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Author : Paul Fussell
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 41,28 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393029093
Selections from poetry and fiction describe the 20th century's major conflicts.
Author : M. Susan Lindee
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 24,3 MB
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0674919181
A thought-provoking examination of the intersections of knowledge and violence, and the quandaries and costs of modern, technoscientific warfare. Science and violence converge in modern warfare. While the finest minds of the twentieth century have improved human life, they have also produced human injury. They engineered radar, developed electronic computers, and helped mass produce penicillin all in the context of military mobilization. Scientists also developed chemical weapons, atomic bombs, and psychological warfare strategies. Rational Fog explores the quandary of scientific and technological productivity in an era of perpetual war. Science is, at its foundation, an international endeavor oriented toward advancing human welfare. At the same time, it has been nationalistic and militaristic in times of crisis and conflict. As our weapons have become more powerful, scientists have struggled to reconcile these tensions, engaging in heated debates over the problems inherent in exploiting science for military purposes. M. Susan Lindee examines this interplay between science and state violence and takes stock of researchers’ efforts to respond. Many scientists who wanted to distance their work from killing have found it difficult and have succumbed to the exigencies of war. Indeed, Lindee notes that scientists who otherwise oppose violence have sometimes been swept up in the spirit of militarism when war breaks out. From the first uses of the gun to the mass production of DDT and the twenty-first-century battlefield of the mind, the science of war has achieved remarkable things at great human cost. Rational Fog reminds us that, for scientists and for us all, moral costs sometimes mount alongside technological and scientific advances.
Author : Jean Norton Cru
Publisher :
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 31,66 MB
Release : 1976
Category : War stories, French
ISBN :
Author : Carl Benn
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 11,60 MB
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1487519915
A Mohawk Memoir from the War of 1812 presents the story of John Norton, or Teyoninhokarawen, an important war chief and political figure among the Grand River Haudenosaunee (or Iroquois) in Upper Canada. Norton saw more action during the conflict than almost anyone else, being present at the fall of Detroit; the capture of Fort Niagara; the battles of Queenston Heights, Fort George, Stoney Creek, Chippawa, and Lundy’s Lane; the blockades of Fort George and Fort Erie; and a large number of skirmishes and front-line patrols. His memoir describes the fighting, the stresses suffered by indigenous peoples, and the complex relationships between the Haudenosaunee and both their British allies and other First Nations communities. Norton’s account, written in 1815 and 1816, provides nearly one-third of the book’s content, with the remainder consisting of Carl Benn’s introductions and annotations, which enable readers to understand Norton’s fascinating autobiography within its historical contexts. With the assistance of modern scholarship, A Mohawk Memoir presents an exceptional opportunity to explore the War of 1812 and native-newcomer issues not only through Teyoninhokarawen’s Mohawk perspective but in his own words.
Author : J. P. Clark
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 23,70 MB
Release : 2017-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0674545737
The U.S. Army has always regarded preparing for war as its peacetime role, but how it fulfilled that duty has changed dramatically between the War of 1812 and World War I. J. P. Clark shows how differing personal experiences of war and peace among successive generations of professional soldiers left their mark upon the Army and its ways.
Author : V. Casaregola
Publisher : Springer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 29,11 MB
Release : 2009-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0230100872
Historian Vincent Casaregola examines the portrayal of WWII in popular culture and how that protrayal has changed over time. By examining WWII films, literature, theatre and art from the Cold War era, the Vietnam War, the Reagan years, and present day, he seeks to understnad the part played by current politics, events and conflicts.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 19,17 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN :
Author : Paul Fussell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,40 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195133325
Landmark study of World War I, describing its effects on the nation.
Author : Richard S. Dunn
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,31 MB
Release : 1970-01-01
Category : Christianisme - Europe
ISBN : 9780393098914
Author : Michal Shapira
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 27,34 MB
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1107035139
"In recent years the field of modern history has been enriched by the exploration of two parallel histories. These are the social and cultural history of armed conflict, and the impact of military events on social and cultural history"--