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Book The Defense of the Empire

Download or read book The Defense of the Empire written by Sir Norman Angell and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Defending Constantine

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  • Author : Peter J. Leithart
  • Publisher : InterVarsity Press
  • Release : 2010-09-07
  • ISBN : 083086816X
  • Pages : 373 pages

Download or read book Defending Constantine written by Peter J. Leithart and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Leithart weighs what we've been taught about Constantine and claims that in focusing on these historical mirages we have failed to notice the true significance of Constantine and Rome baptized. He reveals how beneath the surface of this contested story there lies a deeper narrative--a tectonic shift in the political theology of an empire--with far-reaching implications.

Book Defending the Empire

Download or read book Defending the Empire written by Rhodri Williams and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deference issues were of central importance in British politics in the years before the first World War, as naval and military policy absorbed the attention of politicians of both parties. The growing menace to Briatin of the German Navy focused public attention on questions of naval strength and home defense. However, the heavy cost of overhauling the British Empire’s stretched defenses clashed with the domestic political priorities of successive governments. This book is the first scholarly work to examine the vigorous political debates over defense policy in this era from the perspective of the Conservative party, who were in office from 1899 to 1905 and in opposition from 1905 to 1914. It focuses in particular on the ideas and actions of Arthur James Balfour, leader of the Conservative party from 1902 to 1911 Rhodri Williams assesses how effective the Conservative leadership was in realizing its policy objectives. By explaining the Conservatives’ approach to contemporary controversies over conscription and the construction of Dreadnoughts, he highlights the complexity o the problems facing British policymakers in the period after the Boer War when, against a bleak financial background, they sought to rationalize and strengthen the Empire’s defenses. The book is important for many reasons. It significantly advances our understanding of the nature of Conservative politics in the early twentieth century. It sheds fresh light on one of the major areas of party political contention in the Edwardian era. It gives us interesting information on Balfour and on a key period of his distinguished political career. And it offers a new perspective on the process by which British defense policy ceased to revolve around the "Great Game” with Russia in Central Asia and came increasingly to turn on Anglo-German naval rivalry in the North Sea.

Book Defending the Empire

Download or read book Defending the Empire written by Michael T. Klare and published by . This book was released on 1969* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Empire Trap

Download or read book The Empire Trap written by Noel Maurer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-25 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the twentieth century, the U.S. government willingly deployed power, hard and soft, to protect American investments all around the globe. Why did the United States get into the business of defending its citizens' property rights abroad? The Empire Trap looks at how modern U.S. involvement in the empire business began, how American foreign policy became increasingly tied to the sway of private financial interests, and how postwar administrations finally extricated the United States from economic interventionism, even though the government had the will and power to continue. Noel Maurer examines the ways that American investors initially influenced their government to intercede to protect investments in locations such as Central America and the Caribbean. Costs were small--at least at the outset--but with each incremental step, American policy became increasingly entangled with the goals of those they were backing, making disengagement more difficult. Maurer discusses how, all the way through the 1970s, the United States not only failed to resist pressure to defend American investments, but also remained unsuccessful at altering internal institutions of other countries in order to make property rights secure in the absence of active American involvement. Foreign nations expropriated American investments, but in almost every case the U.S. government's employment of economic sanctions or covert action obtained market value or more in compensation--despite the growing strategic risks. The advent of institutions focusing on international arbitration finally gave the executive branch a credible political excuse not to act. Maurer cautions that these institutions are now under strain and that a collapse might open the empire trap once more. With shrewd and timely analysis, this book considers American patterns of foreign intervention and the nation's changing role as an imperial power.

Book War and the Empire

Download or read book War and the Empire written by Hubert John FOSTER and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire

Download or read book The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire written by Edward N. Luttwak and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2016-05-18 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A newly updated edition of this classic, hugely influential account of how the Romans defended their vast empire. At the height of its power, the Roman Empire encompassed the entire Mediterranean basin, extending much beyond it from Britain to Mesopotamia, from the Rhine to the Black Sea. Rome prospered for centuries while successfully resisting attack, fending off everything from overnight robbery raids to full-scale invasion attempts by entire nations on the move. How were troops able to defend the Empire’s vast territories from constant attacks? And how did they do so at such moderate cost that their treasury could pay for an immensity of highways, aqueducts, amphitheaters, city baths, and magnificent temples? In The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire, seasoned defense analyst Edward N. Luttwak reveals how the Romans were able to combine military strength, diplomacy, and fortifications to effectively respond to changing threats. Rome’s secret was not ceaseless fighting, but comprehensive strategies that unified force, diplomacy, and an immense infrastructure of roads, forts, walls, and barriers. Initially relying on client states to buffer attacks, Rome moved to a permanent frontier defense around 117 CE. Finally, as barbarians began to penetrate the empire, Rome filed large armies in a strategy of “defense-in-depth,” allowing invaders to pierce Rome’s borders. This updated edition has been extensively revised to incorporate recent scholarship and archeological findings. A new preface explores Roman imperial statecraft. This illuminating book remains essential to both ancient historians and students of modern strategy.

Book Empire of Defense

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  • Author : Joseph Darda
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2019-05-23
  • ISBN : 022663292X
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Empire of Defense written by Joseph Darda and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I still think today as yesterday that the color line is a great problem of this century,” an eighty-five-year-old W. E. B. Du Bois wrote in 1953, revisiting his famous claim from fifty years earlier. But the “greater problem,” he now believed, was that war had “become universal and continuous, and the excuse for this war continues largely to be color and race.” Empire of Defense reveals how that greater problem emerged and grew from the formation of the Department of Defense in the late 1940s to the long wars of the twenty-first century. When the Truman administration dissolved the Department of War, a cabinet-level department since 1789, and formed the DOD, it did not, Joseph Darda argues, end war but rather establish new racial criteria for who could wage it, for which lives deserved defending. Historians have long studied “perpetual war.” Critical race theorists have long confronted “the permanence of racism.” Empire of Defense shows––through an investigation of state documents, fiction, film, memorials, and news media––how the two converged and endure through national defense. Amid the rise of anticolonial and antiracist movements the world over, defense secured the future of war and white supremacy.

Book Defending Rome  The Masters of the Soldiers

Download or read book Defending Rome The Masters of the Soldiers written by Julian Reynolds and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-06-25 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For its last eighty years, the Western Roman Empire was ruled by emperors who were unable to provide the leadership demanded by the crisis the Empire faced throughout this period. Power was exercised instead by the commanders of the Western armies, the magisteri militum or Masters of the Soldiers, four of whom stood out – Stilicho, Constantius, Aetius and Ricimer. Challenged by barbarian invasions, constantly diminishing resources, and indifference and sometimes hostility from the imperial court, the Senate and the Roman people, these men prolonged the existence of the Empire in the West beyond what would otherwise have been its natural span. This book tells the story of the collapse of the Western Empire, as seen through the lives of these individuals, a collapse that ended more than political and military structures, that encompassed the end of an ancient pagan culture and the inception of the age of Christianity.

Book Some Figures Concerning the Defence of the Empire

Download or read book Some Figures Concerning the Defence of the Empire written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Defending the Polis  Defending the Empire

Download or read book Defending the Polis Defending the Empire written by and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Defending Greater Britain Between 1860 1886

Download or read book Defending Greater Britain Between 1860 1886 written by Antony Mondale and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an important study that should be read by all interested in British imperial defense and grand strategy Knitting together the empire was a class of men, a body of opinion, a 'defence community of military, naval and colonial officials drawn together by a common belief that the empire was in such a poor state of defence as to present a standing temptation to an enemy. They also limited confidence in the ability of a post-1867 democracy to conduct an effective defence, foreign or imperial policy. The roots of these beliefs lay in their common experience in the empire, in war and in the several defence investigations and war scares that occurred between the Crimean War and the Balkan Crisis of 1878.

Book To defend your empire and the faith

Download or read book To defend your empire and the faith written by Manoel Andrada Castel Blanco and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Notebook

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  • Author : DefendzTc Notebook
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-11-15
  • ISBN : 9781708521387
  • Pages : 110 pages

Download or read book Notebook written by DefendzTc Notebook and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: College Ruled Color Paperback. Size: 6 inches x 9 inches. 55 sheets (110 pages for writing). Defend The Empire. 157378640029

Book The Tsar  The Empire  and The Nation

Download or read book The Tsar The Empire and The Nation written by Darius Staliūnas and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-30 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays addresses the challenge of modern nationalism to the tsarist Russian Empire. First appearing on the empire’s western periphery this challenge, was most prevalent in twelve provinces extending from Ukrainian lands in the south to the Baltic provinces in the north, as well as to the Kingdom of Poland. At issue is whether the late Russian Empire entered World War I as a multiethnic state with many of its age-old mechanisms run by a multiethnic elite, or as a Russian state predominantly managed by ethnic Russians. The tsarist vision of prioritizing loyalty among all subjects over privileging ethnic Russians and discriminating against non-Russians faced a fundamental problem: as soon as the opportunity presented itself, non-Russians would increase their demands and become increasingly separatist. The authors found that although the imperial government did not really identify with popular Russian nationalism, it sometimes ended up implementing policies promoted by Russian nationalist proponents. Matters addressed include native language education, interconfessional rivalry, the “Jewish question,” the origins of mass tourism in the western provinces, as well as the emergence of Russian nationalist attitudes in the aftermath of the first Russian revolution.

Book Notebook

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  • Author : DefendlO Notebook
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-11-06
  • ISBN : 9781706085119
  • Pages : 110 pages

Download or read book Notebook written by DefendlO Notebook and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-06 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: College Ruled Color Paperback. Size: 6 inches x 9 inches. 55 sheets (110 pages for writing). Defend The Empire. 1573014233100

Book Foreign Intervention

Download or read book Foreign Intervention written by Gary E. McCuen and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: