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Mr. Lincoln's Forts

A Guide to the Civil War Defenses of Washington

By: Benjamin Franklin Cooling,Walton H. Owen

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Mr. Lincoln's Forts

A Guide to the Civil War Defenses of Washington

By: Benjamin Franklin Cooling,Walton H. Owen

During the American Civil War, Washington, D.C. was the most heavily fortified city in North America. As President Abraham Lincoln's Capital, the city became the symbol of Union determination, as well as a target for Robert E. Lee's Confederates. As a Union army and navy logistical base, it contained a complex of hospitals, storehouses, equipment repair facilities, and animal corrals. These were in addition to other public buildings, small urban areas, and vast open space that constituted the capital on the Potomac. To protect Washington with all it contained and symbolized, the Army constructed a shield of fortifications: 68 enclosed earthen forts, 93 supplemental batteries, miles of military roads, and support structures for commissary, quartermaster, engineer, and civilian labor force, some of which still exist today. Thousands of troops were held back from active operations to garrison this complex. And the Commanders of the Army of the Potomac from Irvin McDowell to George Meade, and informally U.S. Grant himself, always had to keep in mind their responsibility of protecting this city, at the same time that they were moving against the Confederate forces arrayed against them. Revised in style, format, and content, the new edition of Mr. Lincoln's Forts is the premier historical reference and tour guide to the Civil War defenses of Washington, D.C.

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Scarecrow Press

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ISBN 10

0810863073

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9780810863071

Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society

Vol. IV

By: Franklin George Adams,George Washington Martin,William Elsey Connelley

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Vol. IV

By: Franklin George Adams,George Washington Martin,William Elsey Connelley

Reprint of the original, first published in 1890.

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826

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BoD – Books on Demand

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ISBN 10

3385391997

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9783385391994

Religion among We the People

Conversations on Democracy and the Divine Good

By: Franklin I. Gamwell

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Religion among We the People

Conversations on Democracy and the Divine Good

By: Franklin I. Gamwell

Franklin I. Gamwell holds that democracy with religious freedom is dependent on metaphysical theism. Democratic politics can be neutral to all religious convictions only if its constitution establishes a full and free discourse about the ultimate terms of justice and their application to decisions of the state, and the divine good is the true ground of justice. Notably, Gamwell's view challenges virtually all current accounts of democracy with religious freedom. This uncommon position emerges through a series of essays in which Gamwell engages a variety of conversation partners, including Thomas Jefferson, David Strauss, Abraham Lincoln, Jürgen Habermas, Alfred North Whitehead, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Iris Murdoch. Discussions of Jefferson, Lincoln, and the US Constitution illustrate the promise of neoclassical metaphysics as a context for interpreting US history. Gamwell then defends his metaphysics against both modern refusals of metaphysics and accounts of ultimate reality offered by Niebuhr and Murdoch.

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258

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State University of New York Press

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1438458096

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9781438458090

A Terrible Efficiency

Entrepreneurial Bureaucrats and the Nazi Holocaust

By: Franklin G. Mixon, Jr.

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A Terrible Efficiency

Entrepreneurial Bureaucrats and the Nazi Holocaust

By: Franklin G. Mixon, Jr.

This book provides numerous examples that apply the modern theory of bureaucracy developed in Breton and Wintrobe (1982 and 1986) to the Nazi Holocaust. More specifically, the book argues, as do Breton and Wintrobe (1986), that the subordinates in the Nazi bureaucracy were not “following orders” as they claimed during the war crimes trials at Nuremberg and elsewhere, but were instead exhibiting an entrepreneurial spirit in competing with one another in order to find the most efficient way of exacting the Final Solution. This involved engaging in a process of exchange with their superiors, wherein the subordinates offered the kinds of informal services that are not codified in formal contracts. In doing so, they were competing for the rewards, or informal payments not codified in formal contracts, that were conferred by those at the top of the bureaucracy. These came in the form of rapid promotion, perquisites (pecuniary and in-kind), and other awards. The types of exchanges described above are based on “trust,” not formal institutions.

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161

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Springer Nature

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3030257673

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9783030257675

Medieval Ecclesiastical Studies

In Honour of Dorothy M. Owen

By: Michael J. Franklin

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Medieval Ecclesiastical Studies

In Honour of Dorothy M. Owen

By: Michael J. Franklin

Essays on English medieval ecclesiastical history, focusing particularly on administration.

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Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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0851153844

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9780851153841

Jubal Early's Raid on Washington

By: Benjamin Franklin Cooling

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Jubal Early's Raid on Washington

By: Benjamin Franklin Cooling

Cooling has produced what is sure to become the definitive scholarly account of the campaign. Drawing on a vast array of sources, including seldom-used veterans' accounts, Cooling presents a comprehensive campaign study from origins to aftermath. Not only does Cooling masterfully describe the specific movements of the opposing forces, but he also never loses sight of the wider context in which the campaign was fought. In fact, Cooling's greatest contribution may be his clear demonstration that Grant was fooled by Early's operations and took an uncommonly long time to react to a very serious threat."--American Historical Review "Cooling's superb account of one of the most dramatic ventures of the Civil War, one the peaked with a Confederate army at the gate of the nation's capital even as powerful Union forces threatened a clamp on the capital of Rebeldom . . . reflects most intensive research and provides a strictly objective account of the doings of both sides in the course of Early's thrust at Washington, from his entry into Maryland until his withdrawal back into Virginia."--Journal of Military History

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University of Alabama Press

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0817354751

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9780817354756

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Mr. Lincoln's Forts

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Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society

Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society

Religion among We the People

Religion among We the People

A Terrible Efficiency

A Terrible Efficiency

Medieval Ecclesiastical Studies

Medieval Ecclesiastical Studies

Jubal Early's Raid on Washington

Jubal Early's Raid on Washington

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