A War Of Sections

Author : Steve Suitts
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781588384935

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A War of Sections by Steve Suitts Pdf

In a sweeping reinterpretation of the history of disfranchisement, Steve Suitts illuminates how a century of political conflicts in Alabama came to shape both some of America’s best achievements in voting rights and its continuing struggles over voter suppression. A War of Sections tells the unknown political history symbolized today by the annual pilgrimage of presidents and celebrities across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. It is the story of how that crucial, tragic day in Selma in 1965 was only the flashpoint of a much longer history of failures and successes involving conflicts not only between blacks and whites in Alabama but between white political factions warring in the state over voting rights. Suitts recasts the context and much of the content of disfranchisement in Alabama as an unremitting, decades-long sectional battle in white-only politics between the state’s rural Black Belt and north Alabama counties. He uncovers important Black and white heroes and villains who collectively shaped the arc of voting rights in Alabama and ultimately across the nation. A War of Sections offers a new understanding of the political dynamics of resistance and change through which a southern state’s long-standing democratic failures ironically provided motivation for and instruction to a reluctant nation regarding unmatched ways to advance universal voting. Along the way, the book introduces from this unheard past some prophetic voices that speak to the paramount issues of America’s commitment to the universal right to vote—then and now.

Author : Carl von Clausewitz
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Science
ISBN : EAN:4066339538344

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On War by Carl von Clausewitz Pdf

"On War" by Carl von Clausewitz (translated by J. J. Graham). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
ISBN : MINN:31951D03296845N

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Report on the War in Vietnam (as of 30 June 1968). Section 1: Report on Air and Naval Campaigns Against North Vietnam and Pacific Command-wide Support of the War, June 1964 - July 1968. Section 11: Report on Operations in South Vietnam, January 1964 - June 1968 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sidney Tarrow
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801456237

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War, States, and Contention by Sidney Tarrow Pdf

For the last two decades, Sidney Tarrow has explored "contentious politics"—disruptions of the settled political order caused by social movements. These disruptions range from strikes and street protests to riots and civil disobedience to revolution. In War, States, and Contention, Tarrow shows how such movements sometimes trigger, animate, and guide the course of war and how they sometimes rise during war and in war's wake to change regimes or even overthrow states. Tarrow draws on evidence from historical and contemporary cases, including revolutionary France, the United States from the Civil War to the anti–Vietnam War movement, Italy after World War I, and the United States during the decade following 9/11.In the twenty-first century, movements are becoming transnational, and globalization and internationalization are moving war beyond conflict between states. The radically new phenomenon is not that movements make war against states but that states make war against movements. Tarrow finds this an especially troublesome development in recent U.S. history. He argues that that the United States is in danger of abandoning the devotion to rights it had expanded through two centuries of struggle and that Americans are now institutionalizing as a "new normal" the abuse of rights in the name of national security. He expands this hypothesis to the global level through what he calls "the international state of emergency."

Author : Robert Vogel
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0773527311

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Leadership and Responsibility in the Second World War by Robert Vogel Pdf

Leadership is crucial in every conflict and the willingness to accept responsibility is a vital dimension of leadership. Leadership and Responsibility in the Second World War examines of how well political, diplomatic, and military leaders, particularly in Great Britain, handled the daunting challenge of a worldwide conflagration. It seeks to determine if a connection can be delineated between leadership, responsibility, success, and failure -specifically if any connection can be found between reluctance to shoulder responsibility and failure to produce results. In so doing, the authors challenge widely accepted views on major wartime controversies, such as the role of Neville Chamberlain and his Conservative Party at the outbreak of the war, the reasons why the British failed to reach an alliance with the Soviet Union in 1939, and the motives that drove Claus von Stauffenberg to attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Leadership and Responsibility in the Second World War provokes reflection about questions of character, context, and circumstances in wartime leadership.

Author : United States. Claims board. (War Dept.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1138 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Defense contracts
ISBN : CHI:71665044

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Decisions of the Appeal Section, War Department, Claims Board by United States. Claims board. (War Dept.) Pdf

Author : United States. War Department. Claims Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 954 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Defense contracts
ISBN : UCAL:B4749209

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Decisions of the Appeal Section, War Department Claims Board by United States. War Department. Claims Board Pdf

Author : United States. War Department. Claims Board. Appeal Section
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 948 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Defense contracts
ISBN : PRNC:32101059508646

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Decisions of the Appeal Section, War Department Claims Board by United States. War Department. Claims Board. Appeal Section Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : LLMC
Page : 1145 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Decisions of the Appeal Section War Department Claims Board by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Federal Housing Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Mortgage guarantee insurance
ISBN : WISC:89004458782

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Administrative Rules and Regulations for War Rental Housing Insurance Under Section 608 of the National Housing Act (as Amended May 26, 1942) Federal Housing Administration. Effective May 26, 1942 by United States. Federal Housing Administration Pdf

Author : Richard Platt
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780744020908

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Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections Man-of-War by Richard Platt Pdf

Look inside an 18th-century warship as it sails into battle on the high seas. Packed with extraordinary illustrations, this history book for children covers everything from warship design to navigation. Biesty's incredible drawings slice through a man-of-war to explore every corner, from the crow's nest to the stinking hold. Packed with fascinating facts and gory details, the pages teem with sailors going about their duties. Find out how gun crews fired a cannon, examine a surgeon's toolkit, and learn the best way to wriggle the maggots out of the ship's biscuits. Look out, too, for the stowaway on every page. He's the one with spiky hair, and there's a reward for his capture! This absorbing book will have children--and adults--poring over every page. Celebrating its 25th anniversary, Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections Man-of-War remains as entertaining as ever.

Author : Stephen Biesty
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780744020731

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Stephen Biesty's Incredible Cross-Sections by Stephen Biesty Pdf

This children's book explores the innermost workings of some extraordinary buildings and machines. From helicopters to submarines, skyscrapers to coal mines, open up a fascinating world packed with unique and detailed cutaway drawings. Whether it's a Spanish galleon or a medieval castle, each cross-section slice or exploded view reveals what's going on inside. See the people swarming inside the Empire State Building, the workers busy backstage at the opera house, and where the crew sleeps on a jumbo jet. Included also are two impressive foldouts showing an ocean liner and a steam train. There are lots of fun facts to be discovered, and curious details are highlighted and explained. Did you know one of the funnels of the Queen Mary liner was fake and used for storing deckchairs? And in almost every scene, there's the challenge to find a man on the toilet! With more than a million copies sold, Stephen Biesty's award-winning illustrated book is as fascinating today as it was when first published in 1992. Incredible Cross-Sections is the ultimate way to see how things work.

Author : John C. Inscoe
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820341828

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The Civil War in Georgia by John C. Inscoe Pdf

Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia's Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in terms of how the Civil War has come to be studied, documented, and analyzed. The Atlanta campaign and Sherman's March to the Sea changed the course of the war in 1864, in terms both of the upheaval and destruction inflicted on the state and the life span of the Confederacy. While the dramatic events of 1864 are fully documented, this companion gives equal coverage to the many other aspects of the war--naval encounters and guerrilla warfare, prisons and hospitals, factories and plantations, politics and policies-- all of which provided critical support to the Confederacy's war effort. The book also explores home-front conditions in depth, with an emphasis on emancipation, dissent, Unionism, and the experience and activity of African Americans and women. Historians today are far more conscious of how memory--as public commemoration, individual reminiscence, historic preservation, and literary and cinematic depictions--has shaped the war's multiple meanings. Nowhere is this legacy more varied or more pronounced than in Georgia, and a substantial part of this companion explores the many ways in which Georgians have interpreted the war experience for themselves and others over the past 150 years. At the outset of the sesquicentennial these new historical perspectives allow us to appreciate the Civil War as a complex and multifaceted experience for Georgians and for all southerners. A Project of the New Georgia Encyclopedia; Published in Association with the Georgia Humanities Council and the University System of Georgia/GALILEO.

Author : Lawrence Freedman
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610393065

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The Future of War by Lawrence Freedman Pdf

An award-winning military historian, professor, and political adviser delivers the definitive story of warfare in all its guises and applications, showing what has driven and continues to drive this uniquely human form of political violence. Questions about the future of war are a regular feature of political debate, strategic analysis, and popular fiction. Where should we look for new dangers? What cunning plans might an aggressor have in mind? What are the best forms of defense? How might peace be preserved or conflict resolved? From the French rout at Sedan in 1870 to the relentless contemporary insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan, Lawrence Freedman, a world-renowned military thinker, reveals how most claims from the military futurists are wrong. But they remain influential nonetheless. Freedman shows how those who have imagined future war have often had an idealized notion of it as confined, brief, and decisive, and have regularly taken insufficient account of the possibility of long wars-hence the stubborn persistence of the idea of a knockout blow, whether through a dashing land offensive, nuclear first strike, or cyberattack. He also notes the lack of attention paid to civil wars until the West began to intervene in them during the 1990s, and how the boundaries between peace and war, between the military, the civilian, and the criminal are becoming increasingly blurred. Freedman's account of a century and a half of warfare and the (often misconceived) thinking that precedes war is a challenge to hawks and doves alike, and puts current strategic thinking into a bracing historical perspective.

Author : Antoine Bousquet
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781452958057

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The Eye of War by Antoine Bousquet Pdf

How perceptual technologies have shaped the history of war from the Renaissance to the present From ubiquitous surveillance to drone strikes that put “warheads onto foreheads,” we live in a world of globalized, individualized targeting. The perils are great. In The Eye of War, Antoine Bousquet provides both a sweeping historical overview of military perception technologies and a disquieting lens on a world that is, increasingly, one in which anything or anyone that can be perceived can be destroyed—in which to see is to destroy. Arguing that modern-day global targeting is dissolving the conventionally bounded spaces of armed conflict, Bousquet shows that over several centuries, a logistical order of militarized perception has come into ascendancy, bringing perception and annihilation into ever-closer alignment. The efforts deployed to evade this deadly visibility have correspondingly intensified, yielding practices of radical concealment that presage a wholesale disappearance of the customary space of the battlefield. Beginning with the Renaissance’s fateful discovery of linear perspective, The Eye of War discloses the entanglement of the sciences and techniques of perception, representation, and localization in the modern era amid the perpetual quest for military superiority. In a survey that ranges from the telescope, aerial photograph, and gridded map to radar, digital imaging, and the geographic information system, Bousquet shows how successive technological systems have profoundly shaped the history of warfare and the experience of soldiering. A work of grand historical sweep and remarkable analytical power, The Eye of War explores the implications of militarized perception for the character of war in the twenty-first century and the place of human subjects within its increasingly technical armature.