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UNINA9910788677303321 |
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Hashim Ahmed |
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When counterinsurgency wins [[electronic resource] ] : Sri Lanka's defeat of the Tamil Tigers / / Ahmed S. Hashim |
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Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2013 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (276 p.) |
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Counterinsurgency - Sri Lanka |
Insurgency - Sri Lanka |
Tamil (Indic people) - Sri Lanka - Politics and government |
Sri Lanka History Civil War, 1983-2009 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Front matter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- 1. The Sri Lankan War in Context -- 2. Background to War: State Formation and Identities in Conflict -- 3. The Eelam Wars I-III Campaigns -- 4. Eelam War IV: A Military Analysis -- 5. Postwar Sri Lanka: Reconciliation or Triumphalism? -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Name Index -- Subject Index -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
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For twenty-six years, civil war tore Sri Lanka apart. Despite numerous peace talks, cease-fires, and external military and diplomatic pressure, war raged on between the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the Sinhala-dominated Sri Lankan government. Then, in 2009, the Sri Lankan military defeated the insurgents. The win was unequivocal, but the terms of victory were not. The first successful counterinsurgency campaign of the twenty-first century left the world with many questions. How did Sri Lanka ultimately win this seemingly intractable war? Will other nations facing insurgencies be able to adopt Sri Lanka's methods without encountering accusations of human rights violations? Ahmed S. Hashim-who teaches national security strategy and helped craft the U.S. counterinsurgency campaign in Iraq-investigates those questions in the first book to analyze the final stage of the Sri Lankan civil war. When Counterinsurgency Wins traces the |
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development of the counterinsurgency campaign in Sri Lanka from the early stages of the war to the later adaptations of the Sri Lankan government, leading up to the final campaign. The campaign itself is analyzed in terms of military strategy but is also given political and historical context-critical to comprehending the conditions that give rise to insurgent violence. The tactics of the Tamil Tigers have been emulated by militant groups in Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia. Whether or not the Sri Lankan counterinsurgency campaign can or should be emulated in kind, the comprehensive, insightful coverage of When Counterinsurgency Wins holds vital lessons for strategists and students of security and defense. |
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UNINA9910827961703321 |
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Schrauwers Albert |
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Awaiting the millennium : the Children of Peace and the village of Hope, 1812-1889 / / Albert Schrauwers |
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1993 |
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©1993 |
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1-282-05641-7 |
9786612056413 |
1-4426-7112-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (327 p.) |
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Millennialism - Ontario - History - 19th century |
Livres numeriques. |
History |
Church history |
e-books. |
Electronic books. |
Ontario Church history 19th century |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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""Contents""; ""List of Figures and Tables""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Preface""; ""Photographs""; ""1. The Yonge Street Settlement""; ""The Society of Friends""; ""Quakerism and the State""; ""The Yonge Street Monthly Meeting""; ""A Shared Culture?""; ""2. The Separation of the Children of Peace""; ""David Willson's Ministry""; ""David Willson's Heresy""; ""The Schism""; ""Yonge Street""; ""3. Organization""; ""Egalitarianism, Honour, and Status""; ""Crisis""; ""The Pattern of Discontent""; ""The New Discipline""; ""4. At Home and Abroad""; ""The Village of Hope"" |
""A Village Like Any Other?""""An Itinerant Sect""; ""5. Market and Moral Economies""; ""The Annual Reproduction of the Household""; ""The Cyclical Reproduction of Households""; ""Strategizing Individuals in a Moral Economy""; ""6. Ornamenting the Christian Church""; ""Ornamenting the Church""; ""'An Irreconcilable Difference'""; ""The Basis for Consensus""; ""7. The Millennial Kingdom""; ""The Inner Light and Religious Authority""; ""Church and State""; ""The Millennial Kingdom""; ""What Makes a Millenarian Movement?""; ""8. Upper Canadian Politics and the Rebellion of 1837"" |
""Politics and Patronage""""Evangelists or Politicians?""; ""Rebellion?""; ""9. Aftermath""; ""'Bleeding with the Wounds'""; ""Church and State""; ""A Church Like Any Other""; ""10. The Children of Peace in Theoretical and Historical Perspective""; ""Theoretical Considerations""; ""Awakenings and Conflict""; ""Rural Millenarianism""; ""Concluding Remarks""; ""Appendixes""; ""1. Active Members of the Yonge Street Monthly Meeting""; ""2. Disownments from the Yonge Street Monthly Meeting""; ""3. The 'Builders of the Temple'""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Name Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C"" |
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In a small town north of Toronto there stands a beautiful and unusual church, well known locally as the Sharon Temple. It is the last remaining evidence of a nineteenth-century Quaker sect, the Children of Peace, one of the few exmaples of a millennarian movement in Canada. Albert Schrauwers explores the history of this intriguing group, which rebuilt Solomon's Temple and prophesied the coming of a Jewish Messiah who would abolish British colonial rule.Schrauwers discusses the social, political, economic, and theological context in which the Children of Peace were established and, for a time, flourished. He identifies three main periods in the development of the sect: their initial break with the Quakers during the War of 1812; their reorganization following completion of the temple in 1832; and their final reorganization following the Rebellion of 1837.Using assessment rolls and a careful analysis of relations of production, he shows how material factors influences the political process by which the sect decided what was sacred and what was not. Ultimately he provides a detailed portrait of a remarkable group of people and the times in which they lived. |
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