The Mayor Of Aln

Author : James Rourke
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781471735349

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The Mayor of Aln by James Rourke Pdf

Konrad, a charismatic outsider, wanders an apocalyptic land known as The Province. Arriving at the town of Aln he installs himself as schoolmaster and gradually subverts the community's order. He succeeds in getting himself elected mayor, further feeding his appetite for power. Privacy is declared a sin, private property is abolished and polygamy implemented. The City is forced to send its army to get rid of him for good. But at his show-trial Konrad's mysterious manipulation produces an extraordinary outcome. Set in a barren fantasy landscape, The Mayor of Aln combines elements both ancient and modern. A strange, dark and amusing tale of moral manipulation and the cult of personality. The Mayor of Aln is the first book in James Rourke's The Province Trilogy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HXTAQD

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All the Year Round by Anonim Pdf

Author : Patricia Dirks
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1991-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773562875

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Failure of l'Action Libérale Nationale by Patricia Dirks Pdf

The ALN gained widespread business, popular, and church support by promising francophones both control of a modern Quebec economy and preservation of the traditional social order. As Dirks shows, however, this support came from people with different and sometimes contradictory objectives, causing internal tensions which weakened the ALN from the outset. This weakness was compounded by poor leadership, financial difficulties, and the tactics of the other political parties in Quebec. The Quebec Liberal and Conservative Parties worked independently to undermine the ALN and any possibility of its gaining power in Quebec. Maurice Duplessis, leader of the Quebec Conservative party, skilfully exploited the ALN's weaknesses in the interests of his own party by the formation of the Union Nationale. This coalition of the ALN and the provincial Conservatives capitalized on the popularity of the ALN to win the provincial election of 1935 but ensured that power remained in the hands of what was essentially the Quebec Conservative Party. Dirks' insight into the political history of Quebec is informed by a multitude of sources. She conducted interviews with many of the leading political players of the time, including the late Paul Gouin, the original leader of the ALN. She also consulted many public and private archives, including Gouin's, and was allowed unrestricted access to Duplessis' papers for the period up to 1939, the year the ALN ceased to exist. In relating the rise and fall of the ALN to the socio-economic, ideological, and political developments which shaped Quebec during the early decades of the twentieth century, Dirks reveals its long-term impact on the operation and organization of political parties in Quebec and Canada.

Author : Tom Lansford
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 2153 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781544384726

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Political Handbook of the World 2020-2021 by Tom Lansford Pdf

The Political Handbook of the World by Tom Lansford provides timely, thorough, and accurate political information, with more in-depth coverage of current political controversies than any other reference guide. The updated 2020-2021 edition will continue to be the most authoritative source for finding complete facts and analysis on each country′s governmental and political makeup. Compiling in one place more than 200 entries on countries and territories throughout the world, this volume is renowned for its extensive coverage of all major and minor political parties and groups in each political system. The Political Handbook of the World 2020-2021 also provides names of key ambassadors and international memberships of each country, plus detailed profiles of more than 30 intergovernmental organizations and UN agencies. And this update will aim to include coverage of current events, issues, crises, and controversies from the course of the last two years.

Author : R. Douglas Francis,Howard Palmer
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 088864227X

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The Prairie West: Historical Readings by R. Douglas Francis,Howard Palmer Pdf

This collection of 35 readings on Canadian prairie history includes overview interpretation and current research on topics such as the fur trade, native peoples, ethnic groups, status of women, urban and rural society, the Great Depression and literature and art.

Author : Neil Macmaster
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192604019

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War in the Mountains by Neil Macmaster Pdf

The role of the peasantry during the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962) has long been neglected by historians, in part because they have been viewed as a 'primitive' mass devoid of political consciousness. War in the Mountains: Peasant Society and Counterinsurgency in Algeria, 1918-1958 challenges this conventional understanding by tracing the ability of the peasant community to sustain an autonomous political culture through family, clan, and village assemblies. The long-established system of indirect rule by which the colonial state controlled and policed the vast mountainous interior of Algeria began to break down after the 1920s. War in the Mountains explains how competing guerrilla forces and the French military sought to harness djemâas as part of a hearts-and-minds strategy. Djemâas formed a pole of opposition to the patron-client relations of the rural élites, with clandestine urban-rural networks emerging that prepared the way for armed resistance and a system of rebel governance. Contrary to accepted historical analysis suggesting that rural society was massively uprooted and dislocated, War in the Mountains demonstrates that the peasantry demonstrated a high level of social cohesion and resistance based on powerful family and kin networks.

Author : Henry Vernon (of Alnwick.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600077246

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Thoughts of leisure hours: poems, songs &c by Henry Vernon (of Alnwick.) Pdf

Author : Henry Vernon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCD:31175035231342

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Thoughts of Leisure Hours by Henry Vernon Pdf

Author : Grégor Mathias
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216088547

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Galula in Algeria by Grégor Mathias Pdf

This groundbreaking investigation uncovers serious mismatches between David Galula's counterinsurgency practice in Algeria and his counterinsurgency theory—the foundation of current U.S. counterinsurgency doctrine in Iraq and Afghanistan. Given the centrality of David Galula's theory to U.S. Counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is striking that there has been no independent evaluation of Galula's recollection of his COIN operations in Algeria. Galula in Algeria: Counterinsurgency Practice versus Theory delivers just such an analysis, exploring the colonial French counter-insurrectionary theoretical milieu of which Galula's COIN theory was a part, the influence of Galula's theory on U.S. COIN doctrine, and the current views of Galula's theory in France and other NATO countries. French defense researcher Grégor Mathias compares each of the eight steps of Galula's theory set out in Counterinsurgency Warfare against his practice of them as described in his writings and now, for the first time, against the SAS archives and those of Galula's infantry company and battalion. The study shows that Galula systematically inflated his operational successes to match his theoretical scheme and that he left problems unresolved, causing his work to unravel quickly after he left his command. Mathias concludes that, however heuristically fruitful Galula's theory might prove for U.S. COIN doctrine, it must be interpreted and implemented under the caveat that it was not successfully field-tested by its author. .

Author : Vincent Crapanzano
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226118789

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The Harkis by Vincent Crapanzano Pdf

In this haunting chronicle of betrayal and abandonment, ostracism and exile, racism and humiliation, Vincent Crapanzano examines the story of the Harkis, the quarter of a million Algerian auxiliary troops who fought for the French in Algeria’s war of independence. After tens of thousands of Harkis were massacred by other Algerians at the end of the war, the survivors fled to France where they were placed in camps, some for as long as sixteen years. Condemned as traitors by other Algerians and scorned by the French, the Harkis became a population apart, and their children still suffer from their parents’ wounds. Many have become activists, lobbying for recognition of their parents’ sacrifices, compensation, and an apology. More than just a retelling of the Harkis’ grim past and troubling present, The Harkis is a resonant reflection on how children bear responsibility for the choices their parents make, how personal identity is shaped by the impersonal forces of history, and how violence insinuates itself into every facet of human life.

Author : Paul-André Linteau,René Durocher,Jean-Claude Robert,François Ricard
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1550282964

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Quebec Since 1930 by Paul-André Linteau,René Durocher,Jean-Claude Robert,François Ricard Pdf

List of Tables List of Maps List of Figures Preface PART 1: THE DEPRESSION AND THE WAR 1930-1945 Introduction Quebec in 1929 The Depression A Troubled Period The Second World War

Author : Steven E. Hendrix
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216122852

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The New Nicaragua by Steven E. Hendrix Pdf

An insider's look at the changes going on in Nicaragua—the internal political maneuvering of Daniel Ortega, the responses by the United States, and the success of recent American pro-democracy civil society efforts there. At the time of Ortega's return to the presidency, attorney and award-winning author Steven Hendrix was on the ground in Nicaragua working for the U.S. Agency for International Development. The New Nicaragua: Lessons in Development, Democracy, and Nation-Building for the United States is Hendrix's eyewitness account of the changes going on there. What Hendrix found in the new Nicaragua is a decidedly mixed bag: a presidential campaign marked by dirty tricks and backroom deals, yet an election held under the first neutral comprehensive observation ever in the developing world; an overt effort to appease the United States even while attempting to undermine U.S. policy in the region. Yet despite this, Hendrix saw U.S. pro-democracy, civil society efforts succeed, disproving the many skeptics who doubt that nation-building is even possible.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committe on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1230 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Transportation
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117923289

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Transportation Act - 1963 by United States. Congress. House. Committe on Interstate and Foreign Commerce Pdf

Author : Kenneth P. Serbin
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780268105877

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From Revolution to Power in Brazil by Kenneth P. Serbin Pdf

From Revolution to Power in Brazil: How Radical Leftists Embraced Capitalism and Struggled with Leadership examines terrorism from a new angle. Kenneth Serbin portrays a generation of Brazilian resistance fighters and militants struggling to rebuild their lives after suffering torture and military defeat by the harsh dictatorship that took control with the support of the United States in 1964, exiting in 1985. Based on two decades of research and more than three hundred hours of interviews with former members of the revolutionary organization National Liberating Action, Serbin’s is the first book to bring the story of Brazil’s long night of dictatorship into the present. It explores Brazil’s status as an emerging global capitalist giant and its unique contributions and challenges in the social arena. The book concludes with the rise of ex-militants to positions of power in a capitalist democracy—and how they confronted both old and new challenges posed by Brazilian society. Ultimately, Serbin explores the profound human questions of how to oppose dictatorship, revive politics in the wake of brutal repression, nurture democracy as a value, and command a capitalist system. This book will be of keen interest to business people, journalists, policy analysts, and readers with a general interest in Latin America and international affairs.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Law
ISBN : OSU:32437010701478

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The Solicitors' Journal by Anonim Pdf