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    González, John Morán: The Troubled Union
    Erscheinungsdatum: 24.06.2020, Medium: Taschenbuch, Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, Titel: The Troubled Union, Titelzusatz: Expansionist Imperatives in Post-Reconstruction American Novels, Autor: González, John Morán, Verlag: The Ohio State University Press, Sprache: Englisch, Schlagworte: LITERARY CRITICISM // General, Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft // Allgemeines, Lexika, Seiten: 158, Informationen: Paperback, Gewicht: 240 gr, Verkäufer: averdo
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    Power and Restraint: The Rise of the United States, 1898 - 1941 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 835min
    At the end of the nineteenth century, the United States emerged as an economic colossus in command of a new empire. Yet for the next 40 years the United States eschewed the kind of aggressive grand strategy that had marked other rising imperial powers in favor of a policy of moderation.In Power and Restraint, Jeffrey W. Meiser explores why the United States - counter to widely accepted wisdom in international relations theory - chose the course it did. Using 34 carefully researched historical cases, Meiser asserts that domestic political institutions and culture played a decisive role in preventing the mobilization of resources necessary to implement an expansionist grand strategy. These factors included traditional congressional opposition to executive branch ambitions, voter resistance to European-style imperialism, and the personal antipathy to expansionism felt by presidents like Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt. The web of resilient and redundant political restraints halted or limited expansionist ambitions and shaped the United States into an historical anomaly, a rising great power characterized by prudence and limited international ambitions. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin F Spalding. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/040301/bk_acx0_040301_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Troubled Union
    The Troubled Union ab 31.49 € als Taschenbuch: Expansionist Imperatives in Post-Reconstruction American Novels. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,
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    Future Discovered: Host Saga, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 538min
    Van Childs’ accidental discovery of an alien cache of advanced technologies thrusts him into the role of reluctant hero. Learning of an extra-terrestrial race, the Host, who visited Earth some 200 years before, Van is forewarned of an impending invasion by the Arkon, an expansionist race. Van’s quest to prepare Earth meets with opposition by a powerful human adversary with conflicting goals. Who will win? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Drew Bott. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/150097/bk_acx0_150097_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Legends of the Middle Ages: The Life and Legacy of Richard the Lionheart , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 94min
    We, however, place the love of God and His honor above our own and above the acquisition of many regions. - Richard the Lionheart The enduring figure of the Middle Ages is the chivalrous knight, who played the role of hero across much of Europe and was equal parts courage and valor. Nobody played a more defining role in casting the popular image of medieval knights than Richard the Lionheart, one of the most famous English kings and crusaders. In many respects, it was ironic that Richard became one of the central characters of the Middle Ages, and his very popular legacy today belies centuries of controversy. Richard I Plantagenet (1157-1199), nicknamed "Coeur de Lion" (Lionheart), eventually became King of England, Grand Duke of Aquitaine, Duke of Poitou, and Duke of Anjou, but as the third son in a large family, he did not expect to or even want to rule England. Nevertheless, it was he who eventually came to the throne upon his father's death. Richard lived in an age when knights were first asserting themselves as capable of being moral forces for good rather than agents of chaos. This attitude resolved itself into the mystique of chivalry. As one of the strongest knights of his age, Richard was also considered a flower of chivalry and greatly admired as a model of what it meant to be a knight, both in his lifetime and afterward. As the son of the most famous power couple of the age – Henry II of England (1133-89) and Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122/24-1204) – and an expansionist noble contesting over land with other expansionist nobles, he also had many enemies. These enemies portrayed Richard as evil incarnate, at the same time his admirers were portraying him an emblem of virtue. As with all such great and controversial figures, the real Richard lay somewhere in between. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jack Chekijian. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/037094/bk_acx0_037094_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    James K. Polk, Volume II: Continentalist: Princeton Legacy Library , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1184min
    This definitive biography of James K. Polk covers the most important years of Polk's political career - from a twice-defeated gubernatorial candidate in Tennessee to dark-horse candidate for the presidency and one of the most successful first 18 months of any American president.The months of Polk’s administration covered here contain the bulk of his expansionist program - the annexation of Texas, the settlement of the Oregon boundary with Great Britain, and the war with Mexico that led to the acquisition of California and New Mexico. This period also covers the first session of the 29th Congress, which produced under Polk’s guidance the most important domestic legislation of any congress of the century.Originally published in 1966. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tim Welch. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/160069/bk_acx0_160069_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Invincible: Ark Royal, Book 12 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 814min
    All is not well in the Human Sphere. The alliance between the Great Powers is starting to fall apart, the human economy cannot keep up with the urgent need for newer and better starships, and politicians are demanding an end to military spending. For the Royal Navy, desperately trying to do too many tasks with too few ships, it is the worst possible time for a new threat to appear. When a generation starship is detected approaching a British colony world, HMS Invincible is dispatched to intercept the aliens before they can make landfall. But the newcomers bring with them tidings of a new and deadly threat, an expansionist alien race far too close to the Human Sphere for comfort...and a sinister horror beyond human understanding. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ralph Lister. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/034107/bk_adbl_034107_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Prince and the Kings: A Novel of Ancient Sumeria: Novels of Ancient Sumeria, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 713min
    The empire of Akkad is coming apart at the seams and Ammon-shur and his family find themselves in the middle of all of the social and political turmoil. With the nomadic Gutian Confederation to the North sensing an opportunity to snatch up loot and slaves from the poorly defended cities on the periphery of the empire, an aggressively expansionist Elamite empire looking to settle old scores once and for all and restive Sumerian city-states inside the empire hoping to throw off Akkadian domination for good, it seems that there is no safe haven to be found anywhere. Even the unimportant backwaters of Canaan where Ammon's daughter and son-in-law make their home has been drawn into the growing conflagration and Ammon soon finds himself thrust into battle after battle against his will as he fights to hold his family together in the face of the ever stronger winds of war which seem poised to tear it apart. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Austin Vanfleet. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/113550/bk_acx0_113550_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Kyoto Protocol , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 354min
    Roger Trow's first novel deals with the impact of an amazing discovery in the early 22nd century. Two doctors discover an amazing protein that has the effect of expanding human intelligence and imparting telepathic abilities. This comes at a time when the world is divided into two super blocks: Europe and Asia, following the seismic cataclysms that literally shook the world.Europe is a dictatorship and the Asian super block is dominated by a China that is aggressively expansionist, and an uneasy state of peace exists. Three exceptionally gifted young children flee the secret services of China and travel from Kyoto, Japan, to the home of their biological father, Dr Jim Stewart, who is an international security expert living in Avon, England. Who could have thought that the dramatic chase across the continents would result in the overthrow of the dictators and the beginning of a new age of peace and progress for mankind? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steve Miller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/148353/bk_acx0_148353_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Arkship Vengeance: The Arkship Saga, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 488min
    Bushnell knocks it out of the park again with Arkship Vengeance!  Earth has been destroyed, the entire solar system turned to dust by a cataclysmic event known as the Fracture. Now, the last survivors of humanity live on vast arkships drifting through the Cluster, fighting for survival in this hostile, ever-changing environment.  Having spent two years in hiding, Wynn is desperate to test out his newly constructed arkship, the Vengeance, and put a stop to the expansionist ambitions of the House of Draig. But Wynn's first skirmish exposes his lack of experience, and his plans for revenge soon lie in ruins. Hunted, outnumbered, and on the brink of extinction, Wynn must find a way to save his family and friends before the House of Kenric is lost forever.  Arkship Vengeance is the second book in the highly acclaimed Arkship Saga series. If you liked Battlestar Galactica, Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, or The Expanse, then you'll love this saga from award-winning author Niel Bushnell.  Listen to Arkship Vengeance to discover this exciting new series today! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mike Robinson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/113952/bk_acx0_113952_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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