Oil Crusades
Author: Abdulhay Y. Zalloum
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: 2007-05-20
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLeading oil consultant offers a damning critique of US policy.
Read and Download eBook Full
Author: Abdulhay Y. Zalloum
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: 2007-05-20
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLeading oil consultant offers a damning critique of US policy.
Author: Gordon Patterson
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2009-04-06
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0813547008
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmong the struggles of the twentieth century, the one between humans and mosquitoes may have been the most vexing, as demonstrated by the long battle to control these bloodsucking pests. As vectors of diseases such as malaria, yellow fever, encephalitis, and dengue fever, mosquitoes forced open a new chapter in the history of medical entomology. Based on extensive use of primary sources, The Mosquito Crusades traces this saga and the parallel efforts of civic groups in New Jersey's Meadowlands and along San Francisco Bay's east side to manage the dangerous mosquito population. Providing readers with a fascinating exploration of the relationship between science, technology, and public policy, Gordon Patterson's narrative begins in New Jersey with John B. Smith's effort to develop a comprehensive plan and solution for mosquito control, one that would serve as a national model. From the Reed Commission's 1900 yellow fever experiment to the first Earth Day seventy years later, Patterson provides an eye-opening account of the crusade to curtail the deadly mosquito population.
Author: John Bacher
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2000-09-01
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 1550029339
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHigh gas prices aren’t the end of the world- but they may be the beginning of the end. This, at least, is the feeling of many who shudder at the staggering power oil-rich countries have over the world’s political affairs. In Petrotyranny, John Bacher uncovers the frightening facts of the world’s oil industry. He reveals that the worst dictatorships control six times the reserves that are under democratic control, and explores the potential for global conflict that exists as the demand for energy increases and the oil supply decreases. What kind of power will these dictatorships possess in the future? How many wars will be fought over the ever-shrinking supply of oil? Bacher takes an optimistic approach, viewing the problem as a challenge: the world’s democracies need to devise a creative response to avoid the looming crisis. That is, start replacing fossil-fuel burning with renewable energy - and start the process now.
Author: Charles Mills
Publisher:
Published: 1821
Total Pages: 540
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Marius S. Vassiliou
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2009-03-02
Total Pages: 712
ISBN-13: 0810862883
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Historical Dictionary of the Petroleum Industry presents a concise but complete one-volume reference on the history of the petroleum industry from pre-modern times to the present day. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on companies, people, events, technologies, phenomena, countries, provinces, cities, and regions related to the history of the world's petroleum industry. Anyone interested in the history, status, and outlook for the petroleum industry will find this book a uniquely valuable source.
Author: Christopher Tyerman
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1996-12-15
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9780226820132
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on a wide range of archival, chronicle, and literary evidence, Tyerman brings to life the royal personalities, foreign policy, political intrigue, taxation and fundraising, and the crusading ethos that gripped England for hundreds of years. -- Amazon.
Author: Rick Atkinson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 614
ISBN-13: 9780395710838
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntegrating interviews with individuals ranging from senior policymakers to frontline soldiers, a look at the Persian Gulf War shows how the conflict transformed modern warfare.
Author: Charles Mills
Publisher:
Published: 1822
Total Pages: 552
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Megan Cassidy-Welch
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-10-02
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1317504402
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCrusading was a religious movement involving papal authorization, the incentive of remission of sins, pious motivation on behalf of the individual, and the justification of holy war. Much recent historiography in this area has focused on resolving the questions of what a crusade was, and why people went on them. But crusading became a cultural and social phenomenon that changed across time and geographical space. In turn, crusading was shaped by the ways specific crusades and their participants were remembered in specific historical contexts. Moreover, crusade memory had profound effects on the cultivation of family lineage, kinship ties, national and regional identity, and religious orthodoxy. Integrating memory into crusades scholarship thus offers new ways of exploring the aftermath of war, the construction of cultural and social memory, the role of women and families in this process, and the crusading movement itself. This book explores memory as a methodological means of understanding the crusades. It engages with theories of communicative memory, social and cultural memory, war commemoration, and historical processes of remembering. Contributions explore the variety of cultural forms used in cultivating crusade memory. Material, visual, liturgical and textual objects are all reflective of crusade culture and the process of crafting its memory, and the analysis of such sources is of particular interest. This publication furthers new trends in crusade scholarship which understand the crusades as a broad religious movement that called upon and developed within a wider cultural framework than previously acknowledged. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Medieval History.
Author: Charles Mills (Historian.)
Publisher:
Published: 1820
Total Pages: 508
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK