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Byron's War

Author : Roderick Beaton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 28,40 MB
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107355478

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Roderick Beaton re-examines Lord Byron's life and writing through the long trajectory of his relationship with Greece. Beginning with the poet's youthful travels in 1809–1811, Beaton traces his years of fame in London and self-imposed exile in Italy, that culminated in the decision to devote himself to the cause of Greek independence. Then comes Byron's dramatic self-transformation, while in Cephalonia, from Romantic rebel to 'new statesman', subordinating himself for the first time to a defined, political cause, in order to begin laying the foundations, during his 'hundred days' at Missolonghi, for a new kind of polity in Europe – that of the nation-state as we know it today. Byron's War draws extensively on Greek historical sources and other unpublished documents to tell an individual story that also offers a new understanding of the significance that Greece had for Byron, and of Byron's contribution to the origin of the present-day Greek state.

Byron's War

Author : Roderick Beaton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 12,75 MB
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 110703308X

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This fresh perspective on Byron's relationship with Greece throws new light on its importance both for Byron and for Greece.

From Byron to bin Laden

Author : Nir Arielli
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 38,57 MB
Release : 2018-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0674982231

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What makes people fight and risk their lives for countries other than their own? Why did diverse individuals such as Lord Byron, George Orwell, Che Guevara, and Osama bin Laden all volunteer for ostensibly foreign causes? Nir Arielli helps us understand this perplexing phenomenon with a wide-ranging history of foreign-war volunteers, from the wars of the French Revolution to the civil war in Syria. Challenging narrow contemporary interpretations of foreign fighters as a security problem, Arielli opens up a broad range of questions about individuals’ motivations and their political and social context, exploring such matters as ideology, gender, international law, military significance, and the memory of war. He shows that even though volunteers have fought for very different causes, they share a number of characteristics. Often driven by a personal search for meaning, they tend to superimpose their own beliefs and perceptions on the wars they join. They also serve to internationalize conflicts not just by being present at the front but by making wars abroad matter back at home. Arielli suggests an innovative way of distinguishing among different types of foreign volunteers, examines the mixed reputation they acquire, and provides the first in-depth comparative analysis of the military roles that foreigners have played in several conflicts. Merging social, cultural, military, and diplomatic history, From Byron to bin Laden is the most comprehensive account yet of a vital, enduring, but rarely explored feature of warfare past and present.

Byron's War

Author : Byron Lane
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 19,16 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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Details the daily life and awesome responsibilities of one young Air Force lieutenant as he leads strategic bombing missions over Nazi Germany. Writing during the war, the author provides time- capsule-like insight into a critical period of American and world history.

The Great War in Africa, 1914-1918

Author : Byron Farwell
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 20,56 MB
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393305647

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The authors present the state of the art in the rapidly growing field of visualization as related to problems in urban and regional planning. The significance and timeliness of this volume consist in its reflection of several developments in literature and the challenges cities are facing. First, the unsustainability of many of our current paradigms of development has become evidently clear. We are entering an era in which communities across the globe are strengthening their connections to the global flows of capital, goods, ideas, technologies and values while facing at the same time serious dislocations in their traditional socioeconomic structures. While the impending scenarios of climate change impacts remind us about the integrated ecological system that we are part of, the current discussions about global recession in the media alert us and make us aware of the occasional perils of the globalized economic system. The globally dispersed, intricately integrated and hyper-complex socioeconomic-ecological system is difficult to analyze, comprehend and communicate without effective visualization tools. Given that planners are at the frontlines in the effort to prepare as well as build resilience in the impacted communities, appropriate visualization tools are indispensable for effective planning. Second, planners have largely been slow to incorporate the advances in visualization research emerging from other domains of inquiry.

Byron's War

Author : Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History Language and Literature Roderick Beaton
Publisher :
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 43,92 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Greece
ISBN : 9781107342101

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This fresh perspective on Byron's relationship with Greece throws new light on its importance both for Byron and for Greece.

Queen Victoria's Little Wars

Author : Byron Farwell
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 44,9 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393302356

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From 1837 to 1901, in Asia, China, Canada, Africa, and elsewhere, military expedition were constantly being undertaken to protect resident Britons or British interests, to extend a frontier, to repel an attack, avenge an insult, or suppress a mutiny or rebellion. Continuous warfare became an accepted way of life in the Victorian era, and in the process the size of the British Empire quadrupled.But engrossing as these small wars are--and they bristle with bizarre, tragic, and often humorous incident--it is the officers and men who fought them that dominate this book. With their courage, foolhardiness, and eccentricities, they are an unforgettable lot.

The Greek Adventure

Author : David Armine Howarth
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 26,53 MB
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN :

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Over There

Author : Byron Farwell
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 24,6 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393320282

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Chronicles the rise of the American military and the role it played in winning World War I, from the declaration of war in 1917 to the social changes that occurred on the home front.

The Great Boer War

Author : Byron Farwell
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 25,48 MB
Release : 2009-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1783830611

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The story of the battle for independence from the British Empire in South Africa by “a vivid chronicler of military forces, generals, and wars” (Kirkus Reviews). The Great Boer War (1899-1902), more properly known as the Great Anglo-Boer War, was one of the last romantic wars, pitting a sturdy, stubborn pioneer people fighting to establish the independence of their tiny nation against the British Empire at its peak of power and self-confidence. It was fought in the barren vastness of the South African veldt, and it produced in almost equal measure extraordinary feats of personal heroism, unbelievable examples of folly and stupidity, and many incidents of humor and tragedy. Byron Farwell traces the war’s origins; the slow mounting of the British efforts to overthrow the Afrikaners; the bungling and bickering of the British command; the remarkable series of bloody battles that almost consistently ended in victory for the Boers over the much more numerous British forces; political developments in London and Pretoria; the sieges of Ladysmith, Mafeking and Kimberley; the concentration camps into which Boer families were herded; and the exhausting guerrilla warfare of the last few years when the Boer armies were finally driven from the field. The Great Boer War is a definitive history of a dramatic conflict by the author of Queen Victoria’s Little Wars, “a leading popular military historian” (Publishers Weekly).