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Since its inception the United States has sent envoys to advance American interests abroad, both across oceans and to areas that later became part of the country. Little has been known about these first envoys until now. From China to Chile, Tripoli to Tahiti, Mexico to Muscat, Peter D. Eicher chronicles the experience of the first American envoys in foreign lands. Their stories, often stranger than fiction, are replete with intrigues, revolutions, riots, war, shipwrecks, swashbucklers, desperadoes, and bootleggers. The circumstances the diplomats faced were precursors to today's headlines: Americans at war in the Middle East, intervention in Latin America, pirates off Africa, trade deficits with China. Early envoys abroad faced hostile governments, physical privations, disease, isolation, and the daunting challenge of explaining American democracy to foreign rulers. Many suffered threats from tyrannical despots, some were held as slaves or hostages, and others led foreign armies into battle. Some were heroes, some were scoundrels, and many perished far from home. From the American Revolution to the Civil War, Eicher profiles the characters who influenced the formative period of American diplomacy and the first steps the United States took as a world power. Their experiences combine to chart key trends in the development of early U.S. foreign policy that continue to affect us today. Raising the Flag illuminates how American ideas, values, and power helped shape the modern world. -- Amazon.com.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures and Table -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions -- Introduction: Famine Irish and the American Racial State -- 1 Black and Green Atlantic Crossings in the Famine Era -- 2 Irish Catholic Empire Building in America -- 3 The Writin' Irish -- or, Catholic Irish America's Famine-Era Authors -- 4 A Code for the True American Catholic Man or Woman -- 5 Gender Laundering Irish Women and Chinese Men in San Francisco -- 6 In California, Workers Divided -- 7 An Irish Worker's Post-national Horizon -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Index.

In ihrer Gesamtheit stellen Beamte die Achse des modernen bürokratischen Staates dar, um die sich alles dreht. Man erwartet von ihnen Loyalität, Pflichtbewusstsein, Gerechtigkeit und Sachkompetenz. Dennoch ist das Image der Beamten vielfach nicht gut. Lei

The Public Sector R&D Enterprise combines a primer on how government R&D programs actually work with a sophisticated methodology for prospectively putting a dollar figure on the value of R&D investments before they are made, The US government spends $30 billion per year on applied, non-defense research and development in fields like energy, health, transportation, agriculture, and the environment. Effective management of this investment is a prerequisite not only to addressing challenges like climate change and economic prosperity, but also to the wise stewardship of taxpayer money. The Public Sector R&D Enterprise combines a primer on how government R&D programs actually work with a sophisticated methodology for prospectively putting a dollar figure on the value of R&D investments before they are made. Using an integrated framework, this primer offers students and practitioners alike an accessible entry point to what can be a very complex R&D enterprise. The author presents and proves the feasibility of a new valuation methodology that allows program administrators to prospectively estimate the likely returns and potential risks of potential investments in R&D

"The dominant rights-based interpretation of private property entrenches the idea of human dominion over nature. Accordingly, nature is not attributed any inherent value and becomes merely the matter of a human property relationship. Earth Jurisprudence: Private Property and the Environment explores how an alternative conception of property might be instead grounded in the eco-centric concept of an Earth community. Recognising that human beings are deeply interconnected with and dependent on nature, this concept is proposed as a standard and measure for human law. Using the theory of Earth Jurisprudence as a guide, this book outlines an alternative eco-centric description of private property, as a relationship between and among members of the Earth community"--

Representing the scholarship of historians who have largely based their findings on previously unpublished material, this volume (originally published in 1978) provides a critical and provocative assessment of many established opinions on significant themes related to the dramatic rise and development of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Movement. The volume discusses among other things: The development of Hitler's foreign policy ideasThe contributions of Gottfried Feder and Gregor Strasser to the successful growth of the Nazi partyThe social composition of the StormtroopersThe bureaucratic structure of the

In Social Security for Decision Makers - Charting Your Course to Retirement, Peter Murphy provides his readers with the necessary information to make optimal Social Security benefit decisions. Social Security is one of the biggest pieces of the retirement puzzle, making up 40% of the average retiree's income. Since it's such an important component of retirement, deciding when to start collecting Social Security is critically important. Uniformed choices as well as lack of spousal, ex-spousal, or survivor benefit coordination could end up costing you more than a hundred thousand dollars over

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Argues that America is enjoying a government-inflated bubble, one that reality will explode with disastrous consequences for the economy and for each of us. - Dust jacket flap