African and Afro-Caribbean Repatriation, 1919–1922 : Black Voices / / by Jane L. Chapman |
Autore | Chapman Jane L |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2018.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (94 pages) |
Disciplina | 305.800941 |
Soggetto topico |
Great Britain - History
Social history Military history Imperialism Civilization - History History of Britain and Ireland Social History Military History Imperialism and Colonialism Cultural History |
ISBN | 3-319-68813-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Chapter One: Interrogating neglected voices -- Chapter Two: Government Attitudes and Indirect Voices -- Chapter Three: Reactions and Minority Voices -- Chapter Four: Repatriation Testimonies as Uncomfortable History -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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Chapman Jane L
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Alexios I Komnenos in the Balkans, 1081–1095 / / by Marek Meško |
Autore | Mesko Marek |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2023.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (437 pages) |
Disciplina | 355.02094950902 |
Collana | New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture |
Soggetto topico |
Military history
Europe, Eastern - History History of Medieval Europe Military History Russian, Soviet, and East European History |
ISBN |
9783031262968
3031262964 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction -- 2. Army and Navy in Eleventh-Century Byzantium -- 3. Alexios I Komnenos -- 4. War against the Normans (1081–1085) -- 5. War against the Pechenegs (1083–1091) -- 6. Kuman Invasion (1095) -- 7. Synthesis -- 8. Conclusion. . |
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Mesko Marek
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Australia's Forgotten Soldiers in the Empire, 1939–1947 : Prisoners of War, International Diplomacy and Australian Foreign Policy / / by Lee Rippon |
Autore | Rippon Lee |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2024.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (358 pages) |
Disciplina |
940.5470994
990 |
Collana | Britain and the World |
Soggetto topico |
Australasia
History International relations - History Imperialism Military history Great Britain - History World history Australian History Diplomatic and International History Imperialism and Colonialism Military History History of Britain and Ireland World History, Global and Transnational History |
ISBN |
9783031638060
9783031638053 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1. Introduction: Prisoner of War Diplomacy -- Chapter 2. Prisoners of War in Law, War and Foreign Policy -- Chapter 3. ‘Going in the Bag’ -- Chapter 4. Australia, Britain and Empire Prisoner of War Policy in International Politics, 1939-1942 -- Chapter 5. Detention -- Chapter 6. Punishing the Prisoners: Reprisals, Manipulation, Manacles, and Maltreatment -- Chapter 7. Employing the Enemy: Prisoner of War Labour -- Chapter 8. Wartime Exchange and Repatriation -- Chapter 9. The Beginning of the End: Armistice to Peace -- Chapter 10. Conclusion. |
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Rippon Lee
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The Avar Siege of Constantinople in 626 : History and Legend / / by Martin Hurbanič |
Autore | Hurbanič Martin |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2019.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (364 pages) |
Disciplina |
306.09
949.61011 |
Collana | New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture |
Soggetto topico |
Europe - History - 476-1492
Military history Social history Religion - History Civilization - History History of Medieval Europe Military History Social History History of Religion Cultural History |
ISBN | 3-030-16684-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction -- 2. The Memory of the Siege -- 3. The Interpretation of the Siege -- 4. The Last War of Antiquity -- 5. The Siege in Context -- 6. The Army of Besiegers -- 7. The Fortress Constantinople -- 8. The Avars at the Gates -- 9. The Final Solution -- 10. Winners and Losers -- 11. From History to Legend -- 12. The Akathistos -- 13. The Sacred Iconography of the Siege -- 14. The Spiritual Arsenal of the Siege -- 15. Conclusion. |
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Hurbanič Martin
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Battlefield Emotions 1500-1800 : Practices, Experience, Imagination / / edited by Erika Kuijpers, Cornelis van der Haven |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XIII, 303 p. 21 illus., 19 illus. in color.) |
Disciplina | 940.903 |
Collana | Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions |
Soggetto topico |
Europe - History - 1492-
Emotions Military history Psychology Social sciences - History Civilization - History History of Early Modern Europe Emotion Military History History of Psychology Cultural History |
ISBN | 1-137-56490-3 |
Classificazione | HIST |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Battlefield Emotions 1500-1800: Practices, experience, imagination by Erika Kuijpers and Cornelis van der Haven -- Part I: The Military: Emotional Practices and Community -- 1. Drill and Allocution as Emotional Practices in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Poetry, Plays and Military Treatises. Cornelis van der Haven -- 2. Magical Swords and Heavenly Weapons: Battlefield Fear(lessness) in the Seventeenth Century. Andreas Bähr -- 3. Emotions, Imagination and Surgery: Wounded Warriors in the Work of Ambroise Paré and Johan van Beverwijck. Bettina Noak -- 4. Fear, Honour and Emotional Control on the Eighteenth-Century Battlefield. Ilya Berkovich -- Reflections I. Early Modern Jokes on Fearing Soldiers. Johan Verberckmoes -- Part II: The Combatant: Emotional Experience and Writing -- 5. ‘His Courage Produced More Fear in His Enemies than Shame in His Soldiers’: Siege Combat and Emotional Display in the French Wars of Religion. Brian Sandberg -- 6. Emotions in the Making: The Transformation of Battlefield Experiences During the Seven Years’ War (1756-1763). Marian Füssel -- 7. Mediated Battlefields of the French Revolution and Emotives at Work. Ian Germani -- Reflections II. Whose Battlefield Emotion? Mary A. Favret -- Part III: The Public: Emotional Re-Creation -- 8. The Sidelong Glance: Tracing Battlefield Emotions in Dutch Art of the Golden Age. Lisa de Boer -- 9. Deflecting the Fire of Eighteenth-Century French Battle Painting. Valerie Mainz -- 10. Picturing Valenciennes: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg and the Emotional Regulation of British Military Art in the 1790s. Philip Shaw -- Conclusions and perspectives -- Battlefield Emotions in Early Modern Europe: Trends, Key Issues and Blind Spots. Dorothee Sturkenboom -- List of Authors . |
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Britain and the Dhofar War in Oman, 1963–1976 : A Covert War in Arabia / / by Geraint Hughes |
Autore | Hughes Geraint <1954-> |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2024.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (333 pages) |
Disciplina | 355.3310924 |
Collana | Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World |
Soggetto topico |
Middle East - History
Military history Great Britain - History World politics History of the Middle East Military History History of Britain and Ireland Political History |
ISBN | 3-031-49499-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Britain, the Middle East, and Oman -- Chapter 3: The Course of the War -- Chapter 4: Coalition Warfare and the International Dimension -- Chapter 5: 'Hearts and Minds' -- Chapter 6: Intelligence and Covert Operations -- Chapter 7: Conclusions. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910845080003321 |
Hughes Geraint <1954->
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Cauldron of Resistance : Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and 1950's Southern Vietnam / / Jessica M. Chapman |
Autore | Chapman Jessica M. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2013] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (293 p.) |
Disciplina | 327.59707309045 |
Collana | The United States in the World |
Soggetto topico |
Asian Studies
Military History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8014-6741-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Anticolonialism in Vietnam's Wild South -- 2. The Crucible of Southern Vietnamese Nationalism and America's Cold War -- 3. "Sink or Swim with Ngo Dinh Diem" -- 4. The "Sect" Crisis of 1955 and America's Miracle Man in Vietnam -- 5. Destroying the Sources of Demoralization: Ngo Dinh Diem's National Revolution -- 6. A Different Democracy: South Vietnam's Referendum to Depose Bao Dai -- 7. The Making of a Revolution in South Vietnam -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Select Vietnamese Names with Diacritics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452780503321 |
Chapman Jessica M.
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Cauldron of Resistance : Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and 1950's Southern Vietnam / / Jessica M. Chapman |
Autore | Chapman Jessica M. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2013] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (293 p.) |
Disciplina | 327.59707309045 |
Collana | The United States in the World |
Soggetto topico |
Asian Studies
Military History |
ISBN | 0-8014-6741-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Anticolonialism in Vietnam's Wild South -- 2. The Crucible of Southern Vietnamese Nationalism and America's Cold War -- 3. "Sink or Swim with Ngo Dinh Diem" -- 4. The "Sect" Crisis of 1955 and America's Miracle Man in Vietnam -- 5. Destroying the Sources of Demoralization: Ngo Dinh Diem's National Revolution -- 6. A Different Democracy: South Vietnam's Referendum to Depose Bao Dai -- 7. The Making of a Revolution in South Vietnam -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Select Vietnamese Names with Diacritics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779670003321 |
Chapman Jessica M.
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Crusading Against Christians in the Middle Ages / / edited by Mike Carr, Nikolaos G. Chrissis, Gianluca Raccagni |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2024.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (386 pages) |
Disciplina | 737 |
Soggetto topico |
Europe - History - 476-1492
Military history Religion - History Social history History of Medieval Europe Military History History of Religion Social History |
ISBN | 3-031-47339-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction Mike Carr and Nikolaos G. Chrissis -- Part 1. Crusades in Southern Europe and the Balkans -- 1. Crusades against Cathars, c.1207-1229 Rebecca Rist (University of Reading) -- 2. Holy War and Crusade in Southern Italy: Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries Francesco Migliazzo (University of Edinburgh) -- 3. Crusades in Northern Italy in the Thirteenth Century Gianluca Raccagni (University of Edinburgh) -- 4. Crusades in Northern Italy in the Fourteenth Century Leardo Mascanzoni (University of Bologna) -- 5. Crusades against the Byzantines in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries Nikolaos G. Chrissis (Democritus University of Thrace) -- 6. The Crusade against “Schismatic” Bulgaria (1238) and its Antecedents Francesco Dall’Aglio (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) -- 7. Crusading against Bosnian Christians, c.1234-1241 Kirsty Day (University of Edinburgh) -- 8. Crusades against the Catalans of Athens, c.1311-1334 Mike Carr (University of Edinburgh) -- Part 2. Crusades in Northern and Central Europe -- 9. Crusades in the Holy Roman Empire (late 1220s to the early 1250s) Giuseppe Cusa (University of Siegen) -- 10. Rus’ as a Target of the Crusades: History and Historical Memory Anti Selart (University of Tartu) -- 11. Crusade against Christian neighbours in the Baltic. Boniface IX’s Crusading Bull of 1401 to Queen Margaret I of the Kalmar Union Kurt Villads Jensen (Stockholm University) -- 12. The Crusade of Henry Despenser (1383) Mark Whelan (University of Surrey) -- 13. The Crusades against the Hussites in Bohemia (1419-1436) Alexandra Kaar (University of Vienna) -- 14. Conclusion Mike Carr, Nikolaos G. Chrissis and Gianluca Raccagni. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910847091003321 |
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The Development of Nuclear Propulsion in the Royal Navy, 1946-1975 / / by Gareth Michael Jones |
Autore | Jones Gareth Michael |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2022.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (306 pages) |
Disciplina |
621.48
621.485 |
Collana | Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World |
Soggetto topico |
Military history
Great Britain - History Technology History United States - History International relations - History Politics and war Military History History of Britain and Ireland History of Technology US History Diplomatic and International History Military and Defence Studies |
ISBN |
9783031051296
9783031051289 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1 Introduction -- Overview -- Chapters -- Literature Review -- Nuclear Historiography -- The Nuclear Submarine in Context -- Summary -- 2 Improving the Submersible -- Introduction of World War II Submarine Developments -- The Soviet Submarine Threat -- Conversions to “Fast Battery Drive” -- HTP and Air-Independent Engines -- The Discovery of Nuclear Fission and Its Application to Submarines -- Discussions on the Development of the Nuclear “Engine” -- 3 The Nuclear Option -- Tube Alloys, US Cooperation and the McMahon Act -- Acquiring an Experienced Team -- Harwell and the Admiralty -- Initial Considerations -- The Mark I Enriched Reactor -- Metropolitan-Vickers and the Problem of Scale -- The End of the Beginning -- 4 The Pressurised Water Reactor -- The Reactor Technical Challenge -- The Brontosaurus in the Museum: Quality Assurance -- Industry Joins the Project -- Miracle Metals -- The Fuel Element Decision -- Neptune: The Zero Energy Experimental Reactor -- 5 HMS/m Dreadnought -- Admiral Hyman G. Rickover USN -- What Price Exchange of Information? -- The Offers to Purchase a US Submarine Reactor -- Choices and Decisions -- Mountbatten Corrections -- Management and Establishment of the Dreadnought Project Team -- Purchase of the S5W Reactor -- Final Adjustments -- 6 Nuclear Training and Dounreay -- Training Facilities -- Off to School -- Practical Training and Jason -- Dounreay Submarine Prototype (DS/MP) -- Dounreay’s Future Questioned -- A Very Serious Snag -- HMS/m Valiant -- 7 Future Developments -- Refuelling Preparations -- The Strength of Steel -- Core Development -- Amended Access Agreements -- Core Development Programme (CORDEP) -- Nuclear Development (Submarines): NuDe(S) -- NuDe(S) II—FLIP—ANP -- Core Z -- Secondary Machinery Improvement -- Reporting the Nuclear Navy -- Project Cost -- 8 Conclusions -- Political Problems and Indifference -- Technical Considerations -- The Military Situation -- The Nuclear Propulsion Legacy -- Research in the “Secret (Nuclear) State” -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910590088303321 |
Jones Gareth Michael
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