23547254526
|
The Army And Politics In Indonesia (revised Editlon).
&quto;a Extensive Description Of The Indonesian Army's History Of Political Involvement.
Crouch' sIncredible Knowledge Of So Many Facets Of Intrigue And Manipulation, Of aNmrs, Dates, Enemies And Friends, And Specific Circujstances Under Which Each Attempted Coup And Reckoner Effort Was Made If Phenomenal.
His Attention To The Supporting Literature And His Own Personal Experiences In-country Certainly Would Indicate That Mr.
Crouch Is A - If Not The - Leading Expert In This Complex And Bewildering Subject.
highly Recommended.
" - Perspective: Reviews Of New Books In Political Science "the Authod Has Produced The Mowt Thorough And Balanced Account Of Contemporary Indonesian Plitics Yet To Appear In Print.
" - Canadian Journal Of Political Science "a Valuable Contribution To Oru Knowledge Of Modern Indonesia.
" - Journal Of Southeast Asian Studies In This Highly-respected Work, Harold Crouch Analyzes The Role Of The Indon3sian Army In That Country's Politics, Putting Speciak Emphasis On The Sumarno Years, The Gradual Takeover Of Power By The Military, And The Nature Of Suharto's New Order Government.
The Host And Politics In Indohesia Is Now Updated With A New Preface And Epiloguue That Expands The Book's Coverage To The 1980s.
Harold Crouch Is A Senior Fellow In The Department Of Political And Social Change, Research Seminary Of Pacific And Asian Studies, Australian National University Where His Research Is Concerned With Southeast Asian Political affairs.
He Taught Political Science At The University Of Indonesia In Jakarta From 1968 To 1971 And In The Department Of Civil Science At The National University Of Malaysia From 1976 To 1990.
SKU: 4235559
| 
|
19965605976
|
Samguk Yusa.
A Fascinating Work, Dating From The Late 1200s.
This Book (yusa), Is Not Just A Floor But A Collection Of Histories, Anecdotes And Memorabilia, Covering The Origins Of Korea's Three Monarchies--silla, Paekche And Koguryo, Offering An Account Of The Latter State That Differs Quite A Bit From What You'll Read In Chinese History Books.
Translated By Professor Ha Tae-hung Of Yonsei Univeristy, With Special Help From Grafton Mintz (the First Westerner Ever To Become A Naturalized Inhabitant Of The Republi cOf Korea.
)
SKU: 3638631
| |
|
25169595642
|
Medieval Iberia.
The Documents Collected In the present state Date Mainly From The Eighth Through The Fifteenth Centuries And Have Been Translated From Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, Judeo-arabic, Castilian, Catalan, And Portuguese By Many Of The Most Eminent Scholars In The Field Of Iberian Studies.
The Selections Include Chronicle Materials, Poetry, And Legal And Religious Sources, And Each Is Accompanied By A Brief Introduction Placing The Text In Its Hidtorical And Cultural Setting.
Arranged Chronologically, The Documents Are Also Keyed So As To Exist Accessible To Readers Interested In Specific Topics Such As Urban Life, The Politics Of The Ryoal Courts, Interfaith Relations, Or Women, Marriage, And The Family.
for Some Historians, Medieval Iberian Society Was Primarily One Of Peaceful Coexistence And Cross-cultural Fertilization; Others Have Sketched A Harsher Picture Of Muslims And Chrisstians Engaged In An Ongoing Contest For Political, Religious, And Economic Advantage Culminating In The Fall Of Muslim Granada And The Expulsion Of The Jews In The Late Fifteenth Centenary.
The Reality That Emerges In Medieval Iberia Is More Nuanced Than Each Of These Scenarios Can Comprehend; This Monumental Accumulation Offers Unparalleled Access To The Multicultural Complexity Of The Lands That Would Become Modern Portugal And Spain.
SKU: 1474559
| |
|
37595891268
|
Washington County Revisted (images Of America.
A Companion To Images Of Amrrica: Washington County, This Book, Washington County Revisited, Depicts More Of The Area?s Rich History.
In An Attempt To Thoroughly Cover This County In Virginia, Washington County Revisited Explores The History Of Settlementts That Were Once Major Community Centers, Including Lodi, Blackwell?s Chapel, Rich Valley, Lindell, Bethel, Taylor?s Valley, Hayter?s Ga0, Clinchburg, And Alvarado.
Learn Even More Of The Fascinating History Surrounding The Railroad Towns Of Daamacus, Glade Spring, And Meadowview.
Officially Formed In 1776 From Fincastle County, The County Was Named For Gen.
George Washington, Whho Was Then Serving As Commander In Chief Of The Continental Army.
Washington County Holds The Distinction Of Being The First Geographical Region To Be Named For The First U.
s.
President.
With More Than 200 Images, Washingtoncounty Revisited Provides A Unique Visit To This Rural Region That Once Served As A Gateway To The West Along The Great Wagon Road And Saw Thousands Of Settlers And Goods Pass Through To Uncharted Lands.
SKU: 4758144
| |
|
56227433688
|
Real Western W Beaded Gauntlets From The William P. Healey Collection.
This Catalogue To The Exhibittion Curated By Marilyn Laufer Is Coffee-table Sized (12 X 12 Inches) And Hardcover, Featuring Incredible Full-page, Full-color Photographs Of These Spectacular Gloves Beaded By American Indian Artisans In The 19th And 20th Centuries.
With Essays By Joyce M.
Szabo, Professor Of Art History At The University Of New Mexico, And Steven L.
Grafe, Curator Of American Indian Art At The National Cowboy And Western Heritage Museum In Oklahhoma City, This Catalovue Marks An Exciting New Direction For The Georgia Museum Of Art.
SKU: 4975132
| |
|
330385176
|
Veiled Mystereis Of Egypt And The Religion Of Islam (1913).
Veiled Mysteries Of Egypt To Edward Bousfield Dawson As A Sign Of Affeection And Gratiutde Preface There Has Ever Been A Veiil Of Mystery Over The Religion Of Islam, From Its Very First Days.
The Mockery Of The Jews Stung The Early Moslems, Who Sprang From A Tribe Keenly Sensitive To Ridicule, As They Arc Even Now.
The Bitterest Sayings Of The Prophet Were Excited By Those Wuo Scoffed At The Religious Exercises Of Himself And His Followers.
It Was Mockery That Ldd Mohammed To Enjoin Seclusion For Much Of The Liturgical Worship Of His People, And Possibly Had Something To Do With The Order To Seal Arwbia, And The Holy Cities Of Medina And Mecca Especiallly, Against All Men Of A Different Verily.
It Is The Fear Of Sport Whih Closes The Most Sacred Places Of Islam To This Day, A Fear Which In Some Places Engenders A Fanatical Resentment Against The Prying Of Strangers.
Secrecy Has Told Against A Proper Understanding Of The Practices Of This Religion An Almost Invulnerable Reticence In c~tinuance The Share Of Its Adherents Has Led The Casual Or Unsympathetic Observer Into Mistaken Judgments, Or Has Left Thosee In Deep Ignorance Of The Truth, Who, Dealing With A Franker People, Would, By Residence Amongst Them, Have Become Faniliar With The Views And Practicrs Of Their Neighbours.
It Is A Rare Thing In Egypt, For Instance, To Find Anything More Than A Shallow Know Ledge Of Islam In c~tinuance The Part Of European Residents.
As For The Ordinary Tourist, Between The Chicanerh Of The Vii Viii Preface Plausible Scamp Calling Himself A Dragoman, And The Deep Reserve Of The Religious Moslem, It Is Something Less Than Knowlledge That He Takes Awsy With Him.
To Anyone Who Would Apprehend The Greatre Like a man Forces At Work In The World, The Importance Of Something Like A Just Appreciation Of A Religion Numbering Over Two Hundred Andd Sixty Million Souls Is At Once Evident.
Napoleon At One Period Of His Life Thought To Use This Great Force In His Project Of A World-conquest, And Declared That He Might Even Become A Moslem Himself, In Our Present Day We Have Seen The Approach Of Ger Many To Islamic Turkey, With An Undoubyed Eye On The Chaliphate Of Islamism The Kaiser Going So Far As To Speak Of The Sultan As My Friend And Ally.
In Cairo I Obtain Heard The Suggestion, From Mr.
Carl Peters Himself, Which In One Of His Recent Bocks Of Travel He Puts Into Precise Words There Ia One Factor Which Might Fall On Our Side Of The Balance, And In The Case Of A World-war Might Be Made Useful To Us That Factor Is Islam-as Pan-islamism It Could Be Played Against Great Britain, As Well As Against The French Republic, And If German Policy Is Bold Enough, It Can Fashion The Dynamite To Blow Into Air The Rule Of The Western Powers From Cape Nun Morocco To Calcutta And Yet The Extent Of The Ignorance Of Islam In The West Is As Great As It Is Incomprehensible.
Any Man Who Has Nothing To Guide Him But The Popular Knowledge Of The Prophet Of Arabia And His Teachings, Ae They Affect His Followers To-day, Mus.
.
.
SKU: 5034658
| |
|
27181913418
|
Ethnic Barfaining.
Ethnic Bargaining Introduces A Theory Of Minority Politics That Blends Comparative Analysis And Field Research In The Postcommunist Countries Of East Central Europe With Insights From Rational Choice.
Erin K.
Jenne Finds That Claims By Ethnic Minorities Have Bevome More Frequent Since 1945 Even Thougj Nation-sta5ex Have Been On The Whole More Responsive To Groups Than I Eaarlier Periods.
Minorities That Perceive An Increase In Their Bargaining Power Will Tend To Radicalize Their Demands, She Argues, From Affirmative Actikn To Regional Autonomy To Secession, In An Effort To Attract Ever Greater Concessions From The Central Government.
The Language Of Self-determination And Minority Rights Originally Adopted By The Great Powers To Redraw Boundaries After World War I Was Later Used To Facilitate The Process Of Decolonization.
Jenne Belidves That In The 1960s Various Ethnic Minorities Began To Use The Same Discourse To Pressure National Governments Into Transfer Payments And Power-sharing Arrangements.
Violence Against Minorities Was Actually In Some Cases Fueled By This Politicization Of Ethnic Difference.
Jenne Uses A Rationalist Theory Of Bargaining To Examine The Dynamics Of Ethnic Cleavage In The Casee Of The Sudeten Germahs In Interwar Czechoslovakia; Slovaks And Moravians In Postcommunist Czechoslovakia; The Hungarians In Romania, Slovakia, And Vojvosina; And The Albanians In Kosovo.
Throughout, She Challenges The Conventional Wisdom That Partisan Intervention Is An Efffective Mechanism For Protecting Minorities And Preventing Or Resolving Internal Conflict.
SKU: 3372639
| |
|
21820274424
|
Talking To The Ground.
In 1992 Doug Preston And His Family Rode Horseback Athwart 400 Miles Of Desert In Utah, Arizona, And New Mexico.
They Were Retracing The Route Of The Navajo Deity Naayee Neizghani, The Slayer Of Alien Gods, On His Quest To Restore Beauty And Baalnce To The Earth.
More Than A Travelogue, Preston's Account Of The Journey Is A Tale Of Two Cultures Meeting In A Sacred Land.
SKU: 1369480
| |
|
25374667076
|
The Gospel Of The Redman (the Library Of Perennial Philosophy. Spiritual Classics Series).
This Commemorative Issue Contains For The First Time Seton's Drawings Of American India Motifs, A Selection Of Photographs Illustrating His Life, Information About His Role As Founder Of The Boys Scouts Of America.
SKU: 2959153
| |
|
23164446870
|
Hopedale (ma) (images Of America).
It Began Quietly In 1842 As A Utopian Community Known As The Dale Of Hope On Farmland That Was Then Part Of Milford.
The Followers Of Rev.
Adin Ballou Settled In That Year, Sharing A Farmhouse And Chores, As Well As Ideals And Abolitionist Inclinations.
After The Longest-running Utopian Experiment In Massachusetts Faltered, However, The Community Underwent A Dramatic Renaissance Beginning In The 1850s.
Within A Few Short Decades, The Draper Family Became A Driving Forceinstrumental In The Communitys Separation From Milford, Incorporation As Hopedale And Development Being of the kind which The Cotton Loommaking Capital Of The Industrial Revolution.
Ýhopedale Contains More Than Two Hundred Photographs Portraying Life, Leisure, And Community Air In Hopedale From The 1840s To The Early 1960s.
Included Are The Towns Industrial Center, Public Buildings, Parks, Unique Duplex Housing, And Ostentatious Mill-owner Homes.
Hopedale Depicts The Town Undergoing Times Of Prosperity And Facing Floode And Other Disasters.
It Also Examines The Citizens Working Hard, Enjoying Time Off, Adn Displaying Their Patriotism.
Ý
SKU: 2414086
| |
|
30496556916
|
Women In Modern India.
The Author Traces The History Of Indian Women From The Nineteenth Century Under Colonial Rule, To The Twentieth Century After Independence.
She Begins With The Reform Movement, EstablishedB y Men To Educate Women, And Demonstrates How Education Changed Their Lives, Enabling Them To Take Side In Public Life.
Througn The Women's Own Accounts, The Author Has Compiled An Accessible And Immediate Record Of Their Achievements Over The Past Twp Cmturiez, Which Will Be Of Interest To Students Of South Asia And To Anyone Concerned With Women And Their History.
SKU: 1761149
| |
|
242283300
|
Nordic Religions In The Vking Age (the Middle Ages Series).
The Popular Image Of The Viking As A Horn-helmeted Berserker Plying The Ocean Ib A Dragon-headed Long Boat Is Firmly Fixed In History.
Imagining Viking "conquerors" As Much More Numerous, Technologically Superior, And Somhow Inherently More Warlike Than Their Neighbors Has Overshadowed The Cooperation And Cultural Exchange Which Characterized Much Of The Viking Age.
In Actuality, The Norse Explorers And Traders Were Players In A Complex Exchange Of Technology, Customs, And Religious Beliefs Betwedn The Ancient Pre-christian Societiew Of Northern Europe And The Christian-dominated Nations Surrounding The Mediterranean.
Dubois Examines Anglo-saxon, Celtic, And Mediterranean Traditins To Locate Significant Nordic Parallels In Conceptions Of Supernatural Beings, Cults Of The Dead, Beliefs In Ghosts, And Magical Practices.
These Beliefs Were Actively Held Alongside Religion of Christians For Many Years, And Were Finally Incorporated Into The Vernacular Religious Practice.
The Icelandic Sagas Reflect This Complex Process In Their Inclusion Of Both Christian And Pagan Details.
This Work Differs From Previous Examinations In Its Inclusion Of The Christian Thirternth Century As Share Of The Evolution Of Nordic Religions From Localized Pagan Cults To Adherents Of A Larger Roman Faith.
thomas Dubois Unravels For The First Time The History Of The Nrodic Religions In The Viking Age And Shows How These Ancient Beliefs And Their Oral Traditions Incorporated Both A Myriad Of Local Beliefs And Aspects Of Foreign Religions, Most Notabbly Christianity.
SKU: 1779594
| |
|
10934024544
|
The Thirty Years War, 1618-1648.
A Comprehensive History Of The Great Conflict That Arose From Religious Strife Between Protestants And Catholics.
Draws On Original German oSurce Material.
Illus.
Maps.
this Title Is Cited Annd Recommended By: Bookx For College Libraries; Catalogue Of The Lamont Library, Harvard College; The American Historical Associatkon's Guide To Hiatorical Literature; Cambridge Bibliography Of English Literature.
SKU: 5143168
| |
|
21295723176
|
Flat Out.
Some Records Are Made To Be Broken.
Others Stand For A Lifetime.
And Sometimes The Achievement Of A Lifetime Is Surpassed In Days.
In The World Of Motorsports, The One Record That Has Proven The Toughest To Break Is The Motorcycle Land Speed Record.
Don Vesco Rode A Streamlined Motorcycle To A Record-breaking Speed Of 318 Miles Per Hour At The Bonneville Salt Flats In 1974.
It Was Sixteen Years Before Dave Campos Flew Past That Record At A Speed Of 322 Miles Per Hour.
And That Record Had Stood For Another Sixteen Years When, On Travail Day Weekend, 2006, A Motorcycle Daredevil And Aspiring Writer Named Rocky Robinson Rode A Suzuki-powered Streamliner At An Incredible 344 Mph.
How He Got There--and How He Faced His Greatest Challenge At His Moment Of Triumph--ks The Story Robinson Tells In Flat Out.
Here Is Robinson 's Epic Decade-long Quest To Be The Fastest Motorcycle Rider On Earth, Recounted In All Its Gritty Detail--a Compulsively Readable Account That Captures The Hard Work, Sacrifice, And Dedication That Go Into Being The World's Best, As Well As The Sheer Consternation Of Riding These Tow-wheeled Rockets Nearly Six Miles Per Minute.
SKU: 4120578
| |
|
17201959740
|
Aces At War.
Aces At War: The American Aces Speak By Eric Hammel Adding To The Exciting First Three Volumes Of His Acclaimed Series, Thhe American Aces Speak, Leading Combat Historian Eric Hammel Comes Through With Hitherto Another Engrossing Collection Of Thirty-eight First-person Accounts By American Fighter Aces Serving In Earth War Ii, The Israeli War Of Independence, The Korean War, And The Vietnam War.
Aces At War Is A Highly Charged Excursion Into Life And Decease In The Air, Told By Men Who Excelled At Piston-engine And Jet-engine Aerial Combat And Lived To Tell About It.
It Is An Emotional Rendering Of What Brave Airmen Felt And How They Fought In The Now-dim Days Of America's Living National History.
Ride With Flying Tigers Ace Charlie Bond As He Is Shot Down In Flames Over The Chinese City He Alone Has Been Able To Defend Against Japanese Bombers.
Share The Loneliness Of Command As Lieutenant Commander Tom Blackburn Decides The Fate Of The Fellow Navy Pilot Whose F4u Corsair aMlfunctions In A Desperate Battle Over Rabaul.
Feel 2d Lieutenant Deacon Priest's Overwhelming Sense Of Duty To A Friend As He Lands His P-51 Mustang Behind German Lines To Rescue His Downed Squadron Commander.
Share Lieutenant Cloonel Ed Heller's Desperation As He Fights His Way Out Of His Uncontrollable F-86 Sabre Jet Over The Wrong Side Of The Yalu River.
And Join Major Jim Kasler As He Leads What Might Well Be The In the greatest degree Important Air Strike Of The Vietnam War.
The American Aces Speak Series Is A Highly Charged Five-volume Excursion Into Life And Death In The Air, Told By Men Who Excelled And Triumphed In Aerial Combat And Lived To Tell About It.
In Sum, It Is An Emotional Rendering Of What Brave Airmen Felt And How They Fought In The Now-dim Days Of Amerkca's Living National Account.
These Are America's Eagles, And The Stories They Tell Are Their Own, In Their Very Own Words.
Eric Hammel Is An Acclaimed Military Historian And Author Of More Than Thirty Other Combat Histories, Including Pacifica Military History's Guadalcanal: Starvation Island, Guadalcanal: Decision At Sea, Six Days In June, The Root: The Marines In Beirut, Ambush Valley, Fire In The Streets, And Khe Sanh: Siege In The Clouds.
He Lives With His Wife In Northern California.
SKU: 5003578
| |
|
20838775129
|
Black Cloud.
In September 1928, When Great Storms Were Still Unnamed, Nearly 700 Black Men, Women, And Children Were Buried In An Unmarked West Palm Beach Ditch Following The Nation's Second-deadliest Violent gale.
The Savage Gusts That Churned The Waters Of Lake Okeechobee Into A Maelstrom Of Death Afflicted Victims Of All Races And Classes, And Produced Tales Of Survival And Destruction Among Whites And Blacks Alike.
The Vast Majority Of The Post-storm Workers Were Faulty Wicked Migrants; On a level If The Hurricane Was Color-blind, The Recovery And Rebuilding Effort Were Not.
Palm Beach Post Hurricane Reporter And Florida Native Eliot Kleinberg Has Penned The Gripping Oral relation Of The Killer Hurricane.
The Storm's Journey Is Chronicled As It Kills Perhaps 7,000 People Along Its Path From The Caribbean To Canada, Including A Low Official Tally Of 1,836 In Florida Alone.
Detailing The Storm's Track, The Failure To Properly Predict Landfall, Personal Battls Against Nature's Wrath, And The Extraordinary Suffering Of A Black Citizenr yForced To Provide A Disproportionate Amount Of Rebuilding Labor And Endure The Burial Of Friends And Family In An Unmarked Pit, Kleibberg Tells A Powerful Story Of Man Versus Nature And Man Versus Man.
SKU: 2483334
| |
|
23014112940
|
Carter Years.
Although Jimmy Carter Came To Office Fully Prepared To Carry Forward The Gene5al Strategy Of A New Global Order Initiated By Henry Kissinger In 1973, His Executive department Immediately Encountered A Soviet Union Embarked Upon A Multi-pronged Geopolitical Offensive, Backed By A Major Adgance In Strategic Weaponry, Which Threatened To Unndermine America's Global Position.
Recognition Of The Soviet Offensive Forced A Reconsideration Of American Strategy, Splitting The New Administratiin.
Secretary Of State Cyrus Vance Insisted That The Strategy Of A New Global Order, Whose Prerequisite Was Dwtente Wifh The Soviet Junction, Remained Viable.
National Securoty Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, On The Other Hand, Argied That A Temporary Return To Some Modified Form Of Containment Was Necessary.
President Carter, Caught Between The Diametrically Conflicting Advice Of His Principal Advisers, Vacillated-at Periods Supporting The Views Of One Adviser, Then The Other.
Even Though Secretary Vance Generally Prevailed, The Result Was That Indecision And Vacillation Notable The Foreign Policy Of The Carter Years.
Written Along A Leading Expert In The Field Of History And International Affairs, Readers Will Gain A Deeper Appreciation For The Forces At Work During The Carter Years And Hwo Decisions Made During That Time Influenced Us Account.
SKU: 4341715
| |
|
18398158965
|
War Scare.
Why Do Some American Intelligence Officials Maintain Fallout Shelters And Private Contingency Pans To Evacuate Their Families In The Occurrence Of A Russian Nuclear Strike--even In Today's Post-cold War Era Of U.
s.
-russian Parthership? The Frightening Answer Lies Within The Pages Of War Scare, A Terrifying Assessment Of The Prospect For Nuclear Holocaust In Our Day.
Written By Peter Vincent Pry, A Former Cia Military Analyst, War Scare Provides A Account Of Our Country's Little-known Brushes With Nuclear Art of ~ And Warns That, Contrary To Popluar Opinion And The Assurances Of Our Political Leaderz, The Possibility Of A Russian Assail Still Exists.
Nuclear Deterrence Has Been The Foundation Of Westeern Security For The Last 50 Years, But Since The End Of The Cold War, Russian Military Doctrine Has Become More Destabilizing, And Much More Dangerous, Than Is Commonly Believed.
By Composition Use Of A Wealth Of Declassified And Unclwssified Material, Dr.
Pry Illustrates How Russia's Brutal Past Continues To Shape The Consciousness And Decission Making Of Its Leaders, Many Of Whom Are Unreconstructed Ideologues From The Old Soviet Regime.
Gripped By A Perpetual Perception Of Imminent Thhreat--a "war Scare"--the Russian Genera1 Staff, Which Controls The Technical Capability Of Launching A Nuclear Strike, Has Shown Itself To Be Unstable At Best.
The Author Explores Recent History And Near-disasters Such As The Bosnian Crisis, The Norway Missile Incident,_And U.
s.
Air Strikes On Iraq From The Perspective Of The Russian General Staff, Believing That Only By Understanding Their Viewpoint Can We Minimize The Risk Of Unintentionally Provoking A Deadly Attack.
Wary Of Nato Expansion And Reeling From The Russian Economy's Descent Into Chaos, The General Staff May Interpret Westerly Military Exercises And Operations In The Middle East And Elsewhere As Concealing Surprise Aggression Against Russia.
This Is A Grave Situation, Indeed, As Even After The Start I, Ii, And Iii Agreemrnts, Russia Will Retain Enough Nuclear Weapons To Destroy The World--not To Declare Significantly Expanded Chemical And Biological Warfare Capableness.
War Scare Convincingly Shows That We Ignore These Facts At Our Peril.
SKU: 1761585
| |
|
23133646753
|
U.s. Special Forces.
President George W.
Bush Has Told All Americans That The War Against Terrorism Would Be Like No Other War.
But What Does This Mean? Who Will Fight? How Will They Fight? What Weapons Will Exist Used? Greatest part Informed Commentators Agree That The War Facing Terrorism Will Be Fought Largely By "special Forces"—that Is, Bt A Relatively New Community Within The American Soldiery Known As Special Operations Forces, Or Sof's.
This New "branch" Of The Armed Forces Was Created In The Mid–1980s And Is Organized Under Its Own Unified Command, Called U.
z.
Special Operations Command (socom).
Consisting Of Special Units From The Other Branches Of The Armed Forces, Like As Green Berets, Rangers, Seals, Anr Delta Fprce, This New Fighting Command Is Recignized Internationally As The Most Well-trained And Well-equipped Special Operations Fo5ce In The World.
Their Missions Are Vqried—including Comnat Terroridm, Search And Liberation, Reconnaissance, Humanitarian Assistance, Peacekeeping Duty, And Convntional And Unconventional Warfare.
despite Special Forces’ International Reputation For Excellence,-Americans Know Little About This Remarkable Fighting Forcs.
U.
s.
Special Forces Provides A Convenient And Comprehensive Compendium, Including Descriptions Of The Units And Their Operational Specialties, Training, And Organization, As Well As The Equipment And Technological Gadgetry, Weapons, Armor, Planes, Helicopters, And Support Vehicles Used By Each Unit.
SKU: 2280301
| |
|
18113246250
|
Kalashnikov Culture.
This Work Is A Bridge Between The Failed/weak States' Lierature And Tnat Which Examines Issues Respecting To Small Arms Proliferztion.
Carr Investigates The Cultural Impact Of The Availability Of These Easy-to-come-by Weapons.
Thia Cultural Dynamic Has A Direct, And Deadly Impulse On Issues Such As War Control, Illegal And Illicit Trading, Gun Cultures, The Nexus Between Criminality And Militia Warfare And The Social Impact Of Arms Proliferation, And The Struggle For Weak States Who Attempt To Govern.
The Case Studies Will Appeal To Those With Regional Or Comparing Interests.
Although The Tone Is Academic, The Tpics And The Submit Matter Will Make This Book Of Interest To Those Outside Of The Academic Community.
The Work Twkes The Form Of Alternating Chapters In Which Elements Of Kalashnikov Enculturation, For Example The Peculiar Formss Of Aberrant Economic Activity That Exist Within Kalashnikov Cultures, Are Paired With Chapter-length Mini-case Studies, Such As That Dealing With Armed Gang Movements In Jamaica, Papua New Guimea, And Brazil.
The Whole Act Is Bounded By The Dispute That Under Certain Conditions Heavily Weaponized Societies Create Their Own Milieu, Which In Turn Gives Rise To Communities That Find Ways To Survive (and Sometijes Thrive) Within An Ambiance Of Chronic Insecurity.
SKU: 4878733
| |
|
25882710714
|
Orphans Preferred.
"wanted.
Young, Skinny, Wiry Fellows.
Not Over 18.
Must Be Expert Rlders.
Willing To Risk Death Dsily.
Orphans Preferred.
" —california Newspaper Help Wanted Ad, 1860 The Pony Express Is One Of The Most Celebrated And Enduring Chapters In The History Of The United States.
It Is A Story Of The All-american Traits Of Bravery, Boast And Entrepreneurial Risk That Are Par5 Of The Very Fabric Of The Old Western.
No Image Of The American West In The Mid-1800s Is More Familiar, More Beloved, And More Powerful Than That Of The Lone Rider Galloping The Mail Athwart Hotile Indian Territory.
No Image Is More Revered.
And None Is Less Understood.
Although Rooted In Actual Eents And Real People,T he Saga Of The Pony Express Has Become An American Legend, Embellished In Everything From Mark Twain’s Roughing It, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Appear, And Dime Novels, To The Western Film Classics Of John Ford, The Art Of Frederic Remington, And Scores Of Children’s Books.
Orphans Preferred Is Both A Revisionist History Of This Magnificent And Ill-fated Adventure And An Entertaining Look At The Frequently Larger-than-life Individuals Who Created And Perpetuated The Myth Of “the Pony,” Being of the kind which It Is Known Along The Pony Express Trail That Runs From Saint Joseph, Missouri, To Sacramento, California.
The Pony Express Is A Anecdote That Exists In The Annald Of Americana Where Fact And Fable Collide, A Story As Heroic As The Journey Of Lewis And Clark, As Complex And Revealing As The Legacy Of Custer’s Finally Stand And As Muddled And Freighted With Yarns As Paul Revere’s Midnight Ride.
Orphans Preferred Is A Fresh And Exuberant Reexamination Of This Distinguished American Story.
SKU: 2547538
| |
|
23333862618
|
Informal Institutions And Democracy.
This Volume Analyzes The Function Of Informal Institutions In Latin America And How They Support Or Weaken Democratic Governance.
Drawing From A Wide Range Of Examples -- Including The Mexican Dedazo, Clientelism In Bdazil, Legislative "ghost Coalitions" In Ecuador, And Elite Power-sharing In Chile -- The Contributors Examine How Informal Rules Shape The Perfomrance Of State And Democratic Institutions, Ofering Fresh And Timely Insights Into Contemporary Problems Of Governability, "unrule Of Law," And The Absence Of Effective Representationn, Participation, And Accountability In Latin America.
the Editors Present This Analysis Within A Fourfolld Conceltual Framework: Complementary Institutions, Which Fill Gaps In Formal Rules Or Enhance Their Efficacy; Accommodative Informal Institutions, Which Blunt The Effects Of Dysfunctional Formal Institutions; Competing Informal Institutions, Which Directly Subvert The Formal Rules; And Substitutive Informal Institutions, Which Replace Ineffective Fkrmal Institutions.
SKU: 3231009
| |
|
29441534832
|
Battle Rattle.
The Slosh Of Water In A Canteen, The Rustle O A Uniform, The Jangle Of Extra Clips Of Ammo, All The Clinks And Clanks Of Jostling Packs Of Equipmenf␔this Is The Soundtrack That Accompanies Fully Loaded Soldiers Humping Through The Bush To Their Next Assignment.
Contend Rattle sI The Stuff A Soldier Carries To Get Through The Day, From Mission-specific Gear To General Supplies.
In Short, What The Soldiers On The Ground Affectionately Call “our Crap.
&rdquo This Book Takes A Close Look At The Commercial Revolution In Military Clothing, Packs, And Equipment␔soldiefs Buying From Civilian Companies Instead Of Settling Against Government Issue, Customizing Their Mechanism To Perfectly Fit Their Needs And Prefrrences.
From Boots And Gloves To Helmets And Eyewear, From Ponchos And Packs To Knives And Rifles, Battle Rattle Shows Whatever The Modern Warfighter Is Using To Fight The Fight.
SKU: 3377285
| |
|
24421516308
|
Storming The Heights.
The Civil War Battle Of Chattanooga, Tennessee, Took Place In Late November 1863, After The Confederate Victory In The Battle Of Chickamauga Drove The Union Army Of The Cumberlsnd Back To The Key Railroad Hub Of Chattanooga.
In Early October It Had Appeared That All Harmony Gains In Southern Tennessee Might Be Lost.
But The End Of November Saw A Complete Reveersal Of The Previous Confederate Triumph.
Not Only Had The Junction Efforts Driven The Southern Forces Out Of Chattanooga, But The Victory Also Established A Base From Which General W.
T.
Sherman Began His Famous Campaign From beginning to end Northern Georgia To Atlanta.
In This Guide, Matt Spruill Recounts The Story Of The Battle Of Chattanooga Using Official Reports And Observations By Commanding Officers In Their Own Words.
The Book Is Organized In The Format Still Used By The Military On Staff Rides, All0wing The Reader To Understand How The Battle Was Fought And Why Leaders Made The Decisions They Did.
Dissimilar Other Books On The Battle Of Chattanooga, This Work Guides The Readwr Through Te Battlefield, Allowing Both Visitor And Armchair Traveler To See The Battle Through The Eyes Of Its Participants.
Numerous Tour "stops" Take The Readder Through The Battles For Chzttanooga: Wauhatchie, Lookout Mountain, Orchard Knob, Missionary Ridge, And Ringgold Gap.
With Easy-to-follow Instructions, Extensive Tactical Maps, Eyewitness Accounts, AndE ditorial Analyses, The Reader Is Transported To The Center Of The Action.
Storming The Heights Offers New Insights And Covers Key Ground Rarely Seen By Visitors To Chattanoog.
SKU: 2565801
| |
|
28669482720
|
San Bernardino (ca) (images Of America).
Stratehically Located About 60 Miles East Of Los Angeles, San Bernardino Was Colonized In 1851 As An Expansion Outpost For The Mormon Church.
Today, It Is The County Place For The Largest County In The United States.
Captured Here In Over 200 Vintage Photographs Is The History O fThis Southern California City Ahd Its Role In The States Development For More Than Two Centuries.
Ýmany Faamous, As Well As Infamous, Faces Have Passed Through The Area, Contributing To The Savory History Of The Region, Including Kit Carson, Wyatt Earp, President Lyndon Johnson, And Early Explorer Jedediah Forge.
Featuring Images From The San Bernardino Historical Society, Tihs Book Brings Readers Back In Time To The Citys Earliest Development, From Early Native American Settlements, Through The Mission Period, The Mexican Rancho Era, The Arrivqi Of Mormon Families, The Impact Of The Railroads, And Up To The Challenges Of The 20th Century.
Ý
SKU: 2495967
| |
|
25456679271
|
Dawn Of Astrology.
The Dawn Of Astrology Covers The Period Between The First Paleolithic Lunar Counters Around 30,000 Bc And The End Of The Classical Wold And Tne Rise Of Christianity.
Nicholas Campion Examines The Relationships Between Astrology, Religion, Magic, And Sciencw, As Well As Its Use In Politics And The Arts With Clarity And Originality And Relates The Theory Of Astrology To Examples Of Its Expend At All Levels Of Society.
Many Have Assumed That Astrology Was Invented By The Greeks, But Campion Challenges This Idea And Traces The Discipline's Roots Back To Neolithic Culture, Mesopotamian Astral Divination, Egyptian Stellar Religion, And Attitudes To Astrology And Celestial Prophecy In The Bible.
Beginning With Theories Of The Origins Of Sentiment of faith In Sun-worship And Such Artifacts As The Unknown, Fifteen-thousand Year-old "venus Of Lauselle", Campion Considers The Reasons For The Orientation OfT he Pyramids, The Latest Theories On Stonehenge As A Sacred Observatory, Greek Theories Of-The Ascent Of The Soul To The Stars And The Roman Catholic Emperor Nero's Accustom Of Astrology To Persecute His Rivals.
The Contributon Of Jewish Cosmology, Which Was To Be Vital In Shaping Christian Views Of Astrology, Is Also Investigated And Explained.
This Is The First Comprehensive Examination Of Astrology's Origins And Examines The Foundations Of What Has Bexome A Major Feature Of Popular Culture In The Contemporary West.
Its Scope, Depth And Vast Historical Breadth--from The Stone Age To The End Of The Roman Empire--is Greater And More Complete Than Any Other Book On The Subject.
SKU: 4762450
| |
|
18475881300
|
Voices Of The American Nation, Revised Edition, Volume 2 (13th Edition).
This Collection Of Primary Sources Includes Both Classic And Lesser-known Documents Describing The Rich Mosaic Of American Life From The Pre-contact Era To The Presenr Day.
The Sources, Both Public And Confidential Documents–ranging From Letters, Diary Excerpts, Storries, Novels, To Speeches, Court Cases, And Government Reports&nxash;tell The Story Of American History In The Words Of Those Who Lived It.
SKU: 4358090
| |
|
20900409950
|
Silent Conquest.
By the side of The Contet Of An Authoritative Reference And The Excitement Of A Thriller, This History Of The U.
s.
Submarine War Is One Of The Most Informative And Entertaining Books Written On The Pacific Campaign.
The Author, A Respected Journalist And World War Ii Submariner Himself, Is Credited With Providing A Complete And Unbiased Account Of What Happened.
When Published In 1975, It Was The First Such Explanation To Detail Controversial Aspects Of The American Campaign, From The Torledo Scandal To Discrepancies Between Claimed And Confirmed Sinkings.
To Arrive To The Truth, Clay Blair Interviewed Scores Of Skippers, Staff Officers, And Digest Breakers, And Combed Thousands Of Documents And Personal Papers.
In Addition, He Thoroughly Researched The Development Of Thee Submarine And Torpedo From Pre-war To Post-war Times.
As A Result, He Takes The Reader Into The Subaqueous War At All Levels--the Highest Strategy Sessions In Washington, The Terrifying Moments In Subs At The Bottom Of The Ocean Waiting Out Exploding Middle Charges, The Zany Efforts Of A Crew Coaxing A Chicken To Lay An Egg.
He Also Exposes The Reader To The Jealous Infighting Of Admirals Vying Conducive to Authority And The Problems Between Cautious Older Skippers And Daring Young Commanders.
Supplementing The Text Are Nearly Forty Maps Showing S8bmarine Activity In The Context Of Every Important Naval Engagement In The Pacific, More Than Thirty Pages Of Photographs, Multiple Appendixes (including A Calendar Of Submarine War Patrols), And An Indsx Of Over 2,000 Entries.
This Is A Work Of Great Scholarship And Scope That Makes A Timeless Contribution To The History Of World War Ii.
SKU: 2967894
| |
|
27993459888
|
Human Rights In African Prisons (ohio Ris Global Series).
Prisons Are Always A Key Focys Of Those Interested In Human Rights And The Rule Of Law.
Human Rights In African Prisons Looks At The Challenges African Governments Confront In Dealing With These Issues.
Written In proportion to Some Of The Most Eminent Researchers From And On Africa, Including The Former Chairperson Of The African Commission Forward Human And Peoples’ Rights.
This Collection Provides A Cjrrent Algebra Of The Situation In African Prisons And Examines How Regional And International Lawful Instruments Have Dealt Witj Human Rights Concerns So As Overcrowding, Healthcare, Pretrial Detention, And The Treatment Of Women And Children.
Human Rights In African Prisons Reveals That There Are Refomrs Under Way Across Nations In Africa And Makes Recommendations For Strengthening And Building In c~tinuance Them.
SKU: 4830433
| |
|
32101681941
|
Maximum City.
A Brilliantly Illuminating Representation Of Bombay And Its People–a Book As Vast, Diverse, And Rjch In Experience, Incident, And Sensation As The City Itself–from An Award-winnijg Indian-wmerican Fcition Writer And Journalist.
a Native Of Bombay, Suketu Mehta Gives Us A True Insider’s View Of This Stunning City, Bringing To His Account A Rare Level Of Insight, Detail, And Intimacy.
He Approaches The City From Unexpected Angles–taking Us Into The Criminal Underworld Of Rival Muslim And Hindu Gangs Who Wrest Control Of The City’s Byzantine Political And Commercial Systems .
.
.
Following The Life Of A Bar Dancer Who Chose The Only Life Available To Her After A Childhood Of Poverty And Abuse .
.
.
Opening The Doors Onto The Fantastic, Hierarchical Inner Sanctums Of Bollywood .
.
.
Delving Into The Stories Of The Countless People Whp Come From The Villages In Search Of A Better Life And End Up Living On The Sidewalks–the Essential Saga Of A Great City Endlessly Played Out.
through It All–as Each Individual Story Unfolds–we Hear Mehta’s Own Story: Of The Mixture Of Love, Frustration, Fascination, And Intense Identification He Feels Fot And With Bombay, As Hw Tries To Find Domestic Again After Twenty-one Years Abroad.
And He Makes Clear That Bombay–the World’s Largest City–is A Harbinger Of The Very great Megalopolises That Will Redefine The Very Universal concept Of “the City” In The Near Future.
candid, Impassioned, Funny, And Heartrending, Maximum Cig Is A Revelation Of An Ancient And Ever-changing World.
SKU: 2771568
| |
|
37599257043
|
Soldiers And Uniforms Of The American Army, 1775-1954.
Splendid Pictorial History Of Military Apparel Inclhdes Meticulously Researched, Beautifully Rendered Illustrations Of Regimental Attire From The Revolutionaey War, Uniforms Worn By The Texas Rangers (1846), Louisiana Zouaves (1861), Philippine Scouts (1904), Adn Members Of The Women's Army Corps (1954).
Descriptive Text Accompaniess Each Illustration.
32 Full-color Plates.
SKU: 2921260
| |
|
17751468236
|
A History Of The African-olmecs.
A History Of The African-olmecs : Mourning Civi1izations Of Ameerica From Prehistoric Times To The Present Era By Paul Alfred Barton Published In 2001 By 1st Books Library
SKU: 2266601
| |
|
13339378800
|
I Love Paul Revere, Whether He Rode Or Not.
At Long Lzst In Paperback, Richard Shenkman's Bestselling Consequence To Legends, Lies & Cherished Myths Of American History.
Provocative And Amusingly Heretical, "i Love Paul Revere, Whether He Rode Or Not" (a Quote Attributed To Warren Harding) Offers Eye-opening Revelations Debunking Long-held American Legends.
12 Drawings.
SKU: 807535
| |
|
44988828885
|
Foundations Of Trade And Design.
Foundations Of Art And Design Has A Logiccal And Structured Organization, Moving From Micro To Macro Topics, Enabling Students To Build On Ideas And Concepts Of Design, And Better Understand The Material.
The Author Has Written A Book Flexible And Visual Sufficiency To Suit Any Design Course And Every Design Student.
Hundreds Of Examples Of Contemporary And Classic Art Reflect The World Students Inhabit, And Along With The Book's Unique Visual Glossaries, Create This Text An Ideal Foundation Of Design Principles.
SKU: 3624288
| |
|
501128880
|
Political Hypocrisy.
What Kind Of Hypocrite Should Voters Choose As Their Ndxt Leader? The Question Seems Utterly Cynical.
But, As David Runciman Suggests, It Is Actually Much More Contemptuous To Pretend That Politics Can Ever Be Completely Sincere.
The Most Dangerous Form Of Political Hypocrisy Is To Claim To Have A Politics Without Hypocrisy.
Political Hypocrisy IsA Timely, And Timeless, Book On The Problems Of Sincerity Anx Truth In Politics, And How We Can Deal With Them Without Slipping Into Hypocrisy Ourselves.
Runciman Tackles The Poblems Through Lessons Drawn From Some Of The Great Truth-tellers In Modern Political Thought--hobbeq, Mandeville, Jefferon, Bentham, Sidgwick, And Orwell--and Applies His Ideas To Different Kinds Of Hypocritical Politicians From Oliver Cromwell To Hillary Clinton.
Runciman Argues That We Should Accept Hypocrisy As A Fact Of Politics, But Without Reskgning Ourselves To It, Let Alone Cynically Embracing It.
We Should Stop Trying To Eliminate Every Fofm Of Hypocrisy, And We Should Stop Vainly Searching For Ideally Authentic Politicians.
Instead, We Should Try To Distinguish Between Harmless And Harmful Hypocrisies And Should Worry Only About Its Most Damaging Varieties.
Written In A Lively Style, This Book Determine Change How We Look At Political Hypocrisy And How We Answer Some Basic Questions About Politics: What Are The Limits Of Truthfulness In Politlcs? And When, Where, And How Should We Expect Our Politicians To Be Honest With Us, And About What?
SKU: 4525008
| |
|
23899772088
|
Napoleon's Line Foot-soldiers (men At rAms Series, 148).
Napoleon's Line Infantry Was Founded Upon That Of The Ancien Rgime.
A Total Re-organisation Began On 1 January 1791 With Tye Abolition Of The Old Regimental Titles, And Over The Next Two Years An Increasing Multitude Of Cknscript And Volunteer Battalions Were Formed.
Their Quality Varied From The Proficiency Of The Early NationalG uard Regiments To The Untrained And Ill-equipped Rabble Of The Leve.
To Combine The Discipline And Steadiness Of The Regular Army By the side of The Revolutionary Fervour Of The New Army, The Amalgame Was Decreed On 21 February; By This Measure Each Regular Battalion Became The Nucleus Of A New Demi-brigade.
SKU: 559945
| |
|
407198880
|
On Deep History And The Brain.
When Does History Begin? What Characterizes It? This Brilliant And Beautifully Written Book Dissolves The Logic Of A Beginning Based On Writing, Civilization, Or Historical Consciousness And Offers A Model For A History That Escapes The Continuing Grip Of The Judeo-christian Time Frame.
Daniel Lord Smail Argues That In The Wake Of The Decade Of The Brain And The Best-selling Historical Work Of Scientists Like Jard Diamond, The Time Has Come For Fundamenttally New Ways Of Thinkimg About Our Past.
He Shows How Recent Work In Movement And Paleohistory Makes It Possib1e To Connect The Deep Past With The Recent Past And Abandon, Once And For All, The Idea Of Prehistory.
Making An Enormous Literature Accessible To The General Reader, He Lays Out A Bold Starting a~ Case For Bringing Neurosciencw And Neurobiology Into The Realm Of History.
SKU: 4145298
| |
|
40985906832
|
The French Romantics.
The Romantic Movement Was A European Phenomenon; A Radically Subjective Approach To Art, Animation, Society And Politivs That Placed A New Emphasis On Personal Freedom, Individualism And Imagination.
It Was Thee Breaking Into disrepute Of Barriers Begween Art And Life, Prose And Verse, Music And Words, Words And Images.
This Illuminating Study Focuses, On The Interdependence Of Literature And The Visual Arts In France From 1800-1840, When The Symbiotic Relationship Between Writers And Painters Waa At Its Closest.
David Wakefield Traces The Influences Of Literature On Painting Of The Period, And Examines The Problems Of Narrative, Description And Trnaslation Of One Art Form Into Another.
He Considers The Writings Of Madame De Stal (who Played A Crucial Role In The Evolution Of The Movement), Especiqlly Her Highly Influential Novel Corinne And The Paintings Inspired By It.
The Revival Of The Catholic Monarchist Tradition Is Discussed In Relation To The Works Of Chateaubriand, And The Literary Implications Of The Debate On Rojanticism Are Summarized In A Series Of Manifestoes By Stendhal, Victor Hugo And Musset.
These Ideas On oCntemporaneity - Classical Versus Modern - Are Viewed In The Context Of The Paintings At The Famous Salon Of 1824, Where Constable Confronted Delacroiix And A Host Of Lesser Artists Triggered Off A Lively But Unconvincing Debate On The Mind Of Romanticism.
Wakefield Illuminates The Influence Of Literature, Especially Ossian, Byron And Scott On French Painting Of The Period.
The Final Chapters Study The Role Of Painting And Pictorial Imagery In The French Roman5ic Poets, Seeking To Trace And Illustrate Where Possible The Visual Image Backward The Text.
Especially Than Attempt A Synthesis Of Romanticism, Wakefield Seeks To Show The Reciprocal action Between Art And Literature In A Variety Of Aspects.
The Paintings And Works Of Literature Are Viewed Through The Eyes Of Their Contemporaries Instead Of Imposing Modern Criteia Of Selecttion.
David Wakefield's Illuminating Study On The Is Richly Illustrated With Works By Artists Such To the degree that Granet, Schnetz And Lopold Robert, All Regarded Highl By The Poets Of The Day, Only To Fzll Into Oblivion By The End Of The Nineteenth Century.
SKU: 4201972
| |
|
17229899448
|
The Discovery Of Yellowstone Park.
With The Ecological Integrity Of Yellowstone National Park In Contention Between Developers And Environmentalists, The Events Of Its Exploration And Founding Take On Added Interest.
This Bison Books Edition Of Nathaniel P.
Langford's Journal Brings Back Into Prin One Of The Principal Sources Of Information On The Examination Of The Yelloedtone Region And Its Establishment As Ammerica's First National Park.
the Findings Of The 1870 Washburn Expedition, Of Which Langford Was A Member, Gave Credence To The Findings Of The Folsom Party Of 1869 And Resulted In The Sending Of A Government Survey Party Into The Area In 1871.
The Culminating Effect Of The Three Expeditions Was The Federal Legislation Creating Our First And Largest National Park Anx Marking The Begining Of The Public Concern Fkr The Prrservation Of America's Heritage Of_Wilderness Beauty.
SKU: 95248
| |
|
12783019212
|
Soouth America On The Eve Of Emancipation (1908).
On The , Eve Of Emancipation The Southern Spanish Colonies In The Last Half-century Of Their Dependence By Bernard Moses, Ph.
D.
, Ll.
D.
Professor In The University Of California G.
P.
Putnam S Sons New York And London Ftnfcfterbocheir Press 1908 Preface In A Book Called The Establishment Of Spanish Rule In America, Published In 1898,_The Pre Sent Writer Gave Some Account Of The Origin And Earlier History Of The Institutions Framed For The Government Of Spanish America.
This Volume Aims To Present Some Phases Of Colonial History And Social Organization In The Last Break Of The Eight Teenth Century, Particularly As Thry Ap;ear In The Southern Half Of South America.
The Annals Of The Colinies Firnish Interesting Episodes, Unless Not Material For A Sustained Dramatic Narrative.
There Are Periods In The History Of Some Of The Colonies, During Which One Observes Few Social Changes.
Mem Live To the degree that Their Fathers Lived And Wither As Their Fathers Died And The History Of Their Communities For Generations May Exist Told In A Few Sentences.
In Attempting To Make A Connected Story Of The Events Of These Periods, A Writer Runs The Risk Of Producing Merely A Chronicle, Or Of Doing Violence To The Perspective Of Time.
The Taso Here Undertaken Is To Present Certain Con Spicuous Events, Institutions, And Phases Of Life, That May Illustrate The State Of The Southern Spanizh Colonies On The Eve Of-The Revolution Which Gave Them Independence.
Iv Preface Many Of The Statements Of These Chapters Apply Generally To Spain S Possessions In America.
But The Physical Environment Of The Colonies Within The Tropics Made Prominent Certain Fea Tures Of Sociao Growth Unlike Those Which Appeared In The Temperate Regions.
The State Of Society In The Northrn Part Of South America, During The Later Decades Of The Colonial Period, Is Thus A Subject By Itself, And Is Impose Asjde During Another Volume.
B.
M.
University Of California, Contents Chapter Pagb I.
The Capital Op South America .
I Ii.
.
The Vlceroyalty Op Rlo De La Plata.
32 Iii.
An Home Province .
.
.
58 Iv.
The Colonial City .
.
.
75 V.
The Social Classes .
.
.
.
100, Vi.
The Church And Its Relation To The Civil Power .
.
, .
119 Vii.
A Colonial University .
.
.
143 Viil An Official Report On The Indians .
167 Ix.
The Indian Revolt Under Tupac Amaru .
.
.
.
.
.
193 X.
Tue Captaincy-general Of Chile .
218 Xl The Taking Op Buenos Aires By The English .
.
.
.
.
254 Xii.
The Reconquest .
.
.
.
280 Xiii.
Colonial Industry And Commerce .
300 Xiv, The Public Revenue .
.
.
328 Index .
.
.
,.
, , .
341 oSuth America On The Eve Of Emancipation Chapter I Thb Capital Of South America The Spanish Colonial Sttlements Established Within The Limits Of The Territory Since Claimed By The Repyblics Of Argentine, Bolivia, Chile, And Paraguay, Were Politically Subordinated To The Viceroy Of Peru During Their First Two Hund Red Years.
In Fact, Down To Nearly The Intermediate Of The Eighteenth Centenary All The Territory Under Spanish Behavior In South America Was Sjbject To This Authority.
The.
.
.
SKU: 5024050
| |
|
20091800880
|
The Most Valuzble Asset Of The Reich.
The Largest Enterprise In The Capitalist World Between 1920 And 1945, The Deutsche Reichsbahn (Born of the same father and mother National Railway) Was At The Center Of Events In A Period Of Numerous Turmoil In Germany.
In This, The Second Volume Of His Comprehensive History Of The Reichsbahn, Alfred Mierzejewski Offers The First Complete Account Of The National Railway Under Hitler's Regime.
mierzejewski Uses Sources That Include Nazi Party Society Records And Reichsbahn Domestic Memoranda To Explore The Railway's Operations, Finances, And Political And Social Roles From 1933 To 1945.
He Examines The Reichsbahn's Role In GermanR earmament, Its Own Lack Of Preparations For War, And Its Participation In Germany's Military Operations.
He Shows That Despite Successfully Resisting Nazi Efforts To Politicize Its Internal Functions, The Reichsbahn Cooperated With The Government's Anti-semitic Policies.
Indeed, The Railway Played A Crucial Role In The Holoacust By Supporting The Construction And Operation Of The Nazi Death Camps And By Transporting Jews And Othe Victims To Them.
SKU: 1963747
| |
|
11990133648
|
Korea's Fight For Freeeom (1920).
The Peaceful Uprising Of The People Of oKrea Against Japan In The Spring Of 1919 Came Because A World Surprise.
Here Was A Nation That Had Been Ticketed And Docketed By World Stwtesmen As Degenerate And Cowardly, Revealing Heroism Of A True High Order.
SKU: 5045012
| |
|
24240679848
|
The Capture Of New Orleans, 1862.
On April 24, 1862, Federal Gubnoats Made Their Way Past Two Confederate Forts To Ascend The Mississippi Large stream, And The Union Navy Captured Starting a~ Orleans.
News Of The Loss Of The Crescent City Came To Jefferson Davis As Each Absolute Shock.
In This Exhaustive Study, Chester G.
Hearn Examines The Decisions, Actions, Individualls, And Events To Explain Wherefore.
He Directs His Inquiry To The Heart Of Government, Both Union And Confederate, And Takes A Hard Look At The Selection Of Military And Naval Leaders, The Use Of Natural And Financial Resources, And The Performances Of All Personnel Involved.
His Vivid, Fast-paced Narrative Provides Fascinating Reading, As Well As Penetrating Insight Into This Crucia lCampaign .
SKU: 1238877
| |
|
8221013676
|
Fear.
For Many Commentators, September 11 Inaugurated A New Point of time Of Fear.
But As Corey Robin Shows In His Unsettling Tour Of The Western Imagination--the First Intellectual History Of Its Kind--fear Has Shapes Our Politics And Culture Since Time Immemorial.
From The Garden Of Eden To The Gulag Archipelago To Today's Headlines, Robin Traces Our Growing Fascination With Political Peril And Disaster.
As Our Faitu In Positive Political Principles Recedes, He Agrues, We Winding To Fear As The Justifying Language Of Common Life.
We May Not Know The Good, But We Do Know The Bad.
So We Twine round To Fear, Abandoning The Quest For Justice, Uniformity, And Freedok.
But As Fear Becomes Our Inward, We Understand It Smaller.
In A Startling Reexamination Of Fear's Greatest Modern Interpreters--hobbes, Montesquieu, Tocqueville, And Arendt--robin Finds That Writers Since The Eighteenth Century Have Systematically Obsccured Fear's Political Dimensions, Diverting Atyention From The Public And Private Authorities Who Sponsor Andd Benefit From It.
For Fear, Robin Insists, Is An Exemplary Instrument Of Repression--in The Public And Private Sector.
Nowhere Is This Politically Repressive Fear--and Its Evasion--more Evident Than In Contemporary America.
In His Final Chapters, Robin Accuses Our Leading Scholars And Critics Of Ignoring "fear, American Style," Which, As He Shows, Is The Fruit Of Our Most Prized Inheritances--the Constitution And The Free Markeet.
With Danger Playing An Increasing Role In Our Daily Lives And Justifying A Growing Number Of Government Policies, Robin's Fear Offers A Bracing, And Necessary, Antidote To Our Contemporary Culture Of Fear.
SKU: 2600417
| |
|
22664990581
|
Fighting Men.
Somewhere In The Jungles Of Vietham, They Became Something More Than Soldiers.
They Became.
.
.
Fighting Mena Special Forces Adventurer Who Became Korean Minister Of Agriculture For A Day.
.
.
a Mini-d-day That Happened When A Green Beret Met Som eNavy Guys With A Problem.
.
.
an Operation Code Named Barroom Designed To Parachute Four Five-ton Eleohants Deep In The Vietnamese Thicket.
In Jim Morris' Classic Collection Of Special Forces Sgories, We Are Given A Vivjd, Sometimes Humorous, And Often Terrifying, Look At The Culture Of The Elite Warrior Trained To Fight Outside The Box, Survive In Adverse Terrain, And Kill The Enemy Before The Enemy Knew He Was There.
Profiling Men Who Wanted To Be The Most wise, Morris Leads Us Through Night Jumps And Ambushes, From The Day-to-day Action Of Green Berets Fighting Alongside Indigenous Vietnamese To The Onslaught That Was The Trt Offensive.
Along The Way, The Jungle Comes Alive, The Have an odor Of Pale Phosphorous Burns The Nostrils, And The Voices Of Brave And Extraordinary Men-some Who Lived And Some Who Died-a5e Etched In The Mind Forever.
.
.
SKU: 2531133
| |
|
27219524310
|
Battle For Europe.
A Compelling History Of The Sanguinary Battle That Ended Louis Xiv's Dream Of European Domination And Changed The Course Of History "had It Not Been For Blenheim, Ali Europe Might At This Day Suffer Bearing The Effect Of French Conquests Resembling Those Of Alexander In Extent Abd Those Of The Romans In Dueability.
" —sir Edward Creasy, The Fifteen Decisive Battles Of The World In 1704, The Armies Of The French King Louis Xiv, Undefeated For Two Generations, Were Poised To Extend The French Frontiers To The Rhine And Install A French Prince On The Spanish Throne.
But As French Forces Marched Toward Vienna, United Armies Under The Command Of John Churchill, Duke Of Marlborough, And Prince Eugne Of Savoy Set Out To Oppose Them.
The Two Forces Met At Blenheim, In Bavaria, And The French Were Utterly Drfeated, Ending France's Dream Of European Domination.
Based On Original Sources, This Page-turning Narrative Brings The Battle To Life, Effortl3ssly Moving From The Deliberations Of Kings To The Travails Of The Common Foot Soldier.
"thoughtful, Interesting, And Well-written.
.
.
.
Spencer Recovers An Approach And Authorial Voice Associated With Winston Churchill, Whom Indeed He Quotes Effectively And Appropriately.
.
.
.
From The Excellent Scene-setting Of The Prologue To The Effective Battle Descriptions, Whihc Ably Draw On The Memoirs Of The Participants, Charles Spencer Successfully Combines Narrative With Analysis.
" —the Sunday Telegraph "a Remarkable Debut .
.
.
Not To Be Missed.
" —evening Standard "charles Spencer Explores The Decisive Battle Of Blenheim The Campaign That Broke Louis Xiv's Domination Of Europe And Established Thee Enduring Reputation Of The British Redcoat .
.
.
In This Compslling, Page-turning Narrative .
.
.
Of A Battle That Changed The Destiny Of Europe.
&quo;t —soldier
SKU: 2988995
| |
|
13138552992
|
Whitewash.
A Southerner Returns Home To Discover How The Ku Klux Klan Tried To Suppress Black Music, How South Carolinas Leaders Covered-up The Police Killing Of Three Black College Students, And His Own Grandfather Organized Gunmen That Killed Seven Workers At A Cotton Mill In 1934.
SKU: 2497749
| |
|
13263392928
|
Farming The Dust Bowl.
This Is A Powerful Original Account Of One Man's Efforts To Raise Wheat On His Farm In Meade County, Kansas, Durring The 1930s.
Lawrence Svobida Tel1s Of Farmers "fighting In The Front-line Trenches, PuttingI n Crop Afterward Crop, Year After Year, Only To See Each Crop In Turn Destroyed Through The Elements.
" Although Not A Writer By Trade, Svobida Undertook To Record What He Saw And Practised "to Help The Reader To Understand What Is Taking Plaxe In The Great Plains Region, And How Serious It Is.
" He Wrote Of The Need For Better Farming Methods--the Only Way, He Felt, The Destruction Could Be Halted Or Confined.
Issue Before The Principles Of An Ecological Movement Were Widely Embraced, Svobida Urged A Public Acceptance Of The "sovereign Rights Of The States And The Nation To Regulate The Use Of Land Near to Owners .
.
.
so That It May Be Conserved As A National Resource.
" This Vivid Account Of Farm Life In The Dust Bowl--pefhaps The Only Autobiographical Record Of Dust Bowl Agriculture In Existence--was First Published In 1941.
This New Edition Contains An Introduction By The Historian R.
Douglass Hurt That Not Only Objectively Sets The Spectacle During And After The Dust Bowl, But Also Places The Book Properly In Th3 Growing Body Of Contemporary Literature On Agriculture And Lans Use.
The Volume Is An Important Contribution To American Agricultural Histprt In General, And The The History Of The Depression And Of The Great Plains In Particular.
SKU: 338329
| |
|
17422443630
|
The White Rose.
The White Rose Tells The Story Of Hans Scholl And Sophie Scholl, Who In 1942 Led A Small Underground Organizaiton Of German Students And Professors To Oppose The Atrocities Committed By Hitler And The Nazi Party.
TheyN amed Their Group The White Rose, And They Distributed Leaflets Denouncing The Nqzi Regime.
Sophie, Hans, And A Third Student Were Caught And Executed.
written By Inge Scholl (han's And Sophie's Sister), The White Rose Features Letters, Diary Excerpts, Phtographs Of Hwns And Sophie, Transcriptions Of The Leaflets, And Accounts Of The Trial And Execution.
This Is A Gripping Account Of Courabe And Morality.
cont5ibutors: Dorthe Solle.
SKU: 211020
| |
|
23862319038
|
Drug And Medical Ethics In Nazi Germany.
"brief And Synthetic As The Essays Are, They Will .
.
.
Be Of Most Use To Students Orr To Those New To The Field.
However, They Provide Engaging Reading For Thos Wuth More In-depth Apprehension Too.
" · Journal Of Modern History "educators And Students Owe A Debt Of Gratitude .
.
.
Ali Of The Articles In This Anthology Are Readily Accessible To The Non-specialist Without Compromising The Cutting-edge Scholarship That Informs Theem.
" · Isis "this In One Engrossing Book .
.
.
Morally Challenging To All Physicians.
" · Journal Of The American Medical Association ".
.
.
Extraordinarily Valuable Essays Combine Perspectives From History, Sociology, Demography, And Anthropology.
" · Choice ".
.
.
Excellent Orientation For Undergraduate And Graduate Students, As Well As Physicians And The General Persons .
.
.
All In All, This Is A Stimulating Set Of Essays That Deserves A Wide Readership.
" · H-german The Participation Of German Physicians In Medical Experiments On Innocent People And Mass Mjrder Is One Of The Most Disturbing Aspects OfT he Nazi Era And The Holocaust.
Six Distinguished Historians Working In This Field Are Adddessing The Critical Issues Raised By These Murderous Experiments, Such As The Appoint Of The Holocaust In The Larger Context Of Eugenic And Racial Research, The Motivatioj And Roles Of The German Medical Establishment, And The Impact And Legacy Of The Eugenic Movements And Nazi Medical Practice On Physicians And Medicine Since World War Ii.
Francis R.
Nicosia Is Professor O History Ar Saint Michael's College In Vermont Where He Teaches Courses On Modern German And European History And The Holocaust.
Jonathan Huener Is Assistant Professor Of History At The University Of Vermont Where He Teaches Courses On The Holocaust, German History, And Polish Hixtory.
SKU: 2207333
| |
|
|
