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Taylor & Francis Ltd The American Century A History of the United States from 1890 to 1941 Volume 1
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Slavery War and a New Birth of Freedom 1840s1877 History Through Literature
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Power of NeoSlave Fiction and Public History
Book SynopsisProfessional historians, schools, colleges and universities are not alone in shaping higher-order understanding of history. The central thesis of this book is the belief historical fiction in text and film shape attitudes towards an understanding of history as it moves the focus from slavery to the enslavedfrom the institution to the personal, families and feminist accounts.In a broader sense, this contributes to a public history. In part, using the quickly growing corpus of neo-slave counterfactual narratives, this book examines the notion of the emerging slavery public history, and the extent to which this is defined by literature, film and other forms of artistic expression, rather than non-fictionpopular or scholarlyand education in history in the school systems. Inter alia, this book looks to the validity of historical fiction in print or in film as a way of understanding history. A focal point of this book is the hypothesis that neo-slave narrativessupported by selectivTrade Review"The human stories authentically leap from the pages eloquently in Grant Rodwell’s latest book. Painstakingly researched and brilliantly told… simply splendid!An account throughout that is sensitive, colourful and compelling. Composed yet again with rare skill by the remarkable man from Oberon. A book of dramatic sweep and great narrative strength."John Ramsland, Emeritus Professor, University of Newcastle, AustraliaTable of ContentsContentsAbstractDedicationAcronyms and abbreviationsAcknolwedgementsPrefaceIntroductionChapter 1: From slavery to the enslaved: new paradigms, neo-slave fiction, a shared history and higher-order historical thinkingChapter 2 Slavery and the enslaved: breaking boundaries with neo-slave narrativesChapter 3 Antebellum neo-slave narratives, history and historiography: higher-order thinking and a public historyChapter 4 The enslaved, slavery, the Civil War and ReconstructionChapter 5 Jim Crow and slavery’s immediate aftermathGeneral conclusionsBibliography
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Warlord Hitler
Book SynopsisThis book is a study of Adolf Hitler in his role as military commander and strategist from the beginning of the Second World War until the end of 1942, examining in detail the campaign in southern Russia that year.The thesis challenges the post-war narrative of Hitler as a dilettante who was solely responsible for the strategic and operational errors that led to Germany's defeat in the war. Instead, this research highlights that decisions made by Hitler with respect to such disparate themes as strategy, operations, logistics, intelligence, economics, air and naval power, and coalition warfare were generally sound if viewed from his perspective, even if they were not ultimately successful. It also gives an overview of his own ideas concerning all aspects of military affairs, such as intelligence, command and morale. The careful analysis of Hitler's decision-making process offers a unique contribution to Second World War scholarship and moves beyond a superficial understanding Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Hitler and War 2. The German Army and High Command to 1939 3. Hitler’s Strategy from the Polish Campaign to the First Russian Winter, 1941-42 4. The Wehrmacht and its Allies 5. Transport and Logistics 6. Military Intelligence and FHO 7. The Campaign Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Spanish Civil War
Book SynopsisThe Spanish Civil War: A Military History takes a new, military approach to the conflict that tore Spain apart from 1936 to 1939.In many histories, the war has been treated as a primarily political event with the military narrative subsumed into a much broader picture of the Spain of 19369 in which the chief themes are revolution and counter-revolution. While remaining conscious of the politics of the struggle, this book looks at the war as above all a military event, and as one in whose outbreak specifically military issues particularly the split in the armed forces produced by the long struggle in Morocco (190927) were fundamental. Across nine chapters that consider the war from beginning to endgame, Charles J. Esdaile revisits traditional themes from a new perspective, deconstructs many epics and puts received ideas to the test, as well as introducing readers to foreign-language historiography that has previously been largely inaccessible to an anglophone audienceTrade Review'The Spanish Civil War, for all its social, political and cultural dimensions, was also in essence a military conflict. The military nature, which is often overlooked by historians, is centrepiece in Charles Esdaile’s fascinating new study. Based on an extensive range of old and new sources and lavishly furnished with first-hand accounts throughout, this highly readable history debunks many hallowed myths surrounding the conflict and stresses the role of the Moroccan wars in the divisions within the Spanish army which in 1936 made civil war possible. Our understanding of the Spanish Civil War and Spain’s fateful modern history more broadly will be enriched by this comprehensive work.' Mark Lawrence, Lecturer in Military History, University of Kent, UK'Professor Esdaile brings to this military study of the Spanish Civil War the forensic skills of an accomplished historian and a profound knowledge of Spanish politics and culture as it has been honed during his distinguished career as a scholar of contemporary Iberian politics and society. The scope of this volume includes a close analysis of the sequence of battles and an assessment of the military prowess and preparedness of the Republican and the Nationalist adversaries. Military events in the field are deftly set within their particular political contexts and include as well the daily wartime experiences of soldiers and civilians. This fine volume makes a considerable contribution to Hispanic scholarship. Equally it will appeal to the general reader with an interest in twentieth-century war and as it was played out in the specific conditions of the civil war in Spain.'Judith Keene, University of Sydney, Australia, and author of Fighting for Franco: International Volunteers in Nationalist Spain during the Spanish Civil War (2007) and, with Elizabeth Rechniewski, Seeking Meaning Seeking Justice in a Post Cold War World (2018). Table of ContentsList of Maps Preface Chapter 1: Beginnings Chapter 2: Spain is divided Chapter 3: First campaigns Chapter 4: The battle of Madrid Chapter 5: Winter battles Chapter 6: The war in Euzkadi Chapter 7: Diversions and disasters Chapter 8: Collapse in Aragón Chapter 9: Endgame Appendix 1: Organization of the Spanish Home Army, 1936 Appendix 2: Organization of the Army of Africa, 1936 Appendix 3: Spanish military and naval aviation, 1936 Appendix 4: Spanish Navy, 1936 Appendix 5: Weapons in service with the Spanish Army, 1936 Appendix 6: Obsolete weapons brought back into service, 1936 Appendix 7: Aircraft, tanks and other weapons supplied to Nationalist Spain Appendix 8: Aircraft, tanks and other weapons supplied to Republican Spain Appendix 9: Machine-guns and rifles supplied to the Republic Appendix 10: Foreign aid in the Spanish Civil War Appendix 11: The International Brigades Appendix 12: Nationalist forces engaged in the Assault on Madrid, November 1936 Appendix 13: Nationalist order of battle, campaign in Vizcaya, April 1937 Appendix 14: The Republican Army at the Battle of Brunete Bibliography Index
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Cambridge University Press America the Vietnam War and the World
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Cambridge University Press Vietnam and the American Political Tradition
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Cambridge University Press Iraq Wars America Military Revolut
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Cambridge University Press The Crimean War in the British Imagination 68 Cambridge Studies in NineteenthCentury Literature and Culture Series Number 68
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Cambridge University Press The Iraq Wars and Americas Military Revolution
Book SynopsisMany saw the United States' decisive victory in Desert Storm (1991) as not only vindication of American defense policy since Vietnam but also confirmation of a revolution in military affairs (RMA). Just as information-age technologies were revolutionizing civilian life, the Gulf War appeared to reflect similarly profound changes in warfare. A debate has raged ever since about a contemporary RMA and its implications for American defense policy. Addressing these issues, The Iraq Wars and America's Military Revolution is a comprehensive study of the Iraq Wars in the context of the RMA debate. Focusing on the creation of a reconnaissance-strike complex and conceptions of parallel or nonlinear warfare, Keith L. Shimko finds a persuasive case for a contemporary RMA while recognizing its limitations as well as promise.Trade Review'Did Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom herald a transformation in warfare? In a clearly written examination of these two wars, Shimko's answer is yes. His book advances the debate over the existence and scope of the revolution in military affairs (RMA) by giving defense planners and scholars a framework to judge the evidence themselves. Shimko outlines the key features of the revolution, speculating on what they mean for the low-intensity conflicts of today and how they might shape the high-intensity conflicts of the future. Advocates as well as skeptics of a transformation in warfare will find The Iraq Wars and America's Military Revolution valuable because it is the most coherent statement to date in support of the RMA.' Jasen J. Castillo, Texas A&M University'In The Iraq Wars and America's Military Revolution, Keith Shimko offers an informed and fair assessment of the rich yet often disputatious range of views on the evolution and combat use of American military power since Vietnam. In considering the hard investment choices now facing the nation's defense leaders, he has well spotlighted both the merits and the manifest exaggerations on all sides of the debate over the relative strengths and inadequacies of America's transformed warfighting posture from the Persian Gulf War of 1991 to today's very different counterinsurgency wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.' Benjamin Lambeth, RAND Corporation'Keith L. Shimko has written a clear and carefully nuanced work on the emergence of the American revolution in military affairs. It should be read by all interested in current defense issues.' Williamson Murray, Ohio State UniversityTable of Contents1. Military revolutions and the Iraq wars; 2. From Vietnam to Iraq - the rebirth of American military power and the origins of an RMA; 3. The first Iraq War, 1991 - a revolution dawns?; 4. The Iraq interregnum, 1991–2000; 5. Afghanistan and the second Iraq War, 2001–3 - a revolution confirmed?; 6. The third Iraq War, 2003–? - a revolution denied?; Conclusion: the future of America's military revolution.
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Cambridge University Press Slavery Race and Conquest in the Tropics
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Cambridge University Press The Splintering of Spain
Book SynopsisThis 2005 book explores the ideas and culture surrounding the Spanish Civil War. Leading historians offer new interpretations of the civil war and argue that it reflected the cultural cleavages in 1930s society rather than a single great conflict between two easily identifiable sets of ideas, classes or ways of life.Trade Review"The anthology sheds light on important aspects of modern Spanish history that have until now received little attention, and the analyses of its contributors are often interesting and astute. It thus has much to offer historians of modern Spain and of civilian wartime culture and ideologies." -Geoffrey Jensen, Virginia Military Institute, The Journal of Military History"...a very useful collection for specialists." --Nathanael Greene, Wesleyan University, History: Review of New BooksTable of Contents1. History, memory and the Spanish civil war: recent perspectives Chris Ealham and Michael Richards; Part I. Overviews: Violence, Nationalism and Religion: 2. The symbolism of violence during the Second Republic in Spain, 1931–1936 Eduardo Gonzalez Calleja; 3. Nations in arms against the invader: on nationalism discourses during the Spanish Civil War, 1936–9 Xose-Manoel Núnez Seixas; 4. 'The keys of the Kingdom': religious violence in the Spanish Civil War, July–August 1936 Mary Vincent; Part II. Republican Political and Cultural Projects: 5. Catalan populism in the Spanish civil war Enric Ucelay- Da Cal; 6. The myth of the maddened crowd: class, culture and space in the revolutionary project in Barcelona 1936–37 Chris Ealham; 7. The culture of empowering in Gijón, 1936–37 Pamela Radcliff; Part III. Identities on the Francoist Side: 8. Old symbols, new meanings: mobilising the rebellion in the summer of 1936 Rafael Cruz Martinez; 9. 'Spain's Vendee': Carlist identity in Navarre as a mobilising model Francisco Javier Caspistegui; 10. 'Presenting arms to the Blessed Sacrament': civil war and Semana Santa in the city of Málaga, 1936–39 Michael Richards.
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Cambridge University Press War and Memory in Lebanon
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Cambridge University Press Conflict and Compromise
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Cambridge University Press The Congressmans Civil War
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Cambridge University Press The Congressmans Civil War Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History
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Cambridge University Press Toward a Social History of the American Civil War
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Cambridge University Press Victorian America and the Civil War
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Cambridge University Press The Impact of Napoleon Prussian High Politics Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Executive 17971806
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Cambridge University Press Victorian America and the Civil War
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Cambridge University Press Masters of War
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Cambridge University Press The Spanish Republic and Civil War
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Cambridge University Press Race Ethnicity and the Treatment of Disability in PostCivil War America
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Cambridge University Press On the Road to Total War
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Cambridge University Press On the Road to Total War
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Cambridge University Press J William Fulbright Vietnam and the Search for a Cold War Foreign Policy
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Cambridge University Press Masters of War
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Cambridge University Press Warfare in Independent Africa
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Cambridge University Press J. William Fulbright Vietnam and the Search for a Cold War Foreign Policy
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Cambridge University Press Inventing Vietnam
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Cambridge University Press Triumph Forsaken The Vietnam War 19541965
Book SynopsisDrawing on a wealth of new evidence from all sides, Triumph Forsaken, first published in 2007, overturns most of the historical orthodoxy on the Vietnam War. Through the analysis of international perceptions and power, it shows that South Vietnam was a vital interest of the United States. The book provides many insights into the overthrow of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963 and demonstrates that the coup negated the South Vietnamese government's tremendous, and hitherto unappreciated, military and political gains between 1954 and 1963. After Diem's assassination, President Lyndon Johnson had at his disposal several aggressive policy options that could have enabled South Vietnam to continue the war without a massive US troop infusion, but he ruled out these options because of faulty assumptions and inadequate intelligence, making such an infusion the only means of saving the country.Trade Review'The most noteworthy aspect of Triumph Forsaken is surely the depth and range of its research … Moyar has provided those who take their history seriously with a stunning performance, and plenty to think about.' James M. Murphy, The Times Literary Supplement'… one of the most important books ever written on the Vietnam War.' Mackubin Thomas Owens, The Weekly Standard'… akin to reading Euripides' tales of self-inflicted woe and missed chances.' Victor Davis Hanson, City Journal'… a brilliant analysis.' Lewis Sorley, Joint Force Quarterly'… definitive …' Guenter Lewy, New York Sun'… a landmark contribution …' Robert F. Turner, Historically Speaking'Moyar makes so many striking contrarian arguments that one hardly knows where to begin. … This is an important book, a history that serves as a mirror on the present.' Robert H. Scales, Wall Street Journal'… thought provoking, exhaustively researched, highly organized, and above all, outstanding.' Rick Baillergeon, History'Moyar, who has strong credentials, has an engaging writing style and supports his arguments with dispassionate research, unlike many earlier revisionists' works … Highly recommended.' Michael O'Donnell, Choice'Thoroughly researched and richly informative … A valuable appraisal.' George Cohen, Booklist'Better late than never.' Stuart Herrington, Parameters'… [a] definitive examination … It is essential reading for anyone wanting a fresh understanding of one of America's longest and most misunderstood conflicts.' Charles Melson, Marine Corps Gazette'Mark Moyar has amply demonstrated the courage of his convictions in this outstanding piece of work, undoubtedly the most important book on Vietnam since Guenter Lewy's America in Vietnam, which sheds important light on the years between the French defeat in Indochina and the beginning of the main US commitment to South East Asia.' The Royal Society for Asian AffairsTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Heritage; 2. Two Vietnams: July 1954–December 1955; 3. Peaceful coexistence: 1956–9; 4. Insurgency: 1960; 5. Commitment: 1961; 6. Rejuvenation: January–June 1962; 7. Attack: July–December 1962; 8. The battle of Ap Bac: January 1963; 9. Diem on trial: February–July 1963; 10. Betrayal: August 1963; 11. Self-destruction: September–November 2, 1963; 12. The return of the twelve warlords: November 3–December 1963; 13. Self-imposed restrictions: January–July 1964; 14. Signals: August–October 1964; 15. Invasion: November–December 1964; 16. The prize for victory: January–May 1965; 17. Decision: June–July 1965.
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Cambridge University Press America the Vietnam War and the World Comparative and International Perspectives Publications of the German Historical Institute
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