Alexander's phalangites clash with Persian foot-soldiers in three key battles of the Ancient World.
In this highly illustrated study, a noted authority assesses the origins, combat role and battlefield performance of Alexander's phalangites and their Persian opponents in three key battles of the era--the Granicus River, Issus and Gaugamela--at the dawn of a new way of waging war. In August 334 BC, Alexander the Great invaded the Persian Empire and systematically set about its conquest. At the core of Alexander's army were 10,000 members of the phalanx, the phalangites. Armed with a long pike and fighting in formations up to 16 ranks deep, these grizzled veterans were the mainstay of the Macedonian army. Facing them were the myriad armies of the peoples that made up the Persian Empire. At the center of these forces was the formation known as the Immortals: 10,000 elite infantry, armed with spears and bows.
Since its incorporation into the Japanese nation-state in 1879, Okinawa has been seen by both Okinawans and Japanese as an exotic “South,” both spatially and temporally distinct from modern Japan. In The Limits of Okinawa, Wendy Matsumura traces the emergence of this sense of Okinawan difference, showing how local and mainland capitalists, intellectuals, and politicians attempted to resolve clashes with labor by appealing to the idea of a unified Okinawan community. Their numerous confrontations with small producers and cultivators who refused to be exploited for the sake of this ideal produced and reproduced “Okinawa” as an organic, transhistorical entity. Informed by recent Marxist attempts to expand the understanding of the capitalist mode of production to include the production of subjectivity, Matsumura provides a new understanding of Okinawa's place in Japanese and world history, and it establishes a new locus for considering the relationships between empire, capital, nation, and identity.
Автор: Long Название: Latin America Confronts the United States ISBN: 1107121248 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107121249 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 99270.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Drawing on studies of foreign policy and international relations, the book explores how Latin American leaders influenced US policy in the context of asymmetrical power relations. It provides in-depth explorations of key moments in post-World War II inter-American relations challenging earlier, US-centric explanations of these momentous events.
Автор: Long, Tom Название: Latin america confronts the united states ISBN: 1107547059 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107547056 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 27450.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Drawing on studies of foreign policy and international relations, the book explores how Latin American leaders influenced US policy in the context of asymmetrical power relations. It provides in-depth explorations of key moments in post-World War II inter-American relations challenging earlier, US-centric explanations of these momentous events.
Автор: Mccormack, Gavan Norimatsu, Satoko Oka Название: Resistant islands ISBN: 1538115573 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781538115572 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 91520.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Resistant Islands offers the first comprehensive overview of Okinawan history from earliest times to the present, focusing especially on the history of colonization by Japan, its disastrous fate during World War II, and its current status as a glorified US military base, supported by its client state Japan. This revised and expanded edition includes a substantive update in which the authors comprehensively analyze the dramatic events of the five years since the book was first published, including the deployment of MV-22 Ospreys, the Okinawa governor`s approval of the new base, and the emergence and challenges of the "all-Okinawa movement."
Автор: Zartman I. William Название: Politics of Trade Negotiations Between Africa and the European Economic Community: The Weak Confronts the Strong ISBN: 0691647453 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691647456 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 105840.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: How do the weak negotiate with the strong and win some benefits in spite of their lack of power? This book covers all the complex trade negotiations conducted in the 1960`s between the African states and the EEC. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previousl
Автор: Bhoil Shelly Название: Resistant Hybridities: New Narratives of Exile Tibet ISBN: 1498552358 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498552356 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 98010.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The contributions in this volume analyze the cultural narratives of Tibetan exiles from the 1950s to the present.
Автор: Rene De La Pedraja Название: Putin Confronts the West: The Logic of Russian Foreign Relations, 1999-2020 ISBN: 1476684995 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476684994 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 42510.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Following a chronological approach from the fall of the Soviet Union to the present, this book draws on new documents to describe how Russia has regained its former global prominence, with clear accounts of key decisions and foreign policy events and important insights into the major confrontations with the West.
Автор: Hippel Название: Europe Confronts Terrorism ISBN: 1403990808 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403990808 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 111790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Europe Confronts Terrorism examines the institutional, political, security and reforms that have taken place in Europe since the catastrophic terrorist attacks in the United States in 2001.
Автор: Zartman I. William Название: Politics of Trade Negotiations Between Africa and the European Economic Community: The Weak Confronts the Strong ISBN: 0691620717 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691620718 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 44350.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: How do the weak negotiate with the strong and win some benefits in spite of their lack of power? This book covers all the complex trade negotiations conducted in the 1960`s between the African states and the EEC. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previousl
Автор: Hiroko Matsuda Название: Liminality of the Japanese Empire: Border Crossings from Okinawa to Colonial Taiwan ISBN: 0824867572 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824867577 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 23410.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Okinawa, one of the smallest prefectures of Japan, has drawn much international attention because of the long-standing presence of US bases and the people's resistance against them. In recent years, alternative discourses on Okinawa have emerged due to the territorial disputes over the Senkaku Islands, and the media often characterizes Okinawa as the borderland demarcating Japan, China (PRC), and Taiwan (ROC). While many politicians and opinion makers discuss Okinawa's national and security interests, little attention is paid to the local perspective toward the national border and local residents' historical experiences of border crossings.Through archival research and first-hand oral histories, Hiroko Matsuda uncovers the stories of common people's move from Okinawa to colonial Taiwan and describes experiences of Okinawans who had made their careers in colonial Taiwan. Formerly the Ryukyu Kingdom and a tributary country of China, Okinawa became the southern national borderland after forceful Japanese annexation in 1879. Following Japanese victory in the First Sino-Japanese War and the cession of Taiwan in 1895, Okinawa became the borderland demarcating the Inner Territory from the Outer Territory. The borderland paradoxically created distinction between the two sides, while simultaneously generating interactions across them. Matsuda's analysis of the liminal experiences of Okinawan migrants to colonial Taiwan elucidates both Okinawans' subordinate status in the colonial empire and their use of the border between the nation and the colony.Drawing on the oral histories of former immigrants in Taiwan currently living in Okinawa and the Japanese main islands, Matsuda debunks the conventional view that Okinawa's local history and Japanese imperial history are two separate fields by demonstrating the entanglement of Okinawa's modernity with Japanese colonialism. The first English-language book to use the oral historical materials of former migrants and settlers-most of whom did not experience the Battle of Okinawa.Liminality of the Japanese Empire presents not only the alternative war experiences of Okinawans but also the way in which these colonial memories are narrated in the politics of war memory within the public space of contemporary Okinawa.
Intimacy Across the Fencelines examines intimacy in the form of sexual encounters, dating, marriage, and family that involve US service members and local residents. Rebecca Forgash analyzes the stories of individual US service members and their Okinawan spouses and family members against the backdrop of Okinawan history, political and economic entanglements with Japan and the United States, and a longstanding anti-base movement. The narratives highlight the simultaneously repressive and creative power of military fencelines, sites of symbolic negotiation and struggle involving gender, race, and class that divide the social landscape in communities that host US bases.
Intimacy Across the Fencelines anchors the global US military complex and US-Japan security alliance in intimate everyday experiences and emotions, illuminating important aspects of the lived experiences of war and imperialism.
--Christopher Nelson, University of north Carolina, author of Dancing with the Dead
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