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Davies, Huw John. "British intelligence in the Peninsular War." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.436304.
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Valladares, Susan. "English Romantic theatre during the Peninsular War." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a6dc8702-5827-41c9-bb82-94a52ecb5dee.
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Between 1808 and 1814 England was committed to an expensive and bloody campaign against the French invasion of the Iberian Peninsula. The Peninsular War, as it came to be known, was initially celebrated as a war of national independence that attracted widespread support. Soon after, it was characterised by political scandal and public controversy. Literary scholars have devoted much attention to the political, social and cultural effects of the French Revolution, but have written surprisingly little about the later years of the campaign against Napoleonic France. The principle objective of this thesis is to offer the first in-depth study of English theatre during the Peninsular War. It considers the most popular plays in performance, and asks what their staging, publication, and reception history reveal about a nation’s literary tastes and its political self-awareness. Sheridan’s Pizarro, a play about the Spanish conquest of Peru, was one of the most successful plays on the Romantic stage. A close analysis of this play considers its popularity between 1799 and 1815, and what it suggests about the flexibility of the contemporary repertoire system. Audiences’ ability to ascribe topical inflections to old plays helps explain the demand for Shakespeare and the bard’s political import to wartime audiences. This thesis explores the London patent stages and popular minor theatres, where programmes were restricted to song, dance, and spectacle. It also offers a case study of provincial theatre in Bristol, underscoring the significant limitations in assumptions that the metropolitan stage was representative of national trends. Archival research on the London and Bristol stages has been crucial to this study, which is based on an examination of playbills, memoranda, letters, playtexts, and prints. The newsprint and cartoons discussed offer an important political and historical framework, suggestive of the cultural expectations likely to have influenced contemporary playgoers.
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McLauchlan, Tina M. "Wellington's supply system during the Peninsular War, 1809-1814." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ43915.pdf.
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Jaeger, Matthew C. "Imperial soldiers and the experience of guerrilla war in Spain, 1808-1814 /." Electronic version (PDF), 2003. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2003/jaegerm/matthewjaeger.html.
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Saglia, Diego. "Images of Spain in British romanticism : poetic narratives of cultural difference (1808-1814)." Thesis, Cardiff University, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.287769.
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Wright, Christine A. "'Really respectable settlers' : Peninsular War veterans in the Australian colonies, 1820s and 1830s." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/9884.
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As the Napoleonic Wars convulsed Europe during the early nineteenth century, many more British young men than ever before became army officers, particularly during the latter part of the conflict, fought in Spain and Portugal between 1808 and 1814. The Peninsular War provided not only employment, but also the opportunity to climb the social ladder. As this thesis will demonstrate, the majority of British army commissions in this period were not purchased, and it was these men who later came to settle in the Australian colonies. After the demobilization of the British army following the battle of Waterloo in 1815, many officers found themselves on half-pay, doing the rounds of government offices seeking colonial positions; some were successful and were appointed to New South Wales. As well, many of those who came to New South Wales in garrison regiments, from 1817 onwards, found the place appealing and decided to settle. These British army officers, and those others who came in the next couple of decades, were a unique group of emigrants because of the skills they brought with them acquired in the army: self-discipline, self-reliance, the knowledge of how to discipline men, reconnaissance and exploring techniques, mapping, survey, engineering, town planning, medical skills and the building of roads and bridges. They were also Protestant, educated, literate and artistic men, and the carriers of British colonizing notions. They arrived at an opportune time to fill key positions in the newly created civil services in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land. They also took advantage of British government regulations and obtained land grants under favourable conditions, something hitherto unattainable for them in Britain. In any case, it was mutually beneficial for the British Government and the Australian colonies to plant ex-army officers in what was the colony farthest away from Britain. Also revealed are the social networks created by Peninsular War veterans on the other side of the world, and their influence in the Australian colonies. These networks made an impact on the exercise of the law, marriage and settlement patterns, and the social and public life of the colonies. Many of the men who in earlier histories have been called 'the founding fathers' of Australia had a Peninsular War background and developed related social networks. John Macarthur proposed to Commissioner Bigge in1821 that the colony of New South Wales needed 'really respectable settlers'. Peninsular War veterans proved to be ideal in this respect, and in many others besides. The role of these veterans demonstrates key aspects of the emergence of the 'second' British Empire in the early nineteenth century, and also the change in the nature of the colony of New South Wales, from a penal and military society to a free one.
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Muir, Rory. "The British government and the Peninsula War, 1808 to June 1811 /." Title page, contents and preface only, 1988. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phm953.pdf.
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Pockett, Christopher Ian. "Soldiers of the king, British soldiers and identity in the Peninsular War, 1808-1814." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0013/MQ31239.pdf.
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Coss, Edward James. "All for the King's shilling an analysis of the campaign and combat experiences of the British soldier in the Peninsular War, 1808-1814 /." Connect to resource, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1117204657.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Ohio State University, 2005.Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xiv, 427 p.; also includes graphics. Includes bibliographical references (p. 403-427). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center
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Hasan, Abdul Rahman bin. "Changes in the level and pattern of mortality rates in Peninsular Malaysia, 1971-1983." Thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/117360.
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Mortality rates in developing countries have shown a rapidly
declining trend since the end of World War II. Countries like
Malaysia, Taiwan, Mauritius, Jamaica, and Mexico have increased life
expectancy at birth at an average of over a year annually between the
1940's and 1960's (Gwatkin, 1980:616). There appeared to be special
causes; probably due to control of endemic disease. Many developing
countries have recorded life expectancy gains three or more times as
great as those achieved in Western Europe at a comparable stage in its
mortality transition (Gwatkin, 1980:616).
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Iglesias, Rogers Graciela. "British liberators : the role of volunteers in the Spanish forces during the Peninsular War (1808-1814)... and far beyond." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669998.
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Fowle, Mark. "Practices of emancipation : an analysis of security, dialogue and change in post-war Vukovar." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2010. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/35725/.
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The thesis analyses the Croatian city of Vukovar as a way of animating theoretical debates about the relationship between security, emancipation and practice. It claims that emancipation must be understood through experiences of security and insecurity as they are lived. Located in security studies, it begins with a critical reading of the Welsh School. Ken Booth's original move to associate security with emancipation opened up new possibilities for reimagining the field and for practicing security, but subsequent developments orientated the security as emancipation move towards closure. A genuinely open way of exploring this move is the context of Andrew Linklater's adaptation of Habermasian discourse ethics. In this way an engagement between Booth and Linklater is opened which runs throughout the thesis. The second part introduces Vukovar. It details the violence of late-1991 seen in the city, and outlines how the emergence of Croatian democracy represents a form of settlement. Yet patterns of memorialisation and reconstruction in Vukovar entrench a pro-Croat narrative of settlement at the expense of non-Croats who are unjustly excluded. Furthermore, interviews with leaders of local civil society, religious and political groups suggest that difference and contestation, rather than settlement, characterise the post-war period in Vukovar. The third part presents an analysis of the emancipatory practices which take place within the local context of contestation. Interviews with NGOs in Vukovar support Booth's emphasis on civil society groups as agents of emancipation. Subsequent interviews challenge his view in important ways as the human limits of emancipatory practices are revealed. However, even when such limitations are taken into account, certain civil society practices show how Booth and Linklater's respective understandings of emancipatory practice are played out in what are termed microdialogic communities. These alternative dialogues open new spaces and allow dominant understandings of the war to be challenged.
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Mavrodin, Corina. "A maverick in the making : Romania's de-satellization process and the global Cold War (1953-1963)." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2017. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3555/.
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This research project explores Romania’s process of detachment from Moscow from 1953 to 1963 within the context of the global Cold War. Through a multi-archival investigation, the dissertation investigates the first full process of peaceful de-satellization within the Eastern bloc by considering the broader framework of the bipolar international climate. In so doing, it provides both a bottom-up, as well as a top-down analysis. This project focuses, in particular, on the tenure of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (1947-65), Romania’s first Communist leader, as it was under his leadership that the country shifted from complete subservience to the Soviet Union to political and economic autonomy. In 1958, Romania negotiated a full troop withdrawal, remaining the only Warsaw Pact country without Soviet military presence until the fall of the Berlin Wall. And by 1963, it also dared to challenge Moscow’s plans for economic specialization within COMECON, thereby asserting its sovereign right to pursue national interest over the greater socialist good, and thus stymying the Kremlin’s initiative for an integrated bloc economy. This project provides an in-depth investigation into the reasons why Romania was able to boldly confront the Soviet Union without fear of retribution, by tracing the process through which Dej gradually removed Romania’s political straightjacket, and exploring those elements within the international climate which allowed him to negotiate Romania’s detachment.
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Godfrey, Owen Michael. "Humanitarian war in theory and practice : a case study of the NATO intervention in Kosovo." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2007. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11493/.
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This thesis aims to test and refine the theory of humanitarian war through the medium of a case study of the NATO intervention in Kosovo in 1999. Key research questions include: Is ‘humanitarian war’ a contradiction in terms? To what extent can military force be an appropriate and effective instrument for solving or averting humanitarian crises and ensuring respect for human rights? Is the concept, as some critics argue, too easily abused by powerful states seeking to justify wars fought for self-interested reasons? The thesis will look at the arguments of both proponents and critics of the concept of humanitarian war. The aim is to provide an immanent critique of the theory, judging it on its own terms; therefore when the arguments of critics are considered, the main emphasis will be on critics who come from within the liberal spectrum, rather than on realists or communitarians. It will examine the theory in terms of its three aspects- the jus ad bellum, jus in bello and jus post bellum- with the aim of taking a ‘longer view’ of intervention than is often the case in the existing literature, viewing it not as a discrete event but as part of a complex long-term process. The case of Kosovo was chosen as a recent intervention that has often been cited as a good example of a humanitarian war, and one which most proponents of the concept supported, at least in principle.
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Yip, Andrew. "A portrait of the nation as a young man : the genesis of Gallipoli : mythologies in Australian and Turkish art." Phd thesis, Department of Art History and Film Studies, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7779.
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Paquin, Jonathan. "Recognizing the obvious? : the United States response to secessionist ambitions since the end of the Cold War." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=102822.
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This dissertation explores the factors shaping American foreign policy toward secessionist crises since the end of the Cold War. The main research puzzle is the following: Why is it that, facing the resurgence of secessionist movements in the last 15 years, the United States reacted to it by supporting the territorial integrity of central states in some cases (Serbia, Somalia, Moldova), while recognizing the independence of secessionist states in other cases (Croatia, Eritrea, East Timor)? How can this apparent inconsistency be explained? This dissertation argues that regional stability is the main U.S. interest when responding to secessionism. It asserts that, when facing a secessionist crisis, the American government will choose the option (i.e. supporting state integrity or secessionism) that provides the greatest expected gain of regional stability depending on the evolution of the crisis. This explains why the American government's response to secessionism fluctuates from one case to another.The performed qualitative analysis, which includes cases taken from two regional settings, the Balkans and the Horn of Africa, confirms the effect of the regional stability factor on the formulation of U.S. foreign policy. It shows that the fluctuation of the U.S. response is not caused by political inconsistency but by a coherent set of regional stability interests. The research also proceeds to the measurement of two competing arguments---namely ethnic politics and business interests. Case studies show that these domestic arguments fail to account for the research puzzle under investigation and that the regional stability argument consistently offers better explanations and predictions. Thus, this dissertation challenges liberal claims that domestic politics define foreign policy.
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Duggett, Thomas J. E. "Wordsworth's Gothic politics : a study of the poetry and prose, 1794-1814." Thesis, St Andrews, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/361.
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Kunselman, David E. "Arab-Byzantine War, 629-644 AD." Ft. Leavenworth : Army Command and General Staff College, 2007. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA494014.
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Karlsson, Alfons. "The Crimean peninsula and the rebirth of the Cold War in the 21st century. : A qualitative analysis of the Russian takeover of the Crimean peninsula following the crisis in Ukraine." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-46667.
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Western, post-soviet foreign policies have led to an ever increasing split between western politics and Russia. Starting with the Russian war in Georgia and culminating with the Crimean crisis 2013-2014 it has become evident that the luggage from the cold war has not quite yet stopped ruling geopolitics in the world. To provide diplomatic solutions which are acceptable to all parties, it is important to provide a coherent analysis of Russia´s motives behind conquering Crimea. Without an analysis of Russia´s view on the situation there is a risk of a situation in which the crisis might escalate and lead to further military escalation which in turn might lead to catastrophical events. The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether the decision making process of Russia to invade Crimea can be explained using the Rational Actor Method in analyzing Russia´s actions during the crisis and present a possible account of the decision making process behind Russia´s decision to invade Crimea. With the aid of cultural, historical and strategic perspectives alongside a theory of Russian quest for status this essay provides a thorough analysis of the Russian decision to invade the Crimean peninsula using an analytical method derived from the Rational Actor Paradigm. Conclusively, using the Rational Actor Model in an extensive analysis presents a possible decision making process of Russia´s motives and reasons behind its decision to conquer Crimea.
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Sarlak, Levent. "The Balkan Wars Accorng To The Pravda Newspaper." Master's thesis, METU, 2012. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12615006/index.pdf.
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This thesis has examined the Bolshevik newspaper, Pravda, which began its broadcasting life in April 1912, for the period of the Balkan Wars from October 1912 to October 1913. The objectives of this study are to present and examine the position towards the Balkan Wars of a political group, which viewed the world and the Ottoman Empire from a different angle than the traditional Russian political position of the time, and would seize the power only five years later in Russia.
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Al-Rajhi, Saleh Abdullah. "The Gulf Cooperation Council states : the manifold threats and the search for security and stability maintenance in the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula." Thesis, University of Reading, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.262806.
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Woolgar, Tereza. "Exploring public and private versions of WW2 memory : memory, identity, ideology and propaganda in relation to the representations of the Czech RAF airmen." Thesis, University of Gloucestershire, 2012. http://eprints.glos.ac.uk/2361/.
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From a broader perspective this cross-disciplinary and cross cultural thesis examines the relationships between identity, ideology and propaganda and their influence over the production of private and public memories. This examination is carried out through a case study investigating various representations of the Czech RAF airmen from selected British and Czech WW2 newspapers approached as an archive of memory, and from individual recollections of the Czech veterans – the living archive of memory. These representations in the context of this research become interacting versions of public and private memory which in a unique way and yet equally contribute towards the historical construction of the Second World War. This thesis proposes that the various versions of memory, in Rothberg’s (2009) words ‘multidirectional memory’, are a consequence of versioning, a constant creation and re-creation of different versions of memory due to numerous influences on the producers of such memory. However, this research also considers a presence of Second World War discourse, which underpinned public and private memory and transcended collective memories of the Britishness and Czechness forming a transnational or cross cultural (Radstone, 2010) WW2 memory. In other words, this project draws upon current theories about non competitive multiple, transnational and mediated memory (Dijck, 2007) and extends upon these by considering their existence within a potentially unifying WW2 discourse within which they connect and disconnect. By doing so, this thesis challenges master narratives of history. These memories are also seen as a base for multi-layered identity of the ones who remembered and had the right to remember. Furthermore this study explores the potential reasons behind the creation of the discovered qualitative treasure of this project The Czechoslovak, a small community newspaper produced by the Czech minority living in Britain during the WW2. The theoretical underpinning as well as the methodology of the project attempt to interrogate media studies, oral history and memory studies in order to create a most pertinent space in which the written and oral memory is explored effectively. This merger of theories and methodologies allowed me to investigate the various memories within the context of the WW2 and thus construct them from the past perspective when they were being created. A discourse analysis of selected British and Czech WW2 newspapers (The Times, Daily Mirror, News of the World and The Czechoslovak) has been employed distinguishing between traditional and tabloidised newspaper representations and investigating to what extend the Czechs were portrayed as the ‘other’ or the heroes in the British society. The outcome of this analysis was a discovery that the Czech RAF airmen had not been given much prominence in the British newspapers and that their representations varied according to the different type of newspaper and the different period of the war in which they were produced. Moreover, ideology, propaganda and the notion of Czech and British identity present in the newspapers played an important role in the creation of public memory versions of the Czech RAF airmen’s images. Besides newspapers, this study took the opportunity to reveal very fragile and valuable private recollections of the Czech WW2 RAF veterans (six former members of the Czech RAF settled in Britain after the WW2 and 1 widow were interviewed in the summer 2008); the men who played an important role in the success of the Allies in WW2. By doing this, the former Czech airmen were given a voice and the chance to contribute towards existing knowledge about the Czechs in the RAF and the Second World War. The various versions of the past produced by their private memory have been investigated in the view of various factors influencing these versions: notably their identity, war ideology, propaganda, and forgetting and in relation to WW2 media. Considering the occurrence of versioning, when critically reflecting upon all different memories, I position myself as a researcher into the shoes of yet another producer of another version of the past. Thus, this study creates a space where various, sometimes contrasting memories do not fight for recognition, but where official collective memory and individual memory influence each other and also enrich each other whilst they co-construct a historical representation of the past.
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Bordignon, Mattia. "Forces Of Liberalism And Conservatism In The Nineteenth Century: A Comparative Study On The Italian Peninsula And The Ottoman Empire." Master's thesis, METU, 2011. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12613829/index.pdf.
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This thesis analyses the position of the Ottoman Empire and the Italian penin-
sula and their position in the international scenario during the 19th century.
This work studies the developments in the Ottoman Empire and the Italian
peninsula from the beginning of the Tanzimat (in the Ottoman Empire) and
the Risorgimento (in the Italian peninsula), until the Crimean War, and eval-
uates the consequences of these events for the European balance of power.
These developments took place at a time when Europe was divided be-
tween conservative and liberal states, the formers being represented by Russia
and the Habsburg Empire, the latters by Great Britain and France. This the-
sis, while focusing on the role played by these great Powers in influencing the
Ottoman Empire and the Italian peninsula during the first half of the 19th
century, also considers the international developments that followed the out-
break of the Crimean War.
The Crimean War in fact saw the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of
Sardinia allying themselves with the liberal forces, a choice consistent with the
political path these two states were following in their internal reforms, which
they were undertaking to allow them to meet the challenges of evolving times.
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Foehn, Salomé. "Les philosophes de l'exil républicain espagnol de 1939 : autour de José Bergamín, Juan David García Bacca et María Zambrano (1939-1965)." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2551.
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Spanish Republican philosophers in exile defended the Second Republic, legally proclaimed on April 14, 1931. They embraced the anti-fascist cause rising in the 1920s and the 1930s in Europe. During the Civil War, which lasted three years, they stood among the people. 1939 saw the victory of General Francisco Franco, supported by Nazi Germany and the Italy of Mussolini. Threatened with death, they had no choice but to escape from Spain. Some intellectuals experienced French concentration camps but, for the most part, they found refuge in Latin America, especially in Mexico and Venezuela. In exile, they swore to remain loyal to the Second Republic and to the spirit of the Spanish people. Moved by liberal views and humane ideals, these philosophers belonged to the vanquished, as those everywhere in Europe who rose against Fascist barbarity. As a result, their respective works are still widely unknown today – despite relentless efforts made to promote their thought to a larger audience for over half a century. In addition to the historical context of crisis during the interwar period, the situation of Spanish philosophy itself is suggestive. Indeed, Spanish philosophy was institutionalised at the beginning of the twentieth century only: the Schools of Madrid and Barcelona were created. These politics of cultural and intellectual renovation are first bestowed upon the generation of philosophers I study, born in the 1900s. When the Spanish War erupts, they had become professionals of international recognition. This shows the actual limits of academic philosophy, incapable of acknowledging unorthodox ways of philosophising. The experience of exile itself serves in my opinion as a catalyst: Spanish Republican philosophers in exile seek emancipation from academic conventions to philosophise freely; that is, in Spanish and according to the spirit of the people. No doubt “poetic reason” – the true invention of Spanish Republican exile – stems from this ideal of autonomous thinking.
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Siou, Hervé. "L'esprit de Numance : mythes obsidionaux et constructions nationales en Espagne, 1808-1958." Thesis, Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019IEPP0045.
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Les sièges militaires jouent un rôle important dans le récit national espagnol. Si les sièges antiques de Numance et de Sagonte sont des épisodes fondateurs, l'exploitation des mythes obsidionaux s'accroît considérablement à partir de la guerre d'Indépendance. Les sièges de Saragosse (1808-1809) par les troupes françaises sont exaltés au point de devenir un événement révélateur de l'identité ibérique : par cette défaite glorieuse, les Espagnols auraient montré leur attachement à la liberté et fait preuve d'un sens inné du sacrifice. Ce discours construit par les élites au moment du siège afin de faciliter le consentement à la mort des assiégés se révèle également efficace par la suite : il est placé au cœur du récit national établi sous la monarchie isabelline et, dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle, son exemple est aussi bien repris par les libéraux que par les républicains ou les conservateurs. Il est également réinvesti à différentes échelles, aussi bien locale, régionale que nationale. Au bout du compte, le mythe saragossain est à l’origine d’une véritable mythologie obsidionale : l'exaltation du siège de 1714 par les nationalistes catalans ou encore celle des libéraux de Bilbao commémorant les victoires face aux carlistes (1835-1836 et 1874) peuvent être considérées comme des « variations » sur le thème de la résistance obsidionale. À partir de corpus de sources variées (presse, littérature, peinture, archives municipales, fonds privés), cette thèse s’emploie à retracer l’évolution du mythe des sièges de Saragosse entre 1808 et 1958 ainsi que celle de ces « variations ». Elle entend ériger la mythologie obsidionale en un observatoire des constructions communautaires en EspagneMilitary sieges play a significant role in the Spanish national narrative. If the antique sieges of Numance and Sagonte are undoubtedly founding moments, the exploitation of the obsidional myths considerably increases from the Peninsular War and onwards. The double siege of Zaragoza (1808-1809) by the French troops is celebrated to a point that it becomes an insight to the Iberian identity: through this glorious defeat, the Spanish are said to have proved their devotion to freedom and an innate sense of sacrifice. This discourse, which was designed by the elites during the siege as a way to ease consent in the acceptance of the deaths of the besieged also proved effective later on: it is at the heart of the national narrative which was imposed under the Isabelline rule and, in the second half of the 19th century, this example is used both by the Liberals, the Republicans and the Conservative. It is also reinvested at different levels, be they local, regional or national. All in all, the Zaragozan myth is at the origin of a true obsidional mythology: the celebration of the 1714 siege by the Catalan nationalists or that of Bilbaoan Liberals commemorating their victories against the Carlists (1835-1836 and 1874) can be considered as “variations on a theme” of obsidional resistance. Based on a corpus of varied sources (press articles, literature, paintings, municipal archives, private resources), this thesis will try to retrace the evolution of the Zaragozan sieges between 1808 and 1958 but also that of their “variations». It will aim at establishing obsidional mythology as an observatory of communitarian developments in Spain
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Davis, George Frederick, and n/a. "Anzac Day meanings and memories : New Zealand, Australian and Turkish perspectives on a day of commemoration in the twentieth century." University of Otago. Department of History, 2009. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20090519.163222.
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This study examines the changing perceptions of Anzac Day in New Zealand, Australia and Turkey in the twentieth century. Changing interpretations of Anzac Day reflect social and political changes in the nations over that time.
Anzac Day is an annual commemoration which has profound significance in the Australian and New Zealand social landscape. It has undergone significant changes of meaning since it began, and may be regarded as being an example of the changeable script of memory. The thesis argues that memory and landscape intersect to influence the way commemorative gestures are interpreted. Personal and community memories are fluid, influenced by the current historical landscape. This means that each successive Anzac Day can have different connotations. The public perception of these connotations is traced for each of New Zealand, Australia and Turkey.
Anzac Day reflects the forces at work in the current historical landscape. Within that landscape it has different meanings and also functions as an arena for individual and community agency. On Anzac Day there are parades and services which constitute a public theatre where communities validate military service. Individual and communal feats are held high and an ethic or myth is placed as a model within the social fabric. Anzac Day is contested and reflects tides of opinion about war and society and the role of women. It is also the locale of quiet, personal contemplation, where central family attachments to the loved and lost and the debt owed by civilian communities to the military are expressed. Generational change has redefined its meanings and functions.
Anzac Day was shaped in a contemporary historical landscape. It reflected multi-national perspectives within British Empire and Commonwealth countries and Turkey. For Turkey the day represented a developing friendship with former foes and was couched within Onsekiz Mart Zaferi, a celebration of the Çanakkale Savaşlari 1915 victory in the Dardanelles campaign. As Anzac Day evolved, Turkey, the host country for New Zealand and Australian pilgrims, became the focus of world attention on the day. Gallipoli is now universally recognised as the international shrine for Anzac Day.
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Hyre, Heather Richelle. "AN INVESTIGATION OF WARM-SEASON CLOUD PATTERNS AND RELATED PRECIPITATION ACROSS MARYLAND AND THE DELMARVA PENINSULA." MSSTATE, 2010. http://sun.library.msstate.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-03302010-115001/.
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Surface heterogeneities cause differential heating that can generate mesoscale convective boundaries, sometimes leading to cloud development and enhanced localized precipitation. A preferred cloud pattern has been identified across Maryland and the Delmarva Peninsula region from 1998-2006 through the detection of cumuliform clouds on days when synoptic-scale forcing is weak. Hourly visible Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) imagery data are used to identify convective cloud masses. This allows quantitative description of the frequency and spatiotemporal extent of the clouds, helping forecasters gain insight into when and where they are likely to develop. Despite the inability to determine the underlying causes of the distinct cloud pattern, primarily due to the complex land cover, results indicate that the land receives significantly higher average total cloud cover than the Chesapeake Bay with Delaware receiving the highest average total cloud cover per state. Average total precipitation amounts follow this same trend on synoptically-weak days.
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Åström, Alexander. "The Korean Peninsula: Where the Cold War Never Ended : The Foreign Policy of the Republic of Korea on a peaceful reunification with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för hälsa och samhälle (HOS), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-23189.
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This paper examines different foreign policies of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) towards the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) with regards to a peaceful reunification of the Korean Peninsula. The paper uses the theoretical framework of Social Constructivism to analyze what impact the different foreign policies of South Korea towards North Korea have had on their relations, thus providing an understanding of what impact those foreign policies have had on the peaceful reunification process of the Korean Peninsula. The paper will also look at the First Korean Nuclear Crisis, the Second Korean Nuclear Crisis, the ROKS Cheonan sinking and the shelling of Yeonpyeong, and with the help from the theoretical framework of Social Constructivism, analyze what impact those incidents have had on South Korea’s foreign policy and relations with North Korea, thus providing an understanding what impact those incidents have had on the peaceful reunification process of the Korean Peninsula.
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Van, Velden Julia. "Metabolic changes to GLUT-4 levels in urban Chacma baboons on the Cape Peninsula: raiding their way to type 2 diabetes?" Bachelor's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7626.
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The Chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) of the Cape Peninsula are established raiders of human food, leading to widespread conflict between this intelligent, adaptable species and humans. The modern Western diet that these baboons have become exposed to has many deleterious effects on health, including obesity and type 2 diabetes. The aim of this study was to investigate whether this population of baboons have lowered GLUT-‐4 transporter protein levels in comparison to wild-‐feeding baboons, as an indication of insulin abnormalities. GLUT-‐4 levels were analysed via Western Blot and DXA scanning was used to compare physical characteristics between these two groups. No significant difference in GLUT-‐4 levels was found, however the two groups differed in three physical variables, with the semi-‐provisioned Peninsula group having higher total weight (kg)(p<0,05), total body lean mass (kg) (p<0,01) and bone mineral content (kg)(p<0,001) than the wild-‐feeding controls. These results indicate that male individuals from the Peninsula population are bigger but not fatter than wild-‐feeding male baboons from the Eastern Cape population. Although it could not be determined whether human food is causing insulin abnormalities in the Cape Peninsula’s population of Chacma baboons, this study indicates that this is a promising area of research, likely to affect the management strategies used on this population.
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Brault, Emily K. "Evaluating Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and Mercury in the West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) Food Web, with a Focus on Antarctic Fur Seals (Arctocephalus gazella)." W&M ScholarWorks, 2012. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539617927.
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Mackay, Christopher Don, and n/a. "Sepulture perpetuelle : New Zealand and Gallipoli : possession, preservation and pilgrimage 1916-1965." University of Otago. Department of History, 2006. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20070504.145719.
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Constructions of memory, myth and legend relating to Gallipoli have dominated the academic assumption which suggests that this dimension alone has allowed for the reawakening of the exceptional interest in the Anzac tradition; a tradition that has converged at the physical site in modern day Turkey. While these intangible constructions have waxed, waned, and re-emerged over the Twentieth Century, possessing the site to commence the construction of an Anzac Battlefield Cemetery has been ignored in academic enquiry. This significant series of events from 1916 to 1965 were indispensable to memory perpetuation and essential to the commemorative primacy that this preserved headland now enjoys. The desire to repossess, and then own in perpetuity the battlefield in order to attach the appropriate masonry adornments, is in itself unique. This dimension has not been academically scrutinised by any historian until now. Nor has the deliberate desire to construct an Anzac shrine that would someday attract pilgrims from the Antipodes been studied. Present day site-sacralisation by rite-of-passage pilgrims, thoroughly emersed in the Anzac tradition, suggests the convergence of the two dimensions is complete.
To counteract this problem of the �hegemony of the intangibles� this thesis explores primary sources, gleaned largely from archival records, then evaluates the significance of the history of �physical Gallipoli.� Thematic approaches based upon the lines of possession, preservation and pilgrimage argue that this parallel dimension has played an indispensable role in shaping the end result today. Tens of thousands Australasian travellers now flock to this preserved battlefield to encounter the actual physicality of the tradition. The battlefield cemetery, complete with botanical emblems of ownership, had been out of the reach of the very generation who had created, acquired and constructed the battlefield landscape. The New Zealand public had to be content with assorted forms of vicarious pilgrimage coupled with widespread domestic memorialisation.
New Zealand�s post-evacuation experience at Gallipoli became a story completely distinctive from that of Australia or Great Britain. The deliberately constructed Anzac Battlefield Cemetery is a unique landscape artefact that a proud but mournful generation set out to create. They eventually achieved this end by a complicated mixture of conquest, occupation, careful preservation, and commemorative ownership. These efforts were assisted by the vagaries of economic happenstance and international politics that left this remote Peninsula isolated and off-limits to human encounter. Fortuitously frozen in time, this landscape artefact, so steeped in Classical history, has emerged as one of the most sacred, and perhaps the most recognisable, geographic features associated with Australasia. Overriding these plans for shrine construction had been the stated goal of securing a reverent final resting place for those who fell during the creation of the Anzac legend in 1915. Sepulture perpetuelle became the post-evacuation catchphrase that propelled this Great War generation to go almost to the brink of war to secure the principles of this phrase. This lofty goal of permanence, by passage of time and the re-appropriation of nature, had mercifully been completed before the current �second invasion� that commenced in the 1980s. The Anzac Battlefield Cemetery is now a victim of its own very successful physical preservation.
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Edwards, Sarah Elizabeth. "Medical ethnobotany of Wik, Wik-Way and Kugu peoples of Cape York Peninsula, Australia : an integrated collaborative approach to understanding traditional phytotherapeutic knowledge and its applications." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.429007.
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Lee, Seung-Ryul. "China's search for security in a bifurcated world and its implications for multilateral security cooperation surrounding the Korean peninsula in the post-Cold War era : with special reference to military, political, diplomatic and economic factors." Thesis, University of Hull, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.323177.
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Jaña, Obregón Ricardo. "Digital elevation models and delineation of antarctic glaciers using stereo capabilities of ASTER satellite images steps on the way for a glacier monitoring on the Antarctic Peninsula /." [S.l. : s.n.], 2006. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:25-opus-37837.
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Monien, Patrick [Verfasser], Hans-Jürgen Akademischer Betreuer] Brumsack, and Jürgen [Akademischer Betreuer] [Rullkötter. "The geochemical response of sedimentary archives to rapid recent glacier retreat at the western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP): from source to sink / Patrick Monien. Betreuer: Hans-Jürgen Brumsack ; Jürgen Rullkötter." Oldenburg : BIS der Universität Oldenburg, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1051934311/34.
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Weissmann, Mikael. "Understanding the East Asian Peace : Informal and formal conflict prevention and peacebuilding in the Taiwan Strait, the Korean Peninsula, and the South China Sea 1990-2008." Doctoral thesis, University of Gothenburg, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-5166.
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The overall purpose of this dissertation is to provide an empirical study of the post-Cold War EastAsian security setting, with the aim of understanding why there is an East Asian peace. The EastAsian peace exists in a region with a history of militarised conflicts, home to many of the world'slongest ongoing militarised problems and a number of unresolved critical flashpoints. Thus, thepost-Cold War East Asian inter-state peace is a paradox. Despite being a region predicted to be ripefor conflict, there have not only been less wars than expected, but the region also shows severalsigns of a development towards a more durable peace. The dominant research paradigm –neorealism – has painted a gloomy picture of post-Cold War East Asia, with perpetual conflictsdominating the predictions. Other mainstream international relations theories, too, fail to accountfully for the relative peace. One of the greatest problems for mainstream theories, is accounting forpeace given East Asia's lack of security organisations or other formalised conflict managementmechanisms. Given this paradox/problem, this dissertation sets out to ask "Why is there a relativepeace in the East Asian security setting despite an absence of security organisations or otherformalised mechanisms to prevent existing conflicts from escalating into violence?" In order to answer this question, the case of East Asian peace is approached by comparingthree embedded case studies within the region: the Taiwan issue, the South China Sea, and theKorean nuclear conflict. It explores the full range of informal and formal processes plus the ConflictPrevention and Peacebuilding Mechanisms (CPPBMs) that have been important for the creation ofa continuing relative peace in East Asia between 1990 and 2008. The study furthermore focuses onChina's role in the three cases, on an empirical basis consisting of interviews conducted with keypersons during more than 1.5 years fieldwork in China. The three cases show that informal processes exist, and that they have furthermore beenimportant for peace, both by preventing conflicts from escalating into war, and by buildingconditions for a stable longer-term peace. Their impact on the persistence of peace has been tracedto a range of different CPPBMs. Returning to the level of the East Asian case, a common feature ofmany of the identified processes is that they can be understood as aspects or manifestations of theEast Asian regionalisation process. Specifically, elite interactions (personal networks, track twodiplomacy), back-channel negotiations, economic interdependence and integration, and functionalcooperation have together with (China's acceptance of) multilateralism and institutionalisation (ofpeaceful relations) been of high importance for the relative peace. Whereas formalised conflictmanagement mechanisms and the U.S. presence have also contributed to peace, this dissertationshows their contribution to be much more limited.
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Monteiro, Hericly Andrade. "Entre conflitos e alianças : uma análise da política episcopal de Diego Gelmírez através da Historia Compostelana (séc. XII)." Universidade Federal de Sergipe, 2016. https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/5647.
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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPESThe Historia Compostelana is a twelfth-century work that narrates the trajectory and politicians made of Diego Gelmírez, bishop and later archbishop of Santiago de Compostela between the years 1100 and 1140. Arising low Galician nobility and from a young age linked not only to the clergy as also the high nobility, Gelmírez was responsible for the movement that propelled the growth of compostelana diocese and increasing pilgrimage to the shrine dedicated to St. Thiago. It has become even more important due to its activity as bishop, because it was under his command that the See climbed the archbishopric position after annexing territories of other Churches and also promote the theft of relics. This research present examined the role played by Diego Gelmírez during the years of his activity as bishop and later of Santiago de Compostela archbishop, moments that involved not only in episcopal activity, but also in military activities, assuming many times the leading role among the Galicians, gathering troops, were for their own benefit or service of the Castilian-Leonese monarchs Urraca I (1109-1126) and Alfonso VII (1126-1157). Through the analysis of his figure expressed in compostelana history, we seek to understand the complexity of their political actions both in episcopal level, as the warrior within and how both are intertwined taking into account the conflicts and alliances present in the context of the Iberian Peninsula of its time .
A Historia Compostelana é uma obra do século XII que narra a trajetória e os feitos políticos de Diego Gelmírez, bispo e posterior arcebispo de Santiago de Compostela entre os anos 1100 e 1140. Advindo da baixa nobreza galega e desde jovem ligado não somente ao clero como também a alta nobreza, Gelmírez foi responsável pelo movimento que impulsionou o crescimento da diocese compostelana e pelo aumento da peregrinação até o santuário dedicado a São Thiago. Tornou-se ainda mais importante devido à sua atividade enquanto bispo, pois, foi sob o seu comando que a Sé galgou a posição de arcebispado após anexar territórios de outras Igrejas e ainda promover o roubo de relíquias. A presente pesquisa de mestrado analisou o papel desempenhado por Diego Gelmírez durante os anos de sua atuação enquanto bispo e, posteriormente, arcebispo de Santiago de Compostela, momentos em que se envolveu não só em atividades episcopais, mas também, em atividades militares, assumindo muitas vezes o papel de líder entre os galegos, reunindo tropas, fosse para proveito próprio ou à serviço dos monarcas castelhano-leoneses Urraca I (1109-1126) e Alfonso VII (1126-1157). Através da análise da sua figura expressa na História compostelana, buscamos entender a complexidade das suas ações políticas tanto em âmbito episcopal, quanto no âmbito guerreiro e como ambos se entrelaçaram levando em consideração os conflitos e as alianças presentes no contexto da Península Ibérica de seu tempo.
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Gonçalves, Daniela Norcia. "Intervenção da OTAN nos Bálcãs: um estudo de caso sobre a redefinição da regra da soberania implícita nos esforços de ordenamento e estabilização." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2009. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/4075.
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Previous issue date: 2009-05-22The process of disintegration of the Yugoslavia has immensely attracted international attention as by its violent character and for showing that the hopes of peace and international stability of the post-Cold War were an illusion as by the reflections around the conflict itself and about themes co-related to the limits of both International Order and System and the function of the states. Studying this experience is very relevant for evaluating the meaning of international interventions and its consequences. The present research analyses the question f the sovereignty having as a case study the Balkans crisis during de 1990´s as a result to Tito´s death and the collapse of the region after the Cold War. It talks about the history of the region, the interventions occurred in the 1990´s, the creation of the International Criminal Court and OTAN´s action in Kosovo. It will rises two important points: the practice of humanitarian intervention that, undoubtedly, imply in a reinterpretation of the sovereignty as a society´s central regulator principle; and the problems resulted from the processes of (re) construction of the states during the post- Cold War
O processo desintegração da ex-Federação Iugoslava atraiu intensamente a atenção internacional tanto pelo seu caráter violento e por demonstrar a ilusão das esperanças de paz e estabilidade internacionais no pós-Guerra Fria quanto pelas reflexões que foram geradas em torno do conflito em si e sobre temas correlacionados aos limites e alcances do Sistema Internacional, da Ordem Internacional e sobre o papel dos Estados. Estudar esta experiência é de grande relevância para avaliar o significado das intervenções internacionais e suas conseqüências. O presente trabalho analisa, portanto, a questão da soberania, tendo como estudo de caso a crise ocorrida nos Bálcãs na década de 1990 em decorrência da morte do marechal Tito e do colapso da península depois do fim da Guerra Fria. Aborda o histórico da península, as intervenções ocorridas na região na década de 1990, a instituição de um Tribunal Penal Internacional e a ação da OTAN no Kosovo. A preocupação é levantar dois importantes pontos: a prática da intervenção humanitária, que inegavelmente, implica uma reinterpretação da regra da soberania como princípio regulador central da sociedade internacional; e os problemas resultantes dos processos de (re) construção dos Estados no pós-Guerra Fria
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ABBIATI, MICHELE. "L'ESERCITO ITALIANO E LA CONQUISTA DELLA CATALOGNA (1808-1811).UNO STUDIO DI MILITARY EFFECTIVENESS NELL'EUROPA NAPOLEONICA." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/491761.
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L’esercito italiano e la conquista della Catalogna (1808-1811)
Uno studio di Military Effectiveness nell’Europa napoleonica
Settori scientifico-disciplinari SPS/03 – M-STO/02
La ricerca ha lo scopo di ricostruire e valutare l’effettività militare dell’esercito italiano al servizio di Napoleone I. In primo luogo attraverso un’analisi statistica e strategica della costruzione, e del successivo impiego, dell’istituzione militare del Regno d’Italia durante gli anni della sua esistenza (1805-14); successivamente, è stato scelto un caso di studi particolarmente significativo, come la campagna di Catalogna (1808-11, nel contesto della guerra di Indipendenza spagnola), per poter valutare il contributo operazionale e tattico dei corpi inviati dal governo di Milano e la loro integrazione con l’apparato militare complessivo del Primo Impero.
La tesi ha voluto rispondere alla mancanza di studi sul comportamento in guerra dell’esercito italiano e, allo stesso tempo, introdurre nella storiografia militare italiana la metodologia di studi, d’origine anglosassone e ormai di tradizione trentennale, di Military Effectiveness.
La ricerca si è primariamente basata, oltre che sulla copiosa memorialistica a stampa italiana e francese, sulla documentazione d’archivio della Secrétairerie d’état impériale (Archives Nationales di Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, Parigi), del Ministère de la Guerre francese (Service historique de la Défence, di Vincennes, Parigi) e del Ministero della Guerra del Regno d’Italia (Archivio di Stato di Milano).
Dal punto di vista dei risultati è stato possibile verificare come l’esercito italiano abbia rappresentato, per Bonaparte, uno strumento duttile e di facile impiego, pur in un contesto di sostanziale marginalità numerica complessiva di fronte alle altre (e cospicue) forze messe in campo da parte dell’Impero e dei suoi altri Stati satellite e alleati. Per quanto riguarda la campagna di conquista della Catalogna è stato invece possibile appurare il fondamentale contributo dato dal contingente italiano, sotto i punti di vista operazionale e tattico, per la buona riuscita dell’invasione; questo primariamente grazie alle elevate caratteristiche generali mostrate dallo stesso, ma anche per peculiarità disciplinari e organizzative che resero i corpi italiani adatti a operazioni particolarmente aggressive.The Italian Army and the Conquest of Catalonia (1808-1811) A Study of Military Effectiveness in Napoleonic Europe Academic Fields and Disciplines SPS/03 – M-STO/02 The research has the purpose of reconstruct and evaluate the military effectiveness of the Italian Army existed under the reign of Napoleon I. Firstly through a statistic and strategic analysis of the development, and the following deployment, of the military institution of the Kingdom of Italy in the years of its existence (1805-14). Afterwards, a particularly significant case study was chosen, as the campaign of Catalonia (1808-11, in the context of the Peninsular War), in order to assess the operational and tactical contribution of the regiments sent by the Government of Milan and their integration in the overall military apparatus of the First Empire. The thesis wanted to respond to the lack of studies on the Italian army’s behavior in war and, at the same time, to introduce the methodology of the Military Effectiveness Studies (of British and American origin and, by now, enriched by a thirty-year old tradition) in the Italian historiography. The research is primarily based, besides the numerous memoirs of the Italian and French veterans, on the archive documentation of the Secrétairerie d’état impériale (Archives Nationales of Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, Paris), of the French Ministère de la Guerre (Service historique de la Défence, of Vincennes, Paris) and of the Italian Ministero della Guerra (Archivio di Stato di Milano). About the results, it has been verified how the Italian army has become a flexible and suitable instrument for Bonaparte, albeit in a context of substantial overall numerical marginality in comparison to the heterogeneous forces available to the Empire and its others satellites and allied states. Regarding the campaign of Catalonia, instead, it was possible to ascertain the fundamental contribution of the Italian regiments, in an operational and tactical perspective, for the success of the invasion. This was primarily due to the excellent general characteristics shown by the expeditionary force, but also to disciplinary and organizational peculiarities that have made the Italian corps suitable for particularly aggressive operations.
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GREIG, Matilda Louise. "War for sale : Peninsular War veterans' memoirs in the long nineteenth Century (1808-1914)." Doctoral thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/60534.
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Defence date: 06 December 2018Examining Board: Professor Lucy Riall, European University Institute (Supervisor); Professor Regina Grafe, European University Institute (Second Reader); Professor Philip Dwyer, University of Newcastle, Australia; Emeritus Professor John Horne, Trinity College Dublin.
Author awarded 2018 1st prize of the EUI three-minute [film] PhD Competition in the Social Sciences
This is a study of the development of war writing in the nineteenth century, showing how the authorial impulses of veterans from the Napoleonic Wars interacted with a booming publishing industry across Europe to forge a new relationship between ex-soldiers, the book market, and the cultural representation of war. Focussing on the hundreds of military memoirs written by British, French, and Spanish veterans of the Peninsular War (1808-1814), I propose a new methodology for the study of these sources, departing from the current state of literature with a deliberate emphasis on their public, political, and commercial aspects. Beginning with the political aims of the old soldiers who wrote these books, I examine their attempts to re-write history, reform the army, and defend themselves from controversy. Using evidence from the archives of publishing houses, I reveal the immense and frenzied editing, printing, and marketing activity which was concealed behind the facade of a simple soldier’s tale, challenging us to start thinking about soldiers as professional authors, aiming to influence the broader writing of the story of war. I then explore the afterlives of these war memoirs, following the books once they outlived their authors. In the hands of later editors, family members, and commercially-minded publishers, many memoirs changed dramatically, selling an updated idea of the experience of war. I also consider the widespread phenomenon of reprinting and translation, which carried soldiers’ tales far beyond their home countries and into new languages, appropriating them into the memory-making processes of other nations. Throughout, the comparison with Spain acts as a counterweight to the more heavily-studied France and Britain, allowing me to challenge prevailing ideas about the origins and format of military autobiography in Europe, as well as to explore the development of still-persistent divisions between the different ‘national’ narratives of the same war.
Chapter 4, 'The myth of the accidental author' of the PhD thesis draws upon an earlier version published as an article: 'Accidental authors? : soldiers’ tales of the peninsular war and the secrets of the publishing process' (2018) in the journal History workshop journal. Chapter 7, 'A war with three names: circulation, translation and transnational memory' of the PhD thesis draws upon an earlier version published as an article: 'Traduire la guerre au XIXe siècle : réinventions et circulations des mémoires militaires de la guerre d’Espagne, 1808-1914' (2017) in the journal Hypothèses.
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Moon, Joshua L. Horward Donald D. "Wellington's two-front war the Peninsula campaigns, 1808-1814 /." Diss., 2005. http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04102005-161518.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2005.Advisor: Dr. Donald D. Horward>, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of History. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed June 9, 2005). Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 235 pages. Includes bibliographical references.
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Muir, Rory 1962. "The British government and the Peninsular War, 1808 to June 1811 / by Roderick J.B. Muir." Thesis, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/18837.
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Muir, Rory 1962. "The British government and the Peninsula War, 1808 to June 1811." 1988. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phm953.pdf.
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Filipe, Rui Alexandre Ribolhos. "A Batalha do Vimeiro numa Perspetiva Arqueológica." Master's thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/16180.
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Na presente dissertação apresentam-se os resultados dos trabalhos de arqueologia efetuados na colina do Vimeiro durante o ano de 2014, tendo em vista a análise de parte do campo de Batalha do Vimeiro.
O estudo do espólio recolhido no que diz respeito à sua tipologia e localização espacial tem como objetivos finais compreender e identificar os vários momentos do combate da Colina do Vimeiro. Os dados recolhidos arqueologicamente serão em última análise uma visão aproximada da veracidade dos acontecimentos.
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Carrasco, Pedro Daniel de Magalhães. "As invasões francesas: impactos sociais e patrimoniais em Vila Franca de Xira (1809-1814)." Master's thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/15567.
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A historiografia portuguesa tem repetido a ideia de que as invasões francesas tiveram
impactos económicos, sociais e na cultura material em Portugal do início do século XIX.
Contudo são escassos os estudos que se focam na análise desses impactos. O foco principal
deste estudo passa pela análise dos impactos sociais e materiais durante as invasões francesas
no concelho de Vila Franca de Xira.
Neste estudo são exploradas questões relativas aos trabalhadores nas linhas, as suas
condições de trabalho e ordenados, bem como a emigração e os óbitos, consequência da
invasão das tropas francesas. São também analisadas questões relativas ao património, onde é
dado destaque aos furtos e destruição de igrejas, moinhos, quintas e ainda de terrenos
agrícolas e abate de árvores.
Através da análise a estes impactos fica claro que as invasões francesas em muito
contribuíram para a desestruturação da sociedade no concelho de Vila Franca de Xira, sendo
certamente a principal responsável pela quebra demográfica que caracterizou este concelho na
primeira metade do século XIX. O desmantelamento de infra-estruturas económicas, para
além, claro, da destruição do património edificado de natureza religiosa e civil, teve profundas
consequências nas actividades económicas neste concelho, ainda que seja muito difícil
quantificá-las com exactidão.The Portuguese historiography has repeated the idea that the French invasions had strong impacts on the Portuguese economical and social structure as well as on the material culture in the early-nineteenth century Portugal. However, there are very few studies that actually focus on the analysis of those impacts. The main focus of this study is the analysis of the social and material impacts of the French invasions in the municipality of Vila Franca de Xira. This study explores issues related to workers in the lines, their working and wage conditions, as well as emigration and deaths, as a consequence of the invasion of French troops. Topics related to property abuse, the theft and destruction of churches, mills, farms and even agricultural land and tree felling shall also be highlighted. An analysis of these impacts demonstrates that the French invasions contributed greatly to the dismantling of society in the municipality of Vila Franca de Xira, and it was certainly the main cause of the demographic decline that characterized this county in the first half of the nineteenth century. The dismantling of economic infrastructures, in addition to the destruction of built religious and civil property, had profound consequences for the economic activities in this county, although it is very difficult to quantify them accurately.
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Lin, Tzong-Han, and 林宗翰. "The U.S. Policy on the Korean Peninsula During Post-Cold War." Thesis, 1999. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/41471916262625701255.
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Chen, Shiuan Ji, and 陳玄基. "Regional Security Situation Of Korean Peninsula In Post -Cold War Period." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/77740426980460846013.
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The thesis is focused on the following issues: the elements of the regional security situation of Korean Peninsula in post-cold war period, the security environment of Korean Peninsula, and the security strategies to cope with the nuclear weapons of North Korea and to prevent from the large-scale destructive conflicts. I try to analyze the international relations of the North-Eastern Asia in cold war period by the power balance theory of Realism. How does the development and threat of North Korea alter the North-Eastern Asia power structure in post-cold war period? How does the other countries maintain the power structure balance to stop the large-scale destructive conflict in advance and cooperate with each other? The connection of North America and Europe can’t be explained by the Realism, while the development of East Asia can be discussed mainly by the Realism, and then, the cooperative theories. Conclusion: The significance of the six countries conferences is to set the example of multi-regional interaction in post-cold war period. If the counties involved are able to complete the multi-regional interaction system in East Asia, the threat of North Korea nuclear weapons will hopefully be solved peacefully in the future. Russia and China are allies of North Korea. Russia still pays much attention to Korean Peninsula affairs. Therefore, Russia and China are at the back of North Korea in the six countries conferences, while the United States, South Korea, and Japan are on the other side. Moreover, China is truly trusted by the other five counties for his active role and support. The United States and North Korea will keep relying on China’s good will to make the interactions go on, which would be the ace of China.
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許政中. "Influences of US Koreas Policy on the Korean Peninsula After Cold War." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/75582792145261951000.
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Hsiung, Chia Chi, and 熊嘉琪. "Russia''s Policy toward the Korean Peninsula in the Post-Cold War Era." Thesis, 1999. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/02600832329127473997.
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外交學系
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Summary Based on the specialty of its location, the Korean Peninsula has been extremely important on strategy, and the surrounding major powers have fought for it for a long time. After the World War II, the Korean Peninsula was also under the atmosphere of confrontation like other regions and the Korean War made the confronting situation more irrigated. Although the international society has been filled with reconciliation since the sudden change of Eastern Europe and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, East Asia didn’t get rid of the shadow of the Cold War. The situation of confrontation between North and South on the Korean Peninsula has still existed, and the nuclear crisis caused by DPRK made the East Asia Region involved in a critical point, at which various of conflicts would burst out at any time. The situation of the Korean Peninsula not only affects the regional security, but also concerns about the balance of power among the East Asian major powers. In the post-Cold War Era the Korean Peninsula has been an international focus, concerned by both the traditional regional powers, such as U.S.A. and Russian, and the new powers, such as PRC and Japan. All the surrounding nations are trying to have the floor in the Korean Peninsula affairs, not only to secure their own national interests, but also to produce a marked effect in the region and promote national status. The intent of the thesis is trying to study Russia’s policy toward the Korean Peninsula in the post-Cold War Era. In order to introduce the historical background of Moscow’s policy making toward Korea, the thesis is classified into several parts according to various Kremlin leaderships. After a series of arrangement and analysis, we can find that Moscow’s policy toward the Korean Peninsula since 1945 has been influenced by the changes of the international environment, but also by the development of domestic politics and economy in Russia. In addition, the latter affects Moscow’s foreign policy in the post- Cold War Era much more than the former. Based on the need of democratic policy and economic reform after the disintegration of Soviet Union in 1991, Russia decided to approach the West to get political and economic support. Therefore, getting along with ROK, which has democratic experience and strong economic capability, while cutting original ties with DPRK gradually, is the best choice for Moscow. As for ROK, Russia’s influence on DPRK can promote direct dialog between the two sides, and then secure the peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula. Under the consideration of economy and politics, Russia and ROK accordingly established formal diplomatic relations on September 30, 1991, and the bilateral relationships has been developed smoothly. On the other hand, based on the differences of political structure and economic system, Russia and DPRK have departed for a long distance. Although Moscow insisted to develop full-scale relations with ROK without regarding to the objection of DPRK, the achievement of developing relations with ROK couldn’t fit the expectation of Russian people. The bare economic situation hadn’t been improved, and at the same time, Russians felt be treated as a debtor by ROK. Based on the poor economy and the declining nation status in the international society, Russia had been filled with a conservative atmosphere since 1993. The extreme complaint about the domestic and external affairs provoked the Communism and Nationalism, and the foreign policy inclining to the West suffered from fierce critics. Judging from the distribution of the Duma in 1993 and 1995, we can easily find the dramatic change of Russian domestic politics. To preserve national interest and dignity, Kremlin decided to change its policy toward the Korean Peninsula in 1996. The former policy inclining to ROK has been given up, and Moscow makes efforts to regain close relationships with DPRK while developing normal ties with ROK to maintain Russia’s importance and floor not only on the Korean Peninsula, but also in East Asia affairs. In addition, keeping in touch with DPRK and providing any possible assistance will prevent the sudden collapse of Pyongyang Government, which might result in dramatic turbulent in the region. In short, maintaining close ties with North and South at the same time not only promote peace and stability in the region, but also fit Russia’s national interests.
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Lee, Ching-Shi, and 李慶熙. "The Impact of The Korean Peninsula Tension on Northeast Asia Security After Cold War." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/05683751237005621207.
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碩士國立中興大學
國際政治研究所
96
In the post-Cold War Era, one of the major changes in the world politics was the rise of Asian-Pacific economies. With the economic boost, the economies, politics, even military forces and cultures of this area have created enormous impacts on the Asia Pacific region and the whole world. As the strategic importance of Pacific Asia is growing, the security problems of this region have become the major concerns of the great powers and bloc countries for collective security. North Korea nuclear problem has existed for many years; however, people can not solve it thoroughly all the time. In April 1996, North Korea unilaterally announces to dismantle the armistice agreement. In September of the same year, it sent small armed submarine to South Korea, and carry missile launch test out in 1998. This makes Japan and the U.S. begin missile defense cooperate program. This forces Japan, the U.S. and other countries to intervene this issue. It influences the peace of Pacific Asia area. Based on the theory of hegemonic stability and talking about on Korean Peninsula. The thesis is focused on the following issues: the elements of the regional security situation of Korean Peninsula in post-cold war period, the security environment of Korean Peninsula, and the security strategies to cope with the nuclear weapons of North Korea and to prevent from the large-scale destructive conflicts. This study uses the hegemony stable theory, and combines with the power balance research to discover the status of Korea Peninsula in the Pacific Asia. First of all, although the U.S. is the hegemony in the Pacific Asia, it use diplomatic and multilateral talks ways that are different form other areas. Second, the North Korea nuclear problem belongs to the massive destruction weapon issue. This stride across the Korean Peninsula and the rim of Korean Peninsula will pay attentions to this problem.