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Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity

Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity: Omar Bartov argues that war, genocide and modern identity have been intimately linked. By comparing German, French and Jewish sources, this book demonstrates the need to view the Holocaust within the context of our era&apos s predilection to resolve its conflicts over identity by massive application of destructive technologies.

Fighting Identity: Sacred War and World Change

Fighting Identity: Sacred War and World Change: This work highlights a national ethos infused by a sacred narrative of divine mission. This deep association leads to a narrow approach to conflict relationships, built around an Us vs. Them distance from the enemy, in which their submission is achieved through kinetic effects and their subsequent redemption through our good works (reconstruction). Vlahos contends that America's difficult engagement in the Muslim world demonstrates urgently that different operational approaches and tactics (like counterinsurgency) are not enough. Alternative paradigms of strategic engagement are needed, but their very consideration requires deeper cultural rethinking about how we assess world change and other cultures, and how our national ethos makes war.Why are terrorists and insurgents we fight so formidable Their strength - and our vulnerability - is in identity. Clausewitz knew that geist (spirit) was always stronger than the material: identity is power in war. But how can non-state actors face up to nation states The answer is in globalization. This is the West's 3rd globalization. Two centuries of intense mixing has torn down old ways of life and created a growing demand for new belonging. There is also a decline in US universalism. America's vision as history's anointed prophet and manager is now competing head-to-head with renewed universal visions. Like Late Antiquity and the High Middle Ages our globalization begins to subside. We may be in the later days of American modernity. We can see this worldwide, as emerging local communities within states and meta-movements find their voice - through conflict and war. Identities struggling for realization are always the most powerful. Add the diffusion of new technology and new practice, and even the poorest and seemingly most primitive group can now make war against those on high. They are successful because of a symbiotic fit between old states and new identities. Increasingly, old societies no longer find identity-celebration in war - while non-state identities embrace the struggle for realization. Hence non-state wars with America become a mythic narrative for them. Our engagement actually helps them realize identity - and we become the midwife. This book offers another path to deal with non-state challenges, one that does not further weaken us.

The Forgetting River: A Modern Tale of Survival, Identity,

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Carvajal, Doreen, PUBLISHER: Riverhead Books, The unexpected and moving story of an American journalist who works to uncover her family's long-buried Jewish ancestry in Spain. Raised a Catholic in California, "New York Times" journalist Doreen Carvajal is shocked when she discovers that her background may actually be connected to "conversos" in Inquisition-era Spain, Jews who were forced to renounce their faith and convert to Christianity or face torture and death. With vivid childhood memories of Sunday sermons, catechism, and the rosary, Carvajal travels to the south of Spain, to the centuries-old Andalucian town of Arcos de la Frontera, to investigate her lineage and recover her family's original religious heritage. In Arcos, Carvajal is struck by the white pueblo's ancient beauty and the difficulty she encounters in probing the town's own secret history of the Inquisition. She comes to realize that fear remains a legacy of the Inquisition along with the cryptic messages left by its victims. Back at her childhood home in California, Carvajal uncovers papers documenting a family of Carvajals who were burned at the stake in the 16th-century territory of Mexico. Could the author's family history be linked to the hidden history of Arcos? And could the unfortunate Carvajals have been her ancestors? As she strives to find proof that her family had been forced to convert to Christianity six-hundred years ago, Carvajal comes to understand that the past flows like a river through time -and that while the truth might be submerged, it is never truly lost.

The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hanson, Victor Davis, PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, Victor Davis Hanson has long been acclaimed as one of our leading scholars of ancient history. In recent years he has also become a trenchant voice on current affairs, bringing a historian's deep knowledge of past conflicts to bear on the crises of the present, from 9/11 to Iran. "War," he writes, "is an entirely human enterprise." Ideologies change, technologies develop, new strategies are invented?but human nature is constant across time and space. The dynamics of warfare in the present age still remain comprehensible to us through careful study of the past. Though many have called the War on Terror unprecedented, its contours would have been quite familiar to Themistocles of Athens or William Tecumseh Sherman. And as we face the menace of a bin Laden or a Kim Jong-Il, we can prepare ourselves with knowledge of how such challenges have been met before. "The Father of Us All "brings together much of Hanson's finest writing on war and society, both ancient and modern. The author has gathered a range of essays, and combined and revised them into a richly textured new work that explores such topics as how technology shapes warfare, what constitutes the "American way of war," and why even those who abhor war need to study military history. "War is the father and king of us all," Heraclitus wrote in ancient Greece. And as Victor Davis Hanson shows, it is no less so today.

Cataclysm : The First World War and the Making of Modern

Cataclysm brings together a number of prominent leftist scholars from a variety of fields to explore the many aspects of the origins,trajectories and consequences of the First World War and its impact in the making of modern world politics.

Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction (PS3)

Ratchet and Clank Tools of Destruction (PS3) The most visceral Ratchet Clank universe yet! Brings vivid worlds to life Discover an all-new galaxy Encounter an entirely new cast of expressive characters Experience a more emotive Ratchet Clank returns as a playable character Fire a fully stocked arsenal of all-new weapons Read More

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Ratchet And Clank: Tools Of Destruction (PS3) Sony Playstati

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The Crime of All Crimes: Toward a Criminology of Genocide

Cambodia. Rwanda. Armenia. Nazi Germany. History remembers these places as the sites of unspeakable crimes against humanity,and indisputably,of genocide. Yet,throughout the twentieth century,the world has seen many instances of violence committed by states against certain groups within their borders—from the colonial ethnic cleansing the Germans committed against the Herero tribe in Africa,to the Katyn Forest Massacre,in which the Soviets shot over Poles,to anti-communist mass murders in

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Xbox 360, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2/3/4 + Gears of War/Batman/Star Ocean, All Unmarked

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GEARS OF WAR 4 - WITH GEARS OF WAR COLLECTION - BRAND NEW AND SEALED FOR XBOX ONE

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Identity and Memory: The Films of Chantal Akerman

Considered to be one of the most influential auteurs in French cinema today,Chantal Akerman has had a profound impact on both feminist filmmaking discourse and avant-garde film. She has shown herself to be an uncompromising and dedicated practitioner of the cinematic arts in works such as I?You?He?She (Je tu il elle,); Jeanne Dielman,23 quai du Commerce, Bruxelles (); Meetings with Anna (Les Rendez-vous d’Anna,); American St

Gears of War 4 - Xbox One Game - NEW & SEALED - also includes Gears of War 1, 2, 3 and Judgment!

• Gears of War 4 - Xbox One Game - Brand New & Sealed • A new saga begins for one of the most acclaimed video game franchises in history. After narrowly escaping an attack, JD Fenix and his friends, Kait and Del must rescue the ones they love and discover the source of a monstrous new enemy. • Amazing game with awesome multiplayer and co-op too. • Also includes download codes for Gears of War 1, 2, 3 and Judgment (all playable on Xbox One). • Brand New - Factory Sealed - Collection from Beeston (NG9), Nottingham. Any questions just ask:) Ad ID: Delivery Service Consumer Credit

Genocide by Attrition: The Nuba Mountains of Sudan

Few people know much about the government of Sudan’s genocidal attack against the people of the Nuba Mountains in the late s and early s. This volume documents this atrocity,focusing on crimes that even human rights activists and genocide scholars do not fully understand. Its detailed examination of the forced starvation of the Nuba Mountains people provides a powerful statement,and will be a resource for professionals who teach the subject. Genocide b

Rafic Hariri - Beirut: The wars of destruction and the

Rafic Hariri - Beirut: The wars of destruction and the perspectives of reconstruction - United Press, pp. - Hardcover - 30 x 39.5 cm. Condition: Book is very good, the condition of the box is reasonable.¶ The main goal for the publication of this book is to photograph the memory of the darkest days of Beirut in ruins, in hopes that such days never see the light again. Another reason is to register in print the wonderful renaissance of the city, thus bringing to Lebanese people around the world, hope and faith in the future of their country. This book contains pictures taken in the early nineties, to document that war can bring nothing more than catastrophe to a people and an economy. Other pictures taken during the summer of portray the huge difference and the immense progress happening in the development and reconstruction project. Read More

Genocide: Truth, Memory, and Representation

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hinton, Alexander Laban / O'Neill, Kevin Lewis, PUBLISHER: Duke University Press, What happens to people and the societies in which they live after genocide? How are the devastating events remembered on the individual and collective levels, and how do these memories intersect and diverge as the rulers of postgenocidal states attempt to produce a monolithic "truth" about the past? In this important volume, leading anthropologists consider such questions about the relationship of genocide, truth, memory, and representation in the Balkans, East Timor, Germany, Guatemala, Indonesia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sudan, and other locales. Specialists on the societies about which they write, these anthropologists draw on ethnographic research to provide on-the-ground analyses of communities in the wake of mass brutality. They investigate how mass violence is described or remembered, and how those representations are altered by the attempts of others, from NGOs to governments, to assert "the truth" about outbreaks of violence. One contributor questions the neutrality of an international group monitoring violence in Sudan and the assumption that such groups are, at worst, benign. Another examines the consequences of how events, victims, and perpetrators are portrayed by the Rwandan government during the annual commemoration of that country's genocide in . Still another explores the silence around the deaths of between eighty and one hundred thousand people on Bali during Indonesia's state-sponsored anticommunist violence of , a genocidal period that until recently was rarely referenced in tourist guidebooks, anthropological studies on Bali, or even among the Balinese themselves. Other contributors consider issues of political identity and legitimacy, coping, the media, and "ethnic cleansing." "Genocide: Truth, Memory, and Representation" reveals the major contribution that cultural anthropologists can make to the study of genocide. "Contributors." Pamela Ballinger, Jennie E. Burnet, Conerly Casey, Elizabeth Drexler, Leslie Dwyer, Alexander Laban Hinton, Sharon E. Hutchinson, Uli Linke, Kevin Lewis O'Neill, Antonius C. G. M. Robben, Debra Rodman, Victoria Sanford

4 Mirrors for sale - 3 x modern designs and 1 antique replica

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  Genocide and Rescue: The Holocaust in

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World war 1 and Wiorld War 2 books, War and Change in Europe

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Humanitarian intervention war and conflict in the modern world Thomas G Weiss

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