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Drift

Author : Rachel Maddow
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307461009
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Drift written by Rachel Maddow and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times bestseller that charts America’s dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war. Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow's Drift argues that we've drifted away from America's original ideals and become a nation weirdly at peace with perpetual war. To understand how we've arrived at such a dangerous place, Maddow takes us from the Vietnam War to today's war in Afghanistan, along the way exploring Reagan's radical presidency, the disturbing rise of executive authority, the gradual outsourcing of our war-making capabilities to private companies, the plummeting percentage of American families whose children fight our constant wars for us, and even the changing fortunes of G.I. Joe. Ultimately, she shows us just how much we stand to lose by allowing the scope of American military power to overpower our political discourse. Sensible yet provocative, dead serious yet seriously funny, Drift reinvigorates a "loud and jangly" political debate about our vast and confounding national security state.

Radetzky's Marches

Author : Michael Embree
Publisher : Helion and Company
ISBN 13 : 1909384739
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Radetzky's Marches written by Michael Embree and published by Helion and Company. This book was released on 2013-10-19 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1848, revolution threatened to sweep away the old order throughout Europe. In the Austrian-occupied north of Italy, newly nurtured nationalism, further fueled by economic issues, prompted open revolt in Lombardy and Venetia. The Austrian army in Italy, commanded by 82-year-old Field Marshal Radetzky, soon saw itself under further threat from the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont, that of Naples, and the Papal States, as well as thousands of volunteers, all determined to rid Italy of the occupier. Seemingly under attack from all sides, the Austrian Army was forced to concentrate in the famous 'Quadrilateral', formed by the fortress cities of Peschiera, Mantua, Legnago, and Verona, losing deserters by the thousand, to prepare for the war to follow, a war that would continue into the following year. This volume narrates the remarkable tale of how one old general quite possibly saved an empire. With iron will, the great personal affection of his men, and some luck, Radetzky maintained his army, and finally defeated his opponents. Such was the impact of the 1848 campaign, that Johann Strauss the Elder wrote the 'Radetzky March', in the Field Marshal's honor! The comprehensive story of the revolts and the subsequent military campaigns is recounted here, taken from many and varied sources, including a considerable number of contemporary and first-hand accounts, as well official reports from all sides. Radetzky's Marches is profusely illustrated, and is accompanied by maps, charts, diagrams and extensive orders-of-battle.

Genocide by Attrition

Author : Samuel Totten
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351517805
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Genocide by Attrition written by Samuel Totten and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume documents the Sudanese government's campaign of genocidal attacks and forced starvation against the people of the Nuba Mountains in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Genocide by Attrition provides powerful insights and analysis of the phenomenon and bears witness to ongoing atrocities. This second edition features more interviews, a new introduction, and a revised and more detailed historical overview. Among the themes that link most of the interviews are: the political and economic disenfranchisement of the Nuba people by the government of Sudan; the destruction of villages and farms and the murder and deaths of the Nuba people; the forced relocation into so-called "peace camps" and the impact of forced starvation. The book also documents the frustration of the Nuba people at being left out of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed between the South and the North in 2005, President Omar al Bashir's threats against the Nuba people, and the crisis in the Nuba Mountains since June 2011. Genocide by Attrition provides a solid sense of the antecedents to the genocidal actions in the Nuba Mountains. It introduces the main actors, describes how the Nuba were forced into starvation by their government, and tells how those who managed to survive did so. Samuel Totten provides a valuable resource to study the imposition of starvation as a tool of genocide.

The Defence of Duffer's Drift

Author : Ernest Dunlop Swinton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Defence of Duffer's Drift written by Ernest Dunlop Swinton and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Genocide of Indigenous Peoples

Author : Robert Hitchcock
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351517740
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Genocide of Indigenous Peoples written by Robert Hitchcock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An estimated 350 to 600 million indigenous people reside across the globe. Numerous governments fail to recognize its indigenous peoples living within their borders. It was not until the latter part of the twentieth century that the genocide of indigenous peoples became a major focus of human rights activists, non-governmental organizations, international development and finance institutions such as the United Nations and the World Bank, and indigenous and other community-based organizations. Scholars and activists began paying greater attention to the struggles between Fourth World peoples and First, Second, and Third World states because of illegal actions of nation-states against indigenous peoples, indigenous groups' passive and active resistance to top-down development, and concerns about the impacts of transnational forces including what is now known as globalization. This volume offers a clear message for genocide scholars and others concerned with crimes against humanity and genocide: much greater attention must be paid to the plight of all peoples, indigenous and otherwise, no matter how small in scale, how little-known, how "invisible" or hidden from view.

Constantius II

Author : Peter Crawford
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473883938
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book Constantius II written by Peter Crawford and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling biography of Constantine I’s heir: “Excellent analyses of a number of battles and sieges . . . a good read for anyone interested in the late Empire.” —The NYMAS Review The reign of Constantius II has been overshadowed by that of his titanic father, Constantine the Great, and his cousin and successor, the pagan Julian. But as Peter Crawford shows, Constantius deserves to be remembered as a very capable ruler in dangerous, tumultuous times. When Constantine I died in 337, twenty-year-old Constantius and his two brothers, Constans and Constantine II, all received the title of Augustus to reign as equal co-emperors. In 340, however, Constantine II was killed in a fraternal civil war with Constans. The two remaining brothers shared the Empire for the next ten years, with Constantius ruling Egypt and the Asian provinces, constantly threatened by the Sassanid Persian Empire. Constans in turn was killed by the usurper Magnentius in 350. Constantius refused to accept this fait accompli, made war on Magnentius, and defeated him at the battles of Mursa Major and Mons Seleucus, leading Magnentius to commit suicide. Constantius was now sole ruler of the Empire—but it was an empire beset by external enemies. This historical biography recounts Constantius’ life and his successful campaigns against the Germanic Alamanni along the Rhine and the Quadi and Sarmatians across the Danube, as well as his efforts against the Persians in the East, which had more mixed results—and reveals how he defended the Empire until his dying day.

South Sudan

Author : Edward Thomas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783604069
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book South Sudan written by Edward Thomas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-08 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2011, South Sudan became independent following a long war of liberation, that gradually became marked by looting, raids and massacres pitting ethnic communities against each other. In this remarkably comprehensive work, Edward Thomas provides a multi-layered examination of what is happening in the country today. Writing from the perspective of South Sudan's most mutinous hinterland, Jonglei state, the book explains how this area was at the heart of South Sudan's struggle. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and a broad range of sources, this book gives a sharply focused, fresh account of South Sudan's long, unfinished fight for liberation.

Nuclear Disarmament

Author : Bård Steen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429649355
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Nuclear Disarmament written by Bård Steen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, Nuclear Disarmament, provides a comprehensive overview of nuclear disarmament and a critical assessment of the way forward. Comprising essays by leading scholars on nuclear disarmament, the book highlights arguments in favour and against a world without nuclear weapons (global zero). In doing so, it proposes a new baseline from which an everchanging nuclear arms control and disarmament agenda can be assessed. Numerous paths to nuclear disarmament have been proposed and scrutinized, and with an increasing number of countries signing off on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, it is vital to ask which path is the most likely and realistic to succeed. The chapters here also address the rapid pace of technological, political and climatic developments, in relation to nuclear disarmament, and how they add to the complexity of the issue. Taking care to unite the different tribes in the debate, this book provides a community of dissent at a time when academic tribalism all too often prevents genuine debates from taking place. This book will be of interest to students of nuclear proliferation, arms control, security studies and International Relations.

Not Enough

Author : Samuel Moyn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067498482X
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Not Enough written by Samuel Moyn and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “No one has written with more penetrating skepticism about the history of human rights.” —Adam Kirsch, Wall Street Journal “Moyn breaks new ground in examining the relationship between human rights and economic fairness.” —George Soros The age of human rights has been kindest to the rich. While state violations of political rights have garnered unprecedented attention in recent decades, a commitment to material equality has quietly disappeared. In its place, economic liberalization has emerged as the dominant force. In this provocative book, Samuel Moyn considers how and why we chose to make human rights our highest ideals while simultaneously neglecting the demands of broader social and economic justice. Moyn places the human rights movement in relation to this disturbing shift and explores why the rise of human rights has occurred alongside exploding inequality. “Moyn asks whether human-rights theorists and advocates, in the quest to make the world better for all, have actually helped to make things worse... Sure to provoke a wider discussion.” —Adam Kirsch, Wall Street Journal “A sharpening interrogation of the liberal order and the institutions of global governance created by, and arguably for, Pax Americana... Consistently bracing.” —Pankaj Mishra, London Review of Books “Moyn suggests that our current vocabularies of global justice—above all our belief in the emancipatory potential of human rights—need to be discarded if we are work to make our vastly unequal world more equal... [A] tour de force.” —Los Angeles Review of Books

Atsa

Author : Raymond Greiner
Publisher : PTP Book Division
ISBN 13 : 1986942295
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (869 download)

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Download or read book Atsa written by Raymond Greiner and published by PTP Book Division. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story traces the life of a half Navajo infant boy abandoned by his birth mother on the steps of a Catholic Navajo Mission School. The mission’s staff cared for him during early childhood. Betty, the school’s cook was Navajo and named the abandoned child Atsa. Interpreted definition is eagle. Atsa was born mute causing social challenges he was forced to confront. A retired college professor widower eventually adopts him. Atsa displayed high level academic prowess and this trait combined with sign language and written responses allowed him to transcend his disability and achieve a medical degree from The University Of New Mexico on a full academic scholarship. His adoptive father adds significant input to Atsa’s life combined with his formative years, as Sister Cynthia served as Atsa’s surrogate mother at the mission school and influenced Atsa’s progression through adulthood.

Archaic and Classical Greece

Author : Michael Hewson Crawford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521296380
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (963 download)

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Download or read book Archaic and Classical Greece written by Michael Hewson Crawford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-01-13 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sourcebook in translation covering the history of Greece from archaic times through to the rise of Philip of Macedon. Sources translated are mainly the Greek historians themselves.

The Fortnightly

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 908 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Fortnightly written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Transit Journal

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1240 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transit Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mayhem of a Country

Author : Professor Issam AW Mohamed
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1300905026
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Mayhem of a Country written by Professor Issam AW Mohamed and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The longest civil war in the African continent between North and South Sudan ended by secession. However, similar conditions triggered other civil wars in other regions in the country. Genocide occurred during the strive which forecast eminent separations with economic and demographic catastrophes.

Conflict in the Nuba Mountains

Author : Samuel Totten
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113501535X
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Conflict in the Nuba Mountains written by Samuel Totten and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive overview of the embattled Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan, where the Government of Sudan committed "genocide by attrition" in the early 1990s and where violent conflict reignited again in 2011. A range of contributors – scholars, journalists, and activists – trace the genesis of the crisis from colonial era neglect to institutionalized insecurity, emphasizing the failure of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement to address the political and social concerns of the Nuba people. This volume is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the nuances of the contemporary crisis in the Nuba Mountains and explore its potential solutions.

Rethinking the Industrial Revolution

Author : Michael Andrew Žmolek
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004251790
Total Pages : 935 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking the Industrial Revolution written by Michael Andrew Žmolek and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-08-19 with total page 935 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Rethinking the Industrial Revolution: Five Centuries of Transition from Agrarian to Industrial Capitalism in England, Michael Andrew Žmolek offers the first in-depth study of the evolution of English manufacturing from the feudal and early modern periods within the context of the development of agrarian capitalism. With an emphasis on the relationship between Parliament and working Britons, this work challenges readers to 'rethink' the common perception of the role of the state in the first industrial revolution as essentially passive. The work chronicles how a long train of struggles led by artisans resisting efforts by employers to transform production along capitalist lines, prompted employers to appeal to the state to suppress this resistance by coercion.

Everybody's Magazine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Everybody's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: