Our Kind Of War

Ainslie, Whitelaw, britischer Chirurg (1767-1837). Eigenh. Brief mit U. ("Whitelaw Ainslie"). Cairnbank near Dunse (Berwickshire), 3. XI. 1833.
Amüsanter, ausführlicher Brief an John Kenyon (1784-1856), St. Peter's College, Cambridge: "You should have had an earlier reply to your kind letter, but the fact is, I have been moving about, and it and its much prized accompaniment only reached me a few days ago; accept my best thanks, my good friend, for both; the latter has not only surprised but delighted me. I say, surprised, because I did not know you had a single acre of land on Parnassus, & behold you turn out to be a rich proprietor. To be serious I have read your Poem with great pleasure, not only because it possesses much Poetic merit, but because it is something new 'in his temporibus' and carries one back to the days of Pope, and other 'Reasoners in Rhyme' - 'When sense to fancy near, like light and shade / Each chasing each, their due succession made.' Poetry must at all times be much under the influence of imagination, but of late years it has been too much so, and that is one powerful cause why it has, as an object of literature, got a good deal into the background. But let us hope that under your instrumentality, the Muses may be wooed in a different strain, from that in which they have lately been sought [...] It is commonly said that at a certain age the Nine begin to look cool on their 'old worshipers', and that they do not like grey-headed old fellows in fact: under this impression it was that I lately took a somewhat formal leave of them, in an address which you shall see when we next meet. Whether they will have anything more to do with me, I know not; thus much I do know, that several of them are rank Quoquets - as for Thalaia, I believe her to be no better than she should be: but pray do not you tell her so, next time you meet as I should not like her to cut me, altogether, bad as she is. Mrs. Ainslie and myself have for a short time been at this place in Berwickshire, it belongs to my brother, and is in the heart of a fine shooting, hunting, and fishing country, but these are amusements I now partake of with great moderation, and do not think I shall like Somerville write a Chase, or like Sir Humphrey Davy, give to the world a work on Salmon fishing. Our weather gets bleak, and I have taken a strange fancy to an 'easy' chair not far from the fire side, and which gives me the light at my back, in the most agreeable manner you can imagine. We prepare as usual wintering in Edinburgh, and I think it probable that I may take a run up to London in the Spring [...]". - Sir Whitelaw Ainslie war Chirurg bei der East India Company und diente 27 Jahre in Indien. 1813 veröffentlichte er sein Hauptwerk, "Materia medica of Hindustan", welches er 1826 zu den zweibändigen "Materia Indica" erweiterte. Ainslie lieferte damit die erste englische Monographie über indische Medizin. Mit seiner Bemerkung über die unbeständige Muse Thalia spielt er auf seine eigenen früheren dramatischen Versuche an. - Der Philologe Kenyon, der schon jahrelang als Lyriker dilettiert hatte, trat 1838 mit seinen "Poems: for the most part occasional" ans Licht der Öffentlichkeit. Die Sammlung wurde als Dichtung im klassischen Geiste Popes oder Cowpers von der Kritik wohlwollend aufgenommen. Die im Brief zitierten Verse stammen aus dem "Rhymed plea for tolerance In two dialogues", welches Kenyon 1839 veröffentlichte.

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Lieber, Francis: Steve Sheppard (new I: Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States... 2005

Lieber, Francis. Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1898. 51 pp. [With] Lieber, Francis. Guerilla Parties Considered with Reference to the Laws and Usages of War. New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1862. 22 pp. With a new introduction by Steve Sheppard, William Enfield Professor of Law, University of Arkansas School of Law. Reprinted 2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584775263. Cloth. Hardcover. As new, a fine copy. * A title in the Lawbook Exchange series Foundations of the Laws of War, General Editor Joseph Perkovich. Known officially as General Orders No. 100, Lieber's code (1863) was the first of its kind. The foundation of the modern international law of war, it served as the model for several European military codes and was an important source for the second and fourth Hague Conventions (1899, 1907). It was an authority during the Nuremberg and Tokyo war crime trials. Its use by the framers of the 1998 Rome Treaty, which established the International Criminal Court, demonstrates its lasting value in our time. Indeed, with only a handful of modifications it is used by the U.S. Military today. This edition, printed by the Adjutant General for use in the Spanish-American War, is unchanged from the original. It is enhanced by Professor Sheppard's illuminating introductory essay and the addition of Lieber's Guerrilla Parties Considered with Reference to the Laws and Usages of War (1862), which contains several ideas that were used in the Code.

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Roberto Mangabeira,Unger: Self Awakened Pragmatism Unbound, Harvard University Press, November 2009 ISBN: 0674034961
In what kind of world and for what kind of thought is time real, history open, and novelty possible In what kind of world and for what kind of thought does it make sense for a human being to look for trouble rather than to stay out of trouble In this long-awaited work of general philosophy, Roberto Mangabeira Unger proposes a radical reorientation of established ideas about nature, mind, society, politics, and religion. He shows how we have to change our beliefs if we are to succeed in doing justice to our most distinctive contemporary experiences, discoveries, and ideals.The Self Awakened mobilizes the resources of several philosophical traditions, and develops the unrecognized revolutionary implications of the most influential of these traditions today--pragmatism. Avoiding technical jargon and needless complication, this book makes a case for philosophy as the supreme activity of the intellect at war, insisting on its power to deal with what matters most.

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Howard J.,Wiarda: Divided America on the World Stage Broken Government and Foreign Policy, Transatlantic Publishers, Juli 2010 ISBN: 1597972932
This title emphasizes the global impact of American partisan divisions. It examines various divisions within American society, from red states and blue states to the bureaucratic divisions of our foreign policy apparatus. It brings an insider's perspective to illuminate the roles played by Washington think tanks and D.C. social life in American foreign policy. American foreign policy is in severe crisis. The system and process are not working as they should. On one side we are beset by a seemingly uninformed policy, on the other by paralysis and gridlock. The sense is widespread that the American system of government is broken. It is tempting to attribute our present foreign policy malaise to a single cause, such as Congress, the president, or the Iraq War. All of these bear some responsibility, but Howard J. Wiarda argues that the crisis goes far deeper. The problem derives from the kind of society we have become over a forty-year period: more divided, fragmented, and dysfunctional. It is a social, economic, and cultural divide as well as a political one. What are the causes of these deep divisions and of the policymaking paralysis that they produce Wiarda seeks answers by exploring the fragmentation of American political culture, foreign policy differences between the two major political parties, relations among the large foreign policy bureaucracies, and executive-legislative interactions. He also emphasizes the media's role in polarizing the debate, the foreign policy role of Washington's think tanks, and how social life in the nation's capital both reflects and reinforces preexisting divisions. This book will appeal to students and scholars of foreign policy, political science, and international affairs, as well as anyone interested in improving the American government.

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