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The Royal Navy: A History Since 1900
Автор: Redford Duncan Жанр: I.B.Tauris Издательство: I.B.Tauris Год: 2014 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 25 апреля 20182018-03-19
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Since 1900, the Royal Navy has seen vast operational changes. This book tells the story, not just of victory and defeat, but also of how the Navy has adjusted to a century of rapid technological and social change. The extensive reforms made by Admiral Fisher at the dawn of the twentieth century saw the navy's nineteenth-century wooden fleet replaced with the latest modern technology — battleships (including the iconic dreadnoughts), aircraft carriers and submarines. In World War I and World War II, the navy played a central role, with unrestricted submarine warfare and supply blockades becoming an integral part of combat. However it was the development of nuclear and missile technology during the Cold War era which drastically changed the face of naval warfare — today the navy can launch sea-based strikes across thousands of miles to reach targets deep inland. This book places the wars and battles fought by the navy — from Jutland to the Falklands — within a wider context, looking at political, economic, social and cultural issues, as well as providing a thorough operational history.
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A Short History of the Spanish Civil War
Автор: Casanova Julian Жанр: I.B.Tauris Издательство: I.B.Tauris Год: 2012 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 28 марта 20152015-09-10
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The years of the Spanish Civil War filled twentieth-century Spain with hope, frustration and drama. Not only did it pit countryman against countryman, and neighbour against neighbour, but from 1936-39 this bitterly contended struggle sucked in competing and seemingly atavistic forces that were soon to rage across the face of Europe, and then the rest of the world: nationalism and republicanism; communism and fascism; anarchism and monarchism; anti-clerical reformism and aristocratic Catholic conservatism. The Guerra Civil is of enduring interest precisely because it represents much more than just a regional contest for power and governmental legitimacy. It has come to be seen as a seedbed for the titanic political struggles and larger social upheavals that scarred the entire twentieth century. In elegant and accessible prose, Julian Casanova tells the gripping story of these years of anguish and trauma, which hit the country with a force hitherto unknown at any time in Spain's history. Charting the most significant events and battles alongside the main players in the tragedy, he provides answers to some of the pressing questions (such as the roots and extent of anti-clerical violence) that have been asked in the seventy years that have passed since the painful defeat of the Second Republic.
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Christmas: A Social History
Автор: Connelly Mark Жанр: I.B.Tauris Издательство: I.B.Tauris Год: 2012 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20152015-09-02
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This book provides an original perspective on the West's most enduring social and cultural institution. The author covers all the vital themes contributing to the modern Christmas: its Anglo-German origins and the idea of the bourgeois Christmas expressing family virtues; the need for a touchstone with the past in an age of rapid expansion and thus the myth of Merrie England; and the revival of English music: in short, all the elements making up the modern Christmas.
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Reaching for the Stars: A New History of Bomber Command in World War II
Автор: Connelly Mark Жанр: I.B.Tauris Издательство: I.B.Tauris Год: 2002 Страниц: 216 Дата загрузки: 26 февраля 20092003-12-16
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The role of Bomber Command in World War II is still shrouded in mystery. This book provides a new and revisionary narrative of the campaign, serving as both a military history and an investigation into how modern perceptions of Bomber Command have come about. It shows why Bomber Command — in one of the largest and bloodiest campaigns of the war with 55,000 aircrew lost — has received so much attention yet remains a lost sheep among British wartime glories, and is still dogged by controversy.
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Cinema and Soviet Society: From the Revolution to the Death of Stalin
Автор: Kenez Peter Жанр: I.B.Tauris Издательство: I.B.Tauris Год: 2000 Страниц: 263 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20092002-05-18
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The story of Soviet film in the period covered by Peter Kenez is central to the history of world cinema. The author explores the roots of Soviet cinema in the film heritage of pre-Revolutionary Russia; the changes in content, style, technical means, and production capacities generated by the Revolution of 1917; the constraints on form and subject imposed from the 1930s in the name of Socialist Realism; the relative freedom of expression accorded to film-makers during World War Two; and the extraordinary repression during the final years of the Stalin era.
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The Battleship Potemkin
Автор: Taylor Richard Жанр: I.B.Tauris Издательство: I.B.Tauris Год: 2001 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 15 мая 20092004-09-22
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The KINO Russian Cinema series has been expanding to provide students and general readers with readable, companion handbooks to important and interesting films of Russian cinema from its beginnings to the late 1990s. This volume investigates the production, context and reception of the film Battleship Potemkin, the people who made it, and the film itself, including its place in Russian and World cinema.
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Ivan the Terrible
Автор: Neuberger Joan Жанр: I.B.Tauris Издательство: I.B.Tauris Год: 2009 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20132014-08-23
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Eisenstein's last, unfinished masterpiece is a strange, complex and haunting film. Commissioned personally by Stalin in 1941, the project placed Eisenstein in the paradoxical situation of having to glorify Stalinist tyranny in the image of Ivan, without sacrificing his own artistic and political integrity — or his life. Drawing on sources that include Eisenstein's personal archive and the memoirs of those involved in Ivan's making, Joan Neuberger's vivid account reveals how, in almost impossible circumstances, he managed to create a film of cinematic innovation, intellectual depth and political critique. She reveals the film to be both a great work of art and a product of the time and place in which it was made.
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Photography and Surrealism: Sexuality, Colonialism and Social Dissent
Автор: Bate David Жанр: I.B.Tauris Издательство: I.B.Tauris Год: 2004 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 27 сентября 20092007-04-24
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As surreal images become ever more common through the ease of computer manipulation, the place in history occupied by Surrealism and the Surrealists can easily be lost to sight. This challenging re-evaluation of the status and use of photographic images in historical Surrealism puts Surrealism's fundamental issues back into the framework of its historical purpose and function. David Bate examines automatism and the photographic image, the Surrealist passion for insanity, ambivalent use of Orientalism, use of Sadean philosophy and the effect of fascism of the Surrealists. The book is illustrated wtih a wide range of surrealist photographs.
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Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands
Автор: Sakwa Richard Жанр: I.B.Tauris Издательство: I.B.Tauris Год: 2015 Страниц: 220 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20182017-07-24
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The unfolding crisis in Ukraine has brought the world to the brink of a new Cold War. As Russia and Ukraine tussle for Crimea and the eastern regions, relations between Putin and the West have reached an all-time low. How did we get here? Richard Sakwa here unpicks the context of conflicted Ukrainian identity and of Russo-Ukrainian relations and traces the path to the recent disturbances through the events which have forced Ukraine, a country internally divided between East and West, to choose between closer union with Europe or its historic ties with Russia. In providing the first full account of the ongoing crisis, Sakwa analyses the origins and significance of the Euromaidan Protests, examines the controversial Russian military intervention and annexation of Crimea, reveals the extent of the catastrophe of the MH17 disaster and looks at possible ways forward following the October 2014 parliamentary elections. In doing so, he explains the origins, developments and global significance of the internal and external battle for Ukraine. With all eyes focused on the region, Sakwa unravels the myths and misunderstandings of the situation, providing an essential and highly readable account of the struggle for Europe's contested borderlands.
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Little Emperors and Material Girls: Sex and Youth in Modern China
Автор: Steinfeld Jemimah Жанр: I.B.Tauris Издательство: I.B.Tauris Год: 2015 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 9 февраля 20172020-08-11
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China is the world's fastest-growing economic powerhouse. Everybody knows this. But behind the headlines a once-in-a-generation sexual and cultural revolution is taking place — all in the bars, cafes and streets of China's growing mega-cities. Welcome to this new China. Writer and journalist Jemimah Steinfeld meets the young people behind the world's fastest-moving nation to unveil their attitudes towards love, life and sexuality. Young Chinese have new words to describe the world they live in: 'little emperors' — single men who have grown up under the one child policy — they're bossy and selfish; 'bare branches' — those without children; 'leftovers' — women over twenty-six who aren't married; 'comrade' — how the gay community identifies itself; 'love markets' — weekend gatherings across China where parents attempt to find husbands and wives for their children, and others show up to match-make young singles and even offer boyfriends for hire. Jemimah Steinfeld introduces the people at the heart of this world, from the man starting China's first online dating agency to the women who work the red-light districts; from the company trying to sell sex toys to China's middle-classes to the sino-punks of Beijing's bar scene. Little Emperors and Material Girls is the book which will change the way you see China.
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Leningrad, 1943: Inside a City Under Siege
Автор: Werth Alexander Жанр: I.B.Tauris Издательство: I.B.Tauris Год: 2015 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 18 июня 20172017-10-21
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The 900-day German Siege of Leningrad is the most powerful testimony to the immeasurable cruelty and horror of World War II. As the sole British correspondent to have been in the city during the blockade, Alexander Werth presents a harrowing firsthand account of the savagery and destruction wrought by the Nazis against the civilian population of the city. His writing evokes compelling images of terror — the bombing of children's hospitals, mass starvation and cannibalism — with rich and well-informed first hand-accounts and commentary on the internal politics of Soviet party chiefs, soldiers and civilian resistance fighters. Both an authoritative historical document and a journalistic narrative of the overwhelming sadness, grief and futility of 20th century warfare, this is an invaluable look at one of the greatest losses of human life in recorded history.
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Practical Aesthetics: Events, Affects and Art After 9/11
Автор: Bennett Jill Жанр: I.B.Tauris Издательство: I.B.Tauris Год: 2012 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 28 марта 20152015-09-10
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Practical Aesthetics brings a pursuit, long seen as rarefied and indulgent, out of the ivory tower and down to Ground Zero. Theoretically ambitious, fiercely original, it is a radical new account of art's rootedness in the social world and of the value of aesthetics to contemporary society. Beginning with the cultural watershed of 9/11, internationally-renowned scholar Jill Bennett explores artistic developments in relation to current events to argue that understanding aesthetics is as vital to social and political theory as it is to the arts. Taking as its starting-point a definition of art as the critical, self-conscious manipulation of media, Bennett examines a wide range of events from the War on Terror to the football World Cup to elucidate how aesthetic perception works in a social field, a process that begins with the rich emotional content of the visual imagery with which we are constantly bombarded. Now more than ever, Bennett argues, understanding how what we see informs what we do is not merely an artistic endeavour but one which is fundamental to our very being. Part of the Radical Aesthetics, Radical Art series, this book challenges the notion that art and 'real life' are somehow opposed. Practical Aesthetics proposes a new way of reading contemporary artworks — and a new understanding of how fundamental art is to our social survival.
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Vincent Van Gogh: The Years in France: Complete Paintings 1886-1890
Автор: Feilchenfeldt Walter Жанр: I.B.Tauris Издательство: I.B.Tauris Год: 2013 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 сентября 20182017-03-24
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Presented here is a comprehensive list of Van Gogh's paintings executed between 1886 and 1890 in Paris, Arles, Saint-Remy and Auvers-sur-Oise. The works are reproduced in full colour and appear in related scale to their original size. All owners are registered, beginning with Theo van Gogh or receivers of gifts, and ending with the present owners, if known and willing to be mentioned. For the first time the paintings recorded in early documents like the Andries Bonger Inventory List of 1890 and the 1905 Amsterdam Exhibition are completely identified. The book is a contribution to a future catalogue raisonne of Vincent van Gogh's work and includes a wealth of new information of crucial importance to collectors, dealers, art historians and public institutions.
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