On War
Author | : Carl von Clausewitz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Military art and science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Carl von Clausewitz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Military art and science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kathryn Gin Lum |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2022-05-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0674275799 |
Philip Schaff Prize, American Society of Church History S-USIH Book Award, Society for U.S. Intellectual History Merle Curti Award in Intellectual History, Organization of American Historians “A fascinating book...Gin Lum suggests that, in many times and places, the divide between Christian and ‘heathen’ was the central divide in American life.”—Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker “Offers a dazzling range of examples to substantiate its thesis. Rare is the reader who could dip into it without becoming much better informed on a great many topics historical, literary, and religious. So many of Gin Lum’s examples are enlightening and informative in their own right.”—Philip Jenkins, Christian Century “Brilliant...Gin Lum’s writing style is nuanced, clear, detailed yet expansive, and accessible, which will make the book a fit for both graduate and undergraduate classrooms. Any scholar of American history should have a copy.” —Emily Suzanne Clark, S-USIH: Society for U.S. Intellectual History In this sweeping historical narrative, Kathryn Gin Lum shows how the idea of the heathen has been maintained from the colonial era to the present in religious and secular discourses—discourses, specifically, of race. Americans long viewed the world as a realm of suffering heathens whose lands and lives needed their intervention to flourish. The term “heathen” fell out of common use by the early 1900s, leading some to imagine that racial categories had replaced religious differences. But the ideas underlying the figure of the heathen did not disappear. Americans still treat large swaths of the world as “other” due to their assumed need for conversion to American ways. Race continues to operate as a heathen inheritance in the United States, animating Americans’ sense of being a world apart from an undifferentiated mass of needy, suffering peoples. Heathen thus reveals a key source of American exceptionalism and a prism through which Americans have defined themselves as a progressive and humanitarian nation even as supposed heathens have drawn on the same to counter this national myth.
Author | : Carl Von Clausewitz |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2014-03-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781496115959 |
On War is the most significant attempt in Western history to understand war, both in its internal dynamics and as an instrument of policy. Since the work's first appearance in 1832, it has been read throughout the world, and has stimulated generations of soldiers, statesmen, and intellectuals.
Author | : Jerry Pournelle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780671720728 |
"Born of rebellion and civil war, cut off from the rest of humanity after the Succession Wars, Haven has been bombed back to a pre-tech medievalism by a race of hideous 'supermen' intent on keeping the planet cut off from the rest of the empire while they slowly absorb all normal humanity into their own perverted form. Haven is a world forever at war, each with all--and all against the Saurons."--Pg. [4] of cover.
Author | : Richard Spencer-Smith |
Publisher | : Intellect Books |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : |
This volume brings together a collection of papers covering a wide range of topics in computer and cognitive science. Topics included are: the foundational relevance of logic to computer science, with particular reference to tense logic, constructive logic, and Horn clause logic; logic as the theoretical underpinnings of the engineering discipline of expert systems; a discussion of the evolution of computational linguistics into functionally distinct task levels; and current issues in the implementation of speech act theory.
Author | : Peter Ackroyd |
Publisher | : Pan Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2014-09-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 144727170X |
In Civil War, Peter Ackroyd continues his dazzling account of England's history, beginning with the progress south of the Scottish king, James VI, who on the death of Elizabeth I became the first Stuart king of England, and ends with the deposition and flight into exile of his grandson, James II. The Stuart dynasty brought together the two nations of England and Scotland into one realm, albeit a realm still marked by political divisions that echo to this day. More importantly, perhaps, the Stuart era was marked by the cruel depredations of civil war, and the killing of a king. Ackroyd paints a vivid portrait of James I and his heirs. Shrewd and opinionated, the new King was eloquent on matters as diverse as theology, witchcraft and the abuses of tobacco, but his attitude to the English parliament sowed the seeds of the division that would split the country in the reign of his hapless heir, Charles I. Ackroyd offers a brilliant – warts and all – portrayal of Charles's nemesis Oliver Cromwell, Parliament's great military leader and England's only dictator, who began his career as a political liberator but ended it as much of a despot as 'that man of blood', the king he executed. England's turbulent seventeenth century is vividly laid out before us, but so too is the cultural and social life of the period, notable for its extraordinarily rich literature, including Shakespeare's late masterpieces, Jacobean tragedy, the poetry of John Donne and Milton and Thomas Hobbes' great philosophical treatise, Leviathan. Civil War also gives us a very real sense of the lives of ordinary English men and women, lived out against a backdrop of constant disruption and uncertainty.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 572 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
From the Publisher: This latest edition of an official U.S. Government military history classic provides an authoritative historical survey of the organization and accomplishments of the United States Army. This scholarly yet readable book is designed to inculcate an awareness of our nation's military past and to demonstrate that the study of military history is an essential ingredient in leadership development. It is also an essential addition to any personal military history library.
Author | : Carl von Clausewitz |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 2005-08-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0141964278 |
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
Author | : Carl von Clausewitz |
Publisher | : Theclassics.Us |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 2013-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781230206035 |
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... SKETCH OF A PLAN FOR TACTICS, OR THE THEORY OF THE COMBAT (N.B.--According to this distribution, this first part is to be revised and completed) I.--INTRODUCTION: DEFINITION OF THE DIS. TINCTION BETWEEN THE CONCEPTIONS OF STRATEGY AND TACTICS. II.--GENERAL THEORY OF THE COMBAT. (Combat--Cantonments--Camps--Marches.) (i) Nature of the combat--Active elements in the same--Hatred and hostility--Modification--Other moral forces--Judgment and talent. (2) More precise definition of a combat--Independent combat--Partial combat--How the latter arise. (3) Object of the combat: Victory--Degree, splendour, and weight of victory. (4) Causes of victory, that is, of the enemy leaving the field. (5) Kinds of combat according to arms--Close combat-- Fire combat. (6) Different acts of the combat--Destructive act-- Decisive act. (7) Kinds of combat, according as its motive is positive or negative--Attack and defence. (8) Plan of the combat--Strategic object of the combat--Its aim--Means--Determination of the kind of combat--Time--Space--Reciprocal action--Conduct. III.--COMBA1S; DEFINITE SUBDIVISIONS IN THE ABSTRACT. (Formation--Order of BattleElementary Tactics.) (i) Infantry. (2) Artillery. (3) Cavalry. A.--The Different Arms. Effects produced in action by each arm--The formation and Elementary tactics of each in attack and defence, based on those effects. B.--The Different Arms Combined In Attack And Defence. (1) Theory of the combination of arms: (a) Infantry and Artillery. (b) Infantry and Cavalry. (c) Cavalry and Artillery. (d) All three united. (2) Fixed Divisions which are formed out of them: (a) Brigades. (b) Divisions. I Their order of battle, position, move (c) Corps. j ment, combat. (d) Armies. J IV.--BATTLES IN CONNECTION WITH COUNTRY AND...
Author | : Jonathan Sumption |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : 9780571138951 |