Author: Robert Henry Lawson SlaterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Burma
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Guns Through Arcady
Author: Robert Henry Lawson SlaterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Burma
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Forgotten Armies
Author: Christopher Alan BaylyPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674017481
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
In the early stages of the Second World War, the vast crescent of British-ruled territories stretching from India to Singapore appeared as a massive Allied asset. It provided scores of soldiers and great quantities of raw materials and helped present a seemingly impregnable global defense against the Axis. Yet, within a few weeks in 1941-42, a Japanese invasion had destroyed all this, sweeping suddenly and decisively through south and southeast Asia to the Indian frontier, and provoking the extraordinary revolutionary struggles which would mark the beginning of the end of British dominion in the East and the rise of today's Asian world. More than a military history, this gripping account of groundbreaking battles and guerrilla campaigns creates a panoramic view of British Asia as it was ravaged by warfare, nationalist insurgency, disease, and famine. It breathes life into the armies of soldiers, civilians, laborers, businessmen, comfort women, doctors, and nurses who confronted the daily brutalities of a combat zone which extended from metropolitan cities to remote jungles, from tropical plantations to the Himalayas. Drawing upon a vast range of Indian, Burmese, Chinese, and Malay as well as British, American, and Japanese voices, the authors make vivid one of the central dramas of the twentieth century: the birth of modern south and southeast Asia and the death of British rule.
The Dream of Arcady
Author: Lucinda Hardwick MacKethanPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807153567
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
"This is a well-organized, gracefully written account of a significant aspect of Southern fiction, and it contains information and incisive commentary that one can find nowhere else." --Thomas Daniel Young Many southern writers imagined the South as a qualified dream of Arcady. They retained the glow of the golden land as a device to expose or rebuke, to confront or escape the complexities of the actual times in which they lived. The Dream of Arcady examines the work of post-Civil War southern writers who criticize the myth of the South as pastoral paradise. Sooner or later in all their idealized worlds, the idyllic vision fades in an inescapable moment of awakening. This moment, which is central to MacKethan's study, produces an atmosphere pastoral in mood and implications. Her perspective analysis juxtaposes the responses of Sidney Lanier, Joel Chandler Harris, and Thomas Nelson Page, who contributed to yet hope to transcend sectionalism, with the ambivalent views of black writers Charles Chesnutt and Jean Toomer. Considering the writings of the Agrarians, William Faulkner, and Eudora Welty, MacKethan then concludes her study by questioning whether the Arcadian dream still serves the artist of our era as a frame for artistic and ideological purposes.
Select List of Recent Publications
Author: East-West Center. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : East and West
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
The Library Catalogs of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University
Author: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and PeacePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : International relations
Languages : en
Pages : 862
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New Age Magazine
Author: The Harvard Advocate
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : College students' writings, American
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
New York Magazine
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
Peterson's Magazine
Author: Arcady's Goal
Author: Eugene YelchinPublisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1627792910
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
From Newbery Honor–winning author Eugene Yelchin comes another glimpse into Soviet Russia. For twelve-year-old Arcady, soccer is more than just a game. Sent to live in a children's home after his parents are declared enemies of the state, it is a means of survival, securing extra rations, respect, and protection. Ultimately, it proves to be his chance to leave. But in Soviet Russia, second chances are few and far between. Will Arcady seize his opportunity and achieve his goal? Or will he miss his shot? This title has Common Core connections.