Called to Serve
Title | Called to Serve PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Weiner |
Publisher | Levellers Press |
Pages | 474 |
Release | 2014-05-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0981982042 |
Stories of men and women confronted by the Vietnam War. Contains personal stories of Vietnam War Veterans, people who fled the country, people who refused to go to war, people who beat the draft, people who obtained Conscientious Objector status, and people who loved and supported them.
The World According to China
Title | The World According to China PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth C. Economy |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2021-10-25 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1509537511 |
An economic and military superpower with 20 percent of the world’s population, China has the wherewithal to transform the international system. Xi Jinping’s bold calls for China to “lead in the reform of the global governance system” suggest that he has just such an ambition. But how does he plan to realize it? And what does it mean for the rest of the world? In this compelling book, Elizabeth Economy reveals China’s ambitious new strategy to reclaim the country’s past glory and reshape the geostrategic landscape in dramatic new ways. Xi’s vision is one of Chinese centrality on the global stage, in which the mainland has realized its sovereignty claims over Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the South China Sea, deepened its global political, economic, and security reach through its grand-scale Belt and Road Initiative, and used its leadership in the United Nations and other institutions to align international norms and values, particularly around human rights, with those of China. It is a world radically different from that of today. The international community needs to understand and respond to the great risks, as well as the potential opportunities, of a world rebuilt by China.
Confronting the War Machine
Title | Confronting the War Machine PDF eBook |
Author | Michael S. Foley |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 482 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780807854365 |
Focusing on the draft resistance movement in Boston in 1967-68, this study argues that these acts of mass civil disobedience turned the tide in the antiwar movement by drawing the Johnson administration into a confrontation with activists who were largely young, middle-class, liberal, and from suburban backgrounds--the core of Johnson's constituency.
A Time to Stir
Title | A Time to Stir PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Cronin |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 711 |
Release | 2018-01-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0231544332 |
For seven days in April 1968, students occupied five buildings on the campus of Columbia University to protest a planned gymnasium in a nearby Harlem park, links between the university and the Vietnam War, and what they saw as the university’s unresponsive attitude toward their concerns. Exhilarating to some and deeply troubling to others, the student protests paralyzed the university, grabbed the world’s attention, and inspired other uprisings. Fifty years after the events, A Time to Stir captures the reflections of those who participated in and witnessed the Columbia rebellion. With more than sixty essays from members of the Columbia chapter of Students for a Democratic Society, the Students’ Afro-American Society, faculty, undergraduates who opposed the protests, “outside agitators,” and members of the New York Police Department, A Time to Stir sheds light on the politics, passions, and ideals of the 1960s. Moving beyond accounts from the student movement’s white leadership, this book presents the perspectives of black students, who were grappling with their uneasy integration into a supposedly liberal campus, as well as the views of women, who began to question their second-class status within the protest movement and society at large. A Time to Stir also speaks to the complicated legacy of the uprising. For many, the events at Columbia inspired a lifelong dedication to social causes, while for others they signaled the beginning of the chaos that would soon engulf the left. Taken together, these reflections present a nuanced and moving portrait that reflects the sense of possibility and excess that characterized the 1960s.
“Work or Fight!”
Title | “Work or Fight!” PDF eBook |
Author | G. Shenk |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pages | 214 |
Release | 2008-03-11 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9781403961778 |
During World War I the U.S. demanded that all able-bodied men work or fight. White men who were husbands and fathers, owned property or worked at approved jobs had the benefits of citizenship without fighting. Others were often barred from achieving these benefits. This book tells the stories of those affected by the Selective Service System.
The Letters of Daniel Webster
Title | The Letters of Daniel Webster PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Webster |
Publisher | |
Pages | 798 |
Release | 1902 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
We Need Men
Title | We Need Men PDF eBook |
Author | James W. Geary |
Publisher | |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780875801575 |