The flawed architect [[electronic resource] ] : Henry Kissinger and American foreign policy / / Jussi Hanhimäki

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910464867503321
• Autore: Hanhimäki Jussi M. <1965->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004
• ISBN: 0-19-534674-2; 1-280-84381-0; 0-19-518431-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (581 p.)
• Disciplina: 973.924/092; B
• Soggetti: Statesmen - United States; Cabinet officers - United States; Electronic books.; United States Foreign relations 1969-1974; United States Politics and government 1969-1974
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [534]-539) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : a prize-winning performance? -- The aspiring statesman -- Kissinger, Nixon, and the challenges of '69 -- Bombs and back channels -- Progress and promise -- Negotiating in the shadow of war -- Crises and opportunities -- Breakthroughs -- The first test : Triangulation diplomacy and the Indo-Pakistani war -- "The week that changed the world" -- High stakes : triangulation, Moscow, and Vietnam -- Exiting Vietnam -- Highs and lows -- Secretary of State -- Unilateral advantage : the October war and shuttle diplomacy -- Nixon's farewell : Watergate, Kissinger and foreign policy -- Renewal? Ford, Vladivostok, and Kissinger -- Not our loss : exit from Vietnam -- The worst hour : Angola and East Timor -- "Worse than in the days of McCarthy" : Kissinger and the marathon of 1976 -- The chairman 'on trial' -- Conclusion : the flawed architect.
• Sommario/riassunto: Henry Kissinger dominated American foreign relations like no other figure in recent history. He negotiated an end to American involvement in the Vietnam War, opened relations with Communist China, and ; orchestrated detente with the Soviet Union. Yet he is also the man behind the secret bombingof Cambodia and policies leading to the overthrow of Chile's President Salvador Allende. Which is more accurate, the picture of Kissinger the skilled diplomat or Kissinger the war criminal?In The Flawed Architect, the first major reassessment of Kissinger in over a decade, historian Jussi Hanhimaki paints

Paper and talk [[electronic resource] ] : a manual for reconstituting materials in Australian indigenous languages from historical sources / / edited by Nicholas Thieberger

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910458202803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Canberra, Australia, : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2005
• ISBN: 0-85575-559-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (209 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): ThiebergerNick
• Disciplina: 499.15; 499/.15
• Soggetti: Australian languages; Extinct languages; Reconstruction (Linguistics) - Methodology; Electronic books.; Australia Languages History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Reprinted from 1995 edition.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Copyright; Contents; Welcome; Introduction; Working on a dictionary for Murri languages; What is your language?; What is written on your language?; Reading old sources: What word is that?; Interpreting old spelling; Further reading; How to decide on a spelling system; Making sense of the words in old word lists; Learning and reviving a language from historical sources; Using computers; Appendices; References
• Sommario/riassunto: An excellent introduction to the complicated issues of language reconstruction, this concise guide explores languages that are no ; longer spoken or those that are spoken by only a few people. Each contributor works through some of the complex issues vital to language workers in an accessible, easy-to-read style, and exercises throughout the book provide immediate ways to put the ideas into practice and experience the rewards and frustrations of this kind of language work.