Geopolitical Constructs: The Mulberry Harbours, World War Two, and the Making of a Militarized Transatlantic
Colin Flint
This innovative book tells a unique story about D-Day, one that does not concentrate on the soldiers who hit the beaches or the admirals and generals who commanded them. Instead, Colin Flint brings engineers, businessmen, and bureaucrats to center stage. Through them, he offers a different way of thinking about war, one that sees war as an ongoing set of processes in which seemingly isolated acts are part of broader historical developments. Developing the concept ofgeopolitical constructs to understand wars, the author connects specific events to long-term and global geopolitical arrangements.
Focusing on the construction of the Mulberry Harboursmassive artificial structures dragged across the English Channel in the immediate wake of the invading forceFlint illustrates how the process of making war links a vast array of people, institutions, and places, as well as past events and future outcomes. He argues that the people who designed and built the Harbours became geopolitical subjects by producing pieces of engineering that helped shape the course of World War II and the Cold War that followed, which created a militarized trans-Atlantic that remains today. Using previously unpublished archival material to give voice to those who made the Mulberry Harbours and wartime strategy, this original study broadens the historical and geographical scope of how we understand war, showing how the everyday actions of individuals made, and were made by, geopolitical settings.
Focusing on the construction of the Mulberry Harboursmassive artificial structures dragged across the English Channel in the immediate wake of the invading forceFlint illustrates how the process of making war links a vast array of people, institutions, and places, as well as past events and future outcomes. He argues that the people who designed and built the Harbours became geopolitical subjects by producing pieces of engineering that helped shape the course of World War II and the Cold War that followed, which created a militarized trans-Atlantic that remains today. Using previously unpublished archival material to give voice to those who made the Mulberry Harbours and wartime strategy, this original study broadens the historical and geographical scope of how we understand war, showing how the everyday actions of individuals made, and were made by, geopolitical settings.
Tahun:
2016
Penerbit:
Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
Bahasa:
english
Halaman:
213
ISBN 10:
1442266678
ISBN 13:
9781442266674
File:
EPUB, 11.46 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 2016
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