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Drawing on his legendary firearms knowledge and combat
experience, U.S. Navy SEAL and #1 bestselling author of American
Sniper Chris Kyle dramatically chronicles the story of
America--from the Revolution to the present--through the lens of
ten iconic guns and the remarkable heroes who used them to shape
history: the American long rifle, Spencer repeater, Colt .45
revolver, Winchester 1873 rifle, Springfield M1903 rifle, M1911
pistol, Thompson submachine gun, M1 Garand, .38 Special police
revolver, and the M16 rifle platform Kyle himself used. American
Gun is a sweeping epic of bravery, adventure, invention, and
sacrifice.
Featuring a foreword and afterword by Taya Kyle and illustrated
with more than 100 photographs, this new paperback edition features
a bonus chapter, "The Eleventh Gun," on shotguns, derringers, and
the Browning M2 machine gun.
The counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s remains a highly controversial and divisive topic in our society; virtually the only thing that anyone can agree on is its enormous impact on American life. Critics on the right complain of the shattering of cherished social norms, while those on the left take many movements to task for not going far enough and selling out. Amidst the recent flourishing of Sixties scholarship, Imagine Nation is the first collection to focus solely on the counterculture. Its fourteen provocative essays seek to unearth the complexity and rediscover the society-changing power of significant movements and figures. The fascinating constellation of topics covered include feminism, psychedelic drug experimentation, guerrilla theatre, the New Left, Jimi Hendrix, communal living, underground comics, and avant-garde film. As a whole, Imagine Nation offers exciting new interpretations of how the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s irrevocably changed American society.
In the space of less than twenty years, Napoleon turned Europe
upside down. Rising from obscure origins to supreme power by a
mixture of luck, audacity and military genius, he was able to
harness the energies released by the French Revolution to resolve
the internal problems which it had created, before turning his
restless ambition to remodeling the political structure of the
whole continent in a series of brilliant military victories. He was
never able to finally subdue all his foreign enemies, and in the
end they came together to bring him down; but by then it was
impossible to restore what he had destroyed, or, in France, to
destroy much of what he had created. The memory of his epic
exploits, carefully refashioned during his last years in exile,
haunted Europe for over a century, while the more distant effects
of his career changed the whole destiny of the Americas and of the
world.
What would happen if you built one of the world's most advanced
societies inside a forest-and strove to make women full partners in
power? After living for twenty-five years in New York, Naomi
Moriyama moved with her husband and co-author William Doyle and
their seven-year-old child to the vast forest of Finland's Karelia,
a mysterious region on the Russian border that helped inspire J.R.
R. Tolkien's Middle Earth fantasies. She entered a life-altering
zone of tranquility, peace, and beauty, the spiritual heart of the
nation ranked as the happiest nation on Earth, with among the
world's most empowered women. Finland is also the country with
cleanest air and water and the best schools, a country where
motherhood and fatherhood are championed by law, childhood is
revered, schoolchildren are required to play outdoors multiple
times a day, and trains contain mini-libraries and mini-playgrounds
for children to enjoy. It was here in the Karelian forest that
Naomi found a culinary symphony of succulent wild edibles, herbs,
berries, mushrooms and fish, all freshly plucked from the
moss-carpeted forest and sparkling clear streams. She also found
something that changed her life-a tribe of invincible women who
became her soul-sisters. As an idyllic summer and fall gave way to
a sub-Arctic winter of mind-bending darkness and cold, Naomi faced
her fears and her future. Over the course of six unforgettable
months with her family and her new "sisters", she found her life
transformed, and discovered the power that lay within her all
along. Then she tried to leave. But she kept coming back. Come,
take a journey deep into Europe's most distant, magical wilderness,
and join the sisterhood of the enchanted forest.
Two centuries after the French Revolution, Maximilien Robespierre
is still regarded as its towering figure. Perceived by some as the
champion, indeed the incarnation, of the Revolution's purest and
noblest ideals, among others he will always be remembered as the
reasoned advocate of the Terror, the defender of mass killing
during the Revolution's darkest and most tragic phase. This volume
comprises essays by an array of international scholars and examines
Robespierre's life and work from three main perspectives: his
ideology and vision of the Revolution, his role in the period's
tumultous politics, culminating in his year on the Committee of
Public Safety in 1793-94, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century
representations of the Incorruptible - by historians, dramatists
and writers of fiction. This book illuminates many facets of
Robespierre's career, thought and reputation, and provides a
balanced and up-to-date appraisal of one of the great figures of
European history.
Maximilien Robespierre is one of the greatest figures of European history but is at the same time one of the most reviled and revered. The essays in this volume seek to explain these contradictory views of Robespierre. They provide a balanced and up-to-date account of Robespierre's life and work by looking in turn at his ideology and vision of the Revolution, his role in the political life of Revolutionary France, and finally at representations of Robespierre in the history, drama and fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
One of the most lively of France's younger historians, Guy
Chaussinand-Nogaret argues in this pioneering essay that the
traditional picture of the pre-revolutionary French nobility as a
caste of intransigent reactionaries and parasites is a fabrication
of revolutionary propaganda. Using a whole range of new research
and calculations, he argues that the nobility represented all that
was most vigorous and forward-looking in eighteenth-century French
society. Constantly renewing itself by recruiting the richest
members of the middle classes or marrying their daughters, the
nobility was in the forefront of French economic and intellectual
life, and until 1789 was at the head of the movement for reform of
the old regime state. In an afterword specially written for the
English edition, the author explains how the revolutionaries came
to turn against a group that had done more than any other to bring
about the Revolution.
The French Revolution is a time of history made familiar from
Dickens, Baroness Orczy, and Tolstoy, as well as the legends of let
them eat cake, and tricolours. Beginning in 1789, this period of
extreme political and social unrest saw the end of the French
monarchy, the death of an extraordinary number of people beneath
the guillotine's blade during the Terror, and the rise of Napoleon,
as well as far reaching consequences still with us today, such as
the enduring ideology of human rights, and decimalization. In this
Very Short Introduction, William Doyle introduces the French old
regime and considers how and why it collapsed. Retelling the
unfolding events of the revolution, he analyses why the
revolutionaries quarrelled with the king, the church and the rest
of Europe, why this produced Terror, and finally how it
accomplished rule by a general. Doyle also discusses how and why
the revolution destroyed the age-old cultural, institutional, and
social structures in France and beyond. In this new edition, Doyle
includes new sections highlighting the main developments in the
field since the first edition, before exploring the legacy of the
revolution in the form of rationality in public affairs and
responsible government. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short
Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds
of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books
are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our
expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and
enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly
readable.
The counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s remains a highly controversial and divisive topic in our society; virtually the only thing that anyone can agree on is its enormous impact on American life. Critics on the right complain of the shattering of cherished social norms, while those on the left take many movements to task for not going far enough and selling out. Amidst the recent flourishing of Sixties scholarship, Imagine Nation is the first collection to focus solely on the counterculture. Its fourteen provocative essays seek to unearth the complexity and rediscover the society-changing power of significant movements and figures. The fascinating constellation of topics covered include feminism, psychedelic drug experimentation, guerrilla theatre, the New Left, Jimi Hendrix, communal living, underground comics, and avant-garde film. As a whole, Imagine Nation offers exciting new interpretations of how the counterculture of. the 1960s and 1970s irrevocably changed American society.
According to a professional association of 67,000 pediatricians,
"the lifelong success of children is based on their ability to be
creative and to apply the lessons learned from playing." But
play-including physical activity, the arts, and even free play-is
being eliminated in our society and schools and despite huge
financial investment these education policies have not improved
learning. In Let the Children Play, the authors, both fathers of
school-age children, tell how switching countries - Pasi Sahlberg
brought his Finnish family to the United States, while William
Doyle brought his American family to Finland - shocked them into
writing this book. With research breakthroughs and case histories
from Finland, China, Singapore, Scotland, New York, Texas, and
around the world, the authors reveal how intellectual and physical
play is the ultimate engine of transforming education - the key to
giving our children the well-being, happiness, and skills they need
to thrive in the 21st century, including curiosity, creativity,
teamwork, problem-solving, communication, and empathy. Written for
parents, educators, and policymakers, this book reveals a striking
vision of an inspiring future of our children's education-and how
to make it happen.
The French Revolution facilitated the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte,
but after gaining power he knew that his first task was to end it.
In this book William Doyle describes how he did so, beginning with
the three large issues that had destabilized revolutionary France:
war, religion and monarchy. Doyle shows how, as First Consul of the
Republic, Napoleon resolved these issues: first by winning the war,
then by forging peace with the Church and finally by making himself
a monarch. Napoleon at Peace ends by discussing Napoleon’s one
great failure – his attempt to restore the colonial empire
destroyed by war and slave rebellion. By the time this was
abandoned, the fragile peace with Britain had broken down, and the
Napoleonic wars had begun.
Since its first publication to mark the bicentenary of the French
Revolution in 1989, this Oxford History has established itself as
the Revolution's most authoritative and comprehensive one-volume
history in English, and has recently been translated into Chinese.
Running from the accession of Louis XVI in 1774, it traces the
history of France through revolution, terror, and
counter-revolution to the final triumph of Napoleon in 1802. It
also analyses the impact of events in France upon the rest of
Europe and the world beyond. The study shows how a movement which
began with optimism and general enthusiasm soon became a tragedy,
not only for the ruling orders, but also for the millions of
ordinary people whose lives were disrupted by religious upheaval,
economic chaos, and civil and international war. Now in its third
edition, this volume has been fully updated in the light of current
research, and includes an appendix surveying the past and present
historiography of the revolutionary period.
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