The Spoils

Author : Henrietta Lidchi,Stuart Allan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Art
ISBN : 1526139200

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Dividing the Spoils by Henrietta Lidchi,Stuart Allan Pdf

As museums across Europe reckon with the post-colonial legacies of their collections, this volume combines approaches from material anthropology, imperial and military history to shed light on the acquisition and appropriation of objects during British colonial warfare. The authors offer a nuanced view of how the amassing of objects was governed and understood within military culture.

Author : Andrew Cockburn
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781839763656

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The Spoils of War by Andrew Cockburn Pdf

Why does the United States go to war?—a leading Harper’s commentator on U.S. foreign affairs searches for answers. A withering exposé of runaway military spending and the private economic interests funding the U.S. war machine—for fans of Rachel Maddow and Democracy Now! America has a long tradition of justifying war as the defense of democracy. The War on Terror was waged to protect the West from the dangers of Islamists. The US soldiers stationed in over 800 locations across the world are meant to be the righteous arbiters of justice. Against this background, Andrew Cockburn brilliantly dissects the true intentions behind Washington’s martial appetites. The American war machine can only be understood in terms of the private passions and interests of those who control it—principally a passionate interest in money. Thus, as Cockburn witheringly reports, Washington expanded NATO to satisfy an arms manufacturer’s urgent financial requirements; the US Navy’s Pacific fleet deployments were for years dictated by a corrupt contractor who bribed high-ranking officers with cash and prostitutes; senior Marine commanders agreed to a troop surge in Afghanistan in 2017 for budgetary reasons. Based on years of wide-ranging research, Cockburn lays bare the ugly reality of the largest military machine in history: as profoundly squalid as it is terrifyingly deadly.

Author : Alexander Robinson
Publisher : Applied Research and Design Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1940743486

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The Spoils of Dust by Alexander Robinson Pdf

Once the third-largest lake in California and among the world's greatest sources of dust, for decades the dried Owens Lake was merely a footnote to the most notorious water grab in modern history. Now, the desert lake has been reassembled--not refilled--to redeem its lost value without returning Los Angeles's main water supply. In The Spoils of Dust, this bargain redemption and its surprise conjuring of an extraordinary landscape, is the backdrop for investigating contemporary relationships between landscape architecture, engineering, and perception. The Promethean terrain makes legible the frameworks we use to reinvent nature in the Anthropocene, revealing itself as a monument to the prismatic modes by which we know landscapes today. Almost by accident, this has made select landscape values the linchpin for major water resource decisions, thrusting landscape architecture into a consequential position. Answering the challenge, the book concludes with a speculative atlas and robotic tool for an imaginative and advanced approach to dry lake design.

Author : Jesse Eisenberg
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780802191397

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The Spoils by Jesse Eisenberg Pdf

A powerful play about wealth, narcissism, and entitlement: “Eisenberg writes funny, but he is also a real storyteller—moody and dangerous and even loving.”—Newsday Nobody likes Ben. Ben doesn’t even like Ben. He’s been kicked out of grad school, lives off his parents’ money, and bullies everyone in his life, including his roommate, an earnest Nepalese immigrant. When Ben discovers that his grade school crush is marrying a straitlaced banker, he sets out to destroy their relationship and win her back. The Spoils is a deeply personal and probing comedy written by Jesse Eisenberg—Academy Award-nominated actor, playwright, and contributor to the New Yorker. “While Ben would surely say The Spoils is all about Ben, Mr. Eisenberg has seen fit to surround his leading narcissist with characters who live and breathe and react independently...His clever, frantic dialogue assumes an irresistible authenticity.”—Ben Brantley, The New York Times (NYT Critics’ Pick)

Author : Brian Van Reet
Publisher : Lee Boudreaux Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316316156

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Spoils by Brian Van Reet Pdf

"The finest Iraq War novel yet written by an American"-- Wall Street Journal, 10 Best Novels of the Year "An electrifying debut" (The Economist) that maps the blurred lines between good and evil, soldier and civilian, victor and vanquished. Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence It is April 2003. American forces have taken Baghdad and are now charged with winning hearts and minds. But this vital tipping point is barely recognized for what it is, as a series of miscalculations and blunders fuels an already-simmering insurgency intent on making Iraq the next graveyard of empires. In dazzling and propulsive prose, Brian Van Reet explores the lives on both sides of the battle lines: Cassandra, a nineteen-year-old gunner on an American Humvee who is captured during a deadly firefight and awakens in a prison cell; Abu Al-Hool, a lifelong mujahedeen beset by a simmering crisis of conscience as he struggles against enemies from without and within, including the new wave of far more radicalized jihadists; and Specialist Sleed, a tank crewman who goes along with a "victimless" crime, the consequences of which are more awful than any he could have imagined. Depicting a war spinning rapidly out of control, destined to become a modern classic, Spoils is an unsparing and morally complex novel that chronicles the achingly human cost of combat.

Author : Robin Waterfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199931521

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Dividing the Spoils by Robin Waterfield Pdf

The story of the wars that led to the break-up of Alexander the Great's vast empire after his death in 323 BC and the brilliant cultural developments which accompanied this birth of a new world.

Author : Seth Hunter
Publisher : Review
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755379101

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The Spoils of Conquest by Seth Hunter Pdf

1798: Old enemies, Nelson and Napoleon, launch a new war in the east - and to the victor go the spoils . . . The unputdownable sixth historical naval adventure from a master of maritime storytelling. Seth Hunter's gripping series is the perfect read for fans of Julian Stockwin and Patrick O'Brian. 'The action is handled with complete assurance and all matters nautical carry the requisite salty whiff of authenticity . . . Hunter keeps the plot continually on the boil.' Yorkshire Evening Post The Mouth of the Nile, 9th August, 1798: Admiral Nelson has sent Captain Nathan Peake on a desperate journey across the Middle East to convey a grim warning to British India. Bonaparte's army is poised to deliver a fatal blow to the source of Britain's wealth and power by marching overland to India. Arriving in Bombay, Nathan takes command of the East India Company's naval wing - the Bombay Marine - an under-armed and poorly crewed flotilla of sloops and gunboats. With these meagre resources he must stop the flow of French supplies to their Indian ally and protect the Company's trade from the pirates and privateers swarming in the Bay of Bengal. But when Nathan discovers the truth behind the East India Company's honourable facade he confronts some tough personal choices - and a crisis of conscience even more threatening than the enemy. What readers are saying about THE SPOILS OF CONQUEST: 'Seth Hunter's fine mixture of fact and fiction has kept me hungry to read on all the way through. Wonderful!' 'The characters are engaging, the action exciting and the background nicely researched' '[Seth Hunter's] writing style is first class as he keeps the story moving quickly forward, providing graphic description, injecting humour, and always a plausible scenario'

Author : Francis Newton Thorpe
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781434473066

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The Spoils of Empire by Francis Newton Thorpe Pdf

Francis Newton Thorpe (1857-1926) was a noted historian and author.

Author : Carl Schurz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Civil service reform
ISBN : HARVARD:32044086963782

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The Spoils System by Carl Schurz Pdf

Author : William Knight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600091141

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The arch of Titus and the spoils of the temple, an historical lecture by William Knight Pdf

Author : Frederick Law Olmsted
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385484467

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The Spoils of the Park. With a Few Leaves from the Deep-laden Note-books of A Wholly Unpractical Man by Frederick Law Olmsted Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

Author : Dorman Bridgman Eaton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Postal service
ISBN : UVA:X000855954

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The "spoils" System and Civil Service Reform in the Custom-house and Post-office at New York by Dorman Bridgman Eaton Pdf

The letters of the alphabet introduce aspects of elementary teachers' work lives--going from alphabet, books, chalkboard, desk and education.

Author : Paul Scott
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780226034645

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A Division of Spoils by Paul Scott Pdf

The conclusion of the “majestic” quartet about the waning days of the British empire in India, “a commanding achievement” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). After exploiting India’s divisions for years, the British are departing in such haste that no one is prepared for the Hindu-Muslim riots of 1947. The twilight of the raj turns bloody. Against the backdrop of the violent partition of India and Pakistan, A Division of the Spoils illuminates one last bittersweet romance, revealing the divided loyalties of the British as they flee, retreat from, or cling to India. “[These] novels are a spectacular explosion of history set off within the lives of a dozen or so Britons and Indians on the edges of vast change . . . If you want to know where the political world we now live in began, Paul Scott’s novels are a place to start.” —The New York Times Book Review “A rich novel of manners . . . Politics, cultism, police and military interrogation—all moving toward inevitable murder and violence—are integral parts of a carefully crafted, complex novel.” —Library Journal

Author : Sean Longden
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472112187

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To the Victor the Spoils by Sean Longden Pdf

From the D-Day landings in June 1944 to the final declaration of peace the following year the Allied forces fought a bitter battle to the end against Hitler's Nazi Germany. Sean Longden re-tells the unexpected true story of life among the ranks of Field Marshall Montgomery's 21st Army group and reveals a tale of sex, burglary, rape, pillage and alcohol. Uncovering new material from interviews, documents and personal accounts, Sean Longden recounts what really happened on the road to Berlin. 'A meticulously-researched, utterly absorbing account of the human story behind the battle to crush Hitler's forces.' Yorkshire Post 'From D-Day to VE Day, historian Sean Longden reveals the sex 'n' rock 'n' drugs 'n' rock 'n' roll of soldiering' The Times

Author : Henry James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433066731575

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The Spoils of Poynton by Henry James Pdf