Our First Foreign War

Author : Nigel Robson
Publisher : Massey University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780995122918

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Our First Foreign War by Nigel Robson Pdf

Foreshadowing our unseemly haste to fight for King and Country in 1914, New Zealanders were enthusiastic supporters of the colonial war between Britainand the Boers when it was declared in 1899. The country welcomed the chanceto prove itself and its loyalty to the British Empire on an international stage. Ourcontribution was small — just 6500 troops sent to fight — but our response tothe conflict was on a grander scale. In an outpouring of patriotic sentiment, manythousands followed the stories of the sieges of Mafeking, Kimberley and Ladysmith. There was memorabilia everywhere, and it seemed as if everyone was either raising funds or joining cadet corps, including many women and girls.Little has been written of this important period in New Zealand's history. This isthe first book to offer a finely grained analysis of the nation's perceptions andexpectations of the war, Maori responses to the conflict, the effect of war-relateddeaths, injuries and disease on the country, and its economic impact. It alsodemonstrates that the building of our national identity through military engagementbegan well before Gallipoli and the Western Front.

Author : Andreas Rose
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785335792

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Between Empire and Continent by Andreas Rose Pdf

Prior to World War I, Britain was at the center of global relations, utilizing tactics of diplomacy as it broke through the old alliances of European states. Historians have regularly interpreted these efforts as a reaction to the aggressive foreign policy of the German Empire. However, as Between Empire and Continent demonstrates, British foreign policy was in fact driven by a nexus of intra-British, continental and imperial motivations. Recreating the often heated public sphere of London at the turn of the twentieth century, this groundbreaking study carefully tracks the alliances, conflicts, and political maneuvering from which British foreign and security policy were born.

Author : Carolyn Nordstrom
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520239776

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Shadows of War by Carolyn Nordstrom Pdf

Annotation This book captures the human face of the frontlines, revealing both the visible and the hidden realities of contemporary war, power, and international profiteering in the 21st century.

Author : Rashid Khalidi
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781627798549

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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi Pdf

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country had an indigenous people who would not easily accept their own displacement. He warned of the perils ahead, ending his note, “in the name of God, let Palestine be left alone.” Thus Rashid Khalidi, al-Khalidi’s great-great-nephew, begins this sweeping history, the first general account of the conflict told from an explicitly Palestinian perspective. Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival materials and the reports of generations of family members—mayors, judges, scholars, diplomats, and journalists—The Hundred Years' War on Palestine upends accepted interpretations of the conflict, which tend, at best, to describe a tragic clash between two peoples with claims to the same territory. Instead, Khalidi traces a hundred years of colonial war on the Palestinians, waged first by the Zionist movement and then Israel, but backed by Britain and the United States, the great powers of the age. He highlights the key episodes in this colonial campaign, from the 1917 Balfour Declaration to the destruction of Palestine in 1948, from Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon to the endless and futile peace process. Original, authoritative, and important, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine is not a chronicle of victimization, nor does it whitewash the mistakes of Palestinian leaders or deny the emergence of national movements on both sides. In reevaluating the forces arrayed against the Palestinians, it offers an illuminating new view of a conflict that continues to this day.

Author : Emile Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199333530

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War from the Ground Up by Emile Simpson Pdf

This is a philosophical treatise on war written by an Oxford grad who served in Afghanistan.

Author : Carl von Clausewitz
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,6 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 : 156 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Spanish-American War, 1898
ISBN : UCLA:31158005726483

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Our War with Spain by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Alien property
ISBN : MINN:31951D02152483I

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Foreign War Damage Claims by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Considers legislation to require Alien Property Custodian to sell all enemy alien property belonging to U.S. Government and to prohibit trade agreements or peace treaties with any enemy country which has not compensated their nationals for property disposed by U.S. Government.

Author : D. Omissi,A. Thompson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230598294

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Impact of the South African War by D. Omissi,A. Thompson Pdf

This exciting new book marks a major shift in the study of the South African War. It turns attention from the war's much debated causes onto its more neglected consequences. An international team of scholars explores the myriad legacies of the war - for South Africa, for Britain, for the Empire and beyond. The extensive introduction sets the contributions in context, and the elegant afterword offers thought-provoking reflections on their cumulative significance.

Author : Ahmed Ijaz Malik
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857725301

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US Foreign Policy and the Gulf Wars by Ahmed Ijaz Malik Pdf

The US-led coalition which launched an invasion of Iraq on 20 March 2003 led to a decade-long military presence in the country. In the run-up to that invasion, many comparisons were made with the 1991 Gulf War. Ahmed Ijaz Malik takes these two instances of military intervention by Republican US governments to highlight how the official discourse of leaders and decision-makers has an impact on foreign policy and its results. By taking these two examples, he examines how discourse affects real events, and the extent to which the legacy of the Cold War has influenced the decisions which are made at the upper echelons of the US government. US Foreign Policy and the Gulf Wars critically analyses the post-Cold War liberal cosmopolitan and realist discourses related to these two instances of US military intervention. Using an approach which Malik labels 'critical realism', this book examines the ways in which discourses often act as ideological covers for material interests, whilst still not holding a deterministic view whereby these interests alone shape policies. From this perspective, this book assesses the themes of 'Just War', humanitarianism and cosmopolitanism. It furthermore uses the approach of 'critical realism' to engage with a variety of arguments on the emerging role of the US - as they were displayed in academic discourses and other intellectual contributions around each of the 1991 and 2003 wars. Malik relates these discussions to an analysis of the official discourses, documents and policies displayed prior to the 1991 and 2003 wars, as well as to an examination of the resulting actual conduct. Since the implications of the US military presence in the Middle East are so central to the study of International Relations and Security Studies, this book will be invaluable for specialists in these disciplines, as well as for those interested in policy formation and the wider Middle East.

Author : Richard A Melanson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317477204

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American Foreign Policy Since the Vietnam War by Richard A Melanson Pdf

This book integrates the study of presidential politics and foreign policy-making from the Vietnam aftermath to the events following September 11 and the Iraqi War. Focusing on the relationship between presidents' foreign policy agendas and domestic politics, it offers compelling portraits of presidents Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, and Bush II. In the course of comparing the efforts of these presidents to articulate a clear conception of the national interest and to forge a foreign policy consensus, the author shows the key role of public opinion in constraining presidential initiatives, in particular the decision to use military force overseas. Never more timely, this popular text is appropriate for courses in U.S. foreign policy, the presidency, or contemporary U.S. politics.

Author : Benny Morris
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300145243

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1948 by Benny Morris Pdf

This history of the foundational war in the Arab-Israeli conflict is groundbreaking, objective, and deeply revisionist. Besides the military account, it also focuses on the war's political dimensions. Historian Morris probes the motives and aims of the protagonists on the basis of newly opened Israeli and Western documentation. The Arab side--where the archives are still closed--is illuminated with the help of intelligence and diplomatic materials. Morris stresses the jihadi character of the two-stage Arab assault on the Jewish community in Palestine. He examines the dialectic between the war's military and political developments and highlights the military impetus in the creation of the Palestinian refugee problem. He looks both at high politics and general staff decision-making and at the nitty-gritty of combat in the battles that resulted in the emergence of the State of Israel and the humiliation of the Arab world--a humiliation that underlies the continued Arab antagonism toward Israel.--Résumé de l'éditeur.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCR:31210010228656

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The Future of U.S. Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs Pdf

Author : Stephen J. Candela
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0971055149

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Veteran of a Foreign War by Stephen J. Candela Pdf

The story of a Vietnam Combat Veteran, an Infantry Platoon Leader, survived the war and then fought his way through medical school.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11469614

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Congressional Record by Anonim Pdf