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The Swans of Ypres
(Hardcover)
Jeff Hatwell, Elspeth Langford; Illustrated by Catherine Gordon
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R693
Discovery Miles 6 930
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Through interviews with developers, gamers, and journalists
examining the phenomena of bedroom coding, arcade gaming, and
format wars, mapped onto enquiry into the seminal genres of the
time including driving, shooting, and maze chase, Playback: A
Genealogy of 1980s British Videogames examines how 1980s Britain
has become the culture of work in the 21st century and considers
its meaning to contemporary society. This crucial and timely work
fills a lacuna for students and researchers of sociology, media,
and games studies and will be of interest to employees of the
videogames and media industries. Research into videogames have
never been greater, but exploration of their historic drivers is as
elided as the technology is influential, giving rise to a range of
questions. What were the social and economic conditions that gave
rise to a billion dollar industry? What were the motivations of the
early 'bedroom coders'? What are the legacies of the seminal
videogames of the 1980s and how do they inform the current social,
political and cultural landscape? With a focus on the
characteristics of the UK videogame industry in the 1980s, Wade
explores these questions from perspectives of consumption,
production and leisure, outlining the construction of a habitus
unique to this time.
This book focuses on the social voids that were the result of
occupation, genocide, mass killings, and population movements in
Europe during and after the Second World War. Historians,
sociologists, and anthropologists adopt comparative perspectives on
those who now lived in 'cleansed' borderlands. Its contributors
explore local subjectivities of social change through the concept
of 'No Neighbors' Lands': How does it feel to wear the dress of
your murdered neighbor? How does one get used to friends,
colleagues, and neighbors no longer being part of everyday life?
How is moral, social, and legal order reinstated after one part of
the community participated in the ethnic cleansing of another? How
is order restored psychologically in the wake of neighbors watching
others being slaughtered by external enemies? This book sheds light
on how destroyed European communities, once multi-ethnic and
multi-religious, experienced postwar reconstruction, attempted to
come to terms with what had happened, and negotiated remembrance.
The dispossessed people of Colonial America included thousands of
servants who either voluntarily or involuntarily ended up serving
as agricultural, domestic, skilled, and unskilled laborers in the
northern, middle, and southern British American colonies as well as
British Caribbean colonies. Thousands of people arrived in the
British-American colonies as indentured servants, transported
felons, and kidnapped children forced into bound labor. Others
already in America, such as Indians, freedmen, and poor whites,
placed themselves into the service of others for food, clothing,
shelter, and security; poverty in colonial America was relentless,
and servitude was the voluntary and involuntary means by which the
poor adapted, or tried to adapt, to miserable conditions. From the
1600s to the 1700s, Blacks, Indians, Europeans, Englishmen,
children, and adults alike were indentured, apprenticed,
transported as felons, kidnapped, or served as redemptioners.
Though servitude was more multiracial and multicultural than
slavery, involving people from numerous racial and ethnic
backgrounds, far fewer books have been written about it. This
fascinating new study of servitude in colonial America provides the
first complete overview of the varied lives of the dispossessed in
17th- and 18th-century America, examining colonial American
servitude in all of its forms. Illustrates how a majority of
residents in Colonial America at any given time from 1607 to 1776
were dispossessed of basic freedoms Explains how the dispossessed
Colonial American, deprived of basic rights, generated principles
of freedom and equality that resulted in the American Revolution
Shows that the basic rights of children were ignored in Stuart and
Georgian England, which resulted in their transportation to America
Describes how thousands of inhabitants of Colonial America were
felons reprieved of the death penalty and prisoners of war
Lisa Pine assembles an impressive array of influential scholars in
Life and Times in Nazi Germany to explore the variety and
complexity of life in Germany under Hitler's totalitarian regime.
The book is a thematic collection of essays that examine the extent
to which social and cultural life in Germany was permeated by Nazi
aims and ambitions. Each essay deals with a different theme of
daily German life in the Nazi era, with topics including food,
fashion, health, sport, art, tourism and religion all covered in
chapters based on original and expert scholarship. Life and Times
in Nazi Germany, which also includes 24 images and helpful
end-of-chapter select bibliographies, provides a new lens through
which to observe life in Nazi Germany - one that highlights the
everyday experience of Germans under Hitler's rule. It illuminates
aspects of life under Nazi control that are less well-known and
examines the contradictions and paradoxes that characterised daily
life in Nazi Germany in order to enhance and sophisticate our
understanding of this period in the nation's history. This is a
crucial volume for all students of Nazi Germany and the history of
Germany in the 20th century.
George Pitt-Rivers began his career as one of Britain's most
promising young anthropologists, conducting research in the South
Pacific and publishing articles in the country's leading academic
journals. With a museum in Oxford bearing his family name,
Pitt-Rivers appeared to be on track for a sterling academic career
that might even have matched that of his grandfather, one of the
most prominent archaeologists of his day. By the early 1930s,
however, Pitt-Rivers had turned from his academic work to politics.
Writing a series of books attacking international communism and
praising the ideas of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler,
Pitt-Rivers fell into the circles of the anti-Semitic far right. In
1937 he attended the Nuremberg Rally and personally met Adolf
Hitler and other leading Nazis. With the outbreak of war in 1940
Pitt-Rivers was arrested and interned by the British government on
the suspicion that he might harm the war effort by publicly sharing
his views, effectively ending his academic career. This book traces
the remarkable career of a man who might have been remembered as
one of Britain's leading 20th century anthropologists but instead
became involved in a far-right milieu that would result in his
professional ruin and the relegation of most of his research to
margins of scientific history. At the same time, his wider legacy
would persist far beyond the academic sphere and can be found to
the present day.
The United States during World War II was unprepared for one of
Germany's most destructive war efforts: a U-boat assault on Allied
ships in the Caribbean that sank about 400 tankers and merchant
ships, with few losses to the German submarine fleet. The Germans
had set up a network of spies and had the secret support of some
dictators, including the Dominican Republic's Rafael Trujillo,
supplying their U-boats with fuel.The Caribbean was of crucial
strategic importance to the Allies. Roughly 95 percent of the oil
sustaining the East Coast of the United States came from the
region, along with bauxite, required to manufacture airplanes. The
United States invested billions of dollars to build bases, landing
strips, roads, and other military infrastructure on the Puerto Rico
and secured a 99-year lease on all the British bases located in the
Caribbean. The United States also struck an agreement with neutral
Vichy France to keep the French Navy in the harbor of Martinique,
preventing it from being turned over to the Germans, in exchange
for a food supply for the island. Elsewhere, however, the German
blockade was taking a dire human toll. All of the islands
experienced a drastic food shortage. The US military buildup
created jobs and income, but locals were paid a third as much as
continental workers. The military also brought its segregationist
policies to the islands, creating further tensions and resentment.
The sacrifice of the Caribbean people was bitter, but their
participation in the war effort was also decisive: The U-boat
menace more or less disappeared from the region in late 1943,
thanks to their work building up the US military operation.
Friendships between women and gay men captivated the American media
in the opening decade of the 21st century. John Portmann places
this curious phenomenon in its historical context, examining the
changing social attitudes towards gay men in the postwar period and
how their relationships with women have been portrayed in the
media. As women and gay men both struggled toward social equality
in the late 20th century, some women understood that defending gay
men - who were often accused of effeminacy - was in their best
interest. Joining forces carried both political and personal
implications. Straight women used their influence with men to
prevent bullying and combat homophobia. Beyond the bureaucratic
fray, women found themselves in transformed roles with respect to
gay men - as their mothers, sisters, daughters, caregivers,
spouses, voters, employers and best friends. In the midst of social
hostility to gay men during the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 1990s,
a significant number of gay women volunteered to comfort the
afflicted and fight reigning sexual values. Famous women such as
Elizabeth Taylor and Barbra Streisand threw their support behind a
detested minority, while countless ordinary women did the same
across America. Portmann celebrates not only women who made the
headlines but also those who did not. Looking at the links between
the women's liberation and gay rights movements, and filled with
concrete examples of personal and political relationships between
straight women and gay men, Women and Gay Men in the Postwar Period
is an engaging and accessible study which will be of interest to
students and scholars of 20th- and 21st century social and gender
history.
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year A riveting account of
a forgotten holocaust: the slaughter of over one hundred thousand
Ukrainian Jews in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. In the
Midst of Civilized Europe repositions the pogroms as a defining
moment of the twentieth century. 'Exhaustive, clearly written,
deeply researched' - The Times 'A meticulous, original and deeply
affecting historical account' - Philippe Sands, author of East West
Street Between 1918 and 1921, over a hundred thousand Jews were
murdered in Ukraine by peasants, townsmen, and soldiers who blamed
the Jews for the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. In hundreds of
separate incidents, ordinary people robbed their Jewish neighbors
with impunity, burned down their houses, ripped apart their Torah
scrolls, sexually assaulted them, and killed them. Largely
forgotten today, these pogroms - ethnic riots - dominated headlines
and international affairs in their time. Aid workers warned that
six million Jews were in danger of complete extermination. Twenty
years later, these dire predictions would come true. Drawing upon
long-neglected archival materials, including thousands of newly
discovered witness testimonies, trial records, and official orders,
acclaimed historian Jeffrey Veidlinger shows for the first time how
this wave of genocidal violence created the conditions for the
Holocaust. Through stories of survivors, perpetrators, aid workers,
and governmental officials, he explains how so many different
groups of people came to the same conclusion: that killing Jews was
an acceptable response to their various problems.
Catalan-language publishers were under constant threat during the
dictatorship of Francisco Franco (1939-1975). Both the Catalan
language and the introduction of foreign ideas were banned by the
regime, preoccupied as it was with creating a "one, great and free
Spain." Books against Tyranny examines the period through its
censorship laws and censors' accounts by means of intertextuality,
an approach that aims to shed light on the evolution of Francoism's
ideological thought. The documents examined here includes firsthand
witness accounts, correspondence, memoirs, censorship files,
newspapers, original interviews, and unpublished material housed in
various Spanish archives. As such, the book opens up the field and
serves as an informative tool for scholars of Franco's Spain,
Catalan social movements, or censorship more generally.
The gripping, vividly told story of the largest POW escape in the
Second World War - organized by an Australian bank clerk, a British
jazz pianist and an American spy. In August 1944 the most
successful POW escape of the Second World War took place - 106
Allied prisoners were freed from a camp in Maribor, in present-day
Slovenia. The escape was organized not by officers, but by two
ordinary soldiers: Australian Ralph Churches (a bank clerk before
the war) and Londoner Les Laws (a jazz pianist by profession), with
the help of intelligence officer Franklin Lindsay. The American was
on a mission to work with the partisans who moved like ghosts
through the Alps, ambushing and evading Nazi forces. How these
three men came together - along with the partisans - to plan and
execute the escape is told here for the first time. The Greatest
Escape, written by Ralph Churches' son Neil, takes us from Ralph
and Les's capture in Greece in 1941 and their brutal journey to
Maribor, with many POWs dying along the way, to the horror of
seeing Russian prisoners starved to death in the camp. The book
uncovers the hidden story of Allied intelligence operations in
Slovenia, and shows how Ralph became involved. We follow the
escapees on a nail-biting 160-mile journey across the Alps, pursued
by German soldiers, ambushed and betrayed. And yet, of the 106 men
who escaped, 100 made it to safety. Thanks to research across seven
countries, The Greatest Escape is no longer a secret. It is one of
the most remarkable adventure stories of the last century.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the mortality crisis which affected
Eastern Europe and the republics of the former USSR at the time of
the transition to a market economy was arguably the major peacetime
health crisis of recent decades. Chernobyl and the Mortality Crisis
in Eastern Europe and the Old USSR discusses the importance of that
crisis, surprisingly underplayed in the scientific literature, and
presents evidence suggesting a potential role of the Chernobyl
disaster among the causes contributing to it.
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