Annapolis Autumn - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Annapolis Autumn write by Bruce Fleming. This book was released on 2011-05-10. Annapolis Autumn available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What really goes on behind the wall that surrounds the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis? What are all those midshipmen, future officers in the U.S. Naval and Marine Corps and leaders of our society, thinking as they stand in neat ranks at the parades beloved by tourists? What are their professors actually educating them to do. In Annapolis Autumn, Bruce Fleming, professor of English for nearly two decades at the academy and a prizewinning author, captures the sights, sounds, colors, and conversations of this tradition-steeped institution. In other classes, the cadets learn how to assemble guns, control armored vehicles, man battleships, and kill other human beings. Nothing is ever less than “outstanding, sir!” In English class, however, Fleming introduces his students to nuance and subtext, to the gay poets of World War I, and to the idea that not every piece of literature is designed to be “motivational.” Sharing stories from his twenty years at the academy, Fleming explores questions about teaching, the labels “liberal” and “conservative,” and the ultimate purpose of higher education—issues made all the more gripping at a time when many of his students will graduate from the classroom to the battlefield.
Sea Change at Annapolis
Sea Change at Annapolis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sea Change at Annapolis write by H. Michael Gelfand. This book was released on 2009-09-15. Sea Change at Annapolis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since 1845, the United States Naval Academy has prepared professional military leaders at its Annapolis, Maryland, campus. Although it remains steeped in a culture of tradition and discipline, the Academy is not impervious to change. Dispelling the myth that the Academy is a bastion of tradition unmarked by progress, H. Michael Gelfand examines challenges to the Naval Academy's culture from both inside and outside the Academy's walls between 1949 and 2000, an era of dramatic social change in American history. Drawing on more than two hundred oral histories, extensive archival research, and his own participatory observation at the Academy, Gelfand demonstrates that events at Annapolis reflect the transformation of American culture and society at large in the Cold War and post-Cold War periods. In eight chapters, he discusses recruiting and minority midshipmen, the end of mandatory attendance at religious services, women's experiences as they sought and achieved admission and later served as midshipmen, and the responses of multiple generations of midshipmen to societal changes, particularly during the Vietnam War era. This cultural history not only sheds light on events at the Naval Academy but also offers a novel perspective on democratic ideals in the United States.
Why Liberals and Conservatives Clash
Why Liberals and Conservatives Clash - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why Liberals and Conservatives Clash write by Bruce Edward Fleming. This book was released on 2006. Why Liberals and Conservatives Clash available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers an explanation for the extreme polarization between liberal and conservative that is the hallmark of the American political landscape today.
Contemporary Military Culture and Strategic Studies
Contemporary Military Culture and Strategic Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contemporary Military Culture and Strategic Studies write by Alastair Finlan. This book was released on 2013-09-02. Contemporary Military Culture and Strategic Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores and compares the contemporary military cultures of the United States and the United Kingdom. The last decade has witnessed astonishing global events, from 9/11 and military operations in Afghanistan in the same year, to the military intervention in Libya in 2011. Western military forces have been involved in all of these campaigns and have been engaged in continuous military operations for over ten years. It is therefore now apt to focus a spotlight on the military cultures of these state-based armed forces. This book examines how contemporary American and British military culture is formed, focusing explicitly on the six major military institutions. The author dedicates a chapter to each of these institutions with each one sharing a unifying analytical framework. These chapters explore the formation and sustenance of US/UK military culture under the rubric of common themes that include social origins, transformative events, leaders, approaches to war, technology and contemporary identity. To conclude, the book considers the impact of the War on Terror on the military cultures of the US and UK, as well as likely directions for the future. This book will be of much interest to students of military studies, strategic studies, security studies and comparative politics.
The Statutes of Nova Scotia
The Statutes of Nova Scotia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Statutes of Nova Scotia write by Nova Scotia. This book was released on 1861. The Statutes of Nova Scotia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
