Search Results - "War"

War Pictures Cinema, Violence, and Style in Britain, 1939-1945 / by Puckett, Kent

Table of Contents: “…: the life and death of Colonel Blimp -- Pistol's two bodies: Henry V at war -- Celia Johnson's face: before and after brief encounter -- Epilogue: Derek Jarman's war.…”
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Jihad and Islam in World War I Studies on the Ottoman Jihad at the centenary of Snouck Hurgronje’s “Holy War Made in Germany” /

Table of Contents: “…Şükrü Hanioğlu -- Propaganda or culture war : jihad, Islam, and nationalism in Turkish literature during World War I / Erol Köroğlu -- Gendering jihad : Ottoman Muslim women and war during the early twentieth century / Nicole van Os -- Architectural jihad : the "Halbmondlager" Mosque of Wünsdorf as an instrument of propaganda / Martin Gussone -- War, propaganda and architecture : Cemal Pasha's restoration of Islamic architecture in Damascus during World War I / Hans Theunissen -- The man who would be Caliph : Sharīfian propaganda in World War I / Joshua Teitelbaum -- A German "illusive love" : Rashīd Riḍā's perceptions of the First World War in the Muslim world / Umar Ryad -- John Buchan's British-designed jihad in Greenmantle / Ahmed K. al-Rawi.…”
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Fighting for Hope African American Troops of the 93rd Infantry Division in World War II and Postwar America / by Jefferson, Robert F., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…The Great Depression and African American youth culture -- Why should I fight? Black morale and War Department racial policy -- Of sage and sand : Fort Huachuca and the U.S. 93rd Infantry Division -- Service families on the move -- War maneuvers and Black division personnel -- War, race, and rumor under the Southern Cross -- Relative security in the southwest Pacific -- Epilogue: Black 93rd Division veterans and former service families after World War II.…”
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Philosophical Witnessing The Holocaust as Presence / by Lang, Berel

Table of Contents: “…Philosophical witnessing: "-- and only I have survived to tell you" -- Truth at risk and the Holocaust's response -- Evil and understanding: a Holocaust dilemma -- Jaspers' Die Schuldfrage: a presence early and late -- Holocaust-representation in the genre of silence -- Representation and misrepresentation: on or about the Holocaust -- Applied ethics, post-Holocaust -- The Jewish declaration of war against the Nazis -- From the Holocaust to group rights: minorities in a majority world -- Metaphysical racism (or: biological warfare by other means) -- Hyphenated-Jews and the anxiety of identity -- Reconciliation: not revenge, not forgiveness, perhaps not even justice -- Afterword: wound and scar.…”
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Christianity and the Holocaust of Hungarian Jewry / by Herczl, Moshe Y., 1924-1990

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Pastplay Teaching and Learning History with Technology /

Table of Contents: “…Turkel and Devon Elliott -- Contests for meaning : playing King Philip's War in the twenty-first century / Matthew Kirscenbaum -- Rolling your own : on modding commercial games for educational goals / Shawn Graham -- Simulation games and the study of the past : classroom guidelines / Jeremiah McCall -- Playing into the past : reconsidering the educational promise of public history exhibits / Brenda Trofanenko -- Teaching history in an age of pervasive computing : the case for games in the high school and undergraduate classroom / Kevin Kee and Shawn Graham -- Victorian SimCities : playful technology on Google Earth / Patrick Dunae and John Sutton Lutz -- True facts or false facts--which are more authentic / T. …”
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