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Treason --- Traitors --- Great Britain --- History
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L’histoire regorge d’exemples plus ou moins édifiants, qu’ils soient individuels ou d’ordre collectif, d’actes de trahison. Plus d’un événement marquant a en effet pu être occasionné par la décision d’un personnage ou de son entourage de changer de camp, ou de refuser d’obéir. Parfois la trahison est devenue, avec le recul du temps, un acte de bravoure… Toujours elle éclaire un caractère, met en valeur une faiblesse très humaine ou exprime un sentiment blessé. En bousculant l’ordre social, la trahison est un geste fort et, d’une certaine manière, un sacrifice personnel qui demeure complexe à comprendre. Pour tenter, justement, de saisir les enjeux que soulève la question de la trahison, les auteurs de ce livre original sur un sujet d’ordinaire abordé de manière caricaturale font le portrait d’une quinzaine de grands «traîtres» du XVe au XXe siècle. Ils dessinent ainsi une nouvelle histoire de l’infamie à travers les vies de ces hommes et femmes hauts-en-couleur dont les aventures parfois rocambolesques trouvent une conclusion souvent tragique.
Trahison --- Trahison (morale). --- Conspirations. --- Histoire. --- Traitors --- Betrayal --- History.
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Treason. --- Intelligence service. --- Traitors --- Trahison --- Service des renseignements --- Traîtres --- Biography. --- Biographies
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Treason --- Traitors --- Fenwick, John, --- Griffin of Braybrooke, Edward Griffin, --- Lichfield, Edward Henry Lee, --- Middleton, Charles Middleton,
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Since the fall of General Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship (1973-1990), Chilean society has shied away from the taboo subject of civilian complicity, preferring to pursue convictions of military perpetrators. But the torture, murders, deportations, and disappearances of tens of thousands of people in Chile were not carried out by the military alone; it required a vast civilian network of support. Some actively participated in the regime's massive violations of human rights for personal gain or from a sense of patriotic duty. Others supported Pinochet's neoliberal economic program while ignoring the crimes of that era. Michael J. Lazzara boldly argues that today's Chile is a product of both complicity and complacency. Combining historical analysis with deft literary, political, and cultural critique, he scrutinizes the post-Pinochet rationalizations made by politicians, artists, intellectuals, bystanders, former revolutionaries-turned-neoliberals, and common citizens. He looks beyond victims and perpetrators to unveil the ambiguous, ethically vexed realms of memory and experience that authoritarian regimes inevitably generate.
Collective memory --- Collaborationists --- Human rights --- Dictatorship --- Absolutism --- Autocracy --- Tyranny --- Authoritarianism --- Despotism --- Totalitarianism --- Collaborators (Traitors) --- Traitors --- Collective remembrance --- Common memory --- Cultural memory --- Emblematic memory --- Historical memory --- National memory --- Public memory --- Social memory --- Memory --- Social psychology --- Group identity --- National characteristics --- History --- Chile
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Iconographies of Occupation is the first book to address how the "collaborationist" Reorganized National Government (RNG) in Japanese-occupied China sought to visualize its leader, Wang Jingwei (1883-1944); the Chinese people; and China itself. It explores the ways in which this administration sought to present itself to the people over which it ruled at different points between 1939, when the RNG was first being formulated, and August 1945, when it folded itself out of existence. What sorts of visual tropes were used in regime iconography and how were these used? What can the intertextual movement of visual tropes and motifs tell us about RNG artists and intellectuals and their understanding of the occupation and the war?Drawing on rarely before used archival records relating to propaganda and a range of visual media produced in occupied China by the RNG, the book examines the means used by this "client regime" to carve out a separate visual space for itself by reviving prewar Chinese methods of iconography and by adopting techniques, symbols, and visual tropes from the occupying Japanese and their allies. Ultimately, however, the "occupied gaze" that was developed by Wang's administration was undermined by its ultimate reliance on Japanese acquiescence for survival. In the continually shifting and fragmented iconographies that the RNG developed over the course of its short existence, we find an administration that was never completely in control of its own fate-or its message. Iconographies of Occupation presents a thoroughly original visual history approach to the study of a much-maligned regime and opens up new ways of understanding its place in wartime China. It also brings China under the RNG into dialogue with broader theoretical debates about the significance of "the visual" in the cultural politics of foreign occupation.
Art and state --- Collaborationists --- Political culture --- HISTORY / Asia / China. --- History --- Culture --- Political science --- Collaborators (Traitors) --- Traitors --- Art --- Arts --- Politics and art --- State and art --- Art and society --- Cultural policy --- Education and state --- Government policy
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Etudes des diverses formes qu'a pu prendre la trahison dans le monde ancien : la faute religieuse comme trahison dans le judaïsme hellénisé, la traîtrise des Phéniciens et des Carthaginois dans les sources grecques, la trahison au temps des guerres civiles romaines, la trahison des soldats "barbares", l'usurpation (Galba), la question des amnisties romaines à l'époque impériale, etc.
Treason --- Traitors --- History, Ancient --- Trahison --- Traîtres --- Histoire ancienne --- History --- Congresses --- Congresses. --- Histoire --- Congrès --- Crimes et délits politiques --- Betrayal --- Traîtres --- Congrès --- History. --- Crimes et délits politiques
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The figure of the traitor plays an intriguing role in modern politics. Traitors are a source of transgression from within, creating their own kinds of aversion and suspicion. They destabilize the rigid moral binaries of victim and persecutor, friend and enemy. Recent history is stained by collaborators, informers, traitors, and the bloody purges and other acts of retribution against them. In the emergent nation-state of Bhutan, the specter of the "antinational" traitor helped to transform the traditional view of loyalty based on social relations. In Sri Lanka, the Tamil Tigers' fear of traitors is tangled with the Tamil civilians' fear of being betrayed to the Tigers as traitors. For Palestinians in the West Bank, simply earning a living can mean complicity with people acting in the name of the Israeli state.While most contemporary studies of violence and citizenship focus on the creation of the "other," the cases in Traitors: Suspicion, Intimacy, and the Ethics of State-Building illustrate the equally strong political and social anxieties among those who seem to be most alike. Treason is often treated as a pathological distortion of political life. However, the essays in Traitors propose that treachery is a constant, essential, and normal part of the processes through which social and political order is produced. In the political gray zones between personal and state loyalties, traitors and their prosecutors play roles that make and unmake regimes. In this volume, ten scholars examine political, ethnic, and personal trust and betrayals in modern times from Mozambique to the Taiwan Straits, from the former Eastern Bloc to the West Bank.This fascinating collection studies the tension between close personal relationships, the demands of nation-states, and the moral choices that result when these interests collide. In asking how traitors are defined in the context of local histories, contributors address larger comparative questions about the nature of postcolonial citizenship.
Treason --- Traitors --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- High treason --- Persons --- Political crimes and offenses --- Sovereignty, Violation of --- Subversive activities --- Anthropology. --- Folklore. --- Linguistics. --- Political Science. --- Public Policy.
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Collaborationists --- World War, 1939-1945 --- European War, 1939-1945 --- Second World War, 1939-1945 --- World War 2, 1939-1945 --- World War II, 1939-1945 --- World War Two, 1939-1945 --- WW II (World War, 1939-1945) --- WWII (World War, 1939-1945) --- History, Modern --- Collaborators (Traitors) --- Traitors --- History&delete& --- Encyclopedias --- Collaborationists&delete& --- Occupied territories&delete& --- History of Europe --- anno 1940-1949 --- History --- Occupied territories
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