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Australia and the Bomb
By Christine M. Leah. 2014
Japan as the Occupier and the Occupied
By Christine De Matos, Mark E. Caprio. 2015
The moment of Japan's defeat in 1945 artificially dissects its history. Not long after the Meiji Restoration, Japan acquired Ezo…
(present-day Hokkaido) and the Ryukyu Islands (present-day Okinawa). Later in the Meiji Period it annexed Taiwan, southern Sakhalin, and the Korean peninsula. Before the Asia-Pacific War ended in 1945, Japan controlled territories in China, Manchuria, Southeast Asia and the Pacific but with its acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration in August 1945, Japan lost mostof these acquisitions. Examining issues and experiences as part of either a prewar/wartime or postwar context impedes our ability to understand the influence that one period had on the other. How do occupiers maintain their position of power and influence over the people of the state it occupies? How did Japan's leadership and people manage the transition from that of occupier of other territories to that of being occupied by foreign powers? How did this transition affect different aspects of society, from the civilian to the military, the political to the bureaucratic? How did Japanese occupation affect those it had power over, from dissenters to collaborators? What long term impacts did military occupation have on the occupied in terms of memory, commemoration and repatriation? Japan as the Occupier and the Occupied investigates these types of questions by examining transwar transitions in Japan proper and the various territories that it controlled, including Korea, Borneo, Singapore, Manchuria and China. Through taking this approach, a more nuanced understanding of Japan's role as occupier and occupied emerges. More generally, the book contributes to scholarship on the power dynamics of military occupation and the complexities that emerge during, and in the aftermath of, imperial and military expansion, control, and retreat.The Surveillance Imperative
By Simone Turchetti, Peder Roberts. 2014
Surveillance is a key notion for understanding power and control in the modern world, but it has been curiously neglected…
by historians of science and technology. Using the overarching concept of the "surveillance imperative," this collection of essays offers a new window on the evolution of the environmental sciences during and after the Cold War.US National Security Concerns in Latin America and the Caribbean
By Harry E. Vanden, Gary Prevost, Carlos Oliva Campos, Luis Fernando Ayerbe. 2014
The concepts of 'ungoverned spaces' and 'failed states' where the limited presence of the state is seen as a challenge…
to global security have generated a rich intellectual debate in recent years. In this edited volume, scholars from Latin America and the United States will analyze how US foreign policy making circles have applied the concepts to the creation of new US security initiatives in the Latin American region during the post September 11, 2001 era. The extension of concepts to Latin America has been significant because it has meant that during the past thirteen years US policy in the Hemisphere has shifted away from the primarily economic emphasis of the 1990s, the era of the Free Trade Area of the Americas project, back to a security focus reminiscent of the Cold War era. The last decade has witnessed a significant increase in US military presence in the region highlighted by the re-launching of the Caribbean-based Fourth Fleet, the militarization of drug fighting efforts in Mexico, and the establishment of several new military bases in Colombia, the staunchest US ally in the region.Flemish Nationalism and the Great War
By Karen D. Shelby. 2014
Karen Shelby addresses the IJzertoren Memorial, which is dedicated to the Flemish dead of the Great War, and the role…
the monument has played in the discussions among the various political, social and cultural ideologies of the Flemish community.Trauma and Public Memory
By Jane Goodall, Christopher Lee. 2015
This collection explores the ways in which traumatic experience becomes a part of public memory. It explores the premise that…
traumatic events are realities; they happen in the world, not in the fantasy life of individuals or in the narrative frames of our televisions and cinemas.Nato Expansion And Us Strategy In Asia
By Hall Gardner. 2013
Surmounting the Global Crisis critiques the impact of NATO enlargement and the US 'pivot to Asia' on both the Russia…
and China and examines how these dual US-backed policies may influence key countries in the Euro-Atlantic, wider Middle East, and Indo-Pacific regions in general.The Surveillance Imperative
By Simone Turchetti, Peder Roberts. 2014
Surveillance is a key notion for understanding power and control in the modern world, but it has been curiously neglected…
by historians of science and technology. Using the overarching concept of the "surveillance imperative," this collection of essays offers a new window on the evolution of the environmental sciences during and after the Cold War.The Victorian Empire and Britain’s Maritime World, 1837–1901: The Sea and Global History
By Miles Taylor. 2013
A wide-ranging new survey of the role of the sea in Britain's global presence in the 19th century. Mostly at…
peace, but sometimes at war, Britain grew as a maritime empire in the Victorian era. This collection looks at British sea-power as a strategic, moral and cultural force.Cold War Christians and the Spectre of Nuclear Deterrence, 1945–1959
By Jonathan Gorry. 2013
This book offers a new and provocative interpretation of early Cold War history by demonstrating how Christian agency played a…
pivotal role in the creating of space for the logic of nuclear deterrence and nuclear war fighting in the years 1945-59. Cold War chroniclers have traditionally placed great emphasis on threats of mutually assured destruction to explain the puzzle of nuclear non-use since 1945. Here nuclear deterrence is conceived as a realm of absolute necessity with no room for morality. More recently the idea of 'nuclear taboo' has generated immense interest by challenging conventional wisdom with a compelling argument regarding the conceptual (normative rather than material) bases of nuclear restraint. These accounts narrate the emergence of a distinctive ethical order with a particular premium placed on the role of (Anglo-American) Christian activists in giving rise to anti-nuclear sentiment at a formative stage 1945-59. Yet such a reading elides or obfuscates the fact that Christians were deeply divided in their imaginings. Gorry invites a reassessment of assumptions by offering a balanced examination of Christians as enablers but, more provocatively, as resisters of nuclear prohibitions in the early years of Cold War.The British Soldier in the Peninsular War
By Gavin Daly. 2013
Combining military and cultural history, the book explores British soldiers' travels and cross-cultural encounters in Spain and Portugal, 1808-1814. It…
is the story of how soldiers interacted with the local environment and culture, of their attitudes and behaviour towards the inhabitants, and how they wrote about all this in letters and memoirs.Policing Wars
By Caroline Holmqvist. 2014
Holmqvist presents an original account of the relationship between war and policing in the twenty first century. This interdisciplinary study…
of contemporary Western strategic thinking reveals how, why, and with what consequences, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq became seen as policing wars.Revisiting Napoleon’s Continental System
By Katherine B. Aaslestad, Johan Joor. 2015
Napoleonic warfare spread to the high seas, harbors and marketplaces across Europe and the Atlantic through the Continental System. This…
volume addresses the illicit commerce, new merchant networks, 'daily life', and tensions with neutral states generated by Anglo-French economic warfare. It also reveals the contradictions inherent in the Napoleonic Empire - at once rational and progressive, but also coercive and exploitative. Regional and urban case studies offer a more complete understanding of the significance of economic warfare during the Napoleonic era, and explore the experiences and consequences of the conflict through several key themes: a re-evaluation of the historiography of the Continental System, the uneven power triangle of the French, British and neutral powers, and the strategies of merchants and smugglers to adapt to or circumvent the system. Transnational case studies underscore the vulnerability and ingenuity of Europeans as they faced transformative social and economic challenges.Democratization and Civilian Control in Asia
By Aurel Croissant, David Kuehn, Philip Lorenz, Paul W. Chambers. 2013
The Sword and the Shield
By Kristan Stoddart. 2014
Kristan Stoddart reveals for the first time discussions that took place between the British, French and US governments for nuclear…
cooperation in the early to mid 1970s. In doing so it sets the scene for the upgrade to Britain's Polaris force codenamed Chevaline and how this could have brought down Harold Wilson's Labour government of 1974-1976.Experiences of War and Nationality in Denmark and Norway, 1807–1815
By Rasmus Glenthøj, Morten Nordhagen Ottosen. 2014
Chechnya’s Secret Wartime Diplomacy
By Nicholas Daniloff, Ilyas Akhmadov. 2013
This volume makes available transcripts and commentary from the secret correspondence between former Chechen foreign minister Ilyas Akhmatov and Chechen…
President Aslan Maskhadov. This correspondence provides revelatory insights into both men's attempts to secure Western support for a peaceful transition to an independent Chechnya.Forces for Good?
By Claire Duncanson. 2013
This book utilises the growing phenomenon of British soldier narratives from Iraq and Afghanistan to explore how British soldiers make…
sense of their role on these complex, multi-dimensional operations. It aims to intervene in the debates within critical feminist scholarship over whether soldiers can ever be agents of peace.Narratives of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
By Catriona Kennedy. 2013
The volume explores how the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars were experienced, perceived and narrated by contemporaries in Britain and Ireland,…
drawing on an extensive range of personal testimonies by soldiers, sailors and civilians to shed new light on the social and cultural history of the period and the history of warfare more broadly.Churchill, Borden and Anglo-Canadian Naval Relations, 1911–14
By Martin Thornton. 2013
In 1911, Winston S. Churchill and Robert L. Borden became companions in an attempt to provide naval security for the…
British Empire as a naval crisis loomed with Germany. Their scheme for Canada to provide battleships for the Royal Navy as part of an Imperial squadron was rejected by the Senate with great implications for the future.