Author: Karolyn Kinane
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786453591
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
The idea of the complete annihilation of all life is a powerful and culturally universal concept. As human societies around the globe have produced creation myths, so too have they created narratives concerning the apocalyptic destruction of their worlds. This book explores the idea of the apocalypse and its reception within culture and society, bringing together 17 essays that explore both the influence and innovation of apocalyptic ideas from classical Greek and Roman writings to the foreign policies of today's United States.
Planning Armageddon
Author: Nicholas A. Lambert
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674063066
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Before the First World War, the British Admiralty conceived a plan to win rapid victory in the event of war with Germany-economic warfare on an unprecedented scale.This secret strategy called for the state to exploit Britain's effective monopolies in banking, communications, and shipping-the essential infrastructure underpinning global trade-to create a controlled implosion of the world economic system. In this revisionist account, Nicholas Lambert shows in lively detail how naval planners persuaded the British political leadership that systematic disruption of the global economy could bring about German military paralysis. After the outbreak of hostilities, the government shied away from full implementation upon realizing the extent of likely collateral damage-political, social, economic, and diplomatic-to both Britain and neutral countries. Woodrow Wilson in particular bristled at British restrictions on trade. A new, less disruptive approach to economic coercion was hastily improvised. The result was the blockade, ostensibly intended to starve Germany. It proved largely ineffective because of the massive political influence of economic interests on national ambitions and the continued interdependencies of all countries upon the smooth functioning of the global trading system. Lambert's interpretation entirely overturns the conventional understanding of British strategy in the early part of the First World War and underscores the importance in any analysis of strategic policy of understanding Clausewitz's "political conditions of war."
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674063066
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Before the First World War, the British Admiralty conceived a plan to win rapid victory in the event of war with Germany-economic warfare on an unprecedented scale.This secret strategy called for the state to exploit Britain's effective monopolies in banking, communications, and shipping-the essential infrastructure underpinning global trade-to create a controlled implosion of the world economic system. In this revisionist account, Nicholas Lambert shows in lively detail how naval planners persuaded the British political leadership that systematic disruption of the global economy could bring about German military paralysis. After the outbreak of hostilities, the government shied away from full implementation upon realizing the extent of likely collateral damage-political, social, economic, and diplomatic-to both Britain and neutral countries. Woodrow Wilson in particular bristled at British restrictions on trade. A new, less disruptive approach to economic coercion was hastily improvised. The result was the blockade, ostensibly intended to starve Germany. It proved largely ineffective because of the massive political influence of economic interests on national ambitions and the continued interdependencies of all countries upon the smooth functioning of the global trading system. Lambert's interpretation entirely overturns the conventional understanding of British strategy in the early part of the First World War and underscores the importance in any analysis of strategic policy of understanding Clausewitz's "political conditions of war."
End of Days
Author: Karolyn Kinane
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786453591
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
The idea of the complete annihilation of all life is a powerful and culturally universal concept. As human societies around the globe have produced creation myths, so too have they created narratives concerning the apocalyptic destruction of their worlds. This book explores the idea of the apocalypse and its reception within culture and society, bringing together 17 essays that explore both the influence and innovation of apocalyptic ideas from classical Greek and Roman writings to the foreign policies of today's United States.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786453591
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
The idea of the complete annihilation of all life is a powerful and culturally universal concept. As human societies around the globe have produced creation myths, so too have they created narratives concerning the apocalyptic destruction of their worlds. This book explores the idea of the apocalypse and its reception within culture and society, bringing together 17 essays that explore both the influence and innovation of apocalyptic ideas from classical Greek and Roman writings to the foreign policies of today's United States.
A Hitchhiker's Guide To Armageddon
Author: David Hatcher Childress
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1935487507
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
With wit and humor, popular Lost Cities author David Hatcher Childress takes us around the world and back in his trippy finalé to the Lost Cities series. He’s off on an adventure in search of the apocalypse and end times. Childress hits the road from the fortress of Megiddo, the legendary citadel in northern Israel where Armageddon is prophesied to start. Hitchhiking around the world, Childress takes us from one adventure to another, to ancient cities in the deserts and the legends of worlds before our own. Childress muses on the rise and fall of civilizations, and the forces that have shaped mankind over the millennia, including wars, invasions and cataclysms. He discusses the ancient Armageddons of the past, and chronicles recent Middle East developments and their ominous undertones. In the meantime, he becomes a cargo cult god on a remote island off New Guinea, gets dragged into the Kennedy Assassination by one of the “conspirators,†investigates a strange power operating out of the Altai Mountains of Mongolia, and discovers how the Knights Templar and their off-shoots have driven the world toward an epic battle centered around Jerusalem and the Middle East.
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1935487507
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
With wit and humor, popular Lost Cities author David Hatcher Childress takes us around the world and back in his trippy finalé to the Lost Cities series. He’s off on an adventure in search of the apocalypse and end times. Childress hits the road from the fortress of Megiddo, the legendary citadel in northern Israel where Armageddon is prophesied to start. Hitchhiking around the world, Childress takes us from one adventure to another, to ancient cities in the deserts and the legends of worlds before our own. Childress muses on the rise and fall of civilizations, and the forces that have shaped mankind over the millennia, including wars, invasions and cataclysms. He discusses the ancient Armageddons of the past, and chronicles recent Middle East developments and their ominous undertones. In the meantime, he becomes a cargo cult god on a remote island off New Guinea, gets dragged into the Kennedy Assassination by one of the “conspirators,†investigates a strange power operating out of the Altai Mountains of Mongolia, and discovers how the Knights Templar and their off-shoots have driven the world toward an epic battle centered around Jerusalem and the Middle East.
After the End
Author: James Berger
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816629336
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
In this study of the cultural pursuit of the end and what follows, Berger contends that every apocalyptic depiction leaves something behind, some mixture of paradise and wasteland. Combining literary, psychoanalytic, and historical methods, Berger mines these depictions for their weight and influence on current culture. He applies wide-ranging evidence--from science fiction to Holocaust literature, from Thomas Pynchon to talk shows, from American politics to the fiction of Toni Morrison--to reveal how representations of apocalyptic endings are indelibly marked by catastrophic histories.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816629336
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
In this study of the cultural pursuit of the end and what follows, Berger contends that every apocalyptic depiction leaves something behind, some mixture of paradise and wasteland. Combining literary, psychoanalytic, and historical methods, Berger mines these depictions for their weight and influence on current culture. He applies wide-ranging evidence--from science fiction to Holocaust literature, from Thomas Pynchon to talk shows, from American politics to the fiction of Toni Morrison--to reveal how representations of apocalyptic endings are indelibly marked by catastrophic histories.
Creepy Archives Volume 9
Author: Various
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
ISBN: 162115453X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The latest volume in Dark Horse's award—winning Creepy Archives hardcover run will shake, rattle, and obliterate your sanity, as the stories from issues #42—#45 of Warren Publishing's landmark horror series arrive as perfect antidotes to seasonal melancholy. In the early 1970s, comic-book legends like Bruce Jones, Gardner Fox, Richard Corben, Dave Cockrum, and Mike Ploog conspired to bring readers wonderfully mixed anthologies of terror and suspense! This volume also features a cover by celebrated fantasy and horror illustrator Sanjulian and a brand—new foreword by comic—book historian and writer Richard Arndt. * Each volume of Creepy Archives includes all the fan pages, features, and bonus materials found in the original Creepy magazines! * Eisner Award-winning series. * New York Times graphic-novel bestseller. * Features work from comic book legends like Richard Corben, Bruce Jones, and Sanjulian.
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
ISBN: 162115453X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The latest volume in Dark Horse's award—winning Creepy Archives hardcover run will shake, rattle, and obliterate your sanity, as the stories from issues #42—#45 of Warren Publishing's landmark horror series arrive as perfect antidotes to seasonal melancholy. In the early 1970s, comic-book legends like Bruce Jones, Gardner Fox, Richard Corben, Dave Cockrum, and Mike Ploog conspired to bring readers wonderfully mixed anthologies of terror and suspense! This volume also features a cover by celebrated fantasy and horror illustrator Sanjulian and a brand—new foreword by comic—book historian and writer Richard Arndt. * Each volume of Creepy Archives includes all the fan pages, features, and bonus materials found in the original Creepy magazines! * Eisner Award-winning series. * New York Times graphic-novel bestseller. * Features work from comic book legends like Richard Corben, Bruce Jones, and Sanjulian.
The Presidents and the Constitution, Volume One
Author: Ken Gormley
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479802093
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Shines a light on the constitutional issues that confronted and shaped each presidency from George Washington to the Progressive Era Drawing from the monumental The Presidents and the Constitution: A Living History, published in 2016, the nation’s foremost experts in the American presidency and the US Constitution join together to tell the intertwined stories of how the first twenty-seven distinctive American presidents have confronted and shaped the Constitution and thus defined the most powerful office in human history. From George Washington to William Howard Taft, The Presidents and the Constitution, Volume 1 illuminates the evolving American presidency in a unique way—through the lens of the Constitution itself. Arranged chronologically by president, the book examines the constitutional issues confronting each president in the context of the personalities driving historical events.The contributors illustrate the extensive powers of the American presidency in domestic and foreign affairs, showing how they have been used by the men who were granted them, and brings to light the overarching constitutional themes that span this country’s history and tie each presidency to the other branches of government.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479802093
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Shines a light on the constitutional issues that confronted and shaped each presidency from George Washington to the Progressive Era Drawing from the monumental The Presidents and the Constitution: A Living History, published in 2016, the nation’s foremost experts in the American presidency and the US Constitution join together to tell the intertwined stories of how the first twenty-seven distinctive American presidents have confronted and shaped the Constitution and thus defined the most powerful office in human history. From George Washington to William Howard Taft, The Presidents and the Constitution, Volume 1 illuminates the evolving American presidency in a unique way—through the lens of the Constitution itself. Arranged chronologically by president, the book examines the constitutional issues confronting each president in the context of the personalities driving historical events.The contributors illustrate the extensive powers of the American presidency in domestic and foreign affairs, showing how they have been used by the men who were granted them, and brings to light the overarching constitutional themes that span this country’s history and tie each presidency to the other branches of government.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Annual 2021
Author: Tom Waltz
Publisher: IDW Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
For millennia, the Pantheon family have played a deadly chess game with humanity, willingly sacrificing innocent and guilty alike in their twisted pursuit of victory. But now, one member of the family sees the opportunity to end the eternal contest once and for all—a final, crushing triumph over his immortal siblings and all of human- and mutant-kind. The time has arrived for the Rat King to make his most chaotic and destructive moves yet. The time has come at last for… THE ARMAGEDDON GAME! Written by Tom Waltz and illustrated by Casey Maloney, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Annual 2021 is the official prelude to the major TMNT event years in the making.
Publisher: IDW Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
For millennia, the Pantheon family have played a deadly chess game with humanity, willingly sacrificing innocent and guilty alike in their twisted pursuit of victory. But now, one member of the family sees the opportunity to end the eternal contest once and for all—a final, crushing triumph over his immortal siblings and all of human- and mutant-kind. The time has arrived for the Rat King to make his most chaotic and destructive moves yet. The time has come at last for… THE ARMAGEDDON GAME! Written by Tom Waltz and illustrated by Casey Maloney, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Annual 2021 is the official prelude to the major TMNT event years in the making.
Preludes to Armageddon
Author: Fred J. Bissert
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 9781498478311
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Many of the Clergy are guilty of the typical end-time phrase - "Jesus can come at any time." As the Son of God, He has the power to do this, but as the writer of the "Word," He would keep it in the sequence that the Bible has identified. This booklet has been written, listing Biblical events in the order in which the author understands they may occur. The rapture appears when the two witnesses Judaism and Christianity are overcome and taken to heaven at Christ's return (Rev. 11:7-13). A list of the 11 Preludes before Christ's return: Nebuchadnezzar's Fourth Babylon Is Babylon #4 a "World System?" Jews called to leave Babylon #4 Christians called to exit Babylon #4 Babylon's Enemies The Fall of Babylon Satan's release from prison Armageddon The Tribulation Period 10. The Earthquake 11. The Rapture 12. Christ's Return The author has challenged several Biblical interpretations that are widely used in today's world."
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 9781498478311
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Many of the Clergy are guilty of the typical end-time phrase - "Jesus can come at any time." As the Son of God, He has the power to do this, but as the writer of the "Word," He would keep it in the sequence that the Bible has identified. This booklet has been written, listing Biblical events in the order in which the author understands they may occur. The rapture appears when the two witnesses Judaism and Christianity are overcome and taken to heaven at Christ's return (Rev. 11:7-13). A list of the 11 Preludes before Christ's return: Nebuchadnezzar's Fourth Babylon Is Babylon #4 a "World System?" Jews called to leave Babylon #4 Christians called to exit Babylon #4 Babylon's Enemies The Fall of Babylon Satan's release from prison Armageddon The Tribulation Period 10. The Earthquake 11. The Rapture 12. Christ's Return The author has challenged several Biblical interpretations that are widely used in today's world."
United Empire
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commonwealth countries
Languages : en
Pages : 988
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commonwealth countries
Languages : en
Pages : 988
Book Description
Europe and Beyond
Author: Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description