Jeremy M. Black
Forfatter af Warfare in the Eighteenth Century
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Værker af Jeremy M. Black
The Cambridge Illustrated Atlas of Warfare: Renaissance to Revolution, 1492-1792 (1996) 83 eksemplarer
The Age of Total War, 1860-1945 (Studies in Military History and International Affairs) (2006) 23 eksemplarer
Imperial Legacies: How the British Empire Planted the Seeds of Freedom Across the World (2019) 23 eksemplarer
A Military Revolution?: Military Change and European Society, 1550-1800 (Studies in European History) (1991) 22 eksemplarer
Altered States: America Since the Sixties (Reaktion Books - Contemporary Worlds) (2006) 10 eksemplarer
War in European History, 1494-1660: The Essential Bibliography (Essential Bibliography Series) (2006) 7 eksemplarer
Britain since the Seventies: Politics and Society in the Consumer Age (Reaktion Books - Contemporary Worlds) (2004) 5 eksemplarer
Trade, empire and British foreign policy, 1689-1815 : politics of a commercial state (2007) 5 eksemplarer
A Brief History of the Caribbean: Indispensable for Travellers (Brief Histories) (2022) 3 eksemplarer
A History of the 20th Century: Conflict, Technology & Rock'n'Roll (Arcturus Science & History Collection, 13) (2020) 3 eksemplarer
The Tory world : deep history and the Tory theme in British foreign policy, 1679-2014 (2016) 3 eksemplarer
Natural and necessary enemies : Anglo-French relations in the eighteenth century (1986) 3 eksemplarer
Atlas Ilustrado de la guerra del Renacimiento / Illustrated Atlas of the Renaissance War (Atlas Ilustrados) (Spanish… (2003) 2 eksemplarer
Archives: The Journal of the British Records Association, Vol XXVI, No 105 — Redaktør — 1 eksemplar
Mapas de Guerra: Cartografiando Conflictos a Través de los Siglos (Historia Ilustrada) (Spanish Edition) (2008) 1 eksemplar
La Seconde guerre mondiale à travers les cartes: Stratégie, reconnaissance, opérations… (2020) 1 eksemplar
Kuulsad väepealikud ja nende sõjakäigud : 545 illustratsiooni, neist 440 värvilised (2008) 1 eksemplar
England's Ancien Regime 1 eksemplar
Atlas - Dünya Tarihi 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Lost Libraries: The Destruction of Great Book Collections Since Antiquity (2004) — Bidragyder — 79 eksemplarer
An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Uniforms of the Roman World: A detailed study of the armies of Rome and their… (2013) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver — 49 eksemplarer
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Spring 1999 (1999) — Author "The Execution of Admiral Byng" — 13 eksemplarer
Technology, Disease and Colonial Conquests, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries: Essays Reappraising the Guns and Germs… (2001) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver — 11 eksemplarer
Journeys Through the Market: Travel, Travellers, and the Book Trade (1999) — Bidragyder — 10 eksemplarer
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Spring 2005 (2005) — Author "Rethinking the Revolutionary War" — 8 eksemplarer
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Summer 2008 (2008) — Author "How the Allies Won World War II" — 8 eksemplarer
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Spring 2006 (2006) — Author "Dynasty Forged by Fire" — 7 eksemplarer
Grandi mappe di città. Oltre 70 capolavori che riflettono le aspirazioni e la storia dell'uomo (2016) — Redaktør, nogle udgaver — 6 eksemplarer
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Spring 2010 (2010) — Author "What We Think About When We Think About Waterloo" — 3 eksemplarer
Desperta Ferro Moderna. Waterloo 1815. — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
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- Juridisk navn
- Black, Jeremy Martin
- Fødselsdato
- 1955-10-30
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Uddannelse
- University of Cambridge (Queens' College)
Oxford University (Merton)
Oxford University (St. John's) - Erhverv
- historian
- Organisationer
- University of Exeter
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Samuel Eliot Morison Prize (2008)
Member of the Order of the British Empire
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This situation started to change, at least in the non-communist world, from the 1960s with events such as the Eichmann trial reawakening consciousness of the Holocaust, and the advent of the new 1960s generation questioning the roles of their parents during the war. In Russia and Eastern Europe, this process did not start until after the fall of communism and has been rather more uneven, given the much more virulent historical role of anti-Semitism there and the more active part played by many non-Jewish and non-Nazi people in persecuting and killing Jews.
The book also looks at themes such as the debasing of the terms Holocaust and genocide when they are applied to other violent and killing episodes, often emotively or by states or actors that have a particular political perspective in mind in so doing: "large-scale killing alone, however reprehensible, does not compare with the Holocaust, because the attempt to define and destroy an entire ethnic group and its complete culture represents a different scale and intention of assault, indeed a global assault". It also deals with the role of Holocaust denial or minimisation, the latter of which sometimes overlaps with the relativism mentioned above.
This is a fascinating and obviously horrific book, and makes for very difficult reading in places, not only because of its subject matter, but also it is written in a sometimes overly academic style which can come across as a bit dry.… (mere)