Myles ralph (14 risultati)

Flexibound. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condizione: As New. First Paperbound Edition. Unread and unopened! This is the complete account of the rise and decline of the antimilitarist tradition-rooted in fear of dictatorship-that has been an important part of the American heritage from colonial times until now. This tradition, with its emphasis upon civil rather than military authority, is accepted as an essential element of American freedom and democracy. In spite of being involved in numerous wars, the United States has avoided becoming a militaristic nation, and the American people, though hardly pacifists, have been staunch opponents of militarism. This book gives a thorough survey of notable issues and landmarks that have affected the role of the civilian and the military in American history. All pertinent legislation as well as much private and public discussion have been taken into account. Debates about the size of the standing army, the role of the militia, the level of army and navy appropriations, and the use of conscription have been placed in their historical setting. Since about 1900 traditional antimilitarism has been considerably weakened. Militarism in its older form of standing armies on parade has been succeeded by such developments as a war economy and the garrison state. The growing power and importance of the military office and personnel over all aspects of national life during the present international tension is alarming thoughtful citizens and statesmen. This book supplies not only a fully documented historical survey but also ample background for an understanding and analysis of the complicated problem of militarism today. The author believes that the inability, or refusal, of the world to recognize the existence of a new type of militarism, which has so increasingly penetrated all phases of twentieth-century civilization, imperils the future of both liberalism and democracy. Mr. Ekirch brings to light new materials and makes use of the Swarthmore College Peace Collection and the Villard and the Amos Pinchot Papers. His approach is that of the historian rather than the crusader. His book will excite controversy among both pacifists and militarists and will appeal to anyone interested in history, U.S. military policy, and current events. …

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Like New. First Edition. Unread and unopened! (Hard to say new when it's 53 years old). LAWRENCE DENNIS is one of the few Americans who has done any original political thinking since the time of John Calhoun. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on December 25, 1893, and attended Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard, graduating from the latter in 1920. His academic career was interrupted by the First World War, during which he attended the Plattsburg officer training camp in 1915 and 1917. He was commissioned an infantry lieutenant and volunteered for duty overseas, serving with the First Army. In September, 1920, he entered the diplomatic service, and represented the United States as charge d'affaires in Rumania, Haiti, Honduras and Nicaragua. In the latter country he disapproved of American policy and publicly criticized it in June, 1927, following which he resigned. Shortly after this dramatic incident he joined the international banking firm of J. and W. Seligman and Company, and represented them in Peru until 1930, as well as serving in an advisory capacity to other banking houses which also floated loans to several Latin American lands. While testifying before a committee of the U. S. Senate in 1932 he asserted that he had cautioned against making these loans, which had gone swiftly into default. In the 1930s Mr. Dennis was occupied in research, writing and consultative services as an economist, publishing three provocative and arresting books and numerous periodical articles. He vigorously opposed the course of political affairs which led to American involvement in World War Two, and became a spectacular and controversial public figure while doing so. He was the most prominent defendant in the so-called "Sedition" Trial of 1944, and contributed substantially to bringing it down to defeat, an event which he described in detail in a subsequent book, A TRIAL ON TRIAL (1946). An astringent and hardhitting newsletter which he founded, THE WEEKLY FOREIGN LETTER, was discontinued in mid-1942, but resumed in the spring of 1946. Under the new title, THE APPEAL TO REASON, it has been published continuously to the present day. Many ideas in this book were first elaborated in these periodicals. Mr. Dennis is at present a resident of New York City, and is still very actively engaged in writing and research related to political and economic theory and practice. His observations have recently been transcribed and incorporated into the Columbia University Oral History Collection.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition.. VERY GOOD Condition ,clean, solid bright; black titlees on white double spine stapled paper covers showing line drawings of ornate victorian houses. ; 32pg? thin pages; Longtime Local artist describes CITY HISTORY. JOHN BIDWELL'S TOWN. Illustrated by Line Drawings by Author "DB" (illustratore).…

Handbill. 11x8.5 in. handbill, printed one side only. Two horizontal folds, otherwise Very Good. At head of document is a Will Durant quote: "The itch to teach is the itch to rule; scratch the one and find the other.".

Condizione: Gut. 1. 176 S. 1. Auflage 1984. Gedunkelt. Innerhalb Deutschlands Versand je nach Größe/Gewicht als Großbrief bzw. Bücher- und Warensendung mit der Post oder per DHL. Rechnung mit MwSt.-Ausweis liegt jeder Lieferung bei. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 114 Taschenbuch, Maße: 10.8 cm x 1 cm x 17.6 cm.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Pp. 128. Illustrated. Ralph Steadman (illustratore).

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 368 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 33 cm ; ISBN: 0883637014; 9780883637012; LC: N6782; Dewey: 709/.415 ; OCLC: 32164804 ; large folio, color illustrated stiff paper wrappers ; Contents: 1. Prehistory: ancient myths and legends -- 2. Christianity and the golden age -- from The Confession / Saint Patrick -- from Life of Saint Brigit / Cogitosus -- from Penitential of Vinnian / Vinnian -- from The Rules of Saint Columbanus -- Poems of devotion: Columcille the scribe; the Hermit's song -- The tale of the three treasures; from The voyage of Saint Brendan; from Crith Gablach -- / Geoffrey Keating -- Ireland's golden age / Donatus of Fiesole -- 3. From the Vikings to 1700 -- Viking influence / Seamus MacManus -- From the annals of Clonmacnoise: Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf -- Visitor observes the Irish The song of Dermot and the Earl / Giraldus Cambrensis -- Dead at Clonmacnoise / Angus O'Gillan -- A time of change / Egan O'Rahilly -- From a letter to King Phillip of Sapin, 1589 / Francisco De Cuellar -- A letter of resolve / Hugh O'Neill -- A letter on the attack of Drogheda from 'The Jacobite War' / Oliver Cromwell -- An Irish will / John Langley -- Penal Laws / Seamus MacManus -- 4. Eighteenth century -- Kilcash from 'Drapier's Letter IV' / Jonathan Swift -- Speeches from the dock / Theobald Wolfe Tone -- Letter describing Dublin Social life, 1731 / Mary Delany -- Querist / George Berkeley -- A letter from an English gentleman / Oliver Goldsmith -- History of Carolan the last Irish Bard / Oliver Goldsmith -- Lament for Art O'Leary / Eileen O'Leary -- Castle Rackrent / Maria Edgeworth -- 5. Nineteenth century -- Knocknagow; or the homes of Tipperary / Charles -- from Party fight and funeral / William Carleton -- Trinity College / Charles Lever -- Hedge School / William Carleton -- From a speech on the floor of the Commons, 1837 / Daniel O'Connell -- On the causes of the famine / Justin McCarthy -- from My own story / Peter O'Leary -- from 'Memories of the famine / Maire NI Grianna -- on Charles Stewart Parnell / Conor Cruise O'Brien -- Boycotting defined / Charles Stewart Parnell -- from The Tenants of time / Thomas Flanagan -- from Namgay Doola / Rudyard Kipling -- from The Old Munster Circuit / Maurice Healy -- Some favorite Irish Folk Songs: "Wearing of the green"; "I know where I'm going"; "Green grow the lilacs"; "Cockles and mussels"; "You brave Irish Heroes" -- 6. Irish in America -- This Distant land / William D. Griffin -- John Barry, Father of the American Navy / Thomas D'Arcy McGee -- Captain at sea / Parry Miller -- A letter to his brother-in-law, 1785 / John Dunlop -- from An Irish immigrant's letter to his wife, 1818 / John Doyle -- Old Ireland / Walt Whitman -- from John Boyle O'Reilly / Richard Roche -- The Irishness of Billy the Kid / William D. Griffin -- Immigrant daughter's song / Mary Ann Larkin -- from The gift / Pete Hamill -- What Flaherty was / Patrick Fenton -- How Tammany Hall did it / Harry Golden -- from Mortal Friends / James Carroll -- President John F. Kennedy / William V. Shanon -- from Long day's journey into night / Eugene O'Neill -- from The other side / Mary Gordon -- What is it to be Irish / Hal Boyle -- 7. Celtic revival begins -- from Celtic Twilight / W.B. Yeats -- The Piper and the Puca / Douglas Hyde -- The shepherd and the sunbeam / Lawrence Millman -- from Our Irish Theatre / Augusta Gregory -- from Aran Islands / J.M Synge -- from Celtic dawn / Ulick O'Connor -- from Riders to the Sea / J.M. Synge -- from The plough and the stars / Sean O'Casey -- 8. Twentieth century -- The Lake Isle of Innisfree; The wild swans at Coole; At Galway races / W.B. Yeats -- Wager / O'Connell -- from Trinity / Leon Uris -- A botanist looks at Shamrock / E. Charles Nelson -- from The Irish countryman / Conrad Arensberg -- from The green fool / Patrick Kavanagh -- from the Irish flag, 1916: proclamation of the Irish Republic, 1916 / James Connolly -- from The murder machine / Patrick Pears ; G. Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. First Edition In English. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp. 128. Illustrations. Illustrated endpapers. Original publisher's maroon boards lettered gilt on spine. Light brown Steadman illustrated dust jacket lettered cream on spine and covers. Bookplate of Hugh (Vercingetorix) Brogan (1936 Ð 2019) British historian and biographer, showing nude youth holding a book. He was Professor of History at University of Essex and wrote Brian O'Nolan (1911-1966) aka Flann O'Brien and Myles Na Gopaleen (also spelt gCopaleen) Irish novelist, playwright and satirist wrote short columns for the Irish Times and was an avid letter writer to the Irish Times and the Irish Independent and creator of multiple pseudonyms. 'An Bal Bocht', O'Brien's celebrated satirical novel was first published in the Irish language in 1941, causing outrage amongst those who saw themselves as the custodians of Irish language and tradition. Ralph Steadman (born 1936) is an illustrator renowned for his political and social caricatures, cartoons and picture books. About fine in fine dust jacket very slightly sunned at spine. Decent copy.No inscriptions, not price-clipped. Steadman, Ralph (illustratore).…

Condizione: as new. Appears unread. May have a retail sticker on back cover or remainder mark on the text block.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. pp 128, 1st ed. in the English language translated by Patrick C. Power, illus. by Ralph Steadman. Very good in good but lightly edge worn d.j. Ralph Steadman (illustratore).

Condizione: Very Good +. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good +. First Edition. London: Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, 1973. First English-language Edition. Octavo (24cm); publisher's boards in tan pictorial dust jacket with £2.75 price intact, map endpapers; 128pp; black-and-white illustrations throughout. Jacket sunned at spine; bumped at top edge. Boards bumped at spine ends; otherwise clean with sharp corners. Textblock toned; endsheets and interior pages clean. Very Good or better of Flann O'Brien's comic masterpiece. First published in the original Gaelic and Anglo-Irish dialect in 1941, this story was overlooked by the English publishing market for more than two decades. Ralph Steadman (illustratore). …

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 450pp. '1' in number line. Black boards with brilliant silver lettering on spine; small price sticker shadow at upper left ffep; previous owner surname, place, and date discreetly at top right ffep. Glossy medium gray dustwrapper not price-clipped (no price) with title lettering in black across upper middle front cover; contributor names in black across bottom half front cover, below editor name in black. Tiny tips of wear on lower corners, exposing bits of white beneath glossy gray lamination. Clean text. Book looks unused, newish.…

paperback. Condizione: Sehr gut. Auflage: 11. 176 Seiten 9783518374863 Wir verkaufen nur, was wir auch selbst lesen würden. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 113.