Essays and Addresses in War Time
Author : James Bryce Bryce (Viscount)
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 33,57 MB
Release : 1918
Category : World War, 1914-1918
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Author : James Bryce Bryce (Viscount)
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 33,57 MB
Release : 1918
Category : World War, 1914-1918
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Author : James Bryce
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Page : pages
File Size : 23,8 MB
Release : 1918
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Author : Haruko Taya Cook
Publisher : Phoenix
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 50,30 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Japan
ISBN : 9781842122389
Approximately three million Japanese died in a conflict that raged for years over much of the globe, from Hawaii to India, Alaska to Australia, causing death and suffering to untold millions in China, southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands, as well as pain and anguish to families of soldiers and civilians around the world. Yet how much do we know of Japan's war?In a sweeping panorama, Haruko Taya and Theodore Cook take us from the Japanese attacks on China in the 1930s to the Japanese home front during the devastating raids on Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, offering the first glimpses of how this violent conflict affected the lives of ordinary Japanese people.'Oral History of a compellingly high order.' Kirkus Reviews'This book seeks out the true feelings of the wartime generation [and] illuminates the contradictions between official views of the war and living testimony.' Yomiuri Shimbun
Author : Peter McMillan
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 15,76 MB
Release : 2019-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1794842470
A collection of 64 essays, written between 2002-2008, primarily about economics (theory versus 'actually existing capitalism' through various topics including economic growth, business cycles, globalization and monopoly power, and political science (theory versus 'actually existing democracy' through various topics including constitutional government, emergency powers, and civil liberties). The geographic focus is the English-speaking nations of the Northern Hemisphere, primarily the U.S. A significant reason for setting this time frame is that it corresponds to a period when the author was experiencing his own 'darkness at noon.'
Author : Pietro S. Nivola
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 25,89 MB
Release : 2012-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0815724152
With distrust between the political parties running deep and Congress divided, the government of the United States goes to war. The war is waged without adequately preparing the means to finance it or readying suitable contingency plans to contend with its unanticipated complications. The executive branch suffers from managerial confusion and in-fighting. The military invades a foreign country, expecting to be greeted as liberators, but encounters stiff, unwelcome resistance. The conflict drags on longer than predicted. It ends rather inconclusively—or so it seems in its aftermath. Sound familiar? This all happened two hundred years ago. What So Proudly We Hailed looks at the War of 1812 in part through the lens of today's America. On the bicentennial of that formative yet largely forgotten period in U.S. history, this provocative book asks: What did Americans learn—and not learn—from the experience? What instructive parallels and distinctions can be drawn with more recent events? How did it shape the nation? Exploring issues ranging from party politics to sectional schisms, distant naval battles to the burning of Washington, and citizens' civil liberties to the fate of Native Americans caught in the struggle, these essays speak to the complexity and unpredictability of a war that many assumed would be brief and straightforward. What emerges is a revealing perspective on a problematic "war of choice"—the nation's first, but one with intriguing implications for others, including at least one in the present century. Although the War of 1812 may have faded from modern memory, the conflict left important legacies, both in its immediate wake and in later years. In its own time, the war was transformative. To this day, however, some of the fundamental challenges that confronted U.S. policymakers two centuries ago still resonate. How much should a free society regularly invest in national defense? Should the expense be defrayed throu
Author : Viscount James Bryce Bryce
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 38,44 MB
Release : 2012-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781290643504
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : James 1838-1922 Bryce
Publisher :
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 26,64 MB
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781362368052
Author : Minnie Earl Sears
Publisher :
Page : 1980 pages
File Size : 38,85 MB
Release : 1934
Category : Essays
ISBN :
Includes "List of books indexed" (published also separately)
Author : Roy Scranton
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 42,24 MB
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1616959371
An American Orwell for the age of Trump, Roy Scranton faces the unpleasant facts of our day in 15 insightful, honest essays on war, climate change, and violence. Our moment is one of alarming and bewildering change—the breakup of the post-1945 global order, a multispecies mass extinction, and the beginning of the end of civilization as we know it. Not one of us is innocent, not one of us is safe. Now what? We’re Doomed. Now What? addresses the crisis that is our time through a series of brilliant, moving, and original essays on climate change, war, literature, and loss, from one of the most provocative and iconoclastic minds of his generation. Whether writing about sailing through the melting Arctic, preparing for Houston’s next big storm, watching Star Wars, or going back to the streets of Baghdad he once patrolled as a soldier, Roy Scranton handles his subjects with the same electric, philosophical, demotic touch that he brought to his groundbreaking New York Times essay, “Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene.”
Author : Margaret MacMillan
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 43,54 MB
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815725981
As the 100th anniversary of World War I approaches, historian Margaret MacMillan compares current global tensions—rising nationalism, globalization’s economic pressures, sectarian strife, and the United States’ fading role as the world’s pre-eminent superpower—to the period preceding the Great War. In illuminating the years before 1914, MacMillan shows the many parallels between then and now, telling an urgent story for our time. THE BROOKINGS ESSAY: In the spirit of its commitment to high-quality, independent research, the Brookings Institution has commissioned works on major topics of public policy by distinguished authors, including Brookings scholars. The Brookings Essay is a multi-platform product aimed to engage readers in open dialogue and debate. The views expressed, however, are solely those of the author. Available in ebook only.