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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"total war"”.
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John Bennett Walters, Total War, and the Raid on Randolph, Tennessee
The regnant interpretation of the American Civil War includes the fact that it evolved into a “total war,” which adumbrated the total wars of the twentieth century. Mark E. Neely, in 1991, published an influential paper calling this interpretation into question for the first time. In the article …
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A study of elementary schools of California as they have been affected by the total war program
… schools of California were prepared to meet the total war program; (2) to determine and analyse conditions present in areas most affected by war industries; (3) to determine and analyse conditions in areas least affected; (4) to determine the cause and effect of the war on the pupils of …
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Modernism's Impossible Witness: Peace Testimonies from the Modernist Wars
… Witness: Peace Testimonies from the Modernist Wars" begins the process of recuperating the lost history of Spanish Civil War pacifism. It studies the ways in which writers and artists employ the aesthetic techniques of modernism, so often ensconced in violence and militarism, to articulate a …
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Autonomy in the Great War: the experience of the German soldier on the Eastern Front
… as psychological and physical victims trapped in total war that was out of their control. Military historians have maintained that these ordinary German soldiers acted not as victims but as perpetrators causing atrocities in the occupied lands of the Eastern Front. This paper seeks to build on the …
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No middle way: Franklin D. Roosevelt and limited war, 1940-1942
… pursued a policy of de facto undeclared war on Germany--a policy clearly designed to contain German expansion by limited means--while fully expecting that this essentially defensive policy could persist indefinitely. But meanwhile his public discourse depicted the Nazi threat to America …
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Miracle from the Rhein to the Han River : heavy industrialisation of South Korea and its social consequences under Park Chung Hee
… based economy following the post-Vietnam War détente. Park’s political economy originates from a very German strategy in overcoming ‘systemic vulnerabilities: scarce natural resources and an ominous foreign security threat’. This was to be achieved through the imposition of a military-led …
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Pandemonium as pedagogue: Meditations on being in the mood for suicide as being in the mood of love
… is one of doctoral suicide as a meditation toward no doctoral future. The second meditation is one of authorial suicide within the field of philosophy of education that overcomes the fantasy of a better tomorrow toward an authorial path that leads nowhere at all. The third meditation is one of …
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"The Second Side" A Historic Retelling of African American Life in Iberia Parish, Louisiana
… was short lived as the Union Army’s strategy of “Total War” threatened the prosperity of slave-owning families in the South. Unlike other plantations in the region, the Weeks’ property was spared after being used as an officer quarter for Union troops, allowing the home to be preserved years later …
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Retrospective Revolution: A History of Time and Memory in Urban Russia, 1903--1923
… of such quintessentially modern phenomena as total war, revolution, industrialization, the decline of the aristocracy, consumerism and urban life, through the shared embrace of an extraordinary efflorescent nostalgia during the first decades of the twentieth century. For all the apparent din …
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The guerrilla war in the Cape Colony during the South African War of 1899-1902 : a case study of the republican and rebel commando movement
… as the key to their success in the South African War. This case study reveals the reasons why this general uprising did not occur during the second Cape invasion. In 1901 a general uprising did take place in certain Cape regions (notably west of the Cape Town-Johannesburg railway) but these …
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Nazi "chic"? : Fashioning women in the Third Reich
… to which female fashioning could and did avert totalitarian regulation because of profound disjunctions between propagandistic rhetoric, economic imperatives, and political necessities. Fashion, therefore, serves as a window into a number of important issues. It illuminates the complex …
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Frederick the Great and the Meanings of War, 1730-1755
… uses Frederick to cast new perspectives on the warfare of ‘his time’: that is, of the late seventeenth to early eighteenth centuries. It uses the methodology of cultural history, which focuses on the meanings given to human activities, to examine Frederick and the warfare of his time on three …
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Pulling oneself together: power and character in British literature, 1914-1939
A revealing legend from the First World War told of a tribe of deserters from all armies that had reverted to a pre-political “state of nature,” living beneath no-man’s-land in abandoned trenches and pillaging corpses in the night. This tale inspires the under-examined question that is central to …