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The Wilson Plot
David Leigh
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ASIN: 0394572416
Release Date: 1988-12-31

Harold Wilson and European Integration: Britain's Second Application to Join the EEC (Cass Series--British Foreign and Colonial Policy Series)

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Harold Wilson and European Integration: Britain's Second Application to Join the EEC (Cass Series--British Foreign and Colonial Policy Series)
Oliver Daddow
Manufacturer: Routledge
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ASIN: 0714682071

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Harold Wilson's direction of the second British application to join the EEC is ripe for reinterpretation. During the period of Wilson's first Labour administrations, October 1964-April 1966 and April 1966-June 1970, executive policy-making in Britain became legendary for its supposed opaqueness and intrigue. They are remebered not least for the volume of scandal and in-fighting among a talented but reckless group of ministers, numbering among them a "Machiavellian" Prime Minister in Wilson, a "drunken neurotic" in George Brown, and the highly influential and vocal diarists Tony Benn, Barbara Castle and Richard Crossman. On top of all this, the 1960s saw a plethora of domestic and foreign-policy crises.
There remains a fundmental question to be answered: why did Wilson, faced with massive political problems following the April 1966 election, apply to join the EEC while de Gaulle remained dominant in Paris and there was no sign that his position on British "readiness" to enter Europe had changed? This has vexed historians of the Wilson years. Some have attempted to explain the bid in terms of the premier's Machiavellian cunning. Others have explained the application in the context of Wilson's obsessions with domestic popularity. Yet more put the bid down to a desperate attempt to stave off potential leadership contests from "Europeans" in the cabinet.
With new and revealing material now available in the Public Record Office and abroad, this volume reconsiders Wilson's motivations, contextualizing them in light of evidence on foreign policy-making contained in the offical record.

How to Beat Wall Street: Trading to Win in Stocks, Options and Commodities

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Outstanding guidance - Only wish is could be updated......

How to Beat Wall Street: Trading to Win in Stocks, Options and Commodities
Harold B. Wilson
Manufacturer: Liberty Hall Pr
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ASIN: 0830635386

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Outstanding guidance - Only wish is could be updated.............1999-01-18

Book is arranged very well, easy to understand (most) and valuable information.

U.S. Intervention in British Guiana: A Cold War Story (The New Cold War History)

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Historical review of recent Guiana history

U.S. Intervention in British Guiana: A Cold War Story (The New Cold War History)
Stephen G. Rabe
Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
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ASIN: 0807856398
Release Date: 2006-02-23

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In the first published account of the massive U.S. covert intervention in British Guiana between 1953 and 1969, Stephen G. Rabe uncovers a Cold War story of imperialism, gender bias, and racism.

When the South American colony now known as Guyana was due to gain independence from Britain in the 1960s, U.S. officials in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations feared it would become a communist nation under the leadership of Cheddi Jagan, a Marxist who was very popular among the South Asian (mostly Indian) majority. Although to this day the CIA refuses to confirm or deny involvement, Rabe presents evidence that CIA funding, through a program run by the AFL-CIO, helped foment the labor unrest, race riots, and general chaos that led to Jagan's replacement in 1964. The political leader preferred by the United States, Forbes Burnham, went on to lead a twenty-year dictatorship in which he persecuted the majority Indian population.

Considering race, gender, religion, and ethnicity along with traditional approaches to diplomatic history, Rabe's analysis of this Cold War tragedy serves as a needed corrective to interpretations that depict the Cold War as an unsullied U.S. triumph.

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Historical review of recent Guiana history.......2006-12-24

It is hard to find a book on Guiana, and while the author has a clear slant (as the title points out) it is still a good overview of the last 50 years of Guiana history and a must read for anyone who plans on looking into investment in Guiana or wants to learn more about the only English speaking country in South America.

Confederate Industry: Manufacturers And Quartermasters in the Civil War

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The value of industry and supply
The Rest of the Story: CONFEDERATE LOGISTICS & SUPPLY
Useful addition to a limited bibliography on CS war machine
Confederate Industry , Manufacturers and Quartermasters
Solidly researched history

Confederate Industry: Manufacturers And Quartermasters in the Civil War
Harold S. Wilson
Manufacturer: University Press of Mississippi
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The value of industry and supply.......2007-03-11

Warfare is characterized by material consumption on a grand scale. Maintaining an army in the field necessitates extensive manufacturing and logistical support. It is no different today than in 1861 when Colonel Abraham C. Myers was appointed quartermaster general of the Confederate States. Wilson explains Myers basic responsibility as quartermaster general was to keep the army properly clothed and shod but the exigencies of modern warfare expanded the boundaries of his bureaucratic fiefdom. Under Myers leadership the military suffered from dire shortages but not necessarily, Wilson argues, as the result of a lack of Southern industrial capacity. In the fall of 1963 charges of profiteering, ineptitude, and mismanagement led to Myers being replaced by Brigadier General Alexander R. Lawton.

Lawton was able to more efficiently mobilize production for military purposes but unfortunately not in time to reverse the fortunes of war. When he took over as Quartermaster General, Lawton needed accurate information on the extent to which the government was exploiting the South's manufacturing capacity. Lawton ordered George W. Cunningham, quartermaster for the Army of Tennessee, to conduct a survey of mills in Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida. Cunningham's "Statement of Factories Inspected" and other reports showed that, to alleviate military shortages, the government could increase the number of contracts awarded. While wartime expansion was built on an antebellum industrial foundation to meet the needs of total war, changes ultimately led to a new appreciation for the value of manufacturing.

Wilson uses Cunningham's study as evidence of mismanagement as the cause of supply shortages rather than the scarcity of Southern manufacturing. Focusing on raw materials, conscription of skilled labor, and parts shortages Wilson presents a penetrating view of the South's manufacturing capacity. He argues that the experience broke the power of the planter class' opposition to industry and permitted a new more favorable attitude toward industrialization and urbanization. This only became clearer in the war's aftermath.

The Rest of the Story: CONFEDERATE LOGISTICS & SUPPLY.......2004-02-07

When the Civil War began, the Confederacy, with a few exceptions, possessed the resources to logistically support war. However, the South lacked the organization, operational doctrine and planning needed to meet their army's growing supply needs. To correct this problem, in March1861 Jefferson Davis appointed Major Abraham C. Myers, a West Point graduate and career staff officer, Quartermaster General. The author, Harold Wilson, narrates the supply problems that developed as "Myer's strict adherence to.... antiquated regulations earned few friends among field officers." In addition, Myers "failed to grasp modern notions of efficiency and system" plus "he lacked ability to plan." In contrast the Ordnance Bureau under Josiah Gorgas was well organized and properly administered.

The text recounts the numerous problems in the Quartermaster Department and with the textile manufacturers who had problems maintaining their workforce. Some manufacturers were accused of "illicit rewards" while at the same time they faced run-away inflation. Despite the concession of vast martial powers to Myers, the Confederacy had limited ability to clothe its troops. For example, the battle of Gettysburg was participated by Rebel troops attempts to secure badly needed shoes in the town of Gettysburg.

"When Myers could not provide the necessary refit for the army, he lost any remaining confidence in his leadership among the line officers." In July 1863, Brigadier General Alexander R. Lawton was appointed quartermaster general. After failing to sustain Longstreet's army in Tennessee, Lawton initiated a survey of available Confederate resources and reformed the production operations of the bureau. His reforms met great success in Virginia and Georgia; however, strong opposition developed in North Carolina." The account of Governor Vance and North Carolina's opposition to Lawton's policies is most interesting.

"By the end of 1864, Lawton's reputation as a supplier stood high." However, pressing clothing shortages continued, as the naval blockade limited imports and Federal troops burned factories and raw materials. It was found "that large quantities of government clothing are possessed by persons in civil life, and by dealers" as these articles were sold by troops who hadn't been paid in months, or the articles had been abandoned in the field or the dealers had purchased direct from the manufacturers. Most interesting, the Confederacy in 1862 had initiated a "scoured earth policy" to prevent useful assets falling under Union control so that as Sherman and other Union generals marched through the South, both the Union and Confederate armies were destroying facilities.

The author's account of blockade running to supplement domestic supplies is interesting. The text notes "Until the end of the war, most garments and goods provided to the Confederate army came from domestic resources through Alexander Lawton's mobilization of manufacturing." Most intriguing, was the fact that the Confederate government entered into an agreement with William Crenshaw to build and operate blockade-runners. Private vessels were eminently more profitable than Crenshaw's operation, nevertheless Crenshaw continued to operate after heavy loss of ships. Since domestic sources supplied many goods and garments, in addition the runners brought in critically needed new machinery and spares. "As Confederate funds in Europe dwindled, the export of cotton became more critical." So that blockade running became a two-way process with the blockade- runners leaving with cotton to pay for items received.

When Wilmington , North Carolina fell, blockade running ceased. "When Lee surrendered at Appomattox on April 9 and Johnston at Durham's Station on April 26, Confederate quartermaster and commissary stores were mostly depleted....General Lawton's system of supply was in shambles." The text now relates the tortuous process of reconstruction which under President Johnson adhered "to a `white man's country' philosophy and the adoption of a lenient policy toward the defeated South...." Johnson worked with the manufacturers, railroaders, former Confederate officers, etc to revive the South's economy based on manufacturing and technology. Also, to forestall greater chaos, President Johnson quickly moved to restore civil government in the south. By 1870 manufacturing approached it 1860 level.

The author devotes several pages to the problems of Radical Reconstruction that followed President Johnson's lenient policies. Radical Reconstruction produced years of violence and political uncertainty. The book notes "Only a token number of southern manufacturers braved the threats of violence and participated in the new Radical state governments." Most violence was initiated by southerners who resisted giving equal political and social rights to the freemen. Wilson observes that after the end of reconstruction, in the emerging New South there were the problems of discriminatory freight rates, the growth of trusts that violated the practices of the free market economy, the lack of credit for farmers, and the failure of the states to properly control working conditions. Sadly, the author notes "As grievous as the problems were, they were far more amenable to solution than had been the slavery controversy."

This is a well-researched and heavily documented work. However, it is not a very readable book. The author tends to become repetitious by presenting far too many examples for each point that he makes when he could have given just a few examples and included the balance in appendices. In addition, the author basically limits this work to the textile and clothing manufacturers in the South, essentially ignoring critical metal working, foundry and munitions manufacturing operations. The strategic Tredegar Iron Works is only listed in the Introduction. However, serious students and Civil War "buffs" will find much useful information as the text provides the other side of the story about supply shortages suffered by the Confederate armies in the field.

Useful addition to a limited bibliography on CS war machine.......2003-04-04

Although living in Belgium and being Belgian, I have always being fascinated by the logistical aspects of the American Civil War, especially on the Southern side, because they had to fight this war with such limited resources. There are only a few books on the subject. "Ploughshares into swords" by Frank Vandiver (published in 1940's), that I recently found on Amazon (ten years ago I had vainly tried to order it through more traditional means) which is a biography of the Chief of Ordnance of the CS Army. Another book is called " Confederate Supply" by Richard Goff (published in the 60s)and is nowadays out of print (my copy is a xerox). It deals with the whole supply problem, not least that of feeding the army.
This book is focused on confederate textile industry as it was before the war, as it went through the war and how it successfully recovered from the War. Covering the war period, it basically describes three phases in the mobilization of these resources to clothe the army: the reign of improvisation at the level of the confederate authorities (Quartermaster department) until 1863, the reorganization of their efforts along more rational lines and the increased use of imports from Europe and thirdly the destruction of most of the southern mills by the Union army. This book is well researched, goes deeply into primary sources and adds real value.
I really enjoyed it too because it is well written. Being a trained historian myself it is not difficult to see how much time and effort has been put into it. Not an easy task but a task well done !

Confederate Industry , Manufacturers and Quartermasters.......2003-01-05

New information, beautifully revealed!
A must read for Civil War enthusiast.........

Solidly researched history.......2002-12-17

For those with an interest in the Civil War, this book gives new insight into the efforts of the Confederacy to keep its armies in the field during four years of Union onslaughts. Harold Wilson, an English professor at Old Dominion University, looks largely at the textile industry but also focuses on armaments and other production. He also discusses the Confederacy's efforts to supply itself from Europe with blockade-running ships, and the efforts of Northern armies - especially under Sherman - to destroy the Confederacy's industrial base. He also examines the rise of Southern industry in the decades after the war.
This is a solid, well-researched book that covers an important area of Civil War history in unprecedented depth.

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Opal: The Phenomenal Gemstone
Si & Ann Frazier; Janet & Paul Clifford; Jürgen Schütz; Andrew Cody; Wilson Cooper; Bob Farrar; Catherine Gaber; Barry Neville; Jack Townsend; Max Weibel; Michael O'Donoghue; Klaus Eberhard Wild; Elizabeth T. Smith; Alex Ritchie; Günther Neumeier & others
Manufacturer: Lithographie, LLC
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ASIN: 0979099803
Release Date: 2007-01-22

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Precious opal is a rainbow made tangible. Its spectral blaze of color moves, changes, intensifies, fades, or disappears with the slightest change in perspective. Opal's intriguing play of color and unique atomic arrangement have made it the subject of scientific probing from early optics in the 1850s to high tech photonics today. Equally challenging has been discovering opal's place in history. Its beauty begs to be enshrined in myth and legend when facts are as scarce as the stone itself. Opal, both precious and common, is found in disparate environments fro the unbearable heat of the Australian outback to the higher elevations of the Canadian Rockies, from a centuries-old site in Slovakia to a number of little known places in the American west. An unique assortment of characters collect and mine this equally individual stone, of which no two are exactly alike. Thus blazing gem of chemical simplicity--just silica and water--has ignited a complexity of human emotions: a compulsion to mine, the desire to wear, an urge to fashion, the challenge to imitate, a need to possess. A natural, wearable stone with magical depth, movement, and color, opal is a truly phenomenal gemstone.

Those pearly isles;: The story of the enchanting Elizabeth Islands,

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A useful place to start

Those pearly isles;: The story of the enchanting Elizabeth Islands,
Harold C Wilson
Manufacturer: Charles Publishers
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ASIN: 0960076018

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A useful place to start .......2004-12-24

"Those Pearly Isles" contains a short chapter on each of the main Elizabeth Islands: their prominent features, flora and fauna, historical highlights and interesting lore. It is not a long book, being only 120 pages with appendices, 80 pages without. My copy appears to be a first edition published by the Gosnold Society of Cape Cod in 1976.

After reading the book it was apparent that Mr. Wilson enjoys adventure, has a love of the land and the things that grow on and wander over it, and a desire to research its history. Writing about his adventures allows him to share his passion with others. This is confirmed by some of the other books he has written: "Thoreau Lives," "Gosnold's Hope: The Story of Captain Bartholomew Gosnold" and "Lithuania: The Indestructible Soul."

Mr. Wilson's writing style is not that of a professional author; details of his own personal reactions to situations, the contents of his backpack and what he ate for lunch gives this book more the feel of a travelogue or diary than that of a piece of commercial nonfiction. I found this aspect unusual but not distracting.

Those who would like to know the Elizabeth Islands better, or who wish they had an uncle who could share tales of these Islands, will find this short treatise likable. However one might still wish that topics Mr. Wilson touches upon had been treated more rigorously and in more depth. Certainly these islands deserve a larger treatment than a few short chapters. Still, given the dearth of available information, this book can be a useful place to start.

Six Restoration Plays (Riverside Editions)

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Six Restoration Plays (Riverside Editions)

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Cry of the Frigate Bird : A Virgin Gorda Adventure

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Wilson made me feel like I was there with him!

Cry of the Frigate Bird : A Virgin Gorda Adventure
Harold Wilson
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ASIN: 1888879254

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Wilson made me feel like I was there with him!.......2001-05-08

Frigate bird is a great example of how one can live off the land in style. The book is filled with great stories. Just reading it made me feel like I was on a vacation. It left me envious of the author. I wish I had the nerve to live on an island with nothing but $14.00, a jar of horseradish, and the barter system. This book is pure entertainment! It sends a message regarding our need to preserve the environment.

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Boats Unlimited
Harold Wilson
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