The Wars Inside Chile's Barracks

The Wars Inside Chile's Barracks
Author: Leith Passmore
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2017-11-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 0299315207
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A new perspective on Pinochet's repressive regime and its aftermath in Chile, looking at the ambiguous experiences and memories of army draftees who became both criminals and victims in an era of brutality.

Acta Periodica Duellatorum (vol. 6, issue 2)

Acta Periodica Duellatorum (vol. 6, issue 2)
Author: Matyas Miskolczi
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2019-05-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 0013997769
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Acta Periodica Duellatorum (APD) is an independent, international, and peer-reviewed journal dedicated to Historical European Martial Arts studies. This emerging field of research has interdisciplinary dimensions, including notably History, Anthropology, Historical sciences, Art History, History of Science and Technology, Archaeology, Sport Sciences, etc. APD was founded in 2013 and publishes two issues per year from 2016 onwards. APD is a non-profit association, based in Switzerland. It is supported by institutional grants, donators/partners and by its readers. The journal is published electronically (Open Access) and printed for subscribed readers and institutions.

Late Medieval and Early Modern Fight Books

Late Medieval and Early Modern Fight Books
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 633
Release: 2016-06-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004324720
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Late Medieval and Early Modern Fight Books offers insights into the cultural and historical transmission and practices of martial arts, based on the corpus of the Fight Books (Fechtbücher) in 14th- to 17th-century Europe. The first part of the book deals with methodological and specific issues for the studies of this emerging interdisciplinary field of research. The second section offers an overview of the corpus based on geographical areas. The final part offers some relevant case studies. This is the first book proposing a comprehensive state of research and an overview of Historical European Martial Arts Studies. One of its major strengths lies in its association of interdisciplinary scholars with practitioners of martial arts. Contributors are Sydney Anglo, Matthias Johannes Bauer, Eric Burkart, Marco Cavina, Franck Cinato, John Clements, Timothy Dawson, Olivier Dupuis, Bert Gevaert, Dierk Hagedorn, Daniel Jaquet, Rachel E. Kellet, Jens Peter Kleinau, Ken Mondschein, Reinier van Noort, B. Ann Tlusty, Manuel Valle Ortiz, Karin Verelst, and Paul Wagner.

Library Catalog, 1927

Library Catalog, 1927
Author: U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
Publisher:
Total Pages: 350
Release: 1930
Genre: Military libraries
ISBN:
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The Blood Contingent

The Blood Contingent
Author: Stephen B. Neufeld
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2017-04-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0826358063
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This innovative social and cultural history explores the daily lives of the lowest echelons in president Porfirio Díaz’s army through the decades leading up to the 1910 Revolution. The author shows how life in the barracks—not just combat and drill but also leisure, vice, and intimacy—reveals the basic power relations that made Mexico into a modern society. The Porfirian regime sought to control and direct violence, to impose scientific hygiene and patriotic zeal, and to build an army to rival that of the European powers. The barracks community enacted these objectives in times of war or peace, but never perfectly, and never as expected. The fault lines within the process of creating the ideal army echoed the challenges of constructing an ideal society. This insightful history of life, love, and war in turn-of-the-century Mexico sheds useful light on the troubled state of the Mexican military more than a century later.