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Throughout Canadian history, conflict has been a catalyst of change and a destroyer of worlds. War Art in Canada explores the universal theme of war through the country's visual and cultural past. Weaving together artworks and stories to inform and enlighten us, author Laura Brandon navigates both peaceful and brutal subject matter. By presenting the dynamic and, at times, surprising visual legacies of conflict, she encourages readers to question assumptions about our country's military past. The art created from conflict is exceptional in its diversity, and Brandon has assembled an arsenal of conflict-related cultural media, including posters, sketches, photographs, films, and sculptures. This comprehensive study showcases a stunning range of creators, such as A.Y. Jackson, Alex Colville, and Rebecca Belmore, and includes Indigenous war art practices, passed down through generations in what we now call Canada. Ultimately, it provides new insights into our country's deep and often disturbing relationship with combat

According to the author, contemporary China can only be understood in relation to its past even if one insists on starting with a clean state in 1989 for there is always some continuity between past and present. Democracy, the opening to the outside world, Chinese nationalism, bureaucracy, student movements, modernisation etc. have an historical dimension which must not be slighted. He suggests what should be considered in writing contemporary Chinese history. (DÜI-Sen)

Diachronic and multi-disciplinary perspectives on Mesoamerican ethnicity / by Barbara L. Stark and John K. Chance -- Archaeology and ethnicity in postclassic Mesoamerica / by Barbara L. Stark -- Ethnicity and other identities in the sculptures of Tenochtitlan / by Emily Umberger -- Concepts of ethnicity and class in Aztec-period Mexico / by Frances F. Berdan -- Indigenous ethnicity in colonial central Mexico / by John K. Chance -- Blood sacrifice, curing, and ethnic identity among contemporary Nahua of northern Veracruz, Mexico / by Alan R. Sandstrom -- Nahuat ethnicity in a time of agrarian conflict / by James M. Taggart -- Some finishing thoughts and unfinished business / by Alan R. Sandstrom and Frances F. Berdan