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Border Bang
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Author : Jorge Guttiérez
language : en
Publisher: Cernunnos
Release Date : 2018-11-13
Border Bang written by Jorge Guttiérez and has been published by Cernunnos this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-13 with Art categories.
WHEN MEXICAN FOLKORE MEETS U.S. POP CULTURE!!!! Border Bang is a passionate love letter to the Tijuana and US border, documenting the bootleg artifacts sold to locals and tourists alike. Reappropriating the bombardment of pop culture images is the border’s reaction to global issues and events, telling viewers and consumers not to glorify these situations but rather to acknowledge them through their subversive presentation. Border artisans and shysters digest the influx of international popular culture, reappropriating and reconfiguring images to express themselves and empower objects with subversive ideas masked underneath bold colors and text. Raised in Tijuana, Gutierrez crossed the border to the US to attend elementary and middle school. Each day, he was dazzled and entranced by the objects being sold, creating alternative narratives to the cartoon characters and celebrity portraits that he saw. Border Bang is a reflection of his childhood narrative, using images from Mickey Mouse to Tupac Shakur to convey the reflections and meditations of global events as witnessed by the border, exploring his love affair with Mexican pop and folk culture.
Border Bang Postcards
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Cernunnos
Release Date : 2018-05-08
Border Bang Postcards written by and has been published by Cernunnos this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-08 with Art categories.
30 deluxe postcards when American pop culture meets Mexican folklore! 30 large deluxe postcards where Elvis, Frozen, The Hulk, Bod the Sponge and the greatest characters of Pop culture meet Mexican folk culture and graphic tradition.
On The Borders Of State Power
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Author : Martin Gainsborough
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2008-10-31
On The Borders Of State Power written by Martin Gainsborough and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-31 with History categories.
Covering the main themes of globalization, state power and culture from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century, this book explores the changing nature, meaning and significance of the Greater Mekong Sub-region.
Fighting Viet Cong In The Rung Sat
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Author : Bob Worthington
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2021-11-10
Fighting Viet Cong In The Rung Sat written by Bob Worthington and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-10 with History categories.
The Vietnam War was not going well in 1968. The January Tet Offensive--a tactical defeat but strategic victory for North Vietnam--showed the U.S. military and the American public that the enemy remained determined, no nearer defeat. Americans grew war weary while politicians and military leaders could not agree on how to win or how to withdraw. Between combat tours, the author served as a U.S. Army company commander--a job he came to despise. Experiencing what he perceived as a degradation in the Army's senior command, he resigned his commission. Yet he needed money to complete graduate school and volunteered to return to Vietnam as a combat advisor. This memoir describes his participation in the fiercest fighting of the war, on the Cambodian border, where he almost died of hookworm and was shot in a night operation. In Saigon to recuperate, he was tasked with creating an advisory team to train South Vietnamese commandos to conduct raids in the swamps south of Saigon, the Rung Sat Special Zone. For seven months they were successful, with Worthington receiving seven combat decorations.
Bang A Novel
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Author : Daniel Peña
language : en
Publisher: Arte Público Press
Release Date : 2018-01-31
Bang A Novel written by Daniel Peña and has been published by Arte Público Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-31 with Fiction categories.
Uli’s first flight, a late-night joy ride with his brother, changes their lives forever when the engine stops and the boys crash land, with “Texas to the right and Mexico to the left.” Before the accident, Uli juggled his status as both an undocumented immigrant and a high school track star in Harlingen, Texas, desperately hoping to avoid being deported like his father. His mother Araceli spent her time waiting for her husband. His older brother Cuauhtémoc, a former high-school track star turned drop-out, learned to fly a crop duster, spraying pesticide over their home in the citrus grove. After the crash, Cuauhtémoc wakes up bound and gagged, wondering where he is. Uli comes to in a hospital, praying that it’s on the American side of the border. And their mother finds herself waiting for her sons as well as her missing husband. Araceli knows that she has to go back to the country she left behind in order to find her family. In Mexico, each is forced to navigate the complexities of their past and an unknown world of deprivation and violence. Ruthless drug cartels force Cuauhtémoc to fly drugs. “If a brick goes missing, Cuauhtémoc dies. If a plane goes missing, Cuauhtémoc dies. If Cuauhtémoc goes missing, they find Cuauhtémoc (wherever he’s at) and Cuauhtémoc dies.” If they can’t find him, they will kill his mother. They have photos of her in Matamoros to prove they can enforce the threat. Meanwhile, Uli returns to his family’s home in San Miguel and finds a city virtually abandoned, devastated by battles between soldiers, cartels and militias that vie for control. Vividly portraying the impact of international drug smuggling on the innocent, Peña’s debut novel also probes the loss of talented individuals and the black market machines fed with the people removed and shut out of America. Ultimately, Bang is a riveting tale about ordinary people forced to do dangerous, unimaginable things.
The Dragon In The Jungle
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Author : Xiaobing Li
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-01-02
The Dragon In The Jungle written by Xiaobing Li and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-02 with History categories.
Western historians have long speculated about Chinese military intervention in the Vietnam War. It was not until recently, however, that newly available international archival materials, as well as documents from China, have indicated the true extent and level of Chinese participation in the conflict of Vietnam. For the first time in the English language, this book offers an overview of the operations and combat experience of more than 430,000 Chinese troops in Indochina from 1968-73. The Chinese Communist story from the "other side of the hill" explores one of the missing pieces to the historiography of the Vietnam War. The book covers the chronological development and Chinese decision-making by examining Beijing's intentions, security concerns, and major reasons for entering Vietnam to fight against the U.S. armed forces. It explains why China launched a nationwide movement, in Mao Zedong's words, to "assist Vietnam and resist America" in 1965-72. It details PLA foreign war preparation, training, battle planning and execution, tactical decisions, combat problem solving, political indoctrination, and performance evaluations through the Vietnam War. International Communist forces, technology, and logistics proved to be the decisive edge that enabled North Vietnam to survive the U.S. Rolling Thunder bombing campaign and helped the Viet Cong defeat South Vietnam. Chinese and Russian support prolonged the war, making it impossible for the United States to win. With Russian technology and massive Chinese intervention, the NVA and NLF could function on both conventional and unconventional levels, which the American military was not fully prepared to face. Nevertheless, the Vietnam War seriously tested the limits of the communist alliance. Rather than improving Sino-Soviet relations, aid to North Vietnam created a new competition as each communist power attempted to control Southeast Asian communist movement. China shifted its defense and national security concerns from the U.S. to the Soviet Union.
The Politics Of Borders
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Author : Matthew Longo
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018
The Politics Of Borders written by Matthew Longo and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Political Science categories.
Borders are changing in response to terrorism and immigration. This book shows why this matters, especially for sovereignty, individual liberty, and citizenship.
Changing Borders
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Silkworm Books
Release Date : 2009
Changing Borders written by and has been published by Silkworm Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Avian influenza categories.
"Changing borders: reportage from our Mekong contains the work produced by 21 journalists from Cambodia, China, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar and Vietnam as part of their fellowship under the sixth cycle of the Imaging Our Mekong media programme"--P. [4] of cover.
Border Spaces
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Author : Katherine G. Morrissey
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2018-03-13
Border Spaces written by Katherine G. Morrissey and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-13 with Art categories.
Grounded in the borderlands and prompted by art, this book considers the connections between art, land, and people in a fraught binational region--Provided by publisher.
Vietnam At War
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Author : Phillip B. Davidson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Vietnam At War written by Phillip B. Davidson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with History categories.
Weaving together the histories of three distinct conflicts, Phillip B. Davidson follows the entire course of the Vietnam War, from the initial French skirmishes in 1946 to the dramatic fall of Saigon nearly thirty years later. His connecting thread is North Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap, a remarkable figure who, with no formal military training, fashioned a rag-tag militia into one of the world's largest and most formidable armies. By focusing on Giap's role throughout the war, and by making available for the first time a wealth of recently declassified North Vietnamese documents, Davidson offers unprecedented insight into Hanoi's military strategies, an insight surpassed only by his inside knowledge of American operations and planning. Eminently qualified to write this history, Davidson--who served as chief intelligence officer under Generals Westmoreland and Abrams--tells firsthand the story of our tragic ordeal in Indochina and brings his unique understanding to bear on topics of continuing controversy, offering a chilling account, for example, of when and where the U.S. considered using nuclear weapons. The most comprehensive and authoritative history of the conflict to date, Vietnam at War sparkles with a rare immediacy, and brings to life in compelling fashion the war that tore America apart. We witness the chaos in Saigon when fireworks celebrating the Tet holiday are suddenly transformed into deadly rocket and machine-gun fire. We sit in on high-level meetings where General Westmoreland plans operations, or simply engages in some tough "headknocking" with subordinates. And in the end we learn that even the seemingly limitless resources of the U.S. military could not match the revolutionary "grand strategy" of the North Vietnamese. With its easy movement from intimate memoir to trenchant military analysis, from the conference rooms of generals to the battle-scarred streets of Hue, this is military history at its most gripping. A monumental, engrossing, and unforgettable chronicle, Vietnam at War is indispensable for anyone hoping to understand a conflict that still rages in the American psyche.