Lavinas Picq Manuela Lavinas Picq & Viteri Maria Amelia Viteri 
Queering Paradigms V [EPUB ebook] 
Queering Narratives of Modernity

Across the Great Divide tracks a Pacific historian”s fruitful, ambivalent engagements with History and Anthropology, anticipating experiments in each discipline with the other”s theories and praxis …

Rear Admiral Raja Menon contends that nations embroiled in Continental wars have historically had poor maritime strategies. He develops the argument that navies that have been involved in such wars h …

The ‘forgotten offensive’ of the title is RAF Coastal Command”s offensive against German sea-trade between 1940 and 1945. The fortunes of the campaign are followed throughout the war, and its succes …

Focusing on autonomy in countries whose societies are marked by ethnic diversity, this work examines the effects of territorial solutions to the safeguarding of cultural identities. Contributors dist …

Analyses discourses pertinent to democratic politics in Malaysia, including the political elite”s interpretation of ”Asian values” and ”Asian democracy”, contending Islamic views on democracy, t …

How did the United States become the twentieth century”s dominant economy? What is special about America and the American way of capitalism, that favoured such a rapid climb to wealth and power? And …

Why did the US make a commitment to an independent South Vietnam? Could a major war have been averted? Fredrik Logevall provides a concise, comprehensive and accessible introduction to the origins of …

This book examines how the British people came to terms with the massive trauma of the First World War. Although the literary memory of the war has often been discussed, little has been written on th …

In the aftermath of the Great War, a wave of tourists and pilgrims visited the battlefields, cemeteries and memorials of the war. The cultural history of this ”battlefield tourism” is chronicled in …

This book opens new perspectives into the Cold War ideological confrontations. Using Austria and Finland as an example, it shows how the Cold War battles for the hearts and minds of the people also i …