The Tale of Peter Rabbit

The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Author: Beatrix Potter
Publisher: Henry Altemus Company
Total Pages: 72
Release: 1907
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN:

Peter disobeys his mother by going into Mr. McGregor's garden and almost gets caught.

Guardians of Empire

Guardians of Empire
Author: Brian McAllister Linn
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2000-11-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807863017

In a comprehensive study of four decades of military policy, Brian McAllister Linn offers the first detailed history of the U.S. Army in Hawaii and the Philippines between 1902 and 1940. Most accounts focus on the months preceding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. By examining the years prior to the outbreak of war, Linn provides a new perspective on the complex evolution of events in the Pacific. Exhaustively researched, Guardians of Empire traces the development of U.S. defense policy in the region, concentrating on strategy, tactics, internal security, relations with local communities, and military technology. Linn challenges earlier studies which argue that army officers either ignored or denigrated the Japanese threat and remained unprepared for war. He demonstrates instead that from 1907 onward military commanders in both Washington and the Pacific were vividly aware of the danger, that they developed a series of plans to avert it, and that they in fact identified--even if they could not solve--many of the problems that would become tragically apparent on 7 December 1941.

Done in the Open

Done in the Open
Author:
Publisher: New York : P.F. Collier
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1904
Genre: Drawing, American
ISBN:

A Cultural History of Cuba during the U.S. Occupation, 1898-1902

A Cultural History of Cuba during the U.S. Occupation, 1898-1902
Author: Marial Iglesias Utset
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2011-05-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807877840

In this cultural history of Cuba during the United States' brief but influential occupation from 1898 to 1902--a key transitional period following the Spanish-American War--Marial Iglesias Utset sheds light on the complex set of pressures that guided the formation and production of a burgeoning Cuban nationalism. Drawing on archival and published sources, Iglesias illustrates the process by which Cubans maintained and created their own culturally relevant national symbols in the face of the U.S. occupation. Tracing Cuba's efforts to modernize in conjunction with plans by U.S. officials to shape the process, Iglesias analyzes, among other things, the influence of the English language on Spanish usage; the imposition of North American holidays, such as Thanksgiving, in place of traditional Cuban celebrations; the transformation of Havana into a new metropolis; and the development of patriotic symbols, including the Cuban flag, songs, monuments, and ceremonies. Iglesias argues that the Cuban response to U.S. imperialism, though largely critical, indeed involved elements of reliance, accommodation, and welcome. Above all, Iglesias argues, Cubans engaged the Americans on multiple levels, and her work demonstrates how their ambiguous responses to the U.S. occupation shaped the cultural transformation that gave rise to a new Cuban nationalism.

Paradise Lost. Books 1-2

Paradise Lost. Books 1-2
Author: John Milton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1972
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

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