"The authors present vivid examples of clinical work with severely traumatized patients, reaching inward to their own intimate family histories as shaped by the Second World War and outward toward an exceptionally broad range of cultural references to literature, philosophy, pol…
Many ancient and modern scholars are quick to praise the Etruscans for their art and make note of their religiosity. On the other hand, they are just as quick to view the Etruscans as military pushovers to those powers around them and generally devalue the significance that mili…
Throughout history, warfare is used as a means to accomplish the goals of a nation or faction. In an ideal situation, the cause for war is to defeat an evil force. Warfare is a means of exacting peace, and each side can have a different definition of peace and the means to obtai…
This dissertation explores the skeletal evidence for violent conflict and social change during the agricultural transition of prehistoric Japan. During the Yayoi period (about 900 BCE to 250 CE), migrants from the Asian mainland brought rice agriculture, metalworking, and new cu…
My dissertation focuses on weaponry in the Achaemenid Persian Empire (ca. 550-330 BC), with an emphasis on bows and spears. Scholars have long recognized the importance of archery in the ancient Near East generally, and the Achaemenid Empire more specifically, but no thorough st…
This project is a comprehensive military history of East Francia during the reign of King Louis the German (c. 825-876). It interrogates annals and chronicle sources, royal and ecclesiastical charters, Carolingian capitularies, and papal letters to study all aspects of Louis’s m…
Successful terrorist organizations use asymmetric warfare to achieve their goals, and the only way for conventional armies to defeat terrorist organizations is through the use of asymmetric warfare. Asymmetric warfare is not just finding unconventional methods to wage war, but a…
Sharon Alane Abramowitz examine how humanitarian healthcare dealt with mental health and psychiatry during Liberia's turbulent postwar transition, looking closely at the ways mental health and psychosocial interventions worked to manage trauma and produce postwar peace.
There is an ongoing debate concerning the nature of warfare and violence in the Iron Age of Britain. Interpretations regarding material remains from this period fluctuate between classifying instruments of violence (i.e. swords, spears, hillforts) as functional tools of war and …
Austerity in Britain provides an analysis of the entire period of rationing from 1939 to 1955. The author shows how unfairness, especially towards women, finally lost the Labour government the general election in 1951.
This thesis explores the projection of violent direct action in the case of Iraq and Afghanistan since 2007 through May 2011. Machine-coded events data from the free, publicly available, on-line Reuters archives was fitted to both regressor and time series models to test the hyp…
Losing By Winning: America's Challenge Waging Counterinsurgency Warfare is an analytical study of America's experience waging counterinsurgency warfare in the Philippine- American, Vietnam and Iraq Wars. In each war, counterinsurgency warfare was applied to achieve the strategic…
