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Empire
About: Empire is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 38803 publications have been published within this topic receiving 581731 citations. The topic is also known as: world power (empires).
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01 Jan 1986
TL;DR: Bismarck, Napoleon and the Southern States as discussed by the authors and the Franco-Prussian War and the Unification of Germany, 1871-90, and the Second Reich: A Hybrid State.
Abstract: Part One: The Setting 1. The background. 2. Bismarck. Part Two: The Defeat of Austria 3. The Constitutional Conflict and the Liberal Opposition. 4. The Road to Koniggratz. Part Three: 5. The North German Confederation. 6. Bismarck, Napoleon and the Southern States. 7. The Franco-Prussian War and the Unification of Germany. Part Four: The Second Reich: The Economic and Constitutional Context 8. The Second Reich: A Hybrid State. 9. The Financial Crisis of 1873 and the Great Depression. Part Five: Domestic Politics 10. The Kulturkampf and the Decline of the Liberals. 11. The Conservative Empire. Part Six: German Foreign and Colonial Policy. 12. Germany and Europe, 1871-90. 13. The Creation of the German Colonial Empire. Part Seven: Assessment 14. Bismarck in Myth and Reality. Part Eight: Documents. Glossary. Bibliography. Index.
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TL;DR: Kucherenko et al. as discussed by the authors focus on the experience of child soldiers, as well as the efforts of state representatives, officers and adult soldiers to manage adolescent military participation, concluding that the extraordinary behaviour of otherwise ordinary Soviet children was the product of the unique social and psychological atmosphere established in the Soviet Union during the 1930s-40s.
Abstract: focus on the experience of child soldiers, as well as the efforts of state representatives, officers and adult soldiers to manage adolescent military participation. These chapters succeed in weaving harrowing personal testimony, and a wealth of new material, into a broader analysis of what motivated individual youths to fight. The emphasis shifts from those ideological factors pushing children to fight, towards a consideration of personal and individual motivations. Faced by a war of annihilation, child soldiers, particularly partisans, had little choice. War created a pool of hungry, vulnerable and vengeful potential recruits. Overall, this work approaches Soviet child soldiers not just as an important example of child soldiering during modern industrialised total warfare, but also as a means of testing how far ideology and patriotic propaganda influenced Soviet society’s youngest generation. Kucherenko concludes that the extraordinary behaviour of otherwise ordinary Soviet children was the product of the ‘unique social and psychological atmosphere established in the Soviet Union during the 1930s–40s’ (p. 254). Little Soldiers is an engaging contribution to the study of the socialisation of Soviet children, the effectiveness of Stalinist propaganda, as well as the social history of the Great Patriotic War. Scholars and students with a variety of interests in the 1930s and 1940s will find much of interest here.
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TL;DR: The engagement of the British people with their empire has been explored in this article, where the authors traced the vicissitudes of an empire of rule over territory and peoples that grew greatly in the aftermath of the Seven Years War, suffered huge amputations in 1783, but was set on further expansion in the 1790s.
Abstract: THESE addresses have tried to chart Britain’s rise by the end of the eighteenth century to a position as a worldwide power that eclipsed all her European rivals. In particular they have traced the vicissitudes of an empire of rule over territory and peoples that grew greatly in the aftermath of the Seven Years War, suffered huge amputations in 1783, but was set on further expansion in the 1790s. In this final address I want to turn to Britain itself and the engagement of the British people with their empire.
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04 Sep 2013
TL;DR: In this paper, a wide range of administrative, medical, historical, journalistic and literary texts written about Britain's key imperial possession in the 19th-century south Asia were examined.
Abstract: How did the Victorians think about disasters such as famines and epidemic diseases? What was the relationship between such cataclysmic events and literary forms, styles and genres? In what way was thinking about disasters also crucial to practices of governance? Does the legacy of such Victorian thinking still shape our contemporary responses to 'natural' disasters? This book seeks to answer such questions by looking at a wide range of administrative, medical, historical, journalistic and literary texts written about Britain's key imperial possession in the 19th-century – south Asia. In doing so, it expands our ideas about Victorian literature, just as it reshapes our definitions of 'natural' disasters themselves.
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