Forewarned of Prussia's intention to declare war on France, Napoleon decided to strike first with a bold advance from Wurzburg into Saxony. On 14 October the double battle was fought: Napoleon with 96,000 men and 120 guns engaged and heavily defeated Prince Hohenlohe and General Ruchel. The decisive engagement was fought further north where Marshal Davout with 27,000 men and 40 guns routed the main Prussian army under Frederick William IV and the Duke of Brunswick. This title examines these two battles, Jena and Auerstadt in detail, showing clearly the swiftness with which Napoleon dealt Prussia's military machine a severe blow.

Gravelotte-St-Privat was probably the hardest fought of all the battles of the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871). Attacked by superior Prussian forces from both the First and Second armies, Marshal Bazaine's French Army of the Rhine inflicted heavy casualties on the advancing Prussian's before finally being forced to retreat into the fortress city of Metz. Unable to break out and with no hope of relief Bazaine's army grimly held on to the end of the war. French failure at Gravelotte-St-Privat led directly to their final defeat at Sedan, the collapse of Napoleon III's regime and the proclamation of the German Empire.

Widely regarded as one of the most successful pieces of modern legislation, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 has transformed the nature of minority participation and representation in the United States. But with success came controversy as some scholars claim the Act has outlived its usefulness or been subverted in its aim. This volume brings together leading scholars to offer a twenty-five year perspective on the consequences of this landmark act.The Fifteenth Amendment, ratified in 1870, stated that the right of U.S. citizens to vote 'shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or condition of previous servitude.' The South, however, virtually ignored this right, disfranchising blacks through violence, intimidation, literacy tests, and poll taxes. The primary purpose of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was to break down these barriers to minority voting.Beginning with chapters covering the key provisions of the Act, the book discusses the way the Act has transformed American politics and looks at the role played by major civil rights groups in lobbying for extensions and amendments to it and in insuring that its provisions would be enforced.

Chandler ci racconta la storia di Napoleone uomo e insieme quella di Napoleone generale, permettendoci di penetrare nei più riposti ingranaggi della complessa ed enorme macchina militare che seppe mettere in ginocchio l'Europa e di conoscere la struttura, l'armamento, le personalità dei capi: Massena, Berthier, Davout, Ney, Murat, Lannes. Questo saggio non si limita a descrivere lo svolgimento delle battaglie, ma ci coinvolge con antefatti e spiegazioni nella preparazione politica e diplomatica delle varie campagne e soprattutto mette in luce gli aspetti autentici del carattere di Napoleone, al di là del personaggio mitizzato dalla Storia, ripercorrendone la vita: dai tempi dell'oscuro servizio nell'esercito regio a Valence, alle campagne d'Italia, dove il giovanissimo generale è alla testa di una pittoresca e invincibile 'canaglia in armi'; a Ulm, dove un esercito fu sconfitto solo con le marce; poi la fulminea manovra che annientò quello che era stato l'esercito di Federico il Grande, l'invasione in Spagna e la guerriglia, i problemi e le tragiche vicende della campagna di Russia dove Napoleone affrontò enormi difficoltà logistiche; infine la campagna del 1814, forse la più brillante anche se si chiuse con la disfatta di Waterloo. L'opera di Chandler, corredata di mappe e cartine delle battaglie, di un indice dei nomi e di un imponente apparato di note, è un classico insostituibile della storia moderna.

Benny and Henry Alden chance upon a string of puzzling occurrences in and around their town's department store and their subsequent investigation brings them under suspicion

While waiting for the bus transfer at Plainville Junction, the four Alden children become involved in a controversy over river pollution

Four young people find a lost pedigreed dog on a bicycle trip and, while trying to find its home, run into dog thieves

The Alder and Beach children see a strange window in the old beach home from their tree house, and they set out to solve the puzzles it presents

The Alden children discover a secret recipe for sweet buns while they are snowbound in an old hunter's cabin

When the Aldens float a rented houseboat down the river, they begin to notice strange things are happening in the river towns

The Alden children find mystery and adventure as they journey along the Little North Railroad in a caboose rented for the summer by their grandfather

Grandpa Alden and the Alden children encounter danger, excitement, adventure, and mystery in a quiet island fishing village

When the Alden family climbs to the top of Old Flat Top Mountain, they encounter a mysterious mountain cave, a perilous rockslide, and a secret treasure

Benny's curiosity is aroused when an unidentified midnight visitor is seen at a deserted seashore cottage

The four Alden children try to discover who is stealing eggs from Mr. Beas's woodshed

For many commentators, global civil society is revolutionising our approach to global politics, as new non-state-based and border-free expressions of political community challenge territorial sovereignty as the exclusive basis for political community and identity. This challenge 'from below' to the nation-state system is increasingly seen as promising nothing less than a reconstruction, or a re-imagination, of world politics itself. Whether in terms of the democratisation of the institutions of global governance, the spread of human rights across the world, or the emergence of a global citizenry in a worldwide public sphere, global civil society is understood by many to provide the agency necessary for these hoped-for transformations. Global Civil Society asks whether this idea is such a qualitatively new phenomenon after all; whether the transformation of the nation-state system is actually within its reach; and what some of the drawbacks might be.