Search Results - "Cold War"

The Syrian wars by Grainger, John D., 1939-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: Syria's importance revealed -- Syria divided -- Cold war -- The new kings, and the first Syrian war -- Competitive developing -- The second Syrian war -- Increasing strains -- The third war, the 'War of Laodike' -- The Seleukid collapse -- The fourth war -- The reversal, the Ptolemaic collapse -- The fifth war, the triumph of Antiochos III -- Changing priorities -- The sixth war, and the 'day of Eleusis' -- Mutual troubles and a new agenda -- The seventh war, the triumph of Ptolemy Philometor -- The legacy of Philometor -- The eighth war, the last chance for union -- The ninth, and last, war.…”
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A renegade union interracial organizing and labor radicalism / by Phillips, Lisa Ann Wunderlich

Table of Contents: “…Community-based, "catch-all" organizing on New York's Lower East side -- Getting beyond racial, ethnic, religious, and skill-based divisions -- "Like a scab over an infected sore": full and fair employment during and after World War II -- Attacked from the left and the right: community-organizing, civic unionism during the early years of the Cold War -- A third Labor Federation? The Distributive, Processing, and Office Workers of America (DPO) -- Community organizing under the AFL-CIO umbrella.…”
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Texas takes wing : a century of flight in the Lone Star State / by Ganson, Barbara Anne, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Flying Takes Off in Texas -- The Stinson Flying Family of San Antonio and Texas Aviators in the Great War -- Between the World Wars : Barnstormers--Owners and Operators of Flying Services -- Record Setters and Air Racers -- Creating a More Connected World -- Flight Training -- Texas Air Power during the Second World War -- Aircraft Designers and Manufacturers -- Red, White, and Blue All Over : Texas Air Power in the Cold War and the Space Age -- Epilogue: Aeronautical Achievements, Education, and the Future of Air and Space Travel -- Appendices.…”
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No Jim Crow church : the origins of South Carolina's Baha'i community / by Venters, Louis

Table of Contents: “…First contacts, 1898-1916 -- The divine plan, the great war, and progressive-era racial politics, 1914-1921 -- Building a Baha'i community in Augusta and North Augusta, 1911-1939 -- The great depression, the second World War, and the first seven year plan, 1935-1945 -- Postwar opportunities, cold war challenges, and the second seven year plan, 1944-1953 -- The ten year plan and the fall of Jim Crow, 1950-1965 -- Coda: toward a Baha'i mass movement, 1965-1968.…”
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From submarines to suburbs selling a better America, 1939-1959 / by Henthorn, Cynthia Lee, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…realities of the postwar commercial fallout -- The cold war's commercial fallout -- Afterword : the "better America" today.…”
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Inventing global ecology tracking the biodiversity ideal in India, 1947-1997 / by Lewis, Michael L., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Scientists or spies? : ecology and Cold War suspicion -- Ch. 5. "Modern" ecology comes to India : Madhav Gadgil and the CES -- Ch. 6. …”
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Managing world order United Nations peace operations and the security agenda / by Al-Qaq, Richard Kareem

Table of Contents: “…United Nations peace operations and world order : a reappraisal of purposes and practices, 1948-87 -- Defining the work of the United Nations : from the challenge of third world activism to a resurgent western security agenda -- Reorienting the United Nations after the Cold War : the advance of peace operations -- United Nations misadventures in Somalia : militarised liberal internationalism in the early 1990s -- Post-colonial Rwanda and United Nations conveyance operations : from trusteeship to regime change -- Manufacturing peace in Angola : the Lusaka Protocols and the standard of UN peace operations -- Managing world order on the periphery.…”
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Transplanting the great society Lyndon Johnson and Food for Peace / by Ahlberg, Kristin L., 1975-

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To shake their guns in the tyrant's face libertarian political violence and the origins of the militia movement / by Churchill, Robert H.

Table of Contents: “…The precedent of 1774: the role of insurgent violence in the political theory of the founding -- The revolution as living memory: Fries' Rebellion and The Alien and Sedition Act crisis of 1798-1800 -- The libertarian memory of the revolution in the Antebellum Era -- The roots of modern patriotism: conscription, resistance, and the Sons of Liberty conspiracy of 1864 -- Cleansing the memory of the revolution: Americanism, the black legion, and the first Brown Scare -- The making of the second Brown Scare: liberal pluralism and the evolution of the white supremacist right -- The origins of the militia movement: violence and memory on the suburban-rural frontier -- An exploration of militia ideology: the Whig diagnosis of post-Cold War America -- Epilogue: the defense of liberty in the age of terror.…”
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Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic in world politics by Cabada, Ladislav

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Czech statehood and the birth of Czechoslovakia / Ladislav Cabada -- The Czechoslovak republic in the international politics of the interwar period / Ladislav Cabada -- From Munich to the renewal of Czechoslovakia / Ladislav Cabada -- Czechoslovakia in a divided Europe: the formation of Czechoslovak foreign policy after WWII and relations with its neighbours and superpowers during the Cold War / Sárka Waisová -- Regional cooperation in Central Europe and beyond: the Czech Republic as a member of regional organisations / Sárka Waisová -- The Czech Republic and foreign development cooperation: from donor to recipient and back / Sárka Waisová -- The war on terror and dilemmas in Czech foreign policy: Atlanticism? …”
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John Wayne's world transnational masculinity in the fifties / by Meeuf, Russell, 1981-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: reexamining John Wayne -- The emergence of "John Wayne": Red River, global masculinity, and Wayne's romantic anxieties -- Exile, community, and wandering: international migration and the spatial dynamics of modernity in John Ford's cavalry trilogy -- John Wayne's cold war: mass tourism and the anticommunist crusade -- John Wayne's body: technicolor and 3-D anxieties in Hondo and the Searchers -- John Wayne's Africa: European colonialism versus U.S. global leadership in Legend of the lost -- John Wayne's Japan: international production, global trade -- And John Wayne's diplomacy in the Barbarian and the Geisha -- Men at work in tight spaces: masculinity, professionalism, and politics in Rio Bravo and the Alamo -- Conclusion: the man who shot Liberty Valance and nostalgia for John Wayne's world.…”
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Managing world order United Nations peace operations and the security agenda / by Al-Qaq, Richard Kareem

Table of Contents: “…United Nations peace operations and world order : a reappraisal of purposes and practices, 1948-87 -- Defining the work of the United Nations : from the challenge of third world activism to a resurgent western security agenda -- Reorienting the United Nations after the Cold War : the advance of peace operations -- United Nations misadventures in Somalia : militarised liberal internationalism in the early 1990s -- Post-colonial Rwanda and United Nations conveyance operations : from trusteeship to regime change -- Manufacturing peace in Angola : the Lusaka Protocols and the standard of UN peace operations -- Managing world order on the periphery.…”
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Transplanting the great society Lyndon Johnson and Food for Peace / by Ahlberg, Kristin L., 1975-

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To shake their guns in the tyrant's face libertarian political violence and the origins of the militia movement / by Churchill, Robert H.

Table of Contents: “…The precedent of 1774: the role of insurgent violence in the political theory of the founding -- The revolution as living memory: Fries' Rebellion and The Alien and Sedition Act crisis of 1798-1800 -- The libertarian memory of the revolution in the Antebellum Era -- The roots of modern patriotism: conscription, resistance, and the Sons of Liberty conspiracy of 1864 -- Cleansing the memory of the revolution: Americanism, the black legion, and the first Brown Scare -- The making of the second Brown Scare: liberal pluralism and the evolution of the white supremacist right -- The origins of the militia movement: violence and memory on the suburban-rural frontier -- An exploration of militia ideology: the Whig diagnosis of post-Cold War America -- Epilogue: the defense of liberty in the age of terror.…”
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Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic in world politics by Cabada, Ladislav

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Czech statehood and the birth of Czechoslovakia / Ladislav Cabada -- The Czechoslovak republic in the international politics of the interwar period / Ladislav Cabada -- From Munich to the renewal of Czechoslovakia / Ladislav Cabada -- Czechoslovakia in a divided Europe: the formation of Czechoslovak foreign policy after WWII and relations with its neighbours and superpowers during the Cold War / Sárka Waisová -- Regional cooperation in Central Europe and beyond: the Czech Republic as a member of regional organisations / Sárka Waisová -- The Czech Republic and foreign development cooperation: from donor to recipient and back / Sárka Waisová -- The war on terror and dilemmas in Czech foreign policy: Atlanticism? …”
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John Wayne's world transnational masculinity in the fifties / by Meeuf, Russell, 1981-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: reexamining John Wayne -- The emergence of "John Wayne": Red River, global masculinity, and Wayne's romantic anxieties -- Exile, community, and wandering: international migration and the spatial dynamics of modernity in John Ford's cavalry trilogy -- John Wayne's cold war: mass tourism and the anticommunist crusade -- John Wayne's body: technicolor and 3-D anxieties in Hondo and the Searchers -- John Wayne's Africa: European colonialism versus U.S. global leadership in Legend of the lost -- John Wayne's Japan: international production, global trade -- And John Wayne's diplomacy in the Barbarian and the Geisha -- Men at work in tight spaces: masculinity, professionalism, and politics in Rio Bravo and the Alamo -- Conclusion: the man who shot Liberty Valance and nostalgia for John Wayne's world.…”
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Politics and the papacy in the modern world by Coppa, Frank J.

Table of Contents: “…The Vatican's "impartiality," "silence," and "internationalism" during World War II and beyond -- 8. The papacy and the cold war: the confrontation between Catholicism and communism -- 9. …”
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The U.S. Navy : a concise history / by Symonds, Craig L.

Table of Contents: “…Navy in the Second World War (1939-1945) -- Confronting the Soviets: The Cold War Navy (1945-1975) -- The U.S. Navy in the 21st Century.…”
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Inventing global ecology tracking the biodiversity ideal in India, 1947-1997 / by Lewis, Michael L., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Scientists or spies? : ecology and Cold War suspicion -- Ch. 5. "Modern" ecology comes to India : Madhav Gadgil and the CES -- Ch. 6. …”
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Politics and the papacy in the modern world by Coppa, Frank J.

Table of Contents: “…The Vatican's "impartiality," "silence," and "internationalism" during World War II and beyond -- 8. The papacy and the cold war: the confrontation between Catholicism and communism -- 9. …”
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