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Book Synopsis Scholars in Foxholes by : Louis E. Keefer
Download or read book Scholars in Foxholes written by Louis E. Keefer and published by McFarland. This book was released on 1988 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes a short-lived World War II program to train gifted young men in engineering and languages.
Download or read book American Empire written by Neil Smith and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-03-19 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American Empire, constructed over the last century, long ago overtook European colonialism, and it has been widely assumed that the new globalism it espoused took us "beyond geography." Neil Smith debunks that assumption, offering an incisive argument that American globalism had a distinct geography and was pieced together as part of a powerful geographical vision. The power of geography did not die with the twilight of European colonialism, but it did change fundamentally. That the inauguration of the American Century brought a loss of public geographical sensibility in the United States was itself a political symptom of the emerging empire. This book provides a vital geographical-historical context for understanding the power and limits of contemporary globalization, which can now be seen as representing the third of three distinct historical moments of U.S. global ambition. The story unfolds through a decisive account of the career of Isaiah Bowman (1878–1950), the most famous American geographer of the twentieth century. For nearly four decades Bowman operated around the vortex of state power, working to bring an American order to the global landscape. An explorer on the famous Machu Picchu expedition of 1911 who came to be known first as "Woodrow Wilson’s geographer," and later as Frankin D. Roosevelt’s, Bowman was present at the creation of U.S. liberal foreign policy. A quarter-century later, Bowman was at the center of Roosevelt’s State Department, concerned with the disposition of Germany and heightened U.S. access to European colonies; he was described by Dean Acheson as a key "architect of the United Nations." In that period he was a leader in American science, served as president of Johns Hopkins University, and became an early and vociferous cold warrior. A complicated, contradictory, and at times controversial figure who was very much in the public eye, he appeared on the cover of Time magazine. Bowman’s career as a geographer in an era when the value of geography was deeply questioned provides a unique window into the contradictory uses of geographical knowledge in the construction of the American Empire. Smith’s historical excavation reveals, in broad strokes yet with lively detail, that today's American-inspired globalization springs not from the 1980s but from two earlier moments in 1919 and 1945, both of which ended in failure. By recharting the geography of this history, Smith brings the politics—and the limits—of contemporary globalization sharply into focus.
Book Synopsis See Naples and Die by : Robert B. Ellis
Download or read book See Naples and Die written by Robert B. Ellis and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-07-27 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1943, 18-year-old Robert Ellis joined the elite U.S. Army Ski Troops of the 10th Mountain Division. This division has been called the most elite and publicized American military unit in World War II. While a member of the unit Ellis maintained a detailed battle diary and conducted extensive wartime correspondence. Upon their arrival in Italy, the U.S. Army Ski Troops played a major role in the defeat of the Germans in Italy. They also faced some of the bloodiest combat of the war; the 10th Mountain Division suffered the heaviest casualties relative to time-in-combat of any U.S. division in the Italian campaign. While the author details the exceptional service of the unit, he also explores the brutal reality of infantry service and reveals how the battles were falsely represented by the media.
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Book Synopsis Contending with Modernity by : Philip Gleason
Download or read book Contending with Modernity written by Philip Gleason and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1995 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed history of Catholic higher education in the USA, which emphasizes the intellectual and institutional dimensions of the subject.
Book Synopsis A Foxhole Was My Home by : Darrell Kilburn
Download or read book A Foxhole Was My Home written by Darrell Kilburn and published by . This book was released on 1915-02-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WWII Memoirs from a United States soldier.
Book Synopsis Total Mobilization by : Roy Scranton
Download or read book Total Mobilization written by Roy Scranton and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since World War II, the story of the trauma hero—the noble white man psychologically wounded by his encounter with violence—has become omnipresent in America’s narratives of war, an imaginary solution to the contradictions of American political hegemony. In Total Mobilization, Roy Scranton cuts through the fog of trauma that obscures World War II, uncovering a lost history and reframing the way we talk about war today. Considering often overlooked works by James Jones, Wallace Stevens, Martha Gellhorn, and others, alongside cartoons and films, Scranton investigates the role of the hero in industrial wartime, showing how such writers struggled to make sense of problems that continue to plague us today: the limits of American power, the dangers of political polarization, and the conflicts between nationalism and liberalism. By turning our attention to the ways we make war meaningful—and by excavating the politics implicit within the myth of the traumatized hero—Total Mobilization revises the way we understand not only World War II, but all of postwar American culture.
Book Synopsis The Strategist by : Bartholomew Sparrow
Download or read book The Strategist written by Bartholomew Sparrow and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an in-depth portrait of a man whose career has been intimately linked to the great transformations in U.S. foreign policy—from the last third of the Cold War, to September 11, 2001, and up to the present.
Download or read book Army History written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Home Front to Battlefront by : Frank Lavin
Download or read book Home Front to Battlefront written by Frank Lavin and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-15 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carl Lavin was a high school senior when Pearl Harbor was attacked. The Canton, Ohio, native was eighteen when he enlisted, a decision that would take him with the US Army from training across the United States and Britain to combat with the 84th Infantry Division in the Battle of the Bulge. Home Front to Battlefront is the tale of a foot soldier who finds himself thrust into a world where he and his unit grapple with the horrors of combat, the idiocies of bureaucracy, and the oddities of life back home—all in the same day. The book is based on Carl’s personal letters, his recollections and those of the people he served beside, official military history, private papers, and more. Home Front to Battlefront contributes the rich details of one soldier’s experience to the broader literature on World War II. Lavin’s adventures, in turn disarming and sobering, will appeal to general readers, veterans, educators, and students of the war. As a history, the book offers insight into the wartime career of a Jewish Ohioan in the military, from enlistment to training through overseas deployment. As a biography, it reflects the emotions and the role of the individual in a total war effort that is all too often thought of as a machine war in which human soldiers were merely interchangeable cogs.
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Download or read book Review of Current Military Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Quarterly Review of Military Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Professional Journal of the United States Army written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Huntyng and Fyndyng Out of the Romish Fox... by : William Turner
Download or read book The Huntyng and Fyndyng Out of the Romish Fox... written by William Turner and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Huntyng and Fyndyng Out of the Romish Fox ... Amended and Curtailed: with a Short Account of the Author Prefixed, by R. Potts ... Basyl: Imprynted in the Year 1543. Cambridge; Reprinted, Etc by : William Turner
Download or read book The Huntyng and Fyndyng Out of the Romish Fox ... Amended and Curtailed: with a Short Account of the Author Prefixed, by R. Potts ... Basyl: Imprynted in the Year 1543. Cambridge; Reprinted, Etc written by William Turner and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: