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Black Gold and Blackmail

Oil and Great Power Politics

By: Rosemary A. Kelanic

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Black Gold and Blackmail

Oil and Great Power Politics

By: Rosemary A. Kelanic

Black Gold and Blackmail seeks to explain why great powers adopt such different strategies to protect their oil access from politically motivated disruptions. In extreme cases, such as Imperial Japan in 1941, great powers fought wars to grab oil territory in anticipation of a potential embargo by the Allies; in other instances, such as Germany in the early Nazi period, states chose relatively subdued measures like oil alliances or domestic policies to conserve oil. What accounts for this variation? Fundamentally, it is puzzling that great powers fear oil coercion at all because the global market makes oil sanctions very difficult to enforce. Rosemary A. Kelanic argues that two variables determine what strategy a great power will adopt: the petroleum deficit, which measures how much oil the state produces domestically compared to what it needs for its strategic objectives; and disruptibility, which estimates the susceptibility of a state's oil imports to military interdiction—that is, blockade. Because global markets undercut the effectiveness of oil sanctions, blockade is in practice the only true threat to great power oil access. That, combined with the devastating consequences of oil deprivation to a state's military power, explains why states fear oil coercion deeply despite the adaptive functions of the market. Together, these two variables predict a state's coercive vulnerability, which determines how willing the state will be to accept the costs and risks attendant on various potential strategies. Only those great powers with large deficits and highly disruptible imports will adopt the most extreme strategy: direct control of oil through territorial conquest.

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Cornell University Press

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1501749218

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Simon

By: Rosemary Sutcliff

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Simon

By: Rosemary Sutcliff

It had never seemed important during their boyhood that Simon Carey was for Parliament and his friend Amias Hannaford a royalist. But when Civil War breaks out, they find themselves fighting on different sides. Finally the day comes when the friends must put their friendship to the test.

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Random House

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1448173140

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9781448173143

After Flodden

By: Rosemary Goring

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After Flodden

By: Rosemary Goring

Patrick Paniter was James IV's right-hand man, a diplomatic genius who was in charge of the guns at the disastrous battle of Flodden in September 1513 in which the English annihilated the Scots. After the death of his king he is tormented by guilt as he relives the events that led to war. When Louise Brenier, daughter of a rogue sea trader, asks his help in finding out if her brother Benoit was killed in action, it is the least he can do to salve his conscience. Not satisfied with the news he brings, Louise sets off to find out the truth herself, and swiftly falls foul of one of the lawless clans that rule the ungovernable borderlands. After Flodden is a novel about the consequences of the battle of Flodden, as seen through the eyes of several characters who either had a hand in bringing the country to war, or were profoundly affected by the outcome. There have been very few novels about Flodden, despite its significance,and none from this perspective. It's a racy adventure, combining political intrigue and romance, and its readership will be anyone who loves historical fiction, or is interested in the history of Scotland and the turbulent, ungovernable borderlands between Scotland and England.

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1846972833

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9781846972836

Tristan And Iseult

By: Rosemary Sutcliff

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Tristan And Iseult

By: Rosemary Sutcliff

Rosemary Sutcliff's starkly simple retelling of the uniquely tragic and romantic story of the warrior Tristan and his love for the fair Iseult of Ireland, his uncle's chosen bride.

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Random House

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1448173086

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9781448173082

Crown, Mitre and People in the Nineteenth Century

The Church of England, Establishment and the State

By: G. R. Evans

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Crown, Mitre and People in the Nineteenth Century

The Church of England, Establishment and the State

By: G. R. Evans

Disestablishment remains a controversial subject. Evans shows how Church and State in the nineteenth century led to fractious modern debate.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316515974

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Practicing Utopia

An Intellectual History of the New Town Movement

By: Rosemary Wakeman

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Practicing Utopia

An Intellectual History of the New Town Movement

By: Rosemary Wakeman

Rosemary Wakeman provides a sweeping history of "new towns"--those created by fiat rather than out of geographic or economic logic and often intended to break with the tendencies of past development. Heralded throughout the twentieth century as solutions to congestion, environmental threats, architectural malaise, and cultural anomie, today they are often seen as sad, pernicious, or merely suburban. Wakeman shows that hundreds of such towns sprang from templates and designs not only in North America and across Europe but around the world, revealing how different cultures dreamed of (re)organizing themselves. Wakeman also illuminates the missteps and unanticipated results of the initial optimistic choices and impulses.

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University of Chicago Press

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022634603X

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9780226346038

Into the Twentieth Century

By: Judith Kidd,Rosemary Rees,Ruth Tudor

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Into the Twentieth Century

By: Judith Kidd,Rosemary Rees,Ruth Tudor

The Heinemann History Scheme offers an opportunity to refresh the approach to teaching at Key Stage 3. It uses sources and activities to explain complex issues and helps students think through historical concepts for themselves. The Scheme is an exact match to the QCA scheme of work.

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Heinemann

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0435325965

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9780435325961

Transitional Justice

NOMOS LI

By: Rosemary Nagy

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Transitional Justice

NOMOS LI

By: Rosemary Nagy

Criminal tribunals, truth commissions, reparations, apologies and memorializations are the characteristic instruments in the transitional justice toolkit that can help societies transition from authoritarianism to democracy, from civil war to peace, and from state-sponsored extra-legal violence to a rights-respecting rule of law. Over the last several decades, their growing use has established transitional justice as a body of both theory and practice whose guiding norms and structures encompasses the range of institutional mechanisms by which societies address the wrongs committed by past regimes in order to lay the foundation for more legitimate political and legal order. In Transitional Justice, a group of leading scholars in philosophy, law, and political science settles some of the key theoretical debates over the meaning of transitional justice while opening up new ones. By engaging both theorists and empirical social scientists in debates over central categories of analysis in the study of transitional justice, it also illuminates the challenges of making strong empirical claims about the impact of transitional institutions. Contributors: Gary J. Bass, David Cohen, David Dyzenhaus, Pablo de Greiff, Leigh-Ashley Lipscomb, Monika Nalepa, Eric A. Posner, Debra Satz, Gopal Sreenivasan, Adrian Vermeule, and Jeremy Webber.

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NYU Press

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0814704972

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9780814704974

Embodied Lives:

Figuring Ancient Maya and Egyptian Experience

By: Rosemary A. Joyce,Lynn M. Meskell

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Embodied Lives:

Figuring Ancient Maya and Egyptian Experience

By: Rosemary A. Joyce,Lynn M. Meskell

Examining a wide range of archaeological data, and using it to explore issues such as the sexual body, mind/body dualism, body modification, and magical practices, Lynn Meskell and Rosemary Joyce offer a new approach to the Ancient Egyptian and Mayan understanding of embodiment. Drawing on insights from feminist theory, art history, phenomenology, anthropology and psychoanalysis, the book takes bodily materiality as a crucial starting point to the understanding and formation of self in any society, and sheds new light on Ancient Egyptian and Maya cultures. The book shows how a comparative project can open up new lines of inquiry by raising questions about accepted assumptions as the authors draw attention to the long-term histories and specificities of embodiment, and make the case for the importance of ancient materials for contemporary theorization of the body. For students new to the subject, and scholars already familiar with it, this will offer fresh and exciting insights into these ancient cultures.

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Routledge

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1317724550

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9781317724551

Homecoming

The Scottish Years of Mary, Queen of Scots

By: Rosemary Goring

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Homecoming

The Scottish Years of Mary, Queen of Scots

By: Rosemary Goring

One of the most famous queens in history, Mary Stuart lived in her homeland for just twelve years: as a dauntless child who laughed at her friendsʼ seasickness as they sailed to safety in France and later, on her return as a 18-year-old widow to take control of a nation riven with factions, dissent and religious strife. Brief though her time in Scotland was, her experience profoundly influenced who she was and what happened to her. In this book, Rosemary Goring tells the story of Mary's Scottish years through the often dramatic and atmospheric locations and settings where the events that shaped her life took place and also examines the part Scotland, and its tumultuous court and culture, played in her downfall. Whether or not Mary Stuart emerges blameless or guilty, in this evocative retelling she can be seen for who she really was. Locations included: Linlithgow Palace * Stirling Castle * Dumbarton Castle * Leith * Holyrood Palace * Crichton Castle * Darnaway Castle * Huntly Castle * Spynie Palace * Falkland Palace * Seton Palace * St Andrews and Fife * Dunbar Castle * Edinburgh Castle * Traquair House * Hermitage Castle * Jedburgh, Mary Queen of Scots House * Craigmillar Castle * Edinburgh and Kirk o' Field * Borthwick Castle * Carberry Hill * Lochleven Castle * Langside * Dundrennan Abbey

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Birlinn Ltd

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1788855132

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9781788855136

Weep Not for Your Children

Essays on Religion and Violence

By: Lisa Isherwood,Rosemary Radford Ruether

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Weep Not for Your Children

Essays on Religion and Violence

By: Lisa Isherwood,Rosemary Radford Ruether

Violence remains endemic in today's society. Religious morality and social prejudice can lead to many acts of violence going unnoticed. 'Weep Not for Your Children' presents a selection of essays that examine the ways in which religion and violence interconnect. The presence of violence in the origins of cultural and religious norms is examined. The essays cover a wide range of examples of violence: from the Holocaust to domestic violence and from the violence created by economic systems to that created by the construction of gender itself. 'Weep Not for Your Children' challenges and provokes the reader to think beyond traditional associations of good and evil.

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Routledge

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1315478595

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9781315478593

God’s Forgotten Fools

They Were ‘Active in Their Own Ruin’

By: Rosemary J. Goring

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God’s Forgotten Fools

They Were ‘Active in Their Own Ruin’

By: Rosemary J. Goring

This is a story about one of over a thousand clergymen turned out of the Church of England in 1622 for refusing to comply with its demands. They endured persecution, betrayal and sometimes imprisonment - which is why they were said to have been ‘active in their own ruin’. It is largely based on the life of the rector of Brightling in East Sussex who, after his ejection, remained in the parish, caring for the people after plague had spread from London and his successor had fled. It shows how the life and loves of a whole family were affected by the nationwide upheaval.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1664113290

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9781664113299

Scotland

An Autobiography

By: Rosemary Goring

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Scotland

An Autobiography

By: Rosemary Goring

“A spirited collection of witnessing from all the periods of Scottish history”—in the words of Cromwell to Conan Doyle, poets to nurses to warriors (The New York Review of Books). This is a vivid, wide-ranging account of Scotland’s history, composed of numerous stories and observations by those who experienced it firsthand through the centuries. Contributors range from Tacitus, Mary, Queen of Scots, and Oliver Cromwell to Adam Smith, David Livingstone, and Billy Connolly. These include not only historic moments—from Bannockburn to the opening of the new Parliament in 1999—but also testimonies like that of the eight-year-old factory worker who was dangled by his ear out of a third-floor window for making a mistake; the survivors of the 1746 Battle of Culloden, who wished perhaps that they had died on the field; John Logie Baird, inventor of television; and great writers including Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and the editor of Encyclopedia Britannica. From the battlefield to the sports field, this is living, accessible history told by criminals, servants, housewives, poets, journalists, nurses, prisoners, comedians, and many more.

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Abrams

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1468303120

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9781468303124

Under the Microscope

A Hidden World Revealed

By: Jeremy Burgess,Michael Marten,Rosemary Taylor

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Under the Microscope

A Hidden World Revealed

By: Jeremy Burgess,Michael Marten,Rosemary Taylor

A celebration of the hidden beauty & variety of microscopic imagery."--Back cover.

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212

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CUP Archive

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0521399408

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9780521399401

The Fatal Art of Entertainment

Interviews with Mystery Writers

By: Rosemary Herbert

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The Fatal Art of Entertainment

Interviews with Mystery Writers

By: Rosemary Herbert

What kind of mind can create the intricate and intriguing world of the mystery novel-the human puzzle, the tangle of motivation, deception, and death? What drives a superior author to turn to crime and mystery rather than to mainstream literary fiction? Now in this book, Herbert provides answers in a volume that will introduce anyone.

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Macmillan Reference USA

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0783815158

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9780783815152

Larousse Dictionary of Beliefs and Religions

By: Rosemary Goring

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Larousse Dictionary of Beliefs and Religions

By: Rosemary Goring

More comprehensive than any other single volume reference on this subject, the dictionary covers all the world's major religions and beliefs, both current and historical. With 2,900 concise and informative entries, the dictionary spans all periods and places. It provides coverage of today's Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, along with the rites of ancient civilizations, as well as less mainstream beliefs such as scientology and pantheism. Supplements include a subject index, a calendar of festivals, and a chart detailing the population distribution of the major faiths.

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Chambers

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0752350072

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9780752350073

The Eagle and the Rose

A Remarkable True Story

By: Rosemary Altea

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The Eagle and the Rose

A Remarkable True Story

By: Rosemary Altea

Rosemary Altea speaks to the dead with the help of her spirit guide, Grey Eagle.

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0446619779

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9780446619776

John & Rosemary Hemphill's what Herb is That?

How to Grow and Use the Culinary Herbs

By: John Hemphill,Rosemary Hemphill

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John & Rosemary Hemphill's what Herb is That?

How to Grow and Use the Culinary Herbs

By: John Hemphill,Rosemary Hemphill

This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated book is your best practical guide to growing and using the culinary herbs. In the main A-Z section, arranged by botanical name, the herbs are given individual and detailed treatment, coupled with informative photographs. Each herb is described, its history and mythology is given, and full advice follows on cultivation, harvesting, processing, companion planting, and uses - culinary, medicinal and cosmetic."--BOOK JACKET.

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1863024824

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