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Navies of Europe

By: Lawrence Sondhaus

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Europe ruled the waves for most of the modern era and even when its navies were eclipsed in size by the US force, they continued to dominate world wars. In this unique history of Europe's naval forces, Larry Sondhaus charts the development of naval warfare from the transition to steam to recent actions in the Persian Gulf. Combining detailed technical information with an in-depth comparison of warfare and tactics across some of the key conflicts of the modern world, this is an absorbing account of European and British seapower, past and present.

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Routledge

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1317869788

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The Great War at Sea

A Naval History of the First World War

By: Lawrence Sondhaus

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The Great War at Sea

A Naval History of the First World War

By: Lawrence Sondhaus

This is a major new naval history of the First World War which reveals the decisive contribution of the war at sea to Allied victory. In a truly global account, Lawrence Sondhaus traces the course of the campaigns in the North Sea, Atlantic, Adriatic, Baltic and Mediterranean and examines the role of critical innovations in the design and performance of ships, wireless communication and firepower. He charts how Allied supremacy led the Central Powers to attempt to revolutionize naval warfare by pursuing unrestricted submarine warfare, ultimately prompting the United States to enter the war. Victory against the submarine challenge, following their earlier success in sweeping the seas of German cruisers and other surface raiders, left the Allies free to use the world's sea lanes to transport supplies and troops to Europe from overseas territories, and eventually from the United States, which proved a decisive factor in their ultimate victory.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139992538

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9781139992534

Navies in Modern World History

By: Lawrence Sondhaus

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Navies in Modern World History

By: Lawrence Sondhaus

Navies in Modern World History traces the role of navies in world history from the early nineteenth century, through both World Wars, to the onset of the twenty-first century. Lawrence Sondhaus examines the navies of Britain, France, Germany, the United States, Japan, Brazil, Chile and the Soviet Union, demonstrating the variety of ways in which these countries have made decisive use of naval power, and the challenges these navies faced when assembling equipment and stores, training sailors, and undertaking various missions, and shows in what ways the results helped change the course of modern world history." "This book also deals with aircraft carrier design and naval aviation in the second half of the twentieth century, and the leading role of navies and shipbuilders in key technological innovations of the nineteenth century and early twentieth, including advances in steam power, armour, guns and torpedoes. Today, technological break-throughs are centred around naval stealth and maritime propulsion systems. Special attention is devoted to the evolving state of naval technology, showing how the relative industrial capabilities of seafaring countries have been reflected in their maritime building programmes, providing an important link between the evolution of modern national fleets and the broader history of the period." Editeur

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348

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Reaktion Books

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1861892020

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9781861892027

Reclaiming a Scientific Anthropology

By: Lawrence A. Kuznar

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Reclaiming a Scientific Anthropology

By: Lawrence A. Kuznar

This second edition of Reclaiming a Scientific Anthropology arrives at just the right time, as new advances in science increasingly affect anthropologists of all stripes. Lawrence Kuznar begins by reviewing the basic issues of scientific epistemology in anthropology as they have taken shape over the life of the discipline. He then describes postmodern and other critiques of both science and scientific anthropology, and he concludes with stringent analyses of these debates. This new edition brings this important text firmly into the 21st century; it not only updates the scholarly debates but it describes new research techniques—such as computer modeling systems—that could not have been imagined just a decade ago. In a field that has become increasingly divided over basic methods of reasearch and interpretation, Kuznar makes a powerful argument that anthropology should return to its roots in empirical science.

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AltaMira Press

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0759112347

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9780759112346

Olympians of the Sawdust Circle

A Biographical Dictionary of the Nineteenth Century American Circus

By: William Lawrence Slout

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Olympians of the Sawdust Circle

A Biographical Dictionary of the Nineteenth Century American Circus

By: William Lawrence Slout

The culmination of more than thirty years of research, Olympians of the Sawdust Circle is an attempt to identify every major and minor player in the American circus world of the nineteenth century. This A-Z guide lists: surname, given name, dates of birth and death (if known), type of entertainment (and function) with which the individual was associated, and the companies and dates by whom the person was employed. Every researcher and library interested in American circus history will need this seminal guide. An absolutely astonishing piece of scholarship.

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Wildside Press LLC

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0809503107

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9780809503100

Strong on Music

The New York Music Scene in the Days of George Templeton Strong, Volume 2: Reverberations, 1850-1856

By: Vera Brodsky Lawrence

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Strong on Music

The New York Music Scene in the Days of George Templeton Strong, Volume 2: Reverberations, 1850-1856

By: Vera Brodsky Lawrence

In this second volume of Strong on Music, Vera Brodsky Lawrence carries into the 1850s her landmark account of the nineteenth-century New York music scene. Using music entries from George Templeton Strong's famous journals—most published here for the first time—as a point of departure, Lawrence provides a vivid portrait of a vibrant musical culture. Each chapter presents one year in the musical life of New York City, with Lawrence's extensive commentary enriched both by excerpts from Strong's diaries and a lavish selection of little-known music criticism and comment from the period. The reviews, written by an often truculent, sometimes venal tribe of music journalists, cover the entire world of music—from opera to barrel organ, salon to saloon. In this New York, operas performed by renowned artists are parodied by blackface minstrels; performances of the Philharmonic Society are drowned by the raucous chatter of flirtatious adolescents, who turn concerts into a noisy singles' hangout; and irate critics trash the first performances of Verdi operas, calling the plots indecent and the scores noisy and unmelodic. In this volatile atmosphere, a native musical culture is born; its whose first faltering efforts are dubiously received, and the first American composers begin to emerge.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226470105

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9780226470108

Playing with Fire

The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics

By: Lawrence O'Donnell

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Playing with Fire

The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics

By: Lawrence O'Donnell

The New York Times bestseller! "A thriller-like, propulsive tour through 1968, told by a man who is in love with American politics and who knows how all the dots connect. Brilliant and totally engrossing." -Rachel Maddow "Delightful...brings to life the most fascinating election of modern times." -Walter Isaacson From the celebrated host of MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, an enthralling account of the presidential election that created American politics as we know it today Long before Lawrence O'Donnell was the anchor of his own political talk show, he was a senior adviser to Senator Patrick Moynihan, one of postwar America’s wisest political minds. The 1968 U.S. presidential election—marked by RFK’s assassination, massive upheaval in the Democratic Party, and the first of Richard Nixon’s dirty tricks—was O’Donnell’s own political coming of age. In the decades since, the election has remained one of his abiding fascinations, as it set the tone for so much of what followed in American politics, all the way through to today. Playing with Fire represents his master class in American electioneering, as well as an extraordinary human drama that captures a system, and a country, coming apart at the seams.

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Penguin

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0399563164

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9780399563164

Drama Criticism

Criticism of the Most Significant and Widely Studied Dramatic Works from All the World's Literatures

By: Lawrence J. Trudeau

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Drama Criticism

Criticism of the Most Significant and Widely Studied Dramatic Works from All the World's Literatures

By: Lawrence J. Trudeau

Criticism of the most significant and widely studied dramiatic works fromall the world's literatures.

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Drama Criticism

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0787617911

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The Oxford Movement and Its Leaders

A Bibliography of Secondary and Lesser Primary Sources

By: Lawrence N. Crumb

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The Oxford Movement and Its Leaders

A Bibliography of Secondary and Lesser Primary Sources

By: Lawrence N. Crumb

The Oxford Movement began in the Church of England in 1833 and extended to the rest of the Anglican Communion, influencing other denominations as well. It was an attempt to remind the church of its divine authority, independent of the state, and to recall it to its Catholic heritage deriving from the ancient and medieval periods, as well as the Caroline Divines of 17th-century England. The Oxford Movement and Its Leaders is a comprehensive bibliography of books, pamphlets, chapters in books, periodical articles, manuscripts, microforms, and tape recordings dealing with the Movement and its influence on art, literature, and music, as well as theology; authors include scholars in these fields, as well as the fields of history, political science, and the natural sciences. The first edition of The Oxford Movement and Its Leaders and its supplement contained comprehensive coverage through 1983 and 1990, respectively. The Second Edition, with over 8,000 citations covering many languages, extends coverage through 2001; it also includes many earlier items not previously listed, corrections and additions to earlier items, and a listing of electronic sources.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810862808

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9780810862807

Covering McCarthyism

How the Christian Science Monitor Handled Joseph R. McCarthy, 1950-1954

By: Lawrence N. Strout

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Covering McCarthyism

How the Christian Science Monitor Handled Joseph R. McCarthy, 1950-1954

By: Lawrence N. Strout

Strout examines how the Christian Science Monitor, a highly influential newspaper of the era, covered Joseph R. McCarthy and McCarthyism from the Senator's Lincoln Day speech in February 1950 through his censure in December 1954. Through his in-depth examination of the Monitor's interoffice communications, Strout examines how the Monitor's coverage compared with other elite and popular press newspapers and how the pressures associated with McCarthyism affected individuals at the Monitor. An extensive review of the Monitor's editorials and news articles suggests that it was remarkably thorough and fair in its reporting, while still being outspoken, but responsible in its criticism. While many newspapers attacked McCarthy personally, the Monitor concentrated on the actions of the junior senator and the negative effects they were having at home and abroad. As Strout sees it, the Monitor served as a voice of moderation, while simultaneously being a persistent critic of McCarthy's tactics.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313002312

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9780313002311

The Atlas of Emergency Medicine Flashcards

By: Kevin J. Knoop,Lawrence B. Stack,Alan B. Storrow,R. Jason Thurman

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The Atlas of Emergency Medicine Flashcards

By: Kevin J. Knoop,Lawrence B. Stack,Alan B. Storrow,R. Jason Thurman

268 full-color cards sharpen your visual diagnosis skills Vivid full-color flash cards illustrate common emergency medicine problems A super-effective portable learning tool to enhance visual diagnosis skills Covers the most common and acute clinical presentations Diagnosis, Clinical Findings, and Treatment provided for every problem

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0071794018

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Book's by Lawrence Buckley Thomas

Navies of Europe

Navies of Europe

The Great War at Sea

The Great War at Sea

Navies in Modern World History

Navies in Modern World History

Reclaiming a Scientific Anthropology

Reclaiming a Scientific Anthropology

Olympians of the Sawdust Circle

Olympians of the Sawdust Circle

Strong on Music

Strong on Music

Playing with Fire

Playing with Fire

Drama Criticism

Drama Criticism

The Oxford Movement and Its Leaders

The Oxford Movement and Its Leaders

Covering McCarthyism

Covering McCarthyism

The Atlas of Emergency Medicine Flashcards

The Atlas of Emergency Medicine Flashcards

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