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Naval families, war and duty in Britain, 1740-1820
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ISBN: 1782048243 1783271094 Year: 2016 Publisher: Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer,

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This book explores the competing demands of family, war and duty in the lives of eighteenth-century naval men and their families. It covers not just the men afloat and their wives ashore, but also therich and complex financial, professional and fraternal networks that were essential to naval lives. By drawing on a substantial body of personal correspondence, the book goes beyond cultural and gendered stereotypes to examine the roles and responsibilities of men, women and children within a naval family and how war shaped and determined those roles. The families considered include those of several famous naval figures, including Philip Broke, Matthew Flinders and George Bass, and also the families of "lower deck" seamen, some of whom could not write for themselves and where data has been gleaned from previously unexplored petitions. The information provided contributes to a wider understanding of gender roles, especially masculinity, in the period and to eighteenth-century social and cultural history more broadly. Moreover, as insights into the intimate and emotional details of family life, especially between husbands and wives, are difficult to discover in any historical period (such intimacy being rarely recorded), the details presented here constitute a rare resource.

Ellen Gill completed her doctorate at the University of Sydney.


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War Is Coming : Between Past and Future Violence in Lebanon
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ISBN: 0812224884 0812248864 0812293681 9780812248869 9780812224887 Year: 2017 Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press,

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From 1975 to 1990, Lebanon experienced a long war involving various national and international actors. The peace agreement that followed and officially propelled the country into a "postwar" era did not address many of the root causes of war, nor did it hold main actors accountable. Instead, a politics of "no victor, no vanquished" was promoted, in which the political elite agreed simply to consign the war to the past. However, since then, Lebanon has found itself still entangled in various forms of political violence, from car bombings and assassinations to additional outbreaks of armed combat.In War Is Coming, Sami Hermez argues that the country's political leaders have enabled the continuation of violence and examines how people live between these periods of conflict. What do everyday conversations, practices, and experiences look like during these moments? How do people attempt to find a measure of certainty or stability in such times? Hermez's ethnographic study of everyday life in Lebanon between the volatile years of 2006 and 2009 tackles these questions and reveals how people engage in practices of recollecting past war while anticipating future turmoil. Hermez demonstrates just how social interactions and political relationships with the state unfold and critically engages our understanding of memory and violence, seeing in people's recollections living and spontaneous memories that refuse to forget the past. With an attention to the details of everyday life, War Is Coming shows how even a conversation over lunch, or among friends, may turn into a discussion about both past and future unrest.Shedding light on the impact of protracted conflict on people's everyday experiences and the way people anticipate political violence, Hermez highlights an urgency for alternative paths to sustaining political and social life in Lebanon.


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War and Family Life
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ISBN: 331921487X 3319214888 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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This unique resource provides findings and insights regarding the multiple impacts of military duty on service members and veterans, specifically from a family standpoint. Broad areas of coverage include marital and family relationships, parenting issues, family effects of war injuries, and family concerns of single service members. The book's diverse contents highlight understudied populations and topics gaining wider interest while examining the immediate and long-term impact of service on family functioning. In addition to raising awareness of issues, chapters point to potential solutions including science-based pre- and post-deployment programs, more responsive training for practitioners, and more focused research and policy directions. Among the topics covered: Deployment and divorce: an in-depth analysis by relevant demographic and military characteristics. Military couples and posttraumatic stress: interpersonally based behaviors and cognitions as mechanisms of individual and couple distress. Warfare and parent care: armed conflict and the social logic of child and national protection. Understanding the experiences of women and LGBT veterans in Department of Veterans Affairs care. Risk and resilience factors in combat military health care providers. Tangible, instrumental, and emotional support among homeless veterans. War and Family Life offers up-to-date understanding for mental health professionals who serve military families, both in the U.S. and abroad.


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Of War and Men
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ISBN: 1283362643 9786613362643 0226470024 9780226470023 9780226467436 0226467430 9780226467429 0226467422 9781283362641 6613362646 Year: 2011 Publisher: Chicago, IL University of Chicago Press

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Fathers in the fifties tend to be portrayed as wise and genial pipe-smokers or distant, emotionless patriarchs. This common but limited stereotype obscures the remarkable diversity of their experiences and those of their children. To uncover the real story of fatherhood during this transformative era, Ralph LaRossa takes the long view-from the attack on Pearl Harbor up to the election of John F. Kennedy-revealing the myriad ways that World War II and its aftermath shaped men. Offering compelling accounts of people both ordinary and extraordinary, Of War and Men digs deep into the terrain of fatherhood. LaRossa explores the nature and aftereffects of combat, the culture of fear during the Cold War, the ways that fear altered the lives of racial and sexual minorities, and how the civil rights movement affected families both black and white. Overturning some calcified myths, LaRossa also analyzes the impact of suburbanization on fathers and their kids, discovering that living in the suburbs often strengthened their bond. And finally, looking beyond the idealized dad enshrined in TV sitcoms, Of War and Men explores the brutal side of family life in the postwar years. LaRossa's richly researched book dismantles stereotypes while offering up a fascinating and incisive chronicle of fatherhood in all its complexity.

Korea's divided families
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ISBN: 0415297389 1280195355 020321773X 9780203217733 9780415297387 9786610195350 6610195358 9780415546348 0415546346 9781280195358 9781134431618 9781134431656 9781134431663 Year: 2003 Publisher: London New York RoutledgeCurzon

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Based on research conducted in Korea, including interviews in 2001 with Korean families who benefited from the most recent exchanges, this text addresses the many issues surrounding the divided family problem and highlights its importance in the path towards Korean rapprochment.


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Remembering China from Taiwan
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ISBN: 9882209092 9882208975 9789882208971 9789888083862 9888083864 9789882209091 Year: 2012 Publisher: Hong Kong Hong Kong University Press

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When the Nationalists lost China in 1949, many of them left behind their families as they retreated to Taiwan. A half century later, through democratic elections, they lost control over Taiwan as well and began looking to a new and powerful China, where their relatives had grown rich, for a sense of identity and economic support, thus laying the groundwork for the growing integration between Taiwan and China. As exchanges across the Taiwan Strait increased, many separated families finally met after years of dreaming about each other in hope and in sorrow, through many eras and disast.

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War and families --- Families and war --- War and family --- Families --- History --- China --- Cina --- Kinë --- Cathay --- Chinese National Government --- Chung-kuo kuo min cheng fu --- Republic of China (1912-1949) --- Kuo min cheng fu (China : 1912-1949) --- Chung-hua min kuo (1912-1949) --- Kina (China) --- National Government (1912-1949) --- China (Republic : 1912-1949) --- People's Republic of China --- Chinese People's Republic --- Chung-hua jen min kung ho kuo --- Central People's Government of Communist China --- Chung yang jen min cheng fu --- Chung-hua chung yang jen min kung ho kuo --- Central Government of the People's Republic of China --- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo --- Zhong hua ren min gong he guo --- Kitaĭskai︠a︡ Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika --- Činská lidová republika --- RRT --- Republik Rakjat Tiongkok --- KNR --- Kytaĭsʹka Narodna Respublika --- Jumhūriyat al-Ṣīn al-Shaʻbīyah --- RRC --- Kitaĭ --- Kínai Népköztársaság --- Chūka Jinmin Kyōwakoku --- Erets Sin --- Sin --- Sāthāranarat Prachāchon Čhīn --- P.R. China --- PR China --- Chung-kuo --- Zhongguo --- Zhonghuaminguo (1912-1949) --- Zhong guo --- Chine --- République Populaire de Chine --- República Popular China --- Catay --- VR China --- VRChina --- 中國 --- 中国 --- 中华人民共和国 --- Jhongguó --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaxu Dundadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaqu Dumdadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Dundad Ard Uls --- Khi︠a︡tad --- Kitad --- Dumdadu Ulus --- Dumdad Uls --- Думдад Улс --- Kitajska --- China (Republic : 1949- ) --- Refugees --- Family relationships --- Attitudes. --- S26/0510 --- S26/0515 --- S26/0580 --- S26/0835 --- Taiwan--History: since 1945 --- Taiwan--China's claim to Taiwan (and vice-versa) --- Taiwan--Biographies --- Taiwan--Population, demography (incl. immigration, emigration) --- PRC --- P.R.C. --- BNKhAU --- БНХАУ --- Taiwan --- Taiwan Sheng zheng fu --- Tʻai-wan sheng cheng fu --- Taiwan xing zheng zhang guan gong shu --- Tʻai-wan hsing cheng chang kuan kung shu --- Taiwan Sheng xing zheng zhang guan gong shu --- Tʻai-wan sheng hsing cheng chang kuan kung shu --- Tʻai-wan --- Taĭvan --- Formosa --- Taiwan Sōtokufu --- Government-General of Taiwan --- Taiwan sheng --- Tʻai-wan sheng --- Taiwan Provincial Government --- Taiwan zong du fu --- Tʻai-wan tsung tu fu --- Xiaoliuqiu --- 臺灣 --- 台灣 --- Тайвань --- Tajvan --- Тайуан --- Taĭuan --- Tayiwani --- Taywan --- Taivanas --- Taiwana --- Taihuan --- Тайван --- Refugees. --- Emigration and immigration

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