Colliers Across the Sea
Colliers Across the Sea

Author: John H. M. Laslett

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780252068270

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Charts the common ground and differences between two coal-mining communities: Lanarkshire, in the Clyde Valley of southwest Scotland, and the northern Illinois coalfield that became a prime destination for skilled Scottish migrant miners in the mid-nineteenth century.

Utopia/Dystopia
Utopia/Dystopia

Author: Michael D. Gordin

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2010-08-23

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1400834953

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The concepts of utopia and dystopia have received much historical attention. Utopias have traditionally signified the ideal future: large-scale social, political, ethical, and religious spaces that have yet to be realized. Utopia/Dystopia offers a fresh approach to these ideas. Rather than locate utopias in grandiose programs of future totality, the book treats these concepts as historically grounded categories and examines how individuals and groups throughout time have interpreted utopian visions in their daily present, with an eye toward the future. From colonial and postcolonial Africa to pre-Marxist and Stalinist Eastern Europe, from the social life of fossil fuels to dreams of nuclear power, and from everyday politics in contemporary India to imagined architectures of postwar Britain, this interdisciplinary collection provides new understandings of the utopian/dystopian experience. The essays look at such issues as imaginary utopian perspectives leading to the 1856-57 Xhosa Cattle Killing in South Africa, the functioning racist utopia behind the Rhodesian independence movement, the utopia of the peaceful atom and its global dissemination in the mid-1950s, the possibilities for an everyday utopia in modern cities, and how the Stalinist purges of the 1930s served as an extension of the utopian/dystopian relationship. The contributors are Dipesh Chakrabarty, Igal Halfin, Fredric Jameson, John Krige, Timothy Mitchell, Aditya Nigam, David Pinder, Marci Shore, Jennifer Wenzel, and Luise White.

BattlePlan Magazine
BattlePlan Magazine

Author: Decision Games

Publisher: Past Into Print Publishing

Published:

Total Pages: 69

ISBN-13:

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Battleplan was an ambitious magazine devoted to providing variants, scenarios, and articles on game strategy for wargaming products by a variety of publishers. Published between 1987 and 1989, the magazine had a great deal of content to appeal to war gamers, including articles and materials for Ambush!, Squad Leader, Advanced Squad Leader, Up Front, and many other games. The periodical lasted nine issues, before it was folded into the Wargamer, Volume 2 periodical.In this issue, published in January/February 1988, the contents include: The Editorial Letters Two New Squad Leader Scenarios - "Race to the Clerf" and "Last Stand on the Oder" Russian Campaign II - Changes and strategies for this expansion kit Assault on Singapore - New scenarios Top Gun in the Med - Additional campaigns for Top Gun Victory in Europe - Two new scenarios for this Omega game Added Fuel to A World in Flames - Optional rules Dance of the Vampires - Scenario for VG 2nd Fleet Will We Ever Forget to Remember the Maine? - Situations and strategies for the S&T game Guns of August - Complete mega-variant for AH Guns of August Rodger MacGowan: His Art and His Style - In depth interview with the artist Duel in the Desert and North African Campaign - Short variants for these two games Last Panzer Victory - Strategies and errata More Panzer Victories - Variants for the battle of Debrecan in Last Panzer Victory Historical Research - Why and How – An expert shares his methods Feedback Forum Shanghai Trader Tournament Rules Gamer’s Guide Classifieds Writers Guidelines Inserts: "Race to the Clerf" and "Last Stand on the Oder" Squad Leader scenarios; countersheet for Guns of August mega-variant