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UNINA9910476794403321 |
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Clapson Mark |
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The Blitz Companion : aerial warfare, civilians and the city since 1911 / / Mark Clapson |
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London : , : University of Westminster Press, , 2019 |
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1 online resource (316 pages) |
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Monografia |
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A Century of Aerial Warfare -- 1 -- CHAPTER 2 The Emerging Terror -- 13 -- CHAPTER 3 Air Raids in Britain 19405 -- 37 -- Nazi and Allied Bombing Campaigns 193945 -- 77 -- CHAPTER 5 The Conventional and Atomic Bombing of Japan -- 97 -- From Destruction to Reconstruction 194560 -- 119 -- CHAPTER 7 American Bombing of Civilians since 1945 -- 147 -- Remembering Air Raids and Their Victims Since 1945 -- 173 -- CHAPTER 9 Archives and Online Resources -- 229 -- Bibliography and Sources -- 245 -- References -- 265 -- Index -- 283 -- Copyright. |
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The Blitz Companion offers a unique overview of a century of aerial warfare, its impact on cities and the people who lived in them. It tells the story of aerial warfare from the earliest bombing raids and in World War 1 through to the London Blitz and Allied bombings of Europe and Japan. These are compared with more recent American air campaigns over Cambodia and Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s, the NATO bombings during the Balkan Wars of the 1990s and subsequent bombings in the aftermath of 9/11. Beginning with the premonitions and predictions of air warfare and its terrible consequences, the book focuses on air raids precautions, evacuation and preparations for total war, and resilience, both of citizens and of cities. The legacies of air raids, from reconstruction to commemoration, are also discussed. While a key theme of the book is the futility of many air campaigns, care is taken to situate them in their historical context. The Blitz Companion also includes a guide to documentary and visual resources |
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for students and general readers. Uniquely accessible, comparative and broad in scope this book draws key conclusions about civilian experience in the twentieth century and what these might mean for military engagement and civil reconstruction processes once conflicts have been resolved. |
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UNINA9910960438303321 |
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Local democracy under siege : activism, public interests, and private politics / / Dorothy Holland ... [et al.] |
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New York, : New York University Press, c2007 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (368 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Political participation - North Carolina |
Political anthropology - North Carolina |
Political culture - North Carolina |
Democracy - North Carolina |
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North Carolina Politics and government |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-284) and index. |
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Experimenting with democracy -- Landscapes in transition -- Hope, fear, and political autobiography -- Racial framing -- Public goods for private ends : the redirection of schooling -- Local politics and the contemporary American scene -- Imagining local futures : who sets priorities for the present? -- Public business as usual -- Against American plutocracy : democratizing our communities, one by one -- Counter experiments for democracy : activism on new political terrain -- It's up to us : from local politics to a democratic America? |
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2007 Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA) Book Award Complete List of Authors:Dorothy Holland, Donald M. Nonini, Catherine Lutz, Lesley Bartlett, Marla Frederick-McGlathery, Thaddeus |
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C. Guldbrandsen, and Enrique G. Murillo, Jr. What is the state of democracy at the turn of the twenty-first century? To answer this question, seven scholars lived for a year in five North Carolina communities. They observed public meetings of all sorts, had informal and formal interviews with people, and listened as people conversed with each other at bus stops and barbershops, soccer games and. |
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