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Militärisches Denken in der Schweiz im 20. Jahrhundert La pensée militaire suisse au 20e siècle

Autor: Michael M. Olsansky

Número de Páginas: 319

Obwohl die Schweiz im 20. Jahrhundert als Staat nicht direkt in kriegerische Aktivitäten involviert war, zeigte sich die "pensée militaire" - die intellek- tuelle und konzeptionelle Auseinandersetzung mit dem Militär und dessen Interaktion mit Krieg, Politik und Gesellschaft - ausgeprägt und reichhaltig. Der Band zeichnet die Herausbildung dieses militärischen Denkens anhand von zwölf Porträts nach. Im Zentrum der Beiträge stehen einflussreiche Theore- tiker und Konzeptionisten der schweizerischen Militärentwicklung des 20. Jahr- hunderts - von Ulrich Wille über Alfred Ernst bis Roger Mabillard. Ihre den Militärdiskurs prägenden Ansätze und Denkmuster nehmen nicht nur Bezug auf vermeintlich schweizerische "Brands" wie die Neutralität oder das Milizsystem. Mindestens ebenso präsent sind Fragen der Strategie und der internationalen Entwicklung des modernen Militärs.

Asalto al poder

Autor: González Calleja, Eduardo

Número de Páginas: 508

Asesinatos, regicidios y golpes de Estado; guerra civil, mundial y de guerrillas; huelga, rebelión y motín; conspiración, terrorismo de Estado y represión legal o ilegal… La violencia política es poliforme, y por ello debe ser estudiada en el contexto del conflicto social y en las particulares condiciones del régimen político en que se produce. No es una mera disfunción del sistema; no se la puede interpretar vinculándola con la agresividad; tampoco con los daños producidos. Para evitar esas perspectivas miopes, insuficientes, en Asalto al poder Eduardo González Calleja muestra cómo la violencia política es síntoma y resultado de procesos conflictivos, con factores internos y externos a los grupos en lucha, con componentes estructurales y coyunturales, y desvela el papel que desempeñan los cálculos estratégicos en la disputa del poder. Desde este enfoque analiza las distintas teorías elaboradas por las ciencias sociales para explicar las motivaciones, desarrollos y consecuencias del empleo deliberado de la fuerza en los conflictos políticos.

La construction du militaire, Volume 2

Autor: Collectif

Número de Páginas: 363

L’idée de l’existence d’un modèle occidental de la guerre qui serait né dans l’Antiquité a fait l’objet d’une importante diffusion au cours des dernières années. Prenant le contre-pied de cette position, cet ouvrage – deuxième parution autour d’un projet de recherche consacré à la construction du militaire – propose une étude nuancée et polychrome du soldat européen des Temps modernes. Des lices et champs de bataille de la fin du Moyen Âge aux tribunes de l’entre-deux-guerres, des affrontements de la Révolution aux tranchées de la Première Guerre mondiale, les auteurs dévoilent des cultures d’armes distinctes, des identités professionnelles plurielles et des sentiments d’appartenance contrastés, loin d’un modèle occidental intemporel. Cette diversité mise au jour invite à réfléchir au rôle du combat dans la construction des identités, des valeurs et des mémoires individuelles ; en retour, elle pose la question de leur influence sur les pratiques martiales, l’élaboration des règles guerrières et les interactions entre civils et militaires. Les exemples concrets développés dans cet ouvrage permettent de saisir...

Les veuves abusives

Autor: Anatole De Monzie

Número de Páginas: 112

Les grands hommes ont quelquefois de petites femmes. Thérèse Levasseur partagea trente-trois années durant la vie de Jean-Jacques Rousseau — quoiqu'elle n'ait jamais appris à lire —, et, à la mort de l'écrivain, courut se jeter dans les bras d'un valet d'écurie ; Caroline Massin, entrée au lit du philosophe Auguste Comte en sa qualité de prostituée, se piqua de mathématiques pour y rester ; Athénaïs Michelet, Cosima Wagner, Sophie Tolstoï... elles sont huit, mesquines entre toutes, à avoir été choisies par Anatole de Monzie, huit "femmes de" dont le mérite n'est jamais allé plus loin. Elles ont "assassiné leur mari après sa mort". Elles sont les Veuves abusives.

In Pursuit of Military Excellence

Autor: Shimon Naveh

Número de Páginas: 425

This book offers a scientific interpretation of the field of military knowledge situated between strategy and tactics, better known as operational art', and traces the evolution of operational awareness and its culmination in a full-fledged theory. The author, a Brigadier General (ret.) in the Israeli Defence Forces and Doctor of History, King's College, London, clarifies the substance of operational art' and constructs a cognitive framework for its critical analysis. He chronicles the stages in the evolution of operational theory from the emergence of 19th-century military thought to Blitzkrieg. For the first time the Soviet theories of Deep Operations' and Strike Manoeuvre' that emerged in the 1920s and 1930 are discussed. The author argues that it is these doctrines that eventually led to the crystallization of the American Airland Battle theory, successfully implemented in the Gulf War.

Strategy as exemplified in the Second World War

Autor: Alfred H. Burne (lt Cel.)

Número de Páginas: 108

The Nation

Número de Páginas: 842

Victory in War

Autor: William C. Martel

Número de Páginas: 311

For millennia, policymakers and statesmen have grappled with questions about the concept of victory in war. How long does it take to achieve victory and how do we know when victory is achieved? And, as highlighted by the wars against Afghanistan and Iraq, is it possible to win a war and yet lose the peace? The premise of this book is that we do not have a modern theory about victory and that, in order to answer these questions, we need one. This book explores historical definitions of victory, how victory has evolved, and how it has been implemented in war. It also subsequently develops the intellectual foundations of a modern pre-theory of victory, and discusses the military instruments necessary for victory in the twenty-first century using case studies that include US military intervention in Panama, Libya, Persian Gulf War, Bosnia/Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq.

The Annual Register

Número de Páginas: 738

Bibliographie italico-française universelle

Autor: Joseph Blanc

Número de Páginas: 518

Napoleon's Conquest of Europe

Autor: Frederick C. Schneid

Número de Páginas: 220

Poised to strike at England in the summer of 1805, Napoleon found himself facing a coalition of European powers determined to limit his territorial ambitions. Still, in less than one hundred days, Napoleon's armies marched from the English Channel to Central Europe, crushing the armies of Austria and Russia—the first step in his conquest of Europe. In this telling new account, Schneid demonstrates how this was possible. Schneid details how Napoleon's victory over the Third Coalition was the product of years of diplomatic preparation and the formation of French alliances. He played upon the prevailing conditions of the European state system and the internal politics of the Holy Roman Empire to improve France's strategic position. This war must be understood in the context of the French Revolution and its influence on major and minor European states. In some cases, Napoleonic diplomacy returned to France's traditional and historic relationships; in others, he capitalized upon longstanding competition and animosities to gather allies and create wedges. Schneid approaches the campaign from a broad diplomatic, economic, and military perspective, including not only the French...

Warfare in Europe 18151914

Autor: Peter H. Wilson

Número de Páginas: 611

The history of nineteenth-century European warfare is framed by the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. The Crimean War and the struggles for Italian and German unification divide this century in two. In the first half, armies struggled to emerge from the shadow of Napoleon amidst an era of financial retrenchment, political unrest and accelerating technological change. The mid-century wars left an equally problematic legacy, including aspects that pointed towards 'total war'. The 26 essays in this volume examine these changes from a variety of innovative and fresh perspectives.

Richard Wagner's Zurich

Autor: Chris Walton

Número de Páginas: 324

An investigation of the considerable influence of Wagner's stay in Zurich from 1849 to 1858 -- a period often discounted by scholars -- on his career. When the people of Dresden rose up against their king in May 1849, Richard Wagner went from Royal Kapellmeister to republican revolutionary overnight. He gambled everything, but the rebellion failed, and he lost all. Now a wantedman in Germany, he fled to Zurich. Years later, he wrote that the city was "devoid of any public art form" and full of "simple people who knew nothing of my work as an artist." But he lied: Zurich boasted arguably the world's greatest concentration of radical intellectuals and a vibrant music scene. Wagner was accepted with open arms. This book investigates Wagner's affect on the musical life of the city and the city's impact on him. Mathilde Wesendonck emerges not as Wagner's passive muse but as a self-assured woman who exploited gender expectations to her own benefit. In 1858, Wagner had to flee Zurich after again gambling everything -- this time on Mathilde -- and again losing.But it was in Zurich that Wagner wrote his major theoretical works; composed Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, and parts of Siegfried...

Reshaping the Future

Autor: Arduino Paniccia

Número de Páginas: 213

Having a strategy means finding solutions to the complexity of the global world. The task of this manual is pointing out a possible method to transform the future to our advantage and seize also economic and financial opportunities crucial to emerge in the global competition. The book provides an analysis of the evolution of strategic thought and method, from the dawn of nation-states until the civil war in Syria. What happens in this country is emblematic of the change in perspective and power in recent years. With the “preventive war” the West had come to the borders of India, but today we see the Chinese military presence in the Mediterranean. The structure of global power is increasingly oligarchic, Asian and present in a wider area. A triad that bears the names of the US, Russia and China. Europe is witnessing an inert vacuum created in the South, across the Mediterranean and North Africa. The old continent is in decline, and doesn’t have a real strategy. Part One: Introduction Part Two: History of Strategy (From the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century, Napoleon, Clausewitz, the Nineteenth Century, The First World War, The Second World War, The “Cold War”, The...

The Armies of Austria-Hungary and Germany, 1740-1914

Autor: László M. Alfőldi

Número de Páginas: 292

Medieval Warfare

Autor: Everett U. Crosby

Número de Páginas: 322

Hono sapiens, homo pugnans, and so it has been since the beginning of recorded history. In the Middle Ages, especially, armed conflict and the military life were so much a part of the political and cultural development that a general account of this period is, in large measure, a description of how men went to war.

Studying Societies and Cultures

Autor: Lawrence A. Kuznar , Stephen K. Sanderson

Número de Páginas: 422

"A thought-provoking, stimulating volume on the past, present and future of cultural materialism that is both laudatory of Harris' research strategy and critical of it." Paul Shankman, University of Colorado One of the most important anthropologists of all time, Marvin Harris was influential worldwide as the founder of cultural materialism. This book accessibly analyzes Harris's theories and their important legacies today. The chapters explore cultural materialism's epistemology and its relation to rational choice theory, Darwinian social science, and population pressures. The authors assess recent attempts to extend and reformulate cultural materialism and highlight cross-cultural, archaeological, and ethnographic applications of cultural materialism today.

Hans Von Bülow

Autor: Alan Walker

Número de Páginas: 539

Hans von Bülow is a key figure in 19th century music whose career path was as broad as it was successful. Music history's first virtuoso orchestral conductor, Bülow created the model for the profession-both in musical brilliance and in domineering personality-which still holds forth today. He was an eminent and renowned concert pianist, a respected (and often feared) teacher and music critic, an influential editor of works by Bach, Mendelssohn, Chopin, and Beethoven, and a composer in a variety of musical genres. As a student and son-in-law of Franz Liszt, and estranged friend of Richard Wagner (for whom his wife Cosima famously left him), Bülow is intricately connected with the canonical greats of the period. Yet despite his critical and lasting importance for orchestral music, Bülow's life and significant achievements have yet to be heralded in biographical form. In Hans von Bülow: A Life and Times, Alan Walker, the acclaimed author of numerous award-winning books on the era's iconic composers, provides the first full-length English biography of this remarkable musical figure. Walker traces Bülow's life in illuminating and engaging detail, from the first piano lessons of...

Special Bibliography

Número de Páginas: 304

Wilhelm Röpke, l’autre Hayek

Autor: Jean Solchany

Número de Páginas: 468

Aux côtés de Friedrich Hayek, et avant que Milton Friedman n’imprime son empreinte à partir des années I960, l’économiste allemand Wilhelm Röpke (1899-1966), installé à Genève après avoir fui le nazisme, a été l’autre grand fondateur du néolibéralisme. Exploitant de nombreuses archives, cet ouvrage recourt aux outils de l’histoire intellectuelle et transnationale pour proposer une autre lecture d’un phénomène trop souvent encore réduit à ses manifestations les plus contemporaines et les plus anglo-saxonnes, alors qu’il plonge ses racines dans la crise des années 1930 et prend forme en Suisse au lendemain immédiat de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Loin de l’érudition et de l’anecdote, par-delà le souci de redonner son importance à une figure étonnamment délaissée par les chercheurs, la biographie est ici une démarche de contextualisation visant à expliquer le succès d’un intellectuel autant sociologue qu’économiste. Incontournable en Suisse et en Allemagne, très lié aux nouveaux conservateurs américains, pourfendeur du « collectivisme » sous toutes ses formes, préoccupé du sort de l’Amérique latine et de l’Afrique, publiant ...

The Historical Magazine

Número de Páginas: 418

The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History and Biography of America

Número de Páginas: 418

The Oxford Handbook of Ordoliberalism

Autor: Thomas Biebricher , Werner Bonefeld , Peter Nedergaard

Número de Páginas: 593

This Handbook provides a comprehensive study of ordoliberalism from the intellectual origins and prime exemplars to its main theoretical themes and practical applications up to the most recent debates taking place across a range of disciplines.

Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works

Autor: Karl Marx

Número de Páginas: 806

Catalogue de la bibliothèque de S. A. R. le Comte de Flandre

Autor: Auguste Scheler

Número de Páginas: 688

Guerre des frontières du Rhin 1870-1871

Autor: Wilhelm Rüstow

Número de Páginas: 450

Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Marx and Engels: 1860-64

Autor: Karl Marx

Número de Páginas: 810

A Brief Biographical Dictionary

Autor: Charles Hole

Número de Páginas: 528

The People's Wars

Autor: Mark Hewitson

Número de Páginas: 586

The second of three volumes from Mark Hewitson which explore the experiences of conflict in modern Germany, and the resounding impact of these across Europe and the world, The People's War takes a new look at the 'wars of unification' and charts the rise of nationalism and the breakdown of the existing state system in the 1850s and 1860s.

Catalogue of the Library of the Long Island Historical Society, 1863-1893

Autor: Long Island Historical Society. Library

Número de Páginas: 826

The Encyclopaedia Britannica

Número de Páginas: 592

Between Miltiades and Moltke: Early German Studies in Greek Military History

Autor: Roel Konijnendijk

Número de Páginas: 123

The authors of the first serious scholarly works on Greek warfare were not free to write their surveys as they wished. In the nineteenth-century German-speaking world, the supreme authority on all military history rested with the Great General Staff, the intellectual nerve centre of the Prussian army. Officers rejected the ability of historians to understand warfare and imposed their pragmatic perspective on any attempt to study past wars. How did classicists and historians respond to this challenge? This book explores how the scope and method of the first handbooks on Greek warfare were shaped by their environment; it questions the ancient wisdom that practical expertise is the best guide to writing military history.

German Neoliberalism from 1924 to 1963

Autor: Arne I. A. Käthner

Número de Páginas: 459

This book offers an in-depth study of German neoliberalism between 1924 and 1963, arguing that a neoliberal network was established in the interwar period, decades before elite networks in Great Britain and the United States fostered the ‘neoliberal revolution’ of the Thatcher and Reagan administrations. The author shows how this network strongly influenced societal developments in the 1950s and set a precedent for neoliberal projects in other countries. This success was largely due to the deliberate and strategic reorganisation of the semantic field: abandoning or reacquiring ‘abused’ concepts, challenging existing meanings, or introducing new concepts to the political scene. The book examines the Aktionsgemeinschaft Soziale Marktwirtschaft (ASM), an early neoliberal Think Tank founded in 1953 and led by Alexander Rüstow, which became an influential political actor in post-war West Germany. The author adopts a decidedly transnational approach linking and contrasting inner-German debates with those taking place transnationally among neoliberal proponents in the Mont Pèlerin Society. More than just a political study of ideologies, this book provides a historical account...

German Neo-Liberals and the Social Market Economy

Autor: Alan T. Peacock , Hans Willgerodt

Número de Páginas: 256

This volume is a collection of ten essays in which the authors assess the contribution of the German Ordo-liberals fifty years after the founders of the liberal movement in Germany stated their aims and objectives. The Ordo-liberals were a group of liberal economic and legal thinkers in the Federal Republic of Germany who came into prominence as a result of their influence on, and participation in, post-war economic policy in the Federal Republic when Ludwig Erhard was Minister for Economic Affairs and, later, Chancellor. They became known as Ordo-liberals because of their commitment to designing the appropriate economic and legal system. The essays in this volume consider not only the philosophy of the Ordo-liberals and their concept of the social market economy, but are also concerned with the contribution of the Ordo-liberals to more practical problems. The role of the public sector, the control of mergers and monopolies and the problem of sound money are among the topics considered, as well as the views of the Ordo-liberals on the international order. Many of the authors of these essays are well known internationally and they represent a wide range of contemporary liberal...