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Armies Without Nations

Public Violence and State Formation in Central America, 1821-1960

By: Robert H. Holden

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Armies Without Nations

Public Violence and State Formation in Central America, 1821-1960

By: Robert H. Holden

Public violence, a persistent feature of Latin American life since the collapse of Iberian rule in the 1820s, has been especially prominent in Central America. Robert H. Holden shows how public violence shaped the states that have governed Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. Linking public violence and patrimonial political cultures, he shows how the early states improvised their authority by bargaining with armed bands or montoneras. Improvisation continued into the twentieth century as the bands were gradually superseded by semi-autonomous national armies, and as new agents of public violence emerged in the form of armed insurgencies and death squads. World War II, Holden argues, set into motion the globalization of public violence. Its most dramatic manifestation in Central America was the surge in U.S. military and police collaboration with the governments of the region, beginning with the Lend-Lease program of the 1940s and continuing through the Cold War. Although the scope of public violence had already been established by the people of the Central American countries, globalization intensified the violence and inhibited attempts to shrink its scope. Drawing on archival research in all five countries as well as in the United States, Holden elaborates the connections among the national, regional, and international dimensions of public violence. Armies Without Nations crosses the borders of Central American, Latin American, and North American history, providing a model for the study of global history and politics. Armies without Nations was a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2005.

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347

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0195310209

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9780195310207

Contemporary Latin America

1970 to the Present

By: Robert H. Holden,Rina Villars

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Contemporary Latin America

1970 to the Present

By: Robert H. Holden,Rina Villars

Contemporary Latin America presents the epochal political, economic, social, and cultural changes in Latin America over the last 40 years and comprehensively examines their impact on life in the region, and beyond. Provides a fresh approach and a new interpretation of the seismic changes of the last 40 years in Latin America Introduces major themes from a humanistic and universal perspective, putting each subject in a context that readers can understand and relate to Focuses on ‘Ibero-America'--Brazil and the eighteen countries that were formerly Spanish possessions- while offering valuable comparative views of the non-Iberian areas of the Caribbean Emphasizes the global, regional and national dimensions of the region's recent past

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396

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John Wiley & Sons

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111827492X

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9781118274927

Nelson A. Miles and the Twilight of the Frontier Army

By: Robert Wooster

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Nelson A. Miles and the Twilight of the Frontier Army

By: Robert Wooster

Based on a wide range of sources, including materials only recently made available to researchers, this first complete, carefully documented biography of Miles skillfully delineates the brilliant, abrasive, and controversial tactician whose career in many respects epitomized the story of the Old Army.

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426

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803297750

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9780803297753

Klaus Fuchs, Atom Spy

By: Robert C. Williams

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Klaus Fuchs, Atom Spy

By: Robert C. Williams

This intriguing full-length portrait of Klaus Fuchs and his case, based in part on newly available American and British archives on the subject, is an exciting find for general readers in the history of science, espionage, World War II, and the Cold War.

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296

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0674505409

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9780674505407

Stochastic Partial Differential Equations for Computer Vision with Uncertain Data

By: Tobias Preusser,Robert M. Kirby,Torben Pätz

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Stochastic Partial Differential Equations for Computer Vision with Uncertain Data

By: Tobias Preusser,Robert M. Kirby,Torben Pätz

In image processing and computer vision applications such as medical or scientific image data analysis, as well as in industrial scenarios, images are used as input measurement data. It is good scientific practice that proper measurements must be equipped with error and uncertainty estimates. For many applications, not only the measured values but also their errors and uncertainties, should be—and more and more frequently are—taken into account for further processing. This error and uncertainty propagation must be done for every processing step such that the final result comes with a reliable precision estimate. The goal of this book is to introduce the reader to the recent advances from the field of uncertainty quantification and error propagation for computer vision, image processing, and image analysis that are based on partial differential equations (PDEs). It presents a concept with which error propagation and sensitivity analysis can be formulated with a set of basic operations. The approach discussed in this book has the potential for application in all areas of quantitative computer vision, image processing, and image analysis. In particular, it might help medical imaging finally become a scientific discipline that is characterized by the classical paradigms of observation, measurement, and error awareness. This book is comprised of eight chapters. After an introduction to the goals of the book (Chapter 1), we present a brief review of PDEs and their numerical treatment (Chapter 2), PDE-based image processing (Chapter 3), and the numerics of stochastic PDEs (Chapter 4). We then proceed to define the concept of stochastic images (Chapter 5), describe how to accomplish image processing and computer vision with stochastic images (Chapter 6), and demonstrate the use of these principles for accomplishing sensitivity analysis (Chapter 7). Chapter 8 concludes the book and highlights new research topics for the future.

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150

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Springer Nature

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3031025946

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9783031025945

Further Progress in Analysis

Proceedings of the 6th International ISAAC Congress, Middle East Technical University, Ankara Turkey, 13-18 August 2007

By: International Society for Analysis, Applications, and Computation. Congress,Heinrich G. W. Begehr,A. Okay Celebi,Robert P. Gilbert

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Further Progress in Analysis

Proceedings of the 6th International ISAAC Congress, Middle East Technical University, Ankara Turkey, 13-18 August 2007

By: International Society for Analysis, Applications, and Computation. Congress,Heinrich G. W. Begehr,A. Okay Celebi,Robert P. Gilbert

The ISAAC (International Society for Analysis, its Applications and Computation) Congress, which has been held every second year since 1997, covers the major progress in analysis, applications and computation in recent years. In this proceedings volume, plenary lectures highlight the recent research results, while 17 sessions organized by well-known specialists reflect the state of the art of important subfields. This volume concentrates on partial differential equations, function spaces, operator theory, integral transforms and equations, potential theory, complex analysis and generalizations, inverse problems, functional differential and difference equations and integrable systems.

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877

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World Scientific

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9812837329

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9789812837325

Armies Without Nations

Public Violence and State Formation in Central America, 1821-1960

By: Robert H. Holden

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Armies Without Nations

Public Violence and State Formation in Central America, 1821-1960

By: Robert H. Holden

Public violence, scarcely analyzed and little understood, is the subject of this pathbreaking research into the histories of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. Robert Holden shows how the national and international dimensions of public violence intersected there to produce "armies without nations.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195161203

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Armies Without Nations

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Nelson A. Miles and the Twilight of the Frontier Army

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Klaus Fuchs, Atom Spy

Stochastic Partial Differential Equations for Computer Vision with Uncertain Data

Stochastic Partial Differential Equations for Computer Vision with Uncertain Data

Further Progress in Analysis

Further Progress in Analysis

Armies Without Nations

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