1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910917277103321

Autore

Ball Desmond

Titolo

Geography, Power, Strategy and Defence Policy : : Essays in Honour of Paul Dibb

Pubbl/distr/stampa

ANU Press, 2016

[s.l.] : , : ANU Press, , 2016

ISBN

9781760460143

1760460141

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 p.)

Disciplina

355

Soggetti

Defensive (Military science)

Human geography

Military readiness

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Paul Dibb AM has had an extraordinary career. He enjoys an international scholarly reputation of the highest order, while at the same time he has done much distinguished public service. He was a pioneer in moving back and forth between posts in government departments, notably the Department of Defence, and academia. He began as a student of Soviet economic geography, and then spent nearly two decades in Australian Defence intelligence, including service as Head of the National Assessments Staff (NAS) in the Joint Intelligence Organisation (JIO) from 1974 to 1978, Deputy Director of JIO in 1978-80, Director of JIO in 1986-88, and Deputy Secretary of Defence (Strategy and Intelligence) in 1988-91, before becoming a Professor in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC) at The Australian National University (where he is now an Emeritus Professor). He has been quite happy to engage in vigorous public debate about important and controversial strategic and defence issues, giving him a high public profile. The contributors include two former Chancellors of ANU, one a former Minister of Defence, and the other a former Secretary of the Department of Defence, a former Chief of the Defence Force (CDF), and



other former senior officials, as well as academic specialists in geography, international relations, and strategic and defence studies. 'This would be a high-quality set of essays for any edited volume, but for a festschrift - a genre that sometimes generates uneven collections - this is an exceptional assembly. The individual pieces are very good; together, they have coherence and power.' - Professor Ian Hall, Professor of International Relations, Griffith University

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910956781603321

Titolo

Postcolonial slavery : an overview of colonialism's legacy / / edited by Charlotte Baker and Jennifer Jahn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle, : Cambridge Scholars, c2008

ISBN

1-282-41384-8

9786612413841

1-4438-1457-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (203 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BakerCharlotte <1976->

JahnJennifer

Disciplina

306.362

Soggetti

Slavery

Postcolonialism

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

pt. I. (Mis-)representations -- pt. II. Breaking silences, re-writing history -- pt. III. Postcolonial slavery.

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of eight essays by research students and academics from the UK, France, Germany and the USA examining different forms and manifestations of postcolonial slavery underlines the significance of the year 2007, marking the bicentennial anniversary of the passage of the British law banning the slave trade. Slavery and its legacies galvanized a diachronic series of ethnic crossings and transformations that engendered new and complex patterns of crosscultural contact. And the importa...