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Author | : D. Reveron |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2004-07-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1403979111 |
With the U.S. armed forces playing an ever increasing central role in American foreign policy, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the role of regional Commanders-in-Chief (CINCs) in both implementing and shaping relations with various countries. Wielding tremendous power and substantial resources, both military and economic, these officers are also diplomats, advisors, and intermediaries between other countries and the Washington policy process. This book explores the role these military commanders play in contemporary U.S. foreign policy.
Author | : Lewis Hanke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Latin America |
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Author | : Francisco A. Eissa-Barroso |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2016-10-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004308792 |
In The Spanish Monarchy and the Creation of the Viceroyalty of New Granada (1717-1739), Francisco A. Eissa-Barroso analyzes the politics behind the most salient Bourbon reform introduced in Spanish America during the early eighteenth century.
Author | : Dauril Alden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Brazil |
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Author | : Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 617 |
Release | : 2018-03-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1469640805 |
Although Spain was never a formal ally of the United States during the American Revolution, its entry into the war definitively tipped the balance against Britain. Led by Bernardo de Galvez, supreme commander of the Spanish forces in North America, their military campaigns against British settlements on the Mississippi River—and later against Mobile and Pensacola—were crucial in preventing Britain from concentrating all its North American military and naval forces on the fight against George Washington's Continental army. In this first comprehensive biography of Galvez (1746@–86), Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia assesses the commander's considerable historical impact and expands our understanding of Spain's contribution to the war. A man of both empire and the Enlightenment, as viceroy of New Spain (1785@–86), Galvez was also pivotal in the design and implementation of Spanish colonial reforms, which included the reorganization of Spain's Northern Frontier that brought peace to the region for the duration of the Spanish presence in North America. Extensively researched through Spanish, Mexican, and U.S. archives, Quintero Saravia's portrait of Galvez reveals him as central to the histories of the Revolution and late eighteenth-century America and offers a reinterpretation of the international factors involved in the American War for Independence.
Author | : Bruce Chatwin |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 103 |
Release | : 1988-06-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101503211 |
Bruce Chatwin’s debut novel: “Conrad’s Heart of Darkness seen through a microscope” (The Atlantic) In this vivid, powerful novel, Chatwin tells of Francisco Manoel de Silva, a poor Brazilian adventurer who sails to Dahomey in West Africa to trade for slaves and amass his fortune. His plans exceed his dreams, and soon he is the Viceroy of Ouidah, master of all slave trading in Dahomey. But the ghastly business of slave trading and the open savagery of life in Dahomey slowly consume Manoel's wealth and sanity.
Author | : Anne de Courcy |
Publisher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 2012-12-20 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1780225741 |
The lives of the three daughters of Lord Curzon: glamorous, rich, independent and wilful. Irene (born 1896), Cynthia (b.1898) and Alexandria (b.1904) were the three daughters of Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India 1898-1905 and probably the grandest and most self-confident imperial servant Britain ever possessed. After the death of his fabulously rich American wife in 1906, Curzon's determination to control every aspect of his daughters' lives, including the money that was rightfully theirs, led them one by one into revolt against their father. The three sisters were at the very heart of the fast and glittering world of the Twenties and Thirties. Irene, intensely musical and a passionate foxhunter, had love affairs in the glamorous Melton Mowbray hunting set. Cynthia ('Cimmie') married Oswald Mosley, joining him first in the Labour Party, where she became a popular MP herself, before following him into fascism. Alexandra ('Baba'), the youngest and most beautiful, married the Prince of Wales's best friend Fruity Metcalfe. On Cimmie's early death in 1933 Baba flung herself into a long and passionate affair with Mosley and a liaison with Mussolini's ambassador to London, Count Dino Grandi, while enjoying the romantic devotion of the Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax. The sisters see British fascism from behind the scenes, and the arrival of Wallis Simpson and the early married life of the Windsors. The war finds them based at 'the Dorch' (the Dorchester Hotel) doing good works. At the end of their extraordinary lives, Irene and Baba have become, rather improbably, pillars of the establishment, Irene being made one of the very first Life Peers in 1958 for her work with youth clubs.
Author | : Justin Winsor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 632 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : America |
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Author | : Albert Bushnell Hart |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : America |
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Author | : Justin Winsor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : America |
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