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Modern Constituency Electioneering

Local Campaigning in the 1992 General Election

By: David Denver,Gordon Hands

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Modern Constituency Electioneering

Local Campaigning in the 1992 General Election

By: David Denver,Gordon Hands

In this study of grass-roots election campaigning, the authors survey the evolution of campaigning over the past century and describe how the parties organized their constituency campaigns in the 1992 election. They examine and evaluate the campaign techniques used.

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Routledge

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1135221626

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9781135221621

Jefferson Davis in Blue

The Life of Sherman's Relentless Warrior

By: Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr.,Gordon D. Whitney

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Jefferson Davis in Blue

The Life of Sherman's Relentless Warrior

By: Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr.,Gordon D. Whitney

Besides his illustrious name, the Union general Jefferson Columbus Davis is best known for two appalling actions: the September 1862 murder of General William "Bull" Nelson -- his former commanding officer -- and the abandonment of hundreds of African American refugees to the mercy of Confederate cavalry at Ebenezer Creek during Sherman's march through Georgia in 1864. Historians have generally dismissed Davis (1828--1879) as a reckless assassin, a racist, a journeyman soldier at best, and an embarrassment to the Lincoln war effort. But Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr., and Gordon D. Whitney shatter the collective memory of "Jef" Davis as a grim, destructive child of war and replace it with a more rounded portrait of a complex military leader. They bring order to the muddle of contradictions that was Davis's life and offer an impartial profile of the soldier and the man, who must be remembered for his splendid contributions as well as his startling failures.

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LSU Press

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0807131601

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9780807131602

Rural Health and Aging Research

Theory, Methods, and Practical Applications

By: Wilbert M Gesler,Donna G Rabiner,Gordon H Defriese

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Rural Health and Aging Research

Theory, Methods, and Practical Applications

By: Wilbert M Gesler,Donna G Rabiner,Gordon H Defriese

This book describes a wide-ranging set of research approaches which have been used to study the health care problems of adults living in rural areas. It shows how these approaches can be used to define health care problems, measure levels of illness and health, and evaluate health care practices. For each approach, contributors provide a theoretical background from the health care delivery literature, details of how it can be carried out in the field, its strengths and weaknesses, and illustrative examples from both the literature and their own work.

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1351841890

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Hostages

Dramatic Accounts of Real-Life Events

By: Gordon Kerr,Phil Clarke

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Hostages

Dramatic Accounts of Real-Life Events

By: Gordon Kerr,Phil Clarke

On 1 September 2004, a group of terrorists disguised as repairmen infiltrated a school in Beslan, Russia. Using concealed weapons they took 1100 children and adults hostage. The world looked on aghast as the siege played out on live TV. Hostages tells the incredible and often harrowing stories surrounding real-life events such as the Munich massacre of 1972, the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979 and the bloody siege of the Davidian Ranch, Waco, Texas in 1993. Packed full of drama, action and heartbreak Hostages promises to be utterly captivating. Contents: Political Pawns including Aldo Moro, The Iranian Embassy Siege, Terry Waite, Alan Johnston A Question of Insanity including Gary Heidnik, Elizabeth Fritzl, Stephanie Slater, David Kouresh, Mark Dutroux Financial Gain including The Lindbergh Baby, Frank Sinatra Junior, Barbara Mackle, Shannon Matthews

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1907795804

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General George E. Pickett in Life and Legend

By: Lesley J. Gordon

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General George E. Pickett in Life and Legend

By: Lesley J. Gordon

A critical biography of the best known and least accurately understood Civil War general, including the legends perpetrated by his widow, LaSalle Corbell Pickett.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807854271

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The Heart of Confederate Appalachia

Western North Carolina in the Civil War

By: John C. Inscoe,Gordon B. McKinney

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The Heart of Confederate Appalachia

Western North Carolina in the Civil War

By: John C. Inscoe,Gordon B. McKinney

In the mountains of western North Carolina, the Civil War was fought on different terms than those found throughout most of the South. Though relatively minor strategically, incursions by both Confederate and Union troops disrupted life and threatened the

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Remembering Child Migration

Faith, Nation-Building and the Wounds of Charity

By: Gordon Lynch

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Remembering Child Migration

Faith, Nation-Building and the Wounds of Charity

By: Gordon Lynch

Between 1850 and 1970, around three hundred thousand children were sent to new homes through child migration programmes run by churches, charities and religious orders in the United States and the United Kingdom. Intended as humanitarian initiatives to save children from social and moral harm and to build them up as national and imperial citizens, these schemes have in many cases since become the focus of public censure, apology and sometimes financial redress. Remembering Child Migration is the first book to examine both the American 'orphan train' programmes and Britain's child migration schemes to its imperial colonies. Setting their work in historical context, it discusses their assumptions, methods and effects on the lives of those they claimed to help. Rather than seeing them as reflecting conventional child-care practice of their time, the book demonstrates that they were subject to criticism for much of the period in which they operated. Noting similarities between the American 'orphan trains' and early British migration schemes to Canada, it also shows how later British child migration schemes to Australia constituted a reversal of what had been understood to be good practice in the late Victorian period. At its heart, the book considers how welfare interventions motivated by humanitarian piety came to have such harmful effects in the lives of many child migrants. By examining how strong moral motivations can deflect critical reflection, legitimise power and build unwarranted bonds of trust, it explores the promise and risks of humanitarian sentiment.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472591178

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The Politics of Crime and Community

By: Gordon Hughes

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The Politics of Crime and Community

By: Gordon Hughes

This timely book offers a wide-ranging and authoritative analysis of the complex issues and debates in the politics of crime and community safety.

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0230214118

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The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5–6, 1864

By: Gordon C. Rhea

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The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5–6, 1864

By: Gordon C. Rhea

Fought in a tangled forest fringing the south bank of the Rapidan River, the Battle of the Wilderness marked the initial engagement in the climactic months of the Civil War in Virginia, and the first encounter between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. In an exciting narrative, Gordon C. Rhea provides the consummate recounting of that conflict of May 5 and 6, 1864, which ended with high casualties on both sides but no clear victor. With its balanced analysis of events and people, command structures and strategies, The Battle of the Wilderness is operational history as it should be written.

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LSU Press

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0807155802

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Glory in Gothenburg

The Night Aberdeen FC Turned the Footballing World on Its Head

By: Richard Gordon

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Glory in Gothenburg

The Night Aberdeen FC Turned the Footballing World on Its Head

By: Richard Gordon

On a rainy night in Gothenburg in May 1983 twelve young Scotsmen turned the footballing world on its head. Against all the odds, those players took on the might of Spanish giants Real Madrid, and beat them convincingly. Aberdeen were winners of the European Cup Winners Cup. The manager, Alex Ferguson, would go on to become one of the greats, his team Pittodrie legends. The tale of that season, the remarkable triumph in the Ullevi Stadium and of the men who made it possible has never fully been told - until now. "Glory In Gothenburg" goes behind the scenes, deep into the inner sanctum, and through a series of in-depth interviews with all the main characters reveals what made that side and those players so special and what drove them on to achieve unparalleled success. Thirty years later, the story remains one of the most astonishing in the history of Scottish football.

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1845024710

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Zeb Vance

North Carolina's Civil War Governor and Gilded Age Political Leader

By: Gordon B. McKinney

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Zeb Vance

North Carolina's Civil War Governor and Gilded Age Political Leader

By: Gordon B. McKinney

In this comprehensive biography of the man who led North Carolina through the Civil War and, as a U.S. senator from 1878 to 1894, served as the state's leading spokesman, Gordon McKinney presents Zebulon Baird Vance (1830-94) as a far more complex figure than has been previously recognized. Vance campaigned to keep North Carolina in the Union, but after Southern troops fired on Fort Sumter, he joined the army and rose to the rank of colonel. He was viewed as a champion of individual rights and enjoyed great popularity among voters. But McKinney demonstrates that Vance was not as progressive as earlier biographers suggest. Vance was a tireless advocate for white North Carolinians in the Reconstruction Period, and his policies and positions often favored the rich and powerful. McKinney provides significant new information about Vance's third governorship, his senatorial career, and his role in the origins of the modern Democratic Party in North Carolina. This new biography offers the fullest, most complete understanding yet of a legendary North Carolina leader.

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0807875937

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With Lee in Virginia

By: G. A. Henty,Gordon Browne

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With Lee in Virginia

By: G. A. Henty,Gordon Browne

After four years in England, fifteen-year-old Vincent Wingfield, who supports slavery but not brutality toward slaves, returns to Virginia and serves courageously under Lee and Jackson through many of the famous battles of the Civil War.

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Courier Corporation

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0486434567

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9780486434568

My Scotland, Our Britain

A Future Worth Sharing

By: Gordon Brown

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My Scotland, Our Britain

A Future Worth Sharing

By: Gordon Brown

Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown looks at what lies in store for Scotland ahead of their 2014 independence referendum.

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Simon and Schuster

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1471137481

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Biology and Evolution of Crocodylians

By: Gordon Grigg

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Biology and Evolution of Crocodylians

By: Gordon Grigg

Biology and Evolution of Crocodylians is a comprehensive review of current knowledge about the world's largest and most famous living reptiles. Gordon Grigg's authoritative and accessible text and David Kirshner's stunning interpretive artwork and colour photographs combine expertly in this contemporary celebration of crocodiles, alligators, caimans and gharials. This book showcases the skills and capabilities that allow crocodylians to live how and where they do. It covers the biology and ecology of the extant species, conservation issues, crocodylian–human interaction and the evolutionary history of the group, and includes a vast amount of new information; 25 per cent of 1100 cited publications have appeared since 2007. Richly illustrated with more than 500 colour photographs and black and white illustrations, this book will be a benchmark reference work for crocodylian biologists, herpetologists and vertebrate biologists for years to come.

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CSIRO PUBLISHING

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1486300677

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Fear Itself

The Causes and Consequences of Fear in America

By: Christopher D. Bader,Joseph O. Baker,L. Edward Day,Ann Gordon

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Fear Itself

The Causes and Consequences of Fear in America

By: Christopher D. Bader,Joseph O. Baker,L. Edward Day,Ann Gordon

An antidote to the culture of fear that dominates modern life From moral panics about immigration and gun control to anxiety about terrorism and natural disasters, Americans live in a culture of fear. While fear is typically discussed in emotional or poetic terms—as the opposite of courage, or as an obstacle to be overcome—it nevertheless has very real consequences in everyday life. Persistent fear negatively effects individuals’ decision-making abilities and causes anxiety, depression, and poor physical health. Further, fear harms communities and society by corroding social trust and civic engagement. Yet politicians often effectively leverage fears to garner votes and companies routinely market unnecessary products that promise protection from imagined or exaggerated harms. Drawing on five years of data from the Chapman Survey of American Fears—which canvasses a random, national sample of adults about a broad range of fears—Fear Itself offers new insights into what people are afraid of and how fear affects their lives. The authors also draw on participant observation with Doomsday preppers and conspiracy theorists to provide fascinating narratives about subcultures of fear. Fear Itself is a novel, wide-ranging study of the social consequences of fear, ultimately suggesting that there is good reason to be afraid of fear itself.

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NYU Press

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1479852058

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Creolizing Political Theory

Reading Rousseau through Fanon

By: Jane Anna Gordon

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Creolizing Political Theory

Reading Rousseau through Fanon

By: Jane Anna Gordon

Might creolization offer political theory an approach that would better reflect the heterogeneity of political life? After all, it describes mixtures that were not supposed to have emerged in the plantation societies of the Caribbean but did so through their capacity to exemplify living culture, thought, and political practice. Similar processes continue today, when people who once were strangers find themselves unequal co-occupants of new political locations they both seek to call “home.” Unlike multiculturalism, in which different cultures are thought to co-exist relatively separately, creolization describes how people reinterpret themselves through interaction with one another. While indebted to comparative political theory, Gordon offers a critique of comparison by demonstrating the generative capacity of creolizing methodologies. She does so by bringing together the eighteenth-century revolutionary Swiss thinker Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the twentieth-century Martinican-born Algerian liberationist Frantz Fanon. While both provocatively challenged whether we can study the world in ways that do not duplicate the prejudices that sustain its inequalities, Fanon, she argues, outlined a vision of how to bring into being the democratically legitimate alternatives that Rousseau mainly imagined.

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823254836

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The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern, May 7--12, 1864

By: Gordon C. Rhea

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The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern, May 7--12, 1864

By: Gordon C. Rhea

The second volume in Gordon C. Rhea's peerless five-book series on the Civil War's 1864 Overland Campaign abounds with Rhea's signature detail, innovative analysis, and riveting prose. Here Rhea examines the maneuvers and battles from May 7, 1864, when Grant left the Wilderness, through May 12, when his attempt to break Lee's line by frontal assault reached a chilling climax at what is now called the Bloody Angle. Drawing exhaustively upon previously untapped materials, Rhea challenges conventional wisdom about this violent clash of titans to construct the ultimate account of Grant and Lee at Spotsylvania.

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LSU Press

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0807158143

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9780807158142

Cowboys and Indians

The Shooting of J.J. Harper

By: Gordon Sinclair

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Cowboys and Indians

The Shooting of J.J. Harper

By: Gordon Sinclair

When J.J. Harper of the Island Lake Tribal Council was fatally shot on a wintry Winnipeg street in 1988, the city police department was quick to absolve the officer involved from all blame. Less than a day after the shooting, Police Chief Herb Stephen announced that Harper had died during a struggle for Constable Robert Cross’s gun. But the truth was not so cut and dried. Far from closing the case, Stephen’s remarks were just the start of this dramatic tale of sex, death, threats, flimsy charges, and a police force so out of control that a prominent lawyer, a senior Crown attorney, and a respected journalist all had reason to suspect they were being watched by the police. Pursued doggedly byWinnipeg Free Presscolumnist Gordon Sinclair Jr., the stranger-than-fiction story of the shooting of J.J. Harper points a finger at the growing disaster of race relations and policing in Canada’s inner cities.

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McClelland & Stewart Limited

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0771080832

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9780771080838

The Growth and Dissolution of a Large- Scale Business Enterprise

The Furness Interest, 1892-1919

By: Gordon Boyce

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The Growth and Dissolution of a Large- Scale Business Enterprise

The Furness Interest, 1892-1919

By: Gordon Boyce

This book is an in-depth case study of the Furness Withy and Co Shipping Group, which operated both tramp and liner services and was one of the five major British shipping groups of the early twentieth century. It demonstrates how British shipowners of this period generated success by exploring Christopher Furness’ career in relation to the social, political, and cultural currents during a time of tremendous shipping growth in Britain and the establishment of some of the largest shipping firms in the world. It approaches the study from three angles. The first analyses how the Furness Group expanded its shipping activities and became involved with the industrial sector. The second illustrates the organisational and financial structure of the enterprise. Finally, the Group’s leadership and entrepreneurship is scrutinised and placed within the wider context of twentieth century British business. The case study begins in 1870, with an introduction explaining how Christopher Furness came to join the family company, Thomas Furness and Co. in order develop services, expand, and instigate the changes and mergers that brought the Furness Group into existence. There are thirteen chronologically presented chapters, a bibliography, and seven appendices of data including an ownership timeline, tonnage statistics, acquisitions, a list of maritime associates, and a timeline of Christopher Furness’ life. The book concludes in 1919 with the de-merging of the Furness Group’s shipping and industrial holdings, the resignation of the Furness family from the company’s board, the sale of their shares, and the move into managing the firm’s industrial interests.

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Liverpool University Press

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1786948869

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9781786948861

Illinois Artillery Officer's Civil War

The Diary and Letters of John Cheney

By: Gordon Armstrong

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Illinois Artillery Officer's Civil War

The Diary and Letters of John Cheney

By: Gordon Armstrong

John Cheney was a well educated businessman living in Dixon, Illinois. In 1862 he raised an artillery company-Battery F, 1st Illinois Light Artillery-and served as its captain. Battery F fought in the Western Theatre in the Army of the Tennessee (Gens. Grant and Sherman). This volume draws on 318 entries from Cheney's Civil War diary and 100 letters he wrote home to his wife, plus additional documents, photos, and material relating to his life before, during and after the war. Cheney's letters and diary entries have a warmth and intimacy that is unusual in writing of that time. John Cheney served out a strong sense of duty to the country that had provided him with security and opportunity. Over time he developed health problems that tested that sense of duty. Cheney was entirely absorbed in his activities when in combat or advancing on Confederate troops. During times of inactivity he suffered boredom and experienced loneliness being separated from his wife and two children. During the Atlanta campaign, his 11-year-old son Royce accompanied him. Cheney was an ordinary man doing his best in the extraordinary occurrences of war.

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Virtualbookworm Publishing

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1589397673

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9781589397675

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

By: James L. McGaugh,Gordon L. Shaw

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Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

By: James L. McGaugh,Gordon L. Shaw

This volume consists of 82 classic and important contributions to the basic neurobiology of learning and memory. Included are historical articles as well as articles on developmental plasticity, hormones and memory, long-term potentiation, electrophysiology of memory, biochemistry of memory, morphology of memory, invertebrate models, and features of animal and human memory. This is a companion volume to Brain Theory Reprint Volume in which articles on mathematical models of memory are presented.

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World Scientific

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9971508680

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9789971508685

United States Air Force and Its Antecedents

Published and Printed Unit Histories, a Bibliography

By: James T. Controvich,Martin Gordon

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United States Air Force and Its Antecedents

Published and Printed Unit Histories, a Bibliography

By: James T. Controvich,Martin Gordon

This bibliography lists published and printed unit histories for the United States Air Force and Its Antecedents, including Air Divisions, Wings, Groups, Squadrons, Aviation Engineers, and the Women's Army Corps.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810850109

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World War II Pacific Island Guide

A Geo-Military Study

By: Gordon Rottman

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World War II Pacific Island Guide

A Geo-Military Study

By: Gordon Rottman

Covering all Pacific islands involved in World War II military operations, this book is a detailed, single source of information on virtually every geo-military aspect of the Pacific Theater. Arranged regionally and, to the extent possible, chronologically according to when islands entered the war, entries provide complete background information. Along with island names, nicknames, Allied code names, location, and wartime time zones, the entries include such topics as the island's physical characteristics, weather, health hazards, historical background, native population, natural resources, and military value. Japanese and Allied strategies and operations, military problems caused by terrain, military installations, Japanese units and key commanders, Allied units and key commanders, and brief battle descriptions are also covered along with the island's postwar status. A valuable resource for researchers, historians, military history enthusiasts, and war gamers, the book provides complete background information on the geo-military aspects of the Pacific Ocean region, its islands, and the roles they played in the war. 108 maps provide specific information. Until now, geo-military information could only be found by searching four to ten publications on each island.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313075581

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9780313075582

A Population History of Colonial New South Wales

The Economic Growth of a New Colony

By: GORDON W BECKETT

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A Population History of Colonial New South Wales

The Economic Growth of a New Colony

By: GORDON W BECKETT

In this 10th volume of the economic history of colonial NSW, the matter of population growth is reviewed, with population gains coming from favorable economic drivers and economic cycles, exploration, immigration, natural increase and British investment. The historical approach to Statistical Data gathering, its origins and reliability, is outlined as are the statistics used and their interpretation. The early musters (of convicts) is discussed together with commentary on the supporting datas derived from the numbers of convicts 'on the store'. With the Aboriginal economy outperforming the white colony from 1788 to the early 1820s, the operation of the Aboriginal economy is also discussed and the circumstances of its depopulation. Adding to the population history is a statement that traditional reporting of the history is: *Britain settled the continent for ;'strategic' advantages and to find a source of raw materials for its industries, as well as being an outlet for its trading and a takeover of local resources under its expanding economic system. *Economic development took place in their new colony, beneficial mainly to British interests including, industry, trade, insurance and investment. As important as trade and investment became to the new colony, the main aspect of the population history is the transfer of human capital in the form of over 160,000 convicted persons under a transportation program from the United Kingdom.

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1466991879

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