The Spoils

Author : Robin Waterfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199830541
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dividing the Spoils written by Robin Waterfield and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander the Great conquered an enormous empire--stretching from Greece to the Indian subcontinent--and his death triggered forty bloody years of world-changing events. These were years filled with high adventure, intrigue, passion, assassinations, dynastic marriages, treachery, shifting alliances, and mass slaughter on battlefield after battlefield. And while the men fought on the field, the women, such as Alexander's mother Olympias, schemed from their palaces and pavilions. Dividing the Spoils serves up a fast-paced narrative that captures this turbulent time as it revives the memory of the Successors of Alexander and their great contest for his empire. The Successors, Robin Waterfield shows, were no mere plunderers. Indeed, Alexander left things in great disarray at the time of his death, with no guaranteed succession, no administration in place suitable for such a large realm, and huge untamed areas both bordering and within his empire. It was the Successors--battle-tested companions of Alexander such as Ptolemy, Perdiccas, Seleucus, and Antigonus the One-Eyed--who consolidated Alexander's gains. Their competing ambitions, however, eventually led to the break-up of the empire. To tell their story in full, Waterfield draws upon a wide range of historical materials, providing the first account that makes complete sense of this highly complex period. Astonishingly, this period of brutal, cynical warfare was also characterized by brilliant cultural achievements, especially in the fields of philosophy, literature, and art. A new world emerged from the dust and haze of battle, and, in addition to chronicling political and military events, Waterfield provides ample discussion of the amazing cultural flowering of the early Hellenistic Age.

Author : William Knight
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Arch of Titus and the Spoils of the Temple written by William Knight and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Arthur L. Lofquist
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The SPoils of Forest Kings and Other Selected Poems written by Arthur L. Lofquist and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry James
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spoils of Poynton written by Henry James and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Spoils of Poynton' is a novel by Henry James, first published under the title The Old Things as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1896 and then as a book in 1897. This novel traces the shifting relations among three people and a magnificent collection of art, decorative arts, and furniture arrayed like jewels in a country house called Poynton. Mrs. Gereth, a widow of impeccable taste and iron will, formed the collection over decades only to have it torn away from her when her son Owen decides to marry a frivolous woman. The story is largely told from the viewpoint of Fleda Vetch, a keenly intelligent young woman of straitened circumstances who, shortly after becoming the intimate friend and companion of Mrs. Gereth, falls in love with Owen. Sympathetic to Mrs. Gereth's anguish over losing the fine things she patiently collected, Fleda shuttles between the estranged mother and son, becoming ever more involved in their affairs.

Author : Daniel Williman
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780871697868
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Right of Spoil of the Popes of Avignon, 1316-1415 written by Daniel Williman and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1988 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Postal Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Raymond W Cox III
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317344952
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Administration in Theory and Practice written by Raymond W Cox III and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed for its timelessness and timeliness, Public Administration in Theory and Practice examines public administration from a normative perspective, and provides students with an understanding of the practice of public administration. Combining historical, contextual and theoretical perspectives, this text give students a truly comprehensive overview of the discipline and focuses on the practical implications of public administration theory. Features Normative perspective focuses on the practice of public administration and helps students understand what public administrators do. Historical, contextual and theoretical perspectives provide comprehensive coverage of the subject matter. A thematic overview reinforces the multiple conceptual frameworks or lens through which we see public administration. Students will learn to think through to practical and realistic solutions that acknowledge an historic precedence and theory. Emphasis on performance measures and assessments

Author : Alexander Gillespie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1847318622
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the Laws of War: Volume 2 written by Alexander Gillespie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-07 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique new work of reference traces the origins of the modern laws of warfare from the earliest times to the present day. Relying on written records from as far back as 2400 BCE, and using sources ranging from the Bible to Security Council Resolutions, the author pieces together the history of a subject which is almost as old as civilisation itself. The author shows that as long as humanity has been waging wars it has also been trying to find ways of legitimising different forms of combatants and ascribing rules to them, protecting civilians who are either inadvertently or intentionally caught up between them, and controlling the use of particular classes of weapons that may be used in times of conflict. Thus it is that this work is divided into three substantial parts: Volume 1 on the laws affecting combatants and captives; Volume 2 on civilians; and Volume 3 on the law of arms control. This second book on civilians examines four different topics. The first topic deals with the targetting of civilians in times of war. This discussion is one which has been largely governed by the developments of technologies which have allowed projectiles to be discharged over ever greater areas, and attempts to prevent their indiscriminate utilisation have struggled to keep pace. The second topic concerns the destruction of the natural environment, with particular regard to the utilisation of starvation as a method of warfare, and unlike the first topic, this one has rarely changed over thousands of years, although contemporary practices are beginning to represent a clear break from tradition. The third topic is concerned with the long-standing problems of civilians under the occupation of opposing military forces, where the practices of genocide, collective punishments and/or reprisals, and rape have occurred. The final topic in this volume is about the theft or destruction of the property of the enemy, in terms of either pillage or the intentional devastation of the cultural property of the opposition. As a work of reference this set of three books is unrivalled, and will be of immense benefit to scholars and practitioners researching and advising on the laws of warfare. It also tells a story which throws fascinating new light on the history of international law and on the history of warfare itself.

Author : Jerry L. Mashaw
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108368891
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Reasoned Administration and Democratic Legitimacy written by Jerry L. Mashaw and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reasoned Administration and Democratic Legitimacy: How Administrative Law Supports Democratic Government explores the fundamental bases for the legitimacy of the modern administrative state. While some have argued that modern administrative states are a threat to liberty and at war with democratic governance, Jerry L. Mashaw demonstrates that in fact reasoned administration is more respectful of rights and equal citizenship and truer to democratic values than lawmaking by either courts or legislatures. His account features the law's demand for reason giving and reasonableness as the crucial criterion for the legality of administrative action. In an argument combining history, sociology, political theory and law, this book demonstrates how administrative law's demand for reasoned administration structures administrative decision-making, empowers actors within and outside the government, and supports a complex vision of democratic self-rule.

Author : John Joseph Lalor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1156 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and of the Political History of the United States written by John Joseph Lalor and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 1156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: