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Author : Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781772125382
Simpson uses Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg storytelling to deepen our understanding of Indigenous resistance.
Author : Steve R Dunn
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848323421
This WWI naval history vividly tells the story of the Royal Navy’s Northern Blockade and the battles at sea that brought Germany to its knees. At the outbreak of World War I, Britain established a naval blockade that greatly diminished Germany’s access to trade and vital resources. The Northern Blockade brought the German economy to its knees and greatly diminished home front morale. Patrolling the inhospitable waters between Iceland and Scotland, the 10th Cruiser Squadron played a vital role in winning the war on the Western Front. At the same time, the Royal Navy successfully countered Germany’s attacks on British commerce, preventing much suffering in Britain. Drawing on numerous first-hand accounts, Historian Steve Dunn vividly chronicles this long-running battle at sea. Beginning with the blockade’s initial formation, he recounts the changes in strategy on both sides, including the use of converted liners and armed merchant vessels as warships. He also vividly describes the final destruction of German surface vessel commerce warfare, culminating in the hard-fought battle between the raider SMS Leopard and two British warships.
Author : Yale Deron Belanger,P. Whitney Lackenbauer
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773543911
Can blockades and occupations be catalysts for positive change in Canada's Aboriginal communities?
Author : Time-Life Books
Publisher : Time Life Medical
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : United States
ISBN : 0809447088
The Civil War at sea was essentially a battle over commerce vital to the Confederate States.
Author : Richard Bidlack,Nikita Lomagin
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300183306
Based largely on formerly top-secret Soviet archival documents (including 66 reproduced documents and 70 illustrations), this book portrays the inner workings of the communist party and secret police during Germany's horrific 1941–44 siege of Leningrad, during which close to one million citizens perished. It shows how the city's inhabitants responded to the extraordinary demands placed upon them, encompassing both the activities of the political, security, and military elite as well as the actions and attitudes of ordinary Leningraders.
Author : Алесь Адамовіч,Daniil Aleksandrovich Granin,Даниил Гранин
Publisher : Moscow : Raduga Publishers
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039300988
Author : Avi Shlaim
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520337343
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 1983.
Author : Lance E. Davis,Stanley L. Engerman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006-12-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521857499
A number of major blockades, including the Continental System in the Napoleonic Wars, the War of 1812, the American Civil War, and World Wars I and II, in addition to the increased use of peacetime blockades and sanctions with the hope of avoiding war, are examined in this book. The impact of new technology and organizational changes on the nature of blockades and their effectiveness as military measures are discussed. Legal, economic, and political questions are explored to understand the various constraints upon belligerent behavior. The analysis draw upon the extensive amount of quantitative material available from military publications.
Author : Phillip Drew
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192536464
Although appearing to be a relatively benign method of warfare when viewed from a distance, a close examination of maritime blockade unveils a sinister character that can, in cases where countries are highly reliant on imports of foodstuffs to feed their populations, prove incredibly deadly, particularly for the young and elderly. This book is unique in that it is the only contemporary book that is dedicated to the study of the law of maritime blockade in the context of modern humanitarian law. Reviewing the development of blockade law over the past four centuries, The Law of Maritime Blockade provides a historical analysis of the law as it emerged, tracing its evolution through armed conflicts between 1684 and the present. Referring to the starvation caused by the blockade of Germany during World War I and the humanitarian crisis caused by the sanctions regime against Iraq (1991-2003), this book demonstrates that blockade can have extremely deleterious effects for vulnerable civilian populations. In this context the current law of blockade is examined, and found to be deficient in terms of its protection for civilians. Recognizing and advocating that blockade should remain as a valid and effective method of warfare, the book offers a template for a modern law of maritime blockade that incorporates many of the traditional aspects of the law, while reducing the possibilities that blockades can cause or exacerbate humanitarian disasters.
Author : Charles D. Ross
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496831361
On April 16, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln issued a blockade of the Confederate coastline. The largely agrarian South did not have the industrial base to succeed in a protracted conflict. What it did have—and what England and other foreign countries wanted—was cotton and tobacco. Industrious men soon began to connect the dots between Confederate and British needs. As the blockade grew, the blockade runners became quite ingenious in finding ways around the barriers. Boats worked their way back and forth from the Confederacy to Nassau and England, and everyone from scoundrels to naval officers wanted a piece of the action. Poor men became rich in a single transaction, and dances and drinking—from the posh Royal Victoria hotel to the boarding houses lining the harbor—were the order of the day. British, United States, and Confederate sailors intermingled in the streets, eyeing each other warily as boats snuck in and out of Nassau. But it was all to come crashing down as the blockade finally tightened and the final Confederate ports were captured. The story of this great carnival has been mentioned in a variety of sources but never examined in detail. Breaking the Blockade: The Bahamas during the Civil War focuses on the political dynamics and tensions that existed between the United States Consular Service, the governor of the Bahamas, and the representatives of the southern and English firms making a large profit off the blockade. Filled with intrigue, drama, and colorful characters, this is an important Civil War story that has not yet been told.
Author : Ralph Barker
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781844152827
Recounts one of the greatest sea stories of World War II. It is the story of how George Binney, a 39 year-old civilian working in neutral Sweden when Norway was overrun by the Germans in 1940, set about running vital cargoes of Swedish ball-bearings and special steels to Britain through the blockaded Skagerrak, where German air strength was dominant and where the Royal Navy dare not trespass. Despite Admiralty gloom and in the face of political objections that were overcome by Binney's persistence, five ships carrying a year's supply of valuable materials for the expanding British war industries were successfully sailed to Britain in January 1941. A following attempt was not as successful and ended when six ships were sunk or scuttled. But then came the saga of the Little Ships, the motor gunboats flying the Red Duster that operated out of the Humber to and from the Swedish coast in the winter of 1943/44, defying the strengthened German defences and the wrath of severe weather.
Author : James Russell Soley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019980049
Author : Bruce A. Elleman,S.C.M. Paine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134257287
This new collection of scholarly, readable, and up-to-date essays covers the most significant naval blockades of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Here the reader can find Napoleon’s Continental Blockade of England, the Anglo-American War of 1812, the Crimean War, the American Civil War, the first Sino-Japanese War 1894-95, the Spanish-American War, the First World War, the second Sino-Japanese War 1937-45, the Second World War in Europe and Asia, the Nationalist attempt to blockade the PRC, the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, the British blockade of Rhodesia, the Falklands War, the Persian Gulf interdiction program, the PRC "missile" blockade of Taiwan in 1996, and finally Australia's recent "reverse" blockade to keep illegal aliens out of the country. The authors of each chapter address the causes of the blockade in question, its long and short-term repercussions, and the course of the blockade itself. More generally, they address the state of the literature, taking advantage of new research and new methodologies to provide something of value to both the specialist and non-specialist reader. Taken as a whole, this volume presents fresh insights into issues such as what a blockade is, why countries might choose them, which navies can and cannot make use of them, what responses lead to satisfactory or unsatisfactory conclusions, and how far-reaching their consequences tend to be. This book will be of great interest to all students and scholars of strategic studies, military history and maritime studies in particular.
Author : Alison Lawlor Russell
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781626161122
Cyber Blockades is the first book to examine the phenomena of blockade operations in cyberspace, large-scale attacks on infrastructure or systems that aim to prevent an entire state from sending or receiving electronic data. The author defines the concept of cyber blockades and presents a comparison of blockade operations in five different domains.
Author : Robert B. Ekelund,Mark Thornton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461666363
What role did economics play in leading the United States into the Civil War in the 1860s, and how did the war affect the economies of the North and the South? Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation uses contemporary economic analyses such as supply and demand, modern market theory, and the economics of politics to interpret events of the Civil War. Simplifying the sometimes complex intricacies of the subject matter, Thornton and Ekelund have penned a nontechnical primer that is jargon-free and accessible. Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation also takes a comprehensive approach to its topic. It offers a cohesive and a persuasive explanation of the how, what, and why behind the many factors at work on both sides of the contest. While most books only delve into a particular aspect of the war, this title effectively bridges the gap by offering an all-encompassing, yet relatively brief, introduction to the essential economics of the Civil War. This book starts out with a look at the reasons for the beginning of the Civil War, including explaining why the war began when it did. It then examines the economic realities in both the North and South. Also covered are the different financial strategies implemented by both the Union and the Confederacy to fund the war and the reasons behind what ultimately led to Southern defeat. Finally, the economic effect of Reconstruction is discussed, including the impact it had on the former slave population. Thornton and Ekelund have contributed an overdue examination of the Civil War that will impart to students a modern way to better comprehend the conflict. Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation offers fresh, penetrating insights into this pivotal event in American history.