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Book United States Government Publications  a Monthly Catalog

Download or read book United States Government Publications a Monthly Catalog written by United States. Superintendent of Documents and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 2186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index.

Book Monthly Catalogue  United States Public Documents

Download or read book Monthly Catalogue United States Public Documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 2194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Discours prononc   par Franklin D  Roosevelt  Pr  sident des   tats Unis d Am  rique  Washington D C  le 6 janvier 1941

Download or read book Discours prononc par Franklin D Roosevelt Pr sident des tats Unis d Am rique Washington D C le 6 janvier 1941 written by United States. President (1933-1945 : Roosevelt) and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Getting MAD  Nuclear Mutual Assured Destruction  Its Origins and Practice

Download or read book Getting MAD Nuclear Mutual Assured Destruction Its Origins and Practice written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly 40 years after the concept of finite deterrence was popularized by the Johnson administration, nuclear Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) thinking appears to be in decline. The United States has rejected the notion that threatening population centers with nuclear attacks is a legitimate way to assure deterrence. Most recently, it withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, an agreement based on MAD. American opposition to MAD also is reflected in the Bush administration's desire to develop smaller, more accurate nuclear weapons that would reduce the number of innocent civilians killed in a nuclear strike. Still, MAD is influential in a number of ways. First, other countries, like China, have not abandoned the idea that holding their adversaries' cities at risk is necessary to assure their own strategic security. Nor have U.S. and allied security officials and experts fully abandoned the idea. At a minimum, acquiring nuclear weapons is still viewed as being sensible to face off a hostile neighbor that might strike one's own cities. Thus, our diplomats have been warning China that Japan would be under tremendous pressure to go nuclear if North Korea persisted in acquiring a few crude weapons of its own. Similarly, Israeli officials have long argued, without criticism, that they would not be second in acquiring nuclear weapons in the Middle East. Indeed, given that Israelis surrounded by enemies that would not hesitate to destroy its population if they could, Washington finds Israel's retention of a significant nuclear capability totally "understandable."

Book Discours prononc   par Franklin D  Roosevelt  Pr  sident des   tats Unis d Am  rique  au banquet de l Association des Journalistes de la Maison Blanche  Washington D C  le 15 mars 1941

Download or read book Discours prononc par Franklin D Roosevelt Pr sident des tats Unis d Am rique au banquet de l Association des Journalistes de la Maison Blanche Washington D C le 15 mars 1941 written by United States. President (1933-1945 : Roosevelt) and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Discours prononc   par Franklin D  Roosevelt  Pr  sident des   tats Unis d Am  rique  Washington D C  le 29 d  cembre 1940

Download or read book Discours prononc par Franklin D Roosevelt Pr sident des tats Unis d Am rique Washington D C le 29 d cembre 1940 written by United States. President (1933-1945 : Roosevelt) and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Story of American Freedom

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eric Foner
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 1999-09-07
  • ISBN : 9780393319620
  • Pages : 452 pages

Download or read book Story of American Freedom written by Eric Foner and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1999-09-07 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedom is the cornerstone of his sweeping narrative that focuses not only congressional debates and political treatises since the Revolution but how the fight for freedom took place on plantation and picket lines and in parlors and bedrooms.

Book Seducing the French

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  • Author : Richard F. Kuisel
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1993-04-20
  • ISBN : 9780520918412
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book Seducing the French written by Richard F. Kuisel and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993-04-20 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Coca-Cola was introduced in France in the late 1940s, the country's most prestigious newspaper warned that Coke threatened France's cultural landscape. This is one of the examples cited in Richard Kuisel's engaging exploration of France's response to American influence after World War II. In analyzing early French resistance and then the gradual adaptation to all things American that evolved by the mid-1980s, he offers an intriguing study of national identity and the protection of cultural boundaries. The French have historically struggled against Americanization in order to safeguard "Frenchness." What would happen to the French way of life if gaining American prosperity brought vulgar materialism and social conformity? A clash between American consumerism and French civilisation seemed inevitable. Cold War anti-Communism, the Marshall Plan, the Coca-Cola controversy, and de Gaulle's efforts to curb American investment illustrate ways that anti-Americanization was played out. Kuisel also raises issues that extend beyond France, including the economic, social, and cultural effects of the Americanized consumer society that have become a global phenomenon. Kuisel's lively account reaches across French society to include politicians, businessmen, trade unionists, Parisian intelligentsia, and ordinary citizens. The result reveals much about the French—and about Americans. As Euro Disney welcomes travellers to its Parisian fantasyland, and with French recently declared the official language of France (to defend it from the encroachments of English), Kuisel's book is especially relevant.

Book Democracy in America  Volume 4

Download or read book Democracy in America Volume 4 written by Alexis De Tocqueville and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democracy in America is a classic work of political science written by the French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville in the early 19th century. It examines the nature of democracy in the United States, its strengths and weaknesses, and its effects on American society and culture. The book is a landmark in the study of democracy and remains a relevant and insightful analysis of American political life. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book General Lesley J  McNair

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark T. Calhoun
  • Publisher : University Press of Kansas
  • Release : 2015-05-15
  • ISBN : 0700620699
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book General Lesley J McNair written by Mark T. Calhoun and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George C. Marshall once called him "the brains of the army." And yet General Lesley J. McNair (1883-1944), a man so instrumental to America's military preparedness and Army modernization, remains little known today, his papers purportedly lost, destroyed by his wife in her grief at his death in Normandy. This book, the product of an abiding interest and painstaking research, restores the general Army Magazine calls one of "Marshall's forgotten men" to his rightful place in American military history. Because McNair contributed so substantially to America's war preparedness, this first complete account of his extensive and varied career also leads to a reevaluation of U.S. Army effectiveness during WWII. Born halfway between the Civil War and the dawn of the 20th century, Lesley McNair–"Whitey" by his classmates for his blond hair–graduated 11th of 124 in West Point's class of 1904 and rose slowly through the ranks like all officers in the early twentieth century. He was 31 when World War I erupted, 34 and a junior officer when American troops prepared to join the fight. It was during this time, and in the interwar period that followed the end of the First World War, that McNair's considerable influence on Army doctrine and training, equipment development, unit organization, and combined arms fighting methods developed. By looking at the whole of McNair's career–not just his service in WWII as chief of staff, General Headquarters, 1940-1942, and then as commander, Army Ground Forces, 1942-1944–Calhoun reassesses the evolution and extent of that influence during the war, as well as McNair's, and the Army's, wartime performance. This in-depth study tracks the significantly positive impact of McNair's efforts in several critical areas: advanced officer education; modernization, military innovation, and technological development; the field-testing of doctrine; streamlining and pooling of assets for necessary efficiency; arduous and realistic combat training; combined arms tactics; and an increasingly mechanized and mobile force. Because McNair served primarily in staff roles throughout his career and did not command combat formations during WWII, his contribution has never received the attention given to more public–and publicized–military exploits. In its detail and scope, this first full military biography reveals the unique and valuable perspective McNair's generalship offers for the serious student of military history and leadership.

Book Discours prononc   par Franklin D  Roosevelt  Pr  sident des   tats Unis d Am  rique  Washington  D C   le 12 octobre 1942

Download or read book Discours prononc par Franklin D Roosevelt Pr sident des tats Unis d Am rique Washington D C le 12 octobre 1942 written by United States. President (1933-1945 : Roosevelt) and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Solvay

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kenneth Bertrams
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2013-01-03
  • ISBN : 1107311071
  • Pages : 649 pages

Download or read book Solvay written by Kenneth Bertrams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ernest Solvay, philanthropist and organizer of the world-famous Solvay conferences on physics, discovered a profitable way of making soda ash in 1861. Together with a handful of associates, he laid the foundations of the Solvay company, which successfully branched out into other chemicals, plastics and pharmaceuticals. Since its emergence in 1863, Solvay has maintained world leadership in the production of soda ash. This is the first scholarly book on the history of the Solvay company, which was one of the earliest chemical multinationals and today is among the world's twenty largest chemical companies. It is also one of the largest companies in the field to preserve its family character. The authors analyze the company's 150-year history (1863–2013) from economic, political and social perspectives, showing the enormous impact geopolitical events had on the company and the recent consequences of global competition.

Book Attack on Pearl Harbor

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alan D. Zimm
  • Publisher : Casemate
  • Release : 2013-10-19
  • ISBN : 1612001971
  • Pages : 480 pages

Download or read book Attack on Pearl Harbor written by Alan D. Zimm and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2013-10-19 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ÒNothing previously published has offered such a close examination of Japanese strategy . . . an in-depth study of the Japanese planning, preparation and execution of the attack with particular focus on factors not thoroughly considered by other historians, if at all . . . detailed analyses that lead to a much better understanding of what the Japanese did, why they did it, and especially how the attack was very nearly an abject failure instead of a stunning success."ÑNaval Institute Proceedings "For seven decades, conventional wisdom has extolled the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor as brilliant in its planning and execution . . . this masterful analysis topples that pillar of Pacific War history . . . with its amazing depth of meticulous research and analysis, this forceful book is essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in Pearl Harbor."ÑWorld War II "The first militarily professional description of the Pearl Harbor attack, and for those who are serious about military history and operations, it is a joy to read. . . . a superb military analysis of the attack . . . not only renders all other histories of Pearl Harbor obsolete, it has set the bar high for other histories of the Pacific War."ÑWar In History