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Humanitarian Intervention
The dilemma of how best to protect human rights is one of the most persistent problems facing the international community today. This unique and wide-ranging history of humanitarian intervention examines responses to oppression, persecution and mass atrocities from the emergence of the international state system and international law in the late sixteenth century, to the end of the twentieth century. Leading scholars show how opposition to tyranny and to religious persecution evolved from notions of the common interests of 'Christendom' to ultimately incorporate all people under the concept of 'human rights'. As well as examining specific episodes of intervention, the authors consider how these have been perceived and justified over time, and offer important new insights into ideas of national sovereignty, international relations and law, as well as political thought and the development of current theories of 'international community'.
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The Longest Afternoon
In 1815, the deposed emperor Napoleon returned to France and threatened the already devastated and exhausted continent with yet another war. Near the small Belgian municipality of Waterloo, two large, hastily mobilized armies faced each other to decide the future of EuropeNapoleon's forces on one side, and the Duke of Wellington on the other. With so much at stake, neither commander could have predicted that the battle would be decided by the Second Light Battalion, King's German Legion, which was given the deceptively simple task of defending the Haye Sainte farmhouse, a crucial crossroads on the way to Brussels. In The Longest Afternoon, Brendan Simms recounts how these 400-odd riflemen beat back wave after wave of French infantry until finally forced to withdraw, but only after holding up Napoleon for so long that he lost the overall contest. Their actions alone decided the most influential battle in European history. Drawing on previously untapped eye-witness reports for accurate and vivid details of the course of the battle, Simms captures the grand choreography and pervasive chaos of Waterloo: the advances and retreats, the death and the maiming, the heroism and the cowardice. He describes the gallant fighting spirit of the French infantrymen, who clambered over the bodies of their fallen comrades as they assaulted the heavily fortified farmhouseand whose bravery was only surpassed by that of their opponents in the Second Light Battalion. Motivated by opposition to Napoleonic tyranny, dynastic loyalty to the King of England, German patriotism, regimental camaraderie, personal bonds of friendship, and professional ethos, the battalion suffered terrible casualties and fought tirelessly for many long hours, but refused to capitulate or retreat until the evening, by which time the Prussians had arrived on the battlefield in large numbers. In
reorienting Waterloo around the Haye Sainte farmhouse, Simms gives us a riveting new account of the famous battlean account that reveals, among other things, that Napoleon came much closer than is commonly thought to winning it. A heroic tale of 400 soldiers who changed the course of history, The Longest Afternoon will become an instant classic of military history.
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The longest afternoon : the 400 men who decided the Battle of Waterloo
\"In 1815, the deposed emperor Napoleon returned to France and threatened the already devastated and exhausted continent with yet another war. Near the small Belgian municipality of Waterloo, two large, hastily mobilized armies faced each other to decide the future of Europe--Napoleon's forces on one side, and the Duke of Wellington is on the other. With so much at stake, neither commander could have predicted that the battle would be decided by the Second Light Battalion, King's German Legion, which was given the deceptively simple task of defending the Haye Sainte farmhouse, which dominated a crucial crossroads on the way to Brussels. In The Longest Afternoon, Brendan Simms recounts how these 400-odd riflemen beat back wave after wave of French infantry until finally forced to withdraw, but only after holding up Napoleon for so long that he lost the overall contest. Their actions decided the most influential battle in European history.\"--Jacket flap.
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Scholars Forum: Antisemitism and Anti-(International) Capitalism in the Early Thought of Adolf Hitler, 1919–1924
While the connection between Adolf Hitler's antisemitism and his anti-capitalism is often noted en passant, and has been the subject of some individual studies, its centrality to his worldview has not been sufficiently understood. This article seeks to show that it was Hitler's fear of international capitalism and \"high finance,\" and his anxiety about Anglo-American power, more than concerns related to socialism, communism, and the Russian Revolution that underlay his early preoccupation with \"the Jews.\" This is not to suggest that Hitler was a man ofthe Left or to mark today's anti-capitalists with the charge of antisemitism. Rather, the purpose of this exercise is to illuminate the evolution of Hitler's thinking prior to the programmatic statements made in Mein Kampf, and to establish how he came to understand the role played by what he called \"world Jewry.\" It was a view that he maintained throughout his career and one that was to have catastrophic consequences two decades later.
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Humanitarian intervention : a history
\"The dilemma of how best to protect human rights is one of the most persistent problems facing the international community today. This unique and wide-ranging history of humanitarian intervention examines responses to oppression, persecution and mass atrocities from the emergence of the international state system and international law in the late sixteenth century, to the end of the twentieth century. Leading scholars show how opposition to tyranny and to religious persecution evolved from notions of the common interests of 'Christendom' to ultimately incorporate all people under the concept of 'human rights'. As well as examining specific episodes of intervention, the authors consider how these have been perceived and justified over time, and offer important new insights into ideas of national sovereignty, international relations and law, as well as political thought and the development of current theories of 'international community'\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Antisemitism and Anti- Capitalism in the Early Thought of Adolf Hitler, 1919-1924
While the connection between Adolf Hitler's antisemitism and his anticapitalism is often noted en passant, and has been the subject of some individual studies, (1) its centrality to his worldview has not been sufficiently understood. This article seeks to show that it was Hitler's fear of international capitalism and \"high finance,\" and his anxiety about Anglo-American power, more than concerns related to socialism, communism, and the Russian Revolution that underlay his early preoccupation with \"the Jews.\" (2) This is not to suggest that Hitler was a man of the Left or to mark today's anti-capitalists with the charge of antisemitism. Rather, the purpose of this exercise is to illuminate the evolution of Hitler's thinking prior to the programmatic statements made in Mein Kampf, and to establish how he came to understand the role played by what he called \"world Jewry.\" It was a view that he maintained throughout his career and one that was to have catastrophic consequences two decades later.
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