The World Turned Upside Down: The American Victory in the War of Independence, edited by John FerlingThe World Turned Upside Down: The American Victory in the War of Independence, edited by John Ferling. Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 1988. x, 250 pp. $39.95 U.S.

1990 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-141
Author(s):  
W.G. Godfrey
Keyword(s):  
War Of Independence ◽  
The World

The Untold and Alternate Story of the Indian Subcontinent's War of Independence

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-61
Author(s):  
Tahseen Ali
Keyword(s):  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
War Of Independence ◽  
Foreign Occupation ◽  
The World ◽  
Guiding Principles ◽  
Jawaharlal Nehru

AbstractWhen the Indian subcontinent became independent in August 1947, it marked the end of the foreign occupation of the largest country in the world. Renowned for his part in that long struggle for independence was the famous Mahatma ('Great-souled one') Mohandas K. Gandhi, the proponent of non-violence, and his western-educated disciple, Jawaharlal Nehru. Gandhi was said to have charmed the British with his strength and simplicity and compel them into withdrawing from the subcontinent. Yet against the background of Gandhi's famous struggle whispers of another movement were heard, complete with its own leaders and its own vision on the fight for freedom. This paper takes a closer look at that struggle, and its efficacy in the quest for Indian independence. What were its goals and its guiding principles? How did it compare with Gandhi's struggle? This is the untold and alternate story of the Indian subcontinent's war of independence, and the men and women whose sacrifices created an immortal saga of patriotism.

Australian/Cairns Group Perspective: Southern Agriculture and the World Economy: The Multilateral Trade Negotiations

1988 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-71
Author(s):  
David Shires
Keyword(s):  
New Orleans ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Trade Negotiations ◽  
Multilateral Trade ◽  
War Of Independence ◽  
Penal Colonies ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

Last week was Australia's 200th birthday. When the rebels in America won what they called their war of independence, Britain lost her penal colonies in the Carolinas and looked around for replacements. The first colonial fleet arrived in Australia on January 26,1788, and included, along with 700 convicts, 44 sheep and 6 cattle. If Britain had defeated her American colonists, then the history of both Australia and Louisiana would likely have been very different. The French flag might be flying today over both Sydney and New Orleans.

The Brexitologic of Competitiveness

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (42) ◽  
pp. 147-171
Author(s):  
Denisa Čiderová ◽  
Dubravka Kovačević ◽  
Jozef Čerňák
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Adam Smith ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Global Competitiveness ◽  
War Of Independence ◽  
American Colonies ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Competitiveness Index ◽  
Wealth Of Nations ◽  
Boston Tea Party

Abstract Adam Smith finalised his magnum opus An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations between 1773 (Boston Tea Party) and 1776 (Declaration of Independence), and in its final paragraph Britain should “endeavour to accommodate her future views and designs to the real mediocrity of her circumstances”. The Wealth of Nations was “aimed to influence British MPs [Members of Parliament] to support a peaceful resolution to the American colonies’ War of Independence”, A. Smith “urged legislators to awaken from the “golden dream” of empire and avoid “a long, expensive and ruinous war”“, and “rejection of the protectionist Corn Laws in favour of opening up to the world economy marked the start of an era of globalization which contributed to Britain’s prosperity”, as Yueh (2019, p. 16f) puts it. Over the years, industrialization brought about by the Industrial Revolution has been challenged by deindustrialization, globalization by deglobalization. So with the “Brexit issue” at stake, what has been the “Brexitologic of Competitiveness”? In an earlier relevant series of analyses published by Čiderová et al. between 2012-2014 our focus was on the Global Competitiveness Index (alias the GCI by the World Economic Forum) in a spectrum of territorial and temporal perspectives related to the European Union. Now, in this follow-up comparative study zooming out to globalization and zooming in to competitiveness, our focus is streamlined to the “openended Brexit issue” on the background of updates of the GCI (alias GCI 4.0) and the KOF Globalisation Index (the latter by ETH Zürich).

The World Turned Upside Down: The American Victory in the War of Independence.

1990 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 496
Author(s):  
Robert M. Barrow ◽  
John Ferling
Keyword(s):  
War Of Independence ◽  
The World

The World Turned Upside Down: The American Victory in the War of Independence.

1990 ◽  
Vol 77 (2) ◽  
pp. 652
Author(s):  
Victor D. Brooks ◽  
John Ferling
Keyword(s):  
War Of Independence ◽  
The World

Kovner vs. Kovner: “A Parting from the South” vs. “Combat Page”

AJS Review ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-242
Author(s):  
Reuven Shoham
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Long Poem ◽  
World War ◽  
The South ◽  
Hebrew Poetry ◽  
War Of Independence ◽  
The World ◽  
Modern Hebrew ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Freedom Fighter

The poet Abba Kovner was a partisan and freedom fighter during World War II (1942–1945), made aliyah in 1945, and published his first long poem, ‘Ad lo ’or (“Until There Was No Light”), in 1947. At the outbreak of the Israeli War of Independence he fought on the Egyptian front (1947–48), serving as a cultural officer, or politruk in the Giv'ati Brigade. Preda me-ha-darom (“A Parting from the South”), his second long poem and one of the pivotal works by a modern Hebrew poet, was written against the background of the War of Independence. However, critics have not yet been able to find a fitting place for it in the canon of Hebrew poetry and culture, although several serious attempts have been made. The present study does not refer to every aspect of this complex poem but focuses on one particular point. I contend that “A Parting from the South” implies an attempt by the visionary speaker of the poem to compel the young country, soon after the war, to part from the world of death, from cultic memories of the dead and guilt feelings toward them (the dead in the 1948 war in Israel and the dead in the ghettos of Nazi Europe in World War II). Abba Kovner tries to detach himself, and his readers, from death, to liberate them from the old perspectives.

Maritime Intercourse and the Commercial Origins of the Alien Tort Statute

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 395-419
Author(s):  
Edward J. Kolla
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Legal History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
War Of Independence ◽  
Trade Law ◽  
Law Of Nations ◽  
The World ◽  
Economic Relationship ◽  
Alien Tort Statute

The Alien Tort Statute (ats) is one of the greatest enigmas of American legal history. Enacted in 1789, it was little used until the late 1970s, when foreigners notably began seeking compensation under its terms for human rights abuses committed around the world. Recently, the us Supreme Court seemed to put an end to this practice – but the ats is still of interest to historians. After the American War of Independence, Great Britain and the United States maintained a robust trade and close economic relationship. Many Americans saw the perpetuation of these ties as essential to the new republic’s prosperity. The ats helped frame the United States’ mercantile associations in terms of customary maritime and trade law; in particular, evidence suggests it aimed to provide a mechanism in us courts for the remedy of commercial disputes, especially with Americans’ former imperial overlord, in accordance with the contemporary law of nations.

Thomas Paine—Democrat

1943 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 244-262
Author(s):  
Howard Penniman
Keyword(s):  
Equal Opportunity ◽  
Thomas Paine ◽  
War Of Independence ◽  
The World ◽  
Push Forward ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Many

These may be “the times that try men's souls,” as President Roosevelt recently told the nation, but they may also be the times when free and courageous men may push forward toward the better society of which Thomas Paine dreamed when he pleaded with the colonists for unity in the cause of freedom. When Paine first wrote those words 165 years ago, America had an opportunity to break away from the tyranny of Europe. But Paine was not content to win a war of independence for America alone. Like many today, he talked of world revolution aimed at the tyranny of the few over the many. He, too, argued that men—all men—should have an equal opportunity to shape their own destinies and the destiny of the world in which they found themselves. In an era when men are fighting to preserve and extend a heritage of freedom, it would be well to reëxamine the ideas of Paine, whose writings inspired men of his day in America, in England, and in France to work and to die that they might be free.

scholarly journals WHIGS AGAINST TORIES: THE DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICAN DRAMA

2020 ◽  
Vol X (32) ◽  
pp. 65-83
Author(s):  
Violeta Janjatovic
Keyword(s):  
American Revolution ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Active Part ◽  
American Drama ◽  
War Of Independence ◽  
American Colonies ◽  
The World ◽  
Revolutionary Period

The overwhelming sarcasm and the taunting satire are certainly the feelings that accompanied the American revolutionary period. Approaching both the struggle for independence and the American Revolution, it is discovered that the colonists' sense of laughing and ridiculousness became more pronounced and readier in recognizing the weakness of its enemy and presenting it to the world through the biting laughter of satires. Many satires of this character did not suddenly appear. Their appearance leads to a period many years before the outbreak of the War of Independence and the famous Bacon Rebellion in 1676. Nevertheless, what cannot be denied is that by the approach of 1776, dramatic creativity started its rapid development. Immediately after the first war blow, satires began to be published in nearly every newspaper in the American colonies. American dramatists took an active part in the struggle for independence. At first, the potential, and later, an inevitable revolution made dramatists from the ranks of patriots and loyalists define themselves, their opponents, and the nature of the conflict itself in a way that remains intriguing and powerful over two hundred years later

scholarly journals The Quest for Israeli Identity: the Rise and Decline of the Sabra Myth

2021 ◽  
pp. 79-84
Author(s):  
V.P. Rumyantsev
Keyword(s):  
Role Model ◽  
World Community ◽  
War Of Independence ◽  
Self Defense ◽  
The World ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Jewish Youth ◽  
Second World

This article analyzes an attempt to construct a new identity for Jews born on the territory of the Mandatory Palestine, the so-called Sabras, between the First and Second World Wars. The characteristic features of this identity included the deliberate brutality, the combination of peasant labor with the skills of armed self-defense, collectivism and a conscious break with the diaspora past. The external attributes of the sabras were the wearing of simple but comfortable clothes of the inhabitants of the kibbutzim and the cultivation of Hebrew. Sabras become a role model for Jewish youth who arrived in Israel and those who were already born here. The attractiveness of the sabra’s image was enhanced through advertising posters, cinematography, and literature. This model of identity is of interest as an attempt to return to the origins of Hebrew history, as well as to raise a generation of “new Jews” devoid of any shortcomings that complicated the life of Jews in exile. The artificiality of this model and its isolation from Israeli realities were among the main reasons that led to the collapse of the myth of the super-sabra. At the same time, this myth laid the foundations for a different perception of the Jews both by themselves and by the world community, contributing to the victory of Israel in the war of independence.

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