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archetypes of the former age. The attention to the spiritual nature of mankind is evident throughout the arts during this time per...
record of communication between Semmes and his superiors. Boykin, in his Preface, also thanks the Alderman library at the Universi...
In five pages this essay examines the concept of 'just war' within the context of the Geneva Convention guidelines and affirms tha...
is particularly noteworthy in the period spanning from 1862 to 1914. It was during this period that many ships underwent a transf...
fathers oldest friends was Colonel John S. Mosby, the fabled "grey ghost" of Jeb Stuarts famous cavalry (Carter and Finer, 2004)....
civilized nation. While historians blame Grants lackadaisical resolve to enforce Reconstruction laws, that slavery was ever sough...
the Cold War. Another author, Professor Gerhard Rempel, approaches the issue from a different perspective in terms of discussin...
of Yeoman Households" notes that in standard anti-bellum society, the white male plantation owner was the prime owner of everythin...
"ethnic cleansing" in Kosovo and how NATO leaders hesitated to term planned military action as a "war." On the other hand, he also...
stimulating innovation and organizing research. However, Fukuyama also acknowledges that scientific progress does not directly exp...
realist notions concerning what the term "state" means, as "State identities and interests can be collectively transformed within ...
as Homer based his story on fiction which would occur in the context of history and mythology. While the tale has been critically ...
first shot is fired. Finding the enemys vulnerability has always been a strategy, but in this book one is also urged to look for o...
1861, it was with a determination to covert the "rebel States into a wilderness" (McPherson 249). While the North was eag...
the North of "Confederate" pirates, it also provided more control for the blockade (McPherson, 370). Ship Island in New Orleans fo...
NATO. From the US perspective, they were merely protecting a weakened Europe from Soviet aggression. The viewpoint propelled the U...
know that he was a slave and until he was old enough to experience the suffering and see the suffering endured by others. This ...
of self-preservation that had, up until that time, marked the soldiers of this war (McPherson 540). In short, though the Confedera...
that, "In the aftermath of the fighting with Iraq, two just war principles in particular - just cause and proportionality - reveal...
"just war." Of course, just war theory does come into question. Is any war really just? To suggest that it is may be declared in r...
stories they remember from men who are from an older generation. Barker (1993) highlights the psychological effects of this popul...
government. In particular, concerning a worldwide perspective, it is the Moslem countries that are the most frightening to me as a...
truly began to develop the powerfully negative attitudes about foreigners and anyone who was not of the Islamic people. He encoura...
and have fail to have a clear cut goal. Todays present situation in Iraq typifies this Bell Jar Effect. The goals were specific wh...
make them themselves. This is but one example of the types of increasing regulations which began to severely restrict the colonis...
the twentieth century, historians began to fill in the picture created by the broad brush stokes of nineteenth century historiogra...
reality in many ways. In this work there are many young men in the war, men that are clinging to whatever they can in the devastat...
must be narrowly defined and must not deviate from the boundaries given it at the outset. Of course approaching a study in this m...
them to the most rigid scrutiny. Pressing public necessity may sometimes justify the existence of such restrictions; racial antago...
and shot at by Serb snipers (p. 2). Hedges offers a vision of war that means much more than political and ideological rhetoric and...