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Far from being an anachronism, much less a kit-bag of techniques,
people's war raises what has always been present in military
history, irregular warfare, and fuses it symbiotically with what
has likewise always been present politically, rebellion and the
effort to seize power. The result is a strategic approach for
waging revolutionary warfare, the effort "to make a revolution."
Voluntarism is wedded to the exploitation of structural
contradiction through the building of a new world to challenge the
existing world, through formation of a counterstate within the
state in order ultimately to destroy and supplant the latter. This
is a process of far greater moment than implied by the label
"guerrilla warfare" so often applied to what Mao and others were
about. This volume deals with the continuing importance of Maoist
and post-Maoist concepts of people's war. Drawing on a range of
examples that include Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, the Caucasus, and
Afghanistan, the collection shows that the study of people's war is
not just an historical curiosity but vital to the understanding of
contemporary insurgent and terrorist movements. The chapters in
this book were originally published as a special issue of Small
Wars & Insurgencies.
Far from being an anachronism, much less a kit-bag of techniques,
people's war raises what has always been present in military
history, irregular warfare, and fuses it symbiotically with what
has likewise always been present politically, rebellion and the
effort to seize power. The result is a strategic approach for
waging revolutionary warfare, the effort "to make a revolution."
Voluntarism is wedded to the exploitation of structural
contradiction through the building of a new world to challenge the
existing world, through formation of a counterstate within the
state in order ultimately to destroy and supplant the latter. This
is a process of far greater moment than implied by the label
"guerrilla warfare" so often applied to what Mao and others were
about. This volume deals with the continuing importance of Maoist
and post-Maoist concepts of people's war. Drawing on a range of
examples that include Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, the Caucasus, and
Afghanistan, the collection shows that the study of people's war is
not just an historical curiosity but vital to the understanding of
contemporary insurgent and terrorist movements. The chapters in
this book were originally published as a special issue of Small
Wars & Insurgencies.
Alain Bauer argues that we need, with considerable immediacy, to
press the formal study of crime in the academy, and that more
resources need to be channeled towards that purpose. The approach
in universities, if they do deign to study the subject, is often
relegated to adjuncts and regarded by the more established
departments with disdain. Given the prejudices of conventional
scholars towards the subject, it is no wonder that the response to
crime has been inept, and grows increasingly inadequate,
considering the highly adaptive nature of crime and its
implications in a globalized world in the XXIst Century.
Victor Lefebure (1891-1947) earned his bachelor's at University
College London in 1911 and began a research and teaching career at
Wye College before being called to the colors in the 3rd Essex
Regiment in 1915. He was seconded to the Special Brigade of the
Royal Engineers that was developing chemical warfare to be use
against the Germans. He worked with the French forces and they
carried out a number of successful attacks, notably at Nieuport on
October 5, 1916. After the war he became a successful businessman
and the inventor of a number of building materials. This book about
chemical warfare became basic to the subject's history. But the gas
attacks troubled him and in 1931 he wrote Scientific Disarmament,
with introductions by such luminaries at Lloyd George and H.G.
Wells. There he wrote, "Is it illogical or disloyal for technical
men who have fostered armament in a previous national emergency,
and might do so again, to take the initiative in the direction of
disarmament? These questions have inevitably pursued me in writing
this book, for the old loyalty to organisations and friends of the
War must remain to the end. I can only say that it must be the
first objective of any sane person who has seen war, to try to
prevent the kind of catastrophe which engulfed the world in 1914.
The deciding factor is surely this, the obligation to another
generation which might again be sacrificed. If sane disarmament can
assist, and if armament knowledge is an essential part, then this
obligation falls upon those who possess it. Their contribution is
essential, and it is because the scruples which pursued me in
breaking new ground will also pursue them that I make these
comments."
In 1928, the Masonic lodge that George Washington had presided over
as Worshipful Master gathered anecdote about his connections with
Alexandria, Virginia, and commissioned photographs of relics and
places that provide unusual insights into his career. Not the least
of these artifacts is the old clock from Washington's bedroom at
Mt. Vernon, with the hands stopped by his doctor, Elisha Dick, at
the time of his death. Anyone interested in American history will
find this short monograph to be of value.
Since its appearance in 1915, Freemasonry in Canada has been a
starting point for any serious discussion of Canadian lodge
history. It was remarkable in its time for covering not only
developments in the Canadian provinces but also the course of
special Masonic groups such as the Shrine and Royal Order of
Scotland. While research has changed some perceptions, its
usefulness and insights remain of primary importance when Canadian
Freemasonry is discussed.
Three major collections of Unitarian and Nonconformist literature
in Britain are at Luther King House in Manchester, Harris
Manchester College in Oxford University, and the Dr. Williams
Library in London. This book gives important information about the
Unitarian antecedents of the Luther King library, which is used by
five colleges: Northern Baptist, Northern College (United Reformed
and Congregational), Hartley Victoria College, (Methodist)
Unitarian College Manchester, and Luther King House Open College.
In turn, the library and Luther King House cooperate with the
University of Manchester, a major holder of Nonconformist
literature. Manchester thus is a center for scholarship related to
various British denominations.
Admiral T.T. Jeans was a decorated British Naval officer with
considerable experience in the Middle East. He wrote this
fast-moving novel based on his experiences and those of his
compatriots. The plot turns on efforts of Iran to stir trouble by
providing arms to Middle Easter insurgents. While published in
1927, it could as well have been written about arms smuggling in
the 21st century, which makes policing the waters of the Gulf a
present priority.
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Dante (Paperback)
Paul Rich; Introduction by Paul Rich; Edmund Gardner
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Discovery Miles 4 190
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Professor Robert Langdon, in Dan Brown's thriller, tells his
Harvard class, "My friends, it is impossible to overstate the
influence of Dante Alighieri's work. Throughout all of history,
with the sole exception perhaps of Holy Scripture, no single work
of writing, art, music, or literature has inspired more tributes,
imitations, variations and annotations than The Divine Comedy.
Edmund Gardner was one of the great Dante scholars of his time and
an astute guide to the background to Dan Brown's adventures with
Dante.
Two peaks, one in New Hampshire's White Mountains and one in
Yosemite National Park, are named after Thomas Starr King. He left
a brilliant career in Boston to go to San Francisco in 1860, where
his convincing oratory was credited with keeping California firmly
on the Union side in the Civil War. Along with his commitment to
emancipation and the Northern cause, he had a sharp wit and an
enviable prose style, which this volume illustrates well.
There is a lot more to the life of President James Garfield than
being shot. He was an educator, clergyman, and congressman who
carried on those duties with considerable distinction, as well as
being a mathematician who discovered, after everyone else for
thousands of years had not, an alternative Euclidean proof. While
he is honored at Williams College, where his son Harry was longtime
president, and as a huge statue on the grounds of the United States
capitol, he deserves more attention and this new edition of a
useful biography may encourage that.
Few people connect Endicott House, the famous conference center of
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with fishing in Florida,
but actually the handsome mansion that has been the site of so many
notable meetings is a bricks-and-mortar memorial to one of
America's most enthusiastic sports fishermen, Wendell Endicott.
This book is his magnum opus, an important piece of Florida history
and a lasting contribution to folklore and fishing in the Keys.
Long before Earl Warren was a famous governor of California and
then an important Chief Justice of the United States, he was
forging a career in Freemasonry. Starting as an officer and
eventually master of a local lodge whose history is recounted in
this volume, he worked his way up the stairs of the Masonic
hierarchy to become Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of California.
Dr. Paul Rich is a member of the History of Education Society and
the author of several books about education, including titles about
the interaction of education and imperialism in the days of
colonialism -- Elixir of Empire and Chains of Empire
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