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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"War Experience"”.
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For Honor and Duty: The Civil War Experience of William Washington Gordon II
… William Washington Gordon II began his Civil War service in January 1861, he could never have imagined that four years later 600,000 Americans would be dead. Yet hundreds of thousands of men and boys flocked to sign up and experience what they perceived to be a great adventure. William was no …
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Displacing War Experience: Military Technology and the More-than-Human Politics of Empire
… underpinning popular discourses on “techno-war”: while technology is increasingly claimed to transform the conduct of war, lived experiences of conflict still foreground human bodies as war’s main subjects and targets. Within both strategic and critical debates, the technoscientific …
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Maurice Ravel and Paul Wittgenstein: Le Concerto pour la Main Gauche in Response to World War I
… (1887–1961) lost his right arm during World War I. Wittgenstein recovered from the surgery, then in 1915 returned to Vienna to commission one of the most celebrated left-hand piano pieces from Maurice Ravel (1875–1937): the 1930 Concerto pour la Main Gauche. Ravel’s war experience was not as …
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Self, Society and the Second World War. The Negotiation of Self on the Home Front by Diarist and Keighley Schoolmaster Kenneth Preston 1941-1945
… examines the interaction of the Second World War with the selfhood of Kenneth Preston, a Keighley schoolmaster, using primarily the exceptionally rich content of Preston’s Diary, maintained 1941-1945. In tracing Preston’s home front experience, attention is given to the ways in which the war …
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Life and Seoul of the Party: South Korea’s Brief Occupation under Communist North Korea
… the oral histories of the men and women who experienced the event. At the beginning of the Korean War, North Korean forces successfully captured and held the South Korean capital for three months. Despite the occupation’s interesting premise, it has received little attention from Korean War …
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Salinger and the Phases of War
A study of the phases of war present in Salinger's stories - "The Hang of It," "Personal Notes of an Infantryman," "Soft Boiled Sergeant," "Last Day of the Last Furlough," "Once a Week Won't Kill You," A Boy in France," "This Sandwich Has No Mayonnaise," "The Stranger," "A Young Girl in 1941 With …
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Effects of War Stressors and Life Events on Gulf War Veterans with CFS Symptoms
… with the development of CFS symptoms in Gulf War veterans. From data collected from Gulf War Health Registry veterans, 113 met CFS criteria and 441 were controls. After hierarchical linear analysis, negative life stressors: wounded, traumatic war experience, frequent battle experiences, …
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Tomorrow Will Be More of the Same
… civilian culture that does not understand their experiences. My thesis consists of three stories that depict different reactions of US veterans to civilian life: "Sand and Ice,” "No Fault but Mine Own,” and "By No Means, Impervious.” These stories are based around a shared experience between the …
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'An army of warriors, these Anzacs' : legend and illusion in the first AIF
… principally concerned with two myths about the experience and character of Australia's Great War soldiers central to the Anzac legend. The first is the myth of egalitarianism; the second is the myth of the resourcefulness and initiative of Australian soldiers. It argues that neither of these is …
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Writing US identities in the wars without frontlines: literary perspectives on the Persian Gulf and Iraq wars
For many cultural commentators, the Persian Gulf War (1990-1991) signalled a new era in which technological advances transformed warfare into what Jean Baudrillard refers to as a virtual experience epitomised by “surgical strikes” and “smart-bombs”. In contrast, the Iraq War (2003-2009) was hailed …
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Yugoslav war cinema : shooting a nation which no longer exists
From its inception following World War II, Yugoslav war cinema played a major role in representing and challenging the discourse of the nation. Films depicting the Partisan war experience during the "national war of liberation", the foundational narrative of socialist Yugoslavia, played a …
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Myths of War: Constructing and Challenging Literary Myths of War in Germany, 1914-1930
… of literature in interpreting the First World War in Germany from 1914 to 1930 and the myths of war that were manifested within and created by such narratives of war. Beginning with an exploration of 'myth' and its relationship to the Great War, it progresses to a consideration of the role of …
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Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Peru, 1962-1966
… world were crucial aspects of the global Cold War. Economic, political, religious, and social factors created tensions at the international, national, and local levels that drove conflict. Scholars can gain an increased understanding of these characteristics through the study of historical …
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Italian Fellas in Olive Drab: Exploring the Experiences of Italian-American Servicemen in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1945
… group in the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II, the experiences of Italian-Americans have received scant attention by historians. In particular, the stories of the U.S. citizens of Italian descent or Italian-born but naturalized Americans who served in Italy, have received almost none. …
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The long term psychological consequences of war experiences
… psychological difficulties associated with war experience. 731 World War Two and Korean War veterans completed a questionnaire supplying biographical details, war-related experience, and present day psychological health. A significant proportion had war-related psychological difficulties, …
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Fighting for Independence and Slavery: Confederate Perceptions of Their War Experiences
… many white southerners enthusiastically went to war in 1861, and that within four years a large number of them became apathetic or even openly hostile toward the Confederacy. By far, nonslaveholders composed the greatest portion of the disaffected. This work interprets the Confederate war …
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Reconstructing the War in Iraq: Post-9/11 American War Fiction in Dialogue with Official-Media Discourse
This project examines American-authored Iraq War fiction within the context of public discourse. Given that modern, industrialized warfare is as much created by and through official-media discourse as represented by it, fictional accounts of Iraq exist not outside or separate from this discourse …
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The logic of violent conflicts in DR Congo : a nested-analysis approach to the understanding of civil war in Sub-Saharan Africa
… ways. Some of the deadliest and longest-running wars in post-colonial Africa happened in Congo. Like many others in sub-Saharan Africa, Congo’s civil wars are often misdiagnosed as outcomes of ethnic differences and competition for resources. This study challenges the conventional interpretation …
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Essays in empirical macroeconomics
… significantly longer than the preceding post-war experience. An examination of the most recent cycles shows that they have been much less volatile than previous cycles. Investigation of the causes of this suggests that the shocks hitting the economy have been smaller rather than the structure …
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