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With graphic prints, photographs, a timeline, and a glossary, this engaging and insightful technography sheds light on one of the most important inventions in the history of the human race.
The War at Home brings together some of the state’s leading historians to examine the connections between Arkansas and World War I. These essays explore how historical entities and important events such as Camp Pike, the Little Rock Picric Acid Plant, and the Elaine Race Massacre were related to the conflict as they investigate the issues of gender, race, and public health. This collection sheds new light on the ways that Arkansas participated in the war as well as the ways the war affected Arkansas then and still does today.
James Bond, Ian Fleming’s irrepressible and ubiquitous ‘spy,’ is often understood as a Cold Warrior, but James Bond’s Cold War diverged from the actual global conflict in subtle but significant ways. That tension between the real and fictional provides perspectives into Cold War culture transcending ideological and geopolitical divides. The Bondiverse is complex and multi-textual, including novels, films, video games, and even a comic strip, and has also inspired an array of homages, copies, and competitors. Awareness of its rich possibilities only becomes apparent through a multi-disciplinary lens. The desire to consider current trends in Bondian studies inspired a conference entitl...
John Grosvenor was baptized in 1640/1641 at St. Leonard's Parish in Bridgnorth borough, Shropshire, England and immigrated to Roxbury, Massachusetts. He died in 1691.
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This collection of essays explores the way history itself has become a contested element within the national legal debate about firearms. The debate over the Second Amendment has unveiled new and useful information about the history of guns and their possession and meaning in the United States of America. History itself has become contested ground in the debate about firearms and in the interpretation of the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Specifically this collection of essays gives special attention to the important and often overlooked dimension of the applications of history in the law. These essays illustrate the complexity of the firearms debate, the relation between law and behavior, and the role that historical knowledge plays in contemporary debates over law and policy. Wide-ranging and stimulating The Right to Bear Arms is bound to captivate both historians and casual readers alike.
Η στρατιωτική τεχνολογία συχνά ερευνάται και αναπτύσσεται από επιστήμονες και μηχανικούς ειδικά για χρήση στη μάχη από τις ένοπλες δυνάμεις. πολλές νέες τεχνολογίες ήρθαν ως αποτέλεσμα της στρατιωτικής χρηματοδότησης της επιστήμης. η τεχνική εξοπλισμού είναι ο σχεδιασμός, η ανάπτυξη, ο έλεγχος και η διαχείριση κύκλου ζωής στρατιωτικών όπλων και συστημάτων. βασίζεται στη γνώση ...