Victorian Visions of War and Peace - Aesthetics, Sovereignty, and Violence in the British Empire, Hardback - Sean Willcock

A study of how artists and photographers shaped imperial visions of war and peace in the Victorian periodPublisher: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies ...

3, 000 Years of War and Peace in the Maya Lowlands presents the cutting-edge research of 25 authors in the fields of archaeology, biological anthro...

During the Age of Revolution, the British Crown responded to crises in its colonies with a heavy hand. Lisa Ford shows how imperial peacekeeping me...

Colonial hierarchy and race fueled rapid militarization in the British Empire that shaped the violent course of the twentieth century. This innovat...

Combining approaches from reception studies and historical musicology, this book demonstrates how the representation of music at exhibitions drew t...

This important new book looks at the crucial role played by Indian soldiers in the control, and expansion, of the British Empire. Marking the 75th ...

Reducere. Rituals of War is an investigation into the earliest historical records of violence and biopolitics. In Mesopotamia, ancient Iraq (ca. 3000-500 BC)...

War in Peace: Paramilitary Violence in Europe after the Great War - Robert Gerwarth, John Horne

From Hannah Arendt's "banality of evil" to Joseph Conrad's "fascination of the abomination, " humankind has struggled to make sense of human-upon-h...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

From the celebrated author of Border, here is a portrait of an ancient but little-understood corner of Balkans, and a personal reckoning with the p...

'A fascinating collection of military stories ... The sort of book that can be picked up at intervals ... [but] once tasted, is hard to put down' W...

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Examines the often graphic depictions of violence which are characteristic of many genres of Latin literature, from Plautine comedy to the Christia...

Publisher: Good Read PublishingAuthor(s): Paul HenkeNumber of pages: 639Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 176 x 110 x 30Cover type: Paperback / sof...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): The Perils of Interpreting Henrietta HarrisonIllustration(s): 1 map. 36 b/w illus.Number of pages: ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Description"If you want peace, prepare for war." "A buildup of offensive weapons can be purely defensive." "The worst road may be the best route to...

This new, wide-ranging framework for understanding Victorian settler colonialism reveals the energetic circulation of literary forms between Austra...

Publisher: NeWest PressAuthor(s): Kathryn WillcockNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 20Cover type: Paperback / softb...

Reducere. Hugo Grotius lived during Eighty and Thirty Years' Wars which influenced his concern with the issues of conflicts between nations and religions. Th...

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The Armistice of 1918 brought ceasefire to the war on the Western Front, but 'the Great War' would not as hoped be 'the war to end all wars'.

Reducere. Editie in limba engleza Victorian Aesthetics of Erasure in Fiction and Illustration by Ileana Marin is the first major study dedicated entirely to ...

Looking at America through the Irish prism and employing a comparative approach, leading and emerging scholars of early American and Atlantic histo...

While the birth of global economic governance is conventionally dated to the end of World War II, Jamie Martin shows how its roots lie in World War...

In this innovative global history of the American Civil War, Aaron Sheehan-Dean compares and contrasts the American experience with other civil and...

Reducere. In September 1944, seven-year old Elin, her mother and grandmother fled Estonia ahead of the advancing Soviet Army escaping the risk of deportation...

DescriptionSometime in April 1285, five Muslim horsemen crossed from the Islamic kingdom of Granada into the realms of the Christian Crown of Arago...

A pioneering study of the experiences and emotional lives of British prisoners of war in Germany and Italy during the Second World War. Clare Makep...

Reducere. DescriptionDe jure belli ac pacis (English: On the Law of War and Peace) is a 1625 book in Latin, written by Hugo Grotius and published in Paris, o...

A global history of world politics, offering a corrective to Western views of history and diplomacy. The East/West spanning approach allows Holslag...

From John Polidori's iconic short story 'The Vampyre' and tales of parasitic female companions to experimental and freshly thrilling takes by Rober...

Bringing together the world's leading scholars on the subject, Military Education and the British Empire explores distinct national narratives with...

The nineteenth century is too often invoked as moment where Britain alone exerted global dominance, without the need for European collaboration. Th...

Publisher: University of Notre Dame PressAuthor(s): Justus D. DoeneckeIllustration(s): 47 b&w illustrations, 4 mapsNumber of pages: 560Publication ...

During the pivotal 19th-century 'decade of reform', British politicians wrestled over the best ways to address Irish agrarian violence - branded as...

On 2 August 1876, a young policeman named Constable Nicholas Cock was shot dead while walking `the beat' at Whalley Range, Manchester. Although no ...

The follow-up to Peter Fryer's modern classic, Staying Power

Explodes the myth that after Trafalgar, Martello towers and other coastal-defence infrastructure were unnecessary.Illustrations: 70 colour illustra...

Clearly and accessibly written, Dixon provides a lively introduction to the nature and politics of the Northern Ireland conflict and of successive ...

Publisher: Rowman & LittlefieldNumber of pages: 248Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 165 x 241 x 24Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Gay WachmanRedesc...

Publisher: Clairview BooksAuthor(s): Gore VidalNumber of pages: 176Publication date: 2002Dimensions: 218 x 138 x 20Cover type: Paperback / softback...

This groundbreaking study, sitting at the intersection of cultural and military history, examines the formal and informal uses of music in all thre...

This wide-ranging and extensively researched work reviews the way in which the British army exploited the potential of railways from the 'dawn of t...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr James (Plymouth University, UK) GregoryIllustration(s): 23 bw illusNumber of pages: 260Publicatio...