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Hiding in Plain Sight: Women Warriors throughout Time and Space
takes the many, long-standing dimensions of military history,
including the various modalities of warfare across cultures and
periods, and integrates them with the more recent and very
substantial contributions of social history, women's history, black
history, feminist theory, LGBTQ community, and other perspectives.
By providing an extensive annotated bibliography of the new
findings, the work provides the reader with an exciting compilation
of new knowledge placed within a longstanding military historical
framework, one which provides a broader study and understanding of
warfare into which to put the very recent, disparate findings
culled from many disciplines. The work reaffirms that women have
long been deeply embedded in the practice of warfare, not simply as
victims or minor curiosities, but as important actors - tactically,
strategically, in combat and directing warfare from afar - just as
their male counterparts. The concomitant amalgam also shows that
certain types and patterns of warfare such as the defense of
castles and fortresses, commanding a ship or a fleet, revolutionary
warfare and today's drone and cyber-forms of warfare have been more
conducive to female activity than other forms of warfare, even as
women are also present in a wider variety of other broader temporal
and geographical dimensions of the history of warfare. Hiding in
Plain Sight is the only extensive annotated bibliography currently
available which provides such a holistic overview of recent
scholarship by grounding that scholarship in the existing military
canon and history.
What are the independent variables that determine success in war?
Drawing on 40 years of studying and teaching war, political
scientist Christian P. Potholm presents a 'template of Mars, '
seven variables that have served as predictors of military success
over time and across cultures. In Winning at War, Potholm explains
these variables technology, sustained ruthlessness, discipline,
receptivity to innovation, protection of military capital from
civilians and rulers, will, and the belief that there will always
be another war and provides case studies of their implementation,
from ancient battles to today
The third book in Professor Christian Potholm's war trilogy (which
includes Winning at War and War Wisdom), Understanding War provides
a most workable bibliography dealing with the vast literature on
war and warfare. As such, it provides insights into over 3000 works
on this overwhelmingly extensive material. Understanding War is
thus the most comprehensive annotated bibliography available today.
Moreover, by dividing war material into eighteen overarching themes
of analysis and fifty seminal topics, and focusing on these,
Understanding War enables the reader to access and understand the
broadest possible array of materials across both time and space,
beginning with the earliest forms of warfare and concluding with
the contemporary situation. Stimulating and thought-provoking, this
volume is essential for an understanding of the breadth and depth
of the vast scholarship dealing with war and warfare through human
history and across cultures.
War Wisdom: A Cross Cultural Sampling is a unique combination of
directory and analysis. It provides a relevant "universe" of
quotations, together with their authors, about war from various
ages and across a large number of societies including those found
in China, Japan, Persia, Mongolia, Europe, and America (both North
and South), as well as Native American nations and Africa. A
lengthy introductory essay presents and analyzes a dozen relevant
themes found throughout those cultures, themes which show a pattern
of very widespread, if not universal, appeal. Of particular
relevance is the author's engagement with the conflicting wisdom
pertaining to war found within the same society as well as common
themes appearing across cultures, societies, and time frames.
As a Maine Guide for 20 years and a hunter and fisherman since
childhood, Christian Potholm knows the woods and waters of Maine
from the coast to the North Woods. He brings it all to life with
these humorous tales, astonishing and intriguing characters, and
real-life dialogue. These are authentic, how-they-talk,
what-they-do, Maine hunting and fishing stories with Maine guides,
wardens, and sports, all presented in full blossom. Steeped in the
old-time lore of the Maine outdoors, these yarns do more than
capture hunting and fishing tradition in Maine, they also bring to
life the rural subculture with all its time honored values and real
people.
More than just an essential reference tool, An Insider's Guide to
Maine Politics offers fascinating stories and seldom-told details
about figures and events in Maine politics from World War II to the
current day.
Christian Potholm has worked as a political insider and activist
for much of the last forty years, dividing his time between the
classroom and the election arena. By analyzing the interactive ebbs
and flows of political campaigns, Potholm uses both quantitative
and qualitative analysis to understand the process and make
predictions regarding the outcome. He contends that political
campaigns waged in the State of Maine display a strong dynamic
quality independent of the instant polls and reports that our media
sources use to predict outcomes. Through quantitative analysis,
Potholm shows that Maine political campaigns are underpinned by a
positive sense of well being unique to the country, a character
that celebrates its freedom and essence in all facets of society.
Potholm dissects his study using data as well as anecdotal
references to share the political and psychological dimensions of
Maine politics in all of their dynamism.
Christian Potholm has worked as a political insider and activist
for much of the last forty years, dividing his time between the
classroom and the election arena. By analyzing the interactive ebbs
and flows of political campaigns, Potholm uses both quantitative
and qualitative analysis to understand the process and make
predictions regarding the outcome. He contends that political
campaigns waged in the State of Maine display a strong dynamic
quality independent of the instant polls and reports that our media
sources use to predict outcomes. Through quantitative analysis,
Potholm shows that Maine political campaigns are underpinned by a
positive sense of well being unique to the country, a character
that celebrates its freedom and essence in all facets of society.
Potholm dissects his study using data as well as anecdotal
references to share the political and psychological dimensions of
Maine politics in all of their dynamism.
Scholar and avid campaign watcher Christian P. Potholm brings to
bear his enthusiasm for politics, and his intricate understanding
of campaign strategy, in This Splendid Game: Maine Campaigns and
Elections, 1940-2002. For each decade covered, Potholm briefly
outlines all of Maine's U.S. Senate, U.S. House, and gubernatorial
elections, then delves deeper into one campaign. He examines how
Margaret Chase Smith became the first woman elected to the Senate,
in 1948. He looks into which factors enabled the 'Muskie
revolution, ' beginning when Maine's long-in-power Republican party
lost the governorship to the Democrat Ed Muskie in 1954, and
cresting in the Democrat Ken Curtis's hard-fought gubernatorial
re-election victory in 1970. He explores how the Republican
counter-revolution took hold when Bill Cohen was elected to
Congress in 1972, after having won many voters by walking about 600
miles across the state; and why in 1974 and 1994 Mainers chose
Independent governors, respectively James Longley, Sr., and Angus
King. And he examines how the Maine Yankee nuclear power plant
survived the 1980 referendum on its possible shut-down. Throughout
the book, Potholm focuses especially on the dynamics of candidates'
and groups' use of polling and the media. This Splendid Game yields
valuable insights into politics in Maine and the art of the
political campaign
Potholm, a professor at Bowdoin and a prominent campaign
consultant, here shares his insights into and enthusiasm for the
democratic process. According to Potholm, the presidential election
of 2000 revealed the strengths of our democratic system, not the
weaknesses. What's more, it made for great entertainment. In The
Delights of Democracy, Potholm shares his thoughts on why low voter
turn-out is not exactly a bad thing, why Clinton was a good
Republican president (that's right), how all political parties
should be skilled in putting themselves in their opponents'
position, how smart politicians can make use of public polling, how
people who don't care about the abortion debate are the decisive
group in votes on the issue, and more. Filled with examples from
his behind-the-scenes political career, Potholm's book informs
readers what Americans really mean when they call their country a
democracy.
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