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Perplexities Between Enemy Aliens and Their Motherland: The UK Government's Measures for British Civilians Stranded in the Far East, 1941–2011 敌国侨民与祖国之间的困惑:英国政府对被困在远东的英国平民的措施,1941-2011
IF 0.3 4区 社会学 Q2 HISTORY Pub Date : 2023-08-09 DOI: 10.1177/09683445231193882
Chan Yang
This paper explores the British government’s measures for its civilian subjects stranded as ‘enemy aliens’ in Japanese-controlled areas in the Far East during World War II. The British government tried to protect the interests of these Far Eastern subjects during the war and in the immediate postwar period. Its manner of dealing with the latter’s redress movement from the late 1980s was initially reluctant but eventually became relatively adequate, thanks to the twin pressures of domestic public opinion and precedents set by other former Allied governments and the resolute struggles of the ex–Far Eastern subjects themselves.
本文探讨了第二次世界大战期间,英国政府对被困在日本控制的远东地区的“敌国侨民”平民所采取的措施。英国政府在战争期间和战后初期试图保护这些远东臣民的利益。由于国内舆论和其他前同盟国政府的先例的双重压力,以及前远东臣民自己的坚决斗争,它处理后者从20世纪80年代末开始的纠正运动的方式最初是不情愿的,但最终变得相对适当。
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The Neglected Campaign: The Italian Navy Contribution to the Siege of Leningrad 被忽视的战役:意大利海军对列宁格勒围城战的贡献
IF 0.3 4区 社会学 Q2 HISTORY Pub Date : 2023-07-04 DOI: 10.1177/09683445231181897
Massimiliano Fiore
German and Finnish forces encircled Leningrad in the fall of 1941, but were unable to complete the siege. A passage across Lake Ladoga, through which the Soviets sustained the defence of the city, remained open. To enforce the siege, the German Maritime Warfare Command ordered that light naval forces be transferred to Lake Ladoga. However, the Germans did not have those boats at their disposal and asked the Italians to provide them. Based on a critique of archival sources, this article analyses this largely neglected aspect of the Leningrad campaign and argues that, although the performance of the Regia Marina was excellent, its activity was not decisive in breaking Soviet resistance and forcing the fall of Leningrad. Even though circumstances prevented the Regia Marina from making the impact that its planners had wanted – a naval guerrilla force on Lake Ladoga could never have achieved a tight blockade of Leningrad – the campaign on Lake Ladoga offers an important and enlightening example of Axis wartime collaboration.
1941年秋天,德国和芬兰军队包围了列宁格勒,但未能完成围攻。一条穿越拉多加湖的通道仍然开放,苏联通过该通道维持了对该市的防御。为了实施围攻,德国海上作战司令部下令将轻型海军部队转移到拉多加湖。然而,德国人没有这些船只可供他们使用,并要求意大利人提供这些船只。基于对档案来源的批判,本文分析了列宁格勒战役中这一被忽视的方面,并认为,尽管里贾码头的表现非常出色,但其活动在打破苏联抵抗和迫使列宁格勒沦陷方面并不是决定性的。尽管当时的情况阻止了Regia Marina号产生其规划者想要的影响——拉多加湖上的海军游击队永远不可能实现对列宁格勒的严密封锁——但拉多加河战役为轴心国战时合作提供了一个重要而有启发性的例子。
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Book Review: War in the Far East: Japan Runs Wild, 1942–1943 by Peter Harmsen 书评:彼得·哈姆森的《远东战争:日本失控,1942-1943》
IF 0.3 4区 社会学 Q2 HISTORY Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1177/09683445231183773e
Sarah L. Miller
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Book Review: The War for the Seas: A Maritime History of World War II by Evan Mawdsley 书评:《海洋之战:第二次世界大战的航海史》,作者:埃文·莫兹利
IF 0.3 4区 社会学 Q2 HISTORY Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1177/09683445231183773c
Tim Benbow
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Book Review: The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam by Christopher Goscha 书评:Christopher Goscha的《通往奠边府之路:越南第一次战争史》
IF 0.3 4区 社会学 Q2 HISTORY Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1177/09683445231183773g
Nathaniel L. Moir
the insularity of Irish revisionist debates, citing Ian McBride’s recent criticism of some historians of Irish history for failing to place their work within wider theoretical or comparative frameworks (p.169). However, a weakness of Morrison’s book is that it too suffers from insularity. The extensive reflections in the last two chapters on the entrenched, sometimes personalised, disputes between historians of Ireland risk losing the interest of the military historian or general reader (especially those coming to the topic for the first time). A promising discussion of Alistair Thomson’s work on the ANZAC myth is not developed, neither is a brief reference to the killing of prisoners during the First World War (pp.170, 127). The reader does not learn how the killing at Kilmichael resembles or deviates from other guerrilla campaigns or close combat experiences. The scholarship of Erella Grassiani and Anthony King on combat motivation, cohesion and close combat would have been a good starting point. Retrospective accounts of false surrenders have also characterised controversial killings during the NATO-led campaign in Afghanistan (and many other conflicts). Nonetheless, Morrison has provided an outstanding excavation of one of the most contested days in Ireland’s war for independence.
爱尔兰修正主义辩论的狭隘性,引用伊恩·麦克布莱德(Ian McBride)最近对一些爱尔兰历史学家的批评,称他们未能将自己的工作置于更广泛的理论或比较框架中(第169页)。然而,莫里森的书也有一个缺点,那就是过于偏狭。最后两章对爱尔兰历史学家之间根深蒂固的、有时是个人化的争论的广泛反思,可能会让军事历史学家或普通读者(尤其是那些第一次接触这个话题的读者)失去兴趣。书中没有对阿利斯泰尔•汤姆森关于澳新军团神话的著作进行有希望的讨论,也没有简要提及第一次世界大战期间对囚犯的杀戮(第170页,127页)。读者不了解基尔迈克尔的杀戮与其他游击运动或近身战斗有何相似或不同。Erella Grassiani和Anthony King关于战斗动机、凝聚力和近距离战斗的研究是一个很好的起点。在北约领导的阿富汗战争(以及其他许多冲突)中,对虚假投降的回顾性报道也成为了有争议的杀戮的特征。尽管如此,莫里森对爱尔兰独立战争中最具争议的日子之一进行了出色的挖掘。
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Book Review: Internment in Switzerland during the First World War by Susan Barton 书评:第一次世界大战期间在瑞士的实习
IF 0.3 4区 社会学 Q2 HISTORY Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1177/09683445231183773b
A. Malpass
requirements of different services and domains (e.g. carrier versus land-based aircraft). Thirdly, the book challenges popular understandings of the nature of conservativism in naval organizations. Resistance to innovation stems less from vested interests in the status quo and more from lacking systems to decipher strategic uncertainty and make difficult choices among a confusing and wide range of alternatives. This is understandable. There can be an inherent contradiction between what a navy needs right now and the technologies it needs later but that have long gestation periods. Moreover, technologies such as searchlights, shipborne rockets, and rams were dead ends. In addition, countermeasures can be relatively cheap and easily deployable against a now-promising technology. The simple fact that each of the book’s case studies span more than a century of testing and development reinforces these intuitions. Since technological trajectories are so difficult to anticipate, prudent stewardship of national treasure and power demand prolonged testing and listening to feedback from users, especially as technical complexity intensifies. Innovating Victory will appeal to several audiences. Historians of technology will appreciate the way each naval technology developed in relatively unpredictable ways under varying pressures ranging from strategic context to organizational culture. O’Hara and Heinz also consistently emphasize the importance of users and user innovation in determining technological trajectories—another significant theme in technology and culture studies. For political scientists, the case studies blend a mix of top-down and bottom-up innovation processes, a dominant approach in military innovation studies. Finally, for policymakers, the book can increase awareness that emerging technologies today will likely take decades to mature, and inevitably be used in unexpected ways to address unanticipated needs.
不同服务和领域的需求(例如,舰载机与陆基飞机)。第三,这本书挑战了人们对海军组织中保守主义本质的普遍理解。对创新的抵制与其说源于现状中的既得利益,不如说源于缺乏解读战略不确定性的系统,以及在令人困惑和广泛的替代方案中做出艰难选择。这是可以理解的。海军现在需要的技术和以后需要的技术之间可能存在固有的矛盾,但这些技术需要很长的酝酿期。此外,探照灯、舰载火箭和撞锤等技术都是死路一条。此外,对抗目前有前景的技术,对抗措施可以相对便宜且易于部署。这本书的每一个案例研究都跨越了一个多世纪的测试和开发,这一简单事实强化了这些直觉。由于技术轨迹很难预测,谨慎管理国宝和电力需求延长了测试时间,并听取了用户的反馈,尤其是在技术复杂性加剧的情况下。《创新胜利》将吸引一些观众。技术历史学家会欣赏每种海军技术在从战略背景到组织文化的各种压力下以相对不可预测的方式发展的方式。奥哈拉和海因茨还一贯强调用户和用户创新在确定技术轨迹方面的重要性,这是技术和文化研究的另一个重要主题。对于政治科学家来说,案例研究融合了自上而下和自下而上的创新过程,这是军事创新研究的主要方法。最后,对于政策制定者来说,这本书可以提高人们的意识,即当今的新兴技术可能需要几十年才能成熟,并不可避免地以意想不到的方式用于解决意想不到的需求。
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Book Review: Kilmichael: The Life and Afterlife of An Ambush by Eve Morrison 书评:伊芙·莫里森的《基尔迈克尔:伏击的一生与余生》
IF 0.3 4区 社会学 Q2 HISTORY Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1177/09683445231183773f
Edward Burke
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Book Review: Innovating Victory: Naval Technology in Three Wars by Vincent P. O’Hara and Leonard R. Heinz 书评:Vincent P.O'Hara和Leonard R.Heinz的《创新胜利:三次战争中的海军技术》
IF 0.3 4区 社会学 Q2 HISTORY Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1177/09683445231183773a
Kendrick Kuo
written an important book which not only pays more attention than is usual to some of Spain’s fighting units (including the Army of Flanders after 1659), but also – more important – makes clear that Spain remained a key player in the international struggle, as actor rather than passive victim, operating on more fronts than most other contenders in the wars of the period. There is no excuse now for writing off – ignoring – Spain as a military power in the last decades of the seventeenth century; we may also have to reassess the military achievement of Carlos II’s Bourbon successor, Philip V, in the first half of the following century.
写了一本重要的书,这本书不仅比平时更关注西班牙的一些战斗部队(包括1659年后的佛兰德斯军队),而且更重要的是,它清楚地表明,西班牙在国际斗争中仍然是一个关键角色,作为行动者而非被动的受害者,在这一时期的战争中,西班牙比大多数其他竞争者在更多的战线上作战。现在没有任何借口可以抹杀——忽视——西班牙在17世纪最后几十年的军事大国地位;我们可能还必须重新评估卡洛斯二世的波旁继任者菲利普五世在下个世纪上半叶的军事成就。
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Book Review: Faustian Bargain: The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War by Ian Ona Johnson 书评:《浮士德交易:苏德伙伴关系和第二次世界大战的起源》,作者:伊恩·奥纳·约翰逊
IF 0.3 4区 社会学 Q2 HISTORY Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1177/09683445231183773d
R. Overy
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Book Review: Los Ultimos Tercios. El Ejercito de Carlos II by Davide Maffi 书评:最后三分之一。大卫·马菲的《查理二世的军队》
IF 0.3 4区 社会学 Q2 HISTORY Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1177/09683445231183773
Christopher Storrs
The supposedly decrepit condition of Spain under the last Habsburg, Carlos II (1665-1700) is among the most entrenched of historical commonplaces: apparently unable to defend itself, Spain only survived because others intervened to save it from Louis XIV until its defensive capability was transformed by the new Bourbon dynasty in the eighteenth century. Evidence for this view is found, inter alia in the performance of Spain’s armies. In the sixteenth century Spanish hegemony had rested on its distinctive tercios, but all had come to grief at Rocroi in 1643 in the reign of Carlos II’s father, Philip IV. Worse was to follow under Carlos, with defeats in Flanders, in Italy, and in Spain itself, where in 1697 Louis XIV’s forces captured Barcelona. In recent decades, however, revisionist historians – including Luis Ribot, Antonio Rodriguez Hernandez and Davide Maffi – have exploited the extensive source materials in the Guerra Antigua series at Simancas to question the received opinion on Spain’s military performance in the last third of the seventeenth century. In the book under review Maffi uses this work to provide a synthesis which challenges virtually every aspect of a ‘black legend’ about Spain’s armies in this period. Chapter 1 provides a narrative of the performance of Spain’s armies from the War of Devolution (1667–1668) to the Nine Years War (1688– 1697). This broadly chronological and often detailed survey underpins the more analytical chapters which follow and allows Maffi to advance some preliminary revisionist claims regarding the participation in those conflicts of the Spanish armies – and of the Dutch, English, French and Imperial armies. While Spanish intervention was crucial on occasion, the broader implication is clear: the importance of the Spanish contribution to the overall success of the allies on many fronts in confronting and restraining Louis XIV before 1700. Chapter 2 begins with an invaluable discussion of the character of European warfare in the period – one which all interested in that broad topic will find useful – in part in order to refute those who see Spanish avoidance of battle as indicative of some fundamental lack of martial spirit. Not so, says Maffi, it was driven by a prudent wish to conserve resources which informed the mindset as well of Austrian, Dutch, English and French commanders. Sieges and ‘little war’ were what war was about. Book Reviews
在最后一位哈布斯堡王朝卡洛斯二世(Carlos II, 1665-1700)统治下,西班牙被认为是老朽的状态,这是历史上最根深蒂固的常见现象之一:西班牙显然无法自卫,只有在别人的干预下才得以幸存,直到18世纪新的波旁王朝改变了它的防御能力。这种观点的证据可以从西班牙军队的表现中找到。在16世纪,西班牙的霸权建立在其独特的三角王朝上,但在1643年卡洛斯二世的父亲菲利普四世统治下,所有的三角王朝都在罗克罗瓦(Rocroi)惨败。更糟糕的是,在卡洛斯统治下,法兰德斯(Flanders)、意大利和西班牙本土都遭遇了失败,1697年路易十四的军队占领了巴塞罗那。然而,近几十年来,修正主义历史学家——包括路易斯·里博特、安东尼奥·罗德里格斯·埃尔南德斯和达维德·马非——利用了西曼卡斯的古拉·安提瓜系列中大量的原始材料,对人们对西班牙在17世纪后三分之一时期军事表现的普遍看法提出了质疑。在这本书中,马菲用这项工作提供了一个综合,几乎挑战了这个时期关于西班牙军队的“黑色传说”的每一个方面。第一章叙述了西班牙军队从权力下放战争(1667-1668)到九年战争(1688 - 1697)的表现。这种大致按时间顺序排列的、经常是详细的调查支持了后面的更具分析性的章节,并允许马菲提出一些关于西班牙军队以及荷兰、英国、法国和帝国军队参与这些冲突的初步修正主义主张。虽然西班牙的干预有时是至关重要的,但更广泛的含义是明确的:在1700年之前,西班牙对盟友在许多战线上对抗和遏制路易十四的整体成功做出了重要贡献。第二章一开始就对这一时期欧洲战争的特点进行了宝贵的讨论所有对这一广泛话题感兴趣的人都会发现这是有用的部分原因是为了反驳那些认为西班牙人逃避战争表明他们根本缺乏战争精神的人。并非如此,马菲说,这是出于节约资源的谨慎愿望,这也影响了奥地利、荷兰、英国和法国指挥官的心态。围攻和“小战争”就是战争的意义所在。书评
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