Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Nelson's Directory of Investment Research
Author: Nelson Information's Directory of Investment Research
Author: Jobson's Year Book of Public Companies
Author: Engineers of Independence
Author: Paul K. WalkerPublisher: The Minerva Group, Inc.
ISBN: 9781410201737
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
This collection of documents, including many previously unpublished, details the role of the Army engineers in the American Revolution. Lacking trained military engineers, the Americans relied heavily on foreign officers, mostly from France, for sorely needed technical assistance. Native Americans joined the foreign engineer officers to plan and carry out offensive and defensive operations, direct the erection of fortifications, map vital terrain, and lay out encampments. During the war Congress created the Corps of Engineers with three companies of engineer troops as well as a separate geographer's department to assist the engineers with mapping. Both General George Washington and Major General Louis Lebéque Duportail, his third and longest serving Chief Engineer, recognized the disadvantages of relying on foreign powers to fill the Army's crucial need for engineers. America, they contended, must train its own engineers for the future. Accordingly, at the war's end, they suggested maintaining a peacetime engineering establishment and creating a military academy. However, Congress rejected the proposals, and the Corps of Engineers and its companies of sappers and miners mustered out of service. Eleven years passed before Congress authorized a new establishment, the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers.
Signs of the Wali
Author: Tommy ChristomyPublisher: ANU E Press
ISBN: 1921313706
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
"This thesis is a study of traditional narratives which are recited and received both by villagers and pilgrims in regard to the local pilgrimage (ziarah) tradition in Pamijahan, particularly at Shaykh Abdul Muhyi's sacred site. The narratives will be examined as part of the popular beliefs of Priangan Timur or the eastern part of West Java. Locating them in the wider context of Sundanese oral and written traditions, my investigation will illuminate the nature and function of such traditions in the particular case of Pamijahan. The research will elucidate the role of the kuncen, the custodians of sacred sites, as guides and spiritual brokers who maintain the narratives. It will also be important to investigate the villagers' as well as visitors' view of the kuncen in regard to local pilgrimage. The study will also enhance comparative studies concerned with networks of holy men or saints (wali) on the island of Java (Pemberton 1994; Fox 1991: 20). I want to argue that people respond to, and participate in, saint veneration on pragmatic grounds. However, these grounds are subject to interpretation and contestation in time and space. In redefining their narratives, various individuals, such as custodians, Sufis, and even to some extent government functionaries, are considered to be authoritative persons by virtue of their capacity to conduct and manipulate narratives. As this argument develops, it will be important to understand the modes of signification in the village."--Provided by publisher.
Moody's International News Reports
Author: The God Child
Author: Nana Oforiatta AyimPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408882426
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
A moving, mesmerizing, and astoundingly original debut novel by one of the most exciting literary voices to emerge in recent years.
South African Place Names
Author: Charles PettmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Politics of Hunger in India
Author: B. CurriePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230509282
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Do people starve in democratic polities? It is often claimed that as government must respond to public needs in times of crisis, democracy has reduced famine in India since Independence. This book seeks to identify the processes which generate and perpetuate hunger in India, and what sort of intervention by public and private agencies are best suited to combat this problem. Drawing on fieldwork in the much publicised Kalahandi district, Bob Currie explains why problems of poverty and alleged starvation remain despite regular elections and extensive regional and national publicity.
The Liturgy of Love
Author: Marilyn Aronberg LavinPublisher: Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The Liturgy of Love is an exploration of art reflecting the relationship between spiritual and physical love as expressed in the Old Teastament Song of Songs.