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"In Send In the Reserves!, Andrew Chadwick looks at the evolution of army reserve forces over the past century and a half of warfare using a mixture of archival sources, historical field manuals and press reports, memoirs, and secondary sources. Chadwick examines the U.S. Army National Guard and the Israel Defense Forces' army reserve, because a focus on these two service units provides valuable insights into training, methods, and experiences. In doing so, he identifies a core--and often overlooked--challenge in contemporary defense policymaking: how does one build and maintain effective army reserve forces at an affordable cost and in a way that does not cause undue stress on reservists' civilian lives?"--

Cover -- Title -- Dedication -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION The Military Pattern of the Chinese Past -- PART I: CHINESE BEGINNINGS -- CHAPTER 1 The Crucible: The Song Warring States Period -- CHAPTER 2 Early Gunpowder Warfare -- CHAPTER 3 The Mongol Wars and the Evolution of the Gun -- CHAPTER 4 Great Martiality: The Gunpowder Emperor -- PART II: EUROPE GETS THE GUN -- CHAPTER 5 The Medieval Gun -- CHAPTER 6 Big Guns: Why Western Europe and Not China Developed Gunpowder Artillery -- CHAPTER 7 The Development of the Classic Gun in Europe -- CHAPTER 8 The Gunpowder Age in Europe -- CHAPTER 9 Cannibals with Cannons: The Sino-Portuguese Clashes of 1521-1522 -- PART III: AN AGE OF PARITY -- CHAPTER 10 The Frankish Cannon -- CHAPTER 11 Drill, Discipline, and the Rise of the West -- CHAPTER 12 The Musket in East Asia -- CHAPTER 13 The Seventeenth Century: An Age of Parity? -- CHAPTER 14 A European Naval Advantage -- CHAPTER 15 The Renaissance Fortress: An Agent of European Expansion? -- PART IV: THE GREAT MILITARY DIVERGENCE -- CHAPTER 16 The Opium War and the Great Divergence -- CHAPTER 17 A Modernizing Moment: Opium War Reforms -- CHAPTER 18 China's Modernization and the End of the Gunpowder Age -- CONCLUSIONS A New Warring States Period? -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix 1: Timeline -- Appendix 2: Datasets -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Problems of transformation of modern Russian statistics in future historical statistics about our time are considered. Existence of serious obstacles on the way of this transformation is noted, their reasons are analyzed. Requirements to that part of historical statistics about our time which data are used for the analysis of economic dynamics are discussed. Measures for the situation improvement are offered, estimated consequences of their implementation or failure are analyzed.

Main description: Understanding mental health from a religious, literary, and philosophical point?of?view represents a critical component in current research on alternative approaches to well?being, spiritually and physically. This volume contains a selection of papers drawn from a conference at The University of Arizona in May 2013 addressing all these issues from a variety of perspectives, inviting us to consider them especially through a historical lens.