1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910148582903321

Autore

Grimm Hans Herbert <1896-1950, >

Titolo

Schlump / / Hans Herbert Grimm ; afterword by Volker Weidermann ; translated by Jamie Bulloch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : NYRB Classics, , 2016

ISBN

1-68137-027-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

New York Review of Books Classics

Classificazione

FIC032000FIC025000FIC019000

Disciplina

833/.912

Soggetti

World War, 1914-1918

Pacifism

Soldiers - Germany

FICTION / War & Military

FICTION / Psychological

FICTION / Literary

Psychological fiction

War stories.

Autobiographical fiction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

"Seventeen-year-old Schlump marches off to war in 1915 because going  to war is the best way to meet girls. And so he does, on his first posting, overseeing three villages in occupied France. But then Schlump is sent to the front, and the good times end. Schlump,  which was published anonymously in 1928 and widely translated at the time, was one of the first German novels to describe World War I in all its horror and absurdity and it remains one of the best. What really sets it apart is its remarkable central character. Who is Schlump? A bit of a rascal and a bit of a sweetheart, a victim of his times, an inveterate survivor, maybe even a new type of man. At once comedy, documentary, hellhole, and fairy tale, Schlump is a gripping and disturbing book about the experience of trauma and what the great critic Walter Benjamin, writing at the same time as Hans Herbert Grimm, would call



the death of experience, since perhaps if anything goes,  nothing counts"--

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910416093303321

Autore

Ferns Nicholas

Titolo

Australia in the Age of International Development, 1945-1975 : Colonial and Foreign Aid Policy in Papua New Guinea and Southeast Asia / / by Nicholas Ferns

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

9783030502287

3030502287

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 pages)

Collana

Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World, , 2731-6815

Disciplina

330.9953

900

Soggetti

Australasia

History

World politics

Economic development

Imperialism

Australian History

Political History

Development Studies

Imperialism and Colonialism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- 1. "Stone Age to the Twentieth Century": Trusteeship and the New Deal for Papua New Guinea, 1945-1949 -- 2. "By Every Means in Our Power": The Establishment of the Colombo Plan, 1949-1957 -- 3. "New Codes and a New Order": Papua New Guinean Development in the Hasluck Era, 1951-63 -- 4. "Developed, Developing, or Midway?" Australia at the United Nations Conference on



Trade and Development, 1964 -- 5. "We Should Be Doing More Than We Are": The Colombo Plan, Papua New Guinea, and the Australian External Aid Review, 1957-1965 -- 6. Taking up the "Latest Fashions": International Development in Flux and the Australian Response, 1965-1975 -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines Australian colonial and foreign aid policy towards Papua New Guinea and Southeast Asia in the age of international development (1945-1975). During this period, the academic and political understandings of development consolidated and informed Australian attempts to provide economic assistance to the poorer regions to its north. Development was central to the Australian colonial administration of PNG, as well as its Colombo Plan aid in Asia. In addition to examining Australia's perception of international development, this book also demonstrates how these debates and policies informed Australia's understanding of its own development. This manifested itself most clearly in Australia's behavior at the 1964 United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). The book concludes with a discussion of development and Australian foreign aid in the decade leading up to Papua New Guinea's independence, achieved in 1975.