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Princeton University Press Republics of the New World
Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018""Highly readable and accessible. . . . Sabato’s impressive work goes a long way to correcting and updating the master narrative of politics in the nineteenth century."---James E. Sanders, European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies"Sabato provides an extraordinarily rich analysis of the political transformations of the newly independent Spanish-American colonies in the 19th century. . . . Sabato’s excellent scholarship provides a fresh look at an often overlooked period of Latin American history, and this book provides a critical foundation for university classes on Latin American political development."---M.F.T. Malone, Choice"It is to be hoped that Republics of the New World will spark debate and competition, that it will spur other historians to also try their hands at the task of panoramic analysis and interpretation. For that endeavor, Sabato’s book now sets a very high standard."---Timo Schaefer, H-Net Reviews"This is a vigorous, intelligent and persuasive book from a distinguished Argentine historian at the peak of her powers."---Guy Thomson, Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y el Caribe
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Princeton University Press Becoming George Orwell
Book SynopsisIs George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, according to Rodden's provocative book about the transformation of a man into a myth. He charts the astonishing passage of a litterateur into a legend.Trade Review"The range and depth of Rodden’s knowledge and understanding of post-World War II literature and worldwide responses to Orwell are unparalleled. . . . Becoming George Orwell makes for an engrossing and illuminating read."---Norman Bissell, Orwell Society"As a self-described 'recovering utopian' in tune with his subject’s utopian skepticism, Rodden’s outlook on democratic socialism will resonate with our current political environment. . . . Anyone with an interest in Orwell will appreciate Rodden’s insights and reflections."---Thomas Karel, Library Journal"[Becoming George Orwell] is a grab-bag of Orwelliana. . . . The chapters can stand on their own or, taken together, form an idiosyncratic biography of a consequential life. To read them is to sit in the presence of a veteran scholar at the peak of his powers"---John J. Miller, National Review"Rodden’s book keeps alive the spirit of the man and his imagination."---Shelley Walia, The Hindu"John Rodden, arguably the world’s leading scholar on George Orwell . . . claims that Orwell 'is the most important writer since Shakespeare and the most influential writer who ever lived'. . . . It’s a big claim, but he provides enough evidence to keep literature departments arguing for years."---Dennis Glover, Sydney Morning Herald"A terrific book. An absolute must for fans of George Orwell."---David Marx, David Marx Book Reviews
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Princeton University Press A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse Cultural
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Writing entertainingly and informatively on both archaeology and the Talmud is a rare gift, and the author brings enthusiasm and erudition to his explanations of Roman engineering feats."---Sara Jo Ben Zvi, Segula"Eliav’s engaging account of cultural interaction between Jews and non-Jews in the rabbinic era will help readers to better imagine the interactions between Jews and Gentiles in the New Testament."---Zen Hess, The Christian Century
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Uncertain Warriors Lyndon Johnson and His
Book SynopsisLyndon Johnson, when it comes to his role in the Vietnam war, is popularly portrayed as an irrational ""hawkish"" leader who bullied his advisers and refused to solicit a wide range of opinions. That depiction, David Barrett, argues, is simplistic and far from accurate.
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University Press of Kansas The Presidency of Gerald R. Ford
Book SynopsisThis is a study of one of the most popular, yet most misunderstood, presidents. The author aims to extend and revise our understanding of Ford's struggles to restore credibility to the presidency in the wake of Watergate and Vietnam.
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas The Confederacys Last Hurrah Spring Hill
Book SynopsisThis work on the Civil War describes how and why the Confederate leader, John Bell Hood, was ultimately defeated by the Union General, George G. Thomas, at Springhill, Franklin and Nashville after the fall of Atlanta. The story is told from both sides, illuminating both the good and the bad.Trade ReviewSword compellingly recreates the heroism, missed chances, political backbiting, and flawed rebel leadership underlying the outcome at these killing grounds. . . . Narrated with brisk attention to the nuances of strategy—and with measured solemnity over the waste of life in war."—Kirkus Reviews"A blockbuster. . . . Narrative history at its best."—Edwin C. Bearss, chief historian, National Park Service"Civil War history superbly reported by a master storyteller. Thoroughly researched, rich in drama and detail, rendered in vivid colors with flesh-and-blood characters—just as it occurred."—Rod Gragg, author of Confederate Goliath: The Battle of Fort Fisher"By far the best book written on Hood's Tennessee campaign. Sword's description of the Confederate tragedy at Franklin is superb; it could serve as a model for painting combat in words."—Albert Castel, author of Decision in the West: The Atlanta Campaign of 1864"A masterful combination of historical fact and human interest . . . both brilliantly informative and deeply moving."—Richard Wheeler, author of Sherman’s March"This is the fullest, most judicious narrative produced to date on the mortal wounding of the Confederacy's second principal army. The book also ranks among the best narratives of Union activities in that climactic campaign for control of Tennessee."—James Robertson in the Richmond News Leader"The best book ever written on the campaign. There is no way anyone can write a better one."—Thomas Y. Cartwright, Curator, The Carter House, Franklin, Tennessee
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Mobilizing for Modern War The Political Economy
Book SynopsisThis second in a five-volume study, examines war planning and mobilizing in an era of rapid industrialization and how economic mobilization for defence and war is shaped at the national level by the interaction of political, economic and military institutions and increasingly powerful weaponry.
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas For Courageous Fighting and Confident Dying
Book SynopsisArmstrong has drawn upon a range of documents to explain the duties of Union chaplains and differentiate them from their Southern counterparts. He examines the organization of the chaplaincy and reviews its manuals for guidelines on such matters as cultivating desirable character traits.
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas The Luftwaffe Creating the Operational Air War
Book SynopsisThis study provides an appraisal of Germany's air forces from the post-World War I era through the early stages of World War II. The author demolishes several myths surrounding the Luftwaffe, including the belief that they had no ideas beyond the support of ground forces.
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas From Opportunity to Entitlement The
Book SynopsisThis account charts the changing nature of Great Society liberalism from the early 1960s to the early 1970s. Based on research, it analyzes the downward path of the welfare state in the USA, and demonstrates the march of the liberals away from the centre and into the political wilderness.
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Tom Taylors Civil War
Book SynopsisThomas Taylor was a junior officer who fought under Sherman at Vicksburg and Chattanooga and on the march through Georgia. His diaries and letters contain vivid descriptions of numerous skirmishes and battles over four years. This volume interleaves Taylor's words with narrative.
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty
Book SynopsisAn examination of the political thought of John Adams. The author seeks to reconstruct the contours and influences of Adams's mental universe, the ideas he challenged, the problems he considered central to constitution-making, and the methods of his reasoning.Trade ReviewAn important book. Thompson illuminates the sources and importance of Adams's political theory and convincingly demonstrates that Adams earned a place among America's greatest political thinkers. - American Historical Review ""This is intellectual history as it should be written: powerful and penetrating, compelling and convincing."" - Times Literary Supplement
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Americanizing the West
Book SynopsisThe Americanization movement of the 1910s and 1920s addressed the challenge of transforming immigrants into Americans by training them for citizenship. This work examines how this movement was forced to reconcile the myth of rugged individualism with the demands of a planned society.Trade ReviewProvides a provocative description of how Westerners perceived their region as a 'racial frontier,' an image that shaped their responses to immigrants in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.... Sheds much new light on their attitudes and actions, particularly in the two decades between 1910 and 1930. ELLIOTT ROBERT BARKAN, AUTHOR OF AND STILL THEY COME: IMMIGRANTS AND AMERICAN SOCIETY, 1920 TO THE 1990S ""A valuable contribution to the literature of Western history and the history of immigration and ethnicity in the United States."" JON GJERDE, AUTHOR OF THE MINDS OF THE WEST: ETHNOCULTURAL EVOLUTION IN THE RURAL MIDDLE WEST, 1830-1917 ""A must-read for anyone interested in immigration history, and immigration policy, especially concerning the American West."" WALTER NUGENT, AUTHOR OF CROSSINGS: THE GREAT TRANSATLANTIC MIGRATIONS, 1870-1914
£41.36
MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Bureau Men Settlement Women Constructing Public
Book SynopsisThis work offers a look at the early intellectual history of public administration. It recovers the forgotten contributions of women to show that they were ultimately more successful than their male counterparts in enlarging the work and moral scope of government.Trade ReviewA major contribution to the field. Stivers has brought to light something critical and absolutely necessary for our understanding of American public administration. - David Rosenbloom, author of Public Administration ""Challenges us to reconsider fundamentally how we think about, educate for, and do government service. A wonderful book."" - Suzanne Mettler, author of Dividing Citizens ""Iconoclastic and irreverent."" - Public Administration Review
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas The Philippine War 18991902
Book SynopsisA study of the often misunderstood Philippine War. From the pitched battles of the early war to the final campaigns against guerrillas, it traces the entire course of the war. The text is grounded in original documents, including the letters and diaries of soldiers from both sides.Trade ReviewThe definitive study of this often misunderstood war. - Parameters; ""A thoughtful, deeply researched, and well-written work about a war that teaches much about the nature of revolutionary warfare - even today."" - Foreign Affairs; ""A well-written volume that enhances Linn's position as the leading authority on America's military presence in the Pacific before Pearl Harbor."" - Publishers Weekly; ""Belongs on the shelf of any serious student of U.S.-Asian relations, especially if one wants to understand the projection of American military power across the Pacific."" - Journal of Military History; ""An objective, well-researched, and engaging book that challenges earlier one-dimensional views. Destined to become the standard text for understnading this forgotten war."" - History: Reviews of New Books; ""Well-grounded in original documents, including the letters and diaries of soldiers from both sides, this is the most important book so far on one of the most controversial of America's wars."" - New York Military Affairs Sympostum Newsletter; ""Without equal among the many works on the war."" - John M. Gates, author of Schoolbooks and Krags: The United States Army in the Philippines, 1898-1902; ""Will appeal to serious military historians and military professionals, as well as to the general reader."" - Robert A. Doughty in the History Book Club News.
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Airpower in Small Wars Fighting Insurgents and
Book SynopsisThis volume presents a comprehensive history of airpower in small wars - conflicts pitting states against non-state groups such as insurgents, bandits, factions and terrorists - tracing it from the early years of the 20th century to the present day and examining conflicts with different scenarios.Trade ReviewAn extraordinarily timely and illuminating work. With the United States embroiled in a new era of quasi-imperial small wars, Corum and Johnson make a major contribution to our understanding of what airpower can and cannot do in such conflicts. Andrew J. Bacevich, author of American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy; ""A superb study that should be essential reading for anyone interested in the Cold War, counterinsurgency, or air power."" Jonathan M. House, author of Combined Arms Warfare in the Twentieth Century; ""A masterful survey of the use of airpower in unconventional warfare that has a great deal of relevance for today."" Brian M. Linn, author of the Philippine War, 1899-1902
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas The Cause Lost Myths and Realities of the
Book SynopsisThis work investigates the facts and fictions of the South's victories and defeats during the American Civil War. It debunks long-standing legends, offers evidence explaining Confederate actions and considers the idealism, naivete and courage of military leadership and would-be founding fathers.Trade ReviewCelebrated author William C. Davis here offers us stimulating essays full of provocative opinions. Will provoke plenty of healthy debate. - Blue & Gray Magazine; ""This provocative book challenges readers to look at old questions in new ways. It's a splendid read, entertaining and enlightening in equal measure and leavened with more than a dash of humor."" - Gary W. Gallagher, editor of The Third Day at Gettysburg and Beyond; ""A wonderful book, written by a man with full command of, and great love for, his subject. Davis grasps the war in its totality, decently and respectfully. He does not so much demolish myths as clarify and nuance them."" - Washington Times; ""This splendid collection, characterized by the same insight, humor, and delightful irreverence found in all Davis's writing, has something for everyone."" - Journal of Southern History ""Davis advances strong opinions without qualification and often in a bold, memorable way."" - Georgia Historical Quarterly; ""William C. Davis is one of the best and most prolific historians of the American Civil War. His many books have added immeasurably to our knowledge and understanding."" - James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Steeltown U.S.A. Work and Memory in Youngstown
Book SynopsisExploring conflicting representations of Youngstown across a century of growth, struggle and heartbreaking decline, this study looks at the roles of work and memory. It acts as a cautionary tale about corporate responsibility in an era of globalization.Trade Review“Compelling. . . . An intriguing history of the deindustrialization experience in Youngstown. . . . Linkon and Russo have succeeded in illustrating the importance and use of historical memory in shaping the future discourse of public policy issues involving deindustrialization.”—Journal of American History“The authors compellingly examine Youngstown’s struggle for re-definition and recovery by studying its contradictory representations of itself, before and after the steel mills. . . . Rewarding reading for any Ohioan—or any American—interested in the psychological effects of deindustrialization on Rust Belt communities. This book proves that, in the authors’ words, ‘Youngstown’s story is America’s story.’”—Ohioana Quarterly
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University Press of Kansas America in the Seventies
Book SynopsisThe 70s witnessed economic decline in America, coupled with a series of foreign policy failures, events that created an air of unease and uncertainty. This volume examines the ways in which Americans responded to a changing world and sought to redefine themselves.
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Betty Ford
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University Press of Kansas Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth
Book SynopsisExplores the shifting reputation of America’s most controversial founding father. Stephen Knott surveys the Hamilton image in the minds of American statesmen, scholars, literary figures, and the media, explaining why Americans are content to live in a Hamiltonian nation but reluctant to embrace the man himself.Trade ReviewThere is no Founding Father whose reputation has waxed and waned so dramatically, who has aroused so much hatred and contempt. In his invaluable new book, Knott does a marvelous job of gathering all the different views of Hamilton and weaving them into a clear and interesting narrative." —David Brooks in The Weekly Standard"An important and lasting contribution to future debates about the Founding's meaning." — First Things"An important book." —Claremont Review of Books"Makes a compelling case for Hamilton's importance." - History; Reviews of New Books
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas The Presidency of John F. Kennedy
Book SynopsisA book on John F Kennedy's White House years. It shows Kennedy to be ""the most medicated, one of the most courageous, and perhaps the most self-absorbed of our presidents."" Featuring a bibliographical essay and twenty-two photos from the JFK library, it aims to be the definitive appraisal of Camelot's kingdom.
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Peace Pact
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA complex and remarkable book that may well make an important paradigm shift in early American history.... Deftly combining intellectual, constitutional, and diplomatic history, Hendrickson significantly reorients our understanding of the creation of the American republic." —American Historical Review"Hendrickson's masterly work immediately joins Peter S. Onuf and Nicholas G. Onuf's Federal Union, Modern World: The Law of Nations in an Age of Revolutions as one of the leading attempts to view the making of America in international perspective." —Journal of American History"An exemplary contribution to our understanding of the early republic." —William and Mary Quarterly"A remarkable book - engaging, learned, and well-written.... Highly recommended." —Choice"A splendid and important book." —International History Review"An extrordinary achievement." —Peter Onuf, author of Jefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood
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University Press of Kansas Drawing the Line at the Big Ditch The Panama
Book SynopsisConsidered one of America's engineering marvels, the Panama Canal sparked intense debates in the 1970s over the decision to turn it back over to Panama. This work argues, that the Panama Canal no longer divides Panama. But the fissures it opened 30 years ago have widened; they divide the United States.Trade ReviewA fascinating political whodunit about the place of the Panama Canal in the conservative campaign to sink the ship of congressional liberals. Tom Brokaw, author of The Greatest Generation ""Long acknowledged to be a top-flight journalist, Clymer turns out to be a thoughtful and probing historian as well. Above all, he is a gifted storyteller, whose colorful cast includes dictators and diplomats, politicians in search of an issue, and presidents in search of a legacy. Great history is all about perspective, and that's exactly what this book supplies."" Richard Norton Smith, Presidential historian ""A first-rate effort by a top-notch political reporter."" David A. Keene, Chairman, American Conservative Union
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Union Nation or Empire The American Debate Over International Relations 17891941
Book SynopsisA sequel to ""Peace Pact"", in which the author identified a 'unionist paradigm' that defined America's political understanding in 1787, this book examines how that paradigm was transformed under the impact of the great wars that followed. It challenges accepted interpretations of America's role in the world.Trade ReviewAmericans tend to see their history as a parade of events. Yet at the very core of that history has been a debate over ideas and ideology. Hendrickson's brilliant book recounts and reassesses that debate with originality and penetrating insight. Andrew J. Bacevich, author of American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy ""An original and important work, marked by graceful erudition and judiciousness.... A worthy sequel to Hendrickson's acclaimed Peace Pact: The Lost World of the American Founding."" David Mayers, author of Dissenting Voices in America's Rise to Power ""A terrific book and magnificent achievement."" Peter S. Onuf, author of Jefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Reopening the Frontier Homesteading in the
Book SynopsisShows that postwar homesteading continued to shape the modern West in important ways. This study describes how the Bureau of Reclamation used lotteries to make available free land that had previously been part of Indian reservations, used for Japanese internment, or abandoned by unsuccessful settlers.Trade ReviewCannon's insightful and sensitive treatment impressively captures the hopes, dreams, and struggles of these latter-day pioneers.... A fine addition to the history of the West, environmental history, and rural and agricultural history. David B. Danbom, author of Born in the Country: A History of Rural America ""An excellent and essential sequel to Paul W. Gates's magisterial History of Public Land Law Development and well worthy of serious consideration by various prize committees."" Allan G. Bogue, author of Frederick Jackson Turner: Strange Roads Going Down ""A unique and well-written work that should be read by historians and other students of the West, its land development, and the impact of the federal government."" Walter Nugent, author of Into the West: The Story of Its People
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Inside the Nixon Administration
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Four Hats in the Ring The 1912 Election and the
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas The Real Making of the President Kennedy Nixon
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas The Zapruder Film
Book SynopsisAnalysing Abraham Zapruder's iconic film frame-by-frame, David Wrone builds a convincing case against the official findings of the ""crime of the century"": the assassination of JFK. Tracing its 50-year history, he demonstrates how the film itself refutes the lone-gunman and single-bullet theory.
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Imperial Germany and War 18711918
Book SynopsisAn in-depth, finely detailed portrait of the German Army from its greatest victory in 1871 to its final collapse in 1918, this volume offers the most comprehensive account ever given of one of the critical pillars of the German Empire - and a chief architect of the military and political realities of late nineteenth-century Europe.Trade ReviewHughes and DiNardo provide a fine-grain portrait of the Imperial German Army from its greatest victory in 1871 to its final collapse in 1918. Written by two of the scholarly world's leading authorities, it offers in-depth research into the German sources, judicious verdicts on men and events, and a breadth of vision greater than any previous work. It is an indispensable book that will dominate the narrative on the German Army for decades.""- Robert M. Citino, author of The Wehrmacht's Last Stand: The German Campaigns of 1944-1945;""Few institutions were more important to European history between 1871 and 1918 than the German army. This study provides a detailed analysis of how it responded to the rapid societal and political changes around it. No student of this period of Germany will want to miss it.""- Michael S. Neiberg, author of Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I;""The Prussian/German army failed its ultimate test: preparing for and waging the Great War of 1914-1918. This major contribution to institutional military history convincingly establishes that failure as the consequence of a fundamental and enduring tension between efforts to adjust to the requirements of mass-industrial warfare and pressures seeking to limit the consequences of the French and Marxist revolutions. Essential for all students of the subject.""- Dennis Showalter, author of Instrument of War: The German Army 1914-1918;""A formal people, the Germans were disastrously informal about war. Clausewitz set the tone with his emphasis on friction, human error, and improvised genius. That strand connected Moltke the Elder's unorthodox invasions of Austria and France with the thrusting, decentralized combat of generals given a broad mission and the flexibility to accomplish it by Schlieffen and his successors. Ultimately this can-do attitude was the Prussian-German army's 'secret sauce.' It defeated bureaucracy and ensured rapid action yet- as Hughes and DiNardo reveal in this splendid, lucid work- it made German leaders dismissive of policy, grand strategy, and their iron constraints. A Germany dominated by the uniformed military came to view battle as the solution to every problem, ensuring Germany's defeat in 1918.""- Geoffrey Wawro, author of A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas 43 Inside the George W. Bush Presidency
Book SynopsisThe presidency of George W. Bush has been the subject of extensive commentary but limited scholarly analysis in the years since he left office. 43 draws extensively, but not solely, from the recently released interviews of the Miller Center’s Presidential Oral History Program at the University of Virginia.Table of Contents Preface Introduction: History and the Three Presidencies of George W. Bush, Russell L. Riley 1. George W. Bush’s Elections: 2000, 2004, 2006, and 2008, Michael Nelson 2. George W. Bush and Compassionate Conservatism: Rhetoric and Reality, Jesse H. Rhodes 3. Day of Fire: An Oral History of 9/11, Michael Nelson 4. “On My Own”: George W. Bush, the Unitary Executive, and Unilateral Action, Andrew Rudalevige 5. George W. Bush and Congress, John J. Pitney, Jr. 6. George W. Bush’s Supreme Court Nominations: From Oral History to Oral Argument, Barbara A. Perry 7. George W. Bush’s Vice President: A New Look at Dick Cheney, Joel K. Goldstein 8. The Iraq War: Democracy Promotion and the Struggle for Strategic Solvency, 2002–2008, Spencer D. Bakich 9. George W. Bush and the Financial Crisis of 2008, Robert F. Bruner 10. George W. Bush, Presidentialism, and the Fracturing of America, Sidney M. Milkis Appendix 1: Timeline of the George W. Bush Presidency Appendix 2: Interviewees for the George W. Bush Presidential History Project Appendix 3: Interviewers for the George W. Bush Presidential History Project List of Contributors Index
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas The Mormon Military Experience 1838 to the Cold
Book SynopsisThe first book to present a historical overview of the Mormon military experience. Sherman Fleek and Robert Freeman tell the unique story of how the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has experienced war and military service and their teachings concerning participation in armed conflict.Trade Review"We overuse the terms unique and overdue, but this study of the Mormon military experience is truly both. Fleek and Freeman bring to the fore a fascinating and intricate history of the often-troubling and always-complicated involvement of Mormonism with the force of arms, from the LDS Church literally operating its own army for many decades in the nineteenth century to becoming an ardent advocate and supporter of the armed forces of the United States in the twentieth. Their work ranges effectively from the stories of individual Mormons in uniform to analyses of the institution’s interface with military affairs, events, and issues."—Gene A. Sessions, coauthor of Camp Floyd and the Mormons: The Utah War"The Mormon Military Experience is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the relationship between religion, the military, and war in the United States. Sherman Fleek and Robert Freeman tell a story, supported by extensive archival research and engaging narrative, of a quintessentially American religious group and its interaction with a quintessentially national institution as it moves from exceptional in the late nineteenth century to mainstream in the twentieth. Historians of the American military, American religion, and of LDS history will all find tremendous value in this volume."—Jacqueline E. Whitt, author of Bringing God to Men: American Military Chaplains and the Vietnam WarTable of Contents Series Editor’s Preface Preface: The Genesis of an Idea Introduction Book One: Nineteenth-Century Conflicts and Mormon Exceptionalism 1. The Mormon Way of War: Teachings and Practice 2. A Civil Conflict in Missouri 3. The Nauvoo Legion: Forging a Mormon Army 4. Mormon Defiance: The Mormon Territorial Militia and the Utah War 6. The American Civil War: LDS Service and Postwar Frustration 7. The Saints and Indians at War 8. Wars with Spain and the Philippines, 1898-1902: The End of Mormon Exceptionalism Book Two: Twentieth-Century Conflicts and the End of Mormon Exceptionalism 9. American Expedition 1946 and Saints in Mexico 10. World War I: Mormons Enter the Mainstream Ranks 11. World War II: Saints in the Global War 12. Early Cold War Conflicts: The Rise of the International Church 13. Southeast Asia: Defending Democracy and Expanding the Church 14. LDS Opposition to MX Missile Basing Epilogue: The Cold War and Beyond Appendix: Medal of Honor Citations World War I World War II Korean War Vietnam Medal of Honor Recipients Global War on Terrorism Chronology: The Mormon Military Experience, 1820-1896 Notes Bibliography Index Illustrations follow page 18
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas The Racial Integration of the American Armed For
Book SynopsisWhile past accounts of the integration of the armed forces have focused on the critical roles played by the burgeoning leadership of the civil rights movement and the Black population, Geoffrey Jensen is the first to emphasize the importance of presidential leadership and their staffs.Trade Review"Geoffrey Jensen makes a strong case for re-examining the integration of the US military through the lens of the Cold War, an important perspective that is generally absent from the scholarship on the topic. Jensen argues military integration was born out of the necessity of war—the Cold War—and contends the process of military reform waxed and waned according to the threats communist forces posed to US interests. His emphasis on the international concerns of presidential administrations corrects a tendency of scholars of military integration to limit their analysis to domestic concerns and the politics of civil rights."—Douglas Walter Bristol, Jr., coeditor, Integrating the US Military: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation since World War IIGeoffrey W. Jensen’s investigation of the intentions, processes, and outcomes of racial integration in the United States Armed Forces is as searing as it is engaging. For a topic as central to a military’s history—not to mention efficacy—racial integration has been sorely omitted by the historical record. In today’s current climate, Born out of the Necessity of War could not be more timely or more prescient."—Lorissa Rinehart, author of First to the Front, The Untold Story of Dickey ChapelleTable of Contents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments 1. A Faustian Bargain: White Presidents, Wartime Necessity, and the Black Pursuit of Civil Rights, 1770 to 1945 2. “It Was Good Trouble, It Was Necessary Trouble”: Truman and Reform 3. Born out of the Necessity of War: The Korean War and Reform 4. The Frustration of the Middle Way: Eisenhower and Reform 5. From Image to Action: Kennedy, Johnson, and Reform 6. The Decrescendo of Cold War Racial Reform: Vietnam, Johnson, and Nixon Conclusion Epilogue Notes Index
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Dawson Publishing The Victoria History of the County of Derby
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation French social history Games in the eighteenth century Happiness in Duclos and Rousseau
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation The Eighteenth Century Now Boundaries and
Book SynopsisThere has been path-breaking research, too, in areas which reflect our broadening conception of eighteenth-century studies, from literature of travel to post-colonial writing, translation to the press, popular literature to clandestine manuscripts.Trade Review''a lively testament to the healthy state of eighteenth-century studies [...] the volume offers a summa of the current state of those studies, with articles by a team of leading authorities not just covering well-established author, genres, themes and disciplines, but also their less familiar emerging offshoots.'Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsList of illustrationsAcknowledgementsJonathan Mallinson, The eighteenth century now: reading beyond the linesI. Defamiliarising a canonNicholas Cronk, Inventing VoltaireCatherine Volpilhac-Auger et Catherine Larrère, Montesquieu en mouvementMarian Hobson, Diderot and oblivion / Diderot in the future tenseJacques Berchtold, Du nouveau dans les études rousseauistes? A propos de l’approche thématiqueDavid Coward, Adventures of the novelSimon Davies, Poetry rebornPhilip Robinson, Eighteenth-century theatre: the triumph of parodyDaniel Brewer, Remembering the EncyclopédieII. Discovering new worldsMarie-Laure Girou Swiderski et Suzan van Dijk, La littérature au fémininShelly Charles, Traduire au dix-huitième siècleFrançois Moureau, Le voyageur français et les étranges étrangers: bilan d’études sur le siècle des LumièresAnthony Strugnell, Colonialism and its discoursesJean Sgard, L’univers des journauxLise Andries, Réflexions sur la notion de littérature populaireAntony McKenna, Les manuscrits philosophiques clandestinsMark Ledbury, Imagining the Salon: mapping art criticism in the eighteenth centuryIII. Crossing boundariesPhilip Stewart, L’illustration du roman au dix-huitième siècleMichael O’Dea, ‘Visions inintelligibles’ et ‘vérités apocalyptiques’: théorie et pratique de l’opéra françaisYannick Séité, Le livre des Lumières et son étudeJean-Paul Sermain, La rhétorique dans l’histoire culturelle, la pensée et les textes littéraires du dix-huitième siècleAnne Vila, Getting cultural: new perspectives in eighteenth-century science studiesCatherine Larrère, De la politique des Lumières à celle de la modernitéGiuseppi Ricuperati, Définir les Lumières: centres et périphéries du point de vue européen, cosmopolite et italienMichel Delon, Questions de périodisationSummariesIndex
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Voltaire Foundation in Association with Liverpool University Press Complete Works of Voltaire 144AB Corpus des notes marginales de Voltaire 9AB SpallanzaniZeno
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Diderot Natural Philosopher
Book SynopsisTrade Review'This is an excellent study which Diderot scholars will not just want to read but to own. It provides a solid platform for further research into Diderot’s scientific world-view and will remain a valuable resource for years to come.'Modern Language Review'Since Ballstadt is also a scrupulous recorder of Diderot’s own words, many of the chapters offer useful potted summaries of Diderot’s writings. These summaries also situate Diderot’s texts alongside the relevant books, personages and intellectual debates that informed his work, and from this perspective too the book can be recommended as a largely accurate and well-researched introduction to Diderot’s scientific ideas.'British Journal of the History of Science, Volume 43/2'Divided into chapters on mathematics, experimental physics, chemistry, natural history and medicine, this book documents and analyzes Diderot’s scientific thought. By a happy coincidence this order reflects not only a progression from abstraction to particularity, but also the development of Diderot’s interest in science.'New Perspectives on the Eighteenth CenturyTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Mathematics2. Experimental physics3. Chemistry4. Natural history5. MedicineConclusionAppendix: chronological list of Diderot works referencedBibliographyIndex
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Edward Gibbon Essai Sur L233tude De La Litterat
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMankin’s superb edition of the Essai, one of the greatest products of a truly international Republic of Letters, allows a great work of criticism, a civilised and civilizing text, to come back into fructifying circulation.- Essays in CriticismL’ouvrage de Mankin propose une lecture très fouillée du texte de Gibbon avec de nombreuses incursions dans d’autres œuvres de l’auteur comme l’Histoire de la décadence et de la chute de l’Empire romain et les Mémoires. Il s’appuie sur des références multiples en soulignant notamment la modernité de la demarche historiographique de Gibbon dès les années 1760, bien avant la publication de l’Histoire de la décadence et de la chute de l’Empire Romain.- Les Lettres romanesMankin’s edition is a remarkable effort to try and elucidate the genesis and status of the Essai, in the light both of the contemporary history of ideas and publications, in France and in England, and of Gibbon’s own intellectual development [...] This volume has the scrupulous precision of the whole SVEC collection, and the Voltaire Foundation must again be praised for its continuous and rare support of erudite research on the Enlightenment period. With the profusion of Mankin’s references and sources, and the way he succeeds in making them resonate through Gibbon’s text, this critical edition proves a very rewarding read for all of those interested in the intellectual history of the eighteenth century.- CerclesTable of ContentsGuide to this editionAbbreviationsIntroductionCircumstances of writingCharacter of the text‘France’: a contextFrom Belles-Lettres to littératureThe rise of the authorReligions of the mindTextual apparatusEssai sur l’étude de la littérature To Edward Gibbon Avis au lecteur A l’auteur Essai sur l’étude de la littérature Textual commentaryBibliographyIndex
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Voltaire Foundation Commentaire Historique I
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Voltaire Foundation Correspondance de Pierre Bayle Volume 11 aout
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Voltaire Foundation Correspondance générale de La Beaumelle Volume 10
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Voltaire Foundation Correspondance Generale de La Beaumelle 17261773
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Liverpool University Press Rumor Diplomacy and War in Enlightenment Paris
Book SynopsisIn this book Tabetha Ewing analyses different forms of everyday talk over the course of the War of Austrian Succession to explore how they led to new understandings of political identity.Royal policing and clandestine media shaped what Parisians knew and how they conceptualized events in a period of war.Trade ReviewReviews‘Ewing effectively communicates how public talk about the war ebbed and flowed […] she manages to navigate the complex terrain between police and public without confusing the reader.’French History‘Tabetha Leigh Ewing […] analyse avec une érudition exemplaire une série de sources qui échappent souvent aux chercheurs [pour en tirer] un vaste tableau de l’évolution de l’opinion publique parisienne à cette époque charnière. [L’ouvrage], par sa riche documentation, nous permet de voir les racines historiques d’une opinion publique qui fera une irruption spectaculaire à la fin du XVIIIè siècle lors de la Révolution française.'Studi Francesi‘An informative study that examines a period slightly earlier than most works on public opinion’ […] Sketches of colorful individuals, such as a shopkeeper’s wife who amused French officials by sending them detailed, unsolicited advice on foreign policy, make for compelling reading [...] A model of how to integrate popular opinion into works on foreign policy.’American History ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Transcriptions: royal secrecy in the channels of ‘on-dits’2. Electing the emperor: problems of voiceAppendix 1Appendix 2Appendix 33. Purloined letters and the 1742 crisis of information4. Protesting the draft: popular opinion, chance, and royal justice5. Declaring love, declaring war6. A royal public: trumpeting the king’s triumph after Fontenoy7. Disloyal speech and war on other fronts8. Uncovering political public opinion and an abstract public9. Gender as a poetics of indirection: a shopkeeper’s wife negotiates for peace10. Inchoate citizenshipBibliographyIndex
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Interpreting the Ancien R233gime
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewReviews ‘Most brilliantly on display in Bien’s essays is the quality of his peculiar forte: namely that of seeing the problematical behind the apparently obvious and espying questions where people had earlier seen only answers’. Journal of modern history‘David Bien was without doubt one of the greatest historians of eighteenth-century France, and we are indebted to the editors for bringing some of his best work together in a single volume’. H-France ReviewTable of ContentsPreface, Keith Michael BakerIntroduction: David D. Bien and the paradoxical history of Old Regime France, Michael Christofferson1. The background of the Calas affair2. Catholic magistrates and protestant marriage in the French Enlightenment3. Aristocracy4. Manufacturing nobles: the chancelleries in France to 17895. Property in office under the ancien régime: the case of the stockbrokers6. Every shoemaker an officier: Terray as reformer7. Old Regime origins of democratic liberty8. The army in the French Enlightenment: reform, reaction and Revolution9. Military education in eighteenth-century France: technical and non-technical determinants10. The nobilities of Toulouse11. Interview with Norman CantorBibliographyIndex
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Penser lEurope Au XVIII Si232cle Commerce
Book SynopsisAprès avoir décrit la manière dont l’ordre européen a été conçu, les auteurs examinent la question de l’expansion commerciale et coloniale de l’Europe, ainsi que les théories de la civilisation, qui permettent d’interroger le statut de l’exceptionnalisme européen.Trade ReviewReviews ‘What then could be more timely, as the union arrives at its deepest crisis of identity, than historical and philosophical scrutiny of the idea of ‘Europe’ at the moment of its birth? [...] Taken together, these essays reveal the extent to which both the hopes and the doubts that attach to the “European project” today were there from the very beginning’.Journal of Modern History‘Scopo (ben conseguito) del volume è quello di fornire solide basi interpretative, al di là di falsi miti e pregiudizi, relative all’idea d’Europa nel XVIII secolo, dale quali possa partire una più matura riflessione del concetto stesso nell’età contemporanea’.Studi francesiTable of ContentsListe d’abréviationsAntoine Lilti et Céline Spector, Introduction: l’Europe des Lumières, généalogie d’un conceptI. Un nouvel ordre européenBruno Bernardi, L’idée d’équilibre européen dans le jus gentium des modernes: esquisse d’histoire conceptuelleStella Ghervas, La paix par le droit, ciment de la civilisation en Europe? La perspective du Siècle des LumièresJennifer Pitts, Empire colonial et universalisme juridique au XVIIIe siècleII. L’Europe du doux commerce? Céline Spector, Civilisation et empire: la dialectique négative de l’Europe au siècle des LumièresKenta Ohji, La fin de l’Ancien Régime en Europe selon l’Histoire des deux IndesIII. La civilisation et ses critiquesAntoine Lilti, La civilisation est-elle européenne? Ecrire l’histoire de l’Europe au XVIIIe siècleLarry Wolff, La géographie philosophique des Lumières: l’Europe de l’Est et les Tartares de Sibérie au regard de la civilisationDominic Eggel, Le projet des Lumières mis en cause de l’intérieur: les classiques de Weimar à l’avant-garde des critiques de la civilisation européenneSophia Rosenfeld, Postface : L’Europe des cosmopolites: quand le XVIIIe siècle rencontre le XXIeRésumésBibliographieIndex
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