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The Culture of Defeat
Language: en
Pages: 420
Authors: Wolfgang Schivelbusch
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-04 - Publisher: Macmillan

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Focusing on three seminal cases of military defeat--the South after the Civil War, France in the wake of the Franco-Prussian War, and Germany following World Wa
The Culture of Defeat
Language: en
Pages: 427
Authors: Wolfgang Schivelbusch
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-08-13 - Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

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A fascinating look at history's losers-the myths they create to cope with defeat and the steps they take never to be vanquished again History may be written by
Embracing Defeat
Language: en
Pages: 692
Authors: John W Dower
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-07-04 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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This study of modern Japan traces the impact of defeat and reconstruction on every aspect of Japan's national life. It examines the economic resurgence as well
A Fabric of Defeat
Language: en
Pages: 372
Authors: Bryant Simon
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-11-09 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

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In this book, Bryant Simon brings to life the politics of white South Carolina millhands during the first half of the twentieth century. His revealing and movin
The Long Defeat
Language: en
Pages: 209
Authors: Akiko Hashimoto
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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In The Long Defeat, Akiko Hashimoto explores the stakes of war memory in Japan after its catastrophic defeat in World War II, showing how and why defeat has bec