Shadow Of The War Machine
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Author | : Kristin Bailey |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2016-02-02 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1442468068 |
"Meg has searched the globe for answers about why her parents were killed; where her grandfather disappeared to; and above all the identity of the man with the clockwork mask behind all of this treachery. At last, she has clues that will lead her to the shocking truth"--
Author | : Daniel Pick |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1996-01-01 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780300067194 |
This intriguing study examines Western perceptions of war in and beyond the nineteenth century, surveying the writings of novelists, anthropologists, psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, philosophers, poets, natural scientists, and journalists to trace the terms of modern thought on the nature of military conflict. Daniel Pick brings together philosophical and historical models of war with fictions of invasion, propaganda from the Great War, interpretations of shellshock and speculations about the biological value of conquest. He discusses the work of such familiar commentators as Clausewitz, Engels, and Treitschke, and examines little-known writings by Proudhon, De Quincey, Ruskin, Valery, and many others, culminating in the extraordinary dialogue between Freud and Einstein, Why War? He analyses Victorian fears of French contamination through the Channel Tunnel as well as the widespread continuing dread of German domination. And he charts the history of the pervasive European belief that war is beneficial or at least functionally necessary. A central theme of the book is the disturbing relationship between machinery and destruction. Visions of relentless technological 'progress' and the inexorable advance of the military-industrial complex often seem to distort our understanding of war, even to reduce it to a sophisticated game played out by high-precision automata. Pick explores both the reassuring and troubling aspects of such representations. Shorn of human agency or responsibility, war apparently threatens to become technologically unstoppable, the remorseless 'perfect abattoir' of the industrial age. War Machine explores the enduring historical fascination with - and recoil from -brutal mechanical slaughter, and the modern aquiescence in, and enthusiasm for (in Rilke's phrase), 'these days of monstrously accelerated dying'.
Author | : David Edgerton |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2011-09-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199832676 |
The familiar image of the British in the Second World War is that of the plucky underdog taking on German might. David Edgerton's bold, compelling new history shows the conflict in a new light, with Britain as a very wealthy country, formidable in arms, ruthless in pursuit of its interests, and in command of a global production system. Rather than belittled by a Nazi behemoth, Britain arguably had the world's most advanced mechanized forces. It had not only a great empire, but allies large and small.Edgerton shows that Britain fought on many fronts and its many home fronts kept it exceptionally well supplied with weapons, food and oil, allowing it to mobilize to an extraordinary extent. It created and deployed a vast empire of machines, from the humble tramp steamer to the battleship, from the rifle to the tank, made in colossal factories the world over. Scientists and engineers invented new weapons, encouraged by a government and prime minister enthusiastic about the latest technologies. The British, indeed Churchillian, vision of war and modernity was challenged by repeated defeat at the hands of less well-equipped enemies. Yet the end result was a vindication of this vision. Like the United States, a powerful Britain won a cheap victory, while others paid a great price.Putting resources, machines and experts at the heart of a global rather than merely imperial story, Britain's War Machine demolishes timeworn myths about wartime Britain and gives us a groundbreaking and often unsettling picture of a great power in action.
Author | : James Avery Joyce |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Disarmament |
ISBN | : 9780380599158 |
Author | : Michael S. Foley |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807854365 |
Focusing on the draft resistance movement in Boston in 1967-68, this study argues that these acts of mass civil disobedience turned the tide in the antiwar movement by drawing the Johnson administration into a confrontation with activists who were largely young, middle-class, liberal, and from suburban backgrounds--the core of Johnson's constituency.
Author | : James Avery Joyce |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Disarmament |
ISBN | : 9780891820369 |
Author | : Andy Remic |
Publisher | : Solaris |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2007-11-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781844165223 |
Alcoholic private investigator Keegan takes a case located on a violent colony world on the outskirts of the galaxy--requiring he team up with members of his old military unit--in the hopes of finding out who brutally murdered his family.
Author | : Jing Jingyi |
Publisher | : Funstory |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2019-12-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1647877326 |
Yi Yun and Xu Yu Qing had stayed at the Xu Family for more than half a month before setting off for the capital. Before their departure, the Xu's Father gave Yi Yun another ruthless warning, saying that he needed to treat him well.After the two elders finished speaking, Yi Yun secretly wiped the cold sweat off his forehead, causing Xu Yu Qing to secretly laugh.
Author | : Fred Herbert Colvin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1368 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Mechanical engineering |
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Author | : Douglas S. Farrer |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2009-06-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 140209356X |
This is the first in-depth study of the Malay martial art, silat, and the first ethnographic account of the Haqqani Islamic Sufi Order. Drawing on 12 years of research and practice, the author provides a major contribution to the study of Malay culture.