Author: Simo Laakkonen File Type: pdf The fate of towns and cities stands at the center of the environmental history of World War II. Broad swaths of cityscapes were destroyed by the bombing of targets such as transport hubs, electrical grids, and industrial districts, and across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, urban environments were transformed by the massive mobilization of human and natural resources to support the conflict. But at the same time, the war saw remarkable resilience among the human and non-human residents of cities. Foregrounding the concept of urban resilience, this collection uncovers the creative survival strategies that city-dwellers of all kinds turned to in the midst of environmental devastation. As the first major study at the intersection of environmental, urban, and military history, The Resilient City in World War II lays the groundwork for an improved understanding of rapid change in urban environments, and how societies may adapt. About the Author Simo Laakkonen is Senior Lecturer of Landscape Studies at the University of Turku, Finland. J. R. McNeill is Professor of History at Georgetown University, USA. Richard P. Tucker is Adjunct Professor of Environmental History at the University of Michigan, USA. Timo Vuorisalo is Senior Lecturer of Environmental Science at the University of Turku, Finland.

Author: Craig J. Peariso File Type: epub From burning draft cards to staging nude protests, much left-wing political activism in 1960s America was distinguished by deliberate outrageousness. This theatrical activism, aimed at the mass media and practiced by Abbie Hoffman and the Yippies, the Black Panthers, and the Gay Activists Alliance, among others, is often dismissed as naive and out of touch, or criticized for tactics condemned as silly and off-putting to the general public. In Radical Theatrics, however, Craig Peariso argues that these over-the-top antics were far more than just the spontaneous actions of a self-indulgent radical impulse. Instead, he shows, they were well-considered aesthetic and political responses to a jaded cultural climate in which an unreflective tolerance masked an unwillingness to engage with challenging ideas. Through innovative analysis that links political protest to the art of contemporaries such as Andy Warhol, Peariso reveals how the put-on the signature activist performance of the radical left ended up becoming a valuable American political practice, one that continues to influence contemporary radicals such as Occupy Wall Street. **Review Craig J. Pearisos work challenges traditional narratives regarding some of North Americas most significant political iconoclasts of the 1960s.--Max ShulmanTDR The Drama Review (01012016) Radical Theatrics is a thought-provoking book that should educate and trouble anyone desperate to change the world and confused about what to do when those efforts stall.--Jeremy VaronJournal of American History (01012016) Craig J. Pearisos work challenges traditional narratives regarding some of North Americas most significant political iconoclasts of the 1960s. --Max ShulmanTDR The Drama Review (01012016) Radical Theatrics is a thought-provoking book that should educate and trouble anyone desperate to change the world and confused about what to do when those efforts stall. --Jeremy VaronJournal of American History (01012016) This intriguing book presents a revisionist revaluation of the more problematic radical edges of political performance art in the United States of the mid-to-late 1960s.... Peariso has successfully shown that awkward decade was up for it in many compelling ways.... [Radical Theatrics] launches a sophisticatedly argued call for newly creating politico-aesthetic styles of anti-representational performance. --Baz KershawStudies in Theatre and Performance (01012016) Review Admirably lucid . . . a significant challenge to much scholarship on this crucial decade.T. V. Reed, author of The Art of Protest Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle An important piece of intellectual history, art history synthesis, or reinterpretation of aspects of 1960s politicized performance. Pearisos argument is fresh and original.Bradford Martin, author of Theater Is in the Street Politics and Performance in Sixties America

Author: Theodore M. Porter File Type: pdf Forty-two essays by authors from five continents and many disciplines provide a synthetic account of the history of the social sciences--including behavioral and economic sciences since the late eighteenth century. The authors emphasize the cultural and intellectual preconditions of social science, and its contested but important role in the history of the modern world. While there are many historical books on particular disciplines, there are very few about the social sciences generally, and none that deal with so much of the world over so long a timespan. ReviewThe volume is a major contribution to communicating a contemporary understanding of science as integral to the life of the modern world. Both general historians and historians of science, not to mention scientists themselves, who think science is something apart may find this weighty volume hard to ignore. readers who already work in one of the many branches of the protean field will find most helpful and interesting ways into related areas. Students and teachers alike will surely find it a major resource. Journal of the History of the Behavioural Sciences Book DescriptionIn forty-two essays by authors from five continents and many disciplines, this volume provides a synthetic account of the history of the social sciences (including behavioral and economic sciences) since the late eighteenth century. The authors emphasize the cultural and intellectual preconditions of social science, and its contested but important role in the history of the modern world. While there are many historical books on particular disciplines, there are very few about the social sciences generally, and none that deal with so much of the world over so long a time span.

Author: John Laband File Type: pdf Between 1838 and 1888 the recently formed Zulu kingdom in southeastern Africa was directly challenged by the incursion of Boer pioneers aggressively seeking new lands on which to set up their independent republics, by English-speaking traders and hunters establishing their neighboring colony, and by imperial Britain intervening in Zulu affairs to safeguard Britains position as the paramount power in southern Africa. As a result, the Zulu fought to resist Boer invasion in 1838 and British invasion in 1879. The internal strains these wars caused to the fabric of Zulu society resulted in civil wars in 1840, 1856, and 1882-1884, and Zululand itself was repeatedly partitioned between the Boers and British. In 1888, the old order in Zululand attempted a final, unsuccessful uprising against recently imposed British rule. This tangled web of invasions, civil wars, and rebellion is complex. The A to Z of the Zulu Wars unravels and elucidates Zulu history during the 50 years between the initial settler threat to the kingdom and its final dismemberment and absorption into the colonial order. A chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, maps, photos, and over 900 cross-referenced dictionary entries that cover the military, politics, society, economics, culture, and key players during the Zulu Wars make this an important reference for everyone from high school students to academics.