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2018
In May-June, 1863, over one hundred men of the 2nd Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment, veterans of over two years of hard fighting throughout the Eastern Theatre of the American Civil War, conducted a protest against their treatment by military authorities.
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In May-June, 1863, over one hundred men of the 2nd Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment, veterans of over two years of hard fighting throughout the Eastern Theatre of the American Civil War, conducted a protest against their treatment by military authorities.
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2021
AbstractThe complexity of the causes of mutinies are captured in this chapter that focuses upon the role of ethnicity. Starting with the British West India Regiment in 1801, we examine the importance of the slave trade in supporting the recruitment to the British Army in the West Indies and consider how the ‘alternatives’ of slavery or forced ...
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AbstractThe complexity of the causes of mutinies are captured in this chapter that focuses upon the role of ethnicity. Starting with the British West India Regiment in 1801, we examine the importance of the slave trade in supporting the recruitment to the British Army in the West Indies and consider how the ‘alternatives’ of slavery or forced ...
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1997
Abstract In early April of 1839 the Portuguese slave merchants at Lomboko, on the west coast of Africa, were loading their human cargo onto the Teqora, in preparation for the long Middle Passage to Cuba. For weeks this process had been under way, and now, under the blazing equatorial sun, the slave dealers tried to make haste in order
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Abstract In early April of 1839 the Portuguese slave merchants at Lomboko, on the west coast of Africa, were loading their human cargo onto the Teqora, in preparation for the long Middle Passage to Cuba. For weeks this process had been under way, and now, under the blazing equatorial sun, the slave dealers tried to make haste in order
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2021
AbstractThis chapter begins with defining mutiny and exploring its origins. It considers the nature of military relationships across time before focusing upon the British Army Act (1955) and the American Uniform Code of Military Justice. The issues of mutiny as a collective act, and the active or passive role of those involved in mutinies, are used to ...
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AbstractThis chapter begins with defining mutiny and exploring its origins. It considers the nature of military relationships across time before focusing upon the British Army Act (1955) and the American Uniform Code of Military Justice. The issues of mutiny as a collective act, and the active or passive role of those involved in mutinies, are used to ...
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2008
An analysis of how economic theories can be used to understand disordered and pathological gambling that calls on empirical evidence about behavior and the brain and argues that addictive gambling is the basic form of all addiction. The explanatory power of economic theory is tested by the phenomenon of irrational consumption, examples ...
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An analysis of how economic theories can be used to understand disordered and pathological gambling that calls on empirical evidence about behavior and the brain and argues that addictive gambling is the basic form of all addiction. The explanatory power of economic theory is tested by the phenomenon of irrational consumption, examples ...
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2021
AbstractThis chapter covers mutinies which occur during the most dangerous times for the establishment: under conditions of war. Theoretically, any collective dissent from a legal order in a military organization is mutiny, and the events over Christmas 1914 along the Western Front in France and Belgium precisely capture this tension, with some calling
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AbstractThis chapter covers mutinies which occur during the most dangerous times for the establishment: under conditions of war. Theoretically, any collective dissent from a legal order in a military organization is mutiny, and the events over Christmas 1914 along the Western Front in France and Belgium precisely capture this tension, with some calling
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2003
The casual observer could have been forgiven for thinking that everything was normal in Belgrade that morning. The city looked as it always did, perhaps only a little bit calmer, a little bit quieter. The icy kosava, the strong southern wind, was blowing across the city, but the real storm was still miles away, venting its fury on the police roadblocks.
Dragan Bujosevic, Ivan Radovanovic
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The casual observer could have been forgiven for thinking that everything was normal in Belgrade that morning. The city looked as it always did, perhaps only a little bit calmer, a little bit quieter. The icy kosava, the strong southern wind, was blowing across the city, but the real storm was still miles away, venting its fury on the police roadblocks.
Dragan Bujosevic, Ivan Radovanovic
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Monthly Review, 1981
"It has never been true that nuclear war is 'unthinkable.' It has been thought and the thought has been put into effect." E.P. Thompson refers here, in the brilliant and moving essay that opens this volume, to the deliberate destruction of the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.
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"It has never been true that nuclear war is 'unthinkable.' It has been thought and the thought has been put into effect." E.P. Thompson refers here, in the brilliant and moving essay that opens this volume, to the deliberate destruction of the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.
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