Search Results - "frontier"

The Malthusian moment global population growth and the birth of American environmentalism / by Robertson, Thomas, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Malthusianism, eugenics, and carrying capacity in the interwar period -- War and nature: Fairfield Osborn, William Vogt, and the birth of global ecology -- Abundance in a sea of poverty : quality and quantity of life -- "Feed 'em or fight 'em: population and resources on the global frontier during the Cold War -- The "Chinification" of American cities, suburbs, and wilderness -- Paul Ehrlich, the 1960s, and the population bomb -- Strange bedfellows: population politics, 1968-1970 -- We're all in the same boat!?…”
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Arizona a history / by Sheridan, Thomas E.

Table of Contents: “…Incorporation -- The Native Americans -- The arrival of the Europeans -- Mexican Arizona and the Anglo frontier -- Early Anglo settlement and the beginning of the Indian wars -- The military conquest of Indian Arizona -- Extraction -- The freighters and the railroads -- Cattle -- Silver and gold -- Copper -- Oases in the desert -- Water and cotton -- Transformation -- Climate -- The Depression and the New Deal -- World War II and the postwar boom -- The other Arizona -- From the Southwest to the Sunbelt -- Arizona in the twenty-first century -- The political ecology of a desert state -- Reference material -- Bibliographic essays -- Index -- Political map of Arizona -- Physiographic map of Arizona -- Indian reservations in Arizona -- Federal lands in Arizona.…”
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Globalizing the sacred religion across the Americas / by Vásquez, Manuel A.

Table of Contents: “…The limits of dominant and emerging models -- Theorizing globalization and religion -- Miracles at the border : a genealogy of religious globalization -- Crossing the electronic frontier : religious congregations and the internet -- Saving souls transnationally : pentecostalism and the gangs in El Salvador and the United States / with Ileana Gomez -- A continuum of hybridity : Latino churches in the new South -- John Paul II's civilization of love : pre-modern, modern, or postmodern? …”
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Decision at sea five naval battles that shaped American history / by Symonds, Craig L.

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : naval battles and history -- Wooden warships and the western frontier : the Battle of Lake Erie, September 10, 1813 -- Iron, steam, and national union : the Battle of Hampton Roads, March 8-9, 1862 -- Armored cruisers and empire : the Battle of Manila Bay, May 1, 1898 -- Naval aviation and world war : the Battle of Midway, June 4, 1942 -- Missile warfare and the American imperium : Operation Praying Mantis, the Persian Gulf, April 18, 1988 -- Epilogue : naval battles and the 21st century.…”
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Family and empire the Fernández de Córdoba and the Spanish realm / by Liang, Yuen-Gen, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…The Fernández de Córdoba lineage in late medieval Córdoba, 1236-1500 -- The Fernández de Córdoba lineage and early Spanish expansion, 1482-1518 -- The regeneration of monarchy and nobility : Martín de Córdoba in Toledo, 1520-1525 -- Navarre and the imperialization of the House of Alcaudete, 1525-1534 -- The Fernández de Córdoba lineage and the transfer of frontier expertise to Algeria, 1512-1558 -- Epilogue. …”
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Family and empire the Fernández de Córdoba and the Spanish realm / by Liang, Yuen-Gen, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…The Fernández de Córdoba lineage in late medieval Córdoba, 1236-1500 -- The Fernández de Córdoba lineage and early Spanish expansion, 1482-1518 -- The regeneration of monarchy and nobility : Martín de Córdoba in Toledo, 1520-1525 -- Navarre and the imperialization of the House of Alcaudete, 1525-1534 -- The Fernández de Córdoba lineage and the transfer of frontier expertise to Algeria, 1512-1558 -- Epilogue. …”
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Where the domino fell : America and Vietnam, 1945-2010 / by Olson, James Stuart, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Eternal war : the Vietnamese heritage -- The first Indochina War, 1945-1954 -- The making of a quagmire, 1954-1960 -- The new frontier in Vietnam, 1961-1963 -- Planning a tragedy, 1963-1965 -- Into the abyss, 1965-1966 -- The mirage of progress, 1966-1967 -- Tet and the year of the monkey, 1968 -- The beginning of the end, 1969-1970 -- The fall of South Vietnam, 1970-1975 -- Distorted images, missed opportunities, 1975-1995 -- Oliver Stone's Vietnam.…”
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Where the domino fell : America and Vietnam, 1945-2010 / by Olson, James Stuart, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Eternal war : the Vietnamese heritage -- The first Indochina War, 1945-1954 -- The making of a quagmire, 1954-1960 -- The new frontier in Vietnam, 1961-1963 -- Planning a tragedy, 1963-1965 -- Into the abyss, 1965-1966 -- The mirage of progress, 1966-1967 -- Tet and the year of the monkey, 1968 -- The beginning of the end, 1969-1970 -- The fall of South Vietnam, 1970-1975 -- Distorted images, missed opportunities, 1975-1995 -- Oliver Stone's Vietnam.…”
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Familiar Strangers : A History of Muslims in Northwest China / by Lipman, Jonathan Neaman

Table of Contents: “…List of Maps ; List of Illustrations ; Preface ; Introduction: Purposes and Form of a Muslim History in China ; 1. The Frontier Ground and Peoples of Northwest China ; 2. …”
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Familiar Strangers : A History of Muslims in Northwest China / by Lipman, Jonathan Neaman

Table of Contents: “…List of Maps ; List of Illustrations ; Preface ; Introduction: Purposes and Form of a Muslim History in China ; 1. The Frontier Ground and Peoples of Northwest China ; 2. …”
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Resource-based theory creating and sustaining competitive advantage / by Barney, Jay B.

Table of Contents: “…Resource-based theory and vertical integration ; Resource-based theory and corporate diversification ; Resource-based theory and mergers and acquisitions -- RBT : the research frontier. Resource-based theory : empirical research ; The future of resource-based theory.…”
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The blackstone of military law Colonel William Winthrop / by Kastenberg, Joshua E., 1967-

Table of Contents: “…A privileged lineage -- From youth to Yale : the making of a legal mind -- Bostonian lawyer with stirrings of abolitionism -- Frontier lawyer in the Minnesota Territory -- The Winthrop brothers go to war -- A sharpshooter on the Peninsula Campaign -- From Second Manassas to Fredericksburg : "I had some pretty close escapes" -- Civil War judge advocate -- Professionalizing a "Constitutional Army" in a time of uncertainty : 1865-1895 -- Professionalizing the practice of military law : Winthrop's influence cemented -- Marriage and field service under the command of John M. …”
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The deaths of others the fate of civilians in America's wars / by Tirman, John

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Death and remembrance in America's wars -- American wars and the culture of violence -- Strategic bombing in the Second World War -- The Korean War : the hegemony of forgetting -- The Vietnam War : the high cost of credibility -- The Reagan doctrine : savage war by proxy -- Iraq : the twenty years' war -- Afghanistan : hot pursuit on terrorism's frontier -- Three atrocities and the rules of engagement -- Counting : a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths are a statistic -- The epistemology of war.…”
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U.S. presidents and foreign policy mistakes by Walker, Stephen G., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Mistakes as a feature of everyday political life -- Foreign policy mistakes and the exercise of power -- Fearing losses too little : deterrence failures -- Fearing losses too much : false alarm failures -- Seeking gains too late : reassurance failures -- Seeking gains too soon : false hope failures -- Foreign policy analysis : maximizing rationality -- Foreign policy analysis : minimizing mistakes -- Avoiding foreign policy mistakes : extension and expansion -- Foreign policy dynamics : the Middle East and South Asia systems -- Some final thoughts : exploring the rationality frontier.…”
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Sold down the river slavery in the lower Chattahoochee Valley of Alabama and Georgia / by Carey, Anthony Gene

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: writing slaveries from the perspectives of one place -- Slaveries, rivalries, revolutions, removals: the valley from creek heartland to American frontier -- Markets in flesh: the parameters of slavery and the slave trade -- The work of slavery, the lineaments of life -- "A tight fight where us was": punishment, resistance, and power -- Praying together for different things: evangelicalism and the limits of biracial worship -- Whose bodies? …”
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Modelling under risk and uncertainty an introduction to statistical, phenomenological and computational methods / by Rocquigny, Etienne de

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The blackstone of military law Colonel William Winthrop / by Kastenberg, Joshua E., 1967-

Table of Contents: “…A privileged lineage -- From youth to Yale : the making of a legal mind -- Bostonian lawyer with stirrings of abolitionism -- Frontier lawyer in the Minnesota Territory -- The Winthrop brothers go to war -- A sharpshooter on the Peninsula Campaign -- From Second Manassas to Fredericksburg : "I had some pretty close escapes" -- Civil War judge advocate -- Professionalizing a "Constitutional Army" in a time of uncertainty : 1865-1895 -- Professionalizing the practice of military law : Winthrop's influence cemented -- Marriage and field service under the command of John M. …”
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The deaths of others the fate of civilians in America's wars / by Tirman, John

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Death and remembrance in America's wars -- American wars and the culture of violence -- Strategic bombing in the Second World War -- The Korean War : the hegemony of forgetting -- The Vietnam War : the high cost of credibility -- The Reagan doctrine : savage war by proxy -- Iraq : the twenty years' war -- Afghanistan : hot pursuit on terrorism's frontier -- Three atrocities and the rules of engagement -- Counting : a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths are a statistic -- The epistemology of war.…”
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