Author: Pan American UnionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Bulletin of the Pan American Union
Author: Pan American UnionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
The People's Wars
Author: Mark HewitsonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199564264
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
The second of three volumes from Mark Hewitson which explore the experiences of conflict in modern Germany, and the resounding impact of these across Europe and the world, The People's War takes a new look at the 'wars of unification' and charts the rise of nationalism and the breakdown of the existing state system in the 1850s and 1860s.
Monthly Bulletin of the International Bureau of the American Republics, International Union of American Republics
Author: The Statesman's Year-book
Author: Frederick MartinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic geography
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
Bulletin of the International Bureau of the American Republics
Author: Pan American UnionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 1750
Book Description
The American Catholic Quarterly Review
Author: James Andrew CorcoranPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History
Author: Boston Society of Natural HistoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The Westminster Review
Author: The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History and Biography of America
Author: The Siege of Strasbourg
Author: Rachel ChrastilPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674416295
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
When war broke out between France and Prussia in the summer of 1870, one of the first targets of the invading German armies was Strasbourg. From August 15 to September 27, Prussian forces bombarded this border city, killing hundreds of citizens, wounding thousands more, and destroying many historic buildings and landmarks. For six terror-filled weeks, “the city at the crossroads” became the epicenter of a new kind of warfare whose indiscriminate violence shocked contemporaries and led to debates over the wartime protection of civilians. The Siege of Strasbourg recovers the forgotten history of this crisis and the experiences of civilians who survived it. Rachel Chrastil shows that many of the defining features of “total war,” usually thought to be a twentieth-century phenomenon, characterized the siege. Deploying a modern tactic that traumatized city-dwellers, the Germans purposefully shelled nonmilitary targets. But an unintended consequence was that outsiders were prompted to act. Intervention by the Swiss on behalf of Strasbourg’s beleaguered citizens was a transformative moment: the first example of wartime international humanitarian aid intended for civilians. Weaving firsthand accounts of suffering and resilience through her narrative, Chrastil examines the myriad ethical questions surrounding what is “legal” in war and what rights civilians trapped in a war zone possess. The implications of the siege of Strasbourg far exceed their local context, to inform the dilemmas that haunt our own age—in which collateral damage and humanitarian intervention have become a crucial part of our strategic vocabulary.