The Rocky Road to the Great War: The Evolution of Trench Warfare to 1914
Author: Murray, Nicholas Nicholas Murray's The Rocky Road to the Great War examines the evolution of field fortification theory and practice between 1877 and 1914. During this period field fortifications became increasingly important, and their construction evolved from primarily above to below ground. The reasons for these changes are crucial to explaining the landscape of World War I, yet they have remained largely unstudied.The transformation in field fortifications reflected not only the ongoing technological advances but also the changing priorities in the reasons for constructing them, such as preventing desertion, protecting troops, multiplying forces, reinforcing tactical points, providing a secure base, and dominating an area. Field fortification theory, however, did not evolve solely in response to improving firepower or technology. Rather, a combination of those factors and societal ones-for example, the rise of large conscript armies and the increasing participation of citizens rather than subjects-led directly to technical alterations in the actual construction of the fieldworks. These technical developments arose from the second wave of the Industrial Revolution in the late nineteenth century that provided new technologies that increased the firepower of artillery, which in turn drove the transition from above- to belowground field fortification.Based largely on primary sourcesuincluding French, British, Austrian, and American military attache reports-Murray's enlightening study is unique in defining, fully examining, and contextualizing the theories and construction of field fortifications before World War I.
Author: Robert Allen Rutland, Foreword by Jimmy Carter
Interlacing humor into his ongoing narrative, Robert Allen Rutland provides in The Democrats a readable, balanced account of how the Democratic party was founded, evolved, nearly died, and came back in the twentieth century, flourishing as a political melting pot despite numerous setbacks. This updated version of Rutland's much-heralded The Democrats: From Jefferson to Carter provides new insight into the long hiatus in the Democrats' presence in the White House between Carter and Clinton. In additon to analyzing Carter's successes and failures as president, Rutland also examines the forces that went into the Democratic defeats and Republican victories in 1980, 1984, and 1988, concluding with the election of another Jeffersonian Democrat, William Jefferson Clinton. The book ends with an examination of the dramatic results of the 1994 congressional elections that began to alert President Clinton to the challenge he would face in winning reelection in 1996.
Author: John Allman
Describing this collection of his poems, John Allman writes, It is a book about the inner and outer worlds, a collection of multiple voices and relationships. In one sense it is about suffering, family, and survival. However, it is also about a world beyond such things, where identity burns by itself, where the self-changes but never dies. The book says that only change happens, but that survival without will and compassion is meaningless. The title, taken from a line in one of the book's ritual lyrics, suggests the four dimensions of human consciousness and effort, and the book strives to name or embody as many landscapes as possiblethough it is the 'vertical' one given to religion and death that remains an abiding puzzle.Originally published in 1979.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author: Stephen C. Doyle, OFM
More than an updated second edition, this book combines the best information from the popular first edition with new insights to help you turn your travels into pilgrimages. In this edition of The Pilgrim's New Guide to the Holy Land, Stephen Doyle adds the words to familiar hymns, and maps and photos, and includes new insights gatheredfrom the documents of Vatican II, Paul VIs Decree on Evangelization, and prose and poetry that foster the spirit of prayer. After a brief introduction to each Holy Place, Doyle provides the Scripture passages appropriate to those locations. In offering these passages, Doyle reminds us of Pius XIIs statement that to find the meaning of Gods word, we must go back to the original languages, determine the intention of the author, and take into account the literary form. Following Pius XIIs suggestion, Doyle provides his own translation of Scripture passages. By presenting these passages he offers new meaning by exploring a new experience, in a new context, in a new culture. Doyle explains that there are major differences between going to the Holy Land as a pilgrim and going there as a tourist, or even as a student of history or archaeology. People join a pilgrimage from faith and for faith. This is not the same as a deepening of theological insight, or becoming more knowledgeable about the facts and beliefs of Christianity. The basic vision that distinguishes a pilgrim from a tourist is summed up in a passage by Paul: 'Since you have accepted Christ Jesus as Lord, sink your roots deep in him, build your faith upon him, and overflow with thanksgiving' (Col. 2:6). In The Pilgrims New Guide to the Holy Land, Doyle brings together the elements that facilitate that vision. Chapters are Jerusalem, Jerusalem; Holy Places East of Jerusalem; Holy Places West of Jerusalem; Holy Places South of Jerusalem; and Holy Places North of Jerusalem. Also includes appendices and an index. Stephen C. Doyle, O.F.M., has guided more than one hundred pilgrimages to the Holy Land and to Greece and Asia Minor. He has taught Scripture and biblical preaching at St. John Vianney Seminary, East Aurora, New York; Christ the King Seminary, St. Bonaventure, New York; Pope JohnXXIII Seminary, Weston Massachusetts; St. Bonaventure University; St. Michaels College; and Emmanuel College.
Author: Bauer
Combining personal narrative and ethnography, Identity, Development, and the Politics of the Past examines cultural change in a rural Ecuadorian fishing village where the community has worked to stake claim to an Indigenous identity in the face of economic, social, and political integration. By documenting how villagers have reconstructed their identity through the use of archaeology and political demarcation of territory, author Daniel Bauer shows that ethnicity is part of a complex social matrix that involves politics, economics, and history.
Author: Natalya Vince
Between 1954 and 1962, Algerian women played a major role in the struggle to end French rule in one of the twentieth centurys most violent wars of decolonisation. This is the first in-depth exploration of what happened to these women after independence in 1962. Based on new oral history interviews with women who participated in the war in a wide range of roles, from urban bombers to members of the rural guerrilla support network, it explores how female veterans viewed the post-independence state and its multiple discourses on the Algerian woman in the fifty years following 1962. It also examines how these former combatants memories of the anti-colonial conflict intertwine with, contradict or coexist alongside the state-sponsored narrative of the war constructed after independence. Making an original contribution to debates about gender, nationalism and memory, this book will appeal to students and scholars of history and politics.
Author: Lucas Farrell
In this striking debut volume, Lucas Farrell offers a lyrical and illuminating field guide to the flora and fauna of worlds just out of reach. With the precision and detail of an Audubon sketch, he turns his naturalists eye to the vast landscape of human emotionall the while affirming how real this world we live in / must be to live in. Journeying ever outward, from the achingly ordinary to the mysterious land where there is no land, the narrator of this collection, equal parts pastoralist and surrealist, explores the vivid in-betweensbetween love and loss, hilarity and despair, wild and domestic, real and imagined. Hungry, expressive, and original, these poems glean light from even the darkest of fields.From Further Along NowFurther along the curves of gesture, the delicateapostrophe, in the tongues of muted suns, we'll findourselves in a clearing, in a meadow of ancient grass,picking apart what has long been picked apart. Furtheralong, the compliments, the tweezers and logic, thelaboratory of hard hats and felt pens and hard headsand clipboards hanging from sky's bloody fender, birddroppings steaming calligraphic so long as the cloudsbecome clouds become clouds and amazed we see insuch preventable warfare our own substancesunchanging. Fountains of ash too diffuse to interpret,too complex to diagnose, I quote the many woods ofgrief, too far alone, too deep.
Author: Elizabeth Barnes
Literary historians have long debated the problems posed by a central plank in sentimentalism: that weakness, especially in feminine forms, confers ethical superiority. In this work, Barnes argues that critics have focused on the wrong player; weve been looking at the abused or the weak, when instead we should have focused on the aggressor. In this new model, violence becomes a site of redemptive possibility because salvation is gained when the powerful protagonist identifies with the person he harms. It is the very act of inflicting pain on othersnot the weakness or any exemplary character of the one who is harmedthat undoes the powerful. To see how violence gets folded in to sentimentalism's egalitarian goals, she suggests, is to recognize the deep entrenchment of aggression into the empathetic structures of liberal, Christian U.S. culture. Barnes uses major 19th-c. works by Melville, Charles Brogden Brown, Douglass, and Alcott, among others, to show how violence and sensibility operate in tandem to generate the identifications that perpetuate, somewhat paradoxically, a notion of American character as exceptionally empathetic.
Author: Bryan H. C. Gordon
This is a preliminary study of temporal and spatial relationships between Canadian Plains peoples, climates and bison populations over the past 10,000 years. Discreteness of two bison populations, hunting and band movements and communication are discussed together with the probable role of grassland faciation as a control on bison migration.