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Radical History Review (2019) 2019 (133): 103–116.
Published: 01 January 2019
...Davorn Sisavath Abstract This article complicates and challenges the existing records on US-Lao relations during the Second Indochina War by examining military waste in Laos as an archive. Over two million tons of bombs were dropped during US bombing in Laos from 1964 to 1973. Today, Laos remains...
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Radical History Review (2019) 2019 (133): 1–10.
Published: 01 January 2019
... unexploded ordnance) and the history of violence that produced their material in the first place. Sisavath’s work demonstrates how the waste itself archives this history of military violence that is continuously under erasure, even in vacuous attempts to confront (while profiting from) it. This issue...
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Radical History Review (1999) 1999 (73): 117–127.
Published: 01 January 1999
... ever feared”) whose
precious few areas of vulnerability to his son’s competition included
politics and military valor. It is against this harsh backdrop of the tragic
that the hero is constructed and emerges in all his glory. Against all
odds the frail child becomes a veritable dynamo...
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Radical History Review (1995) 1995 (63): 9–26.
Published: 01 October 1995
..., D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, n.d
7. From Barry Katz, Fore@ Intelligence, 8-9, and chap. 4.
8. Barry Katz, Foreign Intelligetice, 198.
9. A particularly vivid description of the coniusion, waste, and unintended conse-
quences of rising military production...
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Radical History Review (2013) 2013 (117): 149–152.
Published: 01 October 2013
..., the authors describe the environmental and human cost of mining and processing the raw materials needed to manufacture ICT/CE devices, the harsh conditions faced by those who actually make them, and the environmental crisis posed by the piles of e-waste generated as digital devices are rapidly made redundant...
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Radical History Review (1992) 1992 (52): 95–104.
Published: 01 January 1992
..., tightly buttoned in
military uniforms and looking bewildered at the camera's lens, are
affecting. As the camera pans across photographs of dead soldiers it
stirs a visceral feeling about the consequences of war. The series im-
parts the sense that we are glimpsing an era when people were...
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Radical History Review (2011) 2011 (109): 83–99.
Published: 01 January 2011
...
became part of an emerging international market.18 This international market also
became a military concern: the eradication of the lowland “wastelands” occurred
during the wars with France, and the conquest of these wastes became synonymous
with the conquest of France itself. In 1803, for instance...
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Radical History Review (1998) 1998 (70): 169–174.
Published: 01 January 1998
... of the Atlantic Forest. The ease with which
planters gained de facto control of new lands led them to eschew
intensive cultivation methods, and led them to destroy primary for-
est in a manner that even some contemporaries considered wasteful
and shortsighted. Small producers found it virtually impossible...
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Radical History Review (2004) 2004 (90): 142–149.
Published: 01 October 2004
... the
bomb had been on the back of a Soviet-made military flatbed truck known as a
Kamaz.”2 My curiosity was aroused for two reasons. One was that I have been
engaged in a project on the Soviet automobile, and any mention in the news of
Soviet vehicles is grist...
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Radical History Review (2006) 2006 (94): 261–264.
Published: 01 January 2006
... in part from his rage at the waste of a life in a war
“unconnected to defending ourselves against terrorism.” Yet for all his anger at this
gratuitous loss, Trillin also desperately wanted to see Slavenas’s death “in ways that
gave it some nobility.” After all, he reasoned, there will always...
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Radical History Review (1995) 1995 (63): 1–6.
Published: 01 October 1995
...
anticommunism, a militarized macroeconomy, bloody interventions
around the world, the production of countless tons of nuclear waste,
the secret exposure of American citizens to radioactive fallout, the
surveillance of American citizens, and the like-as discrete problems
not systematically related...
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Radical History Review (2012) 2012 (112): 193–200.
Published: 01 January 2012
... of
the Company from its earliest days, as well as common to many other early-modern
corporate bodies. His account also suggests, though, that the Company was unique
in Britain and nearly unique in the world in the type and scope of its functions and
ambitions: its revenue, its military apparatus...
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Radical History Review (2010) 2010 (107): 7–24.
Published: 01 May 2010
... combined with Keynesian economic policies would tame the market to
prevent another disastrous depression.
The changing political world alone, however, could not lift the United States
from the economic downtown. It would take an unprecedented military buildup
to do that. Defense spending...
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Radical History Review (1976) 1976 (11): 1–36.
Published: 01 May 1976
...
and the Irishized Anglo-Saxon (now called Old English) was carried outward
from the military frontier of the Pale; they were expelled from the fertile
regions where the land was confiscated by the government. Forts were es•
tablished and English settlers (the New English) introduced. The New Eng•
lish...
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Radical History Review (1989) 1989 (45): 98–123.
Published: 01 October 1989
... political con-
sensus in the United States in support of both a Keynesian welfare
state and an imperial foreign policy that centered on the use of U.S.
military power to create maximal international opportunities for
U.S. businesses. In this story, the two policies are closely linked...
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Radical History Review (2007) 2007 (98): 3–33.
Published: 01 May 2007
...) displayed a series of over two hundred photographs documenting
violence from 1980 to 2000 as part of its efforts to remind Peruvians of events in
the recent past: just as Peru was returning to elections after extended military rule
(1968 – 80), the Maoist insurgency Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso...
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Radical History Review (2020) 2020 (136): 36–49.
Published: 01 January 2020
... that the state approached gender and racial liberation separately and tactically, as means to military, political, and diplomatic ends. Through negrificación (blackening) of national identity, Cuba highlighted race to internationally legitimize its Angola mission. Women were a minor and primarily domestic theme...
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Radical History Review (2013) 2013 (115): 195–202.
Published: 01 January 2013
.... Whereas some like to explain Haiti’s development solely in terms of
Thomas Jefferson’s trade embargo, the nineteenth-century indemnity paid to the
French government, and the US occupation of 1915 – 34, Dubois gives us a more
complex picture. He wastes no time on the 1806 embargo, which lasted only...
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Radical History Review (1989) 1989 (45): 5–29.
Published: 01 October 1989
... and belief." Objectors who con-
vinced their local draft that they met these conditions had two
options: noncombatant military service or "work of national impor-
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tance” in Civilian Public Service camps. Objectors who refused to
register...
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Radical History Review (2016) 2016 (124): 90–101.
Published: 01 January 2016
... of the military coup and the sub-
sequent dictatorship (1973 – 89). As this issue of Radical History Review notes, look-
ing back on the Pinochet period opens up what Steve J. Stern, in 2004, first called
the memory box even further, especially in terms of outlining the mechanisms of
forgetting...
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