Author: Marian Butler
Publisher:
Published: 2002-02
Total Pages: 930
ISBN-13: 9780802049759
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jean Paré
Publisher: Company's Coming Publishing Limited
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9781895455038
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →-- Appetizers, casseroles, main courses, pies, quiches, salads, sandwiches, soups & more. -- The "Cooking Methods", "Nutrition Guide", and "Fish Substitution Chart" will help make choices easier
Author: Noël Burch
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1979-01-01
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780520038776
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: C.L.R. James
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2023-08-22
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 0593687337
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A powerful and impassioned historical account of the largest successful revolt by enslaved people in history: the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1803 “One of the seminal texts about the history of slavery and abolition.... Provocative and empowering.” —The New York Times Book Review The Black Jacobins, by Trinidadian historian C. L. R. James, was the first major analysis of the uprising that began in the wake of the storming of the Bastille in France and became the model for liberation movements from Africa to Cuba. It is the story of the French colony of San Domingo, a place where the brutality of plantation owners toward enslaved people was horrifyingly severe. And it is the story of a charismatic and barely literate enslaved person named Toussaint L’Ouverture, who successfully led the Black people of San Domingo against successive invasions by overwhelming French, Spanish, and English forces—and in the process helped form the first independent post-colonial nation in the Caribbean. With a new introduction (2023) by Professor David Scott.
Author: Mary Tavener Holmes
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 137
ISBN-13: 0892368322
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In a garden glade before a grand fountain, surrounded by a musical party, an elegant woman in a lustrous white gown dances as part of a foursome, raising her eyes to the viewer as if extending an invitation to the dance. This is the enticing scene in the J. Paul Getty Museum's painting "Dance before a Fountain" by Nicolas Lancret (1690-1743), an excellent example of the fete galante, a genre that was created and reached the peak of its popularity in France during the first half of the eighteenth century. This monograph seeks to familiarize American audiences with Lancret, a master of this genre, who was a revered painter in his own time, rivalling his contemporaries Antoine Watteau and Francois Boucher, and a favourite of crowned heads across Europe. Mary Tavener Holmes's engrossing text uses this painting as a springboard to reveal a remarkable amount about the painter, his mode of painting, Paris at the time this work was made, eighteenth-century dance, and the world of art patronage and collecting in France and elsewhere in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Lavishly illustrated with comparative paintings by artists such as Watteau, Boucher, Peter Paul Rubens, Jean-Francois De Troy, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, and Hubert Robert, this fascinating peek into a bygone Parisian era is a treat for the eyes and the intellect alike.
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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 142891594X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Friendly fire incidents often disrupt the close and continuous combined arms cooperation so essential to success in modern combat, especially when that combat is conducted against a well armed, well trained, and numerically superior opponent. This study, by presenting selected examples in their historical settings, is intended only to explain a few of the most obvious types of friendly fire incidents and some of the causative factors associated with them. By directing the attention of commanders and staff officers responsible for the development, training, and employment of combat forces to the hitherto little explored problem of friendly fire incidents, this study is intended to generate interest in and solutions for the problems outlined. The scope of this study is limited to incidents involving US forces in World War II and Vietnam, although some evidence is available from other conflicts in the twentieth century has also been considered. In sum, this study can claim to be no more than a narrative exposition of selected examples. Although its conclusions must be considered highly speculative and tentative in nature, this study can be of substantial value to an understanding of the problem of friendly fire in modern war. Chapters one through 5 of this report discuss: Artillery Amicicide; Air Amicicide; Antiaircraft Amicicide; Ground Amicicide.
Author: Pierre Athanase Larousse
Publisher:
Published: 1924
Total Pages: 1780
ISBN-13:
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