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History, Empathy and Conflict

Heroes, Victims and Victimisers

By: Philip Towle

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History, Empathy and Conflict

Heroes, Victims and Victimisers

By: Philip Towle

This book argues that popular culture has been transformed in a silent revolution from emphasising history’s heroes to its victims. While city squares and stations were named in the nineteenth century after military victories, now the equivalent airports are named after the victims of violence. Where war reports used to focus on the leadership of the generals and the bravery of the troops, now they are mostly about casualties, refugees and destruction. History, Empathy and Conflict examines the diplomatic consequences of such a revolution in sensibility. Many governments have responded by apologising for their country’s historic actions. History teaching in schools has sometimes been revised to reflect the new emphasis and to build confidence between nations and respect for domestic minorities. Not least of the reasons for these changes is the difficulty or impossibility of making restitution for past wrongs. But history can also be used by the media and governments to justify intervention to protect victims of civil wars only to come to be seen as victimisers themselves. The past is always difficult to interpret but is the basis of all our decisions and all institutions try to twist it to their own convenience. Sympathy with history’s victims is a great moral advance but it can be used by dissatisfied nations to justify their revisionist policies and with the election of President Trump in 2016, all the Great Powers claim to be history’s victims.

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3319779591

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Intervention and Disarmament

In a Culturally Diverse World

By: Philip Towle

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Intervention and Disarmament

In a Culturally Diverse World

By: Philip Towle

In this book, some of Philip Towle’s major contributions are brought together to shed light on the Cold War and its aftermath. Topics include the build-up of chemical and nuclear weapons, the attack on New York’s World Trade Center in 2001, intervention in overseas conflicts and the role of the Church. The first section concentrates on the ways in which the West has interfered in conflicts around the world from the Vietnam War to Bosnia, Afghanistan and Iraq, and explains why intervention worked in former Yugoslavia but not in countries such as Vietnam, Afghanistan or Libya. The second section focuses on arms control and disarmament, how they were linked to intervention – particularly through the fear of terrorism – and how and why some arms control measures succeeded, and some did not. Intervention and Disarmament: In a Culturally Diverse World is useful for postgraduates and scholars interested in international affairs and warfare in the modern world.

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Routledge

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1000584976

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Arms Control and East-West Relations

By: Philip Towle

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Arms Control and East-West Relations

By: Philip Towle

This book, first published in 1983, examines the role that arms control has to play, alongside defence and deterrence, in stabilising East-West relations and reducing tensions during the Cold War. Arms control agreements were designed in the attempt to achieve parity between the nuclear forces of the superpowers, without making war more likely. A danger of confrontation between the USSR and the USA came from their involvement in Third World conflicts, and this arena is also discussed. The diplomatic approaches of the Soviet Union, the Third World and the West, and their aims in arms control, are also analysed.

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1000261832

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Democracy and Peace Making

Negotiations and Debates 1815-1973

By: Philip Towle

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Democracy and Peace Making

Negotiations and Debates 1815-1973

By: Philip Towle

Democracy and Peace Making is an invaluable and up-to-date account of the process of peace making, which draws on the most recent historical thinking. It surveys the post-war peace settlements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including: * the Vienna congress of 1815 * the Treaty of Versailles * the peace settlements of the Second World War * peace talks after the Korean War * the Paris Peace Accords of 1973.

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1134610157

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Intervention and Disarmament

In a Culturally Diverse World

By: Philip Towle

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In a Culturally Diverse World

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Men and the Emergence of Polite Society, Britain 1660-1800

By: Philip (Research Editor, New Dictionary Of National Biography) Carter

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Men and the Emergence of Polite Society, Britain 1660-1800

By: Philip (Research Editor, New Dictionary Of National Biography) Carter

This book presents an account of masculinity in eighteenth century Britain. In particular it is concerned with the impact of an emergent polite society on notions of manliness and the gentleman. From the 1660s a new type of social behaviour, politeness, was promoted by diverse writers. Based on continental ideas of refinement, it stressed the merits of genuine and generous sociability as befitted a progressive and tolerant nation. Early eighteenth century writers encouraged men to acquire the characteristics of politeness by becoming urbane town gentlemen. Later commentators promoted an alternative culture of sensibility typified by the man of feeling. Central to both was the need to spend more time with women, now seen as key agents of refinement. The relationship demanded a reworking of what it meant to be manly. Being manly and polite was a difficult balancing act. Refined manliness presented new problems for eighteenth century men. What was the relationship between politeness and duplicity? Were feminine actions such as tears and physical delicacy acceptable or not? Critics believed polite society led to effeminacy, not manliness, and condemned this failure of male identity with reference to the fop. This book reveals the significance of social over sexual conduct for eighteenth century definitions of masculinity. It shows how features traditionally associated with nineteenth century models were well established in the earlier figure of the polite town-dweller or sentimental man of feeling. Using personal stories and diverse public statements drawn from conduct books, magazines, sermons and novels, this is a vivid account of the changing status of men and masculinity as Britain moved into the modern period.

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1317882253

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Benjamin's Treatise on the Law of Sale of Personal Property with References to the American Decisions

Vol. II

By: Judah Philip Benjamin,Arthur Beilby Pearson,Hugh Fenwick Boyd,Charles Lyon Corbin

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Benjamin's Treatise on the Law of Sale of Personal Property with References to the American Decisions

Vol. II

By: Judah Philip Benjamin,Arthur Beilby Pearson,Hugh Fenwick Boyd,Charles Lyon Corbin

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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3385312663

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Endless Novelty

Specialty Production and American Industrialization, 1865-1925

By: Philip Scranton

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Endless Novelty

Specialty Production and American Industrialization, 1865-1925

By: Philip Scranton

Flexibility, specialization, and niche marketing are buzzwords in the business literature these days, yet few realize that it was these elements that helped the United States first emerge as a global manufacturing leader between the Civil War and World War I. The huge mass production-based businesses--steel, oil, and autos--have long been given sole credit for this emergence. In Endless Novelty, Philip Scranton boldly recasts the history of this vital episode in the development of American business, known as the nation's second industrial revolution, by considering the crucial impact of trades featuring specialty, not standardized, production. Scranton takes us on a grand tour through American specialty firms and districts, where, for example, we meet printers and jewelry makers in New York and Providence, furniture builders in Grand Rapids, and tool specialists in Cincinnati. Throughout he highlights the benevolent as well as the strained relationships between workers and proprietors, the lively interactions among entrepreneurs and city leaders, and the personal achievements of industrial engineers like Frederic W. Taylor. Scranton shows that in sectors producing goods such as furniture, jewelry, machine tools, and electrical equipment, firms made goods to order or in batches, and industrial districts and networks flourished, creating millions of jobs. These enterprises relied on flexibility, skilled labor, close interactions with clients, suppliers, and rivals, and opportunistic pricing to generate profit streams. They built interfirm alliances to manage markets and fashioned specialized institutions--trade schools, industrial banks, labor bureaus, and sales consortia. In creating regional synergies and economies of scope and diversity, the approaches of these industrial firms represent the inverse of mass production. Challenging views of company organization that have come to dominate the business world in the United States, Endless Novelty will appeal to historians, business leaders, and to anyone curious about the structure of American industry.

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Princeton University Press

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0691186928

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9780691186924

Revealing Architectural Design

Methods, Frameworks and Tools

By: Philip D. Plowright

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Revealing Architectural Design

Methods, Frameworks and Tools

By: Philip D. Plowright

Revealing Architectural Design examines the architectural design process from the point of view of knowledge domains, domain syntax, coherence, framing, thinking styles, decision-making and testing. Using straightforward language, the book connects general design thinking to underlying frameworks that are used in the architectural design process. The book provides historical grounding as well as clear examples of real design outcomes. It includes diagrams and explanations to make that content accessible. The frameworks and their methods are described by what they can accomplish, what biases they introduce and the use of their final outcomes. Revealing Architectural Design is an advanced primer useful to anyone interested in increasing the quality of their architectural design proposals through understanding the conceptual tools used to achieve that process. While it is intended for undergraduate and graduate students of architectural design, it will also be useful for experienced architectural practitioners. For the non-architect, this book opens a window into the priorities of a discipline seldom presented with such transparency.

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Routledge

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1317918738

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Richard B. Morris and American History in the Twentieth Century

By: Philip Ranlet

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Richard B. Morris and American History in the Twentieth Century

By: Philip Ranlet

Richard B. Morris, an internationally known early American scholar, was a historian at both City College of New York and Columbia University. His dissertation, Studies in the History of American Law, helped establish American legal history as a field. This biography is based primarily upon Morris' extensive papers and the recollections of historians who knew him well.

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University Press of America

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0761829172

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Sousa's Great Marches in Piano Transcription

Original Sheet Music of 23 Works

By: John Philip Sousa,Lester S. Levy

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Sousa's Great Marches in Piano Transcription

Original Sheet Music of 23 Works

By: John Philip Sousa,Lester S. Levy

Stimulating playing edition has 23 favorites that continue to enjoy wide appeal: Stars and Stripes Forever, The Thunderer, King Cotton, Gladiator, Washington Post, Liberty Bell, Jack Tar, Semper Fidelis, Picador March, Hands Across the Sea, 13 others in reproductions of original sheet music. Includes 24 illustrations.

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Courier Corporation

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0486231321

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9780486231327

Ghost Towns of Northern California

Your Guide to Ghost Towns and Historic Mining Camps

By: Susan Drew, Philip Varney, John Drew

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Ghost Towns of Northern California

Your Guide to Ghost Towns and Historic Mining Camps

By: Susan Drew, Philip Varney, John Drew

A travel guide to northern California's 50 deserted mining towns, plus the "ghost prison" of Alcatraz and a couple of Chinese fishing villages in the San Francisco Bay area.

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1610600800

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Whistle Stop

How 31,000 Miles of Train Travel, 352 Speeches, and a Little Midwest Gumption Saved the Presidency of Harry Truman

By: Philip White

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Whistle Stop

How 31,000 Miles of Train Travel, 352 Speeches, and a Little Midwest Gumption Saved the Presidency of Harry Truman

By: Philip White

President Harry Truman was a disappointment to the Democrats, and a godsend to the Republicans. Every attempt to paint Truman with the grace, charm, and grandeur of Franklin Delano Roosevelt had been a dismal failure: Truman's virtues were simpler, plainer, more direct. The challenges he faced--stirrings of civil rights and southern resentment at home, and communist aggression and brinkmanship abroad--could not have been more critical. By the summer of 1948 the prospects of a second term for Truman looked bleak. Newspapers and popular opinion nationwide had all but anointed as president Thomas Dewey, the Republican New York Governor. Truman could not even be certain of his own party's nomination: the Democrats, still in mourning for FDR, were deeply riven, with Henry Wallace and Strom Thurmond leading breakaway Progressive and Dixiecrat factions. Finally, with ingenuity born of desperation, Truman's aides hit upon a plan: get the president in front of as many regular voters as possible, preferably in intimate settings, all across the country. To the surprise of everyone but Harry Truman, it worked. Whistle Stop is the first book of its kind: a micro-history of the summer and fall of 1948 when Truman took to the rails, crisscrossing the country from June right up to Election Day in November. The tour and the campaign culminated with the iconic image of a grinning, victorious Truman holding aloft the famous Chicago Tribune headline: "Dewey Defeats Truman.

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ForeEdge from University Press of New England

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1611686490

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9781611686494

From the Eye of the Storm

A Pastor to the President Speaks Out

By: J. Philip Wogaman

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From the Eye of the Storm

A Pastor to the President Speaks Out

By: J. Philip Wogaman

According to J. Philip Wogaman, the drama being played out in Washington represents a struggle for the nation's soul. On one side is an emphasis on repentance and forgiveness, time-honored themes of the nation's formative religious traditions. On the other side is an emphasis on condemnation and punishment for wrongdoing. The question is, which represents the more appropriate path for the future of the United States? This is the question Wogaman sets out to answer in this fascinating book.

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Westminster John Knox Press

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0664221408

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9780664221409

Feline Orthopaedics

By: Harry Scott,Juan M. Marti,Philip Witte

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Feline Orthopaedics

By: Harry Scott,Juan M. Marti,Philip Witte

Cats are not referred to specialists as frequently as dogs, meaning the general practitioner must routinely treat cats that have been involved in road traffic accidents and other musculoskeletal trauma. This book is the first of its kind to provide a practical and user-friendly guide to feline orthopaedics. With a new author team, led by RCVS Specialist in Small Animal Surgery (Orthopaedics) and Veterinary Neurology Harry Scott, the second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated. New chapters cover Physiotherapy and Oncology of the Feline Skeletal System. The book includes highly structured fully referenced text that provides a concise, straightforward guide to the recognition and management of specific diseases and conditions. In this new edition, the neurological causes of lameness have been given more in-depth discussion, with an emphasis on early recognition of clinical signs and diagnosis. The disorder sections are now divided into those likely to be associated with trauma (fractures and luxation) and those which are congenital or developmental. The text is supported by high quality radiographs, colour photographs and colour line drawings to illustrate principles, techniques and procedures. Combining their experience in practice and education, the authors have produced a book that appeals to general practice veterinarians, specialist feline practitioners and to students.

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CRC Press

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0429531966

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9780429531965

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History, Empathy and Conflict

History, Empathy and Conflict

Intervention and Disarmament

Intervention and Disarmament

Arms Control and East-West Relations

Arms Control and East-West Relations

Democracy and Peace Making

Democracy and Peace Making

Intervention and Disarmament

Intervention and Disarmament

Men and the Emergence of Polite Society, Britain 1660-1800

Men and the Emergence of Polite Society, Britain 1660-1800

Benjamin's Treatise on the Law of Sale of Personal Property with References to the American Decisions

Benjamin's Treatise on the Law of Sale of Personal Property with References to the American Decisions

Endless Novelty

Endless Novelty

Revealing Architectural Design

Revealing Architectural Design

Richard B. Morris and American History in the Twentieth Century

Richard B. Morris and American History in the Twentieth Century

Sousa's Great Marches in Piano Transcription

Sousa's Great Marches in Piano Transcription

Ghost Towns of Northern California

Ghost Towns of Northern California

Whistle Stop

Whistle Stop

From the Eye of the Storm

From the Eye of the Storm

Feline Orthopaedics

Feline Orthopaedics

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