Uncertain warriors, Fitzgerald, David (university College Cork)
Автор: Hook, Richard Название: Warriors at the Little Bighorn 1876 ISBN: 1841766666 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781841766669 Издательство: Osprey Рейтинг: Цена: 1929.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The battle which took place on the Little Bighorn river on June 25, 1876 has passed into legend as "Custer's Last Stand." This remarkable book is a unique analysis of the oral and pictorial evidence for the appearance of nearly 30 named Sioux and Cheyenne warriors who were present that day, and for their parts in the battle. The fruit of many years' study by one of today's most internationally respected interpreters and illustrators of Native American material culture, it offers biographical notes and meticulously researched color reconstructions, together with rare photographs and pictographs.
Описание: The Rodriguez/Nava Family can boast a rich legacy full of historical moments and wondrous occasions. From 1731, when Salvador Rodriguez helped establish the first municipal government in Texas, to the 1830s, when family members fought valiantly in the Texas Revolution, this book deep-dives into archival documents and sheds light on little-known moments of familial history that impacted the lives of many to come. The book continues through to 1904, when members of the family settled in the Gulf Coast town of Rockport, Texas, to ultimately become one of the largest extended families in the region. We follow the family's journey from making the decision to leave the safety of their homes in the Canary Islands on through the arduous journey to Spanish Texas, all the way to the present day. There are memories, historical events, anecdotes, and vintage family recipes that have been passed down for all to enjoy. This book includes transcriptions and translations of rare, archival documents and is a must read, not only for those interested in family histories but also for those interested in Texas history.
Автор: Brucken, Rowland. Название: A most uncertain crusade : ISBN: 0875804713 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780875804712 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 7550.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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A Most Uncertain Crusade traces and analyzes the emergence of human rights as both an international concern and as a controversial domestic issue for US policy makers during and after World War II. Rowland Brucken focuses on officials in the State Department, at the United Nations, and within certain domestic non-governmental organizations, and explains why, after issuing wartime declarations that called for the definition and enforcement of international human rights standards, the US government refused to ratify the first UN treaties that fulfilled those twin purposes. The Truman and Eisenhower administrations worked to weaken the scope and enforcement mechanisms of early human rights agreements, and gradually withdrew support for Senate ratification. A small but influential group of isolationist–oriented senators, led by John Bricker (R-OH), warned that the treaties would bring about socialism, destroy white supremacy, and eviscerate the Bill of Rights. At the UN, a growing bloc of developing nations demanded the inclusion of economic guarantees, support for decolonization, and strong enforcement measures, all of which Washington opposed.
Prior to World War II, international law considered the protection of individual rights to fall largely under the jurisdiction of national governments. Alarmed by fascist tyranny and guided by a Wilsonian vision of global cooperation in pursuit of human rights, President Roosevelt issued the Four Freedoms and the Atlantic Charter. Behind the scenes, the State Department planners carefully considered how an international organization could best protect those guarantees. Their work paid off at the 1945 San Francisco Conference, which vested the UN with an unprecedented opportunity to define and protect the human rights of individuals.
After two years of negotiations, the UN General Assembly unanimously approved its first human rights treaty, the Genocide Convention. The UN Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR), led by Eleanor Roosevelt, drafted the nonbinding Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. Subsequent efforts to craft an enforceable covenant of individual rights, though, bogged down quickly. A deadlock occurred as western nations, communist states, and developing countries disagreed on the inclusion of economic and social guarantees, the right of self-determination, and plans for implementation.
Meanwhile, a coalition of groups within the United States doubted the wisdom of American accession to any human rights treaties. Led by the American Bar Association and Senator Bricker, opponents proclaimed that ratification would lead to a U.N. led tyrannical world socialistic government. The backlash caused President Eisenhower to withdraw from the covenant drafting process. Brucken shows how the American human rights policy had come full circle: Eisenhower, like Roosevelt, issued statements that merely celebrated western values of freedom and democracy, criticized human rights records of other countries while at the same time postponed efforts to have the UN codify and enforce a list of binding rights due in part to America's own human rights violations.
Автор: Giacomelli, Joseph Название: Uncertain climes ISBN: 0226824438 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226824437 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Livesay Daniel Название: Children of Uncertain Fortune ISBN: 1469634430 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469634432 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 5957.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: By tracing the largely forgotten eighteenth-century migration of elite mixed-race individuals from Jamaica to Great Britain, Children of Uncertain Fortune reinterprets the evolution of British racial ideologies as a matter of negotiating family membership. Using wills, legal petitions, family correspondences, and inheritance lawsuits, Daniel Livesay is the first scholar to follow the hundreds of children born to white planters and Caribbean women of color who crossed the ocean for educational opportunities, professional apprenticeships, marriage prospects, or refuge from colonial prejudices.The presence of these elite children of color in Britain pushed popular opinion in the British Atlantic world toward narrower conceptions of race and kinship. Members of Parliament, colonial assemblymen, merchant kings, and cultural arbiters - the very people who decided Britain' colonial policies, debated abolition, passed marital laws, and arbitrated inheritance disputes - rubbed shoulders with these mixed-race Caribbean migrants in parlors and sitting rooms. Upper-class Britons also resented colonial transplants and coveted their inheritances; family intimacy gave way to racial exclusion. By the early nineteenth century, relatives had become strangers.
Автор: James Brubaker Название: Proud to Be, Volume 10: Writing by American Warriors ISBN: 1733015353 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781733015356 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 2633.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Showcases writing from military veterans and their families from across the US, including writing about WWI and WWII, Vietnam, the Gulf Conflict, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
Описание: Scholars attribute the collapse of the Soviet Union in part to the militarization of its economy. But during the Cold War, economic studies of the USSR largely neglected the military sector of the Soviet economy-its dominant and most successful part. This is all the more puzzling in that academic study of the Soviet economy in the US was specifically created to help fight the Cold War.
If the rival superpower maintained the peacetime war economy, why did experts failto tell us when it mattered? Vladimir Kontorovich shows how Western economists came up with strained non-military interpretations of several important aspects of the Soviet economy which the Soviets themselves acknowledged to have military significance. Such "civilianization" suggests that the neglect of the military sector was not forced on scholars of the Soviet economy by secrecy; it was their choice. The explanation of this choice in Reluctant Cold Warriors raises many questions about the internal workings of economic Sovietology and its intellectual and political background.
Are peripheral academic fields mimicking the agenda of the discipline's mainstream more likely to produce faulty scholarship? Did the search for the essence of socialism distract researchers from the actual Soviet economy? Were economic Sovietologists under political pressure, and if so, in what direction?This book answers these questions in a way that has broad relevance for national security uses of social science today.
Описание: What essential leadership lessons do we learn by distilling the actions and ideas of great military commanders such as George Washington, Dwight D. Featuring new chapters on transitional leadership, innovative leadership, and authentic leadership, this insightful book offers valuable perspectives on the art of military command in American history.
Описание: Unwanted Warriors uncovers the history of Canada’s first casualties of the Great War – men who tried to enlist but were deemed “unfit for service.” What impact did military exclusion have on these men? Nic Clarke looks for answers in the service files of 3,400 rejected volunteers and explores the mechanics of the medical examination, the physical and psychological qualities that the authorities believed made a fighting man, and how evaluations changed as the war dragged on. In the process, he exposes the deleterious effects that socially constructed norms about health and fitness had on individual men and Canadian society during the First World War.
Автор: E. Donald Two-Rivers Название: Briefcase Warriors: Stories for the Stage ISBN: 0806169133 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780806169132 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 2753.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In Briefcase Warriors, a collection of six fast-paced, thought-provoking plays, E. Donald Two-Rivers presents an intricate and multifaceted view of contemporary American Indian urban life. Alternately sad, humorous, or discomfiting, these plays range from one-act vignettes accessible to young adults to extended portrayals of the seedier side of urban existence. Fast-talking and hard-living, the characters depicted by Two-Rivers struggle to survive the sometimes hostile environs of a society whose members think of them as a vanishing race.The plays included are: Winter Summit or the Bang-Bang Incident; Forked Tongues; Chili Corn; Coyote Sits in Judgment; Shattered Dream; and Old Indian Trick (An Old Urban Indian Story as Told by an Old Urban Indian Who May Have Lied).
Автор: Grimes, Richard S. Название: Western delaware indian nation, 1730-1795 ISBN: 1611462266 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781611462265 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 11953.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: During the eighteenth century, the three tribes of the Delaware Indians underwent dramatic transformation as they migrated westward across the Allegheny mountain. Combining native oral traditions, ethnology, and colonial history Grimes tells a compelling story of the Delaware Indian nation; their emergence, triumphs, tribulations, and tragic fall.
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