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| Author | : Alexandre Dumas |
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| Total Pages | : 408 |
| Release | : 2002-04-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781589637535 |
Alexandre Dumas (also known as Dumas pere) (1802-1870) was one of the most famous French writers of the 19th century. Dumas is best known for the historical novels The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, both written within the space of two years, 1844-45, and which belong to the foundation works of popular culture. He was among the first, along with Honore de Balzac and Eugene Sue, who fully used the possibilities of roman feuilleton, the serial novel. Dumas is credited with revitalizing the historical novel in France, although his abilities as a writer were under dispute from the beginning. Dumas' works are fast-paced adventure tales that blend history and fiction, but on the other hand, they are entangled, melodramatic, and actually not faithful to the historical facts. Alexandre Dumas was born in Villes-Cotterets. His grandfather was a French nobleman, who had settled in Santo Domingo; his paternal grandmother, Marie-Cessette, was an Afro-Caribbean, who had been a black slave in the then French colony of Haiti. Dumas's father was a general in Napoleon's army, who had fallen out of favor. After his death in 1806 the family lived in poverty. Dumas worked as a notary's clerk and went in 1823 to Paris to find work. Due to his elegant handwriting he secured a position with the Duc d'Orleans - later King Louis Philippe. He also found his place in theater and as a publisher of some obscure magazines. An illegitimate son called Alexandre Dumas fils, whose mother, Marie-Catherine Labay, was a dressmaker, was born in 1824. Dumas fils gained fame with his novel The Lady of the Camillas, in which a fallen girl, the heroine, gives up her lover rather than see him become a social outcast.
| Author | : Simeon Man |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 772 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Asia |
| ISBN | : |
"This dissertation examines the racial politics of soldiering within the U.S. military empire in Asia and the Pacific, from the end of World War II to the end of the Vietnam War (1945-1975). In this period marked by the ascendency of the U.S. as a global power and as a self-professed arbiter of democracy, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilian workers throughout the decolonizing world came to labor under the U.S. military. Together they helped transform the military into a transnational institution of nation-state building, to modernize and to defend U.S. allied states against perceived communist threats. Conscripts of Empire investigates the circuits of military labor that connected the United States to these various nation-states and territories in the decades after World War II. Specifically, it examines the mutual processes of militarization and decolonization in the Philippines, South Korea, and Hawai'i as a means to illustrate the productive tensions between U.S. military expansion and liberal inclusion in the Cold War. By way of this transnational frame, this project approaches the Vietnam War as a site of overlapping colonial genealogies and as its primary site of inquiry. Through archival research and oral interviews conducted in the continental United States, Hawai'i and the Philippines, I show how Asian American soldiers, Korean conscripts, and Filipino veterans and civilian workers came to be mobilized by the U.S. state to provide the military, ideological and affective labors for the war in Vietnam. These were racialized subjects of empire, I argue, mobilized to win the "hearts and minds" of the Vietnamese while helping to narrate and to exemplify "Asia for Asians" as the critical subtext for U.S. expansion in the decades after the formal ends of colonialism. In revealing the state efforts and failures to recruit, mobilize and discipline these subjects, Conscripts of Empire uncovers how the U.S. instrumentalized liberal race relations as a mode of counterinsurgency, and reproduced race and empire in the age of decolonization. At the nexus of American Studies, Asian American Studies and Vietnam War history, this dissertation offers new ways to re-conceptualize the international dimensions of the Vietnam War and to rethink the imperial history of the United States after 1945."--Preliminary leaves.
| Author | : Alan Forrest |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 1989-11-23 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0195363124 |
Between the outbreak of war with Austria in 1792 and Napoleon's final debacle in 1814, France remained almost continously at war, recruiting in the process some two to three million frenchmen--a level of recruitment unknown to previous generations and widely resented as an attack on the liberties of rural communities. Forrest challenges the notion of a nation heroically rushing to arms by examining the massive rates of desertion and avoidance of service as well as their consequences on French society--on military campaigns and the morale of armies, on political opinion at home, on the social fabric of local villages, and on the Napoleonic dream of bringing about a coherent and centralized state.
| Author | : Khary Oronde Polk |
| Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2020-04-17 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1469655519 |
From 1898 onward, the expansion of American militarism and empire abroad increasingly relied on black labor, even as policy remained inflected both by scientific racism and by fears of contagion. Black men and women were mobilized for service in the Spanish-Cuban-American War under the War Department's belief that southern blacks carried an immunity against tropical diseases. Later, in World Wars I and II, black troops were stigmatized as members of a contagious "venereal race" and were subjected to experimental medical treatments meant to curtail their sexual desires. By turns feared as contagious and at other times valued for their immunity, black men and women played an important part in the U.S. military's conscription of racial, gender, and sexual difference, even as they exercised their embattled agency at home and abroad. By following the scientific, medical, and cultural history of African American enlistment through the archive of American militarism, this book traces the black subjects and agents of empire as they came into contact with a world globalized by warfare.
| Author | : Philippe |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 180 |
| Release | : 2008-04-01 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9781846774461 |
A young soldier thrown to the mercies of total war This is remarkable story of a young Rhinelander caught up in the whirlwind of war that raged in Europe in the early 19th century. As one of the smaller Germanic states his homeland was always in an ambiguous position between the great powers. His brother was a proud Cuirassier in Napoleon's Army and Philippe himself became-in his turn-a conscript in the French infantry sent to Spain to fight the British and Spaniards. Captured, he suffered privations and dangers until incarcerated on the prison island of Cabrera where he was offered release if he would change his allegiances by joining the Kings German Legion. The end of war found him in service of a military man with whom he travelled to the East in a British East Indiaman which struck a reef, throwing him into a hair-raising experience of shipwreck and the battle for survival.
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| Total Pages | : 16 |
| Release | : 1913 |
| Genre | : Draft |
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| Author | : Takashi Fujitani |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 513 |
| Release | : 2011-11-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0520950364 |
Race for Empire offers a profound and challenging reinterpretation of nationalism, racism, and wartime mobilization during the Asia-Pacific war. In parallel case studies—of Japanese Americans mobilized to serve in the United States Army and of Koreans recruited or drafted into the Japanese military—T. Fujitani examines the U.S. and Japanese empires as they struggled to manage racialized populations while waging total war. Fujitani probes governmental policies and analyzes representations of these soldiers—on film, in literature, and in archival documents—to reveal how characteristics of racism, nationalism, capitalism, gender politics, and the family changed on both sides. He demonstrates that the United States and Japan became increasingly alike over the course of the war, perhaps most tellingly in their common attempts to disavow racism even as they reproduced it in new ways and forms.
| Author | : Maria Hohn |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 477 |
| Release | : 2010-11-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0822348276 |
Essays explore the social impact of Americas global network of military bases by examining interactions between U.S. soldiers and members of host communities in South Korea, Japan/Okinawa, and West Germany.
| Author | : Alexandre Dumas |
| Publisher | : Hardpress Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 414 |
| Release | : 2012-08 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781290748841 |
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
| Author | : David Scott |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 291 |
| Release | : 2004-12-03 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0822386186 |
At this stalled and disillusioned juncture in postcolonial history—when many anticolonial utopias have withered into a morass of exhaustion, corruption, and authoritarianism—David Scott argues the need to reconceptualize the past in order to reimagine a more usable future. He describes how, prior to independence, anticolonialists narrated the transition from colonialism to postcolonialism as romance—as a story of overcoming and vindication, of salvation and redemption. Scott contends that postcolonial scholarship assumes the same trajectory, and that this imposes conceptual limitations. He suggests that tragedy may be a more useful narrative frame than romance. In tragedy, the future does not appear as an uninterrupted movement forward, but instead as a slow and sometimes reversible series of ups and downs. Scott explores the political and epistemological implications of how the past is conceived in relation to the present and future through a reconsideration of C. L. R. James’s masterpiece of anticolonial history, The Black Jacobins, first published in 1938. In that book, James told the story of Toussaint L’Ouverture and the making of the Haitian Revolution as one of romantic vindication. In the second edition, published in the United States in 1963, James inserted new material suggesting that that story might usefully be told as tragedy. Scott uses James’s recasting of The Black Jacobins to compare the relative yields of romance and tragedy. In an epilogue, he juxtaposes James’s thinking about tragedy, history, and revolution with Hannah Arendt’s in On Revolution. He contrasts their uses of tragedy as a means of situating the past in relation to the present in order to derive a politics for a possible future.
