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Intro -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Maps -- Preface -- 1. The Coming of Islam -- 2. Schism and Division -- 3. A New Kind of Warfare -- 4. Apocalypse -- 5. The Crusaders Consolidate -- 6. The Beginnings of Revival -- 7. The Road to Damascus -- 8. Jihad -- 9. Stalemate -- 10. Death on the Nile -- 11. Mongols and Mamluks -- 12. The Triumph of Islam -- Notes and References -- Suggested Further Reading.

"Nothing conjures up images of the American frontier and a pick-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps view of freedom and independence quite like guns. Gun Crusaders is a fascinating inside look at how the four-million member National Rifle Association and its committed members come to see each and every gun control threat as a step down the path towards gun confiscation, and eventually socialism. Enlivened by a rich analysis of NRA materials, meetings, leader speeches, and unique in-depth interviews with NRA members, Gun Crusaders focuses on how the NRA constructs and perceives threats to gun rights as one more attack in a broad liberal cultural war. Scott Melzer shows that the NRA promotes a nostalgic vision of frontier masculinity, whereby gun rights defenders are seen as patriots and freedom fighters, defending not the freedom of religion, but the religion of individual rights and freedoms"--Provided by publisher

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Frontier Masculinity, America's "Gun Culture," and the NRA -- 2 Why a Gun Movement? -- 3 Framing Threats to Gun Rights -- 4 Under Attack -- 5 Fighting the Culture Wars -- 6 The Politics of Commitment -- 7 Right and Far-Right Moral Politics -- 8 The Ties That Bind -- Epilogue -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author

The period from the fall of Acre until the end of the Crusade of Smyrna signified a dramatic shift in crusade impetus, as expeditions to liberate the Holy Land were superseded by those aimed at reducing the maritime power of the Turks in the Aegean. With this shift in impetus came a change in participation, as the members of the merchant republics of Venice and Genoa, together with the Frankish states in the Aegean, began slowly to replace the chivalry of western Europe as the most suitable leaders of a crusade. This resulted in a subtle alteration in how the papacy aimed to justify a crusade and encourage involvement from the merchant crusaders who were vital for its success. Drawing on a wealth of previously unexplored sources, including those related to crusading and also those recording trade between Christians and Muslims in the eastern Mediterranean, this book analyses the changing Latin perceptions of the Greeks and Turks during the period, the nature of the military response to the threat posed by the Turks in the Aegean and the relationship between the papacy and the merchant crusaders. In its investigation of the complex interplay between mercantile objectives and crusading ideals, it sheds revealing insights into the complexities of crusading in the later Middle Ages. Mike Carr is Lecturer in Late Medieval History at the University of Edinburgh.

Frontcover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Trade and Crusade -- Sources for the Aegean Crusades -- 1 The Splintered Aegean World -- Byzantium and its Rivals after 1204 -- Western Hostility towards Byzantium after 1204 -- 2 A New Enemy: The Emergence of the Turks as a 'Target' of Crusade -- The Emergence of the Turkish Beyliks in Anatolia -- Early Western Views of the Turks -- Rhetoric and Justification for Crusading against the Turks -- 3 Latin Response to the Turks: The Naval Leagues -- Crusading after the Fall of Acre -- Origins of a Naval League -- The Naval League of 1333-1334 -- The Naval Leagues of the Smyrna Campaign (1343-1352) -- 4 Logistics and Strategies -- Ship Types -- Manpower -- Tactics -- 5 The Papacy and the Naval Leagues -- The Leagues in the Context of Papal Crusading Strategy -- Crusade Mechanisms in the Aegean Theatre -- 6 Cross-Cultural Trade in the Aegean and Economic Mechanisms for Merchant Crusaders -- Initial Conflicts between Commerce and Crusade in the Aegean -- Economic Crises during the Crusade of Smyrna -- Trade Licences Granted by Clement VI -- Trade Licences and Papal Finances -- Conclusion -- Appendices -- 1 Indulgences for Crusades in the Aegean -- 2 Trade Licences Granted contra Turchos -- 3 Trade Licences Related to Crusades against the Turks -- 4 Documents -- 5 List of Ruler -- Bibliography -- Index.

A bibliography of resources available through the Holy Cross Libraries which provide additional information related to "Crusades and Crusaders," a lecture by Kevin Madigan '82, held at the College of the Holy Cross on March 23, 2017. Professor Madigan explains what the Crusades were and explores how Crusaders viewed themselves as pilgrims on an armed expedition undertaken for Christ, authorized by the Pope, who were given full remission of their sins. He also traces the historiography of the Crusades in the 19th and 20th centuries to lay context for decision of the Holy Cross student body in 1925 to adopt Crusaders as their moniker. His talk is one of the Deitchman Family Lectures on Religion and Modernity. ; https://crossworks.holycross.edu/bibliography_events/1004/thumbnail.jpg

Walter and Albertina Sisulu: In our Lifetimeby Elinor Sisulu:David Philip, 2003, 672pp, 0-86486-639-9
Elinor Sisulu has a written an epic and moving book on her parents-in law. It is different in two important respects to the flood of political biographies that have surfaced in South Africa since the demise of apartheid. In the first instance, Elinor Sisulu had unparalleled access to her subjects and secondly, it is the biography of two people rather than a single hero or heroine. These differences have profoundly shaped the nature of the biography. Elinor Sisulu was driven to write the book by a boundless admiration for her parents-inlaw, and by the urge to document the social history of black South Africans. Her admiration is not misplaced. Albertina and Walter and Sisulu lived exemplary lives together and the book does great justice to their monumental contribution to the ongoing struggle for justice in South Africa. But it does much more than that. It provides insight into the minutia of their political and personal decisions and it highlights the intended and unintended consequences of these. The political and personal are linked in powerful ways in this book largely becauseAlbertina and Walter Sisulu were jointly such a consummate embodiment of the struggle against apartheid. There are simply insufficient superlatives to describe their roles in the struggle and their lives as partners and it is possible to disentangle these only when offering a grossly distorted version of their lives.