La Place de la Concorde Suisse
Title | La Place de la Concorde Suisse PDF eBook |
Author | John McPhee |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 162 |
Release | 1984-05-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0374182418 |
In admirable disregard for the orthodoxy of public relations, the Swiss Army has chosen Luc Massy to be the soldier companion of the American observer John McPhee during various exercices of a "refresher" course among the high Alps of the Canto de Valais.
La Place de la Concorde Suisse
Title | La Place de la Concorde Suisse PDF eBook |
Author | John McPhee |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Pages | 162 |
Release | 2011-04-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0374708533 |
La Place de la Concorde Suisse is John McPhee's rich, journalistic study of the Swiss Army's role in Swiss society. The Swiss Army is so quietly efficient at the art of war that the Israelis carefully patterned their own military on the Swiss model.
La place de la Concorde suisse
Title | La place de la Concorde suisse PDF eBook |
Author | John MacPhee |
Publisher | |
Pages | 217 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9782724227062 |
La Place de la Concorde Suisse
Title | La Place de la Concorde Suisse PDF eBook |
Author | John McPhee |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Swiss Army: la Place de la Concorde Suisse
Title | Swiss Army: la Place de la Concorde Suisse PDF eBook |
Author | John McPhee |
Publisher | |
Pages | 149 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Neutrality |
ISBN | 9780571134847 |
After the end
Title | After the end PDF eBook |
Author | David L. Pike |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 2024-04-09 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1526174030 |
After the End argues that the cultural imaginaries and practices of the Cold War continue to deeply shape the present in profound but largely unnoticed ways across the global North and in the global South. The argument draws examples from literature and literary criticism, film, music, the historical and social scientific record and past and present physical sites to consider the bunker as a material form, an image and as a fantasy that took shape in the global North in the 1960s and that spread globally into the twenty-first century. After the End reminds us not only that most of the world’s peoples have lived with or died from apocalyptic conditions for centuries, but that the Cold War imaginaries that grew from and fed those conditions, continue to survive as well.
Landscape as Weapon
Title | Landscape as Weapon PDF eBook |
Author | John Beck |
Publisher | Reaktion Books |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 2020-12-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1789143063 |
Once the playgrounds and raw material for the avantgarde, abandoned places and things—decommissioned military sites, postindustrial spaces, contested and forgotten edgelands—are now just as likely to be seen as assets for entrepreneurs or connoisseurs of the authentically worn-out. This is the age of patina, where the material remains of times past—the fields and factories, test sites, back alleys, machines, and statues—are coveted, adored, mourned, and commemorated, as well as sometimes despised. Through an exploration of a wide range of recent film, photography, art, and writing about place, Landscape as Weapon argues that these abandoned sites are a critical arena for debate about the meaning of space and time under late capitalism.