Search Results - "militia"

The politics of war : race, class, and conflict in revolutionary Virginia / by McDonnell, Michael A.

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The politics of war : race, class, and conflict in revolutionary Virginia / by McDonnell, Michael A.

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Researching conflict in Africa insights and experiences /

Table of Contents: “…Applying social work practice to the study of ethnic militias : the Oduduwa People's Congress in Nigeria /…”
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Researching conflict in Africa insights and experiences /

Table of Contents: “…Applying social work practice to the study of ethnic militias : the Oduduwa People's Congress in Nigeria /…”
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Dissent, protest and dispute in Africa / by Falola, Toyin, Mbah, Emmanuel M

Table of Contents: “…The evolution of the Mungiki militia in Kenya, 1990 to 2010…”

Dissent, protest and dispute in Africa / by Falola, Toyin, Mbah, Emmanuel M

Table of Contents: “…The evolution of the Mungiki militia in Kenya, 1990 to 2010…”

A knight in politics a biography of Sir Frederick Borden / by Miller, Carman, 1940-

Table of Contents: “…Family -- Business -- Back bench -- Front bench -- Minister -- Command -- Challenge -- War -- Annus miserabilis -- Reform -- The reproach of inferiority -- Dundonald's defiance -- A civilian militia -- The politics of persuasion -- A made-in-Canada militia -- A Canadian army -- Wise autonomy -- Cooperative imperial defence -- Gentleman capitalist -- Maritime entrepreneur -- Political business -- Political purity -- Defeat -- Death -- Appendix. …”
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A knight in politics a biography of Sir Frederick Borden / by Miller, Carman, 1940-

Table of Contents: “…Family -- Business -- Back bench -- Front bench -- Minister -- Command -- Challenge -- War -- Annus miserabilis -- Reform -- The reproach of inferiority -- Dundonald's defiance -- A civilian militia -- The politics of persuasion -- A made-in-Canada militia -- A Canadian army -- Wise autonomy -- Cooperative imperial defence -- Gentleman capitalist -- Maritime entrepreneur -- Political business -- Political purity -- Defeat -- Death -- Appendix. …”
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Manhood, marriage, & mischief Rembrandt's 'Night watch' and other Dutch group portraits / by Berger, Harry

Table of Contents: “…Group portraits and the fictions of the pose -- pt. 2. Militias and marriage -- pt. 3. Picturing family values -- pt. 4. …”
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Manhood, marriage, & mischief Rembrandt's 'Night watch' and other Dutch group portraits / by Berger, Harry

Table of Contents: “…Group portraits and the fictions of the pose -- pt. 2. Militias and marriage -- pt. 3. Picturing family values -- pt. 4. …”
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Rites of August First Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic world / by Kerr-Ritchie, Jeffrey R.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Transnational Emancipation day -- August First in the British West Indies -- West Indian emancipation and the American antislavery picnic -- August First in Afro-America -- Black loyalists in Canada West -- Fugitive slaves in Canada West -- Rehearsal for war: black militias in the Atlantic world -- Emancipation in Pan-African perspective.…”
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Rites of August First Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic world / by Kerr-Ritchie, Jeffrey R.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Transnational Emancipation day -- August First in the British West Indies -- West Indian emancipation and the American antislavery picnic -- August First in Afro-America -- Black loyalists in Canada West -- Fugitive slaves in Canada West -- Rehearsal for war: black militias in the Atlantic world -- Emancipation in Pan-African perspective.…”
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The 2008 battle of Sadr City by Johnson, David E. (David Eugene), 1950-

Table of Contents: “…The 2008 battle of Sadr City -- Background -- Methodology -- Setting conditions -- The area of operations -- Mission: stop the rockets and defeat criminal militias in Sadr City -- The ground fight in Sadr City: heavy armor matters -- The counter rocket fight -- Exploitation -- Key insights from the fight -- Reimagining urban operations as wide area security missions.…”
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Hezbollah a history of the "party of god" / by Avon, Dominique

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- 1982/1985-1991: a militia of professional revolutionaries for the disinherited fringe -- 1999-2000: a state within the state, the Vietcong in the heart of Singapore -- 2000-2009: a model of restored pride, a contested national party -- Documents of the hezbollah: open letter, february 16, 1985; political charter, november 30, 2009.…”
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The 2008 battle of Sadr City by Johnson, David E. (David Eugene), 1950-

Table of Contents: “…The 2008 battle of Sadr City -- Background -- Methodology -- Setting conditions -- The area of operations -- Mission: stop the rockets and defeat criminal militias in Sadr City -- The ground fight in Sadr City: heavy armor matters -- The counter rocket fight -- Exploitation -- Key insights from the fight -- Reimagining urban operations as wide area security missions.…”
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Hezbollah a history of the "party of god" / by Avon, Dominique

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- 1982/1985-1991: a militia of professional revolutionaries for the disinherited fringe -- 1999-2000: a state within the state, the Vietcong in the heart of Singapore -- 2000-2009: a model of restored pride, a contested national party -- Documents of the hezbollah: open letter, february 16, 1985; political charter, november 30, 2009.…”
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The year of the lash free people of color in Cuba and the nineteenth-century Atlantic world / by Reid-Vazquez, Michele

Table of Contents: “…"Very prejudicial" : free people of color in a slave society -- Spectacles of power : repressing the conspiracy of La Escalera -- Calculated expulsions : free people of color in Mexico, the U.S., Spain, and North Africa -- Acts of excess and insubordination : resisting the tranquility of terror -- The rise and fall of the militia of color : from the constitution of 1812 to the Escalera era -- Balancing acts : the shifting dynamics of race and immigration.…”
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The year of the lash free people of color in Cuba and the nineteenth-century Atlantic world / by Reid-Vazquez, Michele

Table of Contents: “…"Very prejudicial" : free people of color in a slave society -- Spectacles of power : repressing the conspiracy of La Escalera -- Calculated expulsions : free people of color in Mexico, the U.S., Spain, and North Africa -- Acts of excess and insubordination : resisting the tranquility of terror -- The rise and fall of the militia of color : from the constitution of 1812 to the Escalera era -- Balancing acts : the shifting dynamics of race and immigration.…”
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A short, offhand, killing affair soldiers and social conflict during the Mexican-American War / by Foos, Paul, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Introduction 3 -- 1 The Regular Army and Antebellum Labor: Service and Servitude 13 -- 2 Citizens' Militias in the United States 31 -- 3 Volunteer Excitement among the Masses 45 -- 4 Forced to Volunteer: The Politics of Compulsion 61 -- 5 Discipline and Desertion in Mexico 83 -- 6 Atrocity: The Wage of Manifest Destiny 113 -- 7 Dreams of Conquest and the Limits of the White Man's Democracy 139 -- 8 Free Soil and the Heritage of the Citizen-Soldier 155.…”
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Everyday Resistance, Peacebuilding and State-making : Insights from 'Africa's World War' / by Iñiguez de Heredia, Marta

Table of Contents: “…Everyday violence and Mai Mai Militias in Eastern DRC -- 6. Creative survival as subversion -- 7. …”
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