Search Results for World War I

... because it opens anew the gap in language between meaning and force. Tracing the history of music in the aftermath of World War I, from the Beatles to Marilyn Manson, Frank Sinatra to santana, and following the popular cultural discourses that both invoked and strove to contain magic, the essay suggests...

.... It is a mark of the power of the trans-Arab, middle-class ethos that it has penetrated into the farthest reaches of the Arab world, and in a turbulent landscape shattered by wars, displacement, and dispossession. I argue that the coalescence of the momentous political events at the local level (the Oslo...

... representation of the Nanjing Massacre in relation to two other texts, The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe and The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II , and examine the intricate power relations revolving around these contemporary discourses of the human in representations...

... to a racial state that reinscribed the racist order of White supremacism. Copyright © 2016 Duke University Press 2016 war civil religion sacrifice African American soldiers World War I racial state 54 Marvin and Ingle, Blood Sacrifice and the Nation . 55 Schmitt and Strong...

... to the pattern of unremitting trauma exhib- ited by soldiers returning from the battlefront during World War I. Simi- lar to Freud’s civilian patients, these military combatants suffered from “reminiscences.” These reminiscences, however, could be traced not to a primordial or pleasurable object of desire...

... . War’s Waste: Rehabilitation in World War I America . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Livingston Julie . 2012 . Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Locke Peter Biehl João . 2010...

... as constituting “a money-grubbing leisure class.”11 Up to 1941, splits within the state helped undermine an earlier corporate alliance with military interests: “memories of Congressional attacks on World War I munitions makers still were crisp...

... policing. The strategic doctrine of the “moral effect” of the bomber was developed to police and discipline “sav- age” colonized populations in European empires after World War I. The Royal Air Force, assisted by those keen imperialists Winston Churchill and Lawrence of Arabia, guaranteed its...

... Service in Punjab and Kashmir. He came to Arabia as a British government agent to supply Ibn Saud with money and arms during World War I. He stayed on as a confidant of Ibn Saud, resigned from the Indian service, and set himself up...

... The legacy of the city’s racial cleavage along westside/eastside boundaries stems from the racial land- scape established during this period. From World War I to World War II South Central was a largely white bastion, and as more blacks settled in the area...

...- guage, “contamination.” If, following World War I and the establishment of the Second Inter- national, the language and the problematization of pan-Islamism in Marx- ist discourse is oriented by the possibility of an alliance and, subsequently, a possible co-optation of Islamic internationalism...

... on Foreign Relations, which had best exemplified through its history, from World War I to the present, the happy marriage of business and imperial state was political elites.23 Whatever else it may have done, the guiding role of cap- ital did provide a rational cosmos...

... of the Middle East after World War I? What is it, if not the “mortification” of Palestine, that is happening before our very eyes, brick by brick, acre by acre, olive tree by olive tree? Darwish’s invocation of the olive...

.... This turn toward a civil war of mankind, as we shall see, becomes an important precursor for subsequent narratives of “world war” in its vari- ous incarnations. It accounts for the racialized language of World War I as a global struggle...

... of the concrete struggles of 1848. The concrete struggle inside the radical movement when I became involved at the beginning of World War II was around the nature of the USSR or what we called “the Russian Question.” Most of the Marxist parties...

... contemporary societies have operated since the end of World War I. See Giorgio Agamben, State of Exception, trans. Kevin Attell (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005), 1  –  4. 6. John Pickering, “Address,” 7 April 1843, Journal of the American Oriental Society 1 (1849): 2. 7. Cited...

...: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire (New York: Penguin, 2004), xi, 3 – 4. 42. In Pure War, Virilio observes that World War I was the first European total war while, in the United States, the Civil War had already played this role. See also Retort, Afflicted Powers (London: Verso, 2005...

... thus far? “Brown Girl in the Rain”: Gender-Race-Sexuality The brown-skinned girl pictured in figure 9 is Fasia Jansen, an Afro- German born in Hamburg in 1929. Unlike that of Hans Hauck, Fasia Jansen’s life history is not related either to the post – World War I military...

... a unifying political motif. The spread of the interstate system, from Locke’s moment right through the end of World War I, was modeled upon the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, which itself served as the paradigmatically un-­European power, inimical to the cast...

... and reduced crop yields,” did they stop “dying like flies.”76 Pesticide against insects was extended as chemical warfare to fight human enemies following U.S. entry into World War I. The concept of killing the enemy en...