2020, ISBN: 9780912050348

Washington DC: United States House of Representatives, 1959. Presumed First Issuance thus. Wraps. Good. 39, [1] pages, plus covers. Cover has some discoloration,wear and soiling. Some p… Mehr…

Washington DC: United States House of Representatives, 1959. Presumed First Issuance thus. Wraps. Good. 39, [1] pages, plus covers. Cover has some discoloration,wear and soiling. Some paperclip marks. Initials of H. D. Langley on the front cover. Harold David Langley (15 February 1925 - 29 July 2020) was an American diplomatic and naval historian who served as associate curator of naval history at the Smithsonian Institution from 1969 to 1996. As a naval historian, he was a pioneer in exploring American naval social and medical history. Langley began his professional career at the Library of Congress, Manuscripts Division, in Washington, D.C., where he served as a manuscripts assistant in 1951-52, while a graduate student. Moving to the University of Pennsylvania Libraries in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was a graduate student, he served as a manuscripts specialist, rare book collection, 1952-54. Returning to the Library of Congress, he was a manuscripts specialist, there in 1954-55. In 1955, Marywood College in Scranton, appointed him assistant professor of history. He remained there until 1957, when he received an appointment as a diplomatic historian in the U.S. Department of State. In 1964, Catholic University of America appointed him associate professor, and in 1968 promoted him to full professor in 1968. In 1969, the Smithsonian Institution, appointed him associate curator of naval history. While holding that position, he was an adjunct professor of American history at the Catholic University of America from 1971 to 2001. Washington's Farewell Address is a letter written by American President George Washington as a valedictory to "friends and the fellow-citizens" after 20 years of public service to the United States. He wrote it near the end of his second term of presidency before retiring to his home at Mount Vernon in Virginia. The letter was first published as The Address of Gen. Washington to the People of America on His Declining the Presidency of the United States in the American Daily Advertiser on September 19, 1796, about ten weeks before the presidential electors cast their votes in the 1796 election. It is a classic statement of republicanism, warning Americans of the political dangers which they must avoid if they are to remain true to their values. It was almost immediately reprinted in newspapers around the country, and later in pamphlet form. The first draft was originally prepared by James Madison in June 1792, as Washington contemplated retiring at the end of his first term in office. However, he set it aside and ran for a second term because of heated disputes between Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton and Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson which convinced Washington that the growing tensions would rip apart the country without his leadership. This included the state of foreign affairs, and divisions between the newly formed Federalist and Democratic-Republican parties. As his second term came to a close four years later, Washington prepared a revision of the original letter with the help of Hamilton to write a new farewell address to announce his intention to decline a third term in office. He reflects on the emerging issues of the American political landscape in 1796, expresses his support for the government eight years after the adoption of the Constitution, defends his administration's record and gives valedictory advice to the American people. The Address expresses Washington's understanding of republicanism by affirming popular government and warning about threats to "Republican liberty".[7] He begins his warnings to the American people by stressing that their independence, peace at home and abroad, safety, prosperity, and liberty are all dependent upon unity among the states. Washington continues his defense of the Constitution by stating that the system of checks and balances and separation of powers within it are important means of preventing a single person or group from seizing control of the country. He advises the American people that, if they believe that it is necessary to modify the powers granted to the government through the Constitution, it should be done through constitutional amendments instead of through force. It was first read in the House of Representatives in February 1862, and reading Washington's address became a tradition in both houses by 1899. The House of Representatives abandoned the practice in 1984,[5] but the Senate continues the tradition. Washington's Birthday is observed by selecting a member of the Senate to read the address aloud on the Senate floor, alternating between political parties each year since 1896.[5] Additionally, readers make an entry into a black, leather-bound journal maintained by the Secretary of the Senate upon finishing., United States House of Representatives, 1959, 2.5, New York: Library Press, 1972. First? Edition. First? Printing. Wraps. very good. 21 cm, 127 pages, wraps, slight wear and soiling to covers, former owner's signature on half-title, errata slip laid in. Robert A. Scalapino was an eminent scholar of Asian politics who achieved prominence during the Vietnam War for his strong defense of American policy as opposition to it was growing. Professor Scalapino taught at the University of California at Berkeley from 1949 to 1990 and founded its Institute of East Asian Studies in 1978. The author of 39 books on Vietnam, China, Korea, Japan and Taiwan, Professor Scalapino was also editor of Asian Survey, a scholarly publication, from 1962 to 1996 and advised the State Department and other government agencies. In 1965, he wound up arguing the Johnson administration's case for escalating the war at what was billed as a national teach-in on Vietnam policy. The event was a debate by a panel before an audience of 5,000 in Washington and more than 100,000 people at more than 100 campuses who had gathered to hear the debate by radio hookups.McGeorge Bundy, the national security adviser to President Lyndon B. Johnson, had been scheduled to attend, and many participants had hoped to hear his pro-war views and confront him. When he canceled at the last minute, it fell to Professor Scalapino, who had also been invited to join the panel, to take the lead in defending the White House's policy. He argued that the United States was fighting communism, not Asian nationalism, and that China would regard the United States as a "paper tiger" if it abandoned the war.He continued to make that argument the following year in a long article in The New York Times Magazine. He wrote that the war tested "the American capacity to respond to a threat that is important but not terminal."Robert Anthony Scalapino was born Oct. 19, 1919, in Leavenworth, Kan., and spent his teens in Santa Barbara, Calif., where his father taught school. He studied politics, focusing on relations between the United States and Europe, at what is now the University of California, Santa Barbara, graduating in 1940. He earned a master's degree and a Ph.D. from Harvard. His interest in Asia was sparked when he was trained in the Japanese language as a Navy officer in World War II.Professor Scalapino became an influential analyst of the Japanese political system. He called it a "one-and-a-half party" system in which the dominant Liberal Democrats maneuvered with minority parties to govern. His description of present-day China as an "authoritarian-pluralist society," one that allows limited rights but not democracy, was widely quoted. In the mid-1970s, John K. Fairbank, the eminent sinologist, called Professor Scalapino "a leader in the Asian revolution in American thinking."Professor Scalapino advised secretaries of state, advocating closer relations with China years before President Richard M. Nixon's historic 1972 visit. The National Bureau of Asian Research and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars created the Scalapino Prize, to be awarded to an outstanding American scholar on Asia., Library Press, 1972, 3<

1996, ISBN: 9780912050348

Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1994. Copyright 1994 . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall. Mardelle Ayres … Mehr…

Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1994. Copyright 1994 . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall. Mardelle Ayres (Cover Design). 220 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. An Ex-University-Library (Barnard College, NY, NY)-Book with all the usual and standard signs (stamps, stickers,envelope,etc.). Synopsis: In this distinguished contribution to Latin American colonial history, Douglas Cope draws upon a wide variety of sources?including Inquisition and court cases, notarial records and parish registers?to challenge the traditional view of castas (members of the caste system created by Spanish overlords) as rootless, alienated, and dominated by a desire to improve their racial status. On the contrary, the castas, Cope shows, were neither passive nor ruled by feelings of racial inferiority; indeed, they often modified or even rejected elite racial ideology. Castas also sought ways to manipulate their social "superiors" through astute use of the legal system. Cope shows that social control by the Spaniards rested less on institutions than on patron-client networks linking individual patricians and plebeians, which enabled the elite class to co-opt the more successful castas. The book concludes with the most thorough account yet published of the Mexico City riot of 1692. This account illuminates both the shortcomings and strengths of the patron-client system. Spurred by a corn shortage and subsequent famine, a plebeian mob laid waste much of the central city. Cope demonstrates that the political situation was not substantially altered, however; the patronage system continued to control employment and plebeians were largely left to bargain and adapt, as before. A revealing look at the economic lives of the urban poor in the colonial era, The Limits of Racial Domination examines a period in which critical social changes were occurring. The book should interest historians and ethnohistorians alike."A superb book, of obvious interest not only to Latin Americanists but also to those who study race relations in a hemispheric context."?Frederick P. Bowser, Stanford UniversityR. Douglas Cope is assistant professor of history at Brown University., The University of Wisconsin Press, 1994, 3, New York: Library Press, 1972. First? Edition. First? Printing. Wraps. very good. 21 cm, 127 pages, wraps, slight wear and soiling to covers, former owner's signature on half-title, errata slip laid in. Robert A. Scalapino was an eminent scholar of Asian politics who achieved prominence during the Vietnam War for his strong defense of American policy as opposition to it was growing. Professor Scalapino taught at the University of California at Berkeley from 1949 to 1990 and founded its Institute of East Asian Studies in 1978. The author of 39 books on Vietnam, China, Korea, Japan and Taiwan, Professor Scalapino was also editor of Asian Survey, a scholarly publication, from 1962 to 1996 and advised the State Department and other government agencies. In 1965, he wound up arguing the Johnson administration's case for escalating the war at what was billed as a national teach-in on Vietnam policy. The event was a debate by a panel before an audience of 5,000 in Washington and more than 100,000 people at more than 100 campuses who had gathered to hear the debate by radio hookups.McGeorge Bundy, the national security adviser to President Lyndon B. Johnson, had been scheduled to attend, and many participants had hoped to hear his pro-war views and confront him. When he canceled at the last minute, it fell to Professor Scalapino, who had also been invited to join the panel, to take the lead in defending the White House's policy. He argued that the United States was fighting communism, not Asian nationalism, and that China would regard the United States as a "paper tiger" if it abandoned the war.He continued to make that argument the following year in a long article in The New York Times Magazine. He wrote that the war tested "the American capacity to respond to a threat that is important but not terminal."Robert Anthony Scalapino was born Oct. 19, 1919, in Leavenworth, Kan., and spent his teens in Santa Barbara, Calif., where his father taught school. He studied politics, focusing on relations between the United States and Europe, at what is now the University of California, Santa Barbara, graduating in 1940. He earned a master's degree and a Ph.D. from Harvard. His interest in Asia was sparked when he was trained in the Japanese language as a Navy officer in World War II.Professor Scalapino became an influential analyst of the Japanese political system. He called it a "one-and-a-half party" system in which the dominant Liberal Democrats maneuvered with minority parties to govern. His description of present-day China as an "authoritarian-pluralist society," one that allows limited rights but not democracy, was widely quoted. In the mid-1970s, John K. Fairbank, the eminent sinologist, called Professor Scalapino "a leader in the Asian revolution in American thinking."Professor Scalapino advised secretaries of state, advocating closer relations with China years before President Richard M. Nixon's historic 1972 visit. The National Bureau of Asian Research and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars created the Scalapino Prize, to be awarded to an outstanding American scholar on Asia., Library Press, 1972, 3<

1996, ISBN: 9780912050348

Fort Benning, GA: U.S. Army, 1972. First? Edition. First? Printing. good. 12, wraps, illus., organizational chart inside front cover. This brochure, produced toward the end of the Vietn… Mehr…

Fort Benning, GA: U.S. Army, 1972. First? Edition. First? Printing. good. 12, wraps, illus., organizational chart inside front cover. This brochure, produced toward the end of the Vietnam War era, describes pictorially the organization and operations of the U.S. Army Infantry Center, with primary emphasis on the courses of instruction at the United States Army Infantry School., U.S. Army, 1972, 2.5, New York: Library Press, 1972. First? Edition. First? Printing. Wraps. very good. 21 cm, 127 pages, wraps, slight wear and soiling to covers, former owner's signature on half-title, errata slip laid in. Robert A. Scalapino was an eminent scholar of Asian politics who achieved prominence during the Vietnam War for his strong defense of American policy as opposition to it was growing. Professor Scalapino taught at the University of California at Berkeley from 1949 to 1990 and founded its Institute of East Asian Studies in 1978. The author of 39 books on Vietnam, China, Korea, Japan and Taiwan, Professor Scalapino was also editor of Asian Survey, a scholarly publication, from 1962 to 1996 and advised the State Department and other government agencies. In 1965, he wound up arguing the Johnson administration's case for escalating the war at what was billed as a national teach-in on Vietnam policy. The event was a debate by a panel before an audience of 5,000 in Washington and more than 100,000 people at more than 100 campuses who had gathered to hear the debate by radio hookups.McGeorge Bundy, the national security adviser to President Lyndon B. Johnson, had been scheduled to attend, and many participants had hoped to hear his pro-war views and confront him. When he canceled at the last minute, it fell to Professor Scalapino, who had also been invited to join the panel, to take the lead in defending the White House's policy. He argued that the United States was fighting communism, not Asian nationalism, and that China would regard the United States as a "paper tiger" if it abandoned the war.He continued to make that argument the following year in a long article in The New York Times Magazine. He wrote that the war tested "the American capacity to respond to a threat that is important but not terminal."Robert Anthony Scalapino was born Oct. 19, 1919, in Leavenworth, Kan., and spent his teens in Santa Barbara, Calif., where his father taught school. He studied politics, focusing on relations between the United States and Europe, at what is now the University of California, Santa Barbara, graduating in 1940. He earned a master's degree and a Ph.D. from Harvard. His interest in Asia was sparked when he was trained in the Japanese language as a Navy officer in World War II.Professor Scalapino became an influential analyst of the Japanese political system. He called it a "one-and-a-half party" system in which the dominant Liberal Democrats maneuvered with minority parties to govern. His description of present-day China as an "authoritarian-pluralist society," one that allows limited rights but not democracy, was widely quoted. In the mid-1970s, John K. Fairbank, the eminent sinologist, called Professor Scalapino "a leader in the Asian revolution in American thinking."Professor Scalapino advised secretaries of state, advocating closer relations with China years before President Richard M. Nixon's historic 1972 visit. The National Bureau of Asian Research and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars created the Scalapino Prize, to be awarded to an outstanding American scholar on Asia., Library Press, 1972, 3<

1996, ISBN: 9780912050348

New York: Library Press, 1972. First? Edition. First? Printing. Wraps. very good. 21 cm, 127 pages, wraps, slight wear and soiling to covers, former owner's signature on half-title,… Mehr…

New York: Library Press, 1972. First? Edition. First? Printing. Wraps. very good. 21 cm, 127 pages, wraps, slight wear and soiling to covers, former owner's signature on half-title, errata slip laid in. Robert A. Scalapino was an eminent scholar of Asian politics who achieved prominence during the Vietnam War for his strong defense of American policy as opposition to it was growing. Professor Scalapino taught at the University of California at Berkeley from 1949 to 1990 and founded its Institute of East Asian Studies in 1978. The author of 39 books on Vietnam, China, Korea, Japan and Taiwan, Professor Scalapino was also editor of Asian Survey, a scholarly publication, from 1962 to 1996 and advised the State Department and other government agencies. In 1965, he wound up arguing the Johnson administration's case for escalating the war at what was billed as a national teach-in on Vietnam policy. The event was a debate by a panel before an audience of 5,000 in Washington and more than 100,000 people at more than 100 campuses who had gathered to hear the debate by radio hookups.McGeorge Bundy, the national security adviser to President Lyndon B. Johnson, had been scheduled to attend, and many participants had hoped to hear his pro-war views and confront him. When he canceled at the last minute, it fell to Professor Scalapino, who had also been invited to join the panel, to take the lead in defending the White House's policy. He argued that the United States was fighting communism, not Asian nationalism, and that China would regard the United States as a "paper tiger" if it abandoned the war.He continued to make that argument the following year in a long article in The New York Times Magazine. He wrote that the war tested "the American capacity to respond to a threat that is important but not terminal."Robert Anthony Scalapino was born Oct. 19, 1919, in Leavenworth, Kan., and spent his teens in Santa Barbara, Calif., where his father taught school. He studied politics, focusing on relations between the United States and Europe, at what is now the University of California, Santa Barbara, graduating in 1940. He earned a master's degree and a Ph.D. from Harvard. His interest in Asia was sparked when he was trained in the Japanese language as a Navy officer in World War II.Professor Scalapino became an influential analyst of the Japanese political system. He called it a "one-and-a-half party" system in which the dominant Liberal Democrats maneuvered with minority parties to govern. His description of present-day China as an "authoritarian-pluralist society," one that allows limited rights but not democracy, was widely quoted. In the mid-1970s, John K. Fairbank, the eminent sinologist, called Professor Scalapino "a leader in the Asian revolution in American thinking."Professor Scalapino advised secretaries of state, advocating closer relations with China years before President Richard M. Nixon's historic 1972 visit. The National Bureau of Asian Research and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars created the Scalapino Prize, to be awarded to an outstanding American scholar on Asia., Library Press, 1972, 3<

1996, ISBN: 9780912050348

New York: Library Press, 1972. First? Edition. First? Printing. Wraps. very good. 21 cm, 127 pages, wraps, slight wear and soiling to covers, former owner's signature on half-title,… Mehr…

New York: Library Press, 1972. First? Edition. First? Printing. Wraps. very good. 21 cm, 127 pages, wraps, slight wear and soiling to covers, former owner's signature on half-title, errata slip laid in. Robert A. Scalapino was an eminent scholar of Asian politics who achieved prominence during the Vietnam War for his strong defense of American policy as opposition to it was growing. Professor Scalapino taught at the University of California at Berkeley from 1949 to 1990 and founded its Institute of East Asian Studies in 1978. The author of 39 books on Vietnam, China, Korea, Japan and Taiwan, Professor Scalapino was also editor of Asian Survey, a scholarly publication, from 1962 to 1996 and advised the State Department and other government agencies. In 1965, he wound up arguing the Johnson administration's case for escalating the war at what was billed as a national teach-in on Vietnam policy. The event was a debate by a panel before an audience of 5,000 in Washington and more than 100,000 people at more than 100 campuses who had gathered to hear the debate by radio hookups.McGeorge Bundy, the national security adviser to President Lyndon B. Johnson, had been scheduled to attend, and many participants had hoped to hear his pro-war views and confront him. When he canceled at the last minute, it fell to Professor Scalapino, who had also been invited to join the panel, to take the lead in defending the White House's policy. He argued that the United States was fighting communism, not Asian nationalism, and that China would regard the United States as a "paper tiger" if it abandoned the war.He continued to make that argument the following year in a long article in The New York Times Magazine. He wrote that the war tested "the American capacity to respond to a threat that is important but not terminal."Robert Anthony Scalapino was born Oct. 19, 1919, in Leavenworth, Kan., and spent his teens in Santa Barbara, Calif., where his father taught school. He studied politics, focusing on relations between the United States and Europe, at what is now the University of California, Santa Barbara, graduating in 1940. He earned a master's degree and a Ph.D. from Harvard. His interest in Asia was sparked when he was trained in the Japanese language as a Navy officer in World War II.Professor Scalapino became an influential analyst of the Japanese political system. He called it a "one-and-a-half party" system in which the dominant Liberal Democrats maneuvered with minority parties to govern. His description of present-day China as an "authoritarian-pluralist society," one that allows limited rights but not democracy, was widely quoted. In the mid-1970s, John K. Fairbank, the eminent sinologist, called Professor Scalapino "a leader in the Asian revolution in American thinking."Professor Scalapino advised secretaries of state, advocating closer relations with China years before President Richard M. Nixon's historic 1972 visit. The National Bureau of Asian Research and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars created the Scalapino Prize, to be awarded to an outstanding American scholar on Asia., Library Press, 1972, 3<