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quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
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This is the absorbing story of the handguns credited to Nambu
Kijiro, the principal personal-defence weapons of the Imperial
forces. Featuring full-color artwork and carefully chosen
photographs, this book charts the origins, development, combat use,
and legacy of the Nambu pistols. Cutaway artwork reveals the inner
workings of these important handguns, while specially commissioned
battlescenes depict them in use in action. Influenced by the German
C 96 and other semi-automatic pistols, the first Nambu model was
never accepted for universal issue, being confined largely to
purchase by Japanese officers. Adopted in 1925, the 14th Year Type
was to become the best-known of these handguns, serving in every
campaign undertaken by the Japanese in the 1930s and then
throughout World War II. It served alongside the bizarrely
conceived Type 94, intended as the weapon of airmen, tank crew, and
anyone to whom its compact dimensions were useful. When World War
II ended, thousands of Nambu pistols arrived in America with US
veterans of World War II, while others were carried by insurgents
and other armed groups across South East Asia for decades after
1945. Fully illustrated, this is the engrossing story of these
distinctive pistols, from their origins to their legacy.
A tribute to the work of Keith Wrightson which addresses
fundamental questions about the character of English society during
a period of decisive change. A tribute to the work of Keith
Wrightson, Remaking English Society re-examines the relationship
between enduring structures and social change in early modern
England. Collectively, the essays in the volume reconstruct the
fissures and connections that developed both within and between
social groups during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries. Focusing on the experience of rapid economic and
demographic growth and on related processesof cultural
diversification, the contributors address fundamental questions
about the character of English society during a period of decisive
change. Prefaced by a substantial introduction which traces the
evolution of early modern social history over the last fifty years,
these essays (each of them written by a leading authority) not only
offer state-of-the-art assessments of the historiography but also
represent the latest research on a variety of topics that have been
at the heart of the development of 'the new social history' and its
cultural turn: gender relations and sexuality; governance and
litigation; class and deference; labouring relations,
neighbourliness and reciprocity; and social status and consumption.
STEVE HINDLE is W. M. Keck Foundation Director of Research at the
Huntington Library, San Marino, California. ALEXANDRA SHEPARD is
Reader in History, University of Glasgow. JOHN WALTER is Professor
of History, University of Essex. Contributors: Helen Berry, Adam
Fox, H. R. French, Malcolm Gaskill, Paul Griffiths, Steve Hindle,
Craig Muldrew, Lindsay O'Neill, Alexandra Shepard, Tim Stretton,
Naomi Tadmor, John Walter, Phil Withington, Andy Wood
While the PP and PPK were intended for police work, the Walther P
38 was produced for the Germany military; all three pistols have
garnered a formidable international reputation since the 1930s. The
innovative Walther PP (Polizeipistole), a double-action
semi-automatic pistol intended for the law-enforcement market,
became available in 1929 and went on to arm the police of several
European countries in the 1930s. Its smaller cousin the PPK, more
readily concealed for undercover work but with reduced magazine
capacity, was produced from 1931. Intended to replace the P 08
Luger, the Walther P 38 was issued from 1940 and equipped the armed
forces of Germany and other countries during and after World War
II, but never entirely replaced the Luger in German service. All
three pistols went on to have lengthy and varied service across the
world after 1945. Both the PP and the PPK remain in production
today, while the P 38 re-emerged as the P1 and equipped West German
forces from 1963 until 2004, when it was replaced by the P8. In
this study, noted authority John Walter assesses the origins,
development, use and legacy of these three high-profile
semi-automatic pistols, alongside other Walther variants, such as
the tiny .25 ACP Modell 9.
Written by leading authorities, the volume can be considered a
standard work on seventeenth-century English social history. A
tribute to the work of Keith Wrightson, Remaking English Society
re-examines the relationship between enduring structures and social
change in early modern England. Collectively, the essays in the
volume reconstruct the fissures and connections that developed both
within and between social groups during the sixteenth, seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries. Focusing on the experience of rapid
economic and demographic growth and on related processesof cultural
diversification, the contributors address fundamental questions
about the character of English society during a period of decisive
change. Prefaced by a substantial introduction which traces the
evolution of early modern social history over the last fifty years,
these essays (each of them written by a leading authority) not only
offer state-of-the-art assessments of the historiography but also
represent the latest research on a variety of topics that have been
at the heart of the development of 'the new social history' and its
cultural turn: gender relations and sexuality; governance and
litigation; class and deference; labouring relations,
neighbourliness and reciprocity; and social status and consumption.
STEVE HINDLE is W. M. Keck Foundation Director of Research at the
Huntington Library, San Marino, California. ALEXANDRA SHEPARD is
Reader in History, University of Glasgow. JOHN WALTER is Professor
of History, University of Essex. Contributors: Helen Berry, Adam
Fox, H. R. French, Malcolm Gaskill, Paul Griffiths, Steve Hindle,
Craig Muldrew, Lindsay O'Neill, Alexandra Shepard, Tim Stretton,
Naomi Tadmor, John Walter, Phil Withington, Andy Wood
During the American Civil War, the mounted soldiers fighting on
both sides of the conflict carried a wide array of weapons, from
sabers and lances to carbines, revolvers, and other firearms.
Though some sections of the cavalry placed their trust in the
sabre, the advent of viable breechloading carbines -- especially
repeaters such as the Spencer -- was to transform warfare within
little more than a decade of General Lee's final surrender at
Appomattox. However, output struggled to keep up with unprecedented
demands on manufacturing technology and distribution in areas where
communication was difficult and in states whose primary aim was to
equip their own men rather than contribute to the arming of Federal
or Confederate regiments. In addition, the almost unparalleled
losses of men and equipment ensured that almost any firearm,
effectual or not, was pressed into service. Consequently, the sheer
variety of weaponry carried reflected the mounted soldiers' various
roles in different theatres of operation, but also the availability
-- or otherwise -- of weapons, notably on the Confederate side.
Fully illustrated, this study assesses the effectiveness of the
many different weapons arming the Civil War cavalryman and analyses
the strengths and weaknesses of the decisions made after 1865
concerning the armament of the US cavalry.
Created by a long-forgotten Austrian nobleman, Adolf Odkolek von
Augezd, the air-cooled Hotchkiss machine gun was the first to
function effectively by tapping propellant gas from the bore as the
gun fired. Although the Hotchkiss would be overshadowed by the
water-cooled Maxim and Vickers Guns, it proved its effectiveness
during the Russo-Japanese War. The gun, quirky though it was, was
successful enough to persuade Laurence Benet and Henri Mercie to
develop the Modele Portative: a man-portable version which, it was
hoped, could move with infantrymen as they advanced. Later mounted
on tanks and aircraft, it became the first automatic weapon to
obtain a 'kill' in aerial combat. Though it served the French and
US armies during World War I (and also the British in areas where
French and British units fought alongside each other), the
Odkolek-Hotchkiss system was to have its longest-term effect in
Japan. Here, a succession of derivatives found favour in theatres
of operations in which water-cooling could be more of a liability
than an asset. When US forces landed on Saipan, Guam and Iwo Jima,
battling their way from island to island across the Pacific, it was
the 'Woodpecker' - the Type 92 Hotchkiss, with its
characteristically slow rate of fire - which cut swathes through
their ranks. Supported by contemporary photographs and full-colour
illustrations, this title explores the exciting and eventful
history of the first successful gas-operated machine gun.
Is it the central purpose of American antitrust policy to
encourage decentralization of economic power? Or is it to promote
"consumer welfare"? Is there a painful trade-off between market
dominance and economic "efficiency"? What is the proper role of
government in this area? In recent years the public policy debate
on these core questions has been marked by a cacophony of divergent
opinions--theorists against empiricists, apostles of the "new
learning" against defenders of the traditional
structure-conduct-performance paradigm, "laissez-faire" advocates
against "interventionists." Utilizing a distinctively innovative
format, Walter Adams and James Brock examine these issues in the
context of a courtroom dialogue among a proponent of the new
learning (Chicago School), a prosecuting attorney, and a U.S.
district judge. In contrast to bloodless "scientific" treatises or
ideologically inspired polemical tracts, this book lays bare the
central arguments in the debate about free-market economics and the
latent assumptions and disguised terminology on which those
arguments are based. The dialogue is both gripping and
entertaining--designed by the authors to be reminiscent at times of
the Theater of the Absurd.
Originally published in 1991.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these
important books while presenting them in durable paperback
editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly
increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the
thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since
its founding in 1905.
The Bigness Complex confronts head-on the myth that organizational
giantism leads to economic efficiency and well-being in the modern
age. On the contrary, it demonstrates how bigness undermines our
economic productivity and progress, endangers our democratic
freedoms, and exacerbates our economic problems and challenges.
This new edition has a thoroughly updated variety of issues,
examples, and new developments, including government bailouts of
the airline industry; regulation of biotechnology; the fiasco of
recent electricity deregulation; and mergers and consolidations in
oil, radio, and grocery retailing. The analysis is framed in the
timeless context of American distrust of concentrations of power.
The authors show how both the left and the right fail to address
the central problem of power in formulating their diagnoses and
recommendations. The book concludes with an alternative public
philosophy as a viable guidepost for public policy toward business
in a free-enterprise democracy.
"Adam Smith Goes to Moscow" is a captivating dialogue between
the head of a hypothetical, formerly socialist East European
country and a fervently market-minded American adviser. Their
spirited give-and-take highlights the monumental political as well
as economic complexities currently faced by the former Soviet bloc
countries as they struggle to transform themselves into free market
economies.
Is it the central purpose of American antitrust policy to encourage
decentralization of economic power? Or is it to promote "consumer
welfare"? Is there a painful trade-off between market dominance and
economic "efficiency"? What is the proper role of government in
this area? In recent years the public policy debate on these core
questions has been marked by a cacophony of divergent
opinions--theorists against empiricists, apostles of the "new
learning" against defenders of the traditional
structure-conduct-performance paradigm, "laissez-faire" advocates
against "interventionists." Utilizing a distinctively innovative
format, Walter Adams and James Brock examine these issues in the
context of a courtroom dialogue among a proponent of the new
learning (Chicago School), a prosecuting attorney, and a U.S.
district judge. In contrast to bloodless "scientific" treatises or
ideologically inspired polemical tracts, this book lays bare the
central arguments in the debate about free-market economics and the
latent assumptions and disguised terminology on which those
arguments are based. The dialogue is both gripping and
entertaining--designed by the authors to be reminiscent at times of
the Theater of the Absurd. Originally published in 1991. The
Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology
to again make available previously out-of-print books from the
distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These
editions preserve the original texts of these important books while
presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The
goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access
to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books
published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International
Law, 1600-1926, brings together foreign, comparative, and
international titles in a single resource. Its International Law
component features works of some of the great legal theorists,
including Gentili, Grotius, Selden, Zouche, Pufendorf,
Bijnkershoek, Wolff, Vattel, Martens, Mackintosh, Wheaton, among
others. The materials in this archive are drawn from three
world-class American law libraries: the Yale Law Library, the
George Washington University Law Library, and the Columbia Law
Library.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.+++++++++++++++The below data was compiled
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LibraryLP3Y044740019160101The Making of Modern Law: Foreign,
Comparative, and International Law, 1600-1926Pretoria: H. W. Adams,
1916]xvi, 154 p.: ill., map, forms; 24 cmSouth Africa
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