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

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- "But what is it about?" : 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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In war and famine missionaries in China's Honan Province in the 1940s / by Christensen, Erleen J.

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

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- "But what is it about?" : 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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Creating the Modern Army : Citizen-Soldiers and the American Way of War, 1919–1939 / by Woolley, William J.

Table of Contents: “…The quest for a national military policy, 1878-1920 -- Creating the citizen Army, 1919-1925 -- Disappointment and disillusionment : the Army and the nation, 1920-1925 -- The heart of the policy creating the new citizen Army -- The Army in the era of stability, 1926-1929 : creating the branches -- Stabilizing the relationship : the Army and the nation in the era of stability -- The civilian components in the era of stability -- Creating orthodoxy and predictability : professional military education in the Army, 1919-1939 -- Building a throne for the queen : infantry branch organization and branch culture in the 1920s -- Branch stagnation : American field artillery in the interwar period -- End of the big guns : mission and branch identity crisis in the coastal artillery, 1919-1939 -- Mechanizing the Army, 1930-1939 -- The Army besieged : the Army and the nation in the decade of the Depression, 1930-1939 -- Stability amidst crisis : the civilian components in the 1930s -- Modern weapons and traditional tactics, the infantry and tanks, 1920-1939 -- Mounts or motors? …”
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Creating the Modern Army : Citizen-Soldiers and the American Way of War, 1919–1939 / by Woolley, William J.

Table of Contents: “…The quest for a national military policy, 1878-1920 -- Creating the citizen Army, 1919-1925 -- Disappointment and disillusionment : the Army and the nation, 1920-1925 -- The heart of the policy creating the new citizen Army -- The Army in the era of stability, 1926-1929 : creating the branches -- Stabilizing the relationship : the Army and the nation in the era of stability -- The civilian components in the era of stability -- Creating orthodoxy and predictability : professional military education in the Army, 1919-1939 -- Building a throne for the queen : infantry branch organization and branch culture in the 1920s -- Branch stagnation : American field artillery in the interwar period -- End of the big guns : mission and branch identity crisis in the coastal artillery, 1919-1939 -- Mechanizing the Army, 1930-1939 -- The Army besieged : the Army and the nation in the decade of the Depression, 1930-1939 -- Stability amidst crisis : the civilian components in the 1930s -- Modern weapons and traditional tactics, the infantry and tanks, 1920-1939 -- Mounts or motors? …”
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Japan's motorcycle wars an industry history / by Alexander, Jeffrey W., 1972-

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Cold War Anthropology : The CIA, the Pentagon, and the Growth of Dual Use Anthropology / by Price, David H., 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Cold War political-economic disciplinary formations -- Political economy and history of American Cold War intelligence -- World War II long shadow -- Rebooting professional anthropology in the postwar world -- After the shooting war: centers, committees, seminars, and other Cold War projects -- Anthropologists and state: aid, debt, and other Cold War weapons of the strong intermezzo -- Anthropologists' articulations with the National Security State -- Cold War anthropologists at the CIA: careers confirmed and suspected -- How CIA funding fronts shaped anthropological research -- Unwitting CIA anthropologist collaborators: MK-Ultra, human ecology, and buying a piece of anthropology -- Cold War fieldwork within the intelligence universe -- Cold War anthropological counterinsurgency dreams -- The AAA confronts military and intelligence uses of disciplinary knowledge -- Anthropologically informed counterinsurgency in Southeast Asia -- Anthropologists for radical political action and revolution within the AAA -- Untangling open secrets, hidden histories, outrage denied, and recurrent dual use themes.…”
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Cold War Liberation : The Soviet Union and the Collapse of the Portuguese Empire in Africa, 1961–1975 / by Telepneva, Natalia

“…The new Cold War history…”
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Writing the Yugoslav Wars : Literature, Postmodernism, and the Ethics of Representation / by Obradović, Dragana

Table of Contents: “…War, postmodernism, and literary immanence -- The spectacle of the siege -- The phantasmagoria and seduction of Kitsch -- The search for a language of the historical present -- The quickened moral pulse.…”
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Cold War Liberation : The Soviet Union and the Collapse of the Portuguese Empire in Africa, 1961–1975 / by Telepneva, Natalia

“…The new Cold War history…”
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Writing the Yugoslav Wars : Literature, Postmodernism, and the Ethics of Representation / by Obradović, Dragana

Table of Contents: “…War, postmodernism, and literary immanence -- The spectacle of the siege -- The phantasmagoria and seduction of Kitsch -- The search for a language of the historical present -- The quickened moral pulse.…”
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Cold War Anthropology : The CIA, the Pentagon, and the Growth of Dual Use Anthropology / by Price, David H., 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Cold War political-economic disciplinary formations -- Political economy and history of American Cold War intelligence -- World War II long shadow -- Rebooting professional anthropology in the postwar world -- After the shooting war: centers, committees, seminars, and other Cold War projects -- Anthropologists and state: aid, debt, and other Cold War weapons of the strong intermezzo -- Anthropologists' articulations with the National Security State -- Cold War anthropologists at the CIA: careers confirmed and suspected -- How CIA funding fronts shaped anthropological research -- Unwitting CIA anthropologist collaborators: MK-Ultra, human ecology, and buying a piece of anthropology -- Cold War fieldwork within the intelligence universe -- Cold War anthropological counterinsurgency dreams -- The AAA confronts military and intelligence uses of disciplinary knowledge -- Anthropologically informed counterinsurgency in Southeast Asia -- Anthropologists for radical political action and revolution within the AAA -- Untangling open secrets, hidden histories, outrage denied, and recurrent dual use themes.…”
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Enemy aliens, prisoners of war internment in Canada during the Great War / by Kordan, Bohdan S.

Subjects: “…World War, 1914-1918 Evacuation of civilians Canada.…”
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Queering Cold War Poetry : Ethics of Vulnerability in Cuba and the United States / by Keenaghan, Eric

Table of Contents: “…Toward a queer ethic of vulnerability -- Intrinsic coupling: Wallace Stevens and the pleasures of correspondence -- A nation's secrets: resistance and reform in Jose Lezama Lima's poetic system -- Vulnerable households: containment and Robert Duncan's queered nation -- A baroque revolution : Severo Sarduy's queer cosmology.…”
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Nurse Writers of the Great War / by Hallett, Christine E.

Table of Contents: “…Disillusionment and despair: meeting the realities of warThe mystery of War Nurse; Conclusion: the truth about the war; Notes; 8 The British 'VAD'; Introduction: becoming a VAD; Realising war's realities; Vera Brittain's Testament; Enid Bagnold: military medicine as part of the 'war machine'; Needed by the country: Irene Rathbone's 'novel'; Conclusion: the VAD as witness; Notes; 9 Epic romance on Western and Eastern Fronts; Introduction: the romance of volunteer work; Ordeals on the Western Front; 'Wide open world': the adventures of Florence Farmborough.…”
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Making Peace in an Age of War : Emperor Ferdinand III (1608–1657) / by Hengerer, Mark

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Seeking Peace in the Wake of War : Europe, 1943-1947 /

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Seeking Peace in the Wake of War: Europe, 1943-1947; Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann, Sandrine Kott, Peter Romijn and Olivier Wieviorka; 1 -- In the Wake of War; The 'War Syndrome'; World War II and Polish Society; Marcin Zaremba; Germans into Allies; Writing a Diary in 1945; Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann; Two Paths to the Same End?…”
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The last French and Indian war an inquiry into a safe-conduct issued in 1760 that acquired the value of a treaty in 1990 / by Vaugeois, Denis

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Queering Cold War Poetry : Ethics of Vulnerability in Cuba and the United States / by Keenaghan, Eric

Table of Contents: “…Toward a queer ethic of vulnerability -- Intrinsic coupling: Wallace Stevens and the pleasures of correspondence -- A nation's secrets: resistance and reform in Jose Lezama Lima's poetic system -- Vulnerable households: containment and Robert Duncan's queered nation -- A baroque revolution : Severo Sarduy's queer cosmology.…”
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Nurse Writers of the Great War / by Hallett, Christine E.

Table of Contents: “…Disillusionment and despair: meeting the realities of warThe mystery of War Nurse; Conclusion: the truth about the war; Notes; 8 The British 'VAD'; Introduction: becoming a VAD; Realising war's realities; Vera Brittain's Testament; Enid Bagnold: military medicine as part of the 'war machine'; Needed by the country: Irene Rathbone's 'novel'; Conclusion: the VAD as witness; Notes; 9 Epic romance on Western and Eastern Fronts; Introduction: the romance of volunteer work; Ordeals on the Western Front; 'Wide open world': the adventures of Florence Farmborough.…”
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