During the 1960s a group of young artists in Japan challenged official forms of politics and daily life through interventionist art practices. William Marotti situates this phenomenon in the historical and political contexts of Japan after the Second World War and the international activism of the 1960s. The Japanese government renewed its Cold War partnership with the United States in 1960, defeating protests against a new security treaty through parliamentary action and the use of riot police. Afterward, the government promoted a depoliticized everyday world of high growth and consumption, creating a sanitized national image to present in the Tokyo Olympics of 1964. Artists were first to challenge this new political mythology. Marotti examines their political art, and the state's aggressive response to it. He reveals the challenge mounted in projects such as Akasegawa Genpei's 1,000-yen prints, a group performance on the busy Yamanote train line, and a plan for a giant guillotine in the Imperial Plaza. Focusing on the annual Yomiuri Indépendant exhibition, he demonstrates how artists came together in a playful but powerful critical art, triggering judicial and police response. Money, Trains, and Guillotines expands our understanding of the role of art in the international 1960s, and of the dynamics of art and policing in Japan.
Описание: The first book in a new three-volume history of the Asia-Pacific War, by the acclaimed author of Downfall and Guadalcanal.
Название: C-47/R4D Skytrain Units of the Pacific and CBI ISBN: 1846030463 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781846030468 Издательство: Osprey Рейтинг: Цена: 2691.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Provides a blend of the best available evidence based data with a ton of "experience-based" information from a team of authors who take care of kids with headache all the time. The book includes a CD-Rom showing case studies and references. The video demonstrations show not only a broad spectrum of cases and types of headache, but show an efficient manner for extracting the necessary information.
Автор: Zaloga Steven J. Название: M4 Sherman vs Type 97 Chi-Ha ISBN: 1849086389 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781849086387 Издательство: Osprey Рейтинг: Цена: 2533.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Features profile illustrations of the Type 97-kai Shinhoto Chi-ha and the M4A3, views showing the ammunition of both types, interior illustrations showing the turret layout in both types, and a battlescene showing the Type 97-kai in combat against US armour.
Автор: Aderkas, Elizabeth Von Название: American Indians of the Pacific Northwest ISBN: 1841767417 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781841767413 Издательство: Osprey Рейтинг: Цена: 2058.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book explores the Indians of the Pacific North West - where about one third of all Native Americans are believed to have once lived. It details the area`s two distinct cultures: Coastal and Plateau.
Автор: Carl Molesworth Название: P-40 Warhawk Aces of the Pacific ISBN: 1841765368 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781841765365 Издательство: Osprey Рейтинг: Цена: 2691.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The first USAAF fighters to engage the Japanese in World War 2, a handful of P-40s rose to defend Pearl Harbor from attack on the morning of 7 December 1941. Warhawk units were also heavily involved in the ill-fated fight to stem invading Japanese forces in the Philippines and Java between December 1941 and April 1942 and again in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands between January 1943 and March 1944. This book examines The Warhawk's wartime exploits and all of its aces including 'aces-in-a-day' Mel Wheadon and Joe Lesika.
Автор: Tony Holmes Название: ‘Twelve to One` V Fighter Command Aces of the Pacific ISBN: 1841767840 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781841767840 Издательство: Osprey Рейтинг: Цена: 2850.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This work covers the experiences of 107 elite American aces in combat against the Japanese. It includes biographies of the men whose tips for aerial combat make up the text, and the V Fighter Command Manual.
Автор: Akitoshi Hiraoka Название: Japanese Advance into the Pacific Ocean ISBN: 9811051399 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789811051395 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 14635.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book asserts that the albatross was the reason for the advance of the Japanese into the isolated islands in the Pacific after the abolition of the Japanese "closed-door" policy that had been in effect from the seventeenth century to the latter part of the nineteenth century.
Автор: Barrow Название: A Chronological History of Voyages into the Arctic Regions ISBN: 1108030831 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108030830 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6018.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In 1818 the diplomat Sir John Barrow (1764-1848) published this history of Arctic exploration from the Viking period to the early nineteenth century. Quoting from eye-witness accounts, Barrow describes the landscape, fauna and climate, the explorers` battle against extreme cold, disease and starvation, and their encounters with the Inuit.
'In May 1824, what can only be described as a period of all-out, total gudyarra ('war' in the Wiradyuri language) had begun west of the Blue Mountains. Relations between Wiradyuri people and the colonists in the country around Bathurst had completely broken down, and the number of raids and killings occurring across isolated stock stations in the district had intensified.'
In Gudyarra, Stephen Gapps - award-winning author of The Sydney Wars - unearths what led to this furious and bloody war, beginning with the occupation of Wiradyuri lands by Europeans following Governor Macquarie's push to expand the colony west over the Blue Mountains to generate wealth from sheep and cattle.
Gudyarra traces the co-ordinated resistance warfare by the Wiradyuri under the leadership of Windradyne, and others such as Blucher and Jingler, that occurred in a vast area across the central west of New South Wales. Detailing the drastic counterattacks by the colonists and the punitive expeditions led by armed parties of colonists and convicts that often ended in massacres of Wiradyuri women and children, Gapps provides an important new historical account of the fierce Wiradyuri resistance.
'This isn't just a war for Wiradjuri country, this is a war for Australia: the country we are still to be. Our nation begins here.' - Stan Grant
'The untold story of the Wiradyuri War of resistance against a World Empire' - Uncle Bill Allen Junior, Wiradyuri Elder
'In Gudyarra, Stephen Gapps plots in meticulous detail the brutal war between the British and the Wiradyuri for possession of the Western Plains of New South Wales. A masterly account of both sides of the conflict, Gudyarra offers new understandings of the complexity of frontier history and the need for all Australians to reconcile with the past.' - Lyndall Ryan
'This is an important book, indeed essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the new direction in the history of the frontier wars.' - Henry Reynolds
Автор: Peter Yule Название: The Long Shadow: Australia`s Vietnam Veterns Since the War ISBN: 1742237185 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781742237183 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4389.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The medical and psychological legacies of the Vietnam War are major and continuing issues for veterans, their families and the community, yet the facts about the impact of Agent Orange, post-traumatic stress disorder and other long-term health aspects are little understood. The Long Shadow sets the record straight about the health of Vietnam veterans and reveals a more detailed and complex picture. Profiling the stories of the veterans themselves, this comprehensive and authoritative book is a pioneering work of history on the aftermath of war. It takes a broad approach to the medical legacies, exploring the post-war experiences of Vietnam veterans, the evolution and development of the repatriation system in the post-Vietnam decades and the evolving medical understanding of veterans’ health issues. The first comprehensive and authoritative history of the medical legacies of the Vietnam War. This pioneering work from an esteemed historian sets the record straight on the aftermath of the Vietnam War. Foreword by Vietnam veteran and former Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove.
Автор: Richards Название: The Story Of Australian English ISBN: 1742232310 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781742232317 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 2383.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The English language arrived in Australia with the first motley bunch of European settlers on 26 January 1788. Today there is clearly a distinctive Australian regional dialect with its own place among the global family of ‘Englishes’. How did this come about? Where did the distinctive pattern, accent, and verbal inventions that make up Aussie English come from? A lively narrative, this book tells the story of the birth, rise and triumphant progress of the colourful dingo lingo that we know today as Aussie English.
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