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Giulio Douhet is generally considered the world's most important air-power theorist and this book offers the first comprehensive account of his air-power concepts. It ranges from 1884 when an air service was first implemented within the Italian military to the outbreak of the Second World War, and explores the evolution and dissemination of Douhet's ideas in an international context. It examines the impact of the Libyan war, the First World War and Ethiopian war on the development of Italian air-power strategy. It also addresses the issue of Douhet's advocacy of strategic bombing, exploring why it was that Douhet became an advocate of city bombing; the meaning and the limits of his core concept of 'command of the air'; and the mutual impact of air power, military and naval thought. It also takes into account alternatives to Douhetism such as the theories developed by Amedeo Mecozzi and others

After completing my doctoral thesis, I began research on historical writing starting from the Ottoman Empire's modern period up to the beginning period of the Republic of Türkiye. After researching Ahmet Mithat and Namik Kemal's thoughts on history and the education of history in the Modern Ottoman Empire after the Tanzimat period, I became interested in the history textbooks written in the first period of the Republic of Türkiye. While a new state named the Republic of Türkiye was being established, an attempt was made to create a new historical narrative to give the nation a new identity. The biography of Atatürk I have written is planned to be published in October 2023, on the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Republic of Türkiye. Türkiye was in such geographical conditions that it had greater exposure to the intervention of the US and major European states. Ataturk and his comrades overcame all these difficulties and established the Republic of Türkiye. The national struggle process gives the Japanese great courage and hope, too.

Intro -- beggining -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The International Landscape in the early 1920s -- Chapter 1 -- An American in Paris -- 1.1 The Last months of World War I in Europe -- 1.2 Smith at the Paris Peace Conference -- Chapter 2 -- The United States, the League of Nations, and the Postwar Financial Scene -- 2.1. The New World Order after the War -- 2.2. The US and the Financial Advisory System -- Chapter 3 -- The Beginning of the European Financial Rehabilitation -- 3.1. The First Steps -- 3.2. The Austrian Reconstruction -- Chapter 4 -- Hungary's Appeal to the League of Nations -- 4.1. The Postwar Situation -- 4.2. The Economic Situation and Attempts for a Loan -- Chapter 5 -- The Selection of Jeremiah Smith, Jr. -- 5.1. Search for the Commissioner-General -- 5.2. Enter Mr. Smith -- Chapter 6 -- Raising the Hungarian Loan -- 6.1. The Unsuccessful Attempts -- 6.2. Flotation of the Reconstruction Loan -- 6.3. The Adviser to the New National Bank -- Chapter 7 -- The Technical Side of the Hungarian Reconstruction -- 7.1. The First Year -- 7.2. The Year of 1925 -- 7.3. The Closing Accords of the Great Work -- 7.4. Balance Sheet -- Chapter 8 -- The Personal Side of the Hungarian Reconstruction -- 8.1. The Human Side at Work -- 8.2. Smith's Great Magnanimity -- 8.3. Difference of Personalities -- Chapter 9 -- Post-Reconstruction Relations between an American and Europe -- 9.1. Smith and Hungary -- 9.2. Smith and the League of Nations -- 9.3. The Last Years -- Chapter 10 -- The Financial Reconstructions in Europe -- 10.1. Two Schemes, One Aim: The Comparison of the Austrian and Hungarian Reconstructions -- 10.2. Other Schemes in Europe by the League -- 10.3. Reconstruction Programs outside the League -- 10.4. The Three American Financial Controllers in Europe in the 1920s -- Conclusion -- Index.

"The cop who blew the whistle on Saskatoon's notorious "Starlight Tours," Ernie Louttit is the bestselling author of two previous "Indian Ernie" books. He demonstrates in this latest title that being a leader means sticking to your convictions and sometimes standing up to the powers that be. One of the first Indigenous officers hired by the Saskatoon Police, he was an outsider who became an insider, with a difference. A former military man with a passion for the law, he was tough on the beat, but was also a role model for kids on the streets."--

Introduction. History, biography, endurance and empathy : an introductory (thank you) note to the book / Magda Nico and Ana Caetano -- Challenging the structure/agency binary : youthful culture, labour and embodiments / Steve Threadgold, David Farrugia and Julia Coffey -- Subjective understandings of young people's agency : concepts, methods and lay frames of reference / Sarah Irwin -- The interplay of structure and agency in the school-to-work transition / Ingrid Schoon -- The go-between. young-ish trajectories through a life course agency-structure lens / Magda Nico -- Redefining the link between structure and agency : the place of time / Carmen Leccardi -- Structure and agency : an old couple in a new era of prolonged education-to-work transitions amid rising inequalities and declining life chances / Ken Roberts -- Making a living in a provincial hometown : locality as a structuring landscape for agency / Sanna Altonnen -- Exploring the connection between structure and agency within the context of the young Greek crisis generation / Athanasia Chalari -- Fighting adversity with different weapons : youth, structure and agency in Portugal during the crisis / Nuno De Almeida Alves -- Certainties and control in the lives of young men : stories from three research projects / John Goodwin, Henrietta O'Connor and Laurie Parsons -- Structure and agency in life stories : how to become a gang member / Carles Feixa -- Reflexivity in late modernity : understanding young lives in the context of social change / Daniel Woodman and Amy Vanderharst -- What are the chances? Coping with contingent events in youth / Ana Caetano -- Youth pathways as process : how factor configuration, time dynamics and reflexivity combine together / María Eugenia Longo -- There's always tomorrow strengthening agency and challenging structure through youth work and youth policy / Howard Williamson.

During the federal election campaign of 1930 an eleven-year-old boy attended a campaign meeting in his native Prince Edward Island. The meeting was fascinating; the boy was booked. In the six decades since, politics has been a ruling passion in the life of Health Macquarrie. In this memoir he looks back on his years with the Progressive Conservative party, as an organizer, Member of Parliament, and senator. He first ran for office in 1956 leaving behind a career as a professor of political science. He ran (and won) eight times in the PEI constituency of Queens, before being appointed to the Senate in 1979. All the Tory brass are here, from R.B. Bennett to Brian Mulroney. Macquarrie reflects on their respective strengths and foibles, and vividly recalls some of the fractious and factious days in the PC party. The foreign policies of Conservative governments are a recurring theme. Both his academic and parliamentary careers have reflected Macquarrie 's keen interest in international affairs. He recalls his years at the UN General Assembly, his involvement in the Biafra crisis, and his longtime advocacy of Canadian membership in the Organization of the American States. Always deeply interested in the Middle East, he has visited the area thirteen times; he discusses his sensitivity to the situation of the Palestinians, and reflects also on the Gulf War. But at the heart of the book are Tory politicians. Tory politicians, and a deep love of his Island province and his country, Macquarrie deplores some of the characteristics of the Conservative party of today, including what he sees as a less vigorous nationalism than that of some of its predecessors. Wholly supportive of the opening of his party to Quebec and the spirit of Meech Lake, he reveals anxiety about a right-wing trend in the contemporary Conservative party, and worries that as a Red Tory he may be the last of his kind. In his memories, as in his political career, Heath Macquarrie is outspoken, provocative, fiercely patriotic, and passionately engaged in global issues. Red Tory Blues offers a unique view of Canadian politics, as insightful as it is entertaining

Author's note -- Introduction -- Part I: Minty's story -- The alpha journey -- First generation American -- Lies but not misdemeanors -- Dear mama -- We are family -- Caretaker -- Flesh for rent -- Head trauma -- Innervisions -- The ultimate loss -- Say her name -- Hove and marriage -- The auction block -- She's out -- Part II: She ain't sorry -- The conductor -- Betrayal -- Expats -- Who your gonna call? -- She came to slay -- Fearless -- Antislavery agitator -- Homeowner -- The general -- One last time -- My people are free -- Part III: Bawss lady -- War zone -- Sick and tired -- Black Moses -- To die with valor -- Furlough -- Part IV: Call me Mrs. Davis -- A war hero -- Northern realities -- The kindness of strangers -- Tall, dark, and handsome -- Telling her story -- A wife and mother -- Hard times -- The ballot box -- Mother Tubman -- Getting paid -- Servant of God

Johan Huizinga had a special sympathy for the complex, withdrawn personality of Erasmus and for his advocacy of intellectual and spiritual balance in a quarrelsome age. This biography is a classic work on the sixteenth-century scholar/humanist. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905

"In the heart of Europe's current crisis, one of the continent's foremost statesmen urges for a radical remaking of the European Union in the model of the United States The diseases that plague Europe respect no borders. Guy Verhofstadt, former prime minister of Belgium and a leader in the European Parliament, shows that wherever we look-from the debt crisis in Greece to the rise of political Islam across Europe, the Syrian refugee crisis to Putin's aggressive imperialism-we see colossal challenges far too large for any single nation to overcome. In Europe's Last Chance, Verhofstadt proposes that Europe abandon the artificial divisions of nation-states and instead embrace a unified democracy on a continental scale: a United States of Europe. Revealing how this seemingly impossible dream nearly became a reality in 1953-when only a last-minute vote by the French parliament stopped a political and military unification of France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands-Verhofstadt builds a powerful and surprising argument for the necessity of unity; so that Europe remains secure, influential, and prosperous into the future"--

"Through the life of one extraordinary man, this biography reveals what the term human rights meant to the men and women who endured two world wars, and how this major political and intellectual movement ultimately inspired and enshrined the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. René Cassin was a man of his generation, committed to moving from war to peace through international law, and whose work won him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1968. His life crossed all the major events of the first 70 years of the twentieth century, and illustrates the hopes, aspirations, failures, and achievements of an entire generation. It shows how today's human rights regimes emerged from the First World War as a pacifist response to that catastrophe and how, after 1945, human rights became a way to go beyond the dangers of absolute state sovereignty, helping to create today's European project"--

Transitions toparenthood in Europe; Contents; List of tables and figures; Figures; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Cross-national comparisons: the history-biography link; Introduction; A life course perspective: theoretical and conceptual topics; Cross-national societies: historical and current contexts; Before the fall of the Iron Curtain; After the fall of communism, 1990-200314; Conclusion; 3. Methodological approaches, practices and reflections; Introduction; Cross-national comparative case-based research; Biographical interviews; Lifeline analysis.

The story of a modern radical who took seriously the idea that inner liberation is the first business of social revolution. Her politics, from beginning to end, was based on resistance to that which thwarted the free development of the inner self. The right to stay alive in one's senses, to enjoy freedom of thought and speech, to reject the arbitrary use of power--these were key demands in the many public protest movements she helped mount. Anarchist par excellence, Goldman is one of the memorable political figures of our time, not because of her gift for theory or analysis or even strategy, but because some extraordinary force of life in her burned, without rest or respite, on behalf of human integrity--and she was able to make the thousands of people who, for decades on end, flocked to her lectures, feel intimately connected to the pain inherent in the abuse of that integrity. --From publisher description

Half Title -- Title -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction to the Transaction Edition -- Introduction -- Part I: Adam Ferguson's Situation -- I: The Transformation of Scotland -- II: The Emerging Intelligensia -- III: Adam Ferguson: Biography -- IV: Adam Ferguson: Political Opinion and Political Practice -- Part II: Adam Ferguson's Moral Philosophy -- V: The Possibility of Knowledge -- VI: The Virtuous Man -- VII: Virtue in Society -- Society in General: The Promise -- Societies in Particular: The Threat -- The Analysis of Social Development -- Reassessment of Promise and Threat -- Afterword -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y

Official's biography is primarily a statement of the positions he occupied and functional solutions he made. D. H. Bibikov's personality is known to the public mostly as one of the governor-general of Kyiv, Volyn and Podillia. In the paper, the researchers have also mentioned his military exploits and work at leading positions. However, the details and specifics of family relationship, closely intertwined with the events in the country, remain hidden behind the curtain of the history. The Bibikov family generations' participation in the military-political confrontations in the Caucasus is one of such occurrences that became known thanks to the research into their epistolary heritage

Urban history is a rapidly expanding, flourishing field in Europe. Nevertheless, urban scholars would do well to re-examine the paradigms within which they have been working as the field today lacks central questions and general interpretive models. Moreover, the common focus on urban biography or upon one region within a single nation-state has become increasingly outmoded, given the international scale of economic processes and migration flows. More attention to topics treated within a European-wide or even international context is needed. In addition, urban history as currently defined is tilted towards social and economic concerns to the neglect of the political arena.