Soldiers Cities And Landscapes
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Soldiers Cities And Landscapes
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Author : Penelope B. Drooker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Soldiers Cities And Landscapes written by Penelope B. Drooker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Archaeology and history categories.
Militarized Landscapes
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Author : Chris Pearson
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2010-08-05
Militarized Landscapes written by Chris Pearson and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-05 with History categories.
Preparation for warfare materially reshapes rural landscapes and environments. This is a comparative history and geography of militarized landscapes.
Figures In A Landscape
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Author : Barry England
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
Figures In A Landscape written by Barry England and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Prisoners of war categories.
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.
Landscapes Of The Western Front
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Author : Ross Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-06-17
Landscapes Of The Western Front written by Ross Wilson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-17 with History categories.
This book examines the British soldiers on the Western Front and how they responded to the war landscape they encountered behind the lines and at the front. Using a multidisciplinary perspective, this study investigates the relationship between soldiers and the spaces and materials of the warzone, analyzing how soldiers constructed a ‘sense of place’ in the hostile, unpredictable environment. Drawing upon recent developments within First World War Studies and the anthropological examination of the fields of conflict, an ethnohistorical perspective of the soldiers is built which details the various ways soldiers responded to the physical and material world of the Western Front. This study is also grounded in the wider debates on how the First World War is remembered within Britain and offers an alternative perspective on the individuals who fought in the world’s first global conflagration nearly a century ago.
Cities Under Siege
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Author : Stephen Graham
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2011-11-01
Cities Under Siege written by Stephen Graham and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-01 with Social Science categories.
Cities are the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the slums of the global South to the wealthy financial centers of the West, Cities Under Siege traces the spread of political violence through the sites, spaces, infrastructure and symbols of the world's rapidly expanding metropolitan areas. Drawing on a wealth of original research, Stephen Graham shows how Western militaries and security forces now perceive all urban terrain as a conflict zone inhabited by lurking shadow enemies. Urban inhabitants have become targets that need to be continually tracked, scanned and controlled. Graham examines the transformation of Western armies into high-tech urban counter-insurgency forces. He looks at the militarization and surveillance of international borders, the use of 'security' concerns to suppress democratic dissent, and the enacting of legislation to suspend civilian law. In doing so, he reveals how the New Military Urbanism permeates the entire fabric of urban life, from subway and transport networks hardwired with high-tech 'command and control' systems to the insidious militarization of a popular culture corrupted by the all-pervasive discourse of 'terrorism.'
Opening Statements
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Author : Albert M. Rosenblatt
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2013-07-09
Opening Statements written by Albert M. Rosenblatt and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-09 with Law categories.
No society can function without laws, that set of established practices and expectations that guide the way people get along with one another and relate to ruling authorities. Although much has been written about the English roots of American law and jurisprudence, little attention has been paid until recently to the legacy left by the Dutch. In Opening Statements, a broad spectrum of eminent scholars examine the legal heritage that New Netherland bequeathed to New York in the seventeenth century. Even after the transfer of the colony to England placed New York under English Common Law rather than Dutch Roman Law, the Dutch system of jurisprudence continued to influence evolving American concepts of governance, liberty, women's rights, and religious freedom in ways that still resonate in today's legal culture. "Opening Statements addresses only a short chapter in the long history of America. Its judgments will not be without dispute, but then, as the eminent Dutch historian Pieter Geyl once wrote: 'History is an argument without end.' There can be no doubt, however, as to the value of those seeds of freedom that were deeply planted in New Netherland. They produced a revolutionary harvest that causes us to appreciate what the Dutch inspired. A small country, the Netherlands—yes—but always a powerful ally for America in the unending struggle for a well-ordered society where freedom and justice prevail." — from the Foreword by William J. vanden Heuvel
Political Landscapes Of Capital Cities
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Author : Jessica Joyce Christie
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Release Date : 2016-08-08
Political Landscapes Of Capital Cities written by Jessica Joyce Christie and has been published by University Press of Colorado this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-08 with Social Science categories.
Political Landscapes of Capital Cities investigates the processes of transformation of the natural landscape into the culturally constructed and ideologically defined political environments of capital cities. In this spatially inclusive, socially dynamic interpretation, an interdisciplinary group of authors including archaeologists, anthropologists, and art historians uses the methodology put forth in Adam T. Smith’s The Political Landscape: Constellations of Authority in Early Complex Polities to expose the intimate associations between human-made environments and the natural landscape that accommodate the sociopolitical needs of governmental authority. Political Landscapes of Capital Cities blends the historical, political, and cultural narratives of capital cities such as Bangkok, Cusco, Rome, and Tehran with a careful visual analysis, hinging on the methodological tools of not only architectural and urban design but also cultural, historiographical, and anthropological studies. The collection provides further ways to conceive of how processes of urbanization, monumentalization, ritualization, naturalization, and unification affected capitals differently without losing grasp of local distinctive architectural and spatial features. The essays also articulate the many complex political and ideological agendas of a diverse set of sovereign entities that planned, constructed, displayed, and performed their societal ideals in the spaces of their capitals, ultimately confirming that political authority is profoundly spatial. Contributors: Jelena Bogdanović, Jessica Joyce Christie, Talinn Grigor, Eulogio Guzmán, Gregor Kalas, Stephanie Pilat, Melody Rod-ari, Anne Toxey, Alexei Vranich
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"--
The Atlantikwall As Military Archaeological Landscape
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Author : Collectif
language : en
Publisher: Lettera ventidue Edizione
Release Date : 2018-03
The Atlantikwall As Military Archaeological Landscape written by Collectif and has been published by Lettera ventidue Edizione this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03 with Atlantic Wall (France and Belgium) categories.
Not unlike so many other vestiges of war that have infiltrated our cities and landscapes, WWII bunkers and fortifications appear unwilling to be absorbed or erased. The signs of armed conflict that make up the "Conflict archaeological landscape" cut across but could also unify Europe. This book presents a rich and unique iconography and a selection of essays. This book provides a new critical approach to the Atlantikwall, the largest WWII bunker, proposing that it be interpreted as one of the major Western military archaeological landscapes. 120 illustrations, 75 in colour