[PDF] In Irons eBook

Author : Richard Buel
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 24,85 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300073881

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Bogens undertitel er et amerikansk udtryk for at "Ligge i vindøjet" og der henvises til kolonikrigene, der så deres begyndelse i 1775. Således var vindøjet her den engelske flådes blokade af de nordamerikanske fristater. Den økonomiske og militære historie hænger sammen, og denne bog foretager en bedre end normalt set videnskabeligt forsket årsagssammenhæng, idet den som hovedkonklusion ser på den engelske flådeblokades påvirkning af landbrugssektoren og videre på den skade fristaterne påførtes ved engelsk besættelse af betydningsfulde landbrugsområder og manglende øversøiske eksportmuligheder for disse oprørske stater.

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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 19,3 MB
Release : 1995
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ISBN : 1428981632

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This book is about the future condition of America's military might. The message is sobering, unsettling, and, for the moment, unheeded. Despite the best intentions of government, U.S. fighting strength is being steadily and perceptibly eroded. Unless the nation takes powerful remedial action, or is very lucky, before the end of this century, this erosion in military power will lead to profound decline, decay, or worse. 'Worse' means that the debilitating form of 'in irons' will become inevitable. As will be shown, the reasons for this accelerating and downward defense spiral are now predominantly structural, domestic, and embedded in the way the United States Government does and will do business in a world that possesses but a single superpower. The larger questions of whether a dramatic cut in U.S. military capabilities and in the ability to project force on a timely and effective operational basis will matter and will harm U.S. national security are, currently, less precisely answerable. However; any message of warning is sure to be muffled and muzzled by measures of disinterest and complacency naturally arising from the public's attention on almost exclusively non-defense issues and from the immediate and overwhelming superiority of today's U.S. military forces that seemingly contradicts any forecasts of despair.

Author : Michael Wayne Santos
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 13,89 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781575910536

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Santos (history, Lynchburg College) uses the international fishermen's races that captured popular imagination in the US and Canada during the 1920s and 1930s as a means for discussing the changing economic and social realities that redefined the North Atlantic fisheries and the society as a whole i

Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 23,23 MB
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0374708479

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In this collection John McPhee once agains proves himself as a master observer of all arenas of life as well a powerful and important writer.

Author : Laura Croghan Kamoie
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 16,15 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813926377

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This business-family saga contributes a pivotal perspective to contemporary debates about the economic modernity of the South.

Author : Nicholas C. Prata
Publisher : Arx Publishing, LLC
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 23,91 MB
Release : 2009-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1889758566

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The year is A.D. 1565 and the tiny island fortress of Malta, defended by an anachronistic crusading order called the Knights of St. John Hospitallers, is all that stands between the war machine of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and the very heart of Christendom. Pitifully outmatched and against impossible odds, the indomitable Grand Master Jean Parisot de La Valette nevertheless inspires his knights to "strike a blow for Christ" and sacrifice their lives to halt the invading Turks at the gates of Europe. Nicholas Prata relates the actual events of the Great Siege in riveting and graphic prose which brings the extreme heroism of the knights and the horror of combat sharply into focus.

Author : Mark Nicholls
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 32,49 MB
Release : 2012-07-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0857454439

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This first book-length critical study of Jeremy Irons concentrates on his key performances and acting style. Through the analysis of some of the major screen roles in Irons's career, such as Brideshead Revisited, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Reversal of Fortune, Swann in Love, Dead Ringers and Lolita, Mark Nicholls identifies a new masculine identity that unites them: an emblematic figure of the 1980s and 1990s presented as an alternative to the action hero or the common man. Using clear explanations of complex theoretical ideas, this book investigates Jeremy Irons's performances through the lens of sexual inversion and social rebellion, to uncover an entirely original but recognizable screen type.