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Don Troiani, James L. Kochan, Earl J. Coates - Don Troiani's Soldiers in America 1754-1865 (1998).pdf

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Judith L. Bellafaire - U.S. Army and World War II; Selected Papers From the Army's Commemorative Con ferences (1998).jpg

01 - USA - Judith L. Bellafaire - U.S. Army and World War II Sele...d Papers From the Armys Commemorative Conferences 1998.jpg

The U.S. Army and World War II is an anthology of selected papers from three international conferences held in 1990, 1992, and 1994 on the Army's role in the war. Taking the best from those meetings, Judith L. Bellafaire has organized the various presentations into four thematic categories-prewar planning, the home front, the European theater, and the Asian-Pacific theaters-reflecting the diversity of both the war and the interest of those seeking to understand its many facets. In these carefully edited papers, one will find the more conventional treatments of doctrine, strategy, and operations side by side with those focusing on military mobilization and procurement, race and gender, psychological warfare, and large-scale advice and assistance programs. Those grappling with the challenges of stability operations and other contingency missions in support of the Global War on Terrorism will find this collection of readings invaluable.

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Judith L. Bellafaire - U.S. Army and World War II; Selected Papers From the Army's Commemorative Con ferences (1998).pdf

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C. Emma Cheney - Popular history of the civil war (1894).jpg

In writing this little book, it has been the aim of the author to tell the story of the late civil war so simply, that it might interest a class of youthful readers not hitherto reached.

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C. Emma Cheney - Popular history of the civil war (1894).pdf

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John S. Gilkeson - Anthropologists and the Redisco very of America, 1886-1965 (2010).jpg

This book examines the intersection of cultural anthropology and American cultural nationalism from 1886, when Franz Boas left Germany for the United States, until 1965, when the National Endowment for the Humanities was established. Five chapters trace the development within academic anthropology of the concepts of culture, social class, national character, value, and civilization, and their dissemination to non-anthropologists. As Americans came to think of culture anthropologically, as a "complex whole" far broader and more inclusive than Matthew Arnold's "the best which has been thought and said," so, too, did they come to see American communities as stratified into social classes distinguished by their subcultures; to attribute the making of the American character to socialization rather than birth; to locate the distinctiveness of American culture in its unconscious canons of choice; and to view American culture and civilization in a global perspective.

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John S. Gilkeson - Anthropologists and the Redisco very of America, 1886-1965 (2010).pdf

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Mark Mayo Boatner - Landmarks of the American Revo lution; Library of military history (2nd edition) (2006).jpg

Zooming in on key locations connected to the American Revolution, this expanded and completely revised edition of Col. Mark M. Boatner III's Landmarks of the American Revolution goes beyond U.S. borders when profiling historical sites and landmarks significant to the war. The original state-by-state guide now also includes coverage of the war in the West Indies and an expanded treatment of Canada. Bringing history to life through travel, this informative and practical approach anchors the American Revolution to the present, providing real-life context readers can relate to and even locate. Contact information on individual historical sites is provided. All entries, maps, photographs and contacts have been updated. With its real-life applications, this edition is valuable as a stand-alone resource that skillfully demonstrates the "power of places," but it also is an excellent companion to the Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War, which is also available in an updated edition.

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Mark Mayo Boatner - Landmarks of the American Revo lution; Library of military history (2nd edition) (2006).pdf

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United States Army in World War II - Joseph Bykofs ky, Harold Larson - The Transportation Corps; Oper ations Overseas (1990).jpg

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An account of the successes and failures in the massive deployment of men and materiel from the zone of interior to the theaters.

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United States Army in World War II - Joseph Bykofs ky, Harold Larson - The Transportation Corps; Oper ations Overseas (1990).pdf

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United States Army in World War II - Chester Wardl ow - The Transportation Corps; Responsibilities, O rganization, and Operations (1999).jpg

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A discussion of the transportation task, the functions and organization of the Corps, and its operating problems in the zone of interior.

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United States Army in World War II - Chester Wardl ow - The Transportation Corps; Responsibilities, O rganization, and Operations (1999).pdf

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Frances Smith Foster - 'Til Death or Distance Do U s Part; Love and Marriage in African America (2010 ).jpg

Faced with a plethora of stories about promiscuous coupling and fatherless families, instability, and group dysfunction, Foster (Written by Herself) illuminates the African-American historical experience of love and marriage through the stories that antebellum African Americans told among themselves. She relies particularly on the records of the 18th century Free African Union Societies of Newport, R.I., and Philadelphia and 19th-century slave narratives along with contemporaneous novels and poems. The most groundbreaking content stems from the Afro-Protestant press periodicals, which are treasure troves of ideas, experiences, and ideals. She has more on her mind than emending the historical record; after leaving the antebellum period, where she amply demonstrates that African-American marriage was frequent, that family ties were strong, she embarks on digressive journeys. Her meditations—on negative contemporary narratives, the work of various social scientists (friendly fire in our battle to be a free people in a free country), her daughter's wedding, and the Defense of Marriage Act—somewhat dilute the richness of her primary theme. Still, readers will be freshly informed by the historical and, perhaps, engaged by the tangential.

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William M. Donnelly - Transforming an Army at War; Designing the Modular Force, 1991-2005 (2007).jpg

Transforming an Army at War examines the origins of the modular concept, the reasons for undertaking it, and the process for developing modular unit designs. The Army had been exploring the notion of modularity since shortly after the end of the Cold War. Modularity, at its most basic, was the idea for creating a pool of standardized, self-contained units - combat, support, and headquarters - that could plug into (and unplug from) unit formations as needed with minimal augmentation or reorganization. A modular force would greatly improve the Army's ability to configure packages of units tailored for specific missions by the regional combatant commands. This would be the most far-reaching transformation of the operational forces since World War II and the most radical since the Pentomic reorganization of the late 1950s. This account of designing the modular force highlights a critical part of the Army's program to prepare itself for an increasingly turbulent world and illustrates the intellectual and organizational resources the service can call on in that effort.

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William M. Donnelly - Transforming an Army at War; Designing the Modular Force, 1991-2005 (2007).pdf

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U.S. Marine Corps - Professional Knowledge Gained from Operational Experience in Vietnam, 1965-1966 (1991).jpg

This fascinating guide book is drawn not only from the experience of the Marine Corps but also that of the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force and South Vietnamese armed forces. It provides detailed information on combating the guerrilla warfare tactics of the NLF, including extensive discussion and diagrams on tunnel warfare, the use of CS (tear) gas to clear them, interdiction of villages suspected of harboring guerrillas, and rear area patrolling. A particularly interesting section describes and illustrates the wide variety of NLF grenades and mines, many of them constructed from scrap or empty U.S. shell casings, which jeopardized American troops on land and water. It also provides detailed information on American military logistics, communications, and medicine at the unit level.

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U.S. Marine Corps - Professional Knowledge Gained from Operational Experience in Vietnam, 1965-1966 (1991).pdf

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Howard B. Schaffer - Ellsworth Bunker; Global Trou bleshooter, Vietnam Hawk (2003).jpg

In this first biography of Ellsworth Bunker (1894-1984), Howard Schaffer traces the life of one of America's foremost diplomats of the postwar era from his formative years as a successful businessman and lobbyist through a long career in international affairs.
Named ambassador to Argentina by Harry Truman in 1951, Bunker went on to serve six more presidents as ambassador to Italy, India, Nepal, and Vietnam and on special negotiating missions. A widely recognized "hawk," Bunker helped shape U.S. policy in Vietnam during his six-year Saigon posting. Using letters Bunker wrote to his wife as well as recently declassified messages he exchanged with Henry Kissinger, Schaffer examines how Bunker promoted the war effort and how he regarded his mission. After leaving Saigon on his seventy-ninth birthday, Bunker became a key figure in the treaty negotiations, spanning three presidencies, that radically changed the operation and defense of the Panama Canal.
Highlighting Bunker's views on the craft of diplomacy, Schaffer paints a complex picture of a man who devoted three decades to international affairs and sheds new light on post-World War II American diplomacy.

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Howard B. Schaffer - Ellsworth Bunker; Global Trou bleshooter, Vietnam Hawk (2003).pdf

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Michael J. Hogan - A Cross of Iron; Harry S. Truma n and the Origins of the National Security State, 1945-1954 (1998).jpg

01 - USA - Michael J. Hogan - A Cross of Iron Harry S. Truman and...Origins of the National Security State, 1945-1954 1998.jpg

Historian Hogan, editor of the journal Diplomatic History and author of several books on U.S. foreign relations in the twentieth century, offers this study of the post^-World War II debate within the U.S. about what the nation's world role should be and how our institutions should change to meet that role's demands. The debate pitted supporters of a new national security ideology (e.g., Acheson and Kennan) against representatives of an older political culture (e.g., Taft and Hoover) whose values were antistatist, antimilitarist, and isolationist. Tracing the face-off through many issues--from the National Security Act and universal military service to defense reorganization and budget priorities--Hogan sees both Truman and Eisenhower as figures of compromise. Like congressional Republicans, both presidents wanted to avoid turning the U.S. into a "garrison state," but they shared the national security proponents' conviction that that could be prevented only by a policy of internationalism. In the end, Hogan suggests, "the most important constraints on the national security state were those built into the country's democratic institutions and political culture.

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Michael J. Hogan - A Cross of Iron; Harry S. Truma n and the Origins of the National Security State, 1945-1954 (1998).pdf

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Richard G. Davis - The U.S. Army and Irregular War fare, 1775-2007 (2008).jpg

The U.S. Army and Irregular Warfare, 1775-2007, edited by Richard G. Davis, publishes fifteen papers read in August 2007 at the sixteenth Conference of Army Historians, a biennial history conference attended by members of the Army Historical Program, academics from leading colleges and universities, and international scholars from allied nations. The papers selected for this publication are not only the best of those presented, but they also examine irregular warfare in a wide and diverse range of circumstances and eras. Together, they demonstrate how extremism was intimately connected to this type of warfare and how Americans have, at different times in their history, found themselves acting as insurgents, counterinsurgents, or both. The titles of the papers themselves reflect how often the U.S. Army has engaged in such irregular operations despite a formal focus on conventional warfare. Using imperial British and Italian examples, several presentations also underline how the ease of conquering lands is often no indication of the level of effort required to pacify them and integrate them into a larger whole.

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Richard G. Davis - The U.S. Army and Irregular War fare, 1775-2007 (2008).pdf

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Philip D. Chinnery - Desert Boneyard; Davis Montha n A.F.B. Arizona (1987).jpg

The Davis-Monthan Air Base is located in the hot, dry Arizona desert and is now home for over 2,500 aircraft. The United States Air Force, Army and Navy all send their surplus and obsolete aircraft here. The aircraft types here are many and varied. Each aircraft carries the livery denoting its role prior to retirement and for the enthusiast, squadron markings are still clearly visible.

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Philip D. Chinnery - Desert Boneyard; Davis Montha n A.F.B. Arizona (1987).pdf

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Ruth Oldenziel - Cold War Kitchen; Americanization , Technology, and European Users (2008).jpg

Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev's famous "kitchen debate" in 1958 involved more than the virtues of American appliances. Both Nixon and Khrushchev recognized the political symbolism of the modern kitchen; the kind of technological innovation represented in this everyday context spoke to the political system that produced it. The kitchen connects the "big" politics of politicians and statesmen to the "small" politics of users and interest groups. Cold War Kitchen looks at the kitchen as material object and symbol, considering the politics and the practices of one of the most famous technological icons of the mid-twentieth century.Defining the kitchen as a complex technological artifact as important as computers, cars, and nuclear missiles, the book examines the ways in which a range of social actors in Europe shaped the kitchen as both ideological construct and material practice. These actorsfrom manufacturers and modernist architects to housing reformers and feministsconstructed and domesticated the technological innovations of the postwar kitchen. The home became a "mediation junction" in which women users and others felt free to advise producers from the consumer's point of view. In essays illustrated by striking period photographs, the contributors to Cold War Kitchen consider such topics as Soviet consumers' ambivalent responses to the American dream kitchen argued over by Nixon and Khrushchev; the Frankfurter Kuche, a European modernist kitchen of the interwar period (and its export to Turkey when its designer fled the Nazis); and the British state-subsidized kitchen design so innovative that it was mistaken for a luxury American product. The concluding essays challenge the received wisdom of past interpretations of the kitchen debate.Contributors: Esra Akcan, Liesbeth Bervoets, Cristina Carbone, Greg Castillo, Irene Cieraad, Shane Hamilton, Martina Hessler, Matthew Hilton, Julian Holder, Ruth Oldenziel, Susan E. Reid Kirsi Saarikangas, Karin ZachmannInside Technology series

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Ruth Oldenziel - Cold War Kitchen; Americanization , Technology, and European Users (2008).pdf

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Andrew Goodwin - Dancing in the Distraction Factor y; Music Television and Popular Culture (1992).jpg

The author makes some great arguments and points out a few diffrent connections between MTV and American society. It is very easy to lose interest in the first few chapters but keep going and it will become easier to follow. He goes into depth with various songs and breaks down the actual videos. Definitly an intersting view on the importance of MTV in the 80's. But it is also nice to have some background knowledge on the time period.

Contents:
Acknowledgments
Author's Note
Introduction
ONE. Silence! Academics at Work
TWO. From Anarchy to Chromakey Developments in Music Television
THREE. A Musicology of the Image
FOUR. The Structure of Music Video Rethinking Narrative Analysis
FIVE. Metanarratives of Stardom and Identity
SIX. A Televisual Context: MTV
SEVEN. Aesthetics and Politics in Music Television Postmodernism Reconsidered
Concluding Thoughts
Music Television Time Line
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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