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Book Images of Women in Peace and War

Download or read book Images of Women in Peace and War written by Sharon Macdonald and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As warriors, freedom fighters and victims, as mothers, wives and prostitutes, and as creators and members of peace movements, women are inevitably caught up in the net of war. Yet women's participation in warfare and peace campaigns has often been underestimated or ignored. Images of Women in Peace and War explores women's relationships to war, peace, and revolution, from the Amazons, Inka and Boadicea, to women soldiers in South Africa, Mau Mau freedom fighters and the protestors at Greenham Common. The contributors consider not only the reality of women's participation but also look at how their actions have been perceived and represented across cultures and through history. They examine how sexual imagery is constructed, how it is used to delineate women's relation to warfare and how these images have sometimes been subverted in order to challenge the status quo. The book raises important questions about whether women have a special prerogative to promote peace and considers whether the experience of motherhood leads to a distinctive women's position on war. The authors find that their analyses lead them to deal with arguments on the basic nature of the sexes and to reevaluate our concepts of "peace," "war," and "gender."

Book I Dream of Peace

Download or read book I Dream of Peace written by and published by UN. This book was released on 1994 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'When I close my eyes, I dream of peace.', said 14 year old Aleksandar, just after enduring a dressing change of the terrible burn wounds he suffered from a Molotov cocktail explosion. His words became the title of this book, which presents the thoughts & paintings of children in the former Yugoslavia, as they deal with war related psychological trauma. The material was gathered by UNICEF during its work in the former Yugoslavia.

Book Memorial Pictures of War and Peace

Download or read book Memorial Pictures of War and Peace written by Mary Brainard and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Robert E  Lee in War and Peace

Download or read book Robert E Lee in War and Peace written by Donald A. Hopkins and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2013-10-19 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert E. Lee is well known as a Confederate general and as an educator later in life, but most people are exposed to the same handful of images of one of America’s most famous sons. It has been almost seven decades since anyone has attempted a serious study of Lee in photographs, and with Don Hopkins’s painstakingly researched and lavishly illustrated Robert E. Lee in War and Peace, the wait is finally over. Dr. Hopkins, a Mississippi surgeon and lifelong student of the Civil War and Southern history with a recent interest in Robert E. Lee’s “from life” photographs, scoured manuscript repositories and private collections across the country to locate every known Lee image (61 in all) in existence today. The detailed text accompanying these images provides a sweeping history of Lee’s life and a compelling discussion of antique photography, with biographical sketches of all of Lee’s known photographers. The importance of information within the photographer’s imprint or backmark is emphasized throughout the book. Hopkins offers a substantial amount of previously unknown information about these images, how each came to be, and the mistakes in fact and attribution other authors and writers have made describing photographs of Lee to the reading public. Many of the images in this book are being published for the first time. In addition to a few rare photographs and formats that were uncovered during the research phase of Robert E. Lee in War and Peace, the author offers—for the first time—definitive and conclusive attribution of the identity of the photographer of the well-known Lee “in the field” images, and reproduces a startling imperial-size photograph of Lee made by Alexander Gardner of Washington, D.C. Students of American history in general and the Civil War in particular, as well as collectors and dealers who deal with Civil War era photography, will find Hopkins’s outstanding Robert E. Lee in War and Peace a true contribution to the growing literature on the Civil War. About the Author: Born in the rural South, Donald A. Hopkins has maintained a fascination with Southern history since he was a child. In addition to published papers in the medical field, he has written several Civil War articles and The Little Jeff: The Jeff Davis Legion, Cavalry, Army of Northern Virginia for which he received the United Daughters of the Confederacy’s Jefferson Davis Historical Gold Medal. Dr. Hopkins served as Battalion Surgeon for the 1st Battalion, 9th Marines, (better known as “The Walking Dead”) in Vietnam. He was awarded the purple heart and the Bronze Star with combat “V.” Dr. Hopkins is a surgeon in Gulfport, Mississippi, where he lives with his wife Cindy and their golden retriever Dixie.

Book The Psychology of War and Peace

Download or read book The Psychology of War and Peace written by Fred van Houten and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can a Baby Be an Enemy? Our world is in a deep, prolonged crisis. The threat of global nuclear war, the chronic condition of local wars, the imperilled environment, and mass star vation are among the major forms this crisis takes. The dangers of massive overkill, overexploitation of the environment, and overpopulation are well known, but surprisingly little has been said about their potential interac tions, their bearing upon each other. If there were to be a nuclear confronta tion between today's superpowers, it might not take place in today's world, but in a far less friendly habitat, such as the world may be some decades hence. And it need hardly be added that the era of this particular super power configuration may be waning rapidly, its place to be taken by other international arrangements not necessarily less threatening. To understand and cope with our situation we need correspondingly serious reflection. This volume forms a welcome part of that process. Un avoidably, a large part of our thinking about the issues of human survival must be oriented to physical and biological aspects of the total danger. But it has not escaped the authors of this book that, coupled with these aspects, there are profound psychological dangers, such as loss of the sense of futu rity, moral deterioration, and a fatalistic decline in the will to struggle to protect our home, the Earth.

Book Waging Peace in Vietnam

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ron Carver
  • Publisher : New Village Press
  • Release : 2019-09-10
  • ISBN : 1613321074
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Waging Peace in Vietnam written by Ron Carver and published by New Village Press. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How American Soldiers Opposed and Resisted the War in Vietnam While mainstream narratives of the Vietnam War all but marginalize anti-war activity of soldiers, opposition and resistance from within the three branches of the military made a real difference to the course of America’s engagement in Vietnam. By 1968, every major peace march in the United States was led by active duty GIs and Vietnam War veterans. By 1970, thousands of active duty soldiers and marines were marching in protest in US cities. Hundreds of soldiers and marines in Vietnam were refusing to fight; tens of thousands were deserting to Canada, France and Sweden. Eventually the US Armed Forces were no longer able to sustain large-scale offensive operations and ceased to be effective. Yet this history is largely unknown and has been glossed over in much of the written and visual remembrances produced in recent years. Waging Peace in Vietnam shows how the GI movement unfolded, from the numerous anti-war coffee houses springing up outside military bases, to the hundreds of GI newspapers giving an independent voice to active soldiers, to the stockade revolts and the strikes and near-mutinies on naval vessels and in the air force. The book presents first-hand accounts, oral histories, and a wealth of underground newspapers, posters, flyers, and photographs documenting the actions of GIs and veterans who took part in the resistance. In addition, the book features fourteen original essays by leading scholars and activists. Notable contributors include Vietnam War scholar and author, Christian Appy, and Mme Nguyen Thi Binh, who played a major role in the Paris Peace Accord. The book originates from the exhibition Waging Peace, which has been shown in Vietnam and the University of Notre Dame, and will be touring the eastern United States in conjunction with book launches in Boston, Amherst, and New York.

Book Somewhere Between War and Peace

Download or read book Somewhere Between War and Peace written by James Hill and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 50 photographs and their stories by Pulitzer Prize winning photographer James Hill

Book War and Peace

    Book Details:
  • Author : Leo Tolstoy
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2014-04-08
  • ISBN : 1476789479
  • Pages : 1302 pages

Download or read book War and Peace written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 1302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War and Peace is considered one of the world’s greatest works of fiction. It is regarded, along with Anna Karenina, as Tolstoy’s finest literary achievement. Epic in scale, War and Peace delineates in graphic detail events leading up to Napoleon’s invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, as seen through the eyes of five Russian aristocratic families.

Book Images of War   Peace

Download or read book Images of War Peace written by Australian War Memorial and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shadows of War

Download or read book Shadows of War written by Carolyn Nordstrom and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation This book captures the human face of the frontlines, revealing both the visible and the hidden realities of contemporary war, power, and international profiteering in the 21st century.

Book Peace Photography

Download or read book Peace Photography written by Frank Möller and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study thinks with photography about peace. It asks how photography can represent peace, and how such representation can contribute to peace. The book offers an original critique of the almost exclusive focus on violence in recent work on visual culture and presents a completely new research agenda within the overall framework of visual peace research. Critically engaging with both photojournalism and art photography in light of peace theories, it looks for visual representations or anticipations of peace – peace or peace as a potentiality – in the work of selected photographers including Robert Capa and Richard Mosse, thus reinterpreting photography from the Spanish Civil War to current anti-migration politics in Europe. The book argues that peace photography is episodic, culturally specific, process-oriented and considerate of both the past and the future.

Book Children of War  Children of Peace

Download or read book Children of War Children of Peace written by Robert Capa and published by Bulfinch Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The uncanny ability that enabled Robert Capa to capture the tragedy of war reveals itself equally in his photographs of children

Book Images of War Images of Peace Images of Patriots

Download or read book Images of War Images of Peace Images of Patriots written by Marion Wehmeyer and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “IMAGES OF WAR” is a pictorial review of the sacrifices soldiers of the military service make to insure freedom has its day! Each picture is provided by someone who has served in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, or Marine Corp. From brutal war to civic actions the soldiers of the United States of America serve to right any wrong in the world. They must not be forgotten! Their service is pictured here with that in mind. Take a few minutes to honor them with your appreciation during your review of this book. This book explicitly pictures their challenging life as soldiers of freedom. May God bless each and every one!

Book Tod Papageorge  War   Peace in New York

Download or read book Tod Papageorge War Peace in New York written by and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The street life and political tensions of Tod Papageorge's late 1960s New York, in a two-volume clothbound presentation This publication comprises two books of pictures Papageorge made after moving to Manhattan as a young man. As different as they are from one another--each book advances a distinct argument supporting Papageorge's belief in photographic "fiction-making"--together they amount to a comprehensive portrait of an uneasy city during a grim, fevered time. Down to the City follows (and ironically twists) the first sentences of Plato's Republic, threading phrases from Socrates' description of a religious festival through a stream of pictures seized in Manhattan's secular streets. This novel-like flow builds the sense of a place haunted by dystopian disorder, which is amplified late in the book when the war in Vietnam takes center stage, clarifying the tensions leading to that moment. The Dear Common Round traces a softer arc. Here the actions and exchanges that a city's people make in the streets thousands of times a day are photographically honored simply and directly, as if the style of picture-making, at least initially in the book, had reverted to the first days of hand-camera photography. This changes as the sequence progresses, but for all its increasing visual and narrative complexity, The Dear Common Round holds true to the promise of its opening: this is a city sweet, if serious, at its heart, built to belong to and cherish. Tod Papageorge was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1940, and began photographing during his last semester of college before graduating with a degree in English literature in 1962. His work has been widely exhibited and is represented in over 30 major public collections. Steidl has published Papageorge's Passing Through Eden: Photographs of Central Park (2007) and Dr. Blankman's New York (2018).

Book In Times of War and Peace

Download or read book In Times of War and Peace written by David C. Turnley and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As photojournalists since the early 1980s, the Turnleys have covered most of the great conflicts of the past fifteen years, and have been published in the best-known newspapers and magazines. Very often, one of their photographs becomes the iconic representation of the event. This is a result of their spending extended periods in the regions they cover, getting to know the people and the way of life. During the three years David lived in South Africa, he showed apartheid as the prevailing system, its subsequent destruction, and the first elections of the new democratic state. Peter has pursued his interest in documenting the world's fourteen million refugees, and also photographed the fall of Communism in Russia and Eastern Europe. Together they photographed student dissidents in the months leading up to the Tiananmen Square massacre; their photographs of the massacre itself are among their most recognizable. Shining through all the photographs is the strength of individual character and hope against powerful social and political conflict.

Book Poland 1945

    Book Details:
  • Author : Magdalena Grzebalkowska
  • Publisher : Russian and East European Stud
  • Release : 2020
  • ISBN : 9780822945994
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Poland 1945 written by Magdalena Grzebalkowska and published by Russian and East European Stud. This book was released on 2020 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official end of World War II did not mean the end of the torments inflicted on civilians. This book brings us vivid personal accounts of ordinary people in Poland--Poles, Germans, Jews, Ukrainians, and others--caught up in the most violent war in history and its aftermath. No place experienced more intense suffering for a longer period of time than Poland--the first country to be invaded by both Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia and the last to be "liberated". This is the story of how people survived the flames of war, and began to clear the rubble and try to rebuild their lives, from January to December 1945.

Book Parallel Universes of Children

Download or read book Parallel Universes of Children written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In honor of World Children's Day, artist Ugur Gallenkus is debuting his first book, Parallel Universes of Children. The book features selections from Gallenkus' ongoing series of collages juxtaposing the starkly different worlds today's children inhabit globally. Parallel Universes of Children, an 11x11-inch, 120-page hardcover volume, contains 52 collages representing children's rights and pairs each artwork with quotes and facts about children's lived realities. Every page of this book bears witness to the lives and plights of children around the world-acknowledging their fears, tears, and pain.