This history of the foundational war in the Arab-Israeli conflict is groundbreaking, objective, and deeply revisionist. A riveting account of the military engagements, it also focuses on the war's ...political dimensions. Benny Morris probes the motives and aims of the protagonists on the basis of newly opened Israeli and Western documentation. The Arab side-where the archives are still closed-is illuminated with the help of intelligence and diplomatic materials.
Morris stresses thejihadicharacter of the two-stage Arab assault on the Jewish community in Palestine. Throughout, he examines the dialectic between the war's military and political developments and highlights the military impetus in the creation of the refugee problem, which was a by-product of the disintegration of Palestinian Arab society. The book thoroughly investigates the role of the Great Powers-Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union-in shaping the conflict and its tentative termination in 1949. Morris looks both at high politics and general staff decision-making processes and at the nitty-gritty of combat in the successive battles that resulted in the emergence of the State of Israel and the humiliation of the Arab world, a humiliation that underlies the continued Arab antagonism toward Israel.
March 1917 Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr; Schwartz, Marian
11/2019
eBook
The Red Wheel is Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn's multivolume epic work about the Russian Revolution.
He spent decades writing about just four of the most important
periods, or "nodes." ...This is the first time that the monumental
March 1917-the third node-has been translated into English. It
tells the story of the Russian Revolution itself, during which the
Imperial government melts in the face of the mob, and the giants of
the opposition also prove incapable of controlling the course of
events.
The action of Book 2 (of four) of March 1917 is set
during March 13-15, 1917, the Russian Revolution's turbulent second
week. The revolution has already won inside the capital, Petrograd.
News of the revolution flashes across all Russia through the
telegraph system of the Ministry of Roads and Railways. But this is
wartime, and the real power is with the army. At Emperor Nikolai
II's order, the Supreme Command sends troops to suppress the
revolution in Petrograd. Meanwhile, victory speeches ring out at
Petrograd's Tauride Palace. Inside, two parallel power structures
emerge: the Provisional Government and the Executive Committee of
the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies, which
sends out its famous "Order No. 1," presaging the destruction of
the army. The troops sent to suppress the Petrograd revolution are
halted by the army's own top commanders. The Emperor is detained
and abdicates, and his ministers are jailed and sent to the Peter
and Paul Fortress. This sweeping, historical novel is a must-read
for Solzhenitsyn's many fans, as well as those interested in
twentieth-century history, Russian history and literature, and
military history.
Visual Texts, Ceremonial Texts, Texts of Exploration continues the work begun in Russian Monarchy: Representation and Rule, which analyzed the interplay between the symbolic representations of ...Russian monarchs and the legal and institutional instruments of their rule. The articles in this volume examine the texts that, through various media, revealed the myths and scenarios conveying the goals and ideals the monarchy sought to elevate before the elite of the empire and, later, the public at large. Russian monarchy inhabited a highly visual culture, comprising court ceremonials, parades, public festivities, and celebrations. It mobilized the arts through painting, prints, popular pictures (lubki), and even opera. This book examines that artistic culture, focusing on several aspects.
Bringing together a range of theoretical and critical approaches, this edited collection is the first book to examine representations of the body in Eastern European and Russian cinema after the ...Second World War.
Ernst Paraquin war Generalstabsoffizier im deutschen Heer des Ersten Weltkriegs. 1917 wurde er dem türkischen Heer attachiert und tat Dienst zunächst an der Front gegen die Engländer in Mesopotamien ...(Irak) und 1918 bei der türkischen Armee im Kaukasus. In den 1940er Jahren hat er seine Erinnerungen daran aufgeschrieben, die jedoch unveröffentlicht blieben. Das Manuskript gelangte 1945 als Beutegut in die Sowjetunion und liegt heute in der Lomonossow-Universität Moskau. Die Erinnerungen werden 2023 in russischer Übersetzung in Moskau erscheinen. Das deutsche Original erscheint gleichzeitig, aber separat, in Deutschland.
In Spring 1938, an Indian dancer named Ram Gopal and an American writer-photographer named Carl Van Vechten came together for a photoshoot in New York City. Ram Gopal was a pioneer of classical ...Indian dance and Van Vechten was reputed as a prominent white patron of the African-American movement called the Harlem Renaissance. Photo-Attractions describes the interpersonal desires and expectations of the two men that took shape when the dancer took pose in exotic costumes in front of Van Vechten’s Leica camera. The spectacular images provide a rare and compelling record of an underrepresented history of transcultural exchanges during the interwar years of early-20th century, made briefly visible through photography.
Art historian Ajay Sinha uses these hitherto unpublished photographs and archival research to raise provocative and important questions about photographic technology, colonial histories, race, sexuality and transcultural desires. Challenging the assumption that Gopal was merely objectified by Van Vechten’s Orientalist gaze, he explores the ways in which the Indian dancer co-authored the photos. In Sinha’s reading, Van Vechten’s New York studio becomes a promiscuous contact zone between world cultures, where a “photo-erotic” triangle is formed between the American photographer, Indian dancer, and German camera.
A groundbreaking study of global modernity, Photo-Attractions brings scholarship on American photography, literature, race and sexual economies into conversation with work on South Asian visual culture, dance, and gender. In these remarkable historical documents, it locates the pleasure taken in cultural difference that still resonates today.
Catastrophe Scanlon, T. Joseph; Sarty, Roger
2020, 2020-11-27
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On December 6, 1917, the Canadian city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, was shattered when a volatile cargo exploded in the bustling wartime harbour. Over 1,600 people were killed and 9,000 injured. At the ...time, it was the worst man-made disaster in history. This book weaves together the compelling stories and potent lessons learned from this catastrophe.
Systemic administration of free chemotherapeutic drugs leads to severe toxic effects, and physiological characteristics of solid tumors restrain the drugs from reaching the hypoxic regions.
Nissle ...1917 (EcN) has been known to penetrate the barrier and proliferate in the interface between the viable and necrotic regions of tumors. This study aimed to fabricate a nanoscale minicell via genetic engineering of EcN for targeted delivery of chemotherapeutic drugs to the hypoxic regions of tumors for cancer therapy.
A large number of minicells were produced by knocking out the
gene and enhancing the
expression in EcN. Then, a pH (low) insertion peptide (pHLIP) was displayed on the membrane surface through protein display technology to endow the cells with the ability to target the acidic microenvironments of tumors. The acidic-microenvironment targeting ability and therapeutic effect of the engineered minicells with chemotherapeutic drugs was thoroughly evaluated by using breast cancer cells and an orthotopic model of breast tumor.
The EcN-derived minicells displaying pHLIP could be directly extracted from the fermentation broth and used for delivering chemotherapeutic drugs without any further modification. Targeting of doxorubicin (DOX)-loaded minicells to cancer cells via pHLIP resulted in rapid internalization and drug release in acidic media. Importantly, the pHLIP-mosaic minicells successfully invaded the necrotic and hypoxic regions of orthotopic breast cancers where free chemotherapeutic drugs could never get to because of vascular insufficiency and high interstitial fluid pressure. This invasion resulted in significant regression of an orthotopic breast tumor in a mouse model, while no seriously pathogenic effects were observed during the animal experiments.
This study provides a novel strategy for the fabrication of tumor-targeting carriers via genetic engineering based on biomaterials with the ability to penetrate hypoxic regions of tumors, high biocompatibility and low toxicity.
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