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Free Download Scott O’Bryan, "The Growth Idea: Purpose and Prosperity in Postwar Japan"
English | 2009 | pages: 282 | ISBN: 0824832825 | PDF | 1,6 mb
Our narratives of postwar Japan have long been cast in terms almost synonymous with the story of rapid economic growth. Scott O’Bryan reinterprets this seemingly familiar history through an innovative exploration, not of the anatomy of growth itself, but of the history of growth as a set of discourses by which Japanese "growth performance" as "economic miracle" came to be articulated. The premise of his work is simple: To our understandings of the material changes that took place in Japan during the second half of the twentieth century we must also add perspectives that account for growth as a new idea around the world, one that emerged alongside rapid economic expansion in postwar Japan and underwrote the modes by which it was imagined, forecast, pursued, and regulated. In an accessible, lively style, O’Bryan traces the history of growth as an object of social scientific knowledge and as a new analytical paradigm that came to govern the terms by which Japanese understood their national purposes and imagined a newly materialist vision of social and individual prosperity.

Free Download Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American by Rachel Gordan
English | March 8, 2024 | ISBN: 0197694322, 0197694330 | True EPUB | 310 pages | 1 MB
The period immediately following World War II was an era of dramatic transformation for Jews in America. At the start of the 1940s, President Roosevelt had to all but promise that if Americans entered the war, it would not be to save the Jews. By the end of the decade, antisemitism was in decline and Jews were moving toward general acceptance in American society.

Free Download Josh Lambert, "The Literary Mafia: Jews, Publishing, and Postwar American Literature"
English | ISBN: 0300251424 | 2022 | 272 pages | PDF | 1036 KB
An investigation into the transformation of publishing in the United States from a field in which Jews were systematically excluded to one in which they became ubiquitous

Free Download Artem Vorobiev, "Shibata Renzaburō and the Reinvention of Modernism in Postwar Japanese Popular Literature "
English | ISBN: 3031111915 | 2022 | 240 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Shibata Renzaburō and the Reinvention of Modernism in Postwar Japanese Popular Literature explores the life and work of Shibata Renzaburō (柴田錬三郎, 1917-1978), the author of adventure and historical novels who was instrumental in reinvigorating popular Japanese literature in the postwar period. This book considers postwar Japanese society through the prism of Shibata’s writing, exploring how the postwar period under SCAP Occupation influenced Shibata’s writing and generated the extraordinary popularity of samurai fiction in the postwar era at large. Through the use of a nihilistic warrior, Nemuri Kyōshirō, and other samurai characters, Shibata Renzaburō addresses important social issues of the day, such as the trauma of defeat, postwar reconstruction, and the attending societal ills and neuroses, while keeping his literature entertaining and easy to read, which ensured its mass appeal in postwar Japan.

Free Download Modelling Postwar Tanks and Aircraft
Osprey Publishing | 2002 | ISBN: 1841765325 | English | 132 pages | PDF | 109.97 MB
This is an all color publication. It is chocked full of tips and techniques that will inspire you.

Free Download The China Problem in Postwar Japan: Japanese National Identity and Sino-Japanese Relations By Robert Hoppens, Christopher Gerteis
2015 | 312 Pages | ISBN: 1472575466 | PDF | 2 MB
The 1970s were a period of dramatic change in relations between Japan and the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The two countries established diplomatic relations for the first time, forged close economic ties and reached political agreements that still guide and constrain relations today. This book delivers a history of this foundational period in Sino-Japanese relations. It presents an up-to-date diplomatic history of the relationship but also goes beyond this to argue that Japan’s relations with China must be understood in the context of a larger "China problem" that was inseparable from a domestic contest to define Japanese national identity. The China Problem in Postwar Japan challenges some common assertions or assumptions about the role of Japanese national identity in postwar Sino-Japanese relations, showing how the history of Japanese relations with China in the 1970s is shaped by the strength of Japanese national identity, not its weakness.

Free Download The Age of Auden : Postwar Poetry and the American Scene By Wasley, Aidan; Auden, Wystan Hugh
2011 | 281 Pages | ISBN: 0691136793 | EPUB | 1 MB
W. H. Auden’s emigration from England to the United States in 1939 marked more than a turning point in his own life and work–it changed the course of American poetry itself. The Age of Auden takes, for the first time, the full measure of Auden’s influence on American poetry. Combining a broad survey of Auden’s midcentury U.S. cultural presence with an account of his dramatic impact on a wide range of younger American poets–from Allen Ginsberg to Sylvia Plath–the book offers a new history of postwar American poetry. For Auden, facing private crisis and global catastrophe, moving to the United States became, in the famous words of his first American poem, a new "way of happening." But his redefinition of his work had a significance that was felt far beyond the pages of his own books. Aidan Wasley shows how Auden’s signal role in the work and lives of an entire younger generation of American poets challenges conventional literary histories that place Auden outside the American poetic tradition. In making his case, Wasley pays special attention to three of Auden’s most distinguished American inheritors, presenting major new readings of James Merrill, John Ashbery, and Adrienne Rich. The result is a persuasive and compelling demonstration of a novel claim: In order to understand modern American poetry, we need to understand Auden’s central place within it.

Free Download Michael E. Haskew – Postwar Armored Fighting Vehicles: 1945-Present (The Essential Vehicle Identification Guide)
Amber Books | 2010 | ISBN: 1907446281 | English | 200 pages | PDF | 147.52 MB
The Essential Vehicle Identification Guide: Postwar Armored Fighting Vehicles 1945 Present offers a highly illustrated guide to the world s main armored units and their fighting vehicles used since the end of World War II. This compact volume includes sample unit structures and orders of battle from divisional to corps and army level, providing an organizational context for key wars fought since 1945. Organized chronologically, the book offers a comprehensive survey of units and their armored fighting vehicles by war, including Korea, Vietnam, the Arab Israeli conflicts, Indo-Pakistan wars, the Cold War in Europe, the Yugoslav civil war, the Iraq wars and Afghanistan. All the major and many minor tanks are featured, with variations of the T-72, M1 Abrams and Centurion, for example, as well as personnel carriers, engineering and mine-clearing vehicles. Lesser known models such as armored cars, halftracks, trucks and amphibious vehicles combine to make this a rounded compendium of modern armored fighting vehicles. Packed with more than 200 full-color artworks and photographs with exhaustive specifications, The Essential Vehicle Identification Guide: Postwar Armored Fighting Vehicles 1945 Present is a key reference guide for military modelers and vehicle enthusiasts.REVIEWS concise and well illustrated detailed full color drawings that depict camouflage patterns and provide key specifications such as the crew size, weight, dimensions, engine details, speed, and armament for each vehicle. Organizational charts for selected armored units are also included as well as dozens of photographs (many of them color) of various AFVs with in action or on parade.

Free Download Chaz Bowyer – Gloster Meteor
Ian Allan | 1985 | ISBN: 0711014779 | English | 120 pages | PDF | 115.27 MB
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Free Download Kathlene McDonald, "Feminism, the Left, and Postwar Literary Culture"
English | 2014 | pages: 146 | ISBN: 1628460660, 1617033022 | EPUB | 1,8 mb
This book traces the development of a Left feminist consciousness as women became more actively involved in the American Left during and immediately following World War II. McDonald argues that women writers on the Left drew on the rhetoric of antifascism to critique the cultural and ideological aspects of women’s oppression. In Left journals during World War II, women writers outlined the dangers of fascist control for women and argued that the fight against fascism must also be about ending women’s oppression. After World War II, women writers continued to use this antifascist framework to call attention to the ways in which the emerging domestic ideology in the United States bore a frightening resemblance to the fascist repression of women in Nazi Germany.