1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789870203321

Autore

Warren Alan <1967->

Titolo

Burma, 1942 : the road from Rangoon to Mandalay / / Alan Warren

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , 2011

ISBN

1-283-38016-1

9786613380166

1-4411-3370-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 pages)

Disciplina

940.5425

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - Burma

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 (pages [272]-275) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; List of Maps; List of Illustrations; Chapter 1; British Burma and Imperial Japan; Chapter 2; Preparations for War; Chapter 3; The Outbreak of War in South-east Asia; Chapter 4; The Invasion of Burma; Chapter 5; Battle of Moulmein; Chapter 6; The Defence of the Salween River; Chapter 7; The Battle of Bilin River; Chapter 8; Confusion at Kyaikto; Chapter 9; The Sittang Bridge; Chapter 10; The Demolition of the Sittang Bridge; Chapter 11; Rangoon in the Front Line; Chapter 12; Wavell Takes Charge; Chapter 13; Retreat from Rangoon; Chapter 14

The Imperial Japanese Navy and the Indian OceanChapter 15; Admiral Nagumo's Raid on Ceylon; Chapter 16; The Oilfields of Yenangyaung; Chapter 17; The Retreat to India; Chapter 18; The Consequences of Defeat; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In December 1941 Japan set out to seize South-East Asia and the western Pacific to complete the building of a self-sufficient empire. The rapid loss of all of Britain's possessions in the Far East was the culmination of a failed attempt to deal with the rise of Japanese imperialism. Britain's bluff was called and millions of Britain's 'protected' subjects in Asia fell into the hands of a brutal occupying power. The British fought the Second World War in Burma and India against the backdrop of nationalist unrest and revolt. The appalling Bengal famine of 1943, brought about by the loss of Burma's rice crop and the dislocation of government, would cause the deaths of many.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910821260403321

Autore

Rautman Alison E.

Titolo

Constructing community : the archaeology of early villages in central New Mexico / / Alison E. Rautman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuczon, Arizona : , : University of Arizona Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8165-9865-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Classificazione

SOC003000

Disciplina

978.9/01

Soggetti

Community life - New Mexico - Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument Region - History

Social archaeology - New Mexico - Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument Region

Pueblo Indians - New Mexico - Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument Region - Antiquities

Pueblo Indians - Dwellings - New Mexico - Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument Region - History

Pueblo Indians - New Mexico - Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument Region - Social life and customs

Farmers - New Mexico - Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument Region - History

Excavations (Archaeology) - New Mexico - Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument Region

Villages - New Mexico - Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument Region - History

Architecture, Domestic - New Mexico - Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument Regio - History

Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument Region (N.M.) Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Interpreting Archaeological Village Sites -- Village and Community -- Pithouse Period -- Jacal Period -- Early Pueblo Period -- The Glaze A Pueblos -- Pueblo Communities and Regional Interaction -- Constructing Community in Early Salinas Villages.

Sommario/riassunto

"In central New Mexico, tourists admire the majestic ruins of old



Spanish churches and historic pueblos at Abo, Quarai, and Gran Quivira in Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument. The less-imposing remains of the earliest Indian farming settlements, however, have not attracted nearly as much notice from visitors or from professional archaeologists. In Constructing Community, Alison E. Rautman synthesizes over twenty years of research about this little-known period of early sedentary villages in the Salinas region. Rautman tackles a very broad topic: how archaeologists use material evidence to infer and imagine how people lived in the past, how they coped with everyday decisions and tensions, and how they created a sense of themselves and their place in the world. Using several different lines of evidence, she reconstructs what life was like for the ancestral Pueblo Indian people of Salinas, and identifies some of the specific strategies that they used to develop and sustain their villages over time. Examining evidence of each site's construction and developing spatial layout, Rautman traces changes in community organization across the architectural transitions from pithouses to jacal structures to unit pueblos, and finally to plaza-oriented pueblos. She finds that, in contrast to some other areas of the American Southwest, early villagers in Salinas repeatedly managed their built environment to emphasize the coherence and unity of the village as a whole. In this way, she argues, people in early farming villages across the Salinas region actively constructed and sustained a sense of social community"--