Author: Mohammad A. Chaichian File Type: pdf Why do empires build walls and fences? Are they for defensive purposes only, to keep the barbarians at the gate or do they also function as complex offensive military structures to subjugate and control the colonized? Are the colonized subjects also capable of erecting barriers to shield themselves from colonial onslaughts? InEmpires and WallsMohammad A. Chaichian meticulously examines the rise and fall of the walls that are no longer around as well as impending fate of neo-liberal barriers that imperial and colonial powers have erected in the new Millennium. Based on four years of extensive historical and field-based research Chaichian provides compelling evidence that regardless of their rationale and functions, walls always signal the fading power of an empire. Table of Contents List of Photos, Figures and Tables Foreword by David Fasenfest Preface ol lWalls, Borders and Imperial Formations Borders, Walls and Globalization l ol PART I THE IMPERIAL WALLS THAT ARE NO LONGER AROUND ol l Hadrians Wall an Ill-Fated Strategy for Tribal Management in Roman Britain Geopolitics of Hadrians Wall Why Did Hadrian Build the Wall? Hadrians Wall Beginning of the End? l l Red Snake The Great Wall of Gorgan, Iran Was the Red Snake a defensive Wall? The Walls Architecture The Walls associated hydraulic structures and functions The Red Snake as a Yet Unsolved Enigma l l Clash of Empires Prelude to the Berlin Wall The Rise and Fall of the German Empire Preparing Germans for Occupation, 1945-1947 Emergence of the Two Germanys under Occupation, 1947-1949 Post-War Dependent Development of a Divided and Occupied Germany l l Build the Wall The Two German Economies are Now United! The Walls Architecture Was the Wall a Sign of East Germanys Weakness? Concluding Remarks l ol PART II ANTI-IMPERIALIST WALLS ol lDismantling the Defensive Wall of the Colonized The Islamic Hijab in France The French Colonial Presence in North Africa French Republicanism and the Problematic Collective Identity Muslim Immigrants in France Social Spheres and the Maghrebi Muslim Identity Hijab as the Last Defensive Tool of the Colonized Conclusion l ol PART III NEO-COLONIAL WALLS ol l An Empire in the Making American Colonial Interests South of the Border Migration of Mexicans to the United States Maquiladoras, NAFTA, and the Evolution of Twin Cities along the U.S.-Mexico Border The Border is No Longer Long Live the Border! l l The Great Offensive Wall of Mexico Border Blues Erecting the Offensive Barrier, or The Great Wall of Mexico The FenceWall Architecture Is the Border FenceWall Effective? Notes from the Field l l Israel and Palestine a Settler Colony is Born Israel The Birth of a Nation Advancement of Zionist Settler Colonies in Palestine under British Occupation Zionist Colonization and the Land Question in Palestine l l Bantustans, Maquiladoras, and the Separation Barrier Israeli Style Israels First Expansion Phase, 1947-1949 Israels Second Expansion Phase, 1949-1967 Israels Third Expansion Phase, 1967-1991 The Second Intifada Prelude to the WallFence Israels Final Expansionist Offensive The Separation Barrier The Separation Barriers Architecture The Two Economies Are Now Fully Integrated Erect the Separation Barrier! A Villa in the Jungle? From Jabotinskys Iron Wall to the Separation Barrier l l Epilogue Conceptualizing Walls and borders--Globalization from Within Post-Wall Berlin l ol References Index **

Author: Christine Christ Von-Wedel File Type: pdf This book provides the first analysis of the development of Erasmus historical methodology and its impact on Roman Catholic and Protestant theologians. Combining a biography of Erasmus with the larger theological debates and the intellectual history of his time, Christine Christ-von Wedel reveals many of previously unexplored influences on Erasmus, as well as his influences on his contemporaries. Erasmus of Rotterdam is a revised and considerably enlarged translation of Christ-von Wedels well-received 2003 study, originally published in German. Observing the influence of classical, biblical, patristic, scholastic, and late medieval vernacular and popular sources on Erasmus writing, the author provides comparisons with theologians Agrippa, Lefevre dEtaples, Eck, Luther, and Zwingli to demonstrate not only the singularity of Erasmus intellect, but also the enormous impact he had on the Reformation. The result is a lively picture of the man and his time, in which Erasmus emerges as both a devout Christian and a critical seeker of truth who conceded the ambiguities that he could not resolve. **

Author: Will Bagley File Type: pdf The massacre at Mountain Meadows on September 11, 1857, was the single most violent attack on a wagon train in the thirty-year history of the Oregon and California trails. Yet it has been all but forgotten. Will Bagleys Blood of the Prophets is the most extensive investigation of the events surrounding the murder of some 120 men, women, and children since Juanita Brooks published her groundbreaking study, The Mountain Meadows Massacre, in 1950. Drawing from a wealth of primary sources, Bagley explains how the murders occurred, reveals the involvement of territorial governor Brigham Young, and explores the subsequent suppression and distortion of events related to the massacre.From Library JournalIn 1857, over 100 men, women, and children in a wagon train from Arkansas were murdered in southern Utah by local settlers aided by Southern Paiute warriors. For 50 years, Mormon historian Juanita Brookss The Mountain Meadows Massacre has been the standard work on the subject. Here, independent historian and Salt Lake Tribune columnist Bagley claims only to extend Brookss work. But by using documents not available to Brooks and by following her example in pursuing the truth wherever it led him while not going beyond the available evidence, he confirms her private opinion that territorial Mormon leader and governor Brigham Young was heavily involved in both the massacre and its cover-up. In the process, Bagley has produced the new standard work on the massacre. This well-written and well-thought-out analysis is essential for all libraries with collections on the West or the Mormons.Stephen H. Peters, Northern Michigan Univ. Lib., Marquette 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. About the AuthorWill Bagley is an independent historian who has written about overland emigration, frontier violence, railroads, mining, and the Mormons. Bagley has published extensively over the years and is the author and editor of many books, articles, and reviews in professional journals. Bagley is the series editor of Arthur H. Clark Companys documentary history series, KINGDOM IN THE WEST The Mormons and the American Frontier. Bagley has been a Wallace Stegner Centennial Fellow at the University of Utah and the Archibald Hannah, Jr. Fellow in American History at Yale Universitys Beinecke Library. Blood of the Prophets Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows has won numerous awards including a Spur Award from Western Writers of America, the Bancroft History Prize from the Denver Public Library, Westerners International Best Book, and the Western History Association Caughey Book Prize for the most distinguished book on the history of the American West. So Rugged and Mountainous Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812-1848 is the first of four volumes of Overland West The Story of the Oregon and California Trails Series.

Author: Edward Denison File Type: pdf The first half of the twentieth century was fraught with global tensions and political machinations. However, for all the destruction in that period, these geopolitical conditions in Manchuria cultivated an extraordinary variety of architecture and urban planning, which has completely escaped international attention until now. With over forty carefully chosen images, Ultra-Modernism Architecture and Modernity in Manchuria is the first book in English that illustrates Manchurias encounter with modernity through its built environment. Edward Denison and Guangyu Ren take readers through Russias early territorial claims, Japans construction of the South Manchuria Railway (SMR), and the establishment of Manchukuo in 1932. The book examines in detail the creation of modern cities along the SMR and focuses on three of the most important modern urban centres in Manchuria the Russian-dominated city of Harbin, the port of Dalian, and the new capital of Manchukuo, Hsinking (Changchun). Like so much of the world outside the West during the twentieth century, Manchurias encounter with modernity is merely a faint whisper drowned out by the deafening master narrative of Western-centric modernism. This book attempts to redress an imbalance in the modern history of China by studying the impact of Japan on architecture and planning beyond the depredations of the Sino-Japanese War.Ultra-Modernism Architecture and Modernity in Manchuria is a concise, fascinating reminder of northeast Chinas transformation a century ago, when it was known as Manchuria. Denison and Ren show how Dalian, Shenyang, Changchun, and Harbin went from a sleepy port, a decaying imperial seat, and small agricultural settlements to sleek, manicured metropolises linked by the worlds longest railway to Europe. This is an excellent addition to both syllabus and bookshelf.Michael Meyer, author of In Manchuria A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China and The Last Days of Old Beijing Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City TransformedManchuria today conjures up images of rusting heavy industry and a hostile environment. But beneath the coal dust is a built environment that was once at the cutting edge of what was meant to be modern. This creative and comprehensive book takes readers back to a time when the region was an outdoor laboratory for modernity and cosmopolitanism.James Carter, author of Creating a Chinese Harbin Nationalism in an International City, 19161932