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The story of four remarkable women traversing the literary landscape of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Australia, from one of our nation's most eminent historians.
Author : Brenda Niall
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 19,28 MB
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1925923215
The story of four remarkable women traversing the literary landscape of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Australia, from one of our nation's most eminent historians.
Author : Michael H. Armacost
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,42 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231104883
A former U.S. ambassador to Japan offers his insider's view of relations between the two most powerful economic forces in the world. Armacost examines the promise and frustrations of interdependece at a time when the world is changing, and chronicles American efforts to reduce a massive trade imbalance, arrange a more equitable sharing of mutual defense costs, and design a global diplomatic partnership with Tokyo.
Author : Gregg Herken
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 40,9 MB
Release : 2015-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 030745634X
In the years after World War II, Georgetown’s leafy streets were home to an unlikely group of Cold Warriors who helped shape American strategy. This coterie of affluent, well-educated, and connected civilians guided the country, for better and worse, from the Marshall Plan through McCarthyism, Watergate, and Vietnam. The Georgetown set included Phil and Kay Graham, husband-and-wife publishers of The Washington Post; Joe and Stewart Alsop, odd-couple brothers who were among the country’s premier political pundits; Frank Wisner, a driven, manic-depressive lawyer in charge of CIA covert operations; and a host of other diplomats, spies, and scholars. Gregg Herken gives us intimate portraits of these dedicated and talented, if deeply flawed, individuals, who navigated the Cold War years (often over cocktails and dinner) with very real consequences reaching into the present day. Throughout, he illuminates the drama and fascination of that noble, congenial, curious old world,” in Joe Alsop’s words, bringing this remarkable roster of men and women not only out into the open but vividly to life.
Author : de Groot
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 12,67 MB
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 900447661X
This volume, based on both European and Ottoman sources, investigates the commercial, military and diplomatic relations between the Dutch and the English in the Levant from the early seventeenth to the early nineteenth century. On the one hand there was a more or less constant commercial rivalry and there were moments of outright military hostility between the two powers. On the other a common life in the Near East led to a form of solidarity which transcended the political situation in the home countries. The role of the local population of the Levant, of Ottoman officials, and of the Greeks, Armenians and other eastern Christians who intervened both as merchants and as embassy dragomans or interpreters, was often decisive in influencing the dealings between the Dutch and English residents. The nine papers examine these different aspects of a relationship which has never before been studied in a Levantine context.
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Page : pages
File Size : 12,64 MB
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ISBN : 9780780710054
Author : Ken Abraham
Publisher : Revell
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 10,74 MB
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1493404245
An Inspiring True Story Set in the Midst of the Civil Rights Era By 1970, racial tension was at a breaking point in the southern town of Gallatin, Tennessee. Desegregation had emotions running high. The town was a powder keg ready to erupt. But it was also on the verge of something incredible. Eddie Sherlin and Bill Ligon were boys growing up on opposite sides of the tracks who shared a passion for basketball. They knew the barriers that divided them--some physical landmarks and some hidden in the heart--but those barriers melted away when the boys were on the court. After years of playing wherever they could find a hoop, Eddie and Bill entered the rigors of their respective high school teams. And at the end of the 1970 season, all-white Gallatin High and all-black Union High faced each other in a once-in-a-lifetime championship game. What happened that night would challenge Eddie and Bill--and transform their town. This New York Times bestseller is a fast-paced true story of courage, determination, character, and forgiveness.
Author : Duncan McLeod
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 23,85 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1351928090
Are India and Pakistan rivals or enemies? Despite a voluminous output of political and, in particular, historical accounts of this extraordinary and unique relationship in international politics, there has been little attempt to theorize the culture of violence between these two states. As a consequence, the study of India-Pakistan relations suffers from what the author labels historical reiteration - that is, the dispute is historicized in a way that reproduces the preconceived division of 1947. Duncan McLeod moves the debate away from historical reiteration to instead theorize on the levels, nature and culture of violence between India and Pakistan since partition and independence in 1947. He examines the politicization of culture, cultures of rivalry and conflict, enmity and unlimited conflict. The volume will appeal to students and scholars in the fields of political theory, Asian politics and political sociology.
Author : Tilly Bagshawe
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 16,69 MB
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 000734189X
Old friends can become the worst of enemies... Perfect escapism for fans of Penny Vincenzi and Jilly Cooper.
Author : Michael H. Armacost
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 48,99 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Soviet Union
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Author : Tracy Borman
Publisher : Random House
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 18,49 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0099548623
Elizabeth I was born into a world of women.As a child, she was served by a predominantly female household of servants and governesses, with occasional visits from her mother, Anne Bolyen, and the wives who later took her place.As Queen, Elizabeth was cons