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The corpse in the kitchen : enclosure, extraction, and the afterlives of the Black Hawk War
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ISBN: 1531500595 0823298787 Year: 2022 Publisher: New York : Fordham University Press,

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Reassessing the archive of the Black Hawk War, 'The Corpse in the Kitchen' explores relationships between the enclosure of Indigenous land, histories of resource extraction, and the literary culture of settler colonialism. While conventional histories of the Black Hawk War have long treated the conflict as gratuitous, Adam John Waterman argues that the war part of a struggle over the dispensation of mineral resources specifically, mineral lead - and the emergence of new cultures of killing and composition.


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Uncommon defense
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ISBN: 0674053958 9780674053953 9780674035188 0674035186 Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press

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In the spring of 1832, when the Indian warrior Black Hawk and a thousand followers marched into Illinois to reoccupy lands earlier ceded to American settlers, the U.S. Army turned to rival tribes for military support. In order to grasp Indian motives, John Hall explores their alliances in earlier wars with colonial powers as well as in intertribal antagonisms and conflicts. Providing a rare view of Indian attitudes and strategies in war and peace, Hall deepens our understanding of Native Americans and the complex roles they played in the nation's history.

Friendly fire
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ISBN: 128325607X 9786613256072 140084097X 9781400840977 0691005060 9780691095189 9780691005065 9781283256070 6613256072 Year: 2000 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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On April 14, 1994, two U.S. Air Force F-15 fighters accidentally shot down two U.S. Army Black Hawk Helicopters over Northern Iraq, killing all twenty-six peacekeepers onboard. In response to this disaster the complete array of military and civilian investigative and judicial procedures ran their course. After almost two years of investigation with virtually unlimited resources, no culprit emerged, no bad guy showed himself, no smoking gun was found. This book attempts to make sense of this tragedy--a tragedy that on its surface makes no sense at all. With almost twenty years in uniform and a Ph.D. in organizational behavior, Lieutenant Colonel Snook writes from a unique perspective. A victim of friendly fire himself, he develops individual, group, organizational, and cross-level accounts of the accident and applies a rigorous analysis based on behavioral science theory to account for critical links in the causal chain of events. By explaining separate pieces of the puzzle, and analyzing each at a different level, the author removes much of the mystery surrounding the shootdown. Based on a grounded theory analysis, Snook offers a dynamic, cross-level mechanism he calls "practical drift"--the slow, steady uncoupling of practice from written procedure--to complete his explanation. His conclusion is disturbing. This accident happened because, or perhaps in spite of everyone behaving just the way we would expect them to behave, just the way theory would predict. The shootdown was a normal accident in a highly reliable organization.


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Re-Collecting Black Hawk : Landscape, Memory, and Power in the American Midwest
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ISBN: 0822980398 9780822980391 9780822944379 0822944375 Year: 2015 Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press,

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The name Black Hawk permeates the built environment in the upper midwestern United States. It has been appropriated for everything from fitness clubs to used car dealerships. Makataimeshekiakiak, the Sauk Indian war leader whose name loosely translates to "Black Hawk," surrendered in 1832 after hundreds of his fellow tribal members were slaughtered at the Bad Axe Massacre.Re-Collecting Black Hawk examines the phenomena of this appropriation in the physical landscape, and the deeply rooted sentiments it evokes among Native Americans and descendants of European settlers. Nearly 170 original pho


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Hymns for the Fallen : Combat Movie Music and Sound after Vietnam
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ISBN: 9780520966543 0520966546 9780520282322 0520282329 9780520282339 0520282337 Year: 2017 Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press,

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In Hymns for the Fallen, Todd Decker listens closely to forty years of Hollywood combat films produced after Vietnam. Ever a noisy genre, post-Vietnam war films have deployed music and sound to place the audience in the midst of battle and to provoke reflection on the experience of combat. Considering landmark movies-such as Apocalypse Now, Saving Private Ryan, The Thin Red Line, Black Hawk Down, The Hurt Locker, and American Sniper-as well as lesser-known films, Decker shows how the domain of sound, an experientially rich and culturally resonant aspect of cinema, not only invokes the realities of war, but also shapes the American audience's engagement with soldiers and veterans as flesh-and-blood representatives of the nation. Hymns for the Fallen explores all three elements of film sound-dialogue, sound effects, music-and considers how expressive and formal choices in the soundtrack have turned the serious war film into a patriotic ritual enacted in the commercial space of the cinema.


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Australia : Friedrich Gerstäcker : a German traveller in the age of gold
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ISBN: 1743054637 1743054629 9781743054628 9781743054635 9781743054192 Year: 2016 Publisher: Mile End, South Australia : Wakefield Press,

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