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Book A Letter to the Right Hon  N  Vansittart  Chancellor of the Exchequer   c   c   and to Common Carriers in General  Tracing the Insecurity of Property While in the Hands of Carriers to the Present State of the Law  and Suggesting a Remedy

Download or read book A Letter to the Right Hon N Vansittart Chancellor of the Exchequer c c and to Common Carriers in General Tracing the Insecurity of Property While in the Hands of Carriers to the Present State of the Law and Suggesting a Remedy written by James Knipe and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Letter to the Right Honourable N  Vansittart  Chancellor of the Exchequer   c    c

Download or read book A Letter to the Right Honourable N Vansittart Chancellor of the Exchequer c c written by Nicholas Vansittart and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Costs of War

Download or read book The Costs of War written by John V. Denson and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest accomplishment of Western civilization is arguably the achievement of individual liberty through limits on the power of the state. In the war-torn twentieth century, we rarely hear that one of the main costs of armed conflict is long-term loss of liberty to winners and losers alike. Beyond the obvious and direct costs of dead and wounded soldiers, there is the lifetime struggle of veterans to live with their nightmares and their injuries; the hidden economic costs of inflation, debts, and taxes; and more generally the damages caused to our culture, our morality, and to civilization at large. The new edition is now available in paperback, with a number of new essays. It represents a large-scale collective effort to pierce the veils of myth and propaganda to reveal the true costs of war, above all, the cost to liberty. Central to this volume are the views of Ludwig von Mises on war and foreign policy. Mises argued that war, along with colonialism and imperialism, is the greatest enemy of freedom and prosperity, and that peace throughout the world cannot be achieved until the central governments of the major nations become limited in scope and power. In the spirit of these theorems by Mises, the contributors to this volume consider the costs of war generally and assess specific corrosive effects of major American wars since the Revolution. The first section includes chapters on the theoretical and institutional dimensions of the relationship between war and society, including conscription, infringements on freedom, the military as an engine of social change, war and literature, and the right of citizens to bear arms. The second group includes reconsiderations of Lincoln and Churchill, an analysis of the anti-interventionist idea in American politics, a discussion of the meaning of the "just war," an assessment of how World War I changed the course of Western civilization, and finally two eyewitness accounts of the true horrors of actual combat by veterans of World War II. The Costs of War is unique in its combination of historical scope and timeliness for current debates about foreign policy and military intervention. It will be of interest to historians, political scientists, economists, and sociologists.

Book Science and Empires

    Book Details:
  • Author : P. Petitjean
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2012-12-06
  • ISBN : 9401125945
  • Pages : 419 pages

Download or read book Science and Empires written by P. Petitjean and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SCIENCE AND EMPIRES: FROM THE INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM TO THE BOOK Patrick PETITJEAN, Catherine JAMI and Anne Marie MOULIN The International Colloquium "Science and Empires - Historical Studies about Scientific De velopment and European Expansion" is the product of an International Colloquium, "Sciences and Empires - A Comparative History of Scien tific Exchanges: European Expansion and Scientific Development in Asian, African, American and Oceanian Countries". Organized by the REHSEIS group (Research on Epistemology and History of Exact Sciences and Scientific Institutions) of CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), the colloquium was held from 3 to 6 April 1990 in the UNESCO building in Paris. This colloquium was an idea of Professor Roshdi Rashed who initiated this field of studies in France some years ago, and proposed "Sciences and Empires" as one of the main research programmes for the The project to organize such a colloquium was a bit REHSEIS group. of a gamble. Its subject, reflected in the title "Sciences and Empires", is not a currently-accepted sub-discipline of the history of science; rather, it refers to a set of questions which found autonomy only recently. The terminology was strongly debated by the participants and, as is frequently suggested in this book, awaits fuller clarification.

Book George III

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter David Garner Thomas
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780719064296
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book George III written by Peter David Garner Thomas and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George III was a high-profile and well-known character in British history whose policies have often been blamed for the loss of Britain's American colonies, around whom rages a perennial dispute over his aims: was he seeking to restore royal power or merely exercising his constitutional rights?

Book Eric Drummond and his Legacies

Download or read book Eric Drummond and his Legacies written by David Macfadyen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-06 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how the first institution of global governance was conceived and operated. It provides a new assessment of its architect, Eric Drummond, the first Secretary-General of the League of Nations, appointed a century ago. The authors conclude that he stands in the front rank of the 12 men who have occupied the post of Secretary-General of the League or its successor, the UN. Part 1 describes his character and leadership. His influence in shaping the International Civil Service, the ‘beating heart’ of the League, is the subject of Part 2, which also shows how the young staff he appointed responded with imagination and creativity to the political, economic and social problems that followed World War I. Part 3 shows the influence of these early origins on today’s global organizations and the large scale absorption of League policies, programmes, practices and staff into the UN and its Specialized Agencies.

Book Harold Laski

Download or read book Harold Laski written by M. Newman and published by Springer. This book was released on 1993-03-08 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harold Laski (1893-1950) was perhaps the best known socialist intellectual of his era, with influence in the USA, India and mainland Europe as well as Britain. But he was always a controversial figure and his reputation has never recovered from the effort to discredit him that took place during the Cold War. This new biography argues that Laski has been misrepresented. It maintains that he dedicated his life to the quest for a just society, and that his thought remains highly relevant for our own times.

Book Ideology and International Relations in the Modern World

Download or read book Ideology and International Relations in the Modern World written by Alan Cassels and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cassels offers a novel perspective on the part played by ideology in international relations over the past two centuries. His treatment is not restricted to the familiar totalitarian ideologies of communism and nazism, but also includes conservatism, liberalism and nationalism. The focus and emphasis given to ideology in an historical survey of such broad scope make this book unusual, and even controversial.

Book Australian Politics in a Digital Age

Download or read book Australian Politics in a Digital Age written by Peter John Chen and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive volume on the impact of digital media on Australian politics, this book examines the way these technologies shape political communication, alter key public and private institutions, and serve as the new arena in which discursive and expressive political life is performed. -- Publisher's description.

Book Records of the Chicheley Plowdens

Download or read book Records of the Chicheley Plowdens written by W.F. Plowden and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1914 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Records of the Chicheley Plowdens A. D. 1590-1913. With four alphabetical indices, four pedigree sheets, and a portrait of Edmund, the great Elizabethan lawyer

Book The History of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society

Download or read book The History of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society written by George Gillanders Findlay and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A war of individuals

Download or read book A war of individuals written by Jonathan Atkin and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book draws together for the very first time examples of the 'aesthetic pacifism' practised during the Great War by such celebrated individuals as Virginia Woolf, Siegfried Sassoon and Bertrand Russell. In addition, the book outlines the stories of those less well-known who shared the mind-set of the Bloomsbury Group when it came to facing the first 'total war'. The research for this study took five years, gathering evidence from all the major archives in Great Britain and abroad. This is the first time that such wide-ranging evidence has been placed together in order to paint a complete picture of this fascinating form of anti-war expression.

Book Records of the Borough of Nottingham

Download or read book Records of the Borough of Nottingham written by W.H. Stevenson and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1882 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Parliamentarian

Download or read book The Parliamentarian written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Trend of Economic Thinking

Download or read book The Trend of Economic Thinking written by F.A. Hayek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-23 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents much newly published work by Hayek on methodology of economics, its development as a subject, its key thinkers and its important debates. It is published in corrected, revised and annotated form with a long introduction.

Book Dilemmas of Decline

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ian Hall
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2012-08
  • ISBN : 0520289498
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book Dilemmas of Decline written by Ian Hall and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In just three decades, Great Britain’s place in world politics was transformed. In 1945, it was the world’s preeminent imperial power with global interests. By 1975, Britain languished in political stasis and economic recession, clinging to its alliance with the United States and membership in the European Community. Amid this turmoil, British intellectuals struggled to make sense of their country’s decline and the transformed world in which they found themselves. This book assesses their responses to this predicament and explores the different ways British thinkers came to understand the new international relations of the postwar period.