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Lion, Eagle, and Swastika

Bavarian Monarchism in Weimar Germany, 1918-1933

By: Robert S. Garnett

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Lion, Eagle, and Swastika

Bavarian Monarchism in Weimar Germany, 1918-1933

By: Robert S. Garnett

Originally published in 1991 this study analyses the Bavarian monarchist movement and its place in the relations between Bavaria and the Reich during the Weimar era, with particular emphasis on the period up to 1929. Focusing on Bavaria’s peculiar historical position in the Reich as a staunch adversary of strong national political authority, the study has been anchored insofar as possible in local-level organizational and governmental archival sources. It makes extensive use of organizational and personal case-studies.

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Routledge

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1000007731

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9781000007732

Tracing the Lines

Spiritual Exercise and the Gesture of Christian Scholarship

By: Robert Sweetman

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Tracing the Lines

Spiritual Exercise and the Gesture of Christian Scholarship

By: Robert Sweetman

Tracing the Lines takes on the project of what Christian scholarship is, and should be, today. It does so, however, with an eye to locating similarities in the rich tradition the last nearly two thousand years of Christian scholarship has given birth to. With humility and a sympathetic ear, Sweetman traces the way certain lines of thought have developed over time, showing their strengths, their weaknesses, and their motivation for shaping Christian scholarship in particular ways. Though he locates his own thought within a particular one of these streams, he shows how all of them have contributed in different ways to the formation of the work of Christian scholarship. Offering in the end an understanding of Christian scholarship as scholarship attuned to the shape of our Christian hearts, this book reaches across disciplines to connect Christians engaged in scholarship in all areas of the academy, whether at public or private institutions.

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189

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1498296815

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9781498296816

The History of Irish Periodical Literature: From the End of the 17th to the Middle of the 19th Century

Vol. II

By: Richard Robert Madden

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The History of Irish Periodical Literature: From the End of the 17th to the Middle of the 19th Century

Vol. II

By: Richard Robert Madden

Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.

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3752533366

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Blue & Gold and Black

Racial Integration of the U.S. Naval Academy

By: Robert John Schneller

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Blue & Gold and Black

Racial Integration of the U.S. Naval Academy

By: Robert John Schneller

During the twentieth century, the U.S. Naval Academy evolved from a racist institution to one that ranked equal opportunity among its fundamental tenets. This transformation was not without its social cost, however, and black midshipmen bore the brunt of it. Blue & Gold and Black is the history of integration of African Americans into the Naval Academy. The book examines how civil rights advocates? demands for equal opportunity shaped the Naval Academy?s evolution. Author Robert J. Schneller Jr. analyzes how changes in the Academy?s policies and culture affected the lives of black midshipmen, as well as how black midshipmen effected change in the Academy?s policies and culture. Most institutional history is written from the top down, while most social history is written from the bottom up. Based on the documentary record as well as on the memories of hundreds of midshipmen and naval officers, Blue & Gold and Black includes both perspectives. By examining both the institution and the individual, a much more accurate picture emerges of how racial integration occurred at the Naval Academy. Schneller takes a biographical approach to social history. Through written correspondence, responses to questionnaires, memoirs, and oral histories, African American midshipmen recount their experiences in their own words. Rather than setting adrift their humanity and individuality in oceans of statistics, Schneller uses their first-hand recollections to provide insights into the Academy?s culture that cannot be gained from official records. Covering the Jim Crow era, the civil rights movement, and the empowerment of African Americans from the late 1960s through the end of the twentieth century, Blue & Gold and Black traces the transformation of an institution that produces men and women who lead not only the Navy, but also the nation.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1603444173

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9781603444170

The Understanding, Prevention and Control of Human Cancer

The Historic Work and Lives of Elizabeth Cavert Miller and James A. Miller

By: Robert Gilmore McKinnell

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The Understanding, Prevention and Control of Human Cancer

The Historic Work and Lives of Elizabeth Cavert Miller and James A. Miller

By: Robert Gilmore McKinnell

The Understanding, Prevention and Control of Human Cancer is an account of how a married couple opened understanding of environmental carcinogenesis. Elizabeth Cavert and James A. Miller showed that enzymes of the human body activate and enable otherwise benign organic chemicals to combine with DNA in such a manner that cancer results. Their work is of particular note because cancer causes more loss of life-years than the sum of all other causes of death—and, as the President’s (USA) Cancer Panel warned, environmental carcinogenesis is a form of cancer that has been previously “grossly underestimated”. The Millers’ cancer research led to tests that identify dangerous chemicals which in turn permits prevention and thus the control of human cancer.

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BRILL

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9004286802

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9789004286801

Castles of Steel

Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea

By: Robert K. Massie

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Castles of Steel

Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea

By: Robert K. Massie

In a work of extraordinary narrative power, filled with brilliant personalities and vivid scenes of dramatic action, Robert K. Massie, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and Dreadnought, elevates to its proper historical importance the role of sea power in the winning of the Great War. The predominant image of this first world war is of mud and trenches, barbed wire, machine guns, poison gas, and slaughter. A generation of European manhood was massacred, and a wound was inflicted on European civilization that required the remainder of the twentieth century to heal. But with all its sacrifice, trench warfare did not win the war for one side or lose it for the other. Over the course of four years, the lines on the Western Front moved scarcely at all; attempts to break through led only to the lengthening of the already unbearably long casualty lists. For the true story of military upheaval, we must look to the sea. On the eve of the war in August 1914, Great Britain and Germany possessed the two greatest navies the world had ever seen. When war came, these two fleets of dreadnoughts—gigantic floating castles of steel able to hurl massive shells at an enemy miles away—were ready to test their terrible power against each other. Their struggles took place in the North Sea and the Pacific, at the Falkland Islands and the Dardanelles. They reached their climax when Germany, suffocated by an implacable naval blockade, decided to strike against the British ring of steel. The result was Jutland, a titanic clash of fifty-eight dreadnoughts, each the home of a thousand men. When the German High Seas Fleet retreated, the kaiser unleashed unrestricted U-boat warfare, which, in its indiscriminate violence, brought a reluctant America into the war. In this way, the German effort to “seize the trident” by defeating the British navy led to the fall of the German empire. Ultimately, the distinguishing feature of Castles of Steel is the author himself. The knowledge, understanding, and literary power Massie brings to this story are unparalleled. His portrayals of Winston Churchill, the British admirals Fisher, Jellicoe, and Beatty, and the Germans Scheer, Hipper, and Tirpitz are stunning in their veracity and artistry. Castles of Steel is about war at sea, leadership and command, courage, genius, and folly. All these elements are given magnificent scope by Robert K. Massie’ s special and widely hailed literary mastery. BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Robert K. Massie's Catherine the Great.

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Random House

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1588363201

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9781588363206

History of the U.S. Navy

1775-1941

By: Robert W. Love

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History of the U.S. Navy

1775-1941

By: Robert W. Love

This is the exciting story of the American Navy and its important role in our nation’s history from the Revolutionary War to the dawn of the New World Order. Presented in two volumes, Robert Love shows how the interplay of international affairs, foreign policy, partisan politics, changing technology, and Navy views has shaped the American fleet and continues to define its missions and operations.

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Stackpole Books

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0811767175

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9780811767170

Breaking the Color Barrier

The U.S. Naval Academy's First Black Midshipmen and the Struggle for Racial Equality

By: Robert J. Schneller, Jr.

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Breaking the Color Barrier

The U.S. Naval Academy's First Black Midshipmen and the Struggle for Racial Equality

By: Robert J. Schneller, Jr.

The African-American Community's Battle to Combat the U.S. Naval Academy's Legacy of Racism

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NYU Press

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0814740553

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9780814740552

Edge Effects

The Border-Name Places

By: Robert D. Temple

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Edge Effects

The Border-Name Places

By: Robert D. Temple

Theres something fascinating about border towns. Who hasnt crossed the line into another state to buy fireworks, gamble, or even to get married? Here are border towns with names as unique as the places themselves, names that bridge the boundaries. Robert D. Temple brings you a quirky, fascinating, and wholly entertaining look at more than eighty North American border towns in Edge Effects. With an adventurers heart and a historians keen eye, Temple explores life on the edge and how these places have made their place in history. Theres big-city Mexicali and empty-quarter Idavada, idyllic Vir-Mar Beach and whiskey-soaked Mondak. Then theres prairie-bleak Alsask, mountain-high Wyocolo, and palmy Florala. And who could forget Texarkana? Along with finding these towns in the first place comes adventure in exploring them, by highway, four-wheel-drive, boots, and kayak, and in encountering memorable locals: historians, farmers, waitresses, cops, forest rangers, railroaders, and neer-do-wells. But even more, these places lead us to investigate concepts of borders, boundaries, frontiers, margins, and marginality, as well as survey lines, battle lines, picket lines, and color lines. Edge Effects brilliantly examines how frontiers enrich cultures and boundaries define them. But more importantly, it reveals how edges shape local historyand our lives. A revised edition of Edge Effects was published July 10, 2009.

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iUniverse

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1440101469

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9781440101465

Religious Ambiguity and Religious Diversity

By: Robert McKim

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Religious Ambiguity and Religious Diversity

By: Robert McKim

This study looks at two central religious issues--the religious ambiguity of the world and the diversity of faiths--and probes their implications for religious beliefs. Author Robert McKim offers a self-critical, open, and tentative approach to beliefs about religious matters.

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Oxford University Press

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0190221267

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9780190221263

Forest Entomology

Ecology and Management

By: Robert N. Coulson,John A. Witter

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Forest Entomology

Ecology and Management

By: Robert N. Coulson,John A. Witter

This text considers forest insects occurring in forest ecosystems, specialized forestry settings, and urban forests, with an approach and coverage that make it suitable for use in both undergraduate and graduate courses in forest entomology and forest protection. Early chapters introduce entomology, middle chapters provide the first comprehensive treatment of the principles of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) of forest insects, and later chapters discuss the pest insects according to their feeding group.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471025739

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9780471025733

Book's by Robert Sweetman

Lion, Eagle, and Swastika

Lion, Eagle, and Swastika

Tracing the Lines

Tracing the Lines

The History of Irish Periodical Literature: From the End of the 17th to the Middle of the 19th Century

The History of Irish Periodical Literature: From the End of the 17th to the Middle of the 19th Century

Blue & Gold and Black

Blue & Gold and Black

The Understanding, Prevention and Control of Human Cancer

The Understanding, Prevention and Control of Human Cancer

Castles of Steel

Castles of Steel

History of the U.S. Navy

History of the U.S. Navy

Breaking the Color Barrier

Breaking the Color Barrier

Edge Effects

Edge Effects

Religious Ambiguity and Religious Diversity

Religious Ambiguity and Religious Diversity

Forest Entomology

Forest Entomology

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