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  • Military in America

    by Peter M. Karsten ...
    In The American Military Tradition historians John M. Carroll and Colin F. Baxter gather an esteemed group of military historians to explore the pivotal issues and themes in American warfare from the Colonial era to the present conflict in Iraq.From the reliance on militia and the Minutemen of the American Revolution to the all-volunteer specialized troops of today, these twelve essays analyze the ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Heart versus Head

    Judge-Made Law in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Peter Karsten ...
    Series series Studies in Legal History
    Challenging traditional accounts of the development of American private law, Peter Karsten offers an important new perspective on the making of the rules of common law and equity in nineteenth-century courts. The central story of that era, he finds, was a struggle between a jurisprudence of the head, which adhered strongly to English precedent, and a jurisprudence of the heart, a humane concern ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Recruiting, Drafting, and Enlisting

    Two Sides of the Raising of Military Forces

    Edited by Peter Karsten ...
    Series series Military and Society
    These five volumes concern one of the most important institutions in human history, the military, and the interactions of that institution with the greater society. Military systems serve nations; they may also reflect them. Soldiers are enlisted; they may also be said to self-select. Military units have missions; they also have interests. In an older, more traditional military history, while the ... Read more

    $384.77 CAD

  • The Military-State-Society Symbiosis

    Edited by Peter Karsten ...
    Series series Military and Society
    These five volumes concern one of the most important institutions in human history, the military, and the interactions of that institution with the greater society. Military systems serve nations; they may also reflect them. Soldiers are enlisted; they may also be said to self-select. Military units have missions; they also have interests. In an older, more traditional military history, while the ... Read more

    $336.66 CAD

  • Black Veterans, Politics, and Civil Rights in Twentieth-Century America

    Closing Ranks

    by Kevin Greene, Peter Karsten, Selika M. Ducksworth-Lawton, Elizabeth F. Desnoyers-Colas, Hal M. Friedman, Jeremy P. Maxwell, Robert F. Jefferson Jr. ...
    Series series War and Society in Modern American History
    Fusing riveting testimony from African American veterans with the most incisive research of current military scholars, Black Veterans, Politics, and Civil Rights in 20th-Century America: Closing Ranks explores the intersecting characteristics of civil rights struggle and political activism that was reflected in the lives of ex-GIs throughout Twentieth Century American history. The volume examines ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Nonlinear Optics

    Principles and Applications

    by Karsten Rottwitt, Peter Tidemand-Lichtenberg ...
    Series series Optical Sciences and Applications of Light
    This book describes the fundamental aspects of nonlinear optics from basic principles to applications. Starting from the polarization induced by an electric field in a material, it relates the induced polarization to the propagating fields. It describes the properties of the induced polarization through a material response expressed both in the time and frequency domains leading to the nonlinear ... Read more

    $236.99 CAD

  • Polyurethanes

    Coatings, Adhesives and Sealants

    by Hans-Ulrich Meier-Westhues, Karsten Danielmeier, Peter Kruppa, Edward Squiller ...
    The chemistry of polyurethane coatings is of great significance in many applications worldwide. Moreover, their development potential has yet to be exhausted by any means. New applications are being identified and the product range will be further development. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the chemistry and the various possible application fields of polyurethanes. It starts by ... Read more

    $329.99 CAD

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  • The Soldier and the State

    The Theory and Politics of Civil–Military Relations

    by Samuel P. Huntington ...
    In a classic work, Samuel P. Huntington challenges most of the old assumptions and ideas on the role of the military in society. Stressing the value of the military outlook for American national policy, Huntington has performed the distinctive task of developing a general theory of civil–military relations and subjecting it to rigorous historical analysis.Part One presents the general theory of ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The War of 1812

    Conflict for a Continent

    by J. C. A. Stagg ...
    Series series Cambridge Essential Histories
    This book is a narrative history of the many dimensions of the War of 1812 - social, diplomatic, military and political - which places the war's origins and conduct in transatlantic perspective. The events of 1812–15 were shaped by the larger crisis of the Napoleonic Wars in Europe. In synthesizing and reinterpreting scholarship on the war, Professor J. C. A. Stagg focuses on the war as a ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Over Here

    The First World War and American Society

    by David M. Kennedy ...
    The Great War of 1914-1918 confronted the United States with one of the most wrenching crises in the nation's history. It also left a residue of disruption and disillusion that spawned an even more ruinous conflict scarcely a generation later. Over Here is the single-most comprehensive discussion of the impact of World War I on American society. This 25th anniversary edition includes a new ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • The Dutch Atlantic

    Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation

    by Kwame Nimako, Glenn Willemsen ...
    Series series Decolonial Studies, Postcolonial Horizons
    This book interrogates the Dutch involvement in Atlantic slavery and assesses the historical consequences of this for contemporary European society.Kwame Nimako and Glenn Willemsen show how the slave trade and slavery intertwined economic, social and cultural elements, including nation-state formation in the Netherlands and across Europe. They explore the mobilisation of European populations in ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Safe Passage

    The Transition from British to American Hegemony

    by Dr. Kori Schake ...
    History records only one peaceful transition of hegemonic power: the passage from British to American dominance of the international order. What made that transition uniquely cooperative and nonviolent? Does it offer lessons to guide policy as the United States faces its own challengers to the order it has enforced since the 1940s? To answer these questions, Kori Schake explores nine points of ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD