During the last decades, state and local government officials have become very active in the quest for economic development by means of tax abatements, business incubators, direct loans, and other ways. This work looks at these activities, and will place them in a local policy and political context. The work is directed at practitioners in economic development in public and quasi-public organizations.
Marche has spoken with soldiers and counter-insurgency experts about what it would take to control the population of the United States, and the battle plans for the next civil war have already been drawn up. And not by novelists.
And this is where more and more countries, including the United States, are finding themselves today. Over the last two decades, the number of active civil wars around the world has almost doubled.
22. since the work of S. L. A. Marshall on nonfirers in World War II. See Grossman's response to these debates on p. 333. See also S. L. A. Marshall, Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command in Future War (New York: Morrow, ...
When the Daughters of the American Revolution barred Anderson, because she was black, from singing in their auditorium, NAACP activists played a critical role in finding an alternative place and were particularly attuned to the ...
Also advocating a policy of concession were the Express (published by another congressman, James Brooks), ... Democrats such as James T. Brady and Leonard Jerome, a grandfather of Winston Churchill, formed the Loyal League Club, ...
Old white supremacist efforts returned, more ferocious than before. In Civil War by Other Means, Jeremi Suri shows how resistance to a more equal Union began immediately.
This volume collects twelve essays by leading Civil War scholars who demonstrate how the meanings of the Civil War have changed over time.
CONTENTS: Introduction, Jean H. Baker and Charles W. Mitchell “Border State, Border War: Fighting for Freedom and Slavery in Antebellum Maryland,” Richard Bell “Charity Folks and the Ghosts of Slavery in Pre–Civil War Maryland,” ...
This is going to be my answer to the question ‘Where should I start looking at the Civil War?’ from now on.” —TOCWOC–A Civil War Blog The New Civil War Handbook is a complete up-to-date guide for American Civil War enthusiasts of ...
The distinguished historian discusses the issues and events in the Civil War that have great relevance for modern American society