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To Die Gallantly The Battle Of The Atlantic

To Die Gallantly The Battle Of The Atlantic

German U-boats known as iron coffins terrorized Allied ships during World War II and were responsible for thousands of deaths. This volume published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic brings together historians from both sides of the ocean to discuss this important campaign. As well as offering new insights into both familiar and more neglected aspects the book reflects the human dimension of the conflict paying tribute to the whole spectrum of personnel involved - planners and strategists spies and code-breakers naval officers and crews merchant sailors and civilians. | To Die Gallantly The Battle Of The Atlantic

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Labour's Battle in the U.S.A he Fight for Industrial Unionism

Labour's Battle in the U.S.A he Fight for Industrial Unionism

First published in 1938. This study of the labour crisis in the USA consists of interviews with leaders and members of labour unions unorganised workers businessmen and those in positions of public responsibility. The author explores the foundations of the crisis and examines the possible issues that he predicted the US labour force were going to encounter. This title will be of interest to scholars and students of political and labour history. | Labour's Battle in the U. S. A he Fight for Industrial Unionism

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Aerial Dance A Guide to Dance with Rope and Harness

Aerial Dance A Guide to Dance with Rope and Harness

Aerial Dance: A Guide to Dance with Rope and Harness provides an introduction for the beginning aerialist. It covers rigging equipment advice on optimal conditioning and a step-by-step guide to technique including anatomical references space and time considerations and elements of force when working with and against gravity. Specific movements and choreography are framed anatomically and together reflect the pattern and order of an aerial technique class. Challenges inherent to this type of dancing are discussed as well as wellness instruction and methods of altering these techniques for intermediate and advanced dancing. A companion website hosts video that corresponds with the technique and phrasing in the book. | Aerial Dance A Guide to Dance with Rope and Harness

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Military Courts Civil-Military Relations and the Legal Battle for Democracy The Politics of Military Justice

Military Courts Civil-Military Relations and the Legal Battle for Democracy The Politics of Military Justice

The interaction between military and civilian courts the political power that legal prerogatives can provide to the armed forces and the difficult process civilian politicians face in reforming military justice remain glaringly under-examined despite their implications for the quality and survival of democracy. This book breaks new ground by providing a theoretically rich global examination of the operation and reform of military courts in democratic countries. Drawing on a newly created dataset of 120 countries over more than two centuries it presents the first comprehensive picture of the evolution of military justice across states and over time. Combined with qualitative historical case studies of Colombia Portugal Indonesia Fiji Brazil Pakistan and the United States the book presents a new framework for understanding how civilian actors are able to gain or lose legal control of the armed forces. The book’s findings have important lessons for scholars and policymakers working in the fields of democracy civil-military relations human rights and the rule of law. | Military Courts Civil-Military Relations and the Legal Battle for Democracy The Politics of Military Justice

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Universal Jurisdiction in International Criminal Law The Debate and the Battle for Hegemony

Universal Jurisdiction in International Criminal Law The Debate and the Battle for Hegemony

With the sensational arrest of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1998 the rise to prominence of universal jurisdiction over crimes against international law seemed to be assured. The arrest of Pinochet and the ensuing proceedings before the UK courts brought universal jurisdiction into the foreground of the fight against impunity and the principle was read as an important complementary mechanism for international justice –one that could offer justice to victims denied an avenue by the limited jurisdiction of international criminal tribunals. Yet by the time of the International Court of Justice’s Arrest Warrant judgment four years later the picture looked much bleaker and the principle was being read as a potential tool for politically motivated trials. This book explores the debate over universal jurisdiction in international criminal law aiming to unpack a practice in which international lawyers continue to disagree over the concept of universal jurisdiction. Using Martti Koskenniemi’s work as a foil this book exposes the argumentative techniques in operation in national and international adjudication since the 1990s. Drawing on overarching patterns within the debate Aisling O’Sullivan argues that it is bounded by a tension between contrasting political preferences or positions labelled as moralist (ending impunity) and formalist (avoiding abuse) and she reads the debate as a movement of hegemonic and counter-hegemonic positions that struggle for hegemonic control. However she draws out how these positions (moralist/formalist) merge into one another and this produces a tendency towards a middle position that continues to prefer a particular preference (moralist or formalist). Aisling O’Sullivan then traces the transformation towards this tendency that reflects an internal split among international lawyers between building a utopia (court of humanity) and recognizing its impossibility of being realized. | Universal Jurisdiction in International Criminal Law The Debate and the Battle for Hegemony

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Israel’s Securitization Dilemma BDS and the Battle for the Legitimacy of the Jewish State

Israel’s Securitization Dilemma BDS and the Battle for the Legitimacy of the Jewish State

This book examines how the Zionist movement and later the state of Israel have dealt with various longstanding efforts to delegitimize Israel’s standing in the international community including by the Arab League Boycott the United Nations and the Boycott Divest and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Through historical and archival research as well as discourse analysis of legal and governmental documents public statements of Israeli officials and interviews with Israeli policy makers this book argues that Israel has constructed perceived and real challenges to its legitimacy as ontological threats that undermine its national security and has securitized its Jewish identity in response to these threats. As a result the state has adopted extraordinary measures often marked by illiberalism. Rather than enhance Israel’s international legitimacy these measures have undermined it further especially among liberal audiences in the West whose support is critical for Israel’s continued international legitimacy. Therefore Israel is locked in a securitization dilemma—where actions taken to enhance its security through increased legitimacy result in further delegitimization. Highlighting the ways this securitization dilemma is at the heart of Israeli policymaking today—particularly in the context of the recent BDS movement—this book brings into focus key problems that Israel faces as it attempts to combat delegitimization movements against its self-constructed identity as a Jewish state. This book will be of great interest to students scholars and policy makers engaged with critical security studies and delegitimization Israeli studies and Jewish identity and policymaking in the Middle East. | Israel’s Securitization Dilemma BDS and the Battle for the Legitimacy of the Jewish State

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Long Day at Shiloh

Long Day at Shiloh

Originally published in 1981 Long Day at Shiloh recreates the first twenty-four hours of one of the crucial battles of the American Civil War: the Battle of Shiloh. In a series of short cinematic takes the book transports readers to Pittsburg Landing and into the lives of the men in the Union camp. It provides close views into the imagined thoughts and actions of individual soldiers on the eve of battle and depicts their attack by Confederate troops on April 6 1862. Long Day at Shiloh is a detailed historical novel offering insight into the events trials losses frustrations and exhilarations of combat during the Battle of Shiloh as the author has imagined them.

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Landscapes of Trauma The Psychology of the Battlefield

Landscapes of Trauma The Psychology of the Battlefield

Integrating trauma studies with historical research and social psychology Landscapes of Trauma examines a range of battlefields from across history including Waterloo the Battle of Sedan the Battle of the Ebro and the Battle of Normandy to bring to light what these battlefields say about our collective and individual psyches. Hunt explores how war shapes the nature of trauma not only by its innate horror but also by the historical and societal contexts it is fought in from the cultural and social conventions of the period to the topography of the settings. This book provides a deep analysis of how war is experienced and remembered in different eras and by different generations. Moving beyond the clinical concept of post-traumatic stress disorder Hunt discusses how trauma can be understood socially and historically as well as through the lens of individual suffering. This book also investigates the psychological foundations of memorialisation remembrance and commemoration that shape the legacy of the battles discussed. Using interviews with veterans their letters journals and diaries as well as literary and historical sources Hunt locates the battlefield as a place where humans explore the parameters of human behaviour thought and emotion. This book is in important resource for students and scholars interested in the psychology of trauma and war as well as military history. | Landscapes of Trauma The Psychology of the Battlefield

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Atlas of the English Civil War

Atlas of the English Civil War

Originally published in 1985 the English Civil War is a subject which continues to excite enormous interest throughout the world. This atlas consists of over fifty maps illustrating all the major - and many of the minor - bloody campaigns and battles of the War including the campaigns of Montrose the battle of Edgehill and Langport. Providing a complete introductory history to the turbulent period it also includes maps giving essential background information; detailed accompanying explanations; a useful context to events. | Atlas of the English Civil War

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Israel's Military Operations in Gaza Telegenic Lawfare and Warfare

Israel's Military Operations in Gaza Telegenic Lawfare and Warfare

Civilians in Gaza and Israel are caught up in complex violent situations that have overstepped conventional battle lines. Both sides of the conflict have found ways to legitimate the use of violence and continually swap accusations of violations of domestic and international humanitarian laws. Israel’s Military Operations in Gaza provides an ideological critique of the legal military and social media texts that have been used to legitimate historical incursions into the Gaza with special focus on Operation Protective Edge. It argues that both the Palestinians and the Israelis have deployed various forms of ‘telegenic’ warfare. They have each used argumentative rhetorics based on competing interpretations of events and are locked in a battle to convince international audiences and domestic constituencies of the righteousness of their causes. This critical genealogical study analyses a range of texts and images from selfies circulated near the Gaza border to judicial opinions produced by the High Court of Israel. With its multidisciplinary approach and original analysis of the Israel/Gaza situation this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Middle East studies and the Arab-Israeli conflict as well as security studies and communication studies. | Israel's Military Operations in Gaza Telegenic Lawfare and Warfare

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Education and the US Government

Education and the US Government

Originally published in 1987 at a time when central government control of education in many countries was growing rapidly this book on the historical determinants of US educational legislation was of great relevance. The book looks in detail at the history of the relationship between the US Government and the provision of educational services. It assesses the contributions made to educational legislation by key political figures such as Franklin Washington and Jefferson. The author also examines in depth the role of congress and the president the relationship between the federal government and the state legislature and the role of the judiciary in education. An account of the hard-fought battle for the right to equal educational opportunities for the American Negro and the American Indian is of considerable interest. Finally the book compares the American educational system at the time with that of other countries. | Education and the US Government

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William Lawes (1602-1645) Essays on His Life Times and Work

William Lawes (1602-1645) Essays on His Life Times and Work

First published in 1998 this volume comprises papers given at a conference on Lawes and his music held at Oxford in September 1995 to commemorate the 350th anniversary of his death. They examine not only Lawes’s music but the milieu in which he worked. Part One examines the musical life of the English Court in Lawes’s day noting his activities there and his involvement with companies of players. Manuscript studies and a detailed account of the fatal battle are also included. Part Two comprises seven essays exploring the wide range of his instrumental and vocal music. William Lawes is acknowledged as the most exciting and innovative composer working in England during the reign of Charles I. His tragic early death at the Siege of Chester in 1645 only served to heighten his reputation among his contemporaries lending him also the cloak of martyrdom in the service of his king. | William Lawes (1602-1645) Essays on His Life Times and Work

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The Evolution of Modern Land Warfare Theory and Practice

The Evolution of Modern Land Warfare Theory and Practice

Extensively illustrated with 52 detailed campaign and battle maps and diagrams this book originally published in 1990 surveys the evolution of warfare in Europe from Napoleon to the end of the twentieth century and in Asia from the Middle Ages. It considers the interaction of technology and warfare. With wide-ranging examples the book includes two in depth case studies one on the Soviet Operational Manoeuvre Group and its predecessors in the Russian Imperial Army the other on the history of land warfare including guerilla warfare in Asia. In this book the author demonstrates that military history can be of immense practical help to the modern military analyst and professional. Now updated with a new introduction to take into account changes since 1990 this book remains of essential value to students teachers & professionals in political & social history international relations defence war & peace studies. | The Evolution of Modern Land Warfare Theory and Practice

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Understanding Greek Warfare

Understanding Greek Warfare

Understanding Greek Warfare offers a wide-ranging survey of Greek warfare from the Mycenaeans through to the Hellenistic kingdoms’ clashes with Rome. Each chapter provides an overview of a particular theme and historical period and a detailed discussion of the relevant sources both ancient and modern. This volume covers not only the development of equipment tactics strategy and the major wars of Greek history – the drums and trumpets – it also examines the political social and cultural importance of warfare in each period. Each chapter outlines major scholarly debates such as the true nature of hoplite battle and whether Alexander the Great had a strategic vision beyond conquest and includes several short selections from the primary literary evidence. Readable yet scholarly this book is an ideal companion to courses on Greek warfare and society and offers detailed suggestions for further reading and research. Understanding Greek Warfare will be a crucial resource for students of war in the ancient Greek world and of the ancient Greeks in general.

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A Word to the Wise Don Quixote Returns to Fight Perversion

A Word to the Wise Don Quixote Returns to Fight Perversion

After giving us a fascinating reading of Cervantes' classic novel in Don Quixote: Fighting Melancholia Françoise Davoine and Jean-Max Gaudillière co-author a second work to reflect on the hero's battle against perversion. To do so they retrace his adventures in the Cervantes' second Don Quixote written ten years after the first. The authors follow in his footsteps as he embarks on this other extraordinary journey in which perversion is laid bare for all to see creating not only a powerful social link but even a form of government. Cervantes shows us how madness acts as a means to confront it: here again the field of action presented to the reader is explored in rigorous detail. The reliability of this strategy derives from the power of the given word which has to oppose lies seduction secrets trickery and crime in order to confer authenticity to what madness reveals. | A Word to the Wise Don Quixote Returns to Fight Perversion

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The Civil War Soldier and the Press

The Civil War Soldier and the Press

The Civil War Soldier and the Press examines how the press powerfully shaped the nation’s understanding and memory of the common soldier setting the stage for today’s continuing debates about the Civil War and its legacy. The history of the Civil War is typically one of military strategies famous generals and bloody battles but to Americans of the era the most important story of the war was the fate of the soldier. In this edited collection new research in journalism history and archival images provide an interdisciplinary study of citizenship representation race and ethnicity gender disability death and national identity. Together these chapters follow the story of Civil War soldiers from enlistment through battle and beyond as they were represented in hometown and national newspapers of the time. In discussing the same pages that were read by soldiers’ families friends and loved ones during America’s greatest conflict the book provides a window into the experience of historical readers as they grappled with the meaning and cost of patriotism and shared sacrifice. Both scholarly and approachable this book is an enriching resource for undergraduate and graduate courses in Civil War history American history journalism and mass communication history.

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India and the Responsibility to Protect

India and the Responsibility to Protect

Bloomfield charts India’s profoundly ambiguous engagement with the thorny problem of protecting vulnerable persons from atrocities without fatally undermining the sovereign state system a matter which is now substantially shaped by debates about the responsibility to protect (R2P) norm. Books about India’s evolving role in world affairs and about R2P have proliferated recently but this is the first to draw these two debates together. It examines India’s historical responses to humanitarian crises starting with the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War concentrating on the years 2011 and 2012 when India sat on the UN Security Council. Three serious humanitarian crises broke during its tenure - in C´te d'Ivoire Libya and Syria - which collectively sparked a ferocious debate within India. The book examines what became largely a battle over ’what sort of actor’ modern India is or should be to determine how this contest shaped both India’s responses to these humanitarian tragedies and also the wider debates about rising India’s international identity. The book’s findings also have important (and largely negative) implications for the broader effort to make R2P a recognised and actionable international norm. | India and the Responsibility to Protect

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Midwifery from the Tudors to the 21st Century History Politics and Safe Practice in England

Midwifery from the Tudors to the 21st Century History Politics and Safe Practice in England

This book recounts the journey of English midwives over six centuries and their battle for survival as a discrete profession caring safely for childbearing women. With a particular focus on sixteenth and twentieth century midwifery practice it includes new research which provides evidence of the identity social status lives families and practice of contemporary midwives and argues that the excellent care given by ecclesiastically licensed midwives in Tudor England was not bettered until the twentieth century. Relying on a wide variety of archived and personally collected material this history illuminates the lives words professional experiences and outcomes of midwives. It explores the place of women in society the development of midwifery education and regulation the seventeenth century arrival of the accoucheurs and the continuing drive by obstetricians to medicalise birth. A fascinating and compelling read it highlights the politics and challenges that have shaped midwifery practice today and encourages readers to be confident in midwifery-led care and giving women choices in childbirth. It is an important read for all those interested in childbirth. | Midwifery from the Tudors to the 21st Century History Politics and Safe Practice in England

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A Social and Cultural History of Sport in Ireland

A Social and Cultural History of Sport in Ireland

Sport has played a central role in modern Ireland’s history. Perhaps nowhere else has sport so infused the political social and cultural development and identity of a nation. During this so-called ‘Decade of Centenaries’ in Ireland (2014 to 2024) recently there has been an exponential growth in interest and academic research on Ireland’s sporting heritage. This collection of chapters contributed by some of Ireland’s most preeminent sport and social historians showcases the richness and complexity of Ireland’s sporting legacy. Articles on topics as diverse as the role of native Gaelic games in emphasising the emerging cultural nationalism of pre-Revolutionary Ireland the contribution of Irish rugby to the broader British war effort in World War 1 the emergence of Irish soccer on the international stage and the long running battle to gain official recognition within international athletics for an independent Irish state are presented. This work’s intention is to illustrate some of the latest and most vibrant research being conducted on Irish sports history. This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society. | A Social and Cultural History of Sport in Ireland

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The Bid Manager's Handbook

The Bid Manager's Handbook

This title was first published in 2003. Winning significant business on the right terms is an increasingly complex challenging and time-consuming task and a successful bid is a vital part of any business offering its services or products to another. This book aims to help you to enhance the probability of success in winning bids at the desired margins and to set-up and run effectively a bid management team. Aimed at two main groups of readers (sales staff managing multi-disciplinary bid teams and project and technical managers who find themselves managing a bid to support a sales campaign) it's a resource for the battle to win new business. Taking an extremely practical approach and using real life examples David Nickson leads the reader through every stage of planning for producing and delivering a bid: knowing what needs to be done; knowing how to present the information to the prospective client effectively; gaining the writing and editorial skills needed to put a sales case across; identifying the skills that are needed to manage a bid. It also shows how to save time - the most important commodity in any bid as it is always a scarce resource - without affecting quality. | The Bid Manager's Handbook

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