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Sanger to 2nd Lieutenant -- World War II begins -- The fight for fortress Europe -- Post-World War II years -- Vietnam and the 1st Infantry Division -- Between Vietnam tours -- Second Vietnam tour and the war he came to fight -- Command in Korea -- Retirement

"Italian Women at War explores Italian women's participation in war and conflict throughout Italy's modern history, beginning with the Unification and ending with the twentieth century. The essays in this volume, which focus on both historical and fictional figures, help to further the discussion on women's participation in violence, warfare (both conventional and unconventional), and political protest throughout Italy"--Provided by publisher

8. The Topography of Roman Assassination, 133 BCE-222 CE9. Urban Violence: Street, Forum, Bath, Circus, and Theater; 10. Violence against Women in Ancient Rome: Ideology versus Reality; 11. Violence and the Roman Slave; 12. The Roman Battlefield: Individual Exploits in Warfare of the Roman Republic; 13. War as Theater, from Tacitus to Dexippus; 14. Manipulating Space at the Roman Arena; 15. Party Hard: Violence in the Context of Roman Cenae; Footnotes; Contributors; Index.

Known as one of the most aggressive Confederate officers in the Western Theater, Brigadier General Alfred Jefferson Vaughan Jr. is legendary for having had eight horses shot out from under him in battle-more than any other infantry commander, Union or Confederate. Yet despite the exceptional bravery demonstrated by his dubious feat, Vaughan remains a largely overlooked Civil War leader. In Confederate Combat Commander, Lawrence K. Peterson explores the life of this unheralded yet important rebel officer before, during, and after his military service. A graduate of Virginia Military Institute, Vaughan initially commanded the Thirteenth Tennessee Infantry Regiment, and later Vaughan's Brigade. He served in the hard-fought battles of the western area of operations in such key confrontations as Shiloh, Perryville, Stones River, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and the Atlanta Campaign. Tracing Vaughan's progress through the war and describing his promotion to general after his commanding officer was mortally wounded, Peterson describes the rise and development of an exemplary military career, and a devoted fighting leader. Although Vaughan was beloved by his troops and roundly praised at the time-in fact, negative criticism of his orders, battlefield decisions, or personality cannot be found in official records, newspaper articles, or the diaries of his men-Vaughan nevertheless served in the much-maligned Army of Tennessee. This book thus assesses what responsibility-if any-Vaughan bore for Confederate failures in the West. While biographies of top-ranking Civil War generals are common, the stories of lower-level senior officers such as Vaughan are seldom told. This volume provides rare insight into the regimental and brigade-level activities of Civil War commanders and their units, drawing on a rich array of privately held family histories,

"The nine essays of this volume, spanning from the eighteenth to mid-twentieth century, highlight the workings of, and reactions to, colonial domination in Asian contexts. The scholars, which include Victoria Haskins of the University of Newscastle, use a range of social science history methods to explore new paths to colonial history. How were individuals, groups, and social categories able to order their lives in the face of the implementation of external dominance? In other words, what was the agency enabling them to interact with, adapt to, use, counteract and in the end defeat colonialism? The essays emphasize colonialism as a multifaceted historical phenomenon which has taken a number of mutually incompatible forms. The various texts thus reflect on both the "early" colonialism build on indirect and informal practices, and the later forms marked by a high degree of authoritarian control"--Publisher's description

Editors' introduction: new perspectives on China, East Asia, and the global economy -- The tribute trade system and modern Asia -- Despotism and decentralization in Chinese governance: taxation, tribute, and emigration -- Silver in regional economies and the world economy: east Asia in the sixteenth to nineteenth centurys -- The Ryukyu maritime network form the fourteenth to eighteenth centuries: China, Korea, Japan, and southeast Asia -- Maritime Asian treaty port networks in the era of negotiation: tribute and treaties, 1800-1900 -- Foreign trade finance in China: silver, opium, and world market incorporation, 1820s to 1850s China and Hong Kong in the British Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- Overseas Chinese financial networks : Korea, China, and Japan in the late nineteenth century

Paul Sörensen: Präfiguration: Zur Politizität einer transformativen Praxis. Philosophie & Kritik, Bd. 1. Frankfurt am Main / New York: Campus Verlag 2023. 978-3-593-51694-3

We study a version of a canonical model of attacks against political regimes where agents have an expressive utility for taking political stances that is scaled by the salience of political decision-making. Increases in political salience can have divergent effects on regime stability depending on costs of being on the losing side. When regimes have weak sanctioning mechanisms, middling levels of salience can pose the greatest threat, as regime supporters are insufficiently motivated to act on their preferences and regime opponents are sufficiently motivated to stop conforming. Our results speak to the phenomenon of charged debates about democracy by identifying conditions under which heightened interest in political decision-making can pose a threat to democracy in and of itself.

Gegenstand der vorliegenden Arbeit ist die Auseinandersetzung chinesischsprachiger Wissenschaftler mit dem Werk Carl Schmitts zwischen 1989 und 2018. Von der Niederschlagung der Proteste auf dem Tiananmen Platz bis zur Änderung der Verfassung im März 2018 untersucht sie die Wirkung dieser Auseinandersetzung entlang des Wandels im Liberalismusdiskurs und zeigt, wie sich von Schmitt inspirierte Positionen zunehmend auch in wissenschaftlichen Debatten um einen "Sozialistischen Rechtsstaat chinesischer Prägung" durchsetzen. Mit der Analyse der chinesischsprachigen Beiträge zum "Schmitt-Fieber" in ihren vielfältigen globalen Verflechtungen verknüpft die Arbeit eine Wirkungsgeschichte Schmitts im Sinne einer History of Political Thought mit Ansätzen einer Global Intellectual History und deren Fokus auf Prozessen der Übersetzung und Adaption von Begriffen.

After Easternisation - War and Peace in the Asian Century (2016) comes the next extensive political analysis by Gideon Rachman, chief foreign affairs columnist for Financial Times and, for ten years, a prominent commentator on the political and geostrategic aspects of globalization. In Easternisation, Rachman gave a poignant portrayal of China's growing economic, political and military power as Asia's unchallenged hegemon. He clearly indicated a power and culture shift from the transatlantic to the Indo-pacific hemisphere.