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Book Volunteers of the Empire

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  • Author : Fernando J. Padilla Angulo
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2022-12-15
  • ISBN : 1350281220
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book Volunteers of the Empire written by Fernando J. Padilla Angulo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uncovers the history of The Volunteers, a Spanish loyalist militia who were committed to upholding Spanish imperial interests and influence in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Santa Domingo and The Philippines as the age of empire came to a close. Unpicking the relationship between local and imperial administrations and highlighting the contribution of voluntary units to colonial warfare, Padilla Angulo shows how Spanish loyalism persevered in the colonies even as the last bastions of empire were dismantled. Revealing the complexity and diversity of The Volunteers themselves in various colonies, Volunteers of the Empire shows how thousands of young men of Spanish, African and Asian descent were united in the defence of Spanish sovereignty in times of anti-colonial struggle that were civil wars in all but name. It uncovers a fascinating history of a militia that became an essential element of Spanish imperialism and the armed wing of Spanish loyalism during the second half of the 19th century. Through their fluctuating relationship with the authorities in Spain, The Volunteers provide a fresh perspective into the global and local complexities of nation building, nationalism and citizenship.

Book Volunteers of the Spanish Empire  1855 1898

Download or read book Volunteers of the Spanish Empire 1855 1898 written by Fernando J. Padilla Angulo and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Loyalists of Empire

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  • Author : Padilla Angulo
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2022
  • ISBN : 9781350285026
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Loyalists of Empire written by Padilla Angulo and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book uncovers the history of The Volunteers, a Spanish loyalist militia who were committed to upholding Spanish imperial interests and influence in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Santa Domingo and The Philippines as the age of empire came to a close. Unpicking the relationship between local and imperial administrations and highlighting the contribution of voluntary units to colonial warfare, Padilla Angulo shows how Spanish loyalism persevered in the colonies even as the last bastions of empire were dismantled. Revealing the complexity and diversity of The Volunteers themselves in various colonies, Volunteers of the Empire shows how thousands of young men of Spanish, African and Asian descent were united in the defence of Spanish sovereignty in times of anti-colonial struggle that were civil wars in all but name. It uncovers a fascinating history of a militia that became an essential element of Spanish imperialism and the armed wing of Spanish loyalism during the second half of the 19th century. Through their fluctuating relationship with the authorities in Spain, The Volunteers provide a fresh perspective into the global and local complexities of nation building, nationalism and citizenship."--

Book Peace Corps Volunteers and the Making of Korean Studies in the United States

Download or read book Peace Corps Volunteers and the Making of Korean Studies in the United States written by Seung-Kyung Kim and published by Center for Korea Studies Publications. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Among the scholars who have built the field of Korean studies are former Peace Corps volunteers who served in South Korea in the 1960s and 1970s before pursuing advanced degrees in anthropology, history, and literature. These scholars, who formed the core of the second generation of Korean Studies scholars in the US, reflect in this volume on their personal experience of serving during Korea's period of military dictatorship, on issues of gender and the Peace Corps experience, and on how random assignment to Korea sparked fascination and led to lifelong professional involvement with the country. Two chapters by Korean studies scholars who were not Peace Corps volunteers (one American and one Korean) assess how Peace Corps volunteers have influenced development of the field"--

Book Volunteers of the Spanish Empire  1855 1898

Download or read book Volunteers of the Spanish Empire 1855 1898 written by Fernando Javier Padilla Angulo and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Volunteers on the Veld

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  • Author : Stephen M. Miller
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780806138640
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Volunteers on the Veld written by Stephen M. Miller and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book spotlights Britain's “citizen army” to show who these volunteers were, why they enlisted, how they were trained—and how they quickly became disillusioned when they found themselves committed not to the supposed glories of conventional battle but instead to a prolonged guerrilla war.

Book The Irish Volunteers 1913 1915

Download or read book The Irish Volunteers 1913 1915 written by F.X. Martin and published by Merrion Press. This book was released on 2013-06-05 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally edited by F.X. Martin in 1963, this is the 50th anniversary edition of the classic work on the Irish Volunteers. This book is a wonderful and unique historical record of the Irish Volunteer movement, revealing fascinating documents and essays written by the leading members of Irish nationalism, during a period when the Irish people witnessed social and cultural changes that were as radical as anything seen in Irish history. Including contributions by Bulmer Hobson, Eoin MacNeill, Pádraig Pearse, Michael Davitt, The O’Rahilly, Éamonn Ceannt, and Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh, this a rich compendium of essays, original letters, first hand reports, inspiring speeches, newspaper editorials, military and administrative instructions as well as members’ subscription lists. This classic text explains how the Irish Volunteers, encompassing a new generation of Irish men and women, oversaw the develop ment of a new and re- energized movement, free from much of the party-political machinations and interference that had hindered Irish nationalist attempts at self-determination in previous decades. As described in these essays, the Irish Volunteers were a ‘broad church’ encompassing members of the Gaelic League, the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Sinn Féin, the IRB, Irish Citizen Army, Cumann na mBan and Fianna Éireann, all contributing to a unified and dynamic coalition. Something new and unprecedented occurred in Irish history – a movement which we are only now beginning to understand in terms of its great and distinctive legacy, a full century later.

Book Race for Empire

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  • Author : Takashi Fujitani
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2011-11-01
  • ISBN : 0520950364
  • Pages : 513 pages

Download or read book Race for Empire written by Takashi Fujitani and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race for Empire offers a profound and challenging reinterpretation of nationalism, racism, and wartime mobilization during the Asia-Pacific war. In parallel case studies—of Japanese Americans mobilized to serve in the United States Army and of Koreans recruited or drafted into the Japanese military—T. Fujitani examines the U.S. and Japanese empires as they struggled to manage racialized populations while waging total war. Fujitani probes governmental policies and analyzes representations of these soldiers—on film, in literature, and in archival documents—to reveal how characteristics of racism, nationalism, capitalism, gender politics, and the family changed on both sides. He demonstrates that the United States and Japan became increasingly alike over the course of the war, perhaps most tellingly in their common attempts to disavow racism even as they reproduced it in new ways and forms.

Book United Empire

Download or read book United Empire written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Flying Tigers

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  • Author : Daniel Ford
  • Publisher : Warbird Books
  • Release : 2023-05-01
  • ISBN : 0692734732
  • Pages : 422 pages

Download or read book Flying Tigers written by Daniel Ford and published by Warbird Books. This book was released on 2023-05-01 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, in the skies over Burma and China, a handful of American pilots met and bloodied the "Imperial Wild Eagles" of Japan and won immortality as the Flying Tigers. One of America's most famous combat forces, the Tigers were recruited to defend beleaguered China for $600 a month and a bounty of $500 for each Japanese plane they shot down--fantastic money in an era when a Manhattan hotel room cost three dollars a night.This May 2023 revision has never-before-published information about Chennault's early years. "Admirable," wrote Chennault biographer Martha Byrd of Ford's original text. "A readable book based on sound sources. Expect some surprises." Flying Tigers won the Aviation/Space Writers Association Award of Excellence in the year of its first publication.

Book History of the Consulate and the Empire of France Under Napoleon

Download or read book History of the Consulate and the Empire of France Under Napoleon written by Adolphe Thiers and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Encyclopaedia Britannica

Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britannica written by Thomas Spencer Baynes and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Empire Review

Download or read book Empire Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Imperial Island

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  • Author : Charlotte Lydia Riley
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2024
  • ISBN : 0674258495
  • Pages : 329 pages

Download or read book Imperial Island written by Charlotte Lydia Riley and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Second World War, Britain's overseas empire disintegrated. But over the next seventy years, empire came to define Britain and its people as never before. Drawing on a mass of new research, Riley tells a story of immigration and exclusion, social strife and cultural transformation. It is the story that best explains Britain today.

Book The Encyclopaedia Britannica

Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britannica written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jamaican Volunteers in the First World War

Download or read book Jamaican Volunteers in the First World War written by Richard Smith and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the dynamics of race and masculinity to provide fresh historical insight into the First World War and its Imperial dimensions, examining the experiences of Jamaicans who served in British regiments.Reluctance to accept West Indian volunteers was rooted in the belief that black men lacked the qualities necessary for modern warfare. This, combined with fears over white racial degeneration, resulted in the need to preserve established hierarchies, which was achieved through the exclusion of black soldiers from the front line and their confinement in labour battalions.However, despite their exclusion from the battlefield, the author shows that the experience of war was invaluable in allowing veterans to appropriate codes of heroism, sacrifice and citizenship in order to wage their own battles for independence on their return home, culminating in the nationalist upsurge of the late 1930s.This book offers a lively and accessible account that will prove invaluable to those studying the Imperial dimensions of the First World War, as well and those interested in the wider notions of race and masculinity in the British Empire.