Showing papers on "Battle published in 1992"

Burma : insurgency and the politics of ethnicity

Abstract: Part I: The Roots of Conflict 1. The Burmese Way to Stagnation and the Crisis of 1988 2. The Peoples of Burma: A Historic and Ethnic Background 3. Order Without Meaning: British Rule and the Rise of the National Liberation Movement 4. War and Independence: 1942-48 5. Insurgency as a Way of Life Part II Insurrections in the Parliamentary Era 6. The Final Seizure of Power: A Country Goes Underground 7. Failure, Retrenchment and the United Fronts: The Communist Movement 1948-52 8. The Battle for Kawthoolei: The Spread of Ethnic Rebellion 9. Revisionism and the 1955 Line: The Prospect of Peace 10. The Collapse of Parliamentary Democracy: Ne Win Seizes Power Part III Insurrections in the Ne Win era 11. Military Rule and Peace Parley 12. Cultural Revolution 13. The North-East Command and the Four Cuts 14. The Failure of U Nu's Parliamentary Democracy Party, Keren Unity and Emergence of the National Democratic Front 15. The War in the North, Opium and the 1980/1 Peace Parley 16. The Nationalities Question Part IV: The 1980s: A Decade of Upheaval 17. The Democracy Upbringing and the CPB 18. The 1989 CPB Mutinies: The End of the road? 19. The War Goes On: The NDF and the KNU 20. A New Cycle of Conflict?: The 1990 General Election and the DAB Part V Burma at the Century's End 21. The 1990s: Deadlock or the Dawning of New Realities?

The British General Election of 1992

Abstract: Preface A Changed Scene: 1987-1992 Conservatives: Thatcher to Major Labour: Seeking Electability Liberal Democrats and Peripheral Politics The Near Term Campaign: Winter 1991-92 The Deceptive Battle: March-April 1992 The Waterloo of the Polls Politics on the Air: Martin Harrison A Tabloid War: Martin Harrop and Margaret Scammell MPs and Candidates: Byron Criddle The Local Battle Retrospect: Mistakes and Triumphs A Critical Election? Appendix Select Bibliography Index

Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America

Abstract: Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1993, this is an account of the making of Lincoln's revolutionary masterpiece. Lincoln was asked to prepare a memorial for the battle at Gettysburg. Instead, he gave the whole nation "a birth of freedom" - by tracing its birth to the Declaration of Independence (which called all men equal) rather than the Constitution (which tolerated slavery). In the space of a mere 272 words, Lincoln combines the rhetoric of the Greek Revival and the categories of Transcendentalism, to provide stunning imagery of the Rural Cemetery Movement. His entire previous life and training, his deep political experience, went into this, his masterpiece.

Accidental empires: how the boys of Silicon Valley make their millions, battle foreign competition, and still can't get a date

Abstract: From the Publisher: With a new afterword, this national bestseller by "the Liz Smith of Silicon Valley" (Booklist) divulges the quirkily brilliant tale of how--and why--the computer industry works.

A suspected source of Scylitzes' Synopsis Historion: the great Catacalon Cecaumenus

Abstract: ‘Catacalon Cecaumenus’ is no longer a well-known name. In 1924 he was the subject of a study by N. Banescu, and some years later Georgina Buckler proposed that he was the author of the so-called Strategicon, whose author's surname was Cecaumenus. But the latter view no longer enjoys much support from scholars, and less attention has been paid recently to Catacalon. A symptom of his new-found obscurity is the fact that in the index of the 1973 edition of John Scylitzes' Synopsis Historian he is cut into two persons, both called Catacalon Cecaumenus. One of these persons is represented as being slain at the battle of Diacene in 1049, while the other figures exclusively during the reign of Michael VI. In fact, the index errs. The two sets of references denote one and the same man. But the error is fruitful, in that it draws our attention to Scylitzes' description of the wounds suffered by Catacalon at Diacene.

Men at War 1914-1918: National Sentiment and Trench Journalism in France during the First World War

Abstract: Part 1 Trench newspapers: quality and range editors and their motives publication and its constraints trench journalism and attitudes. Part 2 Everyday life: rigours of life in the front line brotherhood in the trenches morale discipline, claims and revolt. Part 3 Ever-present death: battle men wounded, men killed religious sensibility life goes on. Part 4 The hated home front: hatred of 'eye-wash' civilian mediocrity the temptation of revenge. Part 5 The fascination of the home front: wife and family bridges between the front and the home front desire for recognition. Part 6 National feeling: soldiers' indifference hostility towards the enemy soldiers' patriotism.

We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young: Ia Drang - the Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam

Abstract: In November 1965, 450 men of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, under the command of Lt.Col. Hal Moore, were dropped by helicopter into a small clearing in the Ia Drang Valley. They were immediately surrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers. Three days later, only two and a half miles away, a sister battalion was chopped to pieces. Together, these actions at the landing zones X-Ray and Albany constituted one of the most savage and significant battles of the Vietnam War. How these men persevered - sacrificed themselves for their comrades and never gave up - makes a vivid portrait of war at its most inspiring and devastating. General Moore and Joseph Galloway, the only journalist on the ground throughout the fighting, have interviewed hundreds of men who fought there, including the North Vietnamese commanders. This devastating account rises above the specific ordeal it chronicles to present a picture of men facing the ultimate challenge, dealing with it in ways they would have found unimaginable only a few hours earlier. It reveals to us, as rarely before, man's most heroic and horrendous endeavour.

Hotel Warriors: Covering the Gulf War

Abstract: During America's Civil War, accounts of the Battle of Bull Run reached New York within 24 hours. During the Gulf War, reports took three or four days - sometimes two weeks - just to get from the front lines to the nearby press headquarters at the Dhahran International Hotel. From an insider's perspective, Fialka tells why the Marines had a better plan than the Army for getting news back from the front - and how even good plans go awry in the "fog of war". He describes the "hotel warriors", journalists who experienced the war mainly through televized briefings, pool reports, and CNN. He explains why the military's elaborate media handling system teetered on the verge of collapse just hours after the ground war began. And he relates the exploits of the "unilateral" reporters, who decided that the only way to get the news was to break the Army's rules.

Gardens in Ch'i Piao-chia's Social World: Wealth and Values in Late-Ming Kiangnan

Abstract: By the late ming (1573–1644), the values of frugality and spending had often gone to battle. Those who promoted frugality sometimes did so with specific goals in mind—the acquisition of a plot of land, or the stockpiling of resources to ride out a failed harvest—and other times with a social conscience that militated against indulging the self while others suffered from want. Others claimed that spending was acceptable if it did not deplete one's resources or would benefit people in the long run. Yuan Ts'ai, for example, instructed his family: “A degree of luxury in accord with your financial resources is not what I am calling wasteful” (cited in Ebrey 1984:265).

Cultural Locations: Positioning American Studies in the Great Debate

Abstract: SINCE WE LAST MET, THE WORLD HAS SEEN MOMENTOUS CHANGES. The United States organized an international coalition to fight and win a war in the Persian Gulf. Apartheid in South Africa is in the process of crumbling. General Noriega has become an American prisoner. Communism is shattered; the evil empire of the Soviet Union has disintegrated. The cold war is no longer. At this speaking, Arabs are sitting down with Israelis. And we are engaged in a bitter debate over multiculturalism. I could go on. Unemployment insurance, sexual harassment, national health care, abortion rights, family leave, civil rights, and a newly virulent conservatism are all burning issues of the moment. None of them has occupied our daily thoughts more than issues of multiculturalism. Now I confess to more than a bit of puzzlement over all this. We seem to have won the war against communism. American free enterprise is a clear victor in the struggle for what we once called the minds and hearts of the people. Yet somehow we have become enmeshed in a battle over the idea of America. What is at stake in this

Daughters of the Island: Contemporary Chamorro Women Organizers on Guam

Abstract: The book focuses on the women who have made a positive impact on Guam society as organizers. The people of Guam, increasingly conscious of their indigenous identity as Chamorros, have produced a generation who are defending their right to self-determination. Organizing toward these ends are Chamorro women. The historical Catholic Church in this small island nation struggles to protect a cultural identity and a way of life which must change, but at what cost? These Chamorro women provide leadership, defend their language, battle for their land, and fight to control social institutions in the public sector so as to insure the continuity of a way of life which is under seige.

The legislative battle over health services research.

Abstract: Prologue: The large geographic variations that characterize medical practice trouble health policymakers because of implications that a rational basis is lacking for much medical care and that mone...

The battle for Scotland

Abstract: Andrew Marr's first book tells the distinctive story of Scottish politics - now updated with a new introductory chapter. 'We may be about to see a new country - indeed, two new countries, - emerging on these islands. Half a lifetime ago, I sat down to write this book as a work of history. As it's aged, it's become current affairs.' Just twenty years ago it seemed impossible that Scotland would ever get home rule, let alone full independence. Yet very soon there will be a Scottish referendum which will not only decide on this matter but which will have profound consequences for the future of all people on these islands. In The Battle for Scotland, first published in 1992, Andrew Marr provides the historical backdrop to these extraordinary events. He attempts to explain the deep sources of Scottish national feeling and the political will which has brought us to this deeply uncertain time. And in a substantial new introduction, Marr considers how we got here so suddenly, what the stakes really are and what the questions every voting Scot (and every non-voting UK citizen) will be asking themselves. Andrew Marr was born in Glasgow. He graduated from Cambridge University and has enjoyed a long career in political journalism, working for the Scotsman, the Independent, the Economist, the Express and the Observer. From 2000 to 2005 he was the BBC's Political Editor. Andrew's broadcasting includes series on contemporary thinkers for BBC 2 and Radio 4, political documentaries for Channel 4 and BBC Panorama, and Radio 4's 'Start The Week'.

Lincoln's Loyalists: Union Soldiers from the Confederacy

Abstract: Though much has been written about the southern black regiments organized by the Union during the Civil War, very little has been written about the white Southerners who risked their lives to fight the Confederacy in opposition to seccession. Over 100,000 men - ten per cent of General Lee's fighting force originally enlisted in the Confederate ranks - fought in the service of North. The majority of these men - over seventy per cent - came from Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia, but every state in the Confederacy (except South Carolina) provided at least one battalion of white troops for the Union Army. Meticulously exploring the history of loyalists (known as "tories" to their enemies) in each Confederate State, Current provides an original and comprehensive account of this seldom examined topic. He examines why these soldiers fought for the Union, how they fared in battle, and the considerable personal risks endured by both themselves and their families. This book is intended for those interested in the American Civil War.

War and society in Habsburg Spain

Abstract: Contents: Preface The Battle of Lepanto 1571: the costs of victory Taxation, military spending and the domestic economy in Castile in the later 16th century The impact of war Aspects of Spanish military and naval organization during the Ministry of Olivares The appointment of the Duke of Medina Sidonia to the command of the Spanish Armada Spanish Armada guns Spanish Armada gun procurement and policy The invincible Armada The Spanish Armada: naval warfare between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Philip II: What if he had won? A map of crime in 16th-century Spain The Concejo Abierto of Alfaro in 1602: the struggle for local democracy in 17th-century Castile The purchase of nobility in Castile, 1552-1700 Neo-noble nobility: concepts of hidalguia in early modern Castile Hidalgo and pechero: the language of 'estates' and 'classes' in early-modern Castile Index.

Spain 1516-1598: From Nation State to World Empire

Abstract: Part 1 The Habsburg inheritance: the union of the crowns aristocracy and land in castile the Spanish inquisition reconquest and expansion. Part 2 Charles 1 of Spain: the Burgundian prince opposition - cortes and comuneros the subjection of castile Habsburg monarchy and its agents the "Sinews of War" reformers and humanists. Part 3 The emperor Charles 5: universal monarchy and its opponents the armed forces of empire the struggle with France defence against the Turk - the Danube and the Mediterranean princes and protestants in Germany the low countries and the English alliance. Part 4 Spain during the price revolution: the people agriculture and industry American treasure and the price revolution the cost of government communications foreign trade and the balance of payments. Part 5 Philip 2 and the government of Spain: peace and recovery "The Perfect Master in the Art of Ruling" Don Carlos and the succession problem absolute monarchy - the administration cortes and commonwealth Catalonia - security risk or national asset?. Part 6 The war with Islam: the Morisco problem the war of Granada the defence of the Mediterranean Lepanto and after. Part 8 Spain and the counter-reformation: the campaign for uniformity the counter-reformation in Spain scholarship and regalism Philip 2 and the Papacy. Part 9 The turning point - to the Atlantic and the north: the revolt of the Netherlands from Alba to Farnese the battle of the Atlantic warnings from England. Part 10 War and recession: the annexation of Portugal the enterprise of England intervention in France crisis in Aragon recession.

Why the Confederacy lost

Abstract: After the Civil War, someone asked General Pickett why the Battle of Gettysburg had been lost: Was it Lee's error in taking the offensive, the tardiness of Ewell and Early, or Longstreet's hesitation in attacking? Pickett scratched his head and replied, "I've always thought the Yankees had something to do with it." This simple fact, writes James McPherson, has escaped a generation of historians who have looked to faulty morale, population, economics, and dissent as the causes of Confederate failure. These were all factors, he writes, but the Civil War was still a war--won by the Union army through key victories at key moments. With this brilliant review of how historians have explained the Southern defeat, McPherson opens a fascinating account by several leading historians of how the Union broke the Confederate rebellion. In every chapter, the military struggle takes center stage, as the authors reveal how battlefield decisions shaped the very forces that many scholars (putting the cart before the horse) claim determined the outcome of the war. Archer Jones examines the strategy of the two sides, showing how each had to match its military planning to political necessity. Lee raided north of the Potomac with one eye on European recognition and the other on Northern puplic opinion--but his inevitable retreats looked like failure to the Southern public. The North, however, developed a strategy of deep raids that was extremely effective because it served a valuable political as well as military purpose, shattering Southern morale by tearing up the interior. Gary Gallagher takes a hard look at the role of generals, narrowing his focus to the crucial triumvirate of Lee, Grant, and Sherman, who towered above the others. Lee's aggressiveness may have been costly, but he well knew the political impact of his spectacular victories; Grant and Sherman, meanwhile, were the first Union generals to fully harness Northern resources and carry out coordinated campaigns. Reid Mitchell shows how the Union's advantage in numbers was enhanced by a dedication and perseverance of federal troops that was not matched by the Confederates after their home front began to collapse. And Joseph Glatthaar examines black troops, whose role is entering the realm of national myth. In 1960, there appeared a collection of essays by major historians, entitled Why the North Won the Civil War, edited by David Donald; it is now in its twenty-sixth printing, having sold well over 100,000 copies. Why the Confederacy Lost provides a parallel volume, written by today's leading authorities. Provocatively argued and engagingly written, this work reminds us that the hard-won triumph of the North was far from inevitable.

The Lion of Egypt: Sultan Baybars I and the Near East in the Thirteenth Century

Abstract: The political background of Baybar's youth Baybar's origins and rise to power Baybars as Sultan. Appendices: Mongol influences on the Mamluk state Baybar's embassies to Berke Khan the Khutba for Berke Khan an alleged expedition against Antioch in 665/1266 the capture of Crac des Chevaliers the Battle of Albistan the cause of Baybar's death.

Storm command: a personal account of the Gulf War

Abstract: Desert Storm was a war like no other. Fought with weapons of a sophistication beyond anything previously displayed in battle against a ruthless dictator whose invasion of Kuwait had been universally condemned, it was a conflict waged with an unparalleled sense of international common purpose. Under the fierce glare of world media attention, commanders had to be appointed to manage a highly volatile situation - with hostages shielding Saddam Hussein's military installations, Iraq's breached trade sanctions, needing enforcement, the constant threat of chemical warfare and the Coalition's objectives gradually shifting from defence to offence. One officer stood head and shoulders above his peers as the man to command the British forces in the Gulf. After a lifetime in the SAS, and as the most decorated officer in the army, with experience of tri-service command in the Falklands and a comprehensive understanding of Arab life and language, General Sir Peter de la Billiere was unique in having all the credentials for the task. This book chronicles the war from the Allied nerve centre, analyzing Americans' execution of the air and land campaigns. It also shows how the British commander insisted on transferring his ground forces to a more crucial sector of the battlefield and how he persuaded Schwarzkopf to deploy the SAS in the western desert of Iraq.

A Treatise on Musicians from ?c. 1400: The Tractatulus de differentiis et gradibus cantorum by Arnulf de St Ghislain

Abstract: THE historian John Keegan was one of the first to ask the simple yet searching question: what actually happens in combat? It is well known that English footsoldiers received a charge by French knights at the battle of Agincourt in 1415, but what took place when men and horses collided? Keegan gives his answers in The Face of Battle,' and it may be time for musicologists to modulate the sonorous questions that he poses there for their own purposes. What actually happened, for example, when a motet by Johannes Ciconia was performed in northern Italy c. 1400? When friends and associates gathered together to hear such music, what was the nature of their various musical aptitudes and interests? Did women participate in the performances? What was the role of instrumentalists? Some of these questions, no doubt, will never find an answer; there are no medieval chronicles devoted to musical gatherings as there are chronicles and many other writings devoted to battles like Agincourt. None the less, literary and iconographical sources are among those which may still have something to reveal about 'the face of performance' (to coin a phrase after Keegan's own), and the purpose of this article is to examine the contents of one that has been unjustly neglected: the Tractatulus de differentiis et gradibus cantorum by Arnulf de St Ghislain. This brief treatise classifies the kinds of musicians who performed or admired polyphonic music and is therefore quite exceptional among the works loosely classified as medieval music theory. Little is known for certain about the author.2 He presumably came from St Ghislain, a town in Hainaut which had grown from a small

Pea Ridge: Civil War Campaign in the West

Abstract: The 1862 battle of Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas was one of the largest Civil War engagements fought on the western frontier, and it dramatically altered the balance of power in the Trans-Mississippi. This study of the battle is based on research in archives from Connecticut to California and includes a pioneering study of the terrain of the sprawling battlefield, as well as an examination of soldiers' personal experiences, the use of Native American troops, and the role of Pea Ridge in regional folklore. "A model campaign history that merits recognition as a major contribution to the literature on Civil War military operations.--"Journal of Military History" "Shines welcome light on the war's largest battle west of the Mississippi.--"USA Today" "With its exhaustive research and lively prose style, this military study is virtually a model work of its kind.--"Publishers Weekly" "A thoroughly researched and well-told account of an important but often neglected Civil War encounter.--"Kirkus Reviews" "Offers the rich tactical detail, maps, and order of battle that military scholars love but retains a very readable style combined with liberal use of recollections of the troops and leaders involved.--"Library Journal" "This book is assured of a place among the best of all studies that have been published on Civil War campaigns.--"American Historical Review" "Destined to become a Civil War classic and a model for writing military history.--"Civil War History" "A campaign study of a caliber that all should strive for and few will equal.--"Journal of American History" "An excellent and detailed book in all accounts, scholarly and readable, with both clear writing and excellent analysis. . . . Utterly essential . . . for any serious student of the Civil War.--"Civil War News"

The Battle for Homestead, 1880-1892: Politics, Culture, and Steel

Abstract: Paul Krause calls upon the methods and insights of labor history, intellectual history, anthropology, and the history of technology to situate the events of the lockout and their significance in the broad context of America s Guilded Age. Utilizing extensive archival material, much of it heretofore unknown, he reconstructs the social, intellectual, and political climate of the burgeoning post-Civil War steel industry."

Army of Manifest Destiny: The American Soldier in the Mexican War, 1846-1848

Abstract: James McCaffrey examines America's first foreign war, the Mexican War, through the day-to-day experiences of the American soldier in battle, in camp, and on the march. With remarkable sympathy, humor, and grace, the author fills in the historical gaps of one war while rising issues now found to be strikingly relevant to this nation's modern military concerns.