Militarized Cultural Encounters in the Long Nineteenth Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Militarized Cultural Encounters in the Long Nineteenth Century write by Joseph Clarke. This book was released on 2018-08-22. Militarized Cultural Encounters in the Long Nineteenth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores European soldiers’ encounters with their continent’s exotic frontiers from the French Revolution to the First World War. In numerous military expeditions to Italy, Spain, Russia, Greece and the ‘Levant’ they found wild landscapes and strange societies inhabited by peoples who needed to be ‘civilized.’ Yet often they also discovered founding sites of Europe’s own ‘civilization’ (Rome, Jerusalem) or decaying reminders of ancient grandeur. The resulting encounters proved seminal in forging a military version of the ‘civilizing mission’ that shaped Europe’s image of itself as well as its relations with its own periphery during the long nineteenth century.
The Macedonian Front, 1915-1918
The Macedonian Front, 1915-1918 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Macedonian Front, 1915-1918 write by Basil Gounaris. This book was released on 2022-03-31. The Macedonian Front, 1915-1918 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The ‘Macedonian question’ has been much studied in recent years as has the political history of the period from the Balkan Wars in 1912-13 to the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923. But for a variety of reasons, connected with the political division of Greece and the involvement of outside powers, the events at and behind the Macedonian front have been side-lined. The recent commemorations of the centenary of the end of the First World War in the UK illustrate how by comparison with the enormous and moving emphasis on the western front, Macedonia has been not wholly but largely ignored. This volume illuminates this comparatively neglected period of Greek history and examines the strategic and military aspects of the war in Macedonia and the political, social, economic and cultural context of the war.
Colonial Encounters in a Time of Global Conflict, 1914–1918
Colonial Encounters in a Time of Global Conflict, 1914–1918 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Colonial Encounters in a Time of Global Conflict, 1914–1918 write by Santanu Das. This book was released on 2021-09-28. Colonial Encounters in a Time of Global Conflict, 1914–1918 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume gathers an international cast of scholars to examine the unprecedented range of colonial encounters during the First World War. More than four million men of color, and an even greater number of white Europeans and Americans, crisscrossed the globe. Others, in occupied areas, behind the warzone or in neutral countries, were nonetheless swept into the maelstrom. From local encounters in New Zealand, Britain and East Africa to army camps and hospitals in France and Mesopotamia, from cafes and clubs in Salonika and London, to anticolonial networks in Germany, the USA and the Dutch East Indies, this volume examines the actions and experiences of a varied company of soldiers, medics, writers, photographers, and revolutionaries to reconceptualize this conflict as a turning point in the history of global encounters. How did people interact across uneven intersections of nationality, race, gender, class, religion and language? How did encounters – direct and mediated, forced and unforced – shape issues from cross-racial intimacy and identity formation to anti-colonial networks, civil rights movements and visions of a post-war future? The twelve chapters delve into spaces and processes of encounter to explore how the conjoined realities of war, race and empire were experienced, recorded and instrumentalized.
Arabic Dialogues
Arabic Dialogues - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Arabic Dialogues write by Rachel Mairs. This book was released on 2024-03-04. Arabic Dialogues available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth century, more Europeans visited the Middle East than ever before, as tourists, archaeologists, pilgrims, settler-colonists and soldiers. These visitors engaged with the Arabic language to differing degrees. While some were serious scholars of Classical Arabic, in the Orientalist mould, many did not learn the language at all. Between these two extremes lies a neglected group of language learners who wanted to learn enough everyday colloquial Arabic to get by. The needs of these learners were met by popular language books, which boasted that they could provide an easy route to fluency in a difficult language. Arabic Dialogues explores the motivations of Arabic learners and effectiveness of instructional materials, principally in Egypt and Palestine, by analysing a corpus of Arabic phrasebooks published in nine languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Yiddish, Hebrew, Russian) and in the territory of twenty-five modern countries. Beginning with Napoleon’s Expédition d’Égypte (1798–1801), it moves through the periods of mass tourism and European colonialism in the Middle East, concluding with the Second World War. The book also considers how Arab intellectuals understood the project of teaching Arabic to foreigners, the remarkable history of Arabic-learning among Yiddish- and Hebrew-speaking immigrants in Palestine, and the networks of language learners, teachers and plagiarists who produced these phrasebooks.
Soldiers of Uncertain Rank
Soldiers of Uncertain Rank - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Soldiers of Uncertain Rank write by David Lambert. This book was released on 2024-06-30. Soldiers of Uncertain Rank available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A cultural, military and imperial history of the Black soldiers of Britain's West India Regiments.
