Author: Bonnie Ellen BlusteinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521528436
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
A life of one of the most successful American physicians of the nineteenth century.
Preserve Your Love for Science
Author: Bonnie Ellen BlusteinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521528436
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
A life of one of the most successful American physicians of the nineteenth century.
Republican Empire
Author: Karl-Friedrich WallingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The republics of Greece and Rome proved incapable of waging war effectively and remaining free at the same time. The record of modern republics is not much more encouraging. How, then, did the United States manage to emerge victorious from the world wars of this century, including the Cold War, and still retain its fundamental liberties? For Karl-Friedrich Walling, this unprecedented accomplishment was the work of many hands and many generations, but of Alexander Hamilton especially. No Founder thought more about the theory and practice of modern war and free government. None supplied advice of more enduring relevance to statesmen faced with the responsibility of providing for the common defense while securing the blessings of liberty to their posterity. Hamilton's strategic sobriety led many of his contemporaries to view him as an American Caesar, but this revisionist account calls the conventional "militarist" interpretation of Hamilton into question. Hamilton sought to unite the strength necessary for war with the restraint required by the rule of law, popular consent, and individual rights. In the process, he helped found something new, the world's most durable republican empire. Walling constructs a conversation about war and freedom between Hamilton and the Loyalists, the Anti-Federalists, the Jeffersonians, and other Federalists. Instead of pitting Hamilton's virtues against his opponents' vices (or vice versa), Walling pits Hamilton's virtue of responsibility against the revolutionary virtue of vigilance, a quarrel he believes is inherent to American party government. By reexamining that quarrel in light of the necessities of war and the requirements of liberty, Walling has written the most balanced and moving account of Hamilton so far.
William Hammond Letterbook Pages
Author: William Hammond (of Baltimore, Md.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baltimore (Md.)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Four leaves from a letterbook containing copies of business correspondence from Baltimore merchant William Hammond, 1784-1786.
Public Affairs
Author: William M. HammondPublisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160016738
Category : Armed Forces and mass media
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
United States Army in Vietnam. CMH Pub. 91-13. Draws upon previously unavailable Army and Defense Department records to interpret the part the press played during the Vietnam War. Discusses the roles of the following in the creation of information policy: Military Assistance Command's Office of Information in Saigon; White House; State Department; Defense Department; and the United States Embassy in Saigon.
Reporting Vietnam
Author: William M. HammondPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This text explains that government and media first shared a vision of American involvement in Vietnam, but, as the war dragged on, government press releases were challenged by reports from the field.
Public Affairs
Author: William M. HammondPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armed Forces and mass media
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
The Watch
Author: William HammondPublisher:
ISBN: 9780953241507
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
James Henry Hammond and the Old South
Author: Drew Gilpin FaustPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807112488
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
From his birth in 1807 to his death in 1864 as Sherman’s troops marched in triumph toward South Carolina, James Henry Hammond witnessed the rise and fall of the cotton kingdom of the Old South. Planter, politician, and an ardent defender of slavery and white supremacy, Hammond built a career for himself that in its breadth and ambition provides a composite portrait of the civilization in which he flourished. A long-awaited biography, Drew Gilpin Faust’s James Henry Hammond and the Old South reveals the South Carolina planter who was at once characteristic of his age and unique among men of his time. Of humble origins, Hammond set out to conquer his society, to make himself a leader and a spokesman for the Old South. Through marriage he acquired a large plantation and many slaves, and then through their coerced labor, shrewd management practices, and progressive farming techniques, he soon became one of the wealthiest men in South Carolina. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives and served as governor of his state. Evidence that he sexually abused four of his teenage nieces forced him to retreat for many years to his plantation, but eventually he returned to public view, winning a seat in the United States Senate that he resigned when South Carolina seceded from the Union. James Henry Hammond’s ambition was unquenchable. It consumed his life, directed almost his every move and ultimately, in its titanic calculation and rigidity, destroyed the man confined within it. Like Faulkner’s Thomas Sutpen, Faust suggests, Hammond had a “design,” a compulsion to direct every moment of his life toward self-aggrandizement and legitimation. Despite his sexual abuse of enslaved females and their children, like other plantation owners, Hammond envisioned himself as benevolent and paternal. He saw himself as the absolute master of his family and slaves, but neither his family, his slaves, nor even his own behavior was completely under his command. Hammond fervently wished to perfect and preserve what he envisioned as the southern way of life. But these goals were also beyond his control. At the time of his death it had become clear to him that his world, the world of the Old South, had ended.
No Sacrifice Too Great
Author: William C. HammondPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493058185
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
The sixth volume in the award-winning series profiling the American perspective in the Age of Sail, No Sacrifice Too Great chronicles the swashbuckling adventures of the Cutler family as the United States takes on Great Britain in the War of 1812. Richard Cutler and his two sons, William and James, serve in the US Navy, weak in number of ships but strong in experience and fighting-spirit. Battles in which the family participates include high seas drama between the USS Constitution and HMS Guerriere, fleet engagements on Lake Erie and Lake Champlain, the siege of Baltimore, and the epic Battle of New Orleans.
Author: Roland Hammond