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Author : Michael Howard
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0300088663
In this book, a preeminent military historian considers why this is so."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Michael Howard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Peace
ISBN : 1847650724
Author : Isabella Lazzarini
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350102736
A Cultural History of Peace presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of peace throughout history. This volume, A Cultural History of Peace in the Renaissance, explores peace in the period from 1450 to 1648. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of Peace set, this volume presents essays on the meaning of peace, peace movements, maintaining peace, peace in relation to gender, religion and war and representations of peace. A Cultural History of Peace in the Renaissance is the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on peace in the early modern era.
Author : Shlomo Sand
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781844679461
What is a homeland and when does it become a national territory? Why have so many people been willing to die for such places throughout the twentieth century? What is the essence of the Promised Land? Following the acclaimed and controversial The Invention of the Jewish People, Shlomo Sand examines the mysterious sacred land that has become the site of the longest-running national struggle of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The Invention of the Land of Israel deconstructs the age-old legends surrounding the Holy Land and the prejudices that continue to suffocate it. Sand’s account dissects the concept of “historical right” and tracks the creation of the modern concept of the “Land of Israel” by nineteenth-century Evangelical Protestants and Jewish Zionists. This invention, he argues, not only facilitated the colonization of the Middle East and the establishment of the State of Israel; it is also threatening the existence of the Jewish state today.
Author : Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541774407
In the tradition of Why Nations Fail, this book solves one of the great puzzles of history: Why did the West become the most powerful civilization in the world? Western exceptionalism—the idea that European civilizations are freer, wealthier, and less violent—is a widespread and powerful political idea. It has been a source of peace and prosperity in some societies, and of ethnic cleansing and havoc in others. Yet in The Invention of Power, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita draws on his expertise in political maneuvering, deal-making, and game theory to present a revolutionary new theory of Western exceptionalism: that a single, rarely discussed event in the twelfth century changed the course of European and world history. By creating a compromise between churches and nation-states that, in effect, traded money for power and power for money, the 1122 Concordat of Worms incentivized economic growth, facilitated secularization, and improved the lot of the citizenry, all of which set European countries on a course for prosperity. In the centuries since, countries that have had a similar dynamic of competition between church and state have been consistently better off than those that have not. The Invention of Power upends conventional thinking about European culture, religion, and race and presents a persuasive new vision of world history.
Author : Carl von Clausewitz
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Science
ISBN : EAN:4066339538344
"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 : Tamim Ansary
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610397971
From language to culture to cultural collision: the story of how humans invented history, from the Stone Age to the Virtual Age Traveling across millennia, weaving the experiences and world views of cultures both extinct and extant, The Invention of Yesterday shows that the engine of history is not so much heroic (battles won), geographic (farmers thrive), or anthropogenic (humans change the planet) as it is narrative. Many thousands of years ago, when we existed only as countless small autonomous bands of hunter-gatherers widely distributed through the wilderness, we began inventing stories--to organize for survival, to find purpose and meaning, to explain the unfathomable. Ultimately these became the basis for empires, civilizations, and cultures. And when various narratives began to collide and overlap, the encounters produced everything from confusion, chaos, and war to cultural efflorescence, religious awakenings, and intellectual breakthroughs. Through vivid stories studded with insights, Tamim Ansary illuminates the world-historical consequences of the unique human capacity to invent and communicate abstract ideas. In doing so, he also explains our ever-more-intertwined present: the narratives now shaping us, the reasons we still battle one another, and the future we may yet create.
Author : Robert Buderi
Publisher : Abacus (UK)
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Radar
ISBN : 0349110689
In 1940 a team of British Scientists arrived in Washington, bearing Britain s most closely guarded technological secrets, including the cavity magnetron, a revolutionary new source of microwave energy. Its arrival triggered the most dramatic mobilisation of science in history, as America s to scientists enlisted to convert the invention into a potent military weapon. Microwave radars eventually helped destroy Japanese warships, Nazi buzz bombs and enabled Allied bombers to see e through cloud cover After the war the work of radar veterans continues to affect our lives by controlling air traffic, helping to forecast the weather and providing physicians with powerful diagnostic tools. Brimming with telling anecdotes and surprising revelations, this book brings to life the exciting, largely untold story of the scientist who not only created a winning weapon but also changed our world for ever.
Author : O. Richmond
Publisher : Springer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230505070
This book examines the transformation of the discourse and praxis of peace, from its early beginnings in the literature on war and power, to the development of intellectual and theoretical discourses of peace, contrasting this with the development of practical approaches to peace, and examining the intellectual and policy evolution regarding peace.
Author : Jeff Hobbs
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476731919
Traces a young man's effort to escape the dangers of the streets and his own nature after graduating from Yale, describing his youth in violent 1980s Newark, efforts to navigate two fiercely insular worlds and life-ending drug deals. 75,000 first printing.
Author : Douglas P. Fry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199858996
A collection of essays from leading academics about the nature of war and the capacity for peace as applied to human nature.
Author : Eric Hobsbawm,Terence Ranger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1992-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0521437733
This book explores examples of this process of invention and addresses the complex interaction of past and present in a fascinating study of ritual and symbolism.
Author : Arthur Charles Frederick Beales
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Peace
ISBN : UOM:39015003985432
Author : John C. Winters
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780197578223
In America's collective unconscious, the Haudenosaunee, known to many as the Iroquois, are viewed as an indelible part of New York's modern and democratic culture. From the Iroquois confederacy serving as a model for the US Constitution, to the connections between the matrilineal Iroquois and the woman suffrage movement, to the living legacy of the famous "Sky Walkers," the steelworkers who built the Empire State Building and the George Washington Bridge, the Iroquois are viewed as an exceptional people who helped make the state's history unique and forward-looking. John C. Winters contends that this vision was not manufactured by Anglo-Americans but was created and spread by an influential, multi-generational Seneca-Iroquois family. From the American Revolution to the Cold War, Red Jacket, Ely S. Parker, Harriet Maxwell Converse (adopted), and Arthur C. Parker used the tools of a colonial culture to shape aspects of contemporary New York culture in their own peoples' image. The result was the creation of "The Amazing Iroquois," an historical memory that entangled indigenous self-definition, colonial expectations about racial stereotypes and Native American politics, and the personalities of the people who cultivated and popularized that memory. Through the imperial politics of the eighteenth century to pioneering museum exhibitions of the twentieth, these four Seneca celebrities packaged and delivered Iroquoian stories to the broader public in defiance of the contemporary racial stereotypes and settler colonial politics that sought to bury them. Owing to their skill, fame, and the timely intervention of Iroquois leadership, this remarkable family showcases the lasting effects of indigenous agents who fashioned a popular and long-lasting historical memory that made the Iroquois an obvious and foundational part of New Yorkers' conception of their own exceptional state history and self-identity.
Author : Jean Maria Arrigo,Richard V. Wagner
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317759195
First published in 2005. This is a special issue of the Journal of Peace Psychology which presents a dialogue on military ethics. Including articles on the five obstacles facing military ethics, decision making and collateral, the question of whether wars can be justified, unprofessional soldiers, and lessons learned from the Battle of Algiers.