scholarly journals PROVINCIAL NEWSPAPERS AS A HISTORICAL SOURCE: BÜYÜK CİHAD AND THE GREAT STRUGGLE FOR THE MUSLIM TURKISH NATION (1951–53)

2009 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 455a-455a
Author(s):  
Gavin D. Brockett
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Political Islam ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
World War ◽  
Historical Source ◽  
Religious Publications ◽  
Kemal Ataturk ◽  
Turkish Society

The article argues that to move beyond the standard nationalist narrative of Turkish history, scholars must employ new sources such as the provincial newspaper. Through a study of a religious nationalist provincial newspaper—Büyük Cihad (The Great Struggle)—from the early 1950s, it is possible to appreciate the extent and importance of a vibrant public debate concerning secularism and the place of Islam in Turkish society immediately after World War II. This debate has gone almost completely unnoticed, yet it constitutes an important foundation for understanding the present prominence of political Islam in Turkish society. Central to this debate is the person of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk: ultimately it was criticism of Turkey's founding president rather than any real threat of “religious reaction” that prompted the government's decision to suppress religious publications in early 1953.

scholarly journals German Studies of Koreans in Manchuria: Gustav Fochler-Hauke and the Influence of Karl Haushofer’s National Socialist Geopolitics

2018 ◽  
pp. 131-142
Author(s):  
Adam Cathcart ◽  
Robert Winstanley-Chesters
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Research Note ◽  
Military Government ◽  
German Studies ◽  
World War ◽  
Historical Source ◽  
National Socialist ◽  
Japanese Military

This article analyses scholarship and memoir writing by German geographer Gustav Fochler-Hauke with respect to Korean settlement in Manchuria, and along the Tumen and Yalu/Amnok rivers in the 1930s and early 40s. The research note demonstrates that while Focher-Hauke’s work has its value—not least due to the access he received thanks to the Japanese military government—his concepts of geopolitics and the influence of his mentor and collaborator, Karl Haushofer, renders the work flawed; its value as a historical source for scholars today is therefore limited. The research note begins with Fochler-Hauke’s rising profile within German geopolitical studies and turns toward that field’s documentation of Koreans in Manchuria, the role of borders between Korea and Manchuria, the blind eye turned toward Korean resistance to Japan, and the rehabilitation of some of these scholars and works after World War II.

scholarly journals The Ways in Which I Never Thought About My Great-Grandfather: An Essay on the Potentials of Photography as a Historical Document∗

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (3/2020) ◽  
pp. 247-268
Author(s):  
Filip MITRIČEVIĆ
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Historical Document ◽  
Historical Reconstruction ◽  
World War ◽  
Historical Source ◽  
Prisoner Of War ◽  
Family Photographs ◽  
Theoretical Question

This paper is on the trail of answering the theoretical question of the potential of photography as a historical source. The paper does not aim for a historical reconstruction in the classical sense but is an attempt to show the reach of this visual media in historical research, based on the correlation of a sample of family photographs, oral history, and theory. By employing the author’s “personal voice,” the paper attempts to correlate particularities with a broader context and general theory. The author uses photographs of his great-grandfather, made at a prisoner-of-war camp during the World War II, to show the limitations of photography as a historical source.

Past Non-Dependency in the Twenty-first Century

2019 ◽  
pp. 107-119
Author(s):  
Anastassia V. Obydenkova ◽  
Alexander Libman
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Governance Structure ◽  
Political Islam ◽  
First Century ◽  
World War ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Twenty First Century

This chapter aims to provide a different approach to the development of regional IOs since World War II, by singling out non-democratic tendencies in regionalism from a historical perspective. It explores differences between the functioning of DROs and NDROs over the last 70 years—from coerced organizations such as COMECON to modern alliances of autocrats. The chapter argues that the twenty-first-century NDROs (e.g. SCO) are different from those of the last half of the twentieth century (e.g. COMECON) in terms of membership composition, governance structure, and the characteristics discussed in earlier chapters. While historical NDROs were driven by ideologies such as Communism, in the main modern NDROs lack an ideological foundation (with the exception of ALBA and the Islamic world). The ideological foundation of Islamic ROs has changed—from pan-Arabism in the 1940s and 1950s to the dominance of various forms of political Islam and a focus on specific political institutions (e.g. the conservative rule of Gulf monarchies in the GCC).

scholarly journals The latest casualty: Phillip Knightley and media failure

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-25
Author(s):  
Louise Matthews
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
News Media ◽  
War On Terror ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
World War ◽  
The Press

He covers the coverage of wars and the fine borderline that journalists might cross to become propaganda merchants: World War II, Vietnam, The Gulf, Kosovo, to name a few, and now the ‘War on Terror’. And the performance so far of the news media in this latest one has left Phillip Knightley, author of The First Casualty, underwhelmed: civil rights down the drain, public debate and dissent stifled, the news media hardly batting an eyelid. ‘Well, the press in Britain, Australia, and probably New Zealand, did a better job than their American counterparts,’ he sighs, ‘but that’s not saying much.’

scholarly journals THE ARCHIVAL-INVESTIGATIVE CASE OF VASYL PROKHODA AS A HISTORICAL SOURCE

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 331-341
Author(s):  
Nataliia KRAVETS
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Military Service ◽  
World War ◽  
Historical Source ◽  
National Union ◽  
Public Activity ◽  
Cultural Activities ◽  
Construction Companies ◽  
Internal Affairs ◽  
Political Figure

The archival-investigative case of Vasyl Prokhoda, a Ukrainian military, public and political figure, Lieutenant Colonel of the Ukrainian People's Republic Army, military historian, is analyzed, as it is not only an important source for studying his life but also for studying totalitarianism in the Ukrainian SSR and the USSR. The investigation clarified the circumstances of the detention and arrest of V. Prokhoda in late January - early February 1945, the vicissitudes of the investigation from February 2, 1945, to September 10, 1945. Working methods of employees of the SMERSH counterintelligence administrative departments are highlighted. Some facts of V. Prokhoda's biography are characterized: his participation in the Ukrainian revolution of 1917–1921, public activity during emigration to Czechoslovakia, work in construction companies during World War II. The author analyzed topics of questions of interest to investigators: military service in the Russian tsarist army on the eve and beginning of World War І; national-cultural activities in POW camps in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy; participation in Ukrainian military structures during the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917–1921; struggle against the Bolshevik government in Ukraine; activities in public societies and organizations in exile in Czechoslovakia and Germany (as «Sokil», «Society of Former Soldiers of the Ukrainian People's Republic Army», «Ukrainian National Union»); work in construction companies «in favor of Germany» during World War ІІ; information on the activities of the emigration government of the Ukrainian People's Republic and relations with its leaders; «counter-revolutionary nationalist» activities of the leaders of Ukrainian emigrant organizations. The facts of V. Prokhoda's biography in the archival-investigative case and his memoirs «Zapysky nepokirlyvoho» («Notes of the Rebellious») are compared. Keywords: Vasyl Prokhoda, Ukrainian People's Republic, archival-investigative case, public activity, SMERSH, People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs.

Introduction

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grote Rainer ◽  
Röder Tilmann
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Political Islam ◽  
Constitutional Reform ◽  
World War ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Islamic Countries ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact

This introductory chapter begins with a brief history of constitution-making and constitutional reform in the Islamic world. It then describes the emergence of a new constitutional era in the Middle East and beyond following World War II, and the two trends that characterized the early post-independence period in most Islamic countries, which were also reflected in the new constitutions: nationalism and secularism. It also discusses the development of Islamic constitutionalism in various Islamic countries. The chapter then sets out the book's purpose, which is to analyze the impact of the rise of political Islam on the development of key constitutional concepts in Islamic countries, and the extent to which the notion of constitutionalism has been transformed in these countries as a result. This is followed by an overview of the five parts of the book.

Introduction

Unconditional ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Marc Gallicchio
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
World War ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The New Deal

The Introduction gives a brief outline of the history behind the events that led to the unconditional surrender by the Japanese as World War II came to a close in 1945. In the final months of the war, the Introduction argues, a vigorous public debate erupted over the policy of unconditional surrender and the definition of “victory.” This debate wasn’t just about the best way to end a war; it extended the ideological battleground of the New Deal into the international realm. The Introduction concludes that to fully understand Japan’s decision to surrender, readers need to understand what the various participants knew at that time and that is what this book aims to do.

Die US-Geheimdienste im Zeitalter der Weltkriege

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernhard Sassmann
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
World War ◽  
World Power ◽  
Intelligence Services ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Broad Scale

With the US’ rise to world power, Americans started to discuss their national intelligence services on a broad scale. This book analyses how the US got from A (‘spying is un-American’) to B (‘spying is essential for survival’). Focusing on the era of the World Wars and the immediate aftermath of World War II, it also reveals the strategies with which intelligence veterans sought to persuade their fellow Americans of the necessity of peacetime intelligence. With respect to American public debate, the first half of the 20th century thus marks the beginning of a paradox that is emblematic of American intelligence culture until this day: America’s most secret organisations are, at the same time, among its most publicised.

scholarly journals World War II in Baltic and Nordic social media

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-138
Author(s):  
Kari Alenius
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
The Other ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
World War ◽  
Historical Source ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Strong Position ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Text Images

The paper focuses on the Wikipedia web pages of seven countries: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. The aim is to analyze what kinds of similarities and differences there are in the image of World War II, and why. This qualitative analysis uses key elements of historical source criticism; in addition, comparative method and quantitative analysis are used. In comparing the Wikipedia web pages of these seven countries, no single narrative of the war can be found. National emphases are clearly apparent and they distinguish all the examined web pages from each other. Through text, images and maps, the webpage of each country highlights aspects related to the situation of the country during the war, emphasizing their importance to the war as a whole. The text of each country also shows an understanding towards the choices made by the country and accordingly, the perspectives of those that were on the other side of the war are ignored. In this sense, these Wikipedia pages could be considered as constructs of a nationalistically tinged identity and positive self-image. On the other hand, it should be noted that in spite of clear national emphases, these linguistically different web pages also have a lot in common, and there are no extreme national interpretations or sharp judgements that take a strong position on a right-wrong axis.

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