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Author : Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781772125382
Simpson uses Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg storytelling to deepen our understanding of Indigenous resistance.
Author : Алесь Адамовіч,Daniil Aleksandrovich Granin,Даниил Гранин
Publisher : Moscow : Raduga Publishers
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039300988
Author : Time-Life Books
Publisher : Time Life Medical
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 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 : Yale Deron Belanger,P. Whitney Lackenbauer
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773543911
Can blockades and occupations be catalysts for positive change in Canada's Aboriginal communities?
Author : Charles D. Ross
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 46,7 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 : 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 : Thomas E. Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015027626525
Author : Steve R Dunn
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : Daniel F. Harrington
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 635 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813140643
The Berlin blockade brought former allies to the brink of war. Britain, France, the United States and the Soviet Union defeated and began their occupation of Germany in 1945, and within a few years, the Soviets and their Western partners were jockeying for control of their former foe. Attempting to thwart the Allied powers' plans to create a unified West German government, the Soviets blocked rail and road access to the western sectors of Berlin in June 1948. With no other means of delivering food and supplies to the German people under their protection, the Allies organized the Berlin airlift. In Berlin on the Brink: The Blockade, the Airlift, and the Cold War, Daniel F. Harrington examines the "Berlin question" from its origin in wartime plans for the occupation of Germany through the Paris Council of Foreign Ministers meeting in 1949. Harrington draws on previously untapped archival sources to challenge standard accounts of the postwar division of Germany, the origins of the blockade, the original purpose of the airlift, and the leadership of President Harry S. Truman. While thoroughly examining four-power diplomacy, Harrington demonstrates how the ingenuity and hard work of the people at the bottom—pilots, mechanics, and Berliners—were more vital to the airlift's success than decisions from the top. Harrington also explores the effects of the crisis on the 1948 presidential election and on debates about the custody and use of atomic weapons. Berlin on the Brink is a fresh, comprehensive analysis that reshapes our understanding of a critical event of cold war history.
Author : Alex Acks
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250173409
Nata spends her time zipping through the black in her ugly yet bad-ass spaceship, taking pride in being the best smuggler the Imperial regime has never caught. When she takes on an expensive mystery cargo, however, the risk reaches far beyond her pride. "Angel of the Blockade" is a Tor.com Original by Alex Wells. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Ralph Barker
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : Harry Castlemon
Publisher : Litres
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785040492480
Author : Robert WARNEFORD (Lieut., pseud.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026852662
Author : Oliver Optic
Publisher : VM eBooks
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
THE UNITED STATES STEAMER BRONX "She is a fine little steamer, father, without the possibility of a doubt," said Lieutenant Passford, who was seated at the table with his father in the captain's cabin on board of the Bronx. "I don't feel quite at home here, and I don't quite like the idea of being taken out of the Bellevite." "You are not going to sea for the fun of it, my son," replied Captain Passford. "You are not setting out on a yachting excursion, but on the most serious business in the world."
Author : James Russell Soley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019980049