Download or read book Sovereigns of the Sea written by Angus Konstam and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Savor the story of the ultimate warship in Sovereigns of the Sea: The Quest to Build the Perfect Renaissance Battleship, which chronicles the history of Sovereign of the Seas, an immensely powerful floating fortress. You will enjoy this gripping tale of an arms race that created and ruined empires, changed the map of the world, and led Europe out of the Renaissance and into the Modern age. Understand how the Sovereign of the Seas became the model for a whole new generation of warships that would dominate naval warfare until the advent of steam power.
Download or read book Sovereigns of the Sea written by Seema Alavi and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2023-05-26 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive book on the Sultans of Oman is a thrilling historical account of their action-packed battles, daring expeditions, epic triumphs and ingenious politics in the long nineteenth century. It puts the optic of 'micro-history' on their fascinating lives as they navigated the geopolitics of their time and propelled the politics of the Western Indian Ocean. It offers a comprehensive and in-depth examination of the ambitions of the Omani patriarch Sultan Sayyid Sa?id and his four sons and shows how integral they were to the political culture of the region. Keeping a sensitive finger on the specific temporal and spatial moments in the maritime space that they navigated, it explores their key role in shaping the politics of the Ocean and nurturing the Omani Sultanate on their terms. The groundbreaking narrative sheds light on the role of the Sultans as agents of change, challenging the Eurocentric narrative that views the Indian Ocean as framed in the history of western imperialism and capitalism alone. In addition to its academic rigour, the book is easy to read and engaging, making it an ideal resource for students, scholars and anyone with an interest in the history of the Indian Ocean, the Middle East and South Asia. Its fresh perspective and insightful analysis make it an invaluable contribution to the fast-growing field of Indian Ocean Studies.
Download or read book Sovereigns of the Sea written by Angus Konstam and published by Trade Paper Press. This book was released on 2008-08-11 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Savor the story of the ultimate warship in Sovereigns of the Sea: The Quest to Build the Perfect Renaissance Battleship, which chronicles the history of Sovereign of the Seas, an immensely powerful floating fortress. You will enjoy this gripping tale of an arms race that created and ruined empires, changed the map of the world, and led Europe out of the Renaissance and into the Modern age. Understand how the Sovereign of the Seas became the model for a whole new generation of warships that would dominate naval warfare until the advent of steam power.
Download or read book Sovereign of the Seas written by David Armine Howarth and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sovereign of the Seas written by David Armine Howarth and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shadow Sovereigns written by Susan George and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lobbying has long been part of the political landscape. But in recent years links between big business and government have become stronger and more far-reaching than ever. Global corporations now demand control over decisions affecting labour laws, finance, public health, food and agriculture, safety regulations, taxes and international trade and investment. They even claim the right to private tribunals where they can sue governments for passing laws that could harm their present or future profits. These business elites dont want to govern directly. They operate behind the scenes - directing planning, setting standards and fashioning government to maximise their own profits. Thanks to the UN Global Compact they have extended their influence to the highest levels of multilateral decision-making and now, via the Davos-inspired Global Redesign Initiative, they are setting their sights on managing world-wide public policy. Elected by and accountable to no one, secretive and highly organized, these shadow sovereigns are destroying the very notion of the common good and making a mockery of democracy. It is high time we challenged this assault on our rights and our institutions. In this incisive and clear-sighted book Susan George provides us with the practical knowledge to do just that.
Download or read book Sovereigns of the Collapse Book 1 Death by Decent Society written by Malcolm J Wardlaw and published by Malcolm J Wardlaw. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the financial Armageddon, it’s been guns, gold and lots of slaves. It is 2106. Seventy years have passed since our times collapsed into the mother of all depressions; strangely permanent, brutally profound. No one cares about over-population, mass extinctions or climate change, because they don’t have to. The world is a post-apocalyptic paradise—for a few. One of those ‘few’ is Donald Aldingford, a star barrister much in demand by high society. He suffers the catastrophe of being shot down and jailed for trespassing into private airspace. And while in prison, he picks up alarming rumours about his younger brother Lawrence, who disappeared ten years earlier, aged seventeen. Despite the risk of becoming ‘disappeared’ himself, Donald takes a deeper interest in the world around him. As he closes on the mystery of his long-lost brother, he pierces the last, most dangerous veil of a rotten society. Sovereigns of the Collapse is a gritty dystopian saga about the world we should have seen coming. It contains adult themes and is not recommended for the under-16s.
Download or read book Mercenaries Pirates and Sovereigns written by Janice E. Thomson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1996-07-22 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contemporary organization of global violence is neither timeless nor natural, argues Janice Thomson. It is distinctively modern. In this book she examines how the present arrangement of the world into violence-monopolizing sovereign states evolved over the six preceding centuries.
Download or read book Lives of the Sovereigns of Russia written by George Fowler and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Enforcement of Arbitral Awards Against Sovereigns written by R. Doak Bishop and published by Juris Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past decade has seen a veritable explosion of investment treaty and other arbitration claims brought against sovereigns. Many of those cases have been filed before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Claims (ICSID), which has its own self-contained rules for enforcement. Given this significant increase in sovereign cases and the issues attendant to sovereign immunity, this treatise is timely in addressing the various issues that arise in enforcing arbitral awards against sovereigns. One of the first questions posed to their counsel by clients considering the initiation of an arbitration proceeding against a sovereign state is whether and how the resulting award can be enforced. The origin of the client’s question is usually based in some knowledge that a state possesses sovereign immunity, along with an uncertain concern about the exceptions to such immunity and the difficulties of enforcement against a sovereign’s assets. This uncertainty is understandable, especially in light of the sometimes confusing and even contradictory court decisions in certain jurisdictions. It is these inquiries in their broadest application that form the subject of this treatise. With contributions by eminent and experienced practitioners of the multiple issues that have arisen in various jurisdictions and the key cases that have created the law of enforcement of obligations against sovereigns, this book will provide access to valuable information, add to the transparency of this subject and further spur the consistent development of this area of law. This book is divided into three parts. The first part is general in nature and includes chapters encompassing the subjects of sovereign immunity in general (including both immunity from jurisdiction and immunity from enforcement), treaty obligations to honor awards, diplomatic protection by a claimant’s government to obtain payment of awards, and conciliation and settlement. The second part of the book deals with the means of enforcing awards. Part three of this treatise addresses the enforcement issues that arise in specific jurisdictions in which enforcement against sovereign assets is often sought - in particular, the United States, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, France, The Netherlands, and South America.
Download or read book The Monarchs of Modern History Or Contemporaneous Sovereigns at a Glance from the Fall of Rome to the Present Time written by E. M. NEWMAN (Historical Writer.) and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lives of the Sovereigns of Russia written by Georges Fowler and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Compendious History and Genealogy of the Sovereigns of England written by Standish G. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Taming the Sovereigns written by Kalevi Jaakko Holsti and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-22 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Kalevi Holsti examines the nature of change in international politics.
Download or read book Sovereigns of the Collapse Book 3 The Church of Nuclear Science written by Malcolm J Wardlaw and published by Malcolm J Wardlaw. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not all that glitters is gold. Sometimes it’s a deadly trap. Lawrence Aldingford has sworn to destroy the Value System of Nightminster. Donald Aldingford plots a counter-revolution against the fanatics of the National Party. Sarah-Kelly Newman is determined to expose the crimes of the glory trusts. Then suddenly all three are on the run for their lives! Despite their mutual loathing, Donald and Lawrence embark on a long and dangerous winter journey hoping to gain asylum with the Church of Nuclear Science. On the way, they discover not all that glitters is gold—sometimes it’s a deadly trap. Meanwhile, Sarah-Kelly’s Atrocity Commission is reaching farther and farther from London. The Church of Nuclear Science is the third book of the Sovereigns of the Collapse dystopian thriller series.
Download or read book Dark Sovereigns written by David Jones and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story about a young lad called Johnny Dark who was born in Northumberland, England in the year 1816. When he discovers his family background he takes off to build his own life not always taking the right path. The chance of a new life opens up when he befriends a young gypsy girl called Margarita.
Download or read book Street Sovereigns written by Chelsey L. Kivland and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do people improvise political communities in the face of state collapse—and at what cost? Street Sovereigns explores the risks and rewards taken by young men on the margins of urban Haiti who broker relations with politicians, state agents, and NGO workers in order to secure representation, resources, and jobs for themselves and neighbors. Moving beyond mainstream analyses that understand these groups—known as baz (base)—as apolitical, criminal gangs, Chelsey Kivland argues that they more accurately express a novel mode of street politics that has resulted from the nexus of liberalizing orders of governance and development with longstanding practices of militant organizing in Haiti. Kivland demonstrates how the baz exemplifies an innovative and effective platform for intervening in the contemporary political order, while at the same time reproducing gendered and generational hierarchies and precipitating contests of leadership that exacerbate neighborhood insecurity. Still, through the continual effort to reconstitute a state that responds to the needs of the urban poor, this story offers a poignant lesson for political thought: one that counters prevailing conceptualizations of the state as that which should be flouted, escaped, or dismantled. The baz project reminds us that in the stead of a vitiated government and public sector the state resurfaces as the aspirational bedrock of the good society. "We make the state," as baz leaders say.
