Search Results - "Army"

War and the environment military destruction in the modern age /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: landscapes of peace, environments of war / Charles Edwin Closmann -- America's military footprint: environmental implications of the U.S. army since 1789 / J. R. McNeill and David S. Painter -- Wood for war: the legacy of human conflict on the Philippine forests, 1565-1945 / Greg Bankoff -- Devouring the land: Sherman's 1864-65 campaigns / Lisa M. …”
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Mrs. Dred Scott a life on slavery's frontier / by VanderVelde, Lea

Table of Contents: “…Louis -- Doctor returns -- 1843 Interlude : Jefferson barracks between wars of national expansion -- Dred with the army of observation and Harriet with the children in St. …”
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Depth of field Stanley Kubrick, film, and the uses of history /

Table of Contents: “…. / Frederic Raphael -- Kubrick's armies : strategy, hierarchy, and motive in the war films of Stanley Kubrick / Glenn Perusek -- Subjected wills : the anti-humanism of Kubrick's later films / Pat J. …”
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Histories of the Middle East studies in Middle Eastern society, economy and law in honor of A.L. Udovitch /

Table of Contents: “…Powers -- The view from the south : the maps of the book of curiosities and the commercial revolution of the eleventh century / Yossef Rapoport -- From artisan to courtier : sufism and social mobility in fifteenth-century Egypt / Adam Sabra -- Mini-dramas by the water : on irrigation rights and disputes in fifteenth-century Damascus / Boaz Shoshan -- Army economics : an early papyrus letter related to 'ata' payments / Petra M. …”
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Depth of field Stanley Kubrick, film, and the uses of history /

Table of Contents: “…. / Frederic Raphael -- Kubrick's armies : strategy, hierarchy, and motive in the war films of Stanley Kubrick / Glenn Perusek -- Subjected wills : the anti-humanism of Kubrick's later films / Pat J. …”
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Histories of the Middle East studies in Middle Eastern society, economy and law in honor of A.L. Udovitch /

Table of Contents: “…Powers -- The view from the south : the maps of the book of curiosities and the commercial revolution of the eleventh century / Yossef Rapoport -- From artisan to courtier : sufism and social mobility in fifteenth-century Egypt / Adam Sabra -- Mini-dramas by the water : on irrigation rights and disputes in fifteenth-century Damascus / Boaz Shoshan -- Army economics : an early papyrus letter related to 'ata' payments / Petra M. …”
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Mrs. Dred Scott a life on slavery's frontier / by VanderVelde, Lea

Table of Contents: “…Louis -- Doctor returns -- 1843 Interlude : Jefferson barracks between wars of national expansion -- Dred with the army of observation and Harriet with the children in St. …”
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Investigate everything federal efforts to compel Black loyalty during World War I / by Kornweibel, Theodore

Table of Contents: “…"Perhaps you will be shot": Sex, Spies, Science, and the -- Moens Case 199 -- 10. "Negro Subversion": Army Intelligence Investigations during -- World War I 226 -- Epilogue. …”
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A new division of labor meeting America's security challenges beyond Iraq /

Table of Contents: “…-- Different demands for joint warfighting prowess -- Maintaining strategic focus -- Achieving joint tactical proficiency -- A new joint division of labor -- Implications for the Armed Forces -- Building the "inform and act" system -- A strategically decisive Army: winning at peace as well as war -- A new air-ground partnership -- Integrating air, space, and maritime power -- Getting more from the Corps -- Security cooperation in the new security environment -- Potential actions for the DoD's leadership.…”
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A lawyer in Indian country a memoir / by Ziontz, Alvin J.

Table of Contents: “…The road to Neah Bay -- The road to Neah Bay begins in Chicago -- The University of Chicago, the army, and Seattle -- Becoming a lawyer -- Seven years of lawyering in West Seattle -- Creating a law firm -- Indian fishing rights : joining the struggle -- The Makahs -- Recovering lost property : Ozette, Tatoosh, and Waadah -- The Lummi Tribe -- Indian fishing rights : eighty years of suppression, twenty years of confrontation -- The big bang : U.S. v. …”
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Telemetry research, technology and applications /

Table of Contents: “….] -- Telemetry: an ecologist Swiss-army knife / Filipa Loureiro, Luís Miguel Rosalino -- Biotelemetry NET for neurochemical biosensor and microsensor applications: design, construction and validation / Pier Andrea Serra ... …”
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Tracks and shadows field biology as art / by Greene, Harry W., 1945-

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A lawyer in Indian country a memoir / by Ziontz, Alvin J.

Table of Contents: “…The road to Neah Bay -- The road to Neah Bay begins in Chicago -- The University of Chicago, the army, and Seattle -- Becoming a lawyer -- Seven years of lawyering in West Seattle -- Creating a law firm -- Indian fishing rights : joining the struggle -- The Makahs -- Recovering lost property : Ozette, Tatoosh, and Waadah -- The Lummi Tribe -- Indian fishing rights : eighty years of suppression, twenty years of confrontation -- The big bang : U.S. v. …”
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Telemetry research, technology and applications /

Table of Contents: “….] -- Telemetry: an ecologist Swiss-army knife / Filipa Loureiro, Luís Miguel Rosalino -- Biotelemetry NET for neurochemical biosensor and microsensor applications: design, construction and validation / Pier Andrea Serra ... …”
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Tracks and shadows field biology as art / by Greene, Harry W., 1945-

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Investigate everything federal efforts to compel Black loyalty during World War I / by Kornweibel, Theodore

Table of Contents: “…"Perhaps you will be shot": Sex, Spies, Science, and the -- Moens Case 199 -- 10. "Negro Subversion": Army Intelligence Investigations during -- World War I 226 -- Epilogue. …”
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A new division of labor meeting America's security challenges beyond Iraq /

Table of Contents: “…-- Different demands for joint warfighting prowess -- Maintaining strategic focus -- Achieving joint tactical proficiency -- A new joint division of labor -- Implications for the Armed Forces -- Building the "inform and act" system -- A strategically decisive Army: winning at peace as well as war -- A new air-ground partnership -- Integrating air, space, and maritime power -- Getting more from the Corps -- Security cooperation in the new security environment -- Potential actions for the DoD's leadership.…”
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Castles, battles, & bombs how economics explains military history / by Brauer, Jurgen, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Economics -- Economics -- Principle I: Opportunity cost -- Principle II: Expected marginal costs and benefits -- Principle III: Substitution -- Principle IV: Diminishing marginal returns -- Principle V: asymmetric information and hidden characteristics -- Principle VI: Hidden actions and incentive alignments -- Conclusion: economics--and military history -- The high Middle Ages, 1000-1300: The case of the medieval castle and the opportunity cost of warfare -- Opportunity cost and warfare -- The ubiquity of castles -- The cost of castling -- The advantages of castles -- The cost of armies -- Castle building and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The Renaissance, 1300-1600: the case of the condottieri and the military labor market -- The principal-agent problem -- Demand, supply, and recruitment -- Contracts and pay -- Control and contract evolution -- The development of permanent armies -- Condottieri and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The age of battle, 1618-1815: the case of costs, benefits, and the decision to offer battle -- Expected marginal costs and benefits of battle -- The 1600s: Gustavus Adolphus and Raimondo de Montecuccoli -- The 1700s: Marlborough, de Saxe, and Frederick the Great -- Napoleonic warfare -- The age of battle and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The age of revolution, 1789-1914: the case of the American Civil War and the economics of information asymmetry -- Information and warfare -- North, South, and the search for information -- Major Eastern campaigns through Gettysburg -- Grant in Virginia -- The American Civil War and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The age of the world wars, 1914-1945: the case of diminishing marginal returns to the strategic bombing of Germany in World War II -- A strategic bombing production function -- Bombing German war production -- Bombing the supply chain and the civilian economy -- Bombing German morale -- Assessing the effect of strategic bombing -- Strategic bombing and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The age of the Cold War, 1945-1991: the case of capital-labor substitution and France's Force de Frappe -- History of the Force de Frappe -- The force post-De Gaulle -- Justifying the force -- The force's effect on France's conventional arms -- Substituting nuclear for conventional forces -- The Force de Frappe and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- Economics and military history in the twenty-first century -- Economics of terrorism -- Economics of military manpower -- Economics of private military companies -- Economics, historiography, and military history -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.…”
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Castles, battles, & bombs how economics explains military history / by Brauer, Jurgen, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Economics -- Economics -- Principle I: Opportunity cost -- Principle II: Expected marginal costs and benefits -- Principle III: Substitution -- Principle IV: Diminishing marginal returns -- Principle V: asymmetric information and hidden characteristics -- Principle VI: Hidden actions and incentive alignments -- Conclusion: economics--and military history -- The high Middle Ages, 1000-1300: The case of the medieval castle and the opportunity cost of warfare -- Opportunity cost and warfare -- The ubiquity of castles -- The cost of castling -- The advantages of castles -- The cost of armies -- Castle building and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The Renaissance, 1300-1600: the case of the condottieri and the military labor market -- The principal-agent problem -- Demand, supply, and recruitment -- Contracts and pay -- Control and contract evolution -- The development of permanent armies -- Condottieri and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The age of battle, 1618-1815: the case of costs, benefits, and the decision to offer battle -- Expected marginal costs and benefits of battle -- The 1600s: Gustavus Adolphus and Raimondo de Montecuccoli -- The 1700s: Marlborough, de Saxe, and Frederick the Great -- Napoleonic warfare -- The age of battle and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The age of revolution, 1789-1914: the case of the American Civil War and the economics of information asymmetry -- Information and warfare -- North, South, and the search for information -- Major Eastern campaigns through Gettysburg -- Grant in Virginia -- The American Civil War and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The age of the world wars, 1914-1945: the case of diminishing marginal returns to the strategic bombing of Germany in World War II -- A strategic bombing production function -- Bombing German war production -- Bombing the supply chain and the civilian economy -- Bombing German morale -- Assessing the effect of strategic bombing -- Strategic bombing and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- The age of the Cold War, 1945-1991: the case of capital-labor substitution and France's Force de Frappe -- History of the Force de Frappe -- The force post-De Gaulle -- Justifying the force -- The force's effect on France's conventional arms -- Substituting nuclear for conventional forces -- The Force de Frappe and the other principles of economics -- Conclusion -- Economics and military history in the twenty-first century -- Economics of terrorism -- Economics of military manpower -- Economics of private military companies -- Economics, historiography, and military history -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.…”
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Apocalypse and the millennium in the American Civil War era /

Table of Contents: “…Dresser -- Emancipation and African American millennialism / Matthew Harper -- A sharecropper's millennium : land and the perils of forgiveness in post Civil War South Carolina / Scott Nesbit -- "Two divisions of the same great army" : ecclesiastical separation by race and the millennium / Charles F. …”
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