An Uneasy Peace, 1945-1980
Title | An Uneasy Peace, 1945-1980 PDF eBook |
Author | Craig E. Blohm |
Publisher | Greenhaven Press |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781590182017 |
Discusses the Cold War, its origins and the resulting conflicts, including the arms race, the Korean War, the Cuban missile crisis, and the Vietnam War.
Glasgow, the Uneasy Peace
Title | Glasgow, the Uneasy Peace PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Gallagher |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Glascow (Scotland |
ISBN | 9780719023965 |
Peace
Title | Peace PDF eBook |
Author | Antony Adolf |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 285 |
Release | 2013-05-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0745654592 |
How peace has been made and maintained, experienced and imagined is not only a matter of historical interest, but also of pressing concern. Peace: A World History is the first study to explore the full spectrum of peace and peacemaking from prehistoric to contemporary times in a single volume aimed at improving their prospects. By focusing on key periods, events, people, ideas and texts, Antony Adolf shows how the inspiring possibilities and pragmatic limits of peace and peacemaking were shaped by their cultural contexts and, in turn, shaped local and global histories. Diplomatic, pacifist, legal, transformative non-violent and anti-war movements are just a few prominent examples. Proposed and performed in socio-economic, political, religious, philosophical and other ways, Adolf's presentation of the diversity of peace and peacemaking challenges the notions that peace is solely the absence of war, that this negation is the only task of peacemakers, and that history is exclusively written by military victors. “Without the victories of peacemakers and the resourcefulness of the peaceful,” he contends, “there would be no history to write.” This book is essential reading for students, scholars, policy-shapers, activists and general readers involved with how present forms of peace and peacemaking have been influenced by those of the past, and how future forms can benefit by taking these into account.
Kennedy and Roosevelt
Title | Kennedy and Roosevelt PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Beschloss |
Publisher | Open Road Media |
Pages | 307 |
Release | 2016-08-16 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1504039351 |
The revealing story of Franklin Roosevelt, Joe Kennedy, and a political alliance that changed history, from a New York Times–bestselling author. When Franklin Roosevelt ran for president in 1932, he gained the support of Joseph Kennedy, a little-known businessman with Wall Street connections. Instrumental in Roosevelt’s victory, their partnership began a longstanding alliance between two of America’s most ambitious power brokers. Kennedy worked closely with FDR as the first chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and later as ambassador to Great Britain. But at the outbreak of World War II, sensing a threat to his family and fortune, Kennedy lobbied against American intervention—putting him in direct conflict with Roosevelt’s intentions. Though he retreated from the spotlight to focus on the political careers of his sons, Kennedy’s relationship with Roosevelt would eventually come full circle in 1960, when Franklin Roosevelt Jr. campaigned for John F. Kennedy’s presidential win. With unprecedented access to Kennedy’s private diaries as well as firsthand interviews with Roosevelt’s family and White House aides, New York Times–bestselling author Michael Beschloss—called “the nation’s leading presidential historian” by Newsweek—presents an insightful study in contrasts. Roosevelt, the scion of a political dynasty, had a genius for the machinery of government; Kennedy, who built his own fortune, was a political outsider determined to build a dynasty of his own. From the author of The Conquerors and Presidential Courage, this is a “fascinating account of the complex, ambiguous relationship of two shrewd, ruthless, power-hungry men” (The New York Times Book Review).
Weapons of Peace
Title | Weapons of Peace PDF eBook |
Author | Craig E. Blohm |
Publisher | |
Pages | 134 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781590182123 |
Discusses the development of nuclear weapons, the race for nuclear supremacy, deployment of these weapons during the Cold War, and disarmament.
Army Surveillance in America, 1775-1980
Title | Army Surveillance in America, 1775-1980 PDF eBook |
Author | Joan M. Jensen |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 1991-01-01 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9780300046687 |
Looks at the role the Army has taken in keeping track of suspected spies, traitors, and revolutionaries, and describes how the federal government has used the Army to intervene in domestic problems
Espionage
Title | Espionage PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Keeley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 120 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781590182109 |
Discusses the agents, communications, technological advances, covert actions, and double agents during the Cold War.