1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910461870403321

Autore

Mitcham Samuel W

Titolo

Hitler's commanders [[electronic resource] ] : officers of the Wehrmacht, the Luftwaffe, the Kriegsmarine, and the Waffen-SS / / Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr., and Gene Mueller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2012

ISBN

9786613896957

1-283-58450-6

1-4422-1154-7

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (381 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MuellerGene

Disciplina

940.54/13430922

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945

Generals - Germany

Admirals - Germany

Marshals - Germany

Electronic books.

Germany Armed Forces Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Ch01. THE GENERALS OF THE HIGH COMMAND; Ch02. THE WARLORDS OF THE EASTERN FRONT; Ch03. THE GENERALS OF STALINGRAD; Ch04. THE COMMANDERS IN THE WEST; Ch05. THE PANZER COMMANDERS; Ch06. THE LORDS OF THE AIR; Ch07. THE NAVAL OFFICERS; Ch08. THE WAFFEN-SS; Appendix I. EQUIVALENT OFFICER RANKS; Appendix II. GENERAL STAFF POSITIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS; Appendix III. CHARACTERISTICS OF SELECTED OPPOSING TANKS; Appendix IV. LUFTWAFFE AVIATIONn UNIT STRENGTHS AND CHAIN OF COMMAND; Appendix V. LUFTWAFFE TACTICAL ABBREVIATIONS; Appendix VI. ACRONYMS

NOTESBIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; Photospread

Sommario/riassunto

Now in an expanded edition that includes biographies of the generals of Stalingrad and a new chapter on the panzer commanders, this book



offers rare insight into the men who ran Nazi Germany's war machine. Going beyond common stereotypes, Samuel W. Mitcham and Gene Mueller recount the compelling lives of a varied group of army, navy, Luftwaffe, and SS men. Weaving in dramatic stories of tank commanders, fighter pilots in aerial combat, and U-Boat aces, the authors bring the battlefields of World War II to life.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778910603321

Autore

Heinrich Patrick

Titolo

TheMaking of Monolingual Japan : Language Ideology and Japanese Modernity / / Patrick Heinrich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Blue Ridge Summit, PA : , : Multilingual Matters, , [2012]

©2012

ISBN

1-280-12093-2

9786613524799

1-84769-658-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (212 p.)

Collana

Multilingual Matters

Disciplina

306.44/952

Soggetti

English language -- Japan

Japan -- Languages

Language and culture -- Japan

Language and languages -- Study and teaching -- Japan

Language and languages -- Variation

Linguistics -- Study and teaching -- Japan

Second language acquisition

Language and languages - Study and teaching - Japan

Second language acquisition - Variation - Japan

Linguistics - Japan

English language

Language and culture

Languages & Literatures

East Asian Languages & Literatures

Philology & Linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Language Ideology as a Field of Enquiry -- 2. The Call of Mori Arinori to Replace Japanese -- 3. The Creation of a Modern Voice -- 4. The Unifi cation of Japanese -- 5. The Linguistic Assimilation of Ryukyuans and Ainu -- 6. The Most Beautiful Language in the World -- 7. Language Ideology as Self-FulfillingProphecy -- 8. Current Challenges to Modernist Language Ideology -- 9. Language Ideology in 21st-century Japan -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Japan is widely regarded as a model case of successful language modernization, and it is often erroneously believed to be linguistically homogenous. There is a connection between these two views. As the first ever non-Western language to be modernized, Japanese language modernizers needed to convince the West that Japanese was just as good a language as the national languages of the West. The result was a fervent desire for linguistic uniformity. Today the legacy of modernist language ideology poses many problems to an internationalizing Japan. All indigenous minority languages are heading towards extinction, and this purposefully created homogeneity also affects the integration of immigrants and their languages. This book examines these issues from the perspective of language ideology, and in doing so the mechanisms by which language ideology undermines linguistic diversity are revealed.