Fragile Frontiers
Fragile Frontiers

Author: Saroj Kumar Rath

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-06-03

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1317562526

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Critical questions remain unanswered on the events of the cold-blooded and devastating terror attacks in Mumbai on 26 November 2008. Investigative and introspective, this book offers a lucid and graphic account of the ill-fated day and traces the changing dynamics of terror in South Asia. Using new insights, it explores South Asia’s regional dynamics of antagonism, the ever-present challenge to the frontiers of India, Pakistan and the terrorism question, the strife in Afghanistan and the self-serving selective US ‘war on terror’. This will be an engaging read for those interested in defence, security and strategic studies, politics, international relations, peace and conflict studies, and South Asian studies as well as the general reader.

Public Archaeologies of Frontiers and Borderlands
Public Archaeologies of Frontiers and Borderlands

Author: Kieran Gleave

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2020-11-26

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1789698022

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Select proceedings of the 4th University of Chester Archaeology Student conference (Chester, 20 March 2019) investigate real-world ancient and modern frontier works, the significance of graffiti, material culture, monuments and wall-building, as well as fictional representations of borders and walls in the arts, as public archaeology.

Mythic Frontiers
Mythic Frontiers

Author: Daniel R. Maher

Publisher: University Press of Florida

Published: 2019-03-04

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 0813063949

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“Maher explores the development of the Frontier Complex as he deconstructs the frontier myth in the context of manifest destiny, American exceptionalism, and white male privilege. A very significant contribution to our understanding of how and why heritage sites reinforce privilege.”— Frederick H. Smith, author of The Archaeology of Alcohol and Drinking “Peels back the layer of dime westerns and True Grit films to show how their mythologies are made material. You’ll never experience a ‘heritage site’ the same way again.”—Christine Bold, author of The Frontier Club: Popular Westerns and Cultural Power, 1880–1924 The history of the Wild West has long been fictionalized in novels, films, and television shows. Catering to these popular representations, towns across America have created tourist sites connecting such tales with historical monuments. Yet these attractions stray from known histories in favor of the embellished past visitors expect to see and serve to craft a cultural memory that reinforces contemporary ideologies. In Mythic Frontiers, Daniel Maher illustrates how aggrandized versions of the past, especially those of the “American frontier,” have been used to turn a profit. These imagined historical sites have effectively silenced the violent, oppressive, colonizing forces of manifest destiny and elevated principal architects of it to mythic heights. Examining the frontier complex in Fort Smith, Arkansas—where visitors are greeted at a restored brothel and the reconstructed courtroom and gallows of “Hanging Judge” Isaac Parker feature prominently—Maher warns that creating a popular tourist narrative and disconnecting cultural heritage tourism from history minimizes the devastating consequences of imperialism, racism, and sexism and relegitimizes the privilege bestowed upon white men.

The Significance of the Frontier in American History
The Significance of the Frontier in American History

Author: Frederick Jackson Turner

Publisher:

Published: 2014-02-13

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9781614275725

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2014 Reprint of 1894 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. The "Frontier Thesis" or "Turner Thesis," is the argument advanced by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1894 that American democracy was formed by the American Frontier. He stressed the process-the moving frontier line-and the impact it had on pioneers going through the process. He also stressed consequences of a ostensibly limitless frontier and that American democracy and egalitarianism were the principle results. In Turner's thesis the American frontier established liberty by releasing Americans from European mindsets and eroding old, dysfunctional customs. The frontier had no need for standing armies, established churches, aristocrats or nobles, nor for landed gentry who controlled most of the land and charged heavy rents. Frontier land was free for the taking. Turner first announced his thesis in a paper entitled "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," delivered to the American Historical Association in 1893 in Chicago. He won very wide acclaim among historians and intellectuals. Turner's emphasis on the importance of the frontier in shaping American character influenced the interpretation found in thousands of scholarly histories. By the time Turner died in 1932, 60% of the leading history departments in the U.S. were teaching courses in frontier history along Turnerian lines.

Controlling Frontiers
Controlling Frontiers

Author: Didier Bigo

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9780754630111

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Focusing in particular on the European borders, this volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of academics to consider questions of immigration and the free movement of people, linking control within the state to the role of the police and internal security. The contributors all take as the point of departure the significance of European governmentality within the Foucauldian meaning as opposed to the European governance perspective which is already well represented in the literature. They discuss the relation between control of borders, introduction of biometrics and freedom. The book makes available in English an analysis of an important and politically highly charged field from a major French critical perspective. It draws on different disciplines including law, politics, international relations and philosophy.

The End of the Myth
The End of the Myth

Author: Greg Grandin

Publisher: Metropolitan Books

Published: 2019-03-05

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1250179815

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE A new and eye-opening interpretation of the meaning of the frontier, from early westward expansion to Trump’s border wall. Ever since this nation’s inception, the idea of an open and ever-expanding frontier has been central to American identity. Symbolizing a future of endless promise, it was the foundation of the United States’ belief in itself as an exceptional nation – democratic, individualistic, forward-looking. Today, though, America hasa new symbol: the border wall. In The End of the Myth, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin explores the meaning of the frontier throughout the full sweep of U.S. history – from the American Revolution to the War of 1898, the New Deal to the election of 2016. For centuries, he shows, America’s constant expansion – fighting wars and opening markets – served as a “gate of escape,” helping to deflect domestic political and economic conflicts outward. But this deflection meant that the country’s problems, from racism to inequality, were never confronted directly. And now, the combined catastrophe of the 2008 financial meltdown and our unwinnable wars in the Middle East have slammed this gate shut, bringing political passions that had long been directed elsewhere back home. It is this new reality, Grandin says, that explains the rise of reactionary populism and racist nationalism, the extreme anger and polarization that catapulted Trump to the presidency. The border wall may or may not be built, but it will survive as a rallying point, an allegorical tombstone marking the end of American exceptionalism.

Cycles of Invention and Discovery
Cycles of Invention and Discovery

Author: Venkatesh Narayanamurti

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2016-10-24

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 0674974158

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Cycles of Invention and Discovery offers an in-depth look at the real-world practice of science and engineering. It shows how the standard categories of “basic” and “applied” have become a hindrance to the organization of the U.S. science and technology enterprise. Tracing the history of these problematic categories, Venkatesh Narayanamurti and Toluwalogo Odumosu document how historical views of policy makers and scientists have led to the construction of science as a pure ideal on the one hand and of engineering as a practical (and inherently less prestigious) activity on the other. Even today, this erroneous but still widespread distinction forces these two endeavors into separate silos, misdirects billions of dollars, and thwarts progress in science and engineering research. The authors contrast this outmoded perspective with the lived experiences of researchers at major research laboratories. Using such Nobel Prize–winning examples as magnetic resonance imaging, the transistor, and the laser, they explore the daily micro-practices of research, showing how distinctions between the search for knowledge and creative problem solving break down when one pays attention to the ways in which pathbreaking research actually happens. By studying key contemporary research institutions, the authors highlight the importance of integrated research practices, contrasting these with models of research in the classic but still-influential report Science the Endless Frontier. Narayanamurti and Odumosu’s new model of the research ecosystem underscores that discovery and invention are often two sides of the same coin that moves innovation forward.

Beyond the Imperial Frontier
Beyond the Imperial Frontier

Author: Vincent O'Malley

Publisher: Bridget Williams Books

Published: 2014-09-15

Total Pages: 579

ISBN-13: 1927277531

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Beyond the Imperial Frontier is an exploration of the different ways Māori and Pākehā ‘fronted’ one another – the zones of contact and encounter – across the nineteenth century. Beginning with a pre-1840 era marked by significant cooperation, Vincent O’Malley details the emergence of a more competitive and conflicted post-Treaty world. As a collected work, these essays also chart the development of a leading New Zealand historian.

Delphi Collected Works of Friedrich Engels (Illustrated)
Delphi Collected Works of Friedrich Engels (Illustrated)

Author: Friedrich Engels

Publisher: Delphi Classics

Published: 2023-07-27

Total Pages: 2437

ISBN-13: 1801701296

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The German socialist Friedrich Engels first developed an interest in the philosophy of G. W. F. Hegel, prior to forming a permanent partnership with Karl Marx to promote the socialist movement. After persuading the second Communist Congress to adopt their views, the two friends drafted the ‘Communist Manifesto’ of 1848. After Marx’s death in 1883, Engels was the foremost authority on Marx and Marxism. He produced wide-ranging works of his own, including philosophical writings on materialism, idealism and dialectics. His important work helped supply Marxism with an ontological and metaphysical foundation. This eBook presents Engels’ collected works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Engels’ life and works * Concise introductions to the major texts * All of the major treatises, with individual contents tables * Features rare works appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Easily locate the texts you want to read * Features Karl Kautsky’s early biography – discover Engels’ incredible life * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres CONTENTS: The Works The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845) The Holy Family (1845) The German Ideology (1845) The Anniversary of the Polish Revolution of 1830 (1847) Preface to ‘On the Question of Free Trade’ (1848) The Communist Manifesto (1848) Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League (1850) England’s 17th Century Revolution (1850) The Peasants’ War in Germany (1850) Revolution and Counter-Revolution (1852) The Heroes of the Exile! (1852) The Real Issue in Turkey (1853) On Afghanistan (1857) Mountain Warfare in the Past and Present (1857) Po and Rhine (1859) The Prussian Military Question and the German Workers’ Party (1865) What Have the Working Classes to Do with Poland? (1866) Synopsis of Marx’s ‘Das Kapital’ (1868) Fictitious Splits in the International (1872) La Liberté Speech (1872) On Authority (1872) The Housing Question (1872) The Bakuninists at Work (1873) On Social Relations in Russia (1874) The Program of the Blanquist Fugitives from the Paris Commune (1874) For Poland (1875) Life of Wilhelm Wolff (1876) The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man (1876) Karl Marx (1877) Anti-Dühring (1877) Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (1880) Bruno Bauer and Early Christianity (1882) Engels’ Speech at the Grave of Karl Marx (1883) Dialectics of Nature (1883) The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1885) On The History of the Communist League (1885) Feuerbach (1886) The Mark (1892) The Peasant Question in France and Germany (1894) The Biography Frederick Engels: His Life, His Work and His Writings (1899) by Karl Kautsky

Beyond the Ice Wall: Earth's FInal Frontier
Beyond the Ice Wall: Earth's FInal Frontier

Author: Cassiel E. Nox

Publisher: Cassiel E. Nox

Published: 2024-09-19

Total Pages: 123

ISBN-13:

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Embark on a thrilling journey to the edge of the world in "Beyond The Ice Wall: Earth's Final Frontier" by Cassiel E. Nox. This captivating narrative transports readers to the frigid expanses of Antarctica, where the towering Ice Wall holds secrets ancient and profound. As humanity's last unexplored domain, the frozen landscape whispers tales of lost civilizations, hidden realms, and scientific mysteries that challenge our understanding of history and reality. Dive into a world where fact and fiction blur, where government conspiracies intertwine with tales of extraterrestrial encounters, and where brave explorers and scientists confront the unknown, seeking answers buried beneath layers of ice and time. "Beyond the Ice Wall" is not just an exploration of geographical frontiers but a voyage into the depths of human curiosity and the mysteries that have captivated imaginations for centuries. With vivid descriptions and a gripping narrative, Cassiel E. Nox invites you to explore a realm of icy wonders, ancient mysteries, and the enigmatic allure of Antarctica's most mysterious feature. Are you ready to challenge the illusions of the Ice Wall and uncover the truths that lie beyond Earth's final frontier? Perfect for fans of speculative fiction and readers fascinated by conspiracy theories and uncharted territories, "Beyond the Ice Wall: Earth's Final Frontier" promises an adventure that defies expectations and expands the boundaries of imagination. Join us on an expedition where the greatest discoveries come from venturing into the unknown.