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Asian history, Politics and government
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleSince the first airplane hijacking by the Popular Front for the Liberation… of Palestine in September 1970, Middle Eastern terrorists have sacrificed innocent human lives in the name of ideology. From Black September to the Munich Olympics, to the embassy bombing in Beirut, to the devastating attacks of September 11 and beyond, terrorism has emerged as the most important security concern of our time."Where did this come from?" Inspired by a student's question on the morning of September 11, 2001, Mark Ensalaco has written a thoroughly researched narrative account of the origins of Middle Eastern terrorism, addressing when and why terrorists started targeting Americans and American interests and what led to the September 11 attacks.Ensalaco reveals the changing of motivations from secular Palestinian nationalism to militant Islam and demonstrates how competition among terrorists for resources and notoriety has driven them to increasingly extreme tactics. As he argues, terrorist attacks grew from spectacle to atrocity. Drawing on popular works and scholarly sources, Middle Eastern Terrorism tells this story in rich detail and with great clarity and insight.
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Asian history, History
Khalidi (Arab studies, Columbia U.) explains why the Palestinians failed to achieve independence prior to 1948, the date of the… establishment of Israel. Rather than "compare the incomparable"--the Palestinians and the Zionist movement--he provides thematically comparisons of the Palestinians to other Arab societies at analogous stages of development. His major themes include the failure of the Palestinians to successfully challenge the legal structure of the mandatory regime, which was consciously designed to prevent Palestinian self-government; the role of British-created religious structures in co-opting Palestinian elites; and the structural failures of the revolt of 1936-39.
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Biography, War and military biography, Journals and memoirs
From a veteran air-refueling expert who flew missions for over two decades during the Cold War, Afghan War, and Iraq… War comes a thrilling eyewitness account of modern warfare, with inspirational stories and moral lessons for people on the battlefield, in boardrooms, and in their everyday lives.Get a glimpse of life in the pilot’s seat and experience modern air warfare directly from a true American hero. Lt. Col Mark Hasara—who has twenty-four years experience in flying missions around the world—provides keen and eye-opening insights on success, failure, and emphasizes the importance of always being willing to learn. He provides twelve essential lessons based on his wartime experience and his own personal photographs from his missions during the Cold War, Gulf War, and Iraq War. With a foreword by #1 New York Times bestselling author and radio host Rush Limbaugh, this is a military memoir not to be missed.
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Biography, War and military biography, War
Riveting, novelistic, and startlingly candid, John T. Halliday's combat memoir begins in 1970, when Halliday has just landed in the… middle of the Vietnam War, primed to begin his assignment with the 606th Special Operations Squadron. But there's a catch: He's stationed in a kind of no-man's-land. No one on his base flies with ID, patches, or rank. Even as Richard Nixon firmly denies reporters' charges that the United States has forces in Laos, Halliday realizes that from his base in Thailand, he will be flying top-secret, black-ops night missions over the Laotian Ho Chi Minh Trail. A naive yet thoughtful twenty-four-year-old, Halliday was utterly unprepared for the horrors of war. On his first mission, Halliday's C-123 aircraft dodges more than a thousand antiaircraft shells, and that is just the beginning. Nothing is as he expected -- not the operations, not the way his shell-shocked fellow pilots look and act, and certainly not the squadron's daredevil, seat-of-one's-pants approach to piloting. But before long, Halliday has become one of those seasoned and shell-shocked pilots, and finds himself in a desperate search for a way to elude certain death. Using frank, true-to-life dialogue, potent imagery, and classic 1970s song lyrics, Halliday deftly describes the fraught Laotian skies and re-creates his struggle to navigate the frustrating Air Force bureaucracy, the deprivations of a remote base far from home and his young wife, and his fight to preserve his sanity. The resulting nonfiction narrative vividly captures not only the intricate, distorted culture of war but also the essence of the Vietnam veteran's experience of this troubled era. A powerhouse fusion of pathos and humor, brutal realism and intimate reflection, Flying Through Midnight is a landmark contribution to war literature, revealing previously top-secret intelligence on the 606th's night missions. Fast-paced, thrilling, and bitingly intelligent, Halliday illuminates it all: the heart-pounding air battles, the close friendships, the crippling fear, and the astonishing final escape that made the telling of it possible.
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Asian history
The Victorian period viewed in the West as a time of self-confident progress was experienced by Asians as… a catastrophe As the British gunned down the last heirs to the Mughal Empire burned down the Summer Palace in Beijing or humiliated the bankrupt rulers of the Ottoman Empire it was clear that for Asia to recover a vast intellectual effort would be required Pankaj Mishra s fascinating highly entertaining new book tells the story of a remarkable group of men from across the continent who met the challenge of the West Incessantly travelling questioning and agonising they both hated the West and recognised that an Asian renaissance needed to be fuelled in part by engagement with the enemy Through many setbacks and wrong turns a powerful contradictory and ultimately unstoppable series of ideas were created that now lie behind everything from the Chinese Communist Party to Al Qaeda from Indian nationalism to the Muslim Brotherhood Mishra allows the reader to see the events of two centuries anew through the eyes of the journalists poets radicals and charismatics who criss-crossed Europe and Asia and created the ideas which lie behind the powerful Asian nations of the twenty-first century
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War and military biography, Journals and memoirs
Military hero and beloved Dancing with the Stars alum Noah Galloway shares his life story and how losing his… arm and leg in combat forced him to relearn how to live--and live to the fullest Inspirational humorous and thought provoking Noah Galloway s LIVING WITH NO EXCUSES sheds light on his upbringing in rural Alabama his military experience and the battle he faced to overcome losing two limbs during Operation Iraqi Freedom From reliving the early days of life to his acceptance of his new normal after losing his arm and leg in combat Noah reveals his ambition to succeed against all odds Noah s gripping story is a shining example that with laughter and the right amount of perspective you can tackle anything Whether it be overcoming injury conquering the Dancing with the Stars ballroom or taking the next steps forward in life with his young family - Noah demonstrates how to live life to the fullest with no excuses
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Asian history, Anthologies
The Selected Essays of Master Lu Xun collects together his most influential and powerful essays and lectures Critical of… traditional Chinese culture of the superstition and rigid social mores and passionate in his argument for reform his essays from the classic contemplation on Confusion patriarchy What Is Required of Us as Fathers Today to his critique of Chinese identity politics My Mustache are exemplary of Chinese thought society and politics in a transitional historic period
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General fiction, Short stories, Asian history
Call to Arms is a collection of revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun s most famous and most important short stories… Featuring A Madman s Diary a scathing attack of traditional Confucian civilization and The True Story of Ah Q a poignant satire about the hypocrisy of Chinese national character and the first work written entirely in the Chinese vernacular Together this collection exposes a contradictory legacy of cosmopolitan independence polemical fractiousness and anxious patriotism that continues to resonate in Chinese intellectual life today
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Business and economics, Asian history, General non-fiction
A colorful and revealing portrait of the rise of India s new billionaire class in a radically unequal… society India is the world s largest democracy with more than one billion people and an economy expanding faster than China s But the rewards of this growth have been far from evenly shared and the country s top 1 now own nearly 60 of its wealth In megacities like Mumbai where half the population live in slums the extraordinary riches of India s new dynasties echo the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers of yesterday funneling profits from huge conglomerates into lifestyles of conspicuous consumption James Crabtree s The Billionaire Raj takes readers on a personal journey to meet these reclusive billionaires fugitive tycoons and shadowy political power brokers From the sky terrace of the world s most expensive home to impoverished villages and mass political rallies Crabtree dramatizes the battle between crony capitalists and economic reformers revealing a tense struggle between equality and privilege playing out against a combustible backdrop of aspiration class and caste The Billionaire Raj is a vivid account of a divided society on the cusp of transformation and a struggle that will shape not just India s future but the world s
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Canadian history, United States history
In 1783 and 1784, some fifty thousand Americans felt that they could not support the revolution against Britain. They were… called Loyalists - and there would be no place for them in the new United States.As they streamed into the Canadian colonies to the north, they changed forever the face of settlement there. Their arrival would eventually lead to the formation of the provinces of New Brunswick and Ontario.First published in hardcover in 1984, the bicentenary of the migration, The Loyalists tells the very human story of these people - of the societies that shaped them, the attitudes that motivated them, and the circumstances that determined their future and influenced the future of Canada. It went on to win the Secretary of State's Prize for Excellence in Canadian Studies.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Asian history, War, Politics and government
The struggle for Vietnam occupies a central place in the history of the twentieth century Fought over a period… of three decades the conflict drew in all the world s powers and saw two of them--first France then the United States--attempt to subdue the revolutionary Vietnamese forces For France the defeat marked the effective end of her colonial empire while for America the war left a gaping wound in the body politic that remains open to this day How did it happen Tapping into newly accessible diplomatic archives in several nations and making full use of the published literature distinguished scholar Fredrik Logevall traces the path that led two Western nations to lose their way in Vietnam Embers of War opens in 1919 at the Versailles Peace Conference where a young Ho Chi Minh tries to deliver a petition for Vietnamese independence to President Woodrow Wilson It concludes in 1959 with a Viet Cong ambush on an outpost outside Saigon and the deaths of two American officers whose names would be the first to be carved into the black granite of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial In between come years of political military and diplomatic maneuvering and miscalculation as leaders on all sides embark on a series of stumbles that makes an eminently avoidable struggle a bloody and interminable reality Logevall takes us inside the councils of war--and gives us a seat at the conference tables where peace talks founder He brings to life the bloodiest battles of France s final years in Indochina--and shows how from an early point a succession of American leaders made disastrous policy choices that put America on its own collision course with history Harry Truman s fateful decision to reverse Franklin Delano Roosevelt s policy and acknowledge France s right to return to Indochina after World War II Dwight Eisenhower s strenuous efforts to keep Paris in the fight and his escalation of U S involvement in the aftermath of the humiliating French defeat at Dien Bien Phu and the curious turnaround in Senator John F Kennedy s thinking that would lead him as president to expand that commitment despite his publicly stated misgivings about Western intervention in Southeast Asia An epic story of wasted opportunities and tragic miscalculations featuring an extraordinary cast of larger-than-life characters Embers of War delves deep into the historical record to provide hard answers to the unanswered questions surrounding the demise of one Western power in Vietnam and the arrival of another This book will become the definitive chronicle of the struggle s origins for years to come Advance praise for Embers of War Fredrik Logevall has gleaned from American French and Vietnamese sources a splendid account of France s nine-year war in Indochina and the story of how the American statesmen of the period allowed this country to be drawn into the quagmire --Neil Sheehan author of A Bright Shining Lie winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award Fredrik Logevall is a wonderful writer and historian In his new book on the origins of the American war in Vietnam he gives a fascinating and dramatic account of the French war and its aftermath from the perspectives of the French the Vietnamese and the Americans Using previously untapped sources and a deep knowledge of diplomatic history Logevall shows to devastating effect how America found itself on the road to Vietnam --Frances FitzGerald author of Fire in the Lake winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award
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Asian history, War
P WINNER OF THE NATAN BOOK AWARD P An authoritative and deeply personal narrative history of… the State of Israel by one of the most influential journalists writing about the Middle East today P Not since Thomas L Friedman s groundbreaking From Beirut to Jerusalem has a book captured the essence and the beating heart of the Middle East as keenly and dynamically as My Promised Land Facing unprecedented internal and external pressures Israel today is at a moment of existential crisis P Ari Shavit draws on interviews historical documents private diaries and letters as well as his own family s story illuminating the pivotal moments of the Zionist century to tell a riveting narrative that is larger than the sum of its parts both personal and national both deeply human and of profound historical dimension P We meet Shavit s great-grandfather a British Zionist who in 1897 visited the Holy Land on a Thomas Cook tour and understood that it was the way of the future for his people the idealist young farmer who bought land from his Arab neighbor in the 1920s to grow the Jaffa oranges that would create Palestine s booming economy the visionary youth group leader who in the 1940s transformed Masada from the neglected ruins of an extremist sect into a powerful symbol for Zionism the Palestinian who as a young man in 1948 was driven with his family from his home during the expulsion from Lydda the immigrant orphans of Europe s Holocaust who took on menial work and focused on raising their children to become the leaders of the new state the pragmatic engineer who was instrumental in developing Israel s nuclear program in the 1960s in the only interview he ever gave the zealous religious Zionists who started the settler movement in the 1970s the dot-com entrepreneurs and young men and women behind Tel-Aviv s booming club scene and today s architects of Israel s foreign policy with Iran whose nuclear threat looms ominously over the tiny country P As it examines the complexities and contradictions of the Israeli condition My Promised Land asks difficult but important questions Why did Israel come to be How did it come to be Can Israel survive Culminating with an analysis of the issues and threats that Israel is currently facing My Promised Land uses the defining events of the past to shed new light on the present The result is a landmark portrait of a small vibrant country living on the edge whose identity and presence play a crucial role in today s global political landscape
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Historical biography, War and military biography, United States history
From the author of the prizewinning New York Times bestseller Empire of the Summer Moon comes a thrilling account of… how Civil War general Thomas Stonewall Jackson became a great and tragic American hero Stonewall Jackson has long been a figure of legend and romance As much as any person in the Confederate pantheon even Robert E Lee he embodies the romantic Southern notion of the virtuous lost cause Jackson is also considered without argument one of our country s greatest military figures His brilliance at the art of war tied Abraham Lincoln and the Union high command in knots and threatened the ultimate success of the Union armies Jackson s strategic innovations shattered the conventional wisdom of how war was waged he was so far ahead of his time that his techniques would be studied generations into the future In April 1862 Jackson was merely another Confederate general in an army fighting what seemed to be a losing cause By June he had engineered perhaps the greatest military campaign in American history and was one of the most famous men in the Western world He had moreover given the Confederate cause what it had recently lacked--hope--and struck fear into the hearts of the Union Rebel Yell is written with the swiftly vivid narrative that is Gwynne s hallmark and is rich with battle lore biographical detail and intense conflict between historical figures Gwynne delves deep into Jackson s private life including the loss of his young beloved first wife and his regimented personal habits It traces Jackson s brilliant twenty-four-month career in the Civil War the period that encompasses his rise from obscurity to fame and legend his stunning effect on the course of the war itself and his tragic death which caused both North and South to grieve the loss of a remarkable American hero
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War and military biography, War, General non-fiction
From an award-winning meticulously observant The New Yorker and masterful Booklist… writer comes a groundbreaking account of three women deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq and how their military service affected their friendship their personal lives and their families America has been continuously at war since the fall of 2001 This has been a matter of bitter political debate of course but what is uncontestable is that a sizeable percentage of American soldiers sent overseas in this era have been women The experience in the American military is it s safe to say quite different from that of men Surrounded and far outnumbered by men imbedded in a male culture looked upon as both alien and desirable women have experiences of special interest In Soldier Girls Helen Thorpe follows the lives of three women over twelve years on their paths to the military overseas to combat and back home and then overseas again for two of them These women who are quite different in every way become friends and we watch their interaction and also what happens when they are separated We see their families their lovers their spouses their children We see them work extremely hard deal with the attentions of men on base and in war zones and struggle to stay connected to their families back home We see some of them drink too much have illicit affairs and react to the deaths of fellow soldiers And we see what happens to one of them when the truck she is driving hits an explosive in the road blowing it up She survives but her life may never be the same again Deeply reported beautifully written and powerfully moving Soldier Girls is truly groundbreaking
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War and military biography, Asian history, War
A Green Beret s gripping memoir of American Special Forces in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War … In 1970 on his second tour to Vietnam Nick Brokhausen served in Recon Team Habu CCN Officially it was known as the Studies and Observations group In fact this Special Forces squad which Brokhausen calls an unwashed profane ribald joyously alive fraternity undertook some of the most dangerous and suicidal reconnaissance missions ever in the enemy-controlled territory of Cambodia and Laos But they didn t infiltrate the jungles alone They fought alongside the Montagnards oppressed minorities from the mountain highlands trained by the US military in guerilla tactics armed accustomed to the wild and fully engaged in a war against the North Vietnamese Together this small unit formed the backbone of ground reconnaissance in the Republic of Vietnam racking up medals for valor but at a terrible cost In colorful military-jargon-laced prose leavened by gallows humor Brokhausen pulls few punches describing what it was like to navigate remote jungle terrain under the constant threat of enemy fire A smartly written insider s view of one rarely seen Vietnam War battleground Booklist
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Canadian history, Politics and government
With its roots in nineteenth-century poor relief welfare is Canada s oldest and most controversial social program… No other policy is so closely linked to debates on the causes of poverty the meaning of work the difference between entitlement and charity and the definition of basic human needs The first history of welfare in Canada s richest province offers a new perspective on our contemporary response to poverty Struthers examines the evolution of provincial and local programs for single mothers the aged and the unemployed between 1920 and 1970 when the modern welfare state first took shape He analyses the roles of social workers women s groups labour and the left federal provincial and local welfare bureaucrats and the poor themselves The Story evolves through depression war and unprecedented postwar affluence A wealth of detail supports this account of all the forces that have shaped welfare policy bureaucratic imperatives political professionals the unemployed labour unions federal-provincial relations provincial-municipal relations and the spirit of the times Based on extensive primary research this definitive work covers much new ground providing an indispensable reference on Ontario s social welfare history The Ontario Historical Studies Series
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Canadian history, Arts and entertainment
A circus a production of Shakespeare an evening of song and ventriloquism a performance by a … learned pig all of these offered an evening s entertainment to the citizens of early nineteenth-century Upper Canada Although the population in 1800 was only 90 000 a wide range of entertainers performed in towns across the province touring companies variety and animal acts and theatrical troupes professional and amateur some home-grown and based in the garrisons others from Montreal New York and London By the end of the century some 250 touring groups were on the road across Ontario from Ottawa to Rat Portage now Kenora The lively theatre tradition of that century would extend into the next beyond the appointment in 1913 of Ontario s first official censor until the outbreak the following year of the First World War This collection of essays covers a number of facets of the growth of theatre in Ontario Ann Saddlemyer s introduction provides an overview of the period and historian J M S Careless focuses on the cultural environment Novelist Robertson Davies writes on the dramatic repertoire of the period Architect Robert Fairfield explores the structures that housed performances from the small community halls to the grand opera houses Theatre scholar and professional actor and director Geralrd Lenton-Young discusses variety performances Leslie O Dell scholar actor and playwright writes on garrison theatre while Mary M Brown a teacher actress and director covers travelling troupes A chronology and bibliography both by the theatre scholar Richard Plant complete the work A second volume scheduled for future publication will look at the development of theatre in Ontario in the twentieth century Ontario Historical Studies Series
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Canadian history, Politics and government
Based on four years of research in the French-Canadian press of the 1840s and the private papers of the main… French-Canadian politicians British officials and Roman Catholic religious leaders this book describes in rich and lively detail the conflict of French Canada s priests and politicians around the central issue of their people s relation to the British Crown during that period Confederation in 1867 modern Canada and the current tempest in French Canada cannot adequately be understood without constant reference to these men of the 1840s and the political and religious ideologies they represented Indeed it was in their enmities in their friendships and loyalties that were laid the strongbi-national foundations of what Etienne Parent foresaw as une grande nationalit canadienne assez forte pour se prot ger elle-m me et vivre de sa propre vie
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Asian history, Politics and government, General non-fiction
Based on a study of recent political behaviour in a rural region of India the author presents a critique… of pluralist theories of democracy and advances a new approach to political sociology Professor Lele insists that the politicians of Maharashtra sustain however dispersed a hegemonic class rule The processes of development and modernization directly serve strategies of private gain through the public sphere the elites continue to enclose the public sphere while propagating the myth of open competition Case studies of local state and national politicans illustrate this behaviour and show how competition between powerful alliances is effectively moderated The concluding section proposes a new comparative approach to political sociology It demonstrates the inherent contradiction between domination and community and argues for a historical analysis of the rise and fall of classes and ideologies Professor Lele challenges the emphasis on modernization and instrumentality in contemporary social science and suggests that the insights of Marx and Weber can lead to a more previse and universal framework for the study of societies
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Business and economics, Economics, Canadian history
Continuing problems in the Canadian economy have been the occasion of a partisan debate between nationalists and continentalists both… of whom claim the staples thesis to be the premise of their proposed solutions As one of the principal progenitors of that premise Harold Innis contributed much to the roots of this debate and its present flowering cannot be understood apart from what he had to say This is an account of the Canadian problem as it was elaborated in the staples thesis of H A Innis But it is more than that In order to cope with the economics of a satellite country in the age of machine and post-machine industry Innis found it necessary to fill in the empty boxes of neoclassical value theory and at times to make new ones when the standard theory provided insufficient room to contain the facts of the case He went beyond price theory to come to grips with the unsolved problems of growth and to work out answers of his own The result was a new kind of economics based as was the economics of J M Keynes on the assertion of a new ethical foundation Unlike Keynes Innis was concerned with the long run for we can survive now only by understanding the coping with the long-run consequences of past policies and given the right policies now the nation as a whole will live on Innis and Keynes are like two sides of a coin in the new issue of value theory We can flip that coin to see which policy will come up or we can account for both sides in some sort of rational compromise A New Theory of Value is a plea for a rational approach to the problem