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UNINA9910450508003321 |
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Autore |
Ewans Martin, Sir, <1928, > |
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Conflict in Afghanistan : studies in asymmetric warfare / / Martin Ewans |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005 |
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1-134-29481-6 |
1-280-24376-7 |
9786610243761 |
0-203-31254-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (186 p.) |
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Asymmetric warfare - Afghanistan |
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Afghanistan History |
Afghanistan History, Military |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [190]-192) and index. |
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Afghanistan and the Afghans -- The failure of diplomacy -- Invasion -- Occupation -- Disaster and withdrawal -- Lord Lytton's folly -- Occupation -- Retreat -- Amanullah's gamble -- The Communist takeover -- The Khalq regime -- The decision to invade -- Invasion and occupation -- Withdrawal -- Aftermath -- The United States, the Taliban, and al-Qa'ida. |
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Asymmetric warfare, involving conflicts where smaller powers apply their strengths against the weaknesses of a more powerful opponent, has become a key modern concern since the September 11th attacks. Conflict in Afghanistan tackles this issue by examining the five wars Afghanistan has waged against foreign powers over the past two centuries, all of which have involved forms of asymmetric warfare.Incorporating contemporary documents and material from Soviet archives, the text analyzes each war's antecedents, conduct, and consequences. Important questions ar |
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UNINA9910300027303321 |
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Garrett Victoria Lynn |
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Performing Everyday Life in Argentine Popular Theater, 1890-1934 / / by Victoria Lynn Garrett |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 |
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[1st ed. 2018.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (232 pages) |
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New Directions in Latino American Cultures, , 2634-520X |
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Ethnology - Latin America |
Culture |
Theater - History |
Latin America - History |
Theater |
Latin American Culture |
Theatre History |
Latin American History |
Global and International Theatre and Performance |
Global and International Culture |
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1. Performing Everyday Life -- 2. Performing Inclusion and Disillusion -- 3. Embodying Modernity -- 4. Modern Families and Degeneration -- 5. Sex, Desire, and Violence -- 6. Criollos, Caudillos, and the Violent State -- 7. Performing Protest. |
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This book examines the prolific and widely-attended popular theater boom of the género chico criollo in the context of Argentina's modernization. Victoria Lynn Garrett examines how selected plays mediated the impact of economic liberalism, technological changes, new competing and contradictory gender roles, intense labor union activity, and the foreign/nativist dichotomy. Popular theaters served as spaces for cultural agency by portraying conventional and innovative |
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performances of daily life. This dramatic corpus was a critical mass cultural medium that allowed audiences to evaluate the dominant fictions of liberal modernity, to critique Argentina's purportedly democratic culture, and to imagine alternative performances of everyday life in accordance with their realities. Through a fresh look at the relationship among politics, economics, popular culture, and performance in Argentina's modernization period, the book uncovers largely overlooked articulations of popular-classidentities and desires for greater inclusion that would drive social and political struggles to this day. |
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