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Flannery O'Connor may now be acknowledged as the "Great American
Catholic Author," but this was not always the case. With Creating
Flannery O'Connor, Daniel Moran explains how O'Connor attained that
status, and how she felt about it, by examining the development of
her literary reputation from the perspectives of critics,
publishers, agents, adapters for other media, and contemporary
readers. Moran tells the story of O'Connor's evolving career and
the shaping of her literary identity. Drawing from the Farrar,
Straus & Giroux archives at the New York Public Library and
O'Connor's private correspondence, he also concentrates on the ways
in which Robert Giroux worked tirelessly to promote O'Connor and
change her image from that of a southern oddity to an American
author exploring universal themes. Moran traces the critical
reception in print of each of O'Connor's works, finding parallels
between her original reviewers and today's readers. He examines the
ways in which O'Connor's work was adapted for the stage and screen
and how these adaptations fostered her reputation as an artist. He
also analyses how-on reader review sites such as Goodreads-her work
is debated and discussed among "common readers" in ways very much
as it was when Wise Blood was first published in 1952.
This is the road map to a seven-figure business . . . in one year
or less The word "entrepreneur" is today's favorite buzzword, and
any aspiring business owner has likely encountered an overwhelming
number of so-called "easy paths to success." The truth is that
building a real, profitable, sustainable business requires
thousands of hours of commitment, grit, and hard work. It's no
wonder why more than half of new businesses close within six years
of opening, and fewer than 5 percent will ever earn more than $1
million annually. 12 Months to $1 Million condenses the startup
phase into one fast-paced year that has helped hundreds of new
entrepreneurs hit the million-dollar level by using an exclusive
and foolproof formula. By cutting out the noise and providing a
clear and proven plan, this roadmap helps even brand-new
entrepreneurs make decisions quickly, get their product up for
sale, and launch it to a crowd that is ready and waiting to buy.
This one-year plan will guide you through the three stages to your
first $1 million: * The Grind (Months 0-4): This step-by-step plan
will help you identify a winning product idea, target customers
that are guaranteed to buy, secure funding, and take your first
sale within your first four months. * The Growth (Months 5 - 8):
Once you're in business, you will discover how to use cheap and
effective advertising strategies to get your product to at least 25
sales per day, so you can prove you have a profitable business. *
The Gold (Months 9-12): It's time to establish series of products
available for sale, until you are averaging at least 100 sales per
day, getting you closer to the million-dollar mark every single
day. Through his training sessions at Capitalism.com, Ryan Daniel
Moran has helped new and experienced entrepreneurs launch scalable
and sustainable online businesses. He's seen more than 100
entrepreneurs cross the seven-figure barrier, many of whom go on to
sell their businesses. If your goal is to be a full-time
entrepreneur, get ready for one chaotic, stressful, and rewarding
year. If you have the guts to complete it, you will be the proud
owner of a million-dollar business and be in a position to call
your own shots for life.
Taken for granted as the natural order of things, peace at sea is
in fact an immense and recent achievement -- but also an enormous
strategic challenge if it is to be maintained in the future. In
Maritime Strategy and Global Order, an international roster of top
scholars offers historical perspectives and contemporary analysis
to explore the role of naval power and maritime trade in creating
the international system. The book begins in the early days of the
industrial revolution with the foundational role of maritime
strategy in building the British Empire. It continues into the era
of naval disorder surrounding the two world wars, through the
passing of the Pax Britannica and the rise of the Pax Americana,
and then examines present-day regional security in hot spots like
the South China Sea and Arctic Ocean. Additional chapters engage
with important related topics such as maritime law, resource
competition, warship evolution since the end of the Cold War, and
naval intelligence. A first-of-its-kind collection, Maritime
Strategy and Global Order offers scholars, practitioners, students,
and others with an interest in maritime history and strategic
issues an absorbing long view of the role of the sea in creating
the world we know.
This book analyses the strategic dimensions of energy security,
particularly where energy resources have become the object of
military competition. The volume explores the risks that may arise
from conditions of increasing economic competition and resource
scarcity, and the problems that may follow if major producers or
consumers of energy lose confidence in the equity and efficiency of
the market, and resort instead to the use of force to secure access
to energy. It surveys the strategic outlook of both producer and
consumer states, with emphasis on nations or regions (Central Asia,
Russia, China, Venezuela, the Persian Gulf) where unstable or
rapidly evolving political conditions may undermine the currently
prevailing market consensus. It also examines the role of the
United States as the chief guarantor of the global economy, and the
challenge this poses for its exercise of military power. The book
contests that while the global energy market may be largely
self-regulating, it is not self-defending. A failure to consider
how it can be most effectively defended from emerging and potential
challenges merely heightens the risk that those challenges may
someday become real.
This book analyses the strategic dimensions of energy security,
particularly where energy resources have become the object of
military competition. The volume explores the risks that may arise
from conditions of increasing economic competition and resource
scarcity, and the problems that may follow if major producers or
consumers of energy lose confidence in the equity and efficiency of
the market, and resort instead to the use of force to secure access
to energy. It surveys the strategic outlook of both producer and
consumer states, with emphasis on nations or regions (Central Asia,
Russia, China, Venezuela, the Persian Gulf) where unstable or
rapidly evolving political conditions may undermine the currently
prevailing market consensus. It also examines the role of the
United States as the chief guarantor of the global economy, and the
challenge this poses for its exercise of military power. The book
contests that while the global energy market may be largely
self-regulating, it is not self-defending. A failure to consider
how it can be most effectively defended from emerging and potential
challenges merely heightens the risk that those challenges may
someday become real.
In this unique and innovative contribution to environmental
security, an international team of scholars explore and estimate
the intermediate-term security risks that climate change may pose
for the United States, its allies and partners, and for regional
and global order through the year 2030. In profiles of forty-two
key countries and regions, each contributor considers the problems
that climate change will pose for existing institutions and
practices. By focusing on the conduct of individual states or
groups of nations, the results add new precision to our
understanding of the way environmental stress may be translated
into political, social, economic, and military challenges in the
future.
Countries and regions covered in the book include China,
Vietnam, The Philippines, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh,
Central Asia, the European Union, the Persian Gulf, Egypt, Turkey,
the Maghreb, West Africa, Southern Africa, the Northern Andes, and
Brazil.
Concerned with the mass mobilization of society for war, this study starts with the French levée en masse of 1793. It replaced former theories and regulations concerning the obligation of military service with a universal concept more encompassing in its moral claims than any that had prevailed under the Old Regime. These papers analyze and compare episodes (in which the distinctive ideological configuration that the original levée typified plays a leading role).
Taken for granted as the natural order of things, peace at sea is
in fact an immense and recent achievement -- but also an enormous
strategic challenge if it is to be maintained in the future. In
Maritime Strategy and Global Order, an international roster of top
scholars offers historical perspectives and contemporary analysis
to explore the role of naval power and maritime trade in creating
the international system. The book begins in the early days of the
industrial revolution with the foundational role of maritime
strategy in building the British Empire. It continues into the era
of naval disorder surrounding the two world wars, through the
passing of the Pax Britannica and the rise of the Pax Americana,
and then examines present-day regional security in hot spots like
the South China Sea and Arctic Ocean. Additional chapters engage
with important related topics such as maritime law, resource
competition, warship evolution since the end of the Cold War, and
naval intelligence. A first-of-its-kind collection, Maritime
Strategy and Global Order offers scholars, practitioners, students,
and others with an interest in maritime history and strategic
issues an absorbing long view of the role of the sea in creating
the world we know.
The People in Arms, first published in 2002, is concerned with the
mass mobilization of society for war. It takes as its starting
point the French levee en masse of 1793, which replaced former
theories and regulations concerning the obligation of military
service with a universal concept more encompassing in its moral
claims than any that had prevailed under the Ancien Regime. The
levee en masse has accordingly gone down in history as a
spontaneous, free expression of the French people's ideals and
enthusiasm. It also became a crucial source for one of the most
powerful organizing myths of modern politics: that compulsory, mass
social mobilizations merely express, and give effective form to,
the wishes or higher values of society and its members. The aim of
the papers presented here is to analyse and compare episodes in
which this distinctive ideological configuration has played a
leading role.
In the decades between the French Revolution and the first
stirrings of liberalism in the 1830s, German political culture
defined itself apart from that of its neighbors to the west.
Focusing on the career of Johann Cotta, the preeminent publisher of
his generation, this book offers a lens through which we can more
fully view and understand these turbulent years. Cotta is a
familiar figure in the history of German letters, but his public
life has never been studied comprehensively. He financed and
directed the Allgemeine Zeitung of Augsburg, which would become one
of the great European newspapers of the nineteenth century. He was
the first German to convert money and cultural prestige into
political power by means of the press. Cotta and his colleagues
emerge not as liberals, but as characteristic figures of the Reform
era. Their aim was to define and institutionalize a realm of
thought and action beyond the control of the state, but short of
opposed to it-a "public" realm in which intellectual independence
and political loyalty would be equally well served. This title is
part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates
University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate
the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing
on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality,
peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1990.
Flannery O'Connor may now be acknowledged as the "Great American
Catholic Author," but this was not always the case. With Creating
Flannery O'Connor Daniel Moran explains how O'Connor attained that
status, and how she felt about it, by examining the development of
her literary reputation from the perspectives of critics,
publishers, agents, adapters for other media, and contemporary
readers. Moran tells the story of O'Connor's evolving career and
the shaping of her literary identity. Drawing from the Farrar,
Straus & Giroux archives at the New York Public Library and
O'Connor's private correspondence, he also concentrates on the ways
in which Robert Giroux worked tirelessly to promote O'Connor and
change her image from that of a southern oddity to an American
author exploring universal themes. Moran traces the critical
reception in print of each of O'Connor's works, finding parallels
between her original reviewers and today's readers. He examines the
ways in which O'Connor's work was adapted for the stage and screen
and how these adaptations fostered her reputation as an artist. He
also analyzes how-on reader review sites such as Goodreads-her work
is debated and discussed among "common readers" in ways very much
as it was when Wise Blood was first published in 1952.
This book at last makes available in English a penetrating exchange
between two of history's most famous soldiers concerning the
dramatic events of the Waterloo campaign of 1815. The Duke of
Wellington is one of the greatest military commanders in British
history; General Carl von Clausewitz is widely regarded as the
greatest military thinker in the history of Western civilization.
Both men had vast experience in the Napoleonic Wars, and both were
prominent participants in the campaign. Wellington commanded the
Anglo-Dutch-Belgian army; the much younger Clausewitz was
chief-of-staff to Prussia's 3rd Corps. Wellington went on to become
prime minister of Great Britain and commander-in-chief-for-life of
the British Army. Clausewitz went on to author VOM KRIEGE (ON WAR),
a seminal and still hotly debated treatise on the theory and
philosophy of war. He also became the founder of modern,
"scientific" military history, via the work of his disciple,
military historian Hans Delbruck. Oddly, Clausewitz's study of the
campaign of 1815 was never published in English, and Wellington's
once-famous response to it has been strangely but studiously
ignored by British military historians since 1914. Hence this book.
It contains Wellington's initial battle report; Clausewitz's
post-battle letters to his wife Marie; correspondence within
Wellington's circle concerning Clausewitz's work; Clausewitz's
strategic analysis of the entire campaign (not just the Battle of
Waterloo); Wellington's memorandum in response; and enlightening
essays by prominent experts on Clausewitz, Wellington, and the
Battle of Waterloo. Major General U.S. Army] David T. Zabecki,
Ph.D., writes in the April 2011 edition of The Journal of Military
History: "Long overdue, we now have two English translations of
Clausewitz's] The Campaign of 1815 i.e., Peter Hofschroer's
translation of Clausewitz's study and Bassford, Moran, and Pedlow's
edition of the full Clausewitz-Wellington exchange]. Either of
these volumes would be a welcome addition to the bookshelf of any
serious student of military affairs, but On Waterloo: Clausewitz,
Wellington, and the Campaign of 1815 is clearly the richer of the
two." The Editors: Christopher Bassford is Professor of Strategy at
the National War College, in Washington, DC. Daniel Moran is
Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate
School, in Monterey, CA. Gregory W. Pedlow is Chief of the
Historical Office at NATO's Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers
Europe (SHAPE), near Mons, Belgium.
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