Mobilizing Nature by Chris Pearson
Mobilizing nature traces the environmental history of war and militarisation in France. It offers a fresh perspective on the well-known conflicts whilst uncovering the largely 'hidden' history of the numerous military bases and other installations that pepper the French countryside. -- .-
Containing trauma
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Contesting home defence
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Behind enemy lines
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Working in a World of Hurt
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A New Naval History
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Experiencing War as the 'Enemy Other'
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The stomach for fighting
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The Secret Battle
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Healing the nation
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Joining up in the Second World War
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Home front heroism
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Little wars of empire
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Understanding the Imaginary War
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From Victory to Vichy
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Dying for the Nation
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Civilians into Soldiers
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Women of War
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Martial Masculinities
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The Silent Morning
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Picturing the Western Front
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Imagining Armenia
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Europe on the Move
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War, Disability and Rehabilitation in Britain
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Paris and the Commune 1871-78
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French Crime Fiction and the Second World War
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John Galsworthy and Disabled Soldiers of the Great War
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Brothers in the Great War
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The Unimagined Community
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The Munich Crisis, Politics and the People
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Civvies
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The Korean War in Britain
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Haunted Britain
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Medical care, humanitarianism and intimacy in the long Second World War, 1931-1953
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Statelessness after Arendt
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The Experience of Occupation in the Nord, 1914-18
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Men in Reserve
In sum, Pearson lucidly weaves together the environmental and social legacy of relations between the French military and civilians, in wartime and peacetimeHe does full justice to the role of the military in the complex and unpredictable flow of French history. -- .
Chris Pearson is Lecturer in Twentieth Century History at the University of Liverpool
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| ISBN 13 | 9780719084393 |
| ISBN 10 | 0719084393 |
| Title | Mobilizing Nature |
| Author | Chris Pearson |
| Series | Cultural History Of Modern War |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press |
| Year published | 2012-09-24 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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