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Communities under Fire

Urban Life at the Western Front, 1914-1918

By: Alex Dowdall

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Communities under Fire

Urban Life at the Western Front, 1914-1918

By: Alex Dowdall

Between 1914 and 1918, the Western Front passed through some of Europe's most populated and industrialised regions. Large towns including Nancy, Reims, Arras, and Lens lay at the heart of the battlefield. Their civilian inhabitants endured artillery bombardment, military occupation, and material hardship. Many fled for the safety of the French interior, but others lived under fire for much of the war, ensuring the Western Front remained a joint civil-military space. Communities under Fire explores the wartime experiences of civilians on both sides of the Western Front, and uncovers how urban communities responded to the dramatic impact of industrialized war. It discusses how war shaped civilians' personal and collective identities, and explores how the experiences of military violence, occupation, and forced displacement structured the attitudes of civilians at the front towards the rest of the nation. Drawing on a vast array of archival sources, letters, diaries, and newspapers in English, French, and German, it reveals the history of the Western Front from the perspective of its civilian inhabitants. From Leningrad to Warsaw, Hamburg, and, more recently, Sarajevo and Donetsk, urban violence has remained a feature of warfare in Europe, turning cities into battlefields. On each occasion, civilian populations were at the heart of military operations, and forced to adapt to life in a warzone. This was also the case between 1914 and 1918, despite the myth that the First World War was predominantly a soldiers' war. The civilian inhabitants of the Western Front were among the first to suffer the full impact of modern, industrialized war in an urban setting. Communities under Fire explains the multiple ways by which these urban residents responded to, were changed by, succumbed to, or survived the enormous pressures of life in a warzone.

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Oxford University Press

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0192598147

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9780192598141

Making Sense of the Great War

Crisis, Englishness, and Morale on the Western Front

By: Alex Mayhew

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Making Sense of the Great War

Crisis, Englishness, and Morale on the Western Front

By: Alex Mayhew

The First World War was an unprecedented crisis, with communities and societies enduring the unimaginable hardships of a prolonged conflict on an industrial scale. In Belgium and France, the terrible capacity of modern weaponry destroyed the natural world and exposed previously held truths about military morale and tactics as falsehoods. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers suffered some of the worst conditions that combatants have ever faced. How did they survive? What did it mean to them? How did they perceive these events? Whilst the trenches of the Western Front have come to symbolise the futility and hopelessness of the Great War, Alex Mayhew shows that English infantrymen rarely interpreted their experiences in this way. They sought to survive, navigated the crises that confronted them, and crafted meaningful narratives about their service. Making Sense of the Great War reveals the mechanisms that allowed them to do so.

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389

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Cambridge University Press

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100918573X

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9781009185738

Fundamentals of Brain Network Analysis

By: Alex Fornito,Andrew Zalesky,Edward Bullmore

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Fundamentals of Brain Network Analysis

By: Alex Fornito,Andrew Zalesky,Edward Bullmore

Fundamentals of Brain Network Analysis is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to methods for unraveling the extraordinary complexity of neuronal connectivity. From the perspective of graph theory and network science, this book introduces, motivates and explains techniques for modeling brain networks as graphs of nodes connected by edges, and covers a diverse array of measures for quantifying their topological and spatial organization. It builds intuition for key concepts and methods by illustrating how they can be practically applied in diverse areas of neuroscience, ranging from the analysis of synaptic networks in the nematode worm to the characterization of large-scale human brain networks constructed with magnetic resonance imaging. This text is ideally suited to neuroscientists wanting to develop expertise in the rapidly developing field of neural connectomics, and to physical and computational scientists wanting to understand how these quantitative methods can be used to understand brain organization. - Winner of the 2017 PROSE Award in Biomedicine & Neuroscience and the 2017 British Medical Association (BMA) Award in Neurology - Extensively illustrated throughout by graphical representations of key mathematical concepts and their practical applications to analyses of nervous systems - Comprehensively covers graph theoretical analyses of structural and functional brain networks, from microscopic to macroscopic scales, using examples based on a wide variety of experimental methods in neuroscience - Designed to inform and empower scientists at all levels of experience, and from any specialist background, wanting to use modern methods of network science to understand the organization of the brain

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Academic Press

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0124081185

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9780124081185

The History of Camp Willow, Civilian Conservation Corps Company 1739, Willow Springs, MO

By: Alex Biehl

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The History of Camp Willow, Civilian Conservation Corps Company 1739, Willow Springs, MO

By: Alex Biehl

This book contains the history of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in the Willow Springs area including major projects such as the construction of Noblett Lake and Bluebuck Fire tower. The book contains full historic images of both under construction and many other photos of the CCC camp and other projects. The book contains a timeline of events and lots of other very interesting information about the CCC in our home state!

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Lulu.com

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1387053272

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Communities under Fire

Urban Life at the Western Front, 1914-1918

By: Alex Dowdall

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Urban Life at the Western Front, 1914-1918

By: Alex Dowdall

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Communities under Fire

Communities under Fire

Making Sense of the Great War

Making Sense of the Great War

Fundamentals of Brain Network Analysis

Fundamentals of Brain Network Analysis

The History of Camp Willow, Civilian Conservation Corps Company 1739, Willow Springs, MO

The History of Camp Willow, Civilian Conservation Corps Company 1739, Willow Springs, MO

Communities under Fire

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