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Author : Edgar Bruce Wesley
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)
Download or read book Guarding the frontier written by Edgar Bruce Wesley and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edgar Bruce Wesley
Publisher : Minnesota Archive Editions
ISBN 13 : 9780816659180
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)
Download or read book Guarding the Frontier written by Edgar Bruce Wesley and published by Minnesota Archive Editions. This book was released on 1935 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guarding the Frontier was first published in 1935. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. "For almost a century the defense of the frontier was the chief consideration in the military policy of the United States," Dr. Wesley observes. His book is the first detailed historical study of the military policy of the United States in the years immediately following the War of 1812, the period during which its policy was becoming clearly defined. The political, military, and economic factors lying behind the establishment of that policy are all given thorough treatment by the author, who discusses the various methods of defense evolved against the British to the north, the Spaniards in the south and west, and the Indians everywhere. The author demonstrates the importance of Indian affairs, of the factory system, and of the fur trade as elements in the westward expansion of the United States.
Author : Edgar Bruce Wesley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)
Download or read book Guarding the Frontier written by Edgar Bruce Wesley and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark L. Stein
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857713132
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)
Download or read book Guarding the Frontier written by Mark L. Stein and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-01-26 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventeenth-century Ottoman-Habsburg frontier was the scene of chronic conflict. The defences of both empires were based on a line of fortresses, spanning the border. Mark Stein gives us a fascinating insight into everyday life on the frontier in this turbulent time in Ottoman history, by investigating the social, economic, and military aspects of Ottoman forts and garrisons in a new comparative approach. Drawing on a wide range of Ottoman and Western archival and narrative sources, "Guarding the Frontier" assesses the state of early-modern Ottoman military architecture and siegecraft; and, carefully dissects the Ottomans' ability to besiege, defend, build, and repair fortifications in the seventeenth century, as well as the relationship between the central and provisional administrations. This thorough overview includes an assessment of the empire's ability to marshal the manpower and supply requirements for lengthy sieges; a survey of Ottoman artillery; and the procedures involved in building and maintaining frontier forts. Studying an extensive database compiled from seventeenth-century garrison payroll records, Stein paints a fascinating description of the various types of troops who served on the Ottoman-Habsburg frontier: slave and levied soldiers, cavalry and infantry, Muslims and Christians, charged with defending the Ottoman Empire at this fascinating point in History.
Author : Edgar B. Wesley
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ISBN 13 : 9780781205498
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)
Download or read book Guarding the Frontier written by Edgar B. Wesley and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bonded Leather binding
Author : Ana Echevarría
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900417110X
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)
Download or read book Knights on the Frontier written by Ana Echevarría and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The kings of Castile maintained a personal cavalry guard through much of the fifteenth century, consisting of practicing Muslims and converts to Christianity. This privileged Muslim elite provides an interesting case-study to propose new theories about voluntary conversion from Christianity to Islam in the Iberian Peninsula, as well as the ways of assimilation of such a group into the local and courtly environments where they lived thereafter. Other subjects involved are the transformation of royal armies from feudal companies to regimented, professional forces including a well-trained cavalry, which in Castile was formed partly by these knights. Their descendants had to endure the changing policies conveyed by Isabel and Fernando, which increased discriminatory habits towards converts in Castilian society.
Author : Captain Jeffrey Hartman Uscg (Ret)
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1475924798
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)
Download or read book Guarding Alaska written by Captain Jeffrey Hartman Uscg (Ret) and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alaska represents twenty percent of the land area, twenty percent of the oil production, forty percent of the fresh water of the United States, but after Wyoming, it's the least populated state. Despite that contradiction, the state has an abundance of natural resources, history, and adventure especially for the members of the Coast Guard that oversee its massive coastline. Captain Jeffrey Hartman served four tours of duty in Alaska with the Coast Guard. He outlines the history of Alaska and its culture and describes his experiences overseeing a number of rescue missions there. Hartman illustrates with personal experience the challenges and dangers the Service faces in carrying out its missions protecting the Alaska people, environment and maritime infrastructure. He flew helicopters from Coast Guard icebreakers, on rescue and law enforcement missions and managed the search and rescue program on Alaska's waters. Guarding Alaska explains the many important functions that the Coast Guard serves and also examines how it's changed in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks. You'll feel like you're in the middle of the action as you gain a deeper appreciation for the state and the people who protect it.
Author : Zenel Garcia
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000436632
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)
Download or read book China’s Western Frontier and Eurasia written by Zenel Garcia and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China has emerged as a dominant power in Eurasian affairs that not only exercises significant political and economic power, but increasingly, ideational power too. Since the founding of the People’s Republic, Chinese Communist Party leaders have sought to increase state capacity and exercise more effective control over their western frontier through a series of state-building initiatives. Although these initiatives have always incorporated an international component, the collapse of the USSR, increasing globalization, and the party’s professed concerns about terrorism, separatism, and extremism have led to a region-building project in Eurasia. Garcia traces how domestic elite-led narratives about security and development generate state-building initiatives, and then region-building projects. He also assesses how region-building projects are promoted through narratives of the historicity of China’s engagement in Eurasia, the promotion of norms of non-interference, and appeals to mutual development. Finally, he traces the construction of regions through formal and informal institutions as well as integrative infrastructure. By presenting three phases of Chinese domestic state-building and region-building from 1988-present, Garcia shows how region-building projects have enabled China to increase state capacity, control, and development in its western frontier. Recommended for scholars of China’s international relations and development policy.
Author : David Paul Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)
Download or read book Frontier Defense in the Civil War written by David Paul Smith and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texans faced two foes as the Civil War began in 1861: the Union armed forces and the Plains Indians. In this breakthrough volume, David Paul Smith demonstrates that through the efforts of the Home Guard and the Texas Rangers, the Texas frontier held its own during the eventful war years, in spite of a number of factors that could easily have overwhelmed it.
Author : James M. Volo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313011125
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)
Download or read book Daily Life on the Old Colonial Frontier written by James M. Volo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-10-30 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The frontier region was the interface between the American wilderness and European-style civilization. To the Europeans, the frontier teemed with undomesticated and unfamiliar beasts. Even its indigenous peoples seemed perplexing, uninhibited, and violent. The frontier wasn't just a place, but a process, too. It was a hazy line between colliding cultures, and a volatile region in which those cultures interacted. This volume explores the frontier, explorers, traders, missionaries, colonists, and native peoples that came into contact. Everyday life is presented with all of its difficulties-the trading, trapping, and farming, not to mention the chronic threat of violence. Examining the period from the perspective of both Europeans and Native Americans, this book features over 40 illustrations, photographs, and maps, making it the perfect source for anyone interested in how people lived on the old colonial frontier.
