Water supply maps for northern France created by British military geologists during World War II: precursors of modern groundwater development potential maps

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War from the Top: German and British Military Decision Making During World War II.

The Journal of Military History ◽

10.2307/1985728 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 56 (1) ◽

pp. 139

Author(s):

Harold Deutsch ◽

Alan F. Wilt

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

World War Ii ◽

World War ◽

British Military ◽

Military Decision Making

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No Independence without Sovereignty! The Resistance of Emperor Ḫaylä Śǝllase I to the British Occupation of Ethiopia (1941–1944)

Aethiopica ◽

10.15460/aethiopica.13.1.38 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 13 ◽

pp. 46-74

Author(s):

Sterling Joseph Coleman, Jr.

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Cold War ◽

Developing World ◽

Military Occupation ◽

Colonial Rule ◽

World War ◽

Military Rule ◽

British Occupation ◽

Flexible Response ◽

British Military

This article examines how Emperor Ḫaylä Śǝllase I succeeded in removing the British military occupation of Ethiopia during World War II with only a minimum of bloodshed. It outlines the various strategies and tactics the Emperor of Ethiopia employed to regain control over his empire. The text also asserts that he engaged in a pre-Cold War variant of the policy of flexible response which permitted him to resist British military rule without provoking a violent response from his occupier. The text highlights a handful of the numerous tactics and strategies which were employed by indigenous leaders and their allies not only in Africa but also throughout the developing world to successfully resist European colonial rule during and after World War II.

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Turismo no Carste da Baixa Normandia (França) em função da História do Dia-D / Tourism in the Lower Normandy (France) karst due to the History of D-Day

Caderno de Geografia ◽

10.5752/p.2318-2962.2015v25n44p312 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 25 (44) ◽

pp. 312-342

Author(s):

Luiz Eduardo Panisset Travassos ◽

Pablo Cristiano Alves Coelho ◽

Bruno Durão Rodrigues ◽

Larissa Duarte Araújo Pereira

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Theoretical Basis ◽

Cultural Tourism ◽

Second World War ◽

World War ◽

Karst Landscape ◽

Northern France ◽

History Of ◽

Second World

O trabalho apresenta uma reflexão sobre a atual exploração turística do carste do norte da França, em locais remanescentes e pontos estratégicos utilizados no Teatro de Operações durante o desembarque Aliado nas praias da Baixa Normandia na Segunda Guerra Mundial. Por meio de fundamentação teórica e pesquisa de campo foi possível observar a paisagem cárstica e ponderar sobre o uso dos marcos históricos, cemitérios, museus e modificações na paisagem como suporte ao Turismo Histórico-Cultural. Observa-se que o cenário em questão visa promoção e valorização da história, bem como propõe o resgate da memória através do desenvolvimento turístico regional.Palavras-chave: Carste; Turismo; Baixa Normadia; Segunda Guerra Mundial; Dia D Abstract This work presents a discussion on the current tourist use of the karst from northern France in remaining places and strategic points used in the theater of operations during the Allied landings on the beaches of Lower Normandy in World War II. By means of theoretical basis and fieldwork it was possible to observe the karst landscape and consider its use as historic landmarks, cemeteries, museums and changes in the landscape as support for the historical and cultural tourism. One observes that the scenario is used as a way of enforcing and preserving history as well as proposes the rescue of memory through the development of regional tourism.Keywords: Karst; Tourism; Lower Normandy; Second World War; D-Day.

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Post-World War II Group Psychology and the Limits of Leadership: Bion, Lacan and the Leaderless Goup

Psychoanalysis and History ◽

10.3366/pah.2020.0352 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 22 (3) ◽

pp. 317-339

Author(s):

Max Maher

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

World War ◽

Social Functions ◽

Logical Time ◽

Political Implications ◽

British Military ◽

Starting Point ◽

Neoliberal Economics ◽

Contemporary Work ◽

Post War

This article attempts to reveal something different about the afterlife of a number of innovations made in British psychiatry during World War II – in particular around the notion of leadership – by reading them in a much broader context which includes Jacques Lacan's article ‘Logical Time and the Assertion of Anticipated Certainty’ (1945). Within such a broader trajectory, considerations of leaders and leaderlessness, which pressed towards democracy and egalitarianism, intersect (paradoxically) with other currents, equally radical, which envision a totalizing reduction of individuals to a technocratic mass. The article's starting point is Jacques Lacan's high praise of British military psychiatry – in particular of W.H. Bion, John Rickman and John Rawlings Rees, consulting psychiatrist to the army during the war. It then weighs Lacan's description of their achievements against a historical account of where such experiments led in the post-war context, and the social functions envisaged for them, that differed from those Lacan hoped they could perform. It concludes with a comparison of Lacan's article ‘Logical Time’, his first published after reading Bion and Rickman, to the contemporary work of Friedrich von Hayek, the early theorist of neoliberal economics, to illustrate the profound ambiguity which exists within the political implications of psychoanalytic theories of groups.

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