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Infantry. --- Artillery, Field and mountain. --- Armor.

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Die 1924 von Drexel erstmals beschriebene Fundgattung der Bestandteile von “Paraderüstungen” umfasst heute über 500 Stücke, die in einem Katalog vorgelegt werden, darunter Maskenhelme, Gesichtsmasken, Roßstirnen, Beinschienen, Medaillons/Schildbuckel und Panzerverschlußbleche. Bild- und Schriftquellen sind rar und oft nicht eindeutig, aber die Funde geben umfassenden Einblick in die Materie. Während bisher als sicher galt, daß die Stücke nur bei Paraden und den von Arrian beschriebenen hippika gymnasia getragen wurden, zeichnet sich mehr und mehr ab, daß sie der normalen Kampfausrüstung der Kavallerie und teilweise sogar Infanterie zugehörten. Die Herstellung erfolgte wohl in festen Werkstätten in Lagern, Kastellen und vici. Nachweise von ein oder mehreren Besitzerinschriften zeigen, daß es sich um Privat- und nicht Fiskalbesitz handelte, der auch als Gebrauchtware verkauft wurde. Beliebte Ziermotive waren der Adler als Symboltier Jupiters, Götter wie Mars, Minerva oder Victoria, mythologische Figuren wie Ganymed, Medusa und Pegasus, Embleme von Legionen und Auxiliareinheiten, z.B. Stier, Eber oder Steinbock, sowie Symbole wie Kranz, Schild und Pflanzenteile.

Armor, Ancient --- Helmets --- Metal sculpture --- Relief (Sculpture), Roman --- Armures anciennes --- Casques --- Sculpture en métal --- Relief (Sculpture) romain --- Sculpture en métal

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For more than a century flint daggers have been among the most closely studied and most heavily published later prehistoric lithic tools. It is well established that they are found across Europe and beyond, and that many were widely circulated over many generation. Yet few researchers have attempted to discuss the entirety of the flint dagger phenomenon. The present volume brings together papers that address questions of the regional variability and socio-technical complexity of flint daggers and their production. It focuses on the typology, chronology, technology, functionality and meaning of flint and other lithic daggers produced primarily in Europe, but also in the Eastern Mediterranean and East Asia, in prehistory. The 14 papers by leading researchers provide a comprehensive overview of the state of knowledge concerning various flint dagger corpora as well as potential avenues for the development of a researcher agenda across national, regional and disciplinary boundaries.

Weapons, Prehistoric --- Daggers --- Stone age --- Weapons --- Arms and armor, Prehistoric --- Prehistoric weapons --- Tools, Prehistoric --- Europe --- Antiquities. --- Armes prehistòriques --- Dagues --- Edat de la pedra --- Sílex --- Antiquities

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"In 1885, there was The Science of Revolutionary Warfare. In 1971, there was The Anarchist Cookbook. In 2012, the Boston Marathon bombers turned to the Internet to learn how to make explosives. For well over a century, the United States government has regarded the circulation of weapons manuals and instruction booklets by radicals as not only dangerous, but criminal. In The Wrong Hands, Ann Larabee traces the nuanced history of do-it-yourself weapons manuals from the late nineteenth century to the present to explain the trajectory of violent radicalism and how it provokes the state's evolving policy toward radical dissent. Larabee begins with Johann Most's The Science of Revolutionary Warfare, which allegedly served as a cookbook for the accused Haymarket Square bombers of 1886. The judge at the Haymarket trial allowed it to be admitted as evidence, setting a precedent for prosecutorial use of such texts against radicals. Health Is in You!, a bombmaking guide circulated by Italian anarchists, further attracted the attention of federal police, and sabotage books were introduced in show trials of labor activists. In the 1960s, small paramilitary publishers produced instructions, largely drawn from US military sources, to cater to a growing popular interest in do-it-yourself weapons making. Published in 1971, The Anarchist Cookbook achieved legendary status and a lasting presence in the courts. The book's critics immediately connected it to the wave of bombings by left-wing radicals of the era, particularly the Weather Underground. Novelistic instructions for bombmaking, as in Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang and William Pierce's The Turner Diaries, provided controversial evidence in prosecutions of radicals on the left and right, including Earth Firsters and Timothy McVeigh. Over the last twenty years, sites have proliferated online explaining how to make weapons, including suicide vests, and older print instructions have been digitized. The struggle over the state's responsibility to police such information has long hinged on whether its disseminators are legitimate. An unevenly applied federal terror policy has increased the penalties for possessing popular weapons instructions if those instructions end up in "the wrong hands" like right-wing militia figures and jihadists (including the Boston Marathon bombers). Larabee ends with an analysis of the 1979 publication of instructions to make a nuclear weapon, which raises the ultimate question: can a society committed to free speech allow these sorts of manuals to disseminate freely? A comprehensive account of an alarming yet persistent historical phenomenon, The Wrong Hands will reshape our understanding of radical violence and state repression in American history"--

Radicalism --- Underground literature --- Explosives --- Weapons --- Political violence --- Terrorism --- Acts of terrorism --- Attacks, Terrorist --- Global terrorism --- International terrorism --- Political terrorism --- Terror attacks --- Terrorist acts --- Terrorist attacks --- World terrorism --- Direct action --- Insurgency --- Political crimes and offenses --- Subversive activities --- Terror --- Violence --- Arms and armor --- Weaponry --- Weapons, Primitive --- Implements, utensils, etc. --- Tools --- Armor --- Explosive chemicals --- Chemistry, Technical --- Blasting --- Clandestine literature --- Illegal literature --- Literature, Underground --- Literature --- Extremism, Political --- Ideological extremism --- Political extremism --- Political science --- History.

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"Kendo is the first book in English to provide an in-depth historical, cultural, and political account of the Japanese martial art of swordsmanship, from its beginnings in military training and arcane medieval schools to its widespread practice today as a global sport. Alexander Bennett shows how kendo evolved through a recurring process of 'inventing tradition', which served the changing ideologies and needs of Japanese warriors and governments over the course of history. Kendo follows the development of Japanese swordsmanship from the aristocratic pretensions of medieval warriors in the Muromachi period, to the samurai elitism of the Edo regime, and to the patriotism of the Meiji state. Kendo was influenced in the 1930s and 1940s by ultranationalist militarists and ultimately by the postwar government, which sought a gentle form of cultural nationalism to rekindle appreciation of traditional culture among Japan's youth and to garner international prestige as an instrument of 'soft power'. Today kendo is becoming increasingly popular internationally. But even as new organizations and clubs form around the world, the sport remains closely linked to Japan's sense of collective identity"--Provided by publisher.

Kendo. --- Swordplay --- J6976 --- Japanese fencing --- Japan: Sports and recreation -- martial arts, fighting sports -- kendō, iaidō, bōjutsu, fencing. --- Fencing --- Hand-to-hand fighting, Oriental --- Stick fighting --- Swordplay. --- Japan. --- Kendo --- Japan: Sports and recreation -- martial arts, fighting sports -- kendō, iaidō, bōjutsu, fencing --- bamboo. --- bogu. --- collective identity. --- combat. --- cultural studies. --- edo period. --- fighting styles. --- fights. --- global sport. --- history of kendo. --- history. --- inventing tradition. --- japan. --- japanese history. --- japanese martial arts. --- japanese studies. --- japanese. --- kendo. --- kenjutsu. --- martial arts. --- medieval schools. --- meiji period. --- military training. --- muromachi period. --- nationalism. --- physical activity. --- practice of honor. --- protective armor. --- samurai. --- shinai. --- soft power. --- sports. --- swordsmanship. --- traditional culture. --- war. --- warriors.