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A drastic reform of intelligence activities is long overdue The Cold War has been over for ten years No country threatens this nations existence Yet we still spend billions of dollars on covert action and espionage In National Insecurity ten prominent experts describe from an insider perspective what went wrong with US intelligence and what will be necessary to fix it Drawing on their experience in government administration research and the foreign service they propose a radical rethinking of the United States intelligence needs in the postCold War world In addition they offer a coherent and unified plan for reform that can simultaneously protect U S security and uphold the values of our democratic system As we now know even during the Cold War when intelligence was seen as a matter of life and death our system served us badly It provided unreliable information which led to a grossly inflated military budget as it wreaked havoc around the world supporting corrupt regimes promoting the drug trade and repeatedly violating foreign and domestic laws Protected by a shroud of secrecy it paid no price for its mistakes Instead it grew larger and more insulated every year Taking into consideration our strategic interests abroad as well as the price of covert operations in dollars in reliability and in good will every American taxpayer can be informed by and will want to read this book National Insecurity is essential for readers interested in contemporary political issues international relations US history public policy issues foreign policy intelligence reform and political science
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This work seeks to put into religious and political context the British governments imperial religious policy for its North American colonies in the fifty years around the American Revolution It is of special interest to students of North American and British constitutional political and religious history
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A powerful history of emancipation that reshapes our understanding of Lincoln the Civil War and the end of American slaveryFreedom National is a groundbreaking history of emancipation that joins the political initiatives of Lincoln and the Republicans in Congress with the courageous actions of Union soldiers and runaway slaves in the South It shatters the widespread conviction that the Civil War was first and foremost a war to restore the Union and only gradually when it became a military necessity a war to end slavery These two aimsLiberty and Union one and inseparablewere intertwined in Republican policy from the very start of the war By summer 1861 the federal government invoked military authority to begin freeing slaves immediately and without slaveholder compensation as they fled to Union lines in the disloyal South In the loyal Border States the Republicans tried coaxing officials into gradual abolition with promises of compensation and the colonization abroad of freed blacks James Oakes shows that Lincolns landmark 1863 proclamation marked neither the beginning nor the end of emancipation it triggered a more aggressive phase of military emancipation sending Union soldiers onto plantations to entice slaves away and enlist the men in the army But slavery proved deeply entrenched with slaveholders determined to reenslave freedmen left behind the shifting Union lines Lincoln feared that the war could end in Union victory with slavery still intact The Thirteenth Amendment that so succinctly abolished slavery was no formality it was the final act in a saga of immense war social upheaval and determined political leadershipFresh and compelling this magisterial history offers a new understanding of the death of slavery and the rebirth of a nation 8 pages illustrations
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In February 1937 following an abortive attack by a handful of insurgents on Mussolinis High Command in Italianoccupied Ethiopia repression squads of armed Blackshirts and Fascist civilians were unleashed on the defenseless residents of Addis Ababa In three terrorfilled days and nights of arson murder and looting thousands of innocent and unsuspecting men women and children were roasted alive shot bludgeoned stabbed to death or blown to pieces with handgrenades Meanwhile the notorious Viceroy Rodolfo Graziani infamous for his atrocities in Libya took the opportunity to add to the carnage by eliminating the intelligentsia and nobility of the ancient Ethiopian empire in a pogrom that swept across the land In a richly illustrated and groundbreaking work backed up by meticulous and scholarly research Ian Campbell reconstructs and analyses one of Fascist Italys least known atrocities which he estimates eliminated 1920 per cent of the capitals population He exposes the hitherto little known coverup conducted at the highest levels of the British government which enabled the facts of one of the most hideous civilian massacres of all time to be concealed and the perpetrators to walk free
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In the wake of the American Revolution if you had asked a citizen whether his fledgling state would survive more than two centuries the answer would have been far from confident The problem as is so often the case was money Left millions of dollars of debt by the war the nascent federal government created a system of taxes on imported goods and installed custom houses at the nations ports which were charged with collecting these fees Gradually the houses amassed enough revenue from import merchants to stabilize the new government But as the fragile United States was dependent on this same revenue the merchants at the same time gained outsized influence over the daily affairs of the custom houses As the United States tried to police this commerce in the early nineteenth century the merchants stranglehold on custom house governance proved to be formidable In National Duties Gautham Rao makes the case that the origins of the federal government and the modern American state lie in these conflicts at government custom houses between the American Revolution and the presidency of Andrew Jackson He argues that the contours of the government emerged from the pushandpull between these groups with commercial interests gradually losing power to the administrative state which only continued to grow and lives on today
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The most comprehensive field guide available to North American mammalsa musthave for any enthusiasts day pack or home libraryfrom the goto reference source for over 18 million nature loversFrom a stopaction photograph of the amazing flying squirrel to Big Horn Sheep perched on a rock face this guide puts the world of mammals in your hands Illustrated with more than 300 fullcolor photographs each species account includes information on physical characteristics size similar species breeding tracks and other signs habitat and range as well as commentary on feeding nesting and other behaviors Easytoread range maps detailed anatomical illustrations of different mammals track illustrations and a statebystate location guide make this the decisive authority on North American mammals
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Since the appearance of the first edition of the Encyclopedia of National Anthems in 2003 many new events and situations have radically redrawn the political boundaries of the world map and redefined the policies and goals of individual nationstates from Nepal to Afghanistan Mozambique to Montenegro All of these shifts have entailed the creation or adoption of new anthems or the modification of existing ones This revised and expanded edition of the Encyclopedia of National Anthems not only makes the longoverdue updates to the national anthems of the world but also improves upon the quality and accuracy of the music sheets and historical backgrounds through consultation with a greater number and wider variety of source materialsEvery political entity with nonLatin script now has its original lyrics documented in the book while English translations have been modified to better express meaning and intent Flags and maps have been added to the country fact sheets to provide a visual complement to the text In addition to current sovereign countries this edition includes in separate sections the anthems of international organizations of Kosovo South Ossetia and other nonUN states and of extinct countries such as the former Soviet Union and East Germany This collection does not adhere to any political stance but instead reflects the contested and complicated nature of the modern nationstate whose boundaries remain fluid and ever subject to changeThis new edition of the Encyclopedia of National Anthems is an indispensable reference source for students and academic scholars for school projects and academic research initiatives Libraries will find the new edition a valuable addition to their collections as will government and diplomatic missions requiring a handy reference for international exchange For the casual reader this compilation also provides a wealth of resources that both inform and entertain
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National security has been at the forefront of the Israeli experience for seven decades with threats ranging from terrorism to vast rocket and missile arsenals and even existential nuclear dangers Yet despite its overwhelming preoccupation with foreign and defense affairs Israel does not have a formal national security strategy In Israeli National Security Chuck Freilich presents an authoritative analysis of the military diplomatic demographic and societal challenges Israel faces today to propose a comprehensive and longterm Israeli national security strategy The heart of the new strategy places greater emphasis on restraint defense and diplomacy as means of addressing the challenges Israel faces along with the military capacity to deter and if necessary defeat Israels adversaries while also maintaining the resolve of its society By bringing Israels most critical debates about the Palestinians demography Iran Hezbollah Hamas US relations and nuclear strategy into sharp focus the strategy Freilich proposes addresses the primary challenges Israel must address in order to chart its national course The most comprehensive study of Israels national security to date this book presents the first public proposal for a comprehensive Israeli national security strategy and prescribes an actionable course forward
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Presents the facts behind over sixty conspiracies including Malcolm Xs murder Richard Nixon and the Vietnam peace talks the death of Elvis Presley Watergate and the suspicious death of Warren G Harding
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Showing how the upswell of paranoia and growing demand for security in the post911 world has paradoxically created widespread insecurity these varied essays examine how this anxietyladen mindset erodes spaces both architectural and personal encroaching on all aspects of everyday life Starting from the most literal levelbarricades and barriers in front of buildings beefed up border patrols gated communities safe roomsto more abstract levelsenhanced surveillance at public spaces such as airports increasing worries about contagion the psychological predilection for fortified spacethe contributors cover the full gamut of securitized public life that is defining the zeitgeist of twentyfirst century America
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Showing how the upswell of paranoia and growing demand for security in the post911 world has paradoxically created widespread insecurity these varied essays examine how this anxietyladen mindset erodes spaces both architectural and personal encroaching on all aspects of everyday life Starting from the most literal levelbarricades and barriers in front of buildings beefed up border patrols gated communities safe roomsto more abstract levelsenhanced surveillance at public spaces such as airports increasing worries about contagion the psychological predilection for fortified spacethe contributors cover the full gamut of securitized public life that is defining the zeitgeist of twentyfirst century America
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Revisiting an era when the discipline of architecture staked out a role in global environmental governance and the biopolitical management of populationsIn Outlaw Territories Felicity Scott traces the relation of architecture and urbanism to human unsettlement and territorial insecurity during the 1960s and 1970s Investigating a set of responses to the growing urban unrest in the developed and developing worlds Scott revisits an era when the discipline of architecture staked out a role in global environmental governance and the biopolitical management of populations She describes architectures response to the displacement of persons brought on by migration urbanization environmental catastrophe and warfare and she traces architectures relationship to the material environmental psychological and geopolitical transformations brought on by postindustrial technologies and neoliberal capitalism after World War IIAt the height of the USled war in Vietnam and Cambodia with ongoing decolonization struggles in many parts of the world architecture not only emerged as a target of political agitation because of its inherent normativity but also became heavily enmeshed with military legal and humanitarian apparatuses participating in scientific and technological research dedicated to questions of international management and security Once architecture became aligned with a global matrix of forces concerned with the environment economic development migration genocide and war its role shifted at times toward providing strategic expertise for institutions born of neoliberal capitalism Scott investigates this nexus and questions how and to what ends architecture and the environment came to be intimately connected to the expanded exercise of power within the shifting geopolitical frameworks at this time
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This text aims to present a revelatory examination of the life and times of Augusto Sandino the Nicaraguan rebel leader who has become a national icon and messianic prophet sheding light on the mans complex nature
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Body Parts of Empire is a study of abjection in American visual culture and popular literature from the PhilippineAmerican War 18991902 During this period the American national territory expanded beyond its continental borders to islands in the Pacific and the Caribbean Simultaneously new technologies of vision emerged for imagining the human body including the moving camera stereoscopes and more efficient print technologies for mass media Rather than focusing on canonical American authors who wrote at the time of US imperialism this book examines abject textsimages of naked savages corpses clothed native elites and uniformed American soldiersas well as bodies of writing that document the goodwill and violence of American expansion in the Philippine colony Contributing to the fields of American studies Asian American studies and gender studies the book analyzes the actual archive of the PhilippineAmerican War and how the racialization and sexualization of the Filipino colonial native have always been part of the cultures of America and US imperialism By focusing on the Filipino native as an abject body of the American imperial imaginary this study offers a historical materialist optic for reading the cultures of Filipino America nbsp
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In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the first modern public museums of artcivic state or nationalappeared throughout Europe setting a standard for the nature of such institutions that has made its influence felt to the present day Although the emergence of these museums was an international development their shared history has not been systematically explored until now Taking up that project this volume includes chapters on fifteen of the earliest and still major examples from the Capitoline Museum in Rome opened in 1734 to the Alte Pinakothek in Munich opened in 1836 These essays consider a number of issues such as the nature display and growth of the museums collections and the role of the institutions in educating the publicnbspThe introductory chapters by art historian Carole Paul the volumes editor lay out the relationship among the various museums and discuss their evolution from private noble and royal collections to public institutions In concert the accounts of the individual museums give a comprehensive overview providing a basis for understanding how the collective emergence of public art museums is indicative of the cultural social and political shifts that mark the transformation from the earlymodern to the modern world The fourteen distinguished contributors to the book include Robert G W Anderson former director of the British Museum in London Paula Findlen Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of Italian History at Stanford University Thomas Gaehtgens director of the Getty Research Institute and Andrew McClellan dean of academic affairs and professor of art history at Tufts University
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A unique collection of timeless English houses featuring original photography make this a book to treasureEver since the first milords embarked on a Grand Tour in the seventeenth century the passion for developing collections has been a national trait of England As a result the countrys aristocratic palaces became repositories of treasure gathered from around the globe But so too thanks to the spread of an Empire providing goods from across the globe did almost every residence in England Romantic English Homes features 13 such houses the majority never before photographed Large or small old or new they all convey an impression of massed objects intentionally mingling styles and tastes the classical placed next to the gothic tartan pattern competing with floral print Decorated with defiant eclecticism the buildings featured here brought to you by Robert OByrne indicate that although the Empire may have gone the English love of collecting remains as strong as ever Crisscrossing the country from Dorset Devon and Cornwall to East Anglia and Suffolk from London to Lancashire and Shropshire it is both the romantic timelessness of these properties and their manylayered appearance that makes them so alluring
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