The Futile Crusade
Author: Sidney Lens
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Published: 1964
Total Pages: 264
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Author: Sidney Lens
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Published: 1964
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Murray N. Rothbard
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 692
ISBN-13: 1610160401
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Author: Leonard P. Liggio
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 51
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Murray Newton Rothbard
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 1610165012
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Christopher Tyerman
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2011-11-03
Total Pages: 760
ISBN-13: 0141970871
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of the First Crusade, as witnessed by contemporary writers 'O day so ardently desired! O time of times the most memorable! O deed before all other deeds!' The fall of Jerusalem in the summer of 1099 to an exhausted and starving army of western European soldiers was one of the most extraordinary events of the Middle Ages. It was both the climax of a great wave of visionary Christian fervour and the beginning of what proved to be a futile and abortive attempt to implant a new European kingdom of heaven in an overwhelmingly Muslim world. This remarkable collection brings together a wide variety of contemporary accounts of the First Crusade, including Pope Urban II's initial call to arms of 1095, as well as the first-hand writings of priests, knights, a Jewish pilgrim, a destitute noblewoman, an Iraqi poet and the historian Anna Comnena. Together they provide a vivid and nuanced picture of the First Crusade and the people who were swept up in it. Edited with an introduction and notes by Christopher Tyerman
Author: John Denson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 568
ISBN-13: 1351484451
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe greatest accomplishment of Western civilization is arguably the achievement of individual liberty through limits on the power of the state. In the war-torn twentieth century, we rarely hear that one of the main costs of armed conflict is long-term loss of liberty to winners and losers alike. Beyond the obvious and direct costs of dead and wounded soldiers, there is the lifetime struggle of veterans to live with their nightmares and their injuries; the hidden economic costs of inflation, debts, and taxes; and more generally the damages caused to our culture, our morality, and to civilization at large. The new edition is now available in paperback, with a number of new essays. It represents a large-scale collective effort to pierce the veils of myth and propaganda to reveal the true costs of war, above all, the cost to liberty.Central to this volume are the views of Ludwig von Mises on war and foreign policy. Mises argued that war, along with colonialism and imperialism, is the greatest enemy of freedom and prosperity, and that peace throughout the world cannot be achieved until the central governments of the major nations become limited in scope and power. In the spirit of these theorems by Mises, the contributors to this volume consider the costs of war generally and assess specific corrosive effects of major American wars since the Revolution. The first section includes chapters on the theoretical and institutional dimensions of the relationship between war and society, including conscription, infringements on freedom, the military as an engine of social change, war and literature, and the right of citizens to bear arms. The second group includes reconsiderations of Lincoln and Churchill, an analysis of the anti-interventionist idea in American politics, a discussion of the meaning of the "just war," an assessment of how World War I changed the course of Western civilization, and finally two eyewitness accounts of the true horrors of actual combat by
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Published: 1892
Total Pages: 798
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Published: 1902
Total Pages: 520
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rosemary Radford Ruether
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-12-05
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 1317491238
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmerica views itself as a nation inhabiting a "promised land" and enjoying a favoured relation with God. This view of unique election has been coupled with racial exclusivism and the marginalization of non-white citizens. America, Amerikkka traces the historical and ideological patterns behind America’s sense of itself. In its examination of America’s "chosenness", the book ranges across the doctrine of the "rights of man" in the 18th and 19th centuries, the role of America in the twentieth century as "global policeman", and the enforcement of neo-colonial relations over the "third world". The volume argues for a vision of global relations between peoples based on justice and mutuality, rather than hegemonic dominance.