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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

GBP 39.99
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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

GBP 42.99
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Stronghold: Warlords - The Art of War Campaign (DLC) - Steam (PC) GLOBAL

Stronghold: Warlords - The Art of War Campaign (DLC) - Steam (PC) GLOBAL

Beginning in the ashes of the Western Zhou dynasty and culminating in the Battle of Boju,The Art of War Campaignis designed for series veterans and skilled warlords alike. With six extra missions, two new warlords, added challenge and achievements, players will become the master strategist across a new narrative campaign set in 6th Century BC China. These six new DLC missions feature fresh challenges and historical conflicts, with states vying for dominance in a vicious cycle of rivalries, wars

GBP 2.65
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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.

GBP 42.99
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The Routledge Handbook of the War of 1812

The Routledge Handbook of the War of 1812

The War of 1812 ranged over a remarkably large territory as the fledgling United States battled Great Britain at sea and on land across what is now the eastern half of the U. S. and Canada. Native people and the Spanish were also involved in the war’s interrelated conflicts. Often overlooked the War of 1812 has been the subject of an explosion of new research over the past twenty-five years. The Routledge Handbook of the War of 1812 brings together the insights of this research through an array of fresh essays by leading scholars in the field offering an overview of current understandings of the war that will be a vital reference for students and researchers alike. The essays in this volume examine a wide range of military political social and cultural dimensions of the war. With full consideration given to American Canadian British and native viewpoints the international group of contributors place the war in national and international context chart the course of events in its different theaters consider the war’s legacy and commemoration and examine the roles of women African Americans and natives. Capturing the state of the field in a single volume this handbook is a must-have resource for anyone with an interest in early America.

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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.

GBP 38.99
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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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The American Culture of War The History of U.S. Military Force from World War II to Operation Enduring Freedom

The American Culture of War The History of U.S. Military Force from World War II to Operation Enduring Freedom

Now in its third edition The American Culture of War presents a sweeping critical examination of every major American war since 1941: World War II Korea Vietnam the First and Second Persian Gulf Wars U. S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war against ISIS. As he carefully considers the cultural forces that surrounded each military engagement Adrian Lewis offers an original and provocative look at the motives people and governments used to wage war the discord among military personnel the flawed political policies that guided military strategy and the civilian perceptions that characterized each conflict. This third edition features: A new structure focused more exclusively on the character and conduct of the wars themselves Updates to account for the latest evolving scholarship on these conflicts An updated account of American military involvement in the Middle East including the abrupt rise of ISIS The new edition of The American Culture of War remains a comprehensive and essential resource for any student of American wartime conduct. | The American Culture of War The History of U. S. Military Force from World War II to Operation Enduring Freedom

GBP 56.99
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Conflict After the Cold War Arguments on Causes of War and Peace

Conflict After the Cold War Arguments on Causes of War and Peace

Edited by one of the most renowned scholars in the field Richard K. Betts’s Conflict After the Cold War assembles classic and contemporary readings on enduring problems of international security. Offering broad historical and philosophical breadth the carefully chosen and excerpted selections in this popular reader help students engage in key debates over the future of war and the new forms that violent conflict will take. Conflict After the Cold War encourages closer scrutiny of the political economic social and military factors that drive war and peace. New to the Sixth Edition Eight new readings covering issues that have grown in salience since the previous edition or that present new interpretations of answers to old problems including pieces by Robert Kagan Edward O. Wilson Scott D. Sagan Robert Jervis and Jason Healey Jacqueline L. Hazelton Oystein Tunsjo and Michael Beckley. Updated volume and chapter introductions and a new reading by Richard K. Betts. | Conflict After the Cold War Arguments on Causes of War and Peace

GBP 105.00
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Posthumous Art Law and the Art Market The Afterlife of Art

Posthumous Art Law and the Art Market The Afterlife of Art

This book takes an interdisciplinary transnational and cross-cultural approach to reflect on critically examine and challenge the surprisingly robust practice of making art after death in an artist's name through the lenses of scholars from the fields of art history economics and law as well as practicing artists. Works of art conceived as multiples such as sculptures etchings prints photographs and conceptual art can be—and often are—remade from original models and plans long after the artist has passed. Recent sales have suggested a growing market embrace of posthumous works contemporaneous with questioning on the part of art history. Legal norms seem unready for this surge in posthumous production and are beset by conflict across jurisdictions. Non-Western approaches to posthumous art from Chinese emulations of non-living artists to Native American performances take into account rituals of generational passage at odds with contemporary market-driven approaches. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history the art market art law art management museum studies and economics. | Posthumous Art Law and the Art Market The Afterlife of Art

GBP 130.00
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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

GBP 27.99
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A Total War Saga: Fall of the Samurai - Steam (PC) EUROPE

A Total War Saga: Fall of the Samurai - Steam (PC) EUROPE

A Total War Saga: FALL OF THE SAMURAI includes: A Total War Saga: FALL OF THE SAMURAI Total War Saga: FALL OF THE SAMURAI – The Obama Faction Pack, Total War Saga: FALL OF THE SAMURAI – The Saga Faction Pack, Total War Saga: FALL OF THE SAMURAI – The Sendai Faction Pack, Total War Saga: FALL OF THE SAMURAI – The Tsu Faction Pack A Total War Saga: FALL OF THE SAMURAI features a dramatic clash of traditional Samurai culture with the explosive power of modern weaponry. NOW INCLUDING ALL DLC F

GBP 5.87
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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

GBP 29.29
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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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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

GBP 42.99
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The Russo-Japanese War and its Shaping of the Twentieth Century

The Russo-Japanese War and its Shaping of the Twentieth Century

The Russo-Japanese War was in essence a colonial conflict between the expanding interests of Russia and Japan in East Asia. However while appearing regional the war itself in fact had a major global impact. The conflict and Japanese victory stimulated the Russian revolutionary movement in 1905 and hence the Russian Revolution of 1917. In addition the Peace Treaty of Portsmouth created a tension between the United States and Japan that would establish the starting point for the road directly leading to Pearl Harbor in 1941. Eventually the war had a major impact on Germany whose diplomats wanted to use the war to bind St Petersburg to Berlin and whose military planners closely observed the events to prepare themselves for the next possible conflict. This book makes a strong argument for the consideration of initially minor events in the analysis of global history. By describing and analyzing the interrelationship between the events in East Asia and the major developments in Europe and the United States it shows the significance of the Russo-Japanese War as a key factor in determining the most momentous historical events of the twentieth century: The First World War the Second World War and the Cold War. | The Russo-Japanese War and its Shaping of the Twentieth Century

GBP 51.99
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