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Sinews of War and Trade
Author | : Laleh Khalili |
Publsiher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2020-04-02 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781786634818 |
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How shipping is central to the very fabric of global capitalism In our networked world, the realities governing the international movement of freight are easily forgotten. But maritime transport remains the bedrock of trade. Convoys perpetually crisscross the oceans, carrying gas, oil, ore – indeed, every type of consumable and commodity. These movements, though practically invisible, mean that control of the seas is vital in an age when no nation can survive on domestic products alone. Professor and author Laleh Khalili travelled the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, and the Indian Ocean aboard gigantic container ships to investigate the secretive and sometimes dangerous world of maritime trade. What she discovered was strangely disturbing: brutally exploited seafarers enduring loneliness and risking injury to keep the cogs of trade turning. In the Arabian peninsula’s ports, forbidden places encircled by barbed wire and moats of highways, the dockers struggle for benefits and political rights, as they have for generations. Environmental catastrophes threaten with increasing intensity and frequency. Around the oil-trading nations of the Middle East, a history of British colonialism, modern US imperialism, and local autocracies combine to worsen the conditions of modern seafarers, and piracy persists near the Horn of Africa. From her research riding the sea lanes and visiting the major Middle Eastern ports, Khalili has produced a book that exposes the frayed and tense sinews of modern capital, a physical network without which none of our more abstracted webs and systems could operate.
The Sinews of War
Author | : James A. Huston |
Publsiher | : Government Printing Office |
Total Pages | : 814 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Logistics |
ISBN | : 0160899141 |
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Sinews of War
Author | : Benjamin Bacon |
Publsiher | : Presidio Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : UOM:39015039052496 |
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Reveals the story of the transport of infantry regiments, artillery, and supplies to the battlefield during the Civil War, showing how the war was really won. Includes bandw photos. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Britain America and the Sinews of War 1914 1918 RLE The First World War
Author | : Kathleen Burk |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2014-04-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781317700517 |
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Anglo-American relations were transformed during the First World War. Britain was already in long-term economic decline relative to the United States, but this decline was accelerated by the war, which was militarily a victory for Britain, but economically a catastrophe. This book sets out the economic, and in particular, the financial relations between the two powers during the war, setting it in the context of the more familiar political and diplomatic relationship. Particular attention is paid to the British war missions sent out to the USA, which were the agents for much of the financial and economic negotiation, and which are rescued here from underserved historical obscurity.
The Sinews of Power
Author | : John Brewer |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2002-09-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781134998524 |
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First published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Sinews of Habsburg Power
Author | : William D. Godsey |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780198809395 |
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The Sinews of Habsburg Power traces the development of the central European Habsburg monarchy into one of early modern Europe's leading powers. In particular, it looks to the domestic foundations of that power, which were upheld by the growth of a permanent standing army.
The Wages of Destruction
Author | : Adam Tooze |
Publsiher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 832 |
Release | : 2007-08-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780141040929 |
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Adam Tooze's The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy provides a groundbreaking new account of how Hitler established himself in power, mobilized for war - and led his country to annihilation. Was the tragedy of the Second World War determined by Nazi Germany's terrifying power, or by its fatal weakness? This gripping and universally-acclaimed new history tells the real story of the cost of Hitler's plans for world domination - and will overturn everything you thought you knew about the Third Reich. 'A tour de force' Niall Ferguson 'Masterful ... smashes a gallery of preconceptions' The Times 'This book will change the way we look at Nazi history ... nothing less than a masterpiece. Rejoice, rejoice, for a great historian is born' Sunday Telegraph 'A remarkable and gripping revision of the history of Nazi Germany' New Statesman Books of the Year 'A powerful and provocative reassessment of the whole story' Richard Overy
The Art of War
Author | : Niccolò Machiavelli |
Publsiher | : E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2023-12-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9786056849268 |
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The Art of War (Dell'arte della guerra), is one of the lesser-read works of Florentine statesman and political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli. The format of 'The Art of War' was in socratic dialogue. The purpose, declared by Fabrizio (Machiavelli's persona) at the outset, "To honor and reward virtù, not to have contempt for poverty, to esteem the modes and orders of military discipline, to constrain citizens to love one another, to live without factions, to esteem less the private than the public good." To these ends, Machiavelli notes in his preface, the military is like the roof of a palazzo protecting the contents. Written between 1519 and 1520 and published the following year, it was the only historical or political work printed during Machiavelli's lifetime, though he was appointed official historian of Florence in 1520 and entrusted with minor civil duties. Many, Lorenzo, have held and still hold the opinion, that there is nothing which has less in common with another, and that is so dissimilar, as civilian life is from the military. Whence it is often observed, if anyone designs to avail himself of an enlistment in the army, that he soon changes, not only his clothes, but also his customs, his habits, his voice, and in the presence of any civilian custom, he goes to pieces; for I do not believe that any man can dress in civilian clothes who wants to be quick and ready for any violence; nor can that man have civilian customs and habits, who judges those customs to be effeminate and those habits not conducive to his actions; nor does it seem right to him to maintain his ordinary appearance and voice who, with his beard and cursing, wants to make other men afraid: which makes such an opinion in these times to be very true. But if they should consider the ancient institutions, they would not find matter more united, more in conformity, and which, of necessity, should be like to each other as much as these (civilian and military); for in all the arts that are established in a society for the sake of the common good of men, all those institutions created to (make people) live in fear of the laws and of God would be in vain, if their defense had not been provided for and which, if well arranged, will maintain not only these, but also those that are not well established.