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Adams, Stephen B.; Butler, Orville R. Manufacturing the Future: A History of Western Electric
Cambridge Univ Press 1999 0521651182 / 9780521651189 Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Like-new condition. Appears unread. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine, bright pages. Illustrated. NO writing, marks or tears. 270 pages. Synopsis: A first full-length history of the Western Electric Company, the manufacturing arm of the Bell System. Review "This overview of the operation and evolution of a leading firm over a vital era of American business history is recommended for undergraduate and graduate library collections." Choice "...a compact and highly readable account of a hitherto largely neglected company." Albert Churella, Business History "Manufacturing the Future provides a valuable overview of Western Electric's history, an excellent teaching tool for undergraduates studying the American economy." John Abrahamson. "The author's abilities to integrate so many disparate themes...into such a brief account are highly praisworthy." Enterprise & Society "Manufacturing the Future is a thorough and well-structured book that clearly and succinctly- in 218 text pages- covers the most seminal points in Western Electric's history. The Book's emphasis on the relationship between the firm and the Bell System is well placed and its arguments are convicing. The author's abilities to integrate so many disparate themes...are highly praiseworthy." Enterprise & Society Product Description Manufacturing the Future: A History of Western Electric is the first full-length history of the Western Electric Company, the manufacturing arm of the Bell System. As a manufacturer in the communications revolutions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Western Electric made new products such as telegraphs, telephones, an early computing machine, radios, radar, and transistors. The book demonstrates, through Western's 1882 acquisition by Bell Telephone, that vertical integration was a lengthy process rather than a single event. It also shows the coming of age of industrial psychology and describes the advent of civil rights in corporate America.
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Adkins, Roy; Adkins, Lesley The War For All the Oceans: From Nelson at the Nile to Napoleon at Waterloo
New York, New York, U.S.A. Viking Press 2007 0670038644 / 9780670038640 First American Edition Hard Cover Near-Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-fine condition. Stated First American Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $30.00. Nicely Illustrated. NO tears inside book. 534 pages. 8 pages in book front have underlining. Does NOT interfere with reading. IF not for this, I would have rated this book as Fine. Dustcover is clean and bright (NO tears). Synopsis The bestselling authors of "Nelsons Trafalgar" return to the Napoleonic War in this epic narrative of the naval struggle that lasted from 1798 to 1815, a period marked at the beginning by Napoleons seizing power and at the end by the War of 1812. Booklist In the nineteenth century, the British created the greatest maritime-based empire in world history. That empire was made possible by the domination of the Royal Navy, which was forged in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries in the fires of the Napoleonic Wars. The Adkins, who are both historians and archaeologists, have written a narrative history of British naval conflicts from 1798 to 1815. In that span, the Royal Navy engaged almost every major naval power, including France, Spain, Holland, and even the U.S. Naturally, the Adkins describe the exploits of naval icons, including Nelson and Hood, but their account is most engrossing when they utilize eyewitness accounts of ordinary seamen to capture the intensity of battle as well as the grind of day-to-day life aboard a warship. The Adkins display such superb technological knowledge of their subject that they can be excused for their occasional delving into "Britannica Rules the Waves" enthusiasm. A superior work of maritime history that both scholars and general readers should enjoy. Biography Roy Adkins and Lesley Adkins are both historians and archaeologists and fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London. They are the authors of several works of history.
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Altick, Richard D. Victorian People and Ideas: A Companion for the Modern Reader of Victorian Literature
W W Norton & Co Inc 1973 039309376X / 9780393093766 Trade Paperback Near-Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
A photo of this book is available. Nice, clean copy. NO remainder marks or clippings. Covers are clean and bright, shows light wear (NO tears). Tight spine, bright pages. NO tears inside book. Illustrated. 338 pages. 15 pages show light writing/underlining. Does NOT interfere with reading. Previous owner's name label (small) in book front (Danielle Lounsberry - Chatham, Illinois)
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Aluminium Limited Aluminium Panorama
Montreal, Canada Aluminium Limited 1954 Hard Cover Fine No Jacket 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Near-fine condition. NO writing, marks or tears - Tight spine - Bright pages. Illustrated throughout with photos - 126 pages. Over-sized hardback. Decorative gray boards with silver lettering (clean and bright). NO remainder marks or price clippings. Stated Second Printing.
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Ambrose, Stephen E. To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian
Simon & Schuster 2002 0743202759 / 9780743202756 Hard Cover As New As New 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
New / Unread copy. Price inside dustcover: $24.00. Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 - NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine - Bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears. 265 pages. - Completed shortly before Ambrose's untimely death, To America is a very personal look at our nation's history through the eyes of one of the twentieth century's most influential historians. Ambrose roams the country's history, praising the men and women who made it exceptional. He considers Jefferson and Washington, who were progressive thinkers (while living a contradiction as slaveholders), and celebrates Lincoln and Roosevelt. He recounts Andrew Jackson's stunning defeat of a superior British force in the battle of New Orleans with a ragtag army in the War of 1812. He brings to life Lewis and Clark's grueling journey across the wilderness and the building of the railroad that joined the nation coast to coast. Taking swings at political correctness, as well as his own early biases, Ambrose grapples with the country's historic sins of racism; its ill treatment of Native Americans; and its tragic errors such as the war in Vietnam, which he ardently opposed. He contrasts the modern presidencies of Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, and Johnson. He considers women's and civil rights, immigration, philanthropy, and nation building. Most powerfully, in this final volume, Ambrose offers an accolade to the historian's mighty calling.
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Arciniegas, German America in Europe: A History of the New World in Reverse
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1986 0151055556 / 9780151055555 First Edition Hard Cover Near-Fine Near-Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-fine condition. Stated First Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. 298 pages. Previous owner's signature in book front, on blank page.NO other writing, marks or tears inside book. Tight spine, clean pages. Dustcover shows light wear (NO tears).
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Aries, Philippe; Duby, Georges (General Editors); Goldhammer, Arthur (translator) A History of Private Life II: Revelations of the Medieval World
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 1988 0674399765 / 9780674399761 Hard Cover Fine Near-Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or dustcover clippings - Tight spine - Bright pages. Profusely illustrated. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 650 pages. The final volume in the award-winning series charts the remarkable inner history of our times from the tumult of World War I to the present day, when personal identity was released from its moorings in gender, family, social class, religion, politics, and nationality. "A fascinating glimpse into the distant and exotic past."--Los Angeles Times. 230 halftones, 2 tables. From the Publisher All the mystery, earthiness and romance of the Middle Ages are captured in this panorama of everyday life. The evolving concepts of intimacy are explored--from the semi-obscure eleventh century through the first stirrings of the Renaissance world in the fifteenth century. Color and black-and-white illustrations. From The Critics Publishers Weekly People of the Middle Ages were suspicious of solitude. Feudal dwellings were promiscuously crowded, monastery layouts reflected a fear of isolation. Yet, the idea of privacy, linked to an inner life, stubbornly took root. Intimacy found expression in peasant hearths, in orchards where lovers embraced, in noble households with their areas for retreat, in towers and fortresses that gave ordinary people a refuge from the havoc of war. The private sphere spilled out into the neighborhood. Moving from the anonymous 11th century to the stirrings of Renaissance individualism, this second volume of essays in a projected five-volume opus is a marvelous re-creation of history as it was actually lived, an archeological excavation of daily life few historians have attempted. Hundreds of apt illustrations complement discussions of bedroom design, table manners, discovery of the body, customs. The growing importance of the individual is traced through fables, romances, poems and a new realism in painting. The contributors are French scholars; Duby is a professor at the College de France. History Book Club alternate. (March) Library Journal These volumes, edited by Philippe Aries and Georges Duby, are aimed at both the scholar and layperson who wonder how people lived and behaved from ancient times to the present: "their thoughts, their feelings, their bodies, their attitudes, their habits and habitations, their codes, their marks, and their signs." The focus is on western European life, primarily French. Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information. Spanning the period from the 11th century to the Renaissance and focusing on France and Tuscan Italy, this continues the projected five-volume history of private life from the Roman world to the present. ``Private'' is here defined as what medieval people considered intimate, familial, domestic. The five chapters, three of them written all or in part by distinguished French scholar Duby, display an astounding knowledge and use of sources and offer rich detail about everything from affection and sex to domestic arrangements and latrines. The many illustrations strongly support the text. Essential for both research and general collections.Bennett D. Hill, St. Anselm's Abbey, Washington, D.C. - Table of Contents Preface by Georges Duby 1. Introduction by Georges Duby Private Power, Public Power 2. Portraits by Georges Duby, Dominique Barthélemy, Charles de La Roncière The Aristocratic Households of Feudal France Communal Living Kinship Tuscan Notables on the Eve of the Renaissance 3. Imagining the Self by Danielle Régnier-Bohler Exploring Literature 4. The Use of Private Space by Dominique Barthélemy, Philippe Contamine Civilizing the Fortress: Eleventh to Thirteenth Century Peasant Hearth to Papal Palace: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries 5. The Emergence of the Individual by Georges Duby, Philippe Braunstein Solitude: Eleventh to Thirteenth Century Toward Intimacy: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries Bibliography Credits Index
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Aries, Philippe; Duby, Georges (General Editors); Veyne, Paul (Editor); Goldhammer, Arthur (translator) A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Belknap Press / Harvard University Press 1987 0674399757 / 9780674399754 Hard Cover Fine Near-Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings - Tight spine - Bright pages. Dustcover shows slight wear & 2 very-small, closed tears. Book is in Fine Condition. Profusely illustrated. 670 pages. Tight spine - Bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. - Annotation The final volume in the award-winning series charts the remarkable inner history of our times from the tumult of World War I to the present day, when personal identity was released from its moorings in gender, family, social class, religion, politics, and nationality. "A fascinating glimpse into the distant and exotic past."--Los Angeles Times. 230 halftones, 2 tables. From the Publisher The 19th century was the golden age of private life, a time when supreme individual and existential values emerged. The fourth book in this popular series, written for the cultivated reader, chronicles this development from the tumult of the French Revolution to the outbreak of World War I. From The Critics Publishers Weekly People of the Middle Ages were suspicious of solitude. Feudal dwellings were promiscuously crowded, monastery layouts reflected a fear of isolation. Yet, the idea of privacy, linked to an inner life, stubbornly took root. Intimacy found expression in peasant hearths, in orchards where lovers embraced, in noble households with their areas for retreat, in towers and fortresses that gave ordinary people a refuge from the havoc of war. The private sphere spilled out into the neighborhood. Moving from the anonymous 11th century to the stirrings of Renaissance individualism, this second volume of essays in a projected five-volume opus is a marvelous re-creation of history as it was actually lived, an archeological excavation of daily life few historians have attempted. Hundreds of apt illustrations complement discussions of bedroom design, table manners, discovery of the body, customs. The growing importance of the individual is traced through fables, romances, poems and a new realism in painting. The contributors are French scholars; Duby is a professor at the College de France. History Book Club alternate. (March) Library Journal These volumes, edited by Philippe Aries and Georges Duby, are aimed at both the scholar and layperson who wonder how people lived and behaved from ancient times to the present: "their thoughts, their feelings, their bodies, their attitudes, their habits and habitations, their codes, their marks, and their signs." The focus is on western European life, primarily French. Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information. Spanning the period from the 11th century to the Renaissance and focusing on France and Tuscan Italy, this continues the projected five-volume history of private life from the Roman world to the present. ``Private'' is here defined as what medieval people considered intimate, familial, domestic. The five chapters, three of them written all or in part by distinguished French scholar Duby, display an astounding knowledge and use of sources and offer rich detail about everything from affection and sex to domestic arrangements and latrines. The many illustrations strongly support the text. Essential for both research and general collections.Bennett D. Hill, St. Anselm's Abbey, Washington, D.C. - Table of Contents Foreword by Georges Duby Introduction by Paul Veyne 1. Roman Empire by Paul Veyne Introduction From Mother's Womb to Last Will and Testament Marriage Slavery The Household and Its Freed Slaves Where Public Life Was Private "Work" and Leisure Patrimony Public Opinion and Utopia Pleasures and Excesses Tranquilizers 2. Late Antiquity by Peter Brown Introduction The "Wellborn" Few Person and Group in Judaism and Early Christianity Church and Leadership The Challenge of the Desert East and West: The New Marital Morality 3. Private Life and Domestic Architecture in Roman Africa by Yvon Thébert The Roman Home: Foreword by Paul Veyne Some Theoretical Considerations The Domestic Architecture of the Ruling Class "Private" and "Public" Spaces: The Components of the Domus How the Domus Worked Conclusion 4. The Early Middle Ages in the West by Michel Rouche Introduction by Paul Veyne Historical Introduction Private Life Conquers State and Society Body and Heart Violence and Death Sacred and Secret Conclusion 5. Byzantium in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries by Evelyne Patlagean The Byzantine Empire Private Space Self and Others The Inner Life Private Belief Conclusion Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index
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Ashley, Roscoe Lewis Ancient Civilization: A Textbook For secondary Schools
The Macmillan Company 1915 Hard Cover Very Good + No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
A photo of this book is available. Very-good+, clan copy of this 1915 hardback. Apparent First Edition. Green boards with black & gilt lettering (clean and bright- shows light wear). 363 pages plus ads in back of book. NO writing or marks inside book. Tight spine, clean pages. NO foxing. Pages show light tanning. Nicely illustrated throughout. The title page shows 1 small, closed tear at top of page. NO other tears inside book.
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Ashley, Roscoe Lewis Medieval Civilization: A Textbook For Secondary Schools
The Macmillan Company 1916 Hard Cover Near-Fine No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
A photo of this book is available. Near-fine (extra-nice) copy of this 1916 hardback. Green boards with black and gilt lettering (clean and bright, shows slight wear). NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Tight spine, clean pages. NO foxing. Pages show light tanning. Very-nicely illustrated throughout - including color maps. 703 pages plus ads in back of book.
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Baigent, Michael; Leigh, Richard The Temple and the Lodge
Arcade Publishing 1989 1559701269 / 9781559701266 First American Edition Trade Paperback Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine, bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears. 306 pages. Illustrated throughout. Stated First U.S. Edition. Synopsis Dispelling myth and reevaluating European and American history, The Temple and the Lodge is the most illuminating investigation yet published into the evolution of Freemasonry. Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh recount the events that led to the strange and sudden disappearance of the Knights Templar in the fourteenth century and their reappearance in the court of excommunicate Scottish king Robert the Bruce. Theorizing, and documenting, the survival of Templar traditions through the birth of the Masonic lodge, the authors chart the history of Freemasonry through its medieval roots and into the modern era. They demonstrate the order's contribution to the fostering of tolerance, progressive values, and cohesion in English society, which helped to preempt a French-style revolution in England. In addition, they show how Freemasonry contributed to the formation of the United States as an embodiment of the ideal "Masonic Republic." Annotation The origins of Freemasonry are explored in this book by the authors of the bestseller, Holy Blood, Holy Grail. The history of Freemasonry is charted from its mysterious beginnings in the fourteenth century through the currents of thought and political upheavals surrounding the organization in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Thirty-six black-and-white photographs are included in the book.
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Baker, Robert A. The Blossoming Desert a Concise History of Texas Baptists
Waco, Texas Word Books, Publisher 1970 Hard Cover Fine Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
HARDBACK WITH DUSTCOVER - FINE CONDITION - DUSTCOVER SHOWS MINOR WEAR BOOK IS IN FINE CONDITION - 282 PAGES - LOC# 73-127035 CONTENTS: THE BARREN LAND THE BAPTIST WITNESS PLANTING MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCHES (1836-40) ASSAULTING THE WILDERNESS (1840-48) THE FIRST ASSOCIATIONS (1840-48) OPEN DOORS . . . MANY ADVERSARIES (1848-60) WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION (1861-74) CLOSING RANKS (1874-86) FINDING DIRECTION (1886-1914) A NEW ERA (1914-29) DEPRESSION AND WAR (1929-45) FLOWERS AND FRUITS (1946-69) DOCUMENTATION INDEX
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Balakian, Peter The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response: A History of International Human Rights and Forgotten Heroes
HarperCollins 2003 0060198400 / 9780060198404 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Like-new condition - Appears unread. Stated First Edition - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Tight spine - Bright pages. Illustrated. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 476 pages. - A History of International Human Rights and Forgotten Heroes In this national bestseller, the critically acclaimed author Peter Balakian brings us a riveting narrative of the massacres of the Armenians in the 1890s and of the Armenian Genocide in 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Turks. Using rarely seen archival documents and remarkable first-person accounts, Balakian presents the chilling history of how the Turkish government implemented the first modern genocide behind the cover of World War I. And in the telling, he resurrects an extraordinary lost chapter of American history. Awarded the Raphael Lemkin Prize for the best scholarly book on genocide by the Institute for Genocide Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY Graduate Center. Synopsis The Armenian Genocide by the Turks was the first great genocide of the 20th century. Balakian (humanities, Colgate U.) explores the American response to the crime through the actions of diplomats and politicians, as well as Protestant missionaries, the press, and the American relief community. State Department officials, particularly Ambassador Henry Morgenthau, are portrayed as going to almost heroic lengths in efforts to avert the massacres. The passion of the relief agencies are also described favorably, while isolationist Republican Senators and post-World War I power alliances and oil considerations are suggested to have diverted attempts to address the genocide. These tensions, contends Balakian, continue to haunt American foreign policy down to the present time. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR From The Critics The New York Times … The Burning Tigris does succeed in resurrecting a little-known chapter of American as well as Armenian history. It also underscores a crucial point about humanitarian responses to violations of human rights: outrage and outpourings of sympathy and aid may save some lives, but -- as the 20th century would show time and again -- they have little real impact in the face of state interests that militate against intervention. With The Burning Tigris Peter Balakian forcefully reminds us that almost a century after the Armenian genocide, the international community has yet to find a means of implementing Charlotte Perkins Gilman's vision, as pertinent today as it was in 1903: ''National crimes demand international law, to restrain, prohibit, punish, best of all, prevent.'' — Belinda Cooper James R. Russell It is a mighty work, a slow burn of muted eloquence, dense with scholarship. Balakian's training in English literature and American studies has served him especially well, since a large part of the book is dedicated to the stupendous and nearly universal outpouring of sympathy for the Armenians and condemnation of Ottoman barbarity throughout the nightmare years among American and British writers, intellectuals, clergymen and politicians. j—The Forward Publishers Weekly Now faded from memory in the shadow of the Holocaust, the Turkish slaughter of more than a million Armenians in 1915-1916 was a virtual template for the 20th-century horrors that followed, and much of what Balakian describes so powerfully is now chillingly familiar: inhuman brutality; mass deportations of helpless civilians (often in overcrowded railroad boxcars); headlines screaming of "systematic race extermination"; activists and intellectuals calling for intervention; and, most devastatingly, the lack of political will in the West to intervene to stop the slaughter. Balakian exposes the roots of the genocide in the "total war" atmosphere of WWI, which combusted with the pan-Turkish nationalism of the Young Turk government, inflamed Muslim rage against "infidel" Armenian Christians, and a long-simmering Ottoman hatred of the Armenians dating to Sultan Abdul Hamid II and his slaughters in the 1890s. Balakian, who wrote so movingly of the impact of the genocide on his own family in Black Dog of Fate, also underscores how well known the Armenian destruction was in America through detailed reports by U.S. consuls throughout Turkey and steady newspaper reporting, and how great the response was in providing humanitarian assistance to refugees and survivors. In a horrifying account, city by city, region by region, Balakian quotes firsthand testimony about the decimation of the Armenian population and their towns and culture. Yet he retains the measured tone of a historian throughout; if anything, he lets Woodrow Wilson off too easily for not declaring war on Turkey. But readers will come away sadly convinced that Armenians' brave but doomed stand in Van should be as celebrated as the Warsaw ghetto uprising, and the corpse-strewn Lake Gaeljak as well known as Babi Yar. 16 pages of b&w photos and maps not seen by PW. (Oct. 7) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information. Library Journal Author of the award-winning Black Dog of Fate, Balakian explores America's efforts to save Armenians from genocide. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information. Kirkus Reviews An eloquent account of Turkey’s long campaign to rid itself of Armenians—and far longer campaign to disavow any responsibility for crimes against humanity. During the 1890s, writes memoirist (Black Dog of Fate, 1997) and poet Balakian, Sultan Abdul Hamid II launched a campaign of extermination against Armenia’s Christians, killing about 200,000 in a two-year period and setting "the template for most of the genocide that followed in the twentieth century." The Ottoman Empire’s resorting to state-sponsored murder against the Armenians was not without precedent; a few years earlier, the same sultan had ordered the massacre of thousands of Bulgarians who had been pressing for independence. Yet this crime was unprovoked, and it outraged the world; in the US, millions of dollars were raised for Armenian relief, and at the turn of the century nearly every American schoolchild could find Armenia on the map. The fall of the Ottomans and the rise of the Young Turks brought further troubles for the Armenians, for whereas the Ottomans had ruled a multiethnic empire, the Ataturk regime championed Turkish nationalism. Faced with revolutionary movements in the Balkans, the Young Turks justified oppression of the Armenians as a measure to stave off a two-front attack; "in the Turkish mind," writes Balakian, "the struggle to keep the Balkans was never far from the Armenian Question." This time the death toll was far higher; Balakian estimates that between 1.2 and 1.3 million Armenians were killed in the years between 1915 and 1922, though some historians put the figure at 1.5 million. Again, writes Balakian, American sentiment was with the Armenians, many survivors among whom emigrated to the US. Butin the years since, despite the Turkish government’s crimes against its people, the Armenian genocide has been gone unacknowledged, the product of a "sinister . . . Turkish campaign of denial . . . that is perhaps singular in the annals of history"a campaign that, Balakian says, successfully persuaded Bill Clinton to kill a House measure to commemorate the genocide "for the sake of ‘national security.’ " Thoroughly convincing and one more reason for the governments of the West, including the Clinton administration, to be ashamed.
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Balen, Malcolm The Secret History of the South Sea Bubble: The World's First Great Financial Scandal
Fourth Estate 2003 0007161778 / 9780007161775 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new copy. Stated First Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $24.95. NO writing, marks or tears. Tight spine, clean pages. Illustrated. 246 pages. Synopsis In the early 18th century, the South Sea Company was incorporated with the purpose of exploiting the wealth of Louisiana and the Caribbean. Investors flocked to the company with the encouragement of English politicians. Unfortunately for the investors, the company never owned a single trip or financed a single journey and the whole scheme eventually imploded. Journalist Balen narrates the story of the company, paying particular attention to the motivations of the various company officers and implicated government officials, which are often remarkably similar to those driving the Enron, Worldcom, and other current financial scandals. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc.
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Bar-Zohar, Michael Facing a Cruel Mirror: Israel's Moment of Truth
Scribner 1990 0684191946 / 9780684191942 Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition - Dustcover shows only slight wear - Book is in Fine Condition - Price inside dustcover: $22.95 - Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Tight spine - Bright pages - 246 pages - A former member of the Knesset, Bar-Zohar says that Israel is deeply divided by differences between religious and secular forces, hawks and doves, Arabs and Jews, and that it is struggling to maintain its moral and democratic ideals. He believes that the constant need to form coalition governments has stymied peace initiatives, and that electoral reform is needed.
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