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this book gives a good bit of detail surrounding the irish(catholic) involvement and dispels the myth that there no catholic irish involvement in the american revolution.but the author is weak in contextualising the evidence.he suggests that the majority of irish participation in the revolution was catholic which simply isnt true and makes wild assumptions on little evidence. still an important contribution to irish history but wished he had been more rigorous with his analysis.

"A Hidden Phase of American History" is an engaging 1919 classic that has been thoughtfully reprinted by Heritage Press.

Michael J. O'Brien delves into the "quality and volume of Irish participation in the struggle for American Independence."

The book is sensibly divided into three sections: Part One centers on the attitude of the Irish people towards the American colonists; Part Two shows the Irish involvement in the American Revolution; and Part Three focuses on the early Irish immigration into the American colonies.

The sizable Appendix lists--among other things--the names of the officers in the American Army and Navy Irish birth and descent.

This is a valuable historical resource.

It is interesting how this book reads in the post "Sorry" environment.

The election of the Rudd government has shown how Stuart MacIntyre's book is a fairly reasoned account of the nature of both the History Wars, and the Black Arm Band debate, as seen through the eyes of two historical heavyweights, Manning Clark and Geoffrey Blainey, both of whom are portrayed in a balanced and sympathetic fashion.

McIntryre's conclusion that the History Wars have led to the fact that the study of history has fallen into itas lowest ebb is hard to refute, although another explanation may be the fact that academic studies are supposed to have a narrow economic benefit.

Australia is experiencing an outbreak of History Wars. Over the last couple of decades it has become increasingly difficult to write history outside of a particular left/progressive mould without attracting abuse. This has produced a reaction from some challengers, such as Keith Windschuttle and others, who have called the progressives for serious bias or even outright falsification in their historical accounts.

Stuart Macintyre is an outstandingly progressive historian who joined the Communist Party in the 1960s. He is also one of the most senior and influential academic historians in Australia so his example, for better or worse, is likely to exert a profound influence in the profession.

In the first part of this book he explains that history is a discipline, a branch of knowledge that is governed by rules of evidence, so that historians create history but they are not free to invent or falsify it. Honesty and professional standards matter. He wrote that adherence to such standards is one of the issues at stake in the History Wars. (p 29-30)

This position on professionalism and the importance of respect for the truth is apparently spelled out to rebuke the conservative and revisionist History Warriors.

They obey only Rafferty's rules. They caricature their opponents and impugn their motives. They appeal to loyalty, hope, fear and prejudice. In their intimidation of the history profession, they act as bullies. In submitting history to the loyalty test, they debase it. Australians deserve more from their history than the History Wars.(p 222)

After the introductory chapters on the evolution of the profession in Australia and the craft of the trade there are some case histories of the "wars",some episodes when leading historians were under fire for outspoken public statements, the battle for control of the agenda for the Bicentenary celebrations, disputes over the extent of violence on the frontier during settlement of the continent, allegations of bias in the National Museum, and a chapter on the response by Prime Minister Howard and his colleagues to the historians who adopt an apologetic attitude to our history. Here Macintyre joins the contest in opposition to the so-called History Warriors and it is apparent that his partisan stance has damaged his respect for the facts. For example, Pauline Hanson, a populist politician who enjoyed a short season of success, did not condemn assistance to Aboriginals as claimed in this book (p 139), in fact she echoed the call from Martin Luther King for rewards or welfare on the basis of merit or need, not skin colour.

People who are closer to the action may know whether Stuart Macintyre, in his effort to depict himself as a fair dealing elder statesman, has failed in a genuine effort to transcend his own history, or whether he has adopted a pose. Presumable time will tell. In the meantime we can hope that his colleagues will follow his precepts rather than his practice. He has demanded high standards of honesty, civility and professionalism, so it will be an interesting exercise to judge his performance, and that of his progressive colleagues, by his own standards.

I read this book here in Brazil.This book is an outdated and anti-semithic book.Even having many true parts, this book "forgets" of many things, such as to example:
1-The Russian Revolution had german support.Whithout the "yes" from the Kaiser, no Russian Revolution.The author (Henry Ford) also "forgots" that thousands of rich jews(one of them Lenin's cousin) were murdered by communists.
2-Ford forgot the (non-jewish) american support for communists.He also "forgot" that then american presiden Woodrow Wilson became mad, during Lenin's government.
3-Then, american "jewish press" wasn't worse about subjects such as eugenics or racism in USA.The american public decided to buy jewish newspapers and magazines.They were popular.NYT was an egenics' newspaper, but not different from the general american press.
4-There wasn't any "jewsih conspiracy" to rule the World.

Even having some good parts, this book is biased, outdated and sometimes bigoted.

Brilliant, eye-opening, and inciteful.

Now an all-time classic.

Make sure your children and grandchildren have a personal copy.

The map is good for carrying around while driving since its small and compact. It shows the main roads but does not show mile markers which would be quite helpful on the island.

I bought this map on Amazon and it was a good basic starter map for our 10 day trip to Kauai. Ironically, it was the only map we saw available when we first arrived and in many cases what I paid on Amazon was much cheaper then the price for the same thing on Kauai itself! However, if you really want to travel around Kauai and are going to be looking for specific streets, you need something much more detailed then this map has to offer.

This journal, last published some years ago, has now been republished with the editor, Carla Kelly, removing, apparently, the philosophy and ramblings of Kurz. What remains is that portion of his journal that sticks to the subject of the Native Americans and the interaction of the "white man" in the 1800's. It is just one more piece to be added to the mosaic of the American West in the Upper Missouri. As diaries go, it's quite bland; it's simply a day-by-day description of life that has become fairly familiar through other books covering the same time and place, particularly Denig's "Five Tribes of the Upper Missouri." If you have read Denig's, Kurz's journal does not add much. However, Kurz does provide the romantic, softer, more idealistic views to counter the rougher, businesslike realities Denig had to face. The editor, Carla Kelly, would do well to publish a sequel to this journal in the form of a book with chapters of the various subjects Kurz spoke to, such as Indian women, his challenges with painting in the "wild West," the use of tobacco, Indian culture, etc. The only problem is that most of this is now well documented and she would have to be a very good writer to attract enough interest to make the effort worthwhile.

Carla Kelly has done a fine job of editing this classic diary (first published by the Smithsonian in 1937) by highlighting Kurz's commentary on the Upper Missouri fur trade rather than his ruminations on art and thus making it feasible for a university press to issue an abridged version.

Kurz came to the Upper Missouri as romantic, a believer in the superiority of wilderness and the noble savage over Euro-American cities and civilization. While Kurz never specifically repudiates this view, the notion fades from the journal during his comparatively brief stay in what today is western North Dakota. Certainly there is no romanticism in Kurz's description of the fur traders and their Indian clients. No modern author could publish with a university press such a meticulous portrait of native Americans as lazy, violent, thievish, superstitious, and abusers of their women and children. That's one advantage of Kurz: you can avoid political correctness and read the account of someone who was there.

Kelly has also provided a useful index and 93 plates of Kurz's drawings. Kurz was a careful observer but not a great artist. In fact, if Kurz's Indian subjects--especially the women--were decked out in European clothing and hair styles, most of them would look right at home in his native Bern.

The book is an index of classes and procedures that will be class taught not a workbook or text.

This is a reprint of the United States Air Force manual number AF116-1202 dated 3 May 2001.

This is the manual used for training their pararescue jumpers. As such it covers every aspect of the job from jumping out of the airplace (static line or freefall), how to let yourself down if you are caught in a tree, and what to do once you get down to the ground (or water). It includes operations in both peacetime and in the combat zone.

As you would expect from an official document written by the Air Force, it does not the most exciting style in the world. But you can rest assured that it is correct in the way it defines Air Force policy. I found myself looking at the book, deciding not to buy it, and then continuing to think about it as I wandered around the book store. I finally had to give up and go back to get it. I'm glad that I did. I don't expect to ever be a pararescue jumper, and I certainly hope that I never need their services. But I found the book to be quite interesting reading.

Some of their techniques, like searching underwater make excellent sense once you see what their procedures are. That's just one of many things that I hadn't thought about at all that I found interesting in the book. It's not my area of work, but I'm glad that someone has thought this out.

The first thing about this study is that it is not anthroppology or ethnography. It is basically literary (and some artistic) criticism, very heavy on the polemics, and assumes the reader is familiar with a number of somewhat arcane publications and theories. There are not very many "facts" to whet the appetite and they are always preceeded by an onslaught of verbiage which presumes the reader already knows those facts. I found myself forced many times to reread twice or three times some paragraphs which could have been written much more clearly. The entire book could probably be reduced to ten paragraphs of plain English.

The major argument is that the whole "mythology" of the Western view of the libidinous south seas, beginning in the late 18th century, was steeped in a kind forced heterosexuality which disguised a number of underlying homoerotic themes.

I have no problem with this idea. It seems to me obvious on its face both because all the societies encountered by the early Pacific explorers would certainly be called "sex (or sexuality) positive" cultures, and also because the encounters occured between islanders and European sailors, all of who were cetainly aware of, and often experienced in, homoerotic encounters. However, in fairness, I should point out that Wallace is less concerned with the "reality" of Pacific sexuality, as with it representation in the West. And in that representation she finds covert (to her credit she does not used "repressed") homoerotic themes.

Well, maybe. But she goes on to suggest that the Western encounter with Pacific cultures was a major catlyst which resulted in changes in sexual ideas and attitudes in the late 19th and 20th century -- namely the change from sexual acts per se to sexual identities and kinds of persons.

There are a number of potentially fun examples -- obscured by the dense prose--which stretch the imagination. For example, Gauguin's celebrated nudes, which give some prominence to female backsides, is given as an example of this subliminal homoeroticism, reinfored by Gauguin's own writings in which he relates an androgenous erotic fantasy which he experienced while following upon a handome Tahitian youth in the forest.
She also goes on a bit about Capt.William Bligh, whose latent homosexuality may have very indirecly led to the mutiny, his presumed cathexis of Fletcher Christian, and for good measure a few remarks about Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins.

But as I say this is literary criticism, where metaphoric and metynomic associations are taken for historical reality.

Lee Wallace interprets a wealth of contemporary pacific cultural and literary criticism and independent research and analysis to produce a lucid yet pithy work that employs the ground-breaking lens of sexual identity to provide a new dimension to our understanding of the colonisation of the Pacific and the associated consequences for both European and Pacific cultural institutions and traditions.

Before my recent dive trip to Fiji I looked for a good fish ID book for the area (one with photos, not paintings) and came up short. It doesn't seem like anyone has done a comprehensive reference for this area comparable to Humann's works on the Caribbean.

However, I did find Paddy Ryan's fine volume in the lending library at the resort where I was staying. To my surprise, I find it to be much more than the typical, superficial "snorkeler's guide." It's a small but beautifully produced volume with excellent photography and a well-written text. It's a good balance of photos to help identify the most common South Pacific reef fish combined with informative text on the behavior and biology of reef fish, other vertebrates, and invertebrates.

I didn't buy a copy when I had a chance in a local shop, and I regretted it on the long flight home. I'm buying my personal copy as soon as I finish writing this. Take my word for it, for snorkelers, novice divers! , or serious divers, this is money well spent!

Great book if you are doing a reef study and need to identify the correct names for all the creaters. Great photo's and helpful hints on purchasing equipment, but for the average weekend or resort snorkeller it can get boring to read. However, the book is worth having.

It has become almost trite to suggest that the most unlikely of air power applications-one that does not kill people and break things-proved decisive in defeating the Soviet Union in the first major contest of the Cold War, but it is true. The victorious Allies divided Germany and Berlin into four zones in 1945, one each for France, Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union. As Soviet-American relations deteriorated during 1946 and 1947, the jointly occupied Berlin, located deep inside the Soviet zone, began to be the focus of confrontation between the two ideologies. When the Soviets blockaded the land routes to Berlin from the West in 1948 the Allies responded with a massive airlift that both relieved a surrounded and starving city and avoided direct conflict with the Red Army. It represented a truly decisive use of what I like to call "constructive air power."

Roger G. Miller's "To Save a City" seeks to tell the story of this airlift, both its geopolitical and operational elements, in a spare volume that represents an important up-to-date contribution to the subject. A civilian historian with the U.S. Air Force History and Museums Program, Miller draws on official Air Force files, recently declassified documents from the National Archives, Soviet documents released since the end of the Cold War, and interviews with airlift veterans to reconstruct the story of this important Cold War confrontation. The result is a compelling story well told. While other historians have laid out the major parameters of this subject before, this work is a worthy synthesis of those earlier studies and offers a depth of effort not previously offered.

Miller begins by discussing the political crisis that led to the airlift. He quickly moves on to the hasty organization of the operation to resupply the city by a small number of antiquated cargo airplanes. This soon evolved into an intricate bridge of modern transports that flowed in and out of Berlin through narrow air corridors on a precise schedule regardless of weather or other conditions. In the slang of the present, this 24/7/365 operation delivered everything from food and medicine to coal and equipment to a besieged Berlin. It allowed airlift forces to hone to a fine edge their doctrine and operational procedures.

Miller observes that the Berlin Airlift served to codify the flexibility of airlift as an instrument of national will. If one believes that the military exists as tools to help further the national defense and diplomatic objectives of the nation they serve then the more flexible the tool the more useful it becomes. Fighters and bombers are precise tools useful in only a limited number of circumstances, essentially that involving combat. Military airlift can be used in every conceivable scenario across the spectrum of international relations. A unique national resource, the Berlin Airlift demonstrated its significance.

Roger Miller notes that American allies around the world regarded the airlift as a triumph of will, and it solidified the western position in the early Cold War era. The size and extent of the airlift, the requirement for close coordination, and the resourcefulness of allied leadership also impressed the Soviet Union. The airlift affected Air Force doctrine as well; demonstrating that virtually any amount of cargo could be moved anywhere in the world with little concern for geography or weather. It provided valuable experience in operational techniques, air traffic control, and in aircraft maintenance and reconditioning. Finally, as already stated, the Berlin Airlift proved for the first time what has been confirmed many times since: airlift is a more flexible tool for executing national policy than either fighter or bomber aircraft.

Miller's study of the Berlin Airlift is a standard, chronological examination of one of the most famous episodes of the Cold War. However, the author makes virtually no use whatsoever of Russian-language sources from Soviet archives -- a significant omission given the relative availability of Communist-era records opened since the collapse of the USSR. Students and scholars alike will have to wait for a more balanced account of the operation...

There is something to be said of this book. It is nowhere NEAR the complete edition (There are more versions of this than I can count, almost all are edited and shortened considerably).

"The evil Jew" being responsible or not, take the "jew" out of it, and you'll see this book of the supposed meeting is actually a book of predictions that has come true in every respect.

If nothing else, it is a 95% accurate representation of today's western society...a godless, obsessed with entertainment, mindless, thoughtless, dumbed-down people that have another class of people over them. They have no hope, but are so dumb that they pay for their own destruction - socially, economically, intellectually.

Even if the book is "fake" (it IS a book, isnt it? How can it be fake? Is it invisible?) everything in it has come true.

Everyone loves a conspiracy (just look at all the college-aged morons that hate President Bush so much and make up stories about 9/11 and so on), so I'll give them that...but why do some jews admit to these things, like Arthur Koestler ("The Thirteenth Tribe" jewish author). Rabbi Smeersen (sp.?) held this exact meeting true to the 100-year interval in the 1980s(?).

I'm gonna be flamed for this, because I don't agree with all the Amazon Member Censor Spammers, whom follow around reviews by people like me and whine on every reply :). Flame on!

First, I must commend Amazon for making this book available for purchase. I don't know too many other places I would have been able to acquire it. It's nice to see that bookstores are willing to offer any kind of work regardless of their controversial nature. However, I will say that I'm fairly surprised that this is the version that's being offered and kind of explains the statement Amazon issued about offering this particular text.

I am aware that this text has been proven to be a fraud, but in the actual printing of it I was expecting that to be definitively laid out for the reader. Unfortunately the authors and translators presenting the text appear to believe it. So, for those historically inclined, you may want to seek out some other supplementary texts that go into the history and the hoax of the document itself. You can't trust this version at face value because of the way it's presented. Books like "The Lie that Wouldn't Die" have more background on the history of "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion". I have not read that text yet, but I do have it, so all in good time. There are multiple books published on the lie itself, that book is merely one that I happen to own. I will probably acquire various versions and review them individually, when I find the best copy I will update this review and present it here. Either way, from some other reviews I see, there are still people that support this so the question as to whether this is a hoax or not appears to still be out there for some people.

I first heard about this book when I was reading "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" because they had mentioned it originated in medieval times in Russia. Unfortunately reading this book didn't really back up that claim, so I will have to find that elsewhere in my research. The translator of this text reports that it was first published in 1897 in Russia from someone's private collection to be distributed amongst friends, but nothing about how it ended up in his private collection. So this global Jewish conspiracy concept wasn't widely published at first. After that more copies were published in the early 1900's that had wider distribution. The translator, Marsden, opens the book with quotes from well respected men, such as Henry Ford from 1921 saying that he thought the Protocol's fit the world. So, essentially adding weight to the assumption these "Protocols" were actually correct because learned and successful men acknowledged them.

The real pinnacle of this books renown was probably culminated when Hitler became influenced by it. He even references the book in "Mein Kampf" and later he also references Henry Ford as one of the few free men in the United States. I have no doubt it's because Hitler thought he supported the book. In fact a lot of people supported this as truth before it was proven to be a hoax. Of course there are still groups of people who say this is all factually true, but you get that with any conspiracy theory. I, on the other hand, will remain skeptical unless presented with definitive and hard evidence. A single "supposed" conversation of some elite Jews at the turn of the 20th century is not enough to persuade me.

Okay, on to the text itself. This is what you can term a "perfect conspiracy". In the sense that whatever you use it for it can support your beliefs. For example, if I were to say Hitler was actually in the employ of the Jews and only supporting them through his actions, I would be correct and supported by this document. If you read Protocol XII section 3, at the end it says "I beg you to note that among those making attacks upon us will also be organs established by us..." I could cry conspiracy of World War II to reestablish an Israeli state using this book. Just as you can use the allied response in the war to support the accuracy of this book. Usually when conspiracies enter this caliber something is quite wrong, any logical outlook should tell you that.

One thing that sort of drives me crazy about some of the accusations in this book and supported by others is the conspiracy theory that our financial institutions are controlled by the Jews. This seriously blows me away because when you look at banking and financial institutions there aren't enough that deem it as full global control. Goldman Sachs has roots in Jewish founding, but does J.P. Morgan? Not at all, J.P. Morgan's fortune was rooted through a man named George Peabody who has roots in a Puritan family. Last time I checked they were Christian. Likewise Bank of America has no tracings. I'd venture to say State Street Corporation doesn't have any, but I can't find out who founded that bank. And how about Softbank from Japan? Rothschild, one of the more famous financial institutions does have Jewish roots, but that doesn't mean a bank like BNP Paribas does. Or how about Icici Bank, the largest in India? The accusations just don't stack up. However, some might say the people were probably members of the Masons, which this book does list as one of their controlling elements. Unfortunately, I don't think it lends that much credence to the conspiracy because there are about a thousand other conspiracies involving the Masons that have nothing to do with this Jewish conspiracy as well.

Another part of this book that I found fairly annoying is that it looks like someone went in and added newer comments into the book. Like after a particular protocol section is being discussed we'll see a notation in parenthesis, probably the most annoying and disruptive way to add these notes, but they use these as proof of actions in the world. Specifically they are generated towards the United States as proof of that government under Zions control, no doubt. You'll see great comments like "Now we know the purpose of the Federal Reserve Bank Corporation". This note was found in a particular protocol about the control of money supply. I must confess that it doesn't appear this person really knows the history of the financial systems in the United States. One of the main reasons the Federal Reserve came about was because it wanted to alleviate any problems of there being a run on the banks like what happened in the Great Depression. Also it had to have special functions as we moved away from the Gold Standard. The commenter would have had more weight if he had placed this comment after the section on creating financial strife in the world. I have a very lengthy book on the functions of the Fed Reserve called "Secrets of the Temple" and I hope to learn more about its inner workings there. This financial function is also involved in many other conspiracy theories, but it holds far more weight when you talk about interest rate control and reactions to inflation. But this works in contradiction to the Protocols at times, because it states that Gold will be the method they control the world finances. The governments moving away from a gold standard must have put a little kink into that especially since Gold prices crashed in the 1980's and are just rising in the year 2000. Say what you want about this conspiracy theory, but it just doesn't hold water all the way through. Anyway, I found the added conspiratorial commentary fairly annoying. There's even one that states it was the reason JFK was assassinated. While I think there is some serious merit to the second gunman hypothesis, I really don't think the Jews were completely behind that.

On a historical level I definitely enjoyed reading this book and think it definitely has some serious merit for anyone interested in it. However, I would urge a better version, with more historical proof that this is not reality. Like all conspiracies some points fit the mold, but just because `A' and `B' go in conjunction doesn't always lead you to solution `F' with nothing in between. However, that's how most conspiracy theories work, there's a lot of faith you have to put into them because there is no supporting evidence, there are only assumptions and loose patterns to put the puzzle together. I sort of bear the tenet that people can believe whatever they want, but under that line you need to be able to put up with your beliefs being scrutinized by others. Needless to say this book did not turn me into a believer by the end.

Debate till your blue in the face if you want to whether its forgery or not or debate whether you can point fingers at and blame all the worlds ills on the Jews, the Masons, the Illuminati, the bankers, the British and other European Royal families, multi-national corporations, blah, blah, blah, etc. I just look at this as fairly accurate depiction of what the social/economic/political engineers have done and are doing since it was published. As far as entertainment value I would liken reading the Protocols to watching paint dry, VERY boring, but you should still probably read this if your researching the globalist/new world order conspiracy.

The book "Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion" is a very influential book in my life. I do not hate Jews, but being a follower of Christ, I know the chosen ones are the ones who simply love the Lord with all their heart, mind, body and spirit; and those who have kept true to Him. I do believe it is the Bible of Satan with very specific protocols. While God qualifies the called (ie Moses was an educated person under Egypt's system, but was slow to talk, the Lord gave him a helper to speak for him to Pharaoh), Satan calls the qualified (thus the instructions to world view business leaders).

I purchased the book just after high school to follow a rumor that the Jews are the root of all American problems. How is this possible? How can one people be so oppressive to a nation of peoples of different cultures? Simple, following our Christian teachings, these people are held in noble regard (being direct decedents of those who spoke to the Lord in person). What a great honor! But it also grants them "diplomatic immunity" in the hearts of American Christians.

I do not believe the Jews are the root of our problem. The root of our problem is taking things for face value and not being critical of information placed in front of us by people whose motivations are secret. I believe there is a game to establish a world rule and to attempt the end of the Law of the Lord; I just do not believe it's them. It even states it in the "Protocols" how the majority of Jews do not know this plot exists and they too, at times, must be sacrificed for the "greater good established by evil means."

We, Americans, live with a perpetual need to correct what is considered wrong or unjust leading to extreme actions that are far from well-thought out. This book is an example of that. I did not hate the Jews before or after I read the "Protocols," but it did allow me to examine the psyche of devious people with a chip on their shoulder and I do not refer to the Jew as a devious people, I stipulate, they know nothing of this plot.

In conclusion, be critical. There is no excuse to be ignorant when we have the world of knowledge at our fingertips. Jews may be kings of their respective traits, just like the network of Hindu motel owners in the USA, but this is a free country. The book is a great resource for reference to modern day business practices, but beyond that in having a life changing moment after you read a few portions of the book may be also an extreme.

Afterthought: why is it that I, being at the bottom of the social ladder, can reason these things?

"The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" is racist and anti-semitic to its black core. Conceived and executed over a hundred years ago by the Czarist secret police, it purports to spell out a secret Jewish plan for world domination. The language is laughably inept. Despite the fact that it has been demonstrated to be fraudulent beyond a reasonable doubt, beyond all doubt, to a moral certainty, this pernicious book has taken on a life of its own even in the face of the condemnation of decent people worldwide. It is a short leap from believing the tripe in "Protocols" to believing that the Holocaust never happened.