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Author :Douglas Edward Leach Publisher :New York : Macmillan Company ; London : Collier-Macmillan Publishers ISBN 13 : Total Pages :634 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Arms for Empire by : Douglas Edward Leach
Download or read book Arms for Empire written by Douglas Edward Leach and published by New York : Macmillan Company ; London : Collier-Macmillan Publishers. This book was released on 1973 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Genesis of the American Military Tradition; The Opening Stages of Armed Conflict, 1622-1689; The Anglo-French Struggle Begins: King Williams Warl, 1689-1697; The Struggle Resumes: Queen Annes War, 1702-1713; "Cold War" Eighteenth-Century Style, 1713-1738; The War of the 1740s; Problems of a Military Era; Dangerous Interlude, 1748-1754; The Climactic Struggle for Empire: First Phase, 1755-1757; The Climactic Struggle for Empire: Second Phase,1758-1760; The Transition to Peace and Revolution.
Book Synopsis Arms for Empire by : Douglas Edward Leach
Download or read book Arms for Empire written by Douglas Edward Leach and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Arms & Empire written by Richard Krooth and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Empire of Guns written by Priya Satia and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2018 BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE AND SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE By a prize-winning young historian, an authoritative work that reframes the Industrial Revolution, the expansion of British empire, and emergence of industrial capitalism by presenting them as inextricable from the gun trade "A fascinating and important glimpse into how violence fueled the industrial revolution, Priya Satia's book stuns with deep scholarship and sparkling prose."--Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies We have long understood the Industrial Revolution as a triumphant story of innovation and technology. Empire of Guns, a rich and ambitious new book by award-winning historian Priya Satia, upends this conventional wisdom by placing war and Britain's prosperous gun trade at the heart of the Industrial Revolution and the state's imperial expansion. Satia brings to life this bustling industrial society with the story of a scandal: Samuel Galton of Birmingham, one of Britain's most prominent gunmakers, has been condemned by his fellow Quakers, who argue that his profession violates the society's pacifist principles. In his fervent self-defense, Galton argues that the state's heavy reliance on industry for all of its war needs means that every member of the British industrial economy is implicated in Britain's near-constant state of war. Empire of Guns uses the story of Galton and the gun trade, from Birmingham to the outermost edges of the British empire, to illuminate the nation's emergence as a global superpower, the roots of the state's role in economic development, and the origins of our era's debates about gun control and the "military-industrial complex" -- that thorny partnership of government, the economy, and the military. Through Satia's eyes, we acquire a radically new understanding of this critical historical moment and all that followed from it. Sweeping in its scope and entirely original in its approach, Empire of Guns is a masterful new work of history -- a rigorous historical argument with a human story at its heart.
Book Synopsis The Sorrows of Empire by : Chalmers A. Johnson
Download or read book The Sorrows of Empire written by Chalmers A. Johnson and published by Verso. This book was released on 2004 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb
Book Synopsis The Empire in Arms [microform] by : Donald MacMaster
Download or read book The Empire in Arms [microform] written by Donald MacMaster and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Renaissance of Empire in Early Modern Europe by : Thomas James Dandelet
Download or read book The Renaissance of Empire in Early Modern Europe written by Thomas James Dandelet and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-14 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a bold revision of the traditional view of the Renaissance with a new comparative synthesis of global empires in early modern Europe. It examines the rise of a virulent form of Renaissance scholarship, art, and architecture that had as its aim the revival of the cultural and political grandeur of the Roman Empire in Western Europe. Imperial humanism, a distinct form of humanism, emerged in the earliest stages of the Italian Renaissance as figures such as Petrarch, Guarino, and Biondo sought to revive and advance the example of the Caesars and their empire. Originating in the courts of Ferrara, Mantua, and Rome, this movement also revived ancient imperial iconography in painting and sculpture, as well as Vitruvian architecture. While the Italian princes never realized their dream of political power equal to the ancient emperors, the Imperial Renaissance they set in motion reached its full realization in the global empires of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain, France, and Great Britain.
Book Synopsis The Call to Arms 1900-1901, Or, A Review of the Imperial Yeomanry Movement and Some Subjects Connected Therewith by : Henry Seton-Karr
Download or read book The Call to Arms 1900-1901, Or, A Review of the Imperial Yeomanry Movement and Some Subjects Connected Therewith written by Henry Seton-Karr and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Warfare and Empires by : Douglas M. Peers
Download or read book Warfare and Empires written by Douglas M. Peers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1997 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is commonplace that warfare was integral to the European expansion, pitting the superiorities of the European against the inferiorities of the 'native'. The aim of this book is to look deeper, and to examine the technological, political and economic structures and capacities of the competing forces that shaped their ability to wage war, and the impact that colonial wars had on European and non-European states and societies alike. Questions of the extent to which one side could adapt its military institutions, tactics and technology to those of its opponents figure prominently. This was far from an inevitable one-way process, and environment and disease remained vital factors. The studies also situate these conflicts within the broader debate concerning the so-called military revolution, and show that our ideas of this need to be reconsidered in the light of what was happening outside Europe.
Book Synopsis The Armed Strength of the German Empire by : Great Britain. War Office. Intelligence Division
Download or read book The Armed Strength of the German Empire written by Great Britain. War Office. Intelligence Division and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Military in Imperial History by : Alf Andrew Heggoy
Download or read book The Military in Imperial History written by Alf Andrew Heggoy and published by Scholarly Title. This book was released on 1984 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis In the Ruins of Empire by : Ronald Spector
Download or read book In the Ruins of Empire written by Ronald Spector and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2008-07-08 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times said of Ronald H. Spector’s classic account of the American struggle against the Japanese in World War II, “No future book on the Pacific War will be written without paying due tribute to Eagle Against the Sun.” Now Spector has returned with a book that is even more revealing. In the Ruins of Empire chronicles the startling aftermath of this crucial twentieth-century conflict. With access to recently available firsthand accounts by Chinese, Japanese, British, and American witnesses and previously top secret U.S. intelligence records, Spector tells for the first time the fascinating story of the deadly confrontations that broke out–or merely continued–in Asia after peace was proclaimed at the end of World War II. Under occupation by the victorious Allies, this part of the world was plunged into new power struggles or back into old feuds that in some ways were worse than the war itself. In the Ruins of Empire also shows how the U.S. and Soviet governments, as they secretly vied for influence in liberated lands, were soon at odds. At the time of the peace declaration, international suspicions were still strong. Joseph Stalin warned that “crazy cutthroats” might disrupt the surrender ceremony in Tokyo Bay. Die-hard Japanese officers plotted to seize the emperor’s palace to prevent an announcement of surrender, and clandestine relief forces were sent to rescue thousands of Allied POWs to prevent their being massacred. In the Ruins of Empire paints a vivid picture of the postwar intrigues and violence. In Manchuria, Russian “liberators” looted, raped, and killed innocent civilians, and a fratricidal rivalry continued between Chiang Kai-shek’s regime and Mao’s revolutionaries. Communist resistance forces in Malaya settled old scores and terrorized the indigenous population, while mujahideen holy warriors staged reprisals and terror killings against the Chinese–hundreds of innocent civilians were killed on both sides. In Indochina, a nativist political movement rose up to oppose the resumption of French colonial rule; one of the factions that struggled for supremacy was the Communist Viet Minh led by Ho Chi Minh. Korea became a powder keg with the Russians and Americans entangled in its north and south. And in Java, as the Indonesian novelist Idrus wrote, people brutalized by years of Japanese occupation “worshipped a new God in the form of bombs, submachine guns, and mortars.” Through impeccable research and provocative analysis, as well as compelling accounts of American, British, Indian, and Australian soldiers charged with overseeing the surrender and repatriation of millions of Japanese in the heart of dangerous territory, Spector casts new and startling light on this pivotal time–and sets the record straight about this contested and important period in history.
Book Synopsis Imperial Military Geography by : J. Fitzgerald Lee
Download or read book Imperial Military Geography written by J. Fitzgerald Lee and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Forging of the American Empire by : Sidney Lens
Download or read book The Forging of the American Empire written by Sidney Lens and published by New York : Crowell. This book was released on 1971 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a nation--the United States--that has conducted more than 160 wars and other military ventures while insisting that it loves peace and in the process has forged a world empire while maintaining its innocence of imperialistic designs. From Mexico to Lebanon, from China to the Dominican Republic, from Nicaragua to Vietnam, the United State has intervened regularly in the affairs of other nations. Yet the myth that Americans are benevolent, peace-loving people who will fight only to defend the rights of others lingers on; excesses and cruelties, though sometimes admitted, usually are regarded as momentary aberrations. -- Taken from book jacket flap.
Book Synopsis A Guide to the Study and Use of Military History by : John E. Jessup
Download or read book A Guide to the Study and Use of Military History written by John E. Jessup and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Guide to the Study and Use of Military History is designed to foster an appreciation of the value of military history and explain its uses and the resources available for its study. It is not a work to be read and lightly tossed aside, but one the career soldier should read again or use as a reference at those times during his career when necessity or leisure turns him to the contemplation of the military past.
Book Synopsis The Late Byzantine Army by : Mark C. Bartusis
Download or read book The Late Byzantine Army written by Mark C. Bartusis and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late Byzantine period was a time characterized by both civil strife and foreign invasion, framed by two cataclysmic events: the fall of Constantinople to the western Europeans in 1204 and again to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. Mark C. Bartusis here opens an extraordinary window on the Byzantine Empire during its last centuries by providing the first comprehensive treatment of the dying empire's military. Although the Byzantine army was highly visible, it was increasingly ineffective in preventing the incursion of western European crusaders into the Aegean, the advance of the Ottoman Turks into Europe, and the slow decline and eventual fall of the thousand-year Byzantine Empire. Using all the available Greek, western European, Slavic, and Turkish sources, Bartusis describes the evolution of the army both as an institution and as an instrument of imperial policy. He considers the army's size, organization, administration, and the varieties of soldiers, and he examines Byzantine feudalism and the army's impact on society and the economy. In its extensive use of soldier companies composed of foreign mercenaries, the Byzantine army had many parallels with those of western Europe; in the final analysis, Bartusis contends, the death of Byzantium was attributable more to a shrinking fiscal base than to any lack of creative military thinking on the part of its leaders.
Book Synopsis From Island to Empire by : John Seargeant Cyprian Bridge
Download or read book From Island to Empire written by John Seargeant Cyprian Bridge and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-10 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from From Island to Empire: A Short History of the Expansion of England by Force of Arms A Single state. The latter condition has not always been dwelled upon sufficiently. It is an exaggeration to date our Imperial structure from the days of Queen Elizabeth. In those days Englishmen paved the way for English colonial expansion and showed the lines along which it could be conducted; but the practical commencement of the Operation itself did not occur. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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