The Maligned Militia
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The Maligned Militia
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Author : Christopher L. Scott
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-09
The Maligned Militia written by Christopher L. Scott and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-09 with History categories.
Despite its failure to unseat King James II, the Monmouth Rebellion had a profound influence upon English politics. In particular, it reignited the debate about whether the country should rely on a professional army under direct royal control or local country militias made up of part-time soldiers. King James favoured the former, and used criticism of the militia’s performance during the rebellion to support his argument. Contemporary commentators and historians alike all certainly seemed to agree that the king’s victory was won in spite of - not because of - the militia. But is this a fair judgement? Drawing upon a wealth of information gathered from personal accounts, private papers, letters, financial records, diaries and memoirs, this book revisits the events of 1685 to assess the militia’s performance in helping to defeat the so-called ’pitchfork rebellion’. Through an extensive investigation into the militia itself, its social composition, role, training, armament and leadership the study sets a benchmark for what could have been realistically expected of these part-time soldiers, and then sets this against the actual tasks that were asked of it in 1685. The results that emerge from this exercise paint a very different picture of the militia’s role in the rebellion than has hitherto been accepted by historians. Judged by these criteria, a convincing case is made that the militia was in fact an efficient military organisation according to contemporary expectations and demands made of it. Criticisms of it, it is argued, stem more from political expediency than impartial judgment. As well as being of interest to military and social historians, this book demonstrates the dangers to all historians of taking at face value contemporary comments. It shows how subtle and interlocking forces, that may at first glance appear unrelated, can work together to colour opinions of events and organisations.
A Right To Bear Arms
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Author : Jennifer Tucker
language : en
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Release Date : 2019-08-20
A Right To Bear Arms written by Jennifer Tucker and has been published by Smithsonian Institution this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-20 with Law categories.
This collection of essays explores the way history itself has become a contested element within the national legal debate about firearms. The debate over the Second Amendment has unveiled new and useful information about the history of guns and their possession and meaning in the United States of America. History itself has become contested ground in the debate about firearms and in the interpretation of the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Specifically this collection of essays gives special attention to the important and often overlooked dimension of the applications of history in the law. These essays illustrate the complexity of the firearms debate, the relation between law and behavior, and the role that historical knowledge plays in contemporary debates over law and policy. Wide-ranging and stimulating The Right to Bear Arms is bound to captivate both historians and casual readers alike.
Against The Death Penalty
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Author : Stephen Breyer
language : en
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Release Date : 2016-08-23
Against The Death Penalty written by Stephen Breyer and has been published by Brookings Institution Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-23 with Political Science categories.
"A landmark dissenting opinion arguing against the death penalty. Does the death penalty violate the Constitution? In Against the Death Penalty, Justice Stephen Breyer argues that it does; that it is carried out unfairly and inconsistently and, thus, violates the ban on ""cruel and unusual punishments"" specified by the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution. “Today’s administration of the death penalty,” Breyer writes, “involves three fundamental constitutional defects: (1) serious unreliability, (2) arbitrariness in application, and (3) unconscionably long delays that undermine the death penalty’s penological purpose. Perhaps as a result, (4) most places within the United States have abandoned its use.” This volume contains Breyer's dissent in the case of Glossip v. Gross, which involved an unsuccessful challenge to Oklahoma's use of a lethal-injection drug because it might cause severe pain. Justice Breyer's legal citations have been edited to make them understandable to a general audience, but the text retains the full force of his powerful argument that the time has come for the Supreme Court to revisit the constitutionality of the death penalty. Breyer was joined in his dissent from the bench by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Their passionate argument has been cited by many legal experts including fellow Justice Antonin Scalia—as signaling an eventual Court ruling striking down the death penalty. A similar dissent in 1963 by Breyer's mentor, Justice Arthur J. Goldberg, helped set the stage for a later ruling, imposing what turned out to be a four-year moratorium on executions."
The War Of The Rebellion
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Author : United States. War Department
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1902
The War Of The Rebellion written by United States. War Department and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1902 with Confederate States of America categories.
Official records produced by the armies of the United States and the Confederacy, and the executive branches of their respective governments, concerning the military operations of the Civil War, and prisoners of war or prisoners of state. Also annual reports of military departments, calls for troops, correspondence between national and state governments, correspondence between Union and Confederate officials. The final volume includes a synopsis, general index, special index for various military divisions, and background information on how these documents were collected and published. Accompanied by an atlas.
The War Of The Rebellion
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Author : United States. War Dept
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1902
The War Of The Rebellion written by United States. War Dept and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1902 with Confederate States of America categories.
American Military History Volume 1
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Author : Army Center of Military History
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-06-05
American Military History Volume 1 written by Army Center of Military History and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-05 with History categories.
American Military History provides the United States Army-in particular, its young officers, NCOs, and cadets-with a comprehensive but brief account of its past. The Center of Military History first published this work in 1956 as a textbook for senior ROTC courses. Since then it has gone through a number of updates and revisions, but the primary intent has remained the same. Support for military history education has always been a principal mission of the Center, and this new edition of an invaluable history furthers that purpose. The history of an active organization tends to expand rapidly as the organization grows larger and more complex. The period since the Vietnam War, at which point the most recent edition ended, has been a significant one for the Army, a busy period of expanding roles and missions and of fundamental organizational changes. In particular, the explosion of missions and deployments since 11 September 2001 has necessitated the creation of additional, open-ended chapters in the story of the U.S. Army in action. This first volume covers the Army's history from its birth in 1775 to the eve of World War I. By 1917, the United States was already a world power. The Army had sent large expeditionary forces beyond the American hemisphere, and at the beginning of the new century Secretary of War Elihu Root had proposed changes and reforms that within a generation would shape the Army of the future. But world war-global war-was still to come. The second volume of this new edition will take up that story and extend it into the twenty-first century and the early years of the war on terrorism and includes an analysis of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq up to January 2009.
The Florida Historical Quarterly
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Author : Florida Historical Society
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
The Florida Historical Quarterly written by Florida Historical Society and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Florida categories.
Renegade Revolutionary
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Author : Phillip Papas
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2014-04-11
Renegade Revolutionary written by Phillip Papas and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Charles Lee, a former British army officer turned revolutionary, was one of the earliest advocates for American independence. Papas shows that few American revolutionaries shared Lee's radical political outlook, and his confidence that the American Revolution could be won primarily by the militia (or irregulars) rather than a centralized regular army.
To Keep And Bear Arms
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Author : Joyce Lee Malcolm
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
To Keep And Bear Arms written by Joyce Lee Malcolm and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
Entangled in the narrative are shifting notions of the connections between individual ownership of weapons and limited government, private weapons and social status, the citizen army and the professional army, and obedience and resistance, as well as ideas about civilian control of the sword and self-defense.
Debates Of The Legislative Assembly Of The Colony Of Natal
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Author : Natal (South Africa). Legislative Assembly
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1905
Debates Of The Legislative Assembly Of The Colony Of Natal written by Natal (South Africa). Legislative Assembly and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1905 with KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) categories.