Download or read book Destroy and Build written by Thomas Richardson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2002, Governor General Michael Jeffrey stated that 'we Australians had everything under control in Phuoc Tuy Province'. This referred not only to military control, but to the policy of 'pacification' employed by the Republic of Vietnam and external 'Free World' allies such as the US and Australia. In the hopes of stemming the tide of Communism, pacification aimed to win the allegiance of the populace through political, economic and social reform. In this new work, Thomas Richardson explores the 1st Australian Task Force's (1ATF) implementation of this policy in Phuoc Tuy between 1966 and 1972. Using material from US and Australian archives, as well as newly translated Vietnamese histories, Destroy and Build: Pacification in Phuoc Tuy, 1966–1972 challenges the accepted historiography of the Western forces' fight against insurgency in Vietnam.
Download or read book To Build as Well as Destroy written by Andrew J. Gawthorpe and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years, the so-called better-war school of thought has argued that the United States built a legitimate and viable non-Communist state in South Vietnam in the latter years of the Vietnam War and that it was only the military abandonment of this state that brought down the Republic of Vietnam. But Andrew J. Gawthorpe, through a detailed and incisive analysis, shows that, in fact, the United States failed in its efforts at nation building and had not established a durable state in South Vietnam. Drawing on newly opened archival collections and previously unexamined oral histories with dozens of U.S. military officers and government officials, To Build as Well as Destroy demonstrates that the United States never came close to achieving victory in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Gawthorpe tells a story of policy aspirations and practical failures that stretches from Washington, D.C., to the Vietnamese villages in which the United States implemented its nationbuilding strategy through the Office of Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support known as CORDS. Structural factors that could not have been overcome by the further application of military power thwarted U.S. efforts to build a viable set of non-Communist political, economic, and social institutions in South Vietnam. To Build as Well as Destroy provides the most comprehensive account yet of the largest and best-resourced nation-building program in U.S. history. Gawthorpe's analysis helps contemporary policy makers, diplomats, and military officers understand the reasons for this failure. At a moment in time when American strategists are grappling with military and political challenges in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, revisiting the historical lessons of Vietnam is a worthy endeavor.
Download or read book I Have Created the Waster to Destroy written by Robert A. Barbaretta and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you perhaps believe that we here on planet earth are alone in this universe or believe that we came from some evolution? Or do you subscribe to the ever popular "big bang theory"? Please! Be assured by all of the evidence that smacks us in the face every minute of every day proves there is a supreme and all wise and all knowing creator and a spirit realm that is far superior and more powerful than we humans and He has placed us all in the middle of a spiritual battle against these beings, something that defies human limits of imagination. This battle is for the prize of eternity that begins right after our last breath called death. How and when this death occurs is not nearly as important as what comes after.Our creator tells us that He has given human life a limited physical life span yet eternal in the spirit realm and that after our physical death, we then face His judgment for all of our actions (read Hebrews 9:27 and Revelations 20:13). Depending on the basis of our relationship to Him determines where we will spend the rest of eternity. The question for you is, where do I want to fit in? We are here and in this battlefield whether we believe it, like it, agree or disagree with it or not.The critical subjects of God, satan, angels, demons and our part in all of this are covered in this important book. It is critical to your eternal future for you to gain this knowledge and even God Himself said "My people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge" (Hosea 4:6). Destroyed by whom or what? The answers are in the pages of this book!
Download or read book Paradise Destroyed written by Christopher M. Church and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2017-12 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2017 Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize Winner Over a span of thirty years in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the French Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe endured natural catastrophes from all the elements—earth, wind, fire, and water—as well as a collapsing sugar industry, civil unrest, and political intrigue. These disasters thrust a long history of societal and economic inequities into the public sphere as officials and citizens weighed the importance of social welfare, exploitative economic practices, citizenship rights, racism, and governmental responsibility. Paradise Destroyed explores the impact of natural and man-made disasters in the turn-of-the-century French Caribbean, examining the social, economic, and political implications of shared citizenship in times of civil unrest. French nationalists projected a fantasy of assimilation onto the Caribbean, where the predominately nonwhite population received full French citizenship and governmental representation. When disaster struck in the faraway French West Indies—whether the whirlwinds of a hurricane or a vast workers' strike—France faced a tempest at home as politicians, journalists, and economists, along with the general population, debated the role of the French state not only in the Antilles but in their own lives as well. Environmental disasters brought to the fore existing racial and social tensions and held to the fire France’s ideological convictions of assimilation and citizenship. Christopher M. Church shows how France’s “old colonies” laid claim to a definition of tropical French-ness amid the sociopolitical and cultural struggles of a fin de siècle France riddled with social unrest and political divisions.
Download or read book The Last Judgment and the Babylon Destroyed A Continuation Concerning the Last Judgment and Concerning the Spiritual World Etc Translated from the Latin Stereotype Edition written by Emanuel Swedenborg and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dispersed But Not Destroyed written by Kathryn Magee Labelle and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Situated within the area stretching from Georgian Bay in the north to Lake Simcoe in the east (also known as Wendake), the Wendat Confederacy flourished for two hundred years. By the mid-seventeenth century, however, Wendat society was under attack. Disease and warfare plagued the community, culminating in a series of Iroquois assaults that led to the dispersal of the Wendat people in 1649. Yet the Wendat did not disappear, as many historians have maintained. In Dispersed but Not Destroyed, Kathryn Magee Labelle examines the creation of a Wendat diaspora in the wake of the Iroquois attacks. By focusing the historical lens on the dispersal and its aftermath, she extends the seventeenth-century Wendat narrative. In the latter half of the century, Wendat leaders continued to appear at councils, trade negotiations, and diplomatic ventures -- including the Great Peace of Montreal in 1701 -- relying on established customs of accountability and consensus. Women also continued to assert their authority during this time, guiding their communities toward paths of cultural continuity and accommodation. Through tactics such as this, the power of the Wendat Confederacy and their unique identity was maintained. Turning the story of Wendat conquest on its head, this book demonstrates the resiliency of the Wendat people and writes a new chapter in North American history."--Publisher's website.
Download or read book The State Records of North Carolina written by North Carolina and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guide to American Drama Explication written by Rosalie C. Otero and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide covers theatre as literature and offers listings of scholarly explications from colonial to contemporary, Edward Albee to Tennessee Williams. Arranged alphabetically by playwright and play title, the bibliography covers both periodicals and book-length criticism and reflects a variety of critical methods.
Download or read book A World Destroyed written by Martin J. Sherwin and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sikkerhed og våbenmagt ; Manhattan-projektet; Diplomati, 1940'erne; Churchill, Rooservelt, Niels Bohr; Efterkrigstiden; Truman, Sovjetunionen, Den Kolde Krig; Potsdam-konferencen 1945.
Download or read book I d Rather Be Destroyed written by Zach Goldberg and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2024-09-17 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zach Goldberg’s I'd Rather Be Destroyed carves straight to the core of self-destruction, reckoning with personal, familial, and sociocultural struggles. Earnest and darkly funny, this collection rebuilds the self from its broken pieces. Playing with dynamic and experimental forms, Goldberg explores modern Jewish identity, familial and cultural inheritances, and managing mental health. Its historical and religious allusions navigate modern and personal conversations, reflecting how we embrace and reject the legacies that shape us. Sharp and captivating, I'd Rather Be Destroyed’s honesty and artistry make it a must-read.
Download or read book The Imperial Lexicon of the English Language written by John Boag and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wordsworth Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms written by Martin H. Manser and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1998 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary aims to help users to find the most appropriate word to use on a wide range of occasions. It is designed in particular for students, those writing reports, letters and speeches, and crossword solvers, but is also useful as a general word reference. Special features include: an alphabetical A-Z listing; numbered senses for words with more than one meaning; British and American variants; and specially marked colloquial uses.
Download or read book Destroyed Disappeared Lost Never Were written by Beate Fricke and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2022-05-20 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To write about works that cannot be sensually perceived involves considerable strain. Absent the object, art historians must stretch their methods to, or even past, the breaking point. This concise volume addresses the problems inherent in studying medieval works of art, artifacts, and monuments that have disappeared, have been destroyed, or perhaps never existed in the first place. The contributors to this volume are confronted with the full expanse of what they cannot see, handle, or know. Connecting object histories, the anthropology of images, and historiography, they seek to understand how people have made sense of the past by examining objects, images, and architectural and urban spaces. Intersecting these approaches is a deep current of reflection upon the theorization of historical analysis and the ways in which the past is inscribed into layers of evidence that are only ever revealed in the historian’s present tense. Highly original and theoretically sophisticated, this volume will stimulate debate among art historians about the critical practices used to confront the formative presence of destruction, loss, obscurity, and existential uncertainty within the history of art and the study of historical material and visual cultures. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume are Michele Bacci, Claudia Brittenham, Sonja Drimmer, Jaś Elsner, Peter Geimer, Danielle B. Joyner, Kristopher W. Kersey, Lena Liepe, Meekyung MacMurdie, and Michelle McCoy.
Download or read book Broken But Not Destroyed written by S. Miriam Clifford and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Author had entered into this life by rape of a woman without being asked to be born, without having made any effort to get here. A newborn does not know she is alive. There is no realization factor; for the infant is, as if it was, unconscious. An irresistible instinct impels her as she becomes a woman; her life takes a deep plunge felt by the indifferent blows of tragedy, such as dying at a young age, starvation, physical and emotional abuse, financial ruin, automobile accident, divorce and homelessness and the list goes through many situations. Each predicament centers on the story of someone who came into her life. ¬ e fabric of our lives is the sum total of all our experiences. ¬ Thinking back to what shaped the Author, provides a revealing perspective. She did not write these thoughts from a palace. Miriam wrote them while she was going through the roughest times in her life; in journals, on napkins, and on cardboard, on the streets of emptiness. An Atheist meets her Maker - Jesus - again, this time in the dark alley in New York City. ¬ The journey of forgiveness, redemption, healing and restoration provides powerful insight why each person is obliged, in spite of self to investigate on their journey that the human thought is related to the principle reason that nothing is without cause. ¬ ere one discovers that their life is mapped out for a purpose, an assignment, leading into destiny. Her life changes 360 degree as she starts reflecting on her life which propels her into a voyage of the true-self discovery, finding and then knowing the source of life is God. Life is not about finding yourself; it is about discovering who God created you to be.
Download or read book A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language with Observations Etymological Critical and Grammatical written by John Walker and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Postcards written by Brian Abbs and published by 지아이엠코리아. This book was released on 2003 with total page 1116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Postcards, now in its second edition, the popular American English program for teenagers.
