Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on PensionsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 2
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Jason Leighton. January 27, 1902. -- Ordered to be Printed
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on PensionsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2
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Jason Leighton. March 13, 1902. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and Ordered to be Printed
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Invalid PensionsPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2
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Jason Leighton. February 13, 1901. -- Ordered to be Printed
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on PensionsPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2
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The Last Utopia
Author: Samuel MoynPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674256522
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.
The Descendants of Rev. Thomas Hooker, Hartford, Connecticut, 1586-1908
Author: Edward HookerCatalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2660
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Forging a Total Force
Author: Forrest L. MarionPublisher:
ISBN: 9780160943881
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages :
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"Forging a Total Force traces the evolution of the Guard and reserve from the Revolutionary War-era militias to today's operational reserve, an integral part of the nation's total force. In the early republic, the ideal of a citizen-solider, capable of taking the field with little or no training, predominated. The realities of modern combat slowly made it clear that a more professional force was required, but policy changes failed to keep up with that changing necessity. The nation struggled to provide adequate training and equipment to the reserve component throughout the Cold War until the idea of a Total Force, which integrated regular and reserve components, emerged and was achieved. It wasn't until the defense buildup of the 1980s that the ideal of a combat-ready reserve became reality. The core of this book focuses on what came next, from 1990 to 2011, with particular emphasis on the decade after 9/11. The Persian Gulf War demonstrated both the effectiveness of the reserve and the challenges it continued to face. The post-Cold War drawdown during the 1990s made the smaller active component more dependent on the reserves than it had been since the nation's founding. The reserve component proved itself yet again in the wars following 9/11, but also became strained as it became clear just how much the nation depended on its Guard and reserve. Finally, the authors detail the policy changes made midstream in an attempt to address issues with the overextended force, such as balancing training and deployment with civilian lives and careers, providing health care to reservists, and integrating the active and reserve components. The authors conclude by detailing the issues policymakers will face as they forge ahead with citizen-soldiers serving as an operational force."--Provided by publisher.
Chickens and Their Diseases in Hawaii
Author: Thomas Farrington SedgwickPublisher:
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Category : Chickens
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
The Bondman
Author: Hall CaineCarbon Bisulphid as an Insecticide
Author: W. E. HindsPublisher:
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Category : Carbon disulfide
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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