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The Garden State has made innumerable contributions to our nation's
military history, on both battlefield and homefront, but many of
those stories remain hidden within the larger national narrative.
Perhaps the most crucial one-day battle of the Revolution was
fought in Monmouth County, and New Jersey officers engineered the
conquest of California in the Mexican War. During the Civil War, a
New Jersey unit was instrumental in saving Washington, D.C., from
Confederate capture. In World War II, New Jersey women flocked to
war production factories and served in the armed forces, and a West
Orange girl helped ferry Spitfire fighters in England. War came
home to the coast in 1942 with the sinking of the SS "Resor" by a
German submarine, but the state's citizens reacted by contributing
everything they could to the war effort. Uncover these and other
stories from New Jersey's hidden wartime history.
Detailed account and analysis of a major event of the Hundred Years
War, stressing the logistical efforts behind the fighting. On 19
September 1356 Edward of Woodstock, known as the Black Prince, and
his Anglo-Gascon army defeated Jean II of France at the Battle of
Poitiers. The victory was the culmination of an expedition which
had begun in England in 1355, and saw the successful undertaking of
the so-called "grande chevauchee" - which depended on a system of
purveyance and recruitment in England, in addition to an efficient
supply train which accompanied the army. This book examines in
detail the efficient and effective logistics that drove that
success; it also shows the powerful connection between tactics and
strategy on the one hand, and geography, human topography, and the
need for food, water and rest, on the other. MOLLIE M. MADDEN holds
a PhD from the University of Minnesota.
This is a timely book written in the temporal and political context
of the British New Labour Government's ongoing reliance on the word
"community." Its key focus is on understanding community from
action into theory and theory into action. Academics and activists
engage critically with the range of ways in which contemporary
ideas of community are being used and contested, examining the
current theoretical and practical challenges of building and
sustaining convincing senses of community in national and
trans-national contexts. Contributions are organised into three
thematic sections--Locating community, Justice within and between
communities and Building health communities.
A sequel to Grandmothers Bedtime Stories. The fictional characters
are Chick A Dees, Chipmunk and the Giraffe, a dancing elephant, a
pet cat, a Llama, a pet dog, and a young deer. It provides learning
and understanding during adventures with a happy ending.
Written in the temporal and political context of the British New
Labour Government's ongoing reliance on the word community,
academics and activists critically engage here with the range of
ways in which contemporary ideas of community are being used and
contested. The key focus is on understanding community from action
into theory and vice versa.
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