Footprints Of War
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Footprints Of War
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Author : David Andrew Biggs
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2018-10-08
Footprints Of War written by David Andrew Biggs and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-08 with History categories.
When American forces arrived in Vietnam, they found themselves embedded in historic village and frontier spaces already shaped by many past conflicts. American bases and bombing targets followed spatial and political logics influenced by the footprints of past wars in central Vietnam. The militarized landscapes here, like many in the world�s historic conflict zones, continue to shape post-war land-use politics. Footprints of War traces the long history of conflict-produced spaces in Vietnam, beginning with early modern wars and the French colonial invasion in 1885 and continuing through the collapse of the Saigon government in 1975. The result is a richly textured history of militarized landscapes that reveals the spatial logic of key battles such as the Tet Offensive. Drawing on extensive archival work and years of interviews and fieldwork in the hills and villages around the city of Hue to illuminate war�s footprints, David Biggs also integrates historical Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data, using aerial, high-altitude, and satellite imagery to render otherwise placeless sites into living, multidimensional spaces. This personal and multilayered approach yields an innovative history of the lasting traces of war in Vietnam and a model for understanding other militarized landscapes.
Footprints Of War
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Author : David A. Biggs
language : en
Publisher: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Boo
Release Date : 2018
Footprints Of War written by David A. Biggs and has been published by Weyerhaeuser Environmental Boo this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with History categories.
"Weaving together environmental and social history, David Biggs offers an innovative history of the impact of war on central Vietnam in the long twentieth century, from the imposition of French colonial rule in 1885 to the end of American military involvement in 1973. The long history of conflict around the city of Hué̂ produced belts of degraded lands and village societies deeply marred by the demands of war or periods of conflict. Once military units occupy a space, they change it in physical, legal, and cultural terms so that even long after the troopers leave, their footprints continue to shape patterns of land use and local memories of place. There are tombs, cemeteries, and war monuments; and there are the spaces in between, the subterrains of "wilderness" haunted by ghostlike presences of suspected chemical or munitions hazards. Digging below the surface, one risks being maimed by unexploded ordnance, getting ill from toxic chemical residues, or perhaps worst of all, being haunted by the ghosts of war dead who died violently or did not receive proper burials. Critical to this study are previously little used archives of maps and images created by technologies developed at the same time as the Indochinese wars, 1945 to 1975: aerial photography, high-altitude photography, satellite photography, and satellite-based, multi-band scanning. In this richly illustrated book, author David Biggs uses these new kinds of imagery to reveal the impact of war in the land"--
Footprints On The Sands Of Time
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Author : Oliver Clutton-Brock
language : en
Publisher: Grub Street Publishing
Release Date : 2003-08-19
Footprints On The Sands Of Time written by Oliver Clutton-Brock and has been published by Grub Street Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-08-19 with History categories.
The author of RAF Evaders provides a comprehensive reference of the airmen of Bomber Command who were held in German captivity during WWII. This extensive book is divided into two part. The first, which has eighteen chapters, deals with German POW camps as they were opened, in chronological order and to which the Bomber Command POWs were sent. Each chapter includes anecdotes and stories of the men in the camps—capture, escape, illness, and murder—and illustrates the awfulness of captivity even in German hands. Roughly one in every twenty captured airmen never returned home. The first part also covers subjects such as how the POWs were repatriated during the war; how they returned at war’s end; the RAF traitors; the war crimes; and the vital importance of the Red Cross. The style is part reference, part gripping narrative, and the book will correct many historical inaccuracies, and includes previously unpublished photographs. The second part comprises an annotated list of ALL 10, 995 RAF Bomber Command airmen who were taken prisoner, together with an extended introduction. The two parts together are the fruit of exhaustive research and provide an important contribution to our knowledge of the war and a unique reference work not only for the serious RAF historian but for the ex-POWs themselves and their families and anyone with an interest in the RAF in general and captivity in particular.
Quagmire
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Author : David Andrew Biggs
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2012-03-15
Quagmire written by David Andrew Biggs and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-15 with History categories.
Winner of the 2012 George Perkins Marsh Prize for Best Book in Environmental History In the twentieth century, the Mekong Delta has emerged as one of Vietnam’s most important economic regions. Its swamps, marshes, creeks, and canals have played a major role in Vietnam’s turbulent past, from the struggles of colonialism to the Cold War and the present day. Quagmire considers these struggles, their antecedents, and their legacies through the lens of environmental history. Beginning with the French conquest in the 1860s, colonial reclamation schemes and pacification efforts centered on the development of a dense network of new canals to open land for agriculture. These projects helped precipitate economic and environmental crises in the 1930s, and subsequent struggles after 1945 led to the balkanization of the delta into a patchwork of regions controlled by the Viet Minh, paramilitary religious sects, and the struggling Franco-Vietnamese government. After 1954, new settlements were built with American funds and equipment in a crash program intended to solve continuing economic and environmental problems. Finally, the American military collapse in Vietnam is revealed as not simply a failure of policy makers but also a failure to understand the historical, political, and environmental complexity of the spaces American troops attempted to occupy and control. By exploring the delta as a quagmire in both natural and political terms, Biggs shows how engineered transformations of the Mekong Delta landscape - channelized rivers, a complex canal system, hydropower development, deforestation - have interacted with equally complex transformations in the geopolitics of the region. Quagmire delves beyond common stereotypes to present an intricate, rich history that shows how closely political and ecological issues are intertwined in the human interactions with the water environment in the Mekong Delta. Watch the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp1-UItZqsk
Footprints In The Dust
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Author : L. E. Hutchinson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-05-03
Footprints In The Dust written by L. E. Hutchinson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-03 with Families categories.
The peace and beauty of the Ohio countryside became still when the real presence of the war came knocking. Thousands of young Ohio men eagerly enlisted and abandoned their families and everyday lives. There would be no contentment for a long time to come. Discover how one family struggled through hard times, love and despair during the Civil War. Let not the passage of time erase their memories and may their footprints in the dust not fade away.
Climate Change As Class War
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Author : Matthew T. Huber
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2022-05-10
Climate Change As Class War written by Matthew T. Huber and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-10 with Political Science categories.
How to build a movement to confront climate change The climate crisis is not primarily a problem of ‘believing science’ or individual ‘carbon footprints’ – it is a class problem rooted in who owns, controls and profits from material production. As such, it will take a class struggle to solve. In this ground breaking class analysis, Matthew T. Huber argues that the carbon-intensive capitalist class must be confronted for producing climate change. Yet, the narrow and unpopular roots of climate politics in the professional class is not capable of building a movement up to this challenge. For an alternative strategy, he proposes climate politics that appeals to the vast majority of society: the working class. Huber evaluates the Green New Deal as a first attempt to channel working class material and ecological interests and advocates building union power in the very energy system we need to dramatically transform. In the end, as in classical socialist movements of the early 20th Century, winning the climate struggle will need to be internationalist based on a form of planetary working class solidarity.
Footprints On The Sands Of Time
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Author : Oliver Clutton-Brock
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Footprints On The Sands Of Time written by Oliver Clutton-Brock and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
The first part of this book deals with German PoW camps as they were opened, in chronological order and to which the Bomber Command PoWs were sent. Each chapter includes anecdotes and stories of the men in the camps - capture, escape, illness, murder and more - and illustrates the awfulness of captivity even in German hands. Roughly one in every 20 captured airmen never returned home. The first part of the book also covers subjects such as how the PoWs were repatriated during the war; how they returned at war's end; the RAF traitors; the war crimes; and the vital role of the Red Cross. The style is part reference, part narrative and aims to correct many historical inaccuracies. It also includes previously unpublished photographs. The second part comprises an annotated list of all 10,995 RAF Bomber Command airmen who were taken prisoner, together with an extended introduction. The book provides an important contribution to our knowledge of the war. It is a reference work not only for the serious RAF historian but for the ex-PoWs themselves and their families and anyone with an interest in the RAF in general and captivity in particular.
Footprints Of A Regiment
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Author : W. H. Andrews
language : en
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
Release Date : 1992-05-25
Footprints Of A Regiment written by W. H. Andrews and has been published by Taylor Trade Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-05-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An absorbing, first-person Civil War memoir from the perspective of a foot soldier looking back some thirty years later.
Footprints Of Heroes
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Author : Robert Skimin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Footprints Of Heroes written by Robert Skimin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Through personal stories and memorable vignettes, a former paratrooper, army aviator, and artillery officer offers a compelling look at American history by tracing the life paths of its heroes and heroines.
Footprints In The Snow And Sand
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Author : Danuta Gray
language : en
Publisher: Arena books
Release Date : 2015-03-16
Footprints In The Snow And Sand written by Danuta Gray and has been published by Arena books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-16 with Fiction categories.
The story of a Polish family after the occupation of their country by the Soviet Union at the beginning of World War II, and their arrest, transportation, and incarceration in a gulag until their release and traumatic journey Westwards to eventual freedom.