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Pitch Battles

Author : Peter Hain
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 178661524X
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book Pitch Battles written by Peter Hain and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “There will be a black Springbok over my dead body.” — Dr Danie Craven, President of the South African Rugby Board, 1969 Just a year after the controversial D’Oliveira affair, the organised disruption of the all-white 1969/70 South African rugby and cricket tours to Britain represented a significant challenge to apartheid politics. Led by future cabinet minister Peter Hain, the ‘Stop the Seventy Tour’ campaign brought about the cancellation of both tours, presaging white South Africa’s expulsion from the Olympics and the end of apartheid sport altogether. With his brand of attention-grabbing, direct action sports protest, the 19-year-old Hain emerged as a hero to some and enemy to others. Now, reflecting on these experiences with fifty years of hindsight, Lord Hain, together with South Africa’s foremost sports historian and fellow anti-apartheid activist André Odendaal, shows how decades of relentless international and domestic campaigning for equality led to a Springbok team captained by black athlete Siya Kolisi winning the 2019 Rugby World Cup. Interspersing a wide range of examples with personal testimony, Pitch Battles explores the themes of sport, globalisation and resistance from the deep past to the present day. Published in the same year as the Stop The Tour documentary from acclaimed director Louis Myles, this compelling story of sacrifice, struggle and triumph reveals how sport should never be divorced from politics or society’s values.

Man the Hunter

Author : Richard Borshay Lee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351507451
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Man the Hunter written by Richard Borshay Lee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man the Hunter is a collection of papers presented at a symposium on research done among the hunting and gathering peoples of the world. Ethnographic studies increasingly contribute substantial amounts of new data on hunter-gatherers and are rapidly changing our concept of Man the Hunter. Social anthropologists generally have been reappraising the basic concepts of descent, fi liation, residence, and group structure. This book presents new data on hunters and clarifi es a series of conceptual issues among social anthropologists as a necessary background to broader discussions with archaeologists, biologists, and students of human evolution.

The Marlowe Concordance

Author : Charles Crawford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Marlowe Concordance written by Charles Crawford and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Materialien Zur Kunde Des Älteren Englischen Dramas

Author : Willy Bang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Materialien Zur Kunde Des Älteren Englischen Dramas written by Willy Bang and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Autobiography of Charles Bent, a reclaimed drunkard. Fifth edition

Author : Charles BENT
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Autobiography of Charles Bent, a reclaimed drunkard. Fifth edition written by Charles BENT and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Causes of War and the Spread of Peace

Author : Azar Gat
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192514237
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book The Causes of War and the Spread of Peace written by Azar Gat and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Azar Gat sets out to resolve one of the age-old questions of human existence: why people fight and can they stop. Spanning warfare from prehistory to the 21st century, the book shows that, neither an irresistible drive nor a cultural invention, deadly violence and warfare have figured prominently in our behavioural toolkit since the dawn of our species. People have always alternated between cooperation, peaceful competition, and violence to attain evolution-shaped human desires. A marked shift in the balance between these options has occurred since the onset of the industrial age. Rather than modern war becoming more costly (it hasn't), it is peace that has become more rewarding. Scrutinizing existing theories concerning the decline of war - such as the 'democratic peace' and 'capitalist peace' - Gat shows that they in fact partake of a broader Modernization Peace that has been growing since 1815. By now, war has disappeared within the world's most developed areas. Finally, Gat explains why the Modernization Peace has been disrupted in the past, as during the two World Wars, and how challenges to it may still arise. They include claimants to alternative modernity - such as China and Russia - anti-modernists, and failed modernizers that may spawn terrorism, potentially unconventional. While the world has become more peaceful than ever before, there is still much to worry about in terms of security and no place for complacency.

Shadowing Charles Dickens

Author : S. Askwith
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1409271080
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Shadowing Charles Dickens written by S. Askwith and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-03-14 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vibrant, visceral tale of nineteenth century London which cleverly inter-weaves fact and fiction to expose the joint splendour and sordid nature of the mid-Victorian age.In 'Shadowing Charles Dickens', historical figures like Dickens, Longfellow, and Marx become part of fictional events. Fictional characters - prostitutes, forgers and a homicidal maniac participate in real history. Not for the faint-hearted!

The Enchanting Encounter with the East

Author : Michael Baizerman
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1665596716
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book The Enchanting Encounter with the East written by Michael Baizerman and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Enchanting Encounter with the East” belongs to cross-cultural studies and focuses on the attempts of European literati to get acquainted with the bizarre realm of the Far East during the Late Middle Ages. It turns out that western intellectuals lured by the marvels and myths of the Far East did a lot of spadework before taking a route that led to unfamiliar oriental realms. On this thorny path, many Eurocentric medieval fantasies had been debunked. The book shows how global connections had surfaced centuries before industrialization. The book falls into the genre of non-fiction history and centers on the recognition of lands and cultures of India, China, and the Mongols by the Latin medieval society. The storyline is based on the original online research and presents authentic arguments based on the author’s engagement with the sources. The readers might enjoy as well as profit from this comprehensive reference that does not require deep background knowledge. The content is provided in clear language and is supplemented with a bibliography and illustrations that will enrich the entire work.

Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1982

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1102 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1982 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 1102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

We Look Like Men of War

Author : William R. Forstchen
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765301154
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book We Look Like Men of War written by William R. Forstchen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-02-08 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A New York Public Library recommended book for young readers."--P. [4] of cover.

Imperial Japan's World War Two

Author : Werner Gruhl
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 141281104X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Imperial Japan's World War Two written by Werner Gruhl and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The full extent and brutality of imperial Japan's actions before and during the Second World War has not had the same cultural and political resonances as those of Nazi Germany, nor are they as well remembered. Werner Gruhl's objective is to present a fresh overview of the Asian-Pacific War and its victims, drawing particular attention to the neglected history of Japan's invasion of China and Southeast Asia. Gruhl seeks to show that the war in Asia and the Pacific is as much about Shanghai, Nanking, and Manila as about Pearl Harbor, Midway, and Hiroshima. Gruhl's narrative makes clear why Japan's World War II aggression still touches deep emotions with East Asians and Western ex-prisoners of war, and why there is justifiable sensitivity to the way modern Japan has dealt with this legacy. Knowledge of the enormity of Japan's total war is also necessary to assess the United States' and her allies' policies toward Japan, and their reactions to its actions, extending from Manchuria in 1931 to Hiroshima in 1945. Gruhl takes the view that World War II started in 1931 when Japan, crowded and poor in raw materials but with a sense of military invincibility, saw empire as her salvation and invaded China. Japan's imperial regime had volatile ambitions but limited resources, thus encouraging them to unleash a particularly brutal offensive against the peoples of Asia and surrounding ocean islands. Their 1931 to 1945 invasions and policies further added to Asia's pre-war woes, particularly in China, by badly disrupting marginal economies, leading to famines and epidemics. Altogether, the victims of Japan's World War Two aggression took many forms and were massive in number. Gruhl offers a survey and synthesis of the historical literature and documentation, statistical data, as well as personal interviews and first-hand accounts to provide a comprehensive overview analysis. The sequence of diplomatic and military events leading to Pearl Harbor, as well as those leading to the U.S. decision to drop the atom bomb, are explored here as well as Japan's war crimes and postwar revisionist/apologist views regarding them. This book will be of intense interest to Asian specialists, and those concerned with human rights issues in a historical context.

Contemporary Military Theory

Author : Jan Angstrom
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136169199
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Military Theory written by Jan Angstrom and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book aims to provide the reader with a state-of-the-art introduction to classic and modern military theory. The text accounts for the most important theories within the field by developing and analyzing these theories, as well as problematizing both their normative and explanatory aims. While focusing on military theory, the book does not only reflect a single way of relating to knowledge of war and warfare, but furthers learning by introducing contrasting perspectives as well as constantly criticizing the theories. There is a clear need for an introductory text for the entire field of military theory that focuses whole-heartedly on the theories – not on their context or how they are expressed in practice during war. This book covers such questions as how we should understand the changing character of war, the utility of force and how the pursuit of political ends is achieved through military means. It draws upon and illustrates military thought through a wide-ranging number of examples from the Napoleonic Wars to the current war in Afghanistan. This book will be of great interest for students of military theory, strategic studies, security studies and defence studies.

A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles

Author : Sir James Augustus Henry Murray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles written by Sir James Augustus Henry Murray and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

China and International Security

Author : Donovan C. Chau
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440800022
Total Pages : 919 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book China and International Security written by Donovan C. Chau and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-04-17 with total page 919 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first work of its kind, this strategic assessment of China's national security reveals the nation's intentions, capabilities, and threats—and their implications for the United States and the world. As China continues to develop the strategic means to advance its national interests in Asia and around the world, assessing its role in international security is the greatest strategic challenge now faced by the United States and its allies. China and International Security facilitates this critically important understanding, analyzing topics that range from strategic geography and orientation to gender ratios. Using detailed case studies and sharing expert insights, the work provides historical, internal, and contemporary analyses that reveal the nature and character of China's national security. This three-volume set is written for scholars, students, and policymakers. The volumes offer in-depth articles penned by intelligence professionals and journalists, as well as entries by scholars in fields as diverse as international politics, history, and strategic studies. While other works may attempt to predict the future of China's rise or the nature of China's future bilateral relationships, none so thoroughly examines the totality of China's domestic, regional, and international security—and their implications.

War in Human Civilization

Author : Azar Gat
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199236631
Total Pages : 839 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book War in Human Civilization written by Azar Gat and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 839 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this truly global study, Azar Gat sets out to unravel the 'riddle of war' throughout human history, from the early hunter-gatherers right through to the unconventional terrorism of the twenty-first century.

The Medieval Way of War

Author : Gregory I. Halfond
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317024184
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Medieval Way of War written by Gregory I. Halfond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few historians have argued so forcefully or persuasively as Bernard S. Bachrach for the study of warfare as not only worthy of scholarly attention, but demanding of it. In his many publications Bachrach has established unequivocally the relevance of military institutions and activity for an understanding of medieval European societies, polities, and mentalities. In so doing, as much as any scholar of his generation, he has helped to define the status quaestionis for the field of medieval military history. The Medieval Way of War: Studies in Medieval Military History in Honor of Bernard S. Bachrach pays tribute to its honoree by gathering in a single volume seventeen original studies from an international roster of leading experts in the military history of medieval Europe. Ranging chronologically from Late Antiquity through the Later Middle Ages (ca. AD 300-1500), and with a broad geographical scope stretching from the British Isles to the Middle East, these diverse studies address an array of critical themes and debates relevant to the conduct of war in medieval Europe. These themes include the formation and implementation of military grand strategies; the fiscal, material, and administrative resources that underpinned the conduct of war in medieval Europe; and religious, legal, and artistic responses to military violence. Collectively, these seventeen studies embrace the interdisciplinarity and topical diversity intrinsic to Bachrach’s research. Additionally, they strongly echo his conviction that the study of armed conflict is indispensable for an accurate and comprehensive understanding of medieval European history.

Kind Hearts And Martinets Collection

Author : Pete Adams
Publisher : Next Chapter
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1813 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (661 download)

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Download or read book Kind Hearts And Martinets Collection written by Pete Adams and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2023-05-05 with total page 1813 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All five books in 'Kind Hearts And Martinets', a series of mystery novels by Pete Adams, now available in one volume! Cause And Effect: Meet Detective Inspector Jack Austin, a self-proclaimed enigma who runs the Community Police Unit from his deck chair. Despite his mental health struggles, Austin has a knack for solving crimes, even if they're as minor as bicycle theft. But when he stumbles upon a malevolent scheme after investigating the case of an executed police officer, he must use his wits and stay sane to uncover the culprit behind it all. Irony In The Soul: After recovering from his last mission, Detective Inspector Jack Austin clashes with his new Chief Constable, a retired colonel. When the Constable is kidnapped and dismembered, Austin investigates a series of cryptic murders that includes a beheaded minister, a drowned woman and some terrorists. As he works to solve the cases, Austin is plagued by an inner conflict that could push him to become a conspirator himself. Can he catch the perpetrator before it's too late? A Barrow Boy's Cadenza: DCI Jack Austin is back after surviving a terrorist explosion, a tutu incident, and a night of celebratory drinking. Now, he's proposed an alliance with a newly-turned criminal informant. After a string of high-profile murders, Austin goes deep undercover and uncovers a villainous scheme that threatens the Star Chamber. In a world turned upside down, Austin needs to rely on his courage, skill, and improbable luck to bring the perpetrators of the far-reaching scheme to justice. Ghost And Ragman Roll: Jack's honeymoon in France takes an unexpected turn as he's dragged into a string of misdeeds, and upon returning to Portsmouth, he finds himself dealing with an ambitious new detective who threatens his territory and his ego. But when a corpulent gangster disappears and a banker is murdered in Paris, Austin takes matters into his own hands, employing illogically effective tactics to solve the case and protect those he cares about. Merde And Mandarins: DCI Jack Austin comes out of retirement to investigate a series of targeted attacks on high-ranking civil servants in London, including the Defense and Home Office Secretaries. When his wife is kidnapped, Austin must balance the rescue mission with solving the case and uncovering the motives of the master conspirator. As the investigation leads to a chaotic conclusion, Austin must use all of his skills to uncover the supreme Machiavellian plot and find solace in a welcome retirement.