Commanding Petty Despots: The American Navy in the New Republic, Sheppard Thomas
Автор: Brock R. K. Название: Paroles of the Army of northern Virginia R.E. Lee, gen., /C.S.A. commanding surrendered at Appomattox C.H., Va. April 9, 1865, to Lieutenant Genral U. ISBN: 9353809428 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789353809423 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 34610.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Автор: Angell Israel, Field Edward Название: Diary of Colonel Israel Angell, commanding the Second Rhode Island continental regiment during the American revolution, 1778-1781 ISBN: 9353803187 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789353803186 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 22810.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Автор: Taaffe Stephen R. Название: Commanding the Pacific: Marine Corps Generals in World War II ISBN: 1682477088 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781682477083 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 33980.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Analyses the fifteen high-level generals who led the Marine Corps` six combat divisions and two corps in World War II. Stephen Taaffe concludes that these leaders played an indispensable and unheralded role in organising, training, and leading their men to victory.
Автор: Parisi Tony Название: We Stick Together: Lessons Learned from Commanding USS the Sullivans (Ddg-68) ISBN: 1667820664 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781667820668 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 13790.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: "We Stick Together" is a story for anyone interested in life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Captain Tony Parisi provides readers with insight into what it is like to serve aboard a historic U.S. Navy warship, USS THE SULLIVANS (DDG-68), and delivers sage wisdom and valuable lessons learned from a life at sea. "We Stick Together" is a sea going leadership memoir that explores the Mediterranean and Black Seas as well as the inner self. The theme of this entertaining and detailed book revolves around the ships motto We Stick Together and focuses on how the sacrifice of the Sullivan brothers continues to motivate sailors to strive for excellence as they prepare for war by focusing on what is most important in life. Love, learning, and happiness flourish aboard USS THE SULLIVANS (DDG-68) guided by the spirits of real American heroes, George, Francis, Joseph, Madison, and Albert Sullivan. This is the story of average selfless Americans doing extraordinary things and in the process finding meaningful purpose in life. It is a true story about winning at sea and in life. We Stick Together is a positive, entertaining, and enlightening journey aboard a modern warship as told by the captain, the son of a fisherman and a simple kind of man, who believes in critical thinking, rock and roll, the American dream, and the importance of family. Captain Tony shares his personal journal entries and inner thoughts, taking the reader on a journey across the sea and into the soul. Navy traditions and customs are explained through pop culture, Ancient Greek philosophy, and humorous sea stories that involve UFOs, rock music, Magellan, the Miami Dolphins Cheerleaders, and a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. This is a story of the pursuit of truth and excellence that illuminates the meaning of true happiness, or what the ancient Greeks called eudaimonia. We Stick Together is a story for everyone who seeks fulfillment and purpose in life. Get underway and shift colors with the crew of USS THE SULLIVANS (DDG-68) on a rock and roll voyage of happiness, self-realization, and enlightenment.
Much valuable practical information contained in this collection of circulars that would help battalion commanders in France, in the later stages of The Great War. Covers the use of Scouts, Musketry, Attack in the open, Trench warfare, contact patrol work by aeroplanes, Courts-Martial in France.
Автор: Colburn Forrest D. Название: Managing the Commanding Heights: Nicaragua`s State Enterprises ISBN: 0520304071 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520304079 Издательство: Wiley Цена: 35910.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Revolutions have often occurred in poor countries. Although triumphant revolutionaries may lack the resources to assume complete responsibility for their country's economy, they do tend to nationalize what Lenin called the "commanding heights"--those enterprises that meet the strategic needs of the polity. How these enterprises are administered is consequential, and at times decisive, for the course of revolutionary change.
In Managing the Commanding Heights, Forrest D. Colburn explores the Sandinistas' management of Nicaragua's state enterprises, with an emphasis on the critical agrarian sector. Central to the book are three lively and instructive case studies that provide a penetrating glimpse into life in post-revolutionary Nicaragua. In analyzing these cases, Colburn explains the intentions of the Sandinista elite and links them with choices made at individual enterprises.
Colburn argues that state enterprises have been politically useful but economically unsuccessful. Even with the unseen political advantages of state enterprises, the pronounced financial losses of nationalized farms and factories exacerbate the economic--and ultimately political--vulnerability of a regime already weakened by counterrevolution. The evidence demonstrates trenchant limitations to a revolutionary state's capacity to improve popular welfare. State capacity is undermined by multiple factors: international constraints on the autonomy of post-revolutionary regimes, sheer poverty, the unintended but inevitable political manipulation of the economy, the lack of managerial ability among even well-intentioned elites, and a revolutionary mentalit that erodes rationality. These same difficulties have bedeviled other post-revolutionary regimes, notably those in Africa.
Managing the Commanding Heights is essential reading for anyone interested in the dynamics of revolutionary regimes and the possibilities for radical change in poor countries.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.
Автор: MacKinnon W. H. Название: The Journal of the C. I. V. in South Africa: The Boer War Record of the London Volunteers by Their Commanding Officer ISBN: 0857069837 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857069832 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 20710.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: London men at war against the Boers The turn of the 19th century to 20th was a time of popularity for the military volunteer movement in the British Empire. When the Anglo-Boer War broke out the City Imperial Volunteers quickly filled its ranks with the men of the City of London anxious to serve their country in South Africa. The venture was supported by the Lord Mayor and the popularity of London's effort had widespread appeal. All manner of men hurried to join the C. I. V's ranks and many of them were professionals from the city's law firms and financial institutions, artists, writers or gentlemen of private means. The author of The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers was one of their number. This book is comprised of the journal entries of the officer commanding the regiment and it follows the C. I. V's wartime experiences from recruitment to its return home. The C. I. V was well regarded on campaign and earned the praise of peers and senior officers alike. This book delivers its information in the sober manner one might expect of its author in the circumstances, but is nevertheless essential source material about each part of the unit-the infantry, mounted infantry, cyclists, medical staff etc. Included as an appendix is a substantial honour role that will be of special interest to genealogists. Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands.
Автор: Lesley J. Gordon, Megan L. Bever, Laura Mammina, Gary W. Gallagher, Lawrence A. Kreiser Jr, T. Michael Parrish, Adam Petty, Charity Rakestraw, Glenn B Название: American Discord: The Republic and Its People in the Civil War Era ISBN: 0807169692 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807169698 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 41800.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A panoramic collection of essays written by both established and emerging scholars, American Discord examines critical aspects of the Civil War era, including rhetoric and nationalism, politics and violence, gender, race, and religion. Beginning with an overview of the political culture of the 1860s, the collection reveals that most Americans entered the decade opposed to political compromise. Essays from Megan L. Bever, Glenn David Brasher, Lawrence A. Kreiser Jr., and Christian McWhirter discuss the rancorous political climate of the day and the sense of racial superiority woven into the political fabric of the era. Shifting focus to the actual war, Rachel K. Deale, Lindsay Rae Privette, Adam H. Petty, and A. Wilson Greene contribute essays on internal conflict, lack of compromise, and commitment to white supremacy. Here, contributors adopt a broad understanding of ""battle,"" considering environmental effects and the impact of the war after the battles were over. Essays by Laura Mammina and Charity Rakestraw and Kristopher A. Teters reveal that while the war blurred the boundaries, it ultimately prompted Americans to grasp for the familiar established hierarchies of gender and race. Examinations of chaos and internal division suggest that the political culture of Reconstruction was every bit as contentious as the war itself. Former Confederates decried the barbarity of their Yankee conquerors, while Republicans portrayed Democrats as backward rubes in need of civilizing. Essays by Kevin L. Hughes, Daniel J. Burge, T. Robert Hart, John F. Marszalek, and T. Michael Parrish highlight Americans' continued reliance on hyperbolic rhetoric. American Discord embraces a multifaceted view of the Civil War and its aftermath, attempting to capture the complicated human experiences of the men and women caught in the conflict. These essays acknowledge that ordinary people and their experiences matter, and the dynamics among family members, friends, and enemies have far-reaching consequences.
Автор: Krasner Steve D. Название: How to Make Love to a Despot: And Other Ways to Change American Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century ISBN: 163149659X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781631496592 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 24280.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: After generations of foreign policy failures, America can make the world safer by abandoning utopian goals and working with difficult characters.
