Richard Welch: 14 books
by Richard Welch, Hollis Welch
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
If you love the bold, exciting look of Art Deco designs, this treasury of stylish patterns is certain to inspire you toward new heights in your stained glass and other craft projects. These patterns in the streamlined Art Deco style include a wealth of workable motifs with an imaginative geometric...
Roots of Cataclysm
Geopulsation and the Atlantis Supervolcano in History
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The author proposes that geopulsation of the earth together with tectonic shifts and catastrophic volcanoes could have created a land bridge connecting Europe to the mid-Atlantic; and he explores what that could mean for the origins of pre-Columbian American civilizations. Specifically, he traces the...
Response to Revolution
The United States and the Cuban Revolution, 1959-1961
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
The Cuban Revolution was a catalyst in shaping American foreign policy over the past generation. Welch's study is the first detailed evaluation of U.S. policy toward Cuba in the early years of the Castro regime and the first effort to analyze public sentiment during that crucial period. Our response...
French Renaissance and Baroque Drama
Text, Performance, Theory
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
The fifteen articles in this volume highlight the richness, diversity, and experimental nature of French and Francophone drama before the advent of what would become known as neoclassical French theater of the seventeenth century. In essays ranging from conventional stage plays (tragedies, comedies,...
The Boy General
The Life and Careers of Francis Channing Barlow
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
The biography of an ambitious Civil War soldier
Drawing heavily on primary-source material, The Boy General is the first full-length account of Francis Channing Barlow, one of the most successful combat officers in the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War.
Although his clean-shaven,...
by William S. Cohen, Janet Langhart Cohen, Enola Gay Aird
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities...
Collaborative Resilience
Moving Through Crisis to Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Case studies and analyses investigate how collaborative response to crisis can enhance social-ecological resilience and promote community reinvention.
Crisis—whether natural disaster, technological failure, economic collapse, or shocking acts of violence—can offer opportunities for collaboration,...
Good Judgment in Foreign Policy
Theory and Application
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2002
At the heart of political leadership lies choice. And at the heart of choice lies judgment. A leader's psychology and experience intersect with political realities to produce consequences that can make or break a leader—or a country. Nowhere is judgment more important than in the making of foreign...
General Washington's Commando
Benjamin Tallmadge in the Revolutionary War
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
The multi-faceted Revolutionary War career of Benjamin Tallmadge included operations as a dragoon commander, intelligence and counter-intelligence officer, and master of combined land-sea operations. Tallmadge fought in the battles of Long Island, White Plains, and Germantown, and defended the Patriot...
by John S. Grabowski, Montague Brown, Roger Duncan
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
It has always been understood that the central claim of Christianity—that Jesus born of Mary is the Son of God—is as much a declaration of the mystery of the human as it is the mystery of God; just as the claim that in virtue of this identity he is the Christ who restores, and more, transforms,...
Tibes
People, Power, and Ritual at the Center of the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2009
The first comprehensive analysis of a strategically located ceremonial center on the island of Puerto Rico.
The prehistoric civic-ceremonial center of Tibes is located on the southern coast of Puerto Rico, just north of the modern coastal city of Ponce. Protected on two sides by a river, and...
by Richard Fordham, Stephen Finlay, Justin Gardener
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019
First published in 1998, this book addresses a central issue in housing: that of ‘need’ and how to meet it. Need refers either to individual household circumstances or to the aggregate requirement for new (social and market) housing. The book develops a new policy mechanism to address the present...
by Ira David Welch, Richard F. Zawistoski, David W. Smart
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Response to Imperialism
The United States and the Philippine-American War, 1899-1902
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
This is a study of the impact of the Filipino Insurrection on American society and politics. It is the first work to evaluate in detail the response of public opinion to that war and to analyze official and popular response in the light of the values and anxieties of the American people. Although...