that century has undergone little evaluation. Its study, unlike that of the early modern period or the twentieth century, has continued to use essentially the same methods and ideas over the last fifty years. Articulating British Classicism reconsiders the traditional historiography of British eighteenth-century architecture as it was shaped after World War II, and brings together for the first time a variety of new perspectives on British classicism in the period. Drawing on current thinking about the eighteenth century from a range of disciplines, the book examines such topics as social and gender identities, colonialization and commercialization, notions of the rural, urban and suburban, as well as issues of theory and historiography. Canonical constructions of Georgian architecture are explored, including current evaluations of the continental intellectual background, the relationship with mid seventeenth-century Stuart court classicism and the development of the subject in the twentieth century.
International Abstract of Surgery
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1152 |
Release | : 1947 |
Genre | : Surgery |
ISBN | : UOM:39015069913138 |
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Johnson s New General Cyclopaedia and Copper plate Hand atlas of the World
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1762 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
ISBN | : NYPL:33433003241167 |
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Johnson s New General Cyclopaedia and Copperplate Hand atlas of the World
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 862 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
ISBN | : NYPL:33433003241159 |
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Breakout and Pursuit
Author | : Martin Blumenson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 802 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : UIUC:30112003206114 |
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Surgery Gynecology Obstetrics
Author | : Franklin Henry Martin |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1216 |
Release | : 1947 |
Genre | : Gynecology |
ISBN | : MINN:31951D00213726A |
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