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Music Art and Diplomacy: East-West Cultural Interactions and the Cold War

Music Art and Diplomacy: East-West Cultural Interactions and the Cold War

Music Art and Diplomacy shows how a vibrant field of cultural exchange between East and West was taking place during the Cold War which contrasts with the orthodox understanding of two divided and antithetical blocs. The series of case studies on cultural exchanges focusing on the decades following the Second World War cover episodes involving art classical music theatre dance and film. Despite the fluctuating fortunes of diplomatic relations between East and West there was a continuous circulation of cultural producers and products. Contributors explore the interaction of arts and politics the role of the arts in diplomacy and the part the arts played in the development of the Cold War. Art has always shunned political borders wavering between the guidance of individual and governmental patrons and borderless expression. While this volume provides insight into how political players tried to harness the arts to serve their own political purposes at the same time it is clear that the arts and artists exploited the Cold War framework to reach their own individual and professional objectives. Utilizing archives available only since the collapse of the Soviet Union the volume provides a valuable socio-cultural approach to understanding the Cold War and cultural diplomacy. | Music Art and Diplomacy: East-West Cultural Interactions and the Cold War

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Hot Art Cold War – Western and Northern European Writing on American Art 1945-1990

Hot Art Cold War – Western and Northern European Writing on American Art 1945-1990

Hot Art Cold War – Northern and Western European Writing on American Art 1945-1990 is one of two text anthologies that trace the reception of American art in Europe during the Cold War era through primary sources. With the exception of those originally published in English the majority of these texts are translated into English for the first time from eight languages and are introduced by scholarly essays. They offer a representative selection of the diverse responses to American art in Great Britain Ireland France Belgium the Netherlands West Germany (FRG) Austria Switzerland Denmark Norway Sweden and Finland. There was no single European discourse as attitudes to American art were determined by a wide range of ideological political social cultural and artistic positions that varied considerably across the European nations. This volume and its companion Hot Art Cold War – Southern and Eastern European Writing on American Art 1945-1990 offer the reader a unique opportunity to compare how European art writers introduced and explained contemporary American art to their many and varied audiences. Whilst many are fluent in one or two foreign languages few are able to read all twenty-five languages represented in the two volumes. These ground-breaking publications significantly enrich the fields of American art studies and European art criticism. This book together with its companion volume Hot Art Cold War – Southern and Eastern European Writing on American Art 1945-1990 is a joint initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art and the editors of the journal Art in Translation at the University of Edinburgh. The journal launched in 2009 publishes English-language translations of the most significant texts on art and visual cultures presently only available only in their source language. It is committed to widening the perspectives of art history making it more pluralist in terms of its authors viewpoints and subject matter. | Hot Art Cold War – Western and Northern European Writing on American Art 1945-1990

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The Routledge Handbook of the Crimean War

The Routledge Handbook of the Crimean War

The Routledge Handbook of the Crimean War is an edited collection of articles on the various aspects of the Crimean War written by distinguished historians from various countries. Part I focuses on diplomatic military and regional perspectives. Part II includes contributions on social cultural and international issues around the war. All contributions are based upon findings of the latest research. While not pretending to be an exhaustive encyclopaedia of this first modern war the present volume captures the most important topics and the least researched areas in the historiography of the war. The book incorporates new approaches in national historiographies to the war and is intended to be the most up-to-date reference book on the subject. Chapters are devoted to each of the belligerent powers and to other peripheral states that were involved in one way or another in the war. The volume also gives more attention to the Ottoman Empire which is generally neglected in European books on the war. Both the general public and students of history will find the book useful balanced and up-to-date.

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The Brothers' War Bundle

The Brothers' War Bundle

KEY PRODUCT FEATURES: • 8 The Brothers’ War Set Boosters • 1 foil alt-art promo card • 40 basic land cards (20 foil + 20 nonfoil) • Spindown life counter (red or green) + card storage box • Travel back in time to command powerful artifacts and giant robots DESCRIPTION: Visit the Past. Save the Future. Travel back in time and witness history in the making!   The Brothers’ War   is a new look at one of   Magic ’s classic tales: a battle between two brothers that shaped the future of the entire Multiverse. Wield powerful historical artifacts like colossal war machines and intricate Schematic cards. Are the lessons of the past enough to save the future? Mighty Mechs & Inventive Mechanics Enter intense battles of titanic proportions with an army of magical mechs. Innovate with the introduction of the powerstone and prototype mechanics, and enjoy the return of fan-favorite mechanics meld and unearth. Full-Art Mech Basic Lands Fill your battlefield with beautiful full-art landscapes featuring hulking mechs. A Full-Art Mech Land can be found in: Set Boosters : 1 Traditional Foil or nonfoil in 27% of packs Transformers Cards Become More Than Meets the Eye with double-sided Transformers cards! Your favorite Autobots and Decepticons can be found in   The Brothers’ War   Collector Boosters, Bundles, Gift Bundles, and some Set Boosters. (Not available in Draft Boosters.) Set Boosters : 1 nonfoil in 10% of packs* Bundle : 1 nonfoil with every Bundle, plus the opportunity to find more in the included Set Boosters* Retro-Frame Artifacts Rediscover powerful artifact cards from   Magic’ s history reprinted with retro frames. You may even find the original schematics, with Retro-Frame Artifact cards featuring alternate art that showcases the inventor’s sketches and designs. Draft and Set Boosters : at least 1 Retro-Frame Artifact in every pack. Schematic card in 16% of packs. RECOMMENDED FOR: ANIMATED TRAILER:

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Magic: The Gathering - The Brothers War Bundle

Magic: The Gathering - The Brothers War Bundle

The Brothers’ War Bundle contains 8 The Brothers’ War Set Boosters the best boosters to open just for fun plus exclusive accessories, with 40 basic lands (20 traditional foils and 20 nonfoils), 1 Traditional Foil promo card with Bundle-exclusive alternate art, 1 oversized Spindown life counter (red or green), 1 card storage box, and 2 reference cards. Travel back in time to command powerful artifacts and giant robots Contents: 8x  Brothers War Set Boosters 1x foil alt-art promo card 40x basic land cards (20 foil + 20 nonfoil) 1x Spindown life counter (red or green) + card storage box

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The Origins of the Second World War

The Origins of the Second World War

Now in its fifth edition The Origins of the Second World War explores the reasons why the Second World War broke out in September 1939 and why a European conflict developed into a war that spanned the globe. This book argues that the global conflict was not just ‘Hitler’s War’ but one that had its roots and origins in the decline of the old empires of Britain and France and the rise of ambitious new powers in Germany Italy and Japan who wanted large empires of their own. Richard Overy covers the origins of the war from its background in the First World War to its expansion to embrace the Soviet Union Japan and the United States by the end of 1941. Creating a comprehensive and analytical narrative while remaining a succinct overview of the subject this book takes a thematic approach to the complex range of events that culminated in global warfare discussing factors such as economic rivalry rearmament and domestic politics and emphasizing that any explanation of the outbreak of hostilities must be global in scope. This new edition includes more discussion of the role of empire and the imperial background to the war. Containing several new primary source documents alongside a glossary a chronology of key events and a who’s who of important figures this book is an invaluable introduction for any student of this fascinating period in history.

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The Scaremongers (RLE The First World War) The Advocacy of War and Rearmament 1896-1914

The Scaremongers (RLE The First World War) The Advocacy of War and Rearmament 1896-1914

This revealing book illustrates how the passion for war was fostered and promoted. The author provides detailed evidence of how and why an image of Germany as a nation determined upon world hegemony was deliberately promoted by a group of British newspaper editors proprietors and journalists. This book examines the role of these ‘scaremongers’. Were they as influential as their critics claimed? Did they influence the minds of their readers and shape events? Were they guilty of creating a climate of opinion that ensured that their prophecies of inevitable Anglo-German war became fact in 1914? | The Scaremongers (RLE The First World War) The Advocacy of War and Rearmament 1896-1914

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Atlas of the English Civil War

Atlas of the English Civil War

Originally published in 1985 the English Civil War is a subject which continues to excite enormous interest throughout the world. This atlas consists of over fifty maps illustrating all the major - and many of the minor - bloody campaigns and battles of the War including the campaigns of Montrose the battle of Edgehill and Langport. Providing a complete introductory history to the turbulent period it also includes maps giving essential background information; detailed accompanying explanations; a useful context to events. | Atlas of the English Civil War

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A History of the Pyrrhic War

A History of the Pyrrhic War

A History of the Pyrrhic War explores the multi-polar nature of a conflict that involved the Romans peoples of Italy western Greeks and Carthaginians during Pyrrhus’ western campaign in the early third century BCE. The war occurred nearly a century before the first historical writings in Rome resulting in a malleable narrative that emphasized the moral virtues of the Romans transformed Pyrrhus into a figure that resembled Alexander the Great disparaged the degeneracy of the Greeks and demonstrated the malicious intent of the Carthaginians. Kent demonstrates the way events were shaped by later Roman generations to transform the complex geopolitical realities of the Pyrrhic War into a one-dimensional duel between themselves and Pyrrhus that anticipated their rise to greatness. This book analyses the Pyrrhic War through consideration of geopolitical context as well as how later Roman writers remembered the conflict. The focus of the war is taken off Pyrrhus as an individual and shifted towards evaluating the multifaceted interactions of the peoples of Italy and Sicily. A History of the Pyrrhic War is a fundamental resource for academic and learned general readers who have an interest in the interaction of developing imperial powers with their neighbors and how those events shaped the perceptions of later generations. It will be of interest not only to students of Roman history but also to anyone working on historiography in any period.

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Constructions of Agency in American Literature on the War of Independence War as Action 1775-1860

Constructions of Agency in American Literature on the War of Independence War as Action 1775-1860

This book argues that the negotiation of agency is central not only to the experience of war but also to its representation in cultural expressions ranging from a notion of disablement expressed in victimization immobilization traumatization and death to enablement expressed in the perpetration of heroic courageous skillful and powerful actions of assertion and dominance. In order to illustrate this thesis it provides a comprehensive analysis of literary representations of the American War of Independence from 1775 the beginning of the war up until roughly 1860 when the Civil War marked a decisive historical turning point. As the first national war it has an unquestionably exemplary status for the development of American conceptions of war. The in-depth study of exemplary texts from a variety of genres and by authors like Thomas Paine Benjamin Franklin James Fenimore Cooper Catharine Sedgwick William Gilmore Simms and Herman Melville demonstrates that the overall character of Revolutionary War literature presents the war as a forum in which collective and individual agency is expressed defended and cultivated. It uses the military environment in order to teach the values of discipline and self-subordination to a communal good which are perceived as basic principles of a Republican virtue to guide the actions of the autonomous individual in a popular democracy. | Constructions of Agency in American Literature on the War of Independence War as Action 1775-1860

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War and Identity The French and the Second World War: An Anthology of Texts

War and Identity The French and the Second World War: An Anthology of Texts

This book first published in 1987 examines the elements that constitute the French identity through the experience of the Second World War – a constant point of reference a landmark to which the collective consciousness returns again and again. The Occupation period and the national humiliation of the French military and political collapse has been perceived as more than a series of traumatic events and in fact as a reality of mythical proportions that became a symbol of something grander French identity itself. | War and Identity The French and the Second World War: An Anthology of Texts

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Accounting at War The Politics of Military Finance

Accounting at War The Politics of Military Finance

Accounting is frequently portrayed as a value free mechanism for allocating resources and ensuring they are employed in the most efficient manner. Contrary to this popular opinion the research presented in Accounting at War demonstrates that accounting for military forces is primarily a political practice. Throughout history military force has been so pervasive that no community of any degree of complexity has succeeded in. Through to the present day for all nation states accounting for the military and its operations has primarily served broader political purposes. From the Crimean War to the War on Terror accounting has been used to assert civilian control over the military instill rational business practices on war and create the visibilities and invisibilities necessary to legitimize the use of force. Accounting at War emphasizes the significant power that financial and accounting controls gave to political elites and the impact of these controls on military performance. Accounting at War examines the effects of these controls in wars such as the Crimean South African and Vietnam wars. Accounting at War also emphasizes how accounting has provided the means to rationalize and normalize violence which has often contributed to the acceleration and expansion of war. Aimed at researchers and academics in the fields of accounting accounting history political management and sociology Accounting at War represents a unique and critical perspective to this cutting-edge research field. | Accounting at War The Politics of Military Finance

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The German Peasant War of 1525 – New Viewpoints

The German Peasant War of 1525 – New Viewpoints

This book first published in 1979 presents a series of important investigations into the German Peasant War of 1525 – the last great peasant revolt and the first modern revolution. Previously under-studied by English-speaking historians these essays provide a valuable analysis of the aims and extent of the Peasant War and are representative of the various elements in the historiographical debate. | The German Peasant War of 1525 – New Viewpoints

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Gary Grigsby's War in the East 2 - Steam (PC) GLOBAL

Gary Grigsby's War in the East 2 - Steam (PC) GLOBAL

SETTING The Eastern Front, the most decisive theatre of World War II and the largest land battlefield. A fight to the end, Total War between the Third Reich and the Soviet Union, each commanding millions. The legendary wargame team at 2by3 Games has spent years revisiting this titanic conflict to once again establish a new state of the art. Gary Grigsby’s War in the East 2 is a complete overhaul and improvement of the original War in the East, with no stone left unturned to provide a more real

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The Routledge History of the Second World War

The Routledge History of the Second World War

The Routledge History of the Second World War sums up the latest trends in the scholarship of that conflict covering a range of major themes and issues. The book delivers a thematic analysis of the many ways in which study of the Second World War can take place considering international transnational and global approaches and serves as a major jumping off point for further research into the specific fields covered by each of the expert authors. It demonstrates the global and total nature of the Second World War giving due coverage to the conflict in all major theatres and through the lens of the key combatants and neutrals examines issues of race gender ideology and society during the war and functions as a textbook to educate students as to the trends that have taken place in how the conflict has been (and can be) interpreted in the modern world. Divided into twelve parts that cover central themes of the conflict including theatres of war leadership societies occupation secrecy and legacies it enables those with no memory of war to approach it with a view to comprehending what it was all about and places the history of this conflict into a context that is international transnational and institutional. This is a comprehensive and accessible reference volume for anyone interested in the most up to date scholarship on this major conflict. Chapter 18 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com

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American Pop Art in France Politics of the Transatlantic Image

American Pop Art in France Politics of the Transatlantic Image

Pop art was essential to the Americanization of global art in the 1960s yet it engendered resistance and adaptation abroad in equal measure especially in Paris. From the end of the Algerian War of Independence and the opening of Ileana Sonnabend’s gallery for American Pop art in Paris in 1962 to the silkscreen poster workshops of May ’68 this book examines critical adaptations of Pop motifs and pictorial devices across French painting graphic design cinema and protest aesthetics. Liam Considine argues that the transatlantic dispersion of Pop art gave rise to a new politics of the image that challenged Americanization and prefigured the critiques and contradictions of May ’68. | American Pop Art in France Politics of the Transatlantic Image

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The Brothers' War Gift Edition Bundle

The Brothers' War Gift Edition Bundle

KEY PRODUCT FEATURES: • Deluxe Gift Bundle for a set full of 1990s Magic nostalgia, powerful artifacts, and giant robots • 8 The Brothers’ War MTG Set Boosters—the best boosters to open just for fun • 1 Collector Booster full of Rare cards, shining foils, and special card treatments • 1 foil Transformers Mythic Rare card + 1 foil promo card with bundle-exclusive art • 40 basic land cards (20 foil + 20 nonfoil) • Special Gift Bundle Spindown life counter + foil card storage box DESCRIPTION: Visit the Past. Save the Future. Travel back in time and witness history in the making!   The Brothers’ War   is a new look at one of   Magic ’s classic tales: a battle between two brothers that shaped the future of the entire Multiverse. Wield powerful historical artifacts like colossal war machines and intricate Schematic cards. Are the lessons of the past enough to save the future? Mighty Mechs & Inventive Mechanics Enter intense battles of titanic proportions with an army of magical mechs. Innovate with the introduction of the powerstone and prototype mechanics, and enjoy the return of fan-favorite mechanics meld and unearth. Full-Art Mech Basic Lands Fill your battlefield with beautiful full-art landscapes featuring hulking mechs. A Full-Art Mech Land can be found in: Set Boosters : 1 Traditional Foil or nonfoil in 27% of packs Transformers Cards Become More Than Meets the Eye with double-sided Transformers cards! Your favorite Autobots and Decepticons can be found in   The Brothers’ War   Collector Boosters, Bundles, Gift Bundles, and some Set Boosters. (Not available in Draft Boosters.) Set Boosters : 1 nonfoil in 10% of packs* Bundle : 1 nonfoil with every Bundle, plus the opportunity to find more in the included Set Boosters* Retro-Frame Artifacts Rediscover powerful artifact cards from   Magic’ s history reprinted with retro frames. You may even find the original schematics, with Retro-Frame Artifact cards featuring alternate art that showcases the inventor’s sketches and designs. Draft and Set Boosters : at least 1 Retro-Frame Artifact in every pack. Schematic card in 16% of packs. RECOMMENDED FOR: ANIMATED TRAILER:

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Contemporary Technologies and the Morality of Warfare The War of the Machines

Contemporary Technologies and the Morality of Warfare The War of the Machines

Supported by genuine historical cases this book argues that certain new technologies in warfare can not only be justified within the current framework of the just war theory but that their use is mandatory from a moral perspective. Technological developments raise questions about the manner in which wars ought to be fought. The growing use of drones capacity-increasing technologies and cyberattacks are perceived by many as posing great challenges to Just War Theory. Instead of seeing these technologies as inherently unethical this book adopts a different perspective by arguing that they are morally necessary since they can limit the potential violations of the moral rules of war and ensure that militaries better respect their obligation to protect their members. Caron’s research offers insights into how and under what conditions autonomous or semi-autonomous robots artificial intelligence cyberwarfare and capacityincreasing technologies can be considered as legitimate weapons. This book will be of interest to students members of the armed forces and scholars studying Politics International Relations Security Studies Ethics and Just War Theory. | Contemporary Technologies and the Morality of Warfare The War of the Machines

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Veterans of the First World War Ex-Servicemen and Ex-Servicewomen in Post-War Britain and Ireland

Veterans of the First World War Ex-Servicemen and Ex-Servicewomen in Post-War Britain and Ireland

This volume synthesises the latest scholarship on First World War veterans in post-war Britain and Ireland investigating the topic through its political social and cultural dynamics. It examines the post-war experiences of those men and women who served and illuminates the nature of the post-war society for which service had been given. Complicating the homogenising tendency in existing scholarship it offers comparison of the experiences of veterans in different regions of Britain including perspectives drawn from Ireland. Further nuance is offered by the assessment of the experiences of ex-servicewomen alongside those of ex-servicemen such focus deeping understanding into the gendered specificities of post-war veteran activities and experiences. Moreover case studies of specific cohorts of veterans are offered including focus on disabled veterans and ex-prisoners of war. In these regards the collection offers vital updates to existing scholarship while bringing important new departures and challenges to the current interpretive frameworks of veteran experiences in post-war Britain and Ireland. | Veterans of the First World War Ex-Servicemen and Ex-Servicewomen in Post-War Britain and Ireland

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The Origins of the First World War

The Origins of the First World War

This thoroughly revised edition has been updated to incorporate recent case studies biographies syntheses journal articles and scholarly conferences that appeared in conjunction with the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War in 2014. The original version of this work published by James Joll in 1984 quickly became established as the authoritative introduction to the subject of the war’s origins. Significantly expanded by Gordon Martel in 2007 this volume continues to offer a careful clear and comprehensive evaluation of the multitude of explanations advanced to explain the causes of the cataclysm of 1914 addressing each of the major interpretive approaches to the subject with essay-like chapters addressing the alliance system militarism and strategy the international economy imperial rivalries the role of domestic politics and the ‘mood’ of 1914. This edition offers an extensive new introduction a new conclusion (including ‘ten fateful choices’ that led to war) an entirely new chapter on the July Crisis and a vastly expanded Guide to Further Reading. Covering over a century of controversy and scholarship The Origins of the First World War is a valuable resource for all students and scholars interested in this major conflict.

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A Press Divided Newspaper Coverage of the Civil War

A Press Divided Newspaper Coverage of the Civil War

Now in paperback A Press Divided provides new insights regarding the sharp political divisions that existed among the newspapers of the Civil War era. These newspapers were divided between North and South - and also divided within the North and South. These divisions reflected and exacerbated the conflicts in political thought that caused the Civil War and the political and ideological battles within the Union and the Confederacy about how to pursue the war. In the North dissenting voices alarmed the Lincoln administration to such a degree that draconian measures were taken to suppress dissenting newspapers and editors while in the South the Confederate government held to its fundamental belief in freedom of speech and was more tolerant of political attacks in the press. This volume consists of eighteen chapters on subjects including newspaper coverage of the rise of Lincoln press reports on George Armstrong Custer Confederate women war correspondents Civil War photojournalists newspaper coverage of the Emancipation Proclamation and the suppression of the dissident press. This book tells the story of a divided press before and during the Civil War discussing the roles played by newspapers in splitting the nation newspaper coverage of the war and the responses by the Union and Confederate administrations to press criticism. | A Press Divided Newspaper Coverage of the Civil War

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