2013, ISBN: 9780674728806

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Chicago: The Newberry Library, 1962. A Facsimile of the copy in the Everett D. Graff Collection at The Newberry Library--Limited facsimile edition of 2000. Wraps. Very good. [8], 24 pag… Mehr…

Chicago: The Newberry Library, 1962. A Facsimile of the copy in the Everett D. Graff Collection at The Newberry Library--Limited facsimile edition of 2000. Wraps. Very good. [8], 24 pages. Foreword by Colton Storm. This facsimile edition is based on what at the time was the only known copy of this work (at at the time of this cataloguing still appeared to be the case). Some of the limited edition copies are now in institutions/libraries and thus not available to the collectibles market. There were later editions of Bunn's tale, including one (1828) in which future President Millard Filmore, affirmed the authenticity of the narrative. Matthew Bunn [ca1772- ] was born in Brookfield, Massachusetts and enlisted for a western expedition about age 19. He was captured by Indians in Ohio and when he escaped from them he as captured by George Girty [perhaps a relative of the notorious Simon Girty]. After he escaped from Girty he went to Detroit arriving there in April of 1793. After many adventures he returned to Massachusetts in 1795. In October of 1826 Bunn swore in an affidavit that his story was true. The story of his adventures has gone through several editions but is still considered very rare in the original. [See scholarship on this narrative in The Rarest Story of Adventure in the Region of Niagara: Narrative of Matthew Bunn. Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society 1904 7: 379-436.] The Newberry Library is an independent research library, specializing in the humanities and located on Washington Square in Chicago, Illinois. It has been free and open to the public since 1887. Its collections encompass a variety of topics related to the history and cultural production of Western Europe and the Americas over the last six centuries. The Library is named to honor the founding bequest from the estate of philanthropist Walter Loomis Newberry. Core collection strengths support research in several subject areas, including maps, travel, and exploration; music from the Renaissance to the early twentieth century; early contact between Western colonizers and Indigenous peoples in the Western Hemisphere; the personal papers of twentieth-century American journalists; the history of printing; and genealogy and local history. Although the Newberry is a noncirculating library, it welcomes researchers into the reading rooms who are at least 14 years old or in the ninth grade, and have a research topic corresponding to the nature of the collections. Additional public services are offered through exhibitions, meet-the-author lectures, adult education seminars, and other programming. Newberry Trustee Everett D. Graff (1885-1964) donated his library of Western Americana to the Newberry in 1964. The collection originally comprised some 10,000 books and manuscripts, many of them extremely rare, most dealing with the exploration and settlement of the trans-Mississippi West in the nineteenth century., The Newberry Library, 1962, 3, Minor rubbing. VG. Textual maps & illustrations Spanish Colonialism Stanford University Press Stanford [CA] (1998) orig.wrappers 23x15cm, xxvii,568 pp., PAPERBACK. "On March 13, 1697, Spanish troops from Yucatan attacked and occupied Nojpeten, the capital of the Maya people known as Itzas, the inhabitants of the last unconquered native New World kingdom. Its capture represented a decisive moment in the final chapter of the Spanish conquest of the Mayas. The first complete account of the conquest of the Itzas to appear since 1701, this book details the layers of political intrigue and action that characterized every aspect of the conquest and its aftermath. The author critically re-examines the extensive documentation left by the Spaniards, presenting much new information on Maya political and social organization and Spanish military and diplomatic strategy. He offers a comprehensive reconstruction of an independent Maya kingdom and, in presenting the story of the Itzas, the author reveals much about neighboring lowland Maya groups with whom the Itzas interacted, often violently" - Publisher's description. [Contents : The Itzas and their neighbors -- Itza-Spanish encounters, 1525-1690 -- Itza society and kingship on the eve of conquest -- Power politics -- The birth of the Camino Real -- Franciscans on the Camino Real -- The Itza emissaries -- Avendaño and Ajaw Kan Ek’ -- Itza-Spanish warfare -- The costs of the Camino Real -- The eve of conquest -- Occupation and interrogation -- Prisoners of conquest -- Reconquest, epidemic, and warfare -- Missions, rebellion, and survival]., Stanford University Press, 3, SIGNED- "Best Wishes, Kavita" in black ink pen. Kavita Iyengar, an economist by profession, began training at the Sanskriti School of Art in Gurgaon in 2008, where she was the first recipient for the Tagore Medal for outstanding involvement in art. Kavita enjoys working with a variety of mediums including painting oils on canvas, acrylic murals, pen and ink drawings on paper, and making collages. She has been working on her own since 2011 and since has participated in group shows and illustrated books, including publishing Delhi Old and New: Inkline Drawings, in 2013.Kavita has been associated with Salaam Baalak Trust since 2013, an Indian non-profit and non-governmental organization which provides support for street and working children in the Delhi NCR towards which she contributed the proceeds from her art work.Kavita studied in Delhi and the US and works with an international development organization in New Delhi.The city of Delhi through its historical architecture; unique to the regionindraprastha: ancient times - kalkaji temple - ashoka rock edictdhili - qila rai pithora - surajkundmehrauli, 1206-90 - qutub minar - hauz-i-shamzisirr, 1290-1320 - siri fort - hauz khastughlaqabad, 1321-1325 - tughlaqabad fort - nizamuddin dargahjahanpanah, 1325-1351 - begumpuri mosque - hazaar sutan palacefirozabad, 1351-1388 - jami masjid - ashoka pillar and baulisyyed and lodhi era monuments, 1414-1526 - kotla mubarakpur - jamali kamali mosque and tomb - lodi gardens - agrasen ki baolishergah and the beginning of the mughal era, 1583-1545 - purana qila - humayun's tombshahjahanabad and vicinity, 1638-1857 - lal qila - diwan-e-khas - jama masjid - chandani chowk - moti masjid - gurudwara bangla sahib - jantar mantar - havelis of old delhi - kashmiri gatecivil lines and the british, 1857-1911 - william fraser bungalow - st james church - mutiny memoriallutyens delhi, the new capital city, 1911-1947 - the viceroy's house: rashtrapati bhavan - all india war memorial: india gate - the parliament house: sansad bhavan - central secretariat - residence of the commander-in-chief: teen murti bhavan - birla house: gandhi smriti - lakshminarayan temple: birla mandir - connaught place: indira chowk and rajeev chowk - jaipur house: national gallery of modern art - a lutyens bungalow: indira gandhi memorialnew new delhi in independent india, 1947-present - modern sculptures - judah hyam synagogue - pragati maidan, Bloomsbury Pub. India, , 2013, 3, Harvard University Press. hardcover. New. 6x1x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing, Harvard University Press, 6<

2015, ISBN: 0674728807

[EAN: 9780674728806], Neubuch, [PU: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London England], STEVEN I. WILKINSON, INDIAN HISTORY, INDIA'S DEMOCRACY, INDIA & SOUTH ASIA, Jac… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780674728806], Neubuch, [PU: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London England], STEVEN I. WILKINSON, INDIAN HISTORY, INDIA'S DEMOCRACY, INDIA & SOUTH ASIA, Jacket, 304 pages. Hardcover with dustjacket. New book. HISTORY. At Indian independence in 1947, the country's founders worried that the army India inheritedÑ conservative and dominated by officers and troops drawn disproportionately from a few "martial" groupsÑposed a real threat to democracy. They also saw the structure of the army, with its recruitment on the basis of caste and religion, as incompatible with their hopes for a new secular nation. India has successfully preserved its democracy, however, unlike many other colonial states that inherited imperial "divide and rule" armies, and unlike its neighbor Pakistan, which inherited part of the same Indian army in 1947. As Steven I. Wilkinson shows, the puzzle of how this happened is even more surprising when we realize that the Indian Army has kept, and even expanded, many of its traditional "martial class" units, despite promising at independence to gradually phase them out. Army and Nation draws on uniquely comprehensive data to explore how and why India has succeeded in keeping the military out of politics, when so many other countries have failed. It uncovers the command and control strategies, the careful ethnic balancing, and the political, foreign policy, and strategic decisions that have made the army safe for Indian democracy. Wilkinson goes further to ask whether, in a rapidly changing society, these structures will survive the current national conflicts over caste and regional representation in New Delhi, as well as India's external and strategic challenges. Steven I. Wilkinson is Nilekani Professor of India and South Asian Studies and Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Yale University. "While Pakistan quickly slipped into a rhythm of juntas, India, with much the same colonial heritage, consolidated the world's largest democracy. Why? Steven Wilkinson's Army and Nation offers a new answer to that old puzzle. It is a story of what happens when armies fail to reflect the societies they defend, as well as a meditation on Juvenal's famous question quis custodiet ipsos custodes?Ñwho shall guard the guards? ÉWilkinson's book is an excellent guide to the world's biggest democratic army. It is also a fine answer to Juvenal's cautionary question."ÑShashank Joshi, Financial Times "There has been nothing like Army and Nation in the last forty years, which is astonishing given the importance of the army in India. Wilkinson details the ways in which India made many changes that prevent the kind of army actions we see in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and other states. There are many lessons here, both to help Indians better understand their own democracy, and for other nations."ÑStephen P. Cohen, author of The Indian Army: Its Contribution to the Development of a Nation "Army and Nation complements and, in many ways, surpasses other classic books on the Indian army. One of the signal contributions of the book is Wilkinson's painstaking collection, collation, analysis, and presentation of quantitative information. Nothing remotely comparable exists."ÑSrinath Raghavan, author of 1971: A Global History of the Creation of Bangladesh (Key Words: Steven I. Wilkinson, Indian History, India's Democracy, India & South Asia).<

ISBN: 9780674728806

At Indian independence in 1947, the country's founders worried that the army India inherited? conservative and dominated by officers and troops drawn disproportionately from a few ?martia… Mehr…

At Indian independence in 1947, the country's founders worried that the army India inherited? conservative and dominated by officers and troops drawn disproportionately from a few ?martial? groups?posed a real threat to democracy. They also saw the structure of the army, with its recruitment on the basis of caste and religion, as incompatible with their hopes for a new secular nation. India has successfully preserved its democracy, however, unlike many other colonial states that inherited imperial ?divide and rule? armies, and unlike its neighbor Pakistan, which inherited part of the same Indian army in 1947. As Steven I. Wilkinson shows, the puzzle of how this happened is even more surprising when we realize that the Indian Army has kept, and even expanded, many of its traditional ?martial class? units, despite promising at independence to gradually phase them out. Army and Nation draws on uniquely comprehensive data to explore how and why India has succeeded in keeping the military out of politics, when so many other countries have failed. It uncovers the command and control strategies, the careful ethnic balancing, and the political, foreign policy, and strategic decisions that have made the army safe for Indian democracy. Wilkinson goes further to ask whether, in a rapidly changing society, these structures will survive the current national conflicts over caste and regional representation in New Delhi, as well as India's external and strategic challenges. Books, [PU: Harvard University Press]<

2015, ISBN: 9780674728806

The Military and Indian Democracy since Independence, Hardcover, Buch, [PU: Harvard University Press]